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MEMORIAL RECORD 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY 



ENERAL MOSES CLEAVELAND, the 
founder of the city of Cleveland, Ohio, 
was bom January 29, 1754, at the town 
of Canterbury, Windham county, Con- 
necticut, the second son of Colonel Aaron and 
Thankful (Paine) Cleaveland. 

Colonel Aaron Cleaveland was the fifth son 
and tenth child of Josiah Cleaveland, who mar- 
ried Abigail Paine. Colonel Cleaveland was 
born in Canterbury, Connecticut, November 27, 
1727. His father, Josiah Cleaveland, was born 
in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, October 7, 1690, 
and was the eldest son and child of Josiah and 
Mary (Bates) Cleaveland. With his parents he 
removed to Connecticut when he was a child of 
four years. He is said to have been a man of 
great ability, prominent in the affairs of the 
town of Canterbury, both in a civil and eccle- 
siastical way, and there died February 9, 1750, 
leaving a good estate. His father, Josiah Cleave- 
land, the first, was the fifth son and eiglith child 
of Moses and Ann (Winn) Cleaveland, and was 
born at Woburn, Massachusetts, February 16, 
1667, and, as did his brother, Samuel, he set- 
tled in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and later 
removed to Canterbury, Connecticut, which 
remained his home till his death, April 26, 
1709. He served in the Indian wars and was a 
much respected citizen. 

His father, Moses Cleaveland, who died at 
Woburn, Massachusetts, January 9, 1701, is 
said to be the ancestor of all the " Cleavelands," 
or " Clevelands," in America who are of New 



England origin. It has been written by an 
eminent antiquarian that the Clevelands of 
America have descended from William Cleve- 
land, who removed from York to Hinckley, in 
Leicestershire, England, where he died and was 
buried in January of 1630. Tiiomas Cleve- 
land, his son, became Vicar of Hinckley. 
William Cleveland also had a son, Samuel, and 
it appears that this Samuel Cleveland was the 
father of Moses Cleaveland, the emigrant to 
America in 1635. The name '■ Cleaveland " it 
appears is of Saxon origin, and was given to a 
distinguished family in Yorkshire, England, 
prior to the Norman conquest. The family 
occupied a large landed estate which was pecu- 
liarly marked by open fissures in its rocky soil, 
styled " clefts " or " cleves " by the Saxons, and 
by reason of the peculiarity of the estate its 
occupants were called " Clefttands," which name 
was accepted by the family. The name was 
written with every possible variety of orthog- 
raphy, and at last the almost universal spell- 
ing of "Cleveland" became established; but 
General Cleaveland never wrote liis name other 
than " Cleaveland.'" 

Moses Cleveland, the parent tree of the fam- 
ily in America, landed at Boston in the year 
1635, where he resided for seven years, and 
then, with Edwin Winn and others, founded 
the town of AYoburn, in 1640, and there he per- 
manently settled. In 1643 he became what was 
called a " freeman," the qualifications of which 
required that one should be of " godly walk and 



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conversation, at least twentj'-one years of age. 
take an oath of allegiance to the governinent of 
Massachusetts Bay Colony, be worth two hun- 
dred pounds, and consent to hold office, if 
elected, or pay a line of forty shillings, and 
vote at all elections or pay the same fine." So 
onerous were these conditions and restrictions 
that many who were eligible preferred not to 
become freemen, being more free as they were; 
but Moses Cleveland, born of noble ancestry, 
became a freeman, and, thinking that the an- 
cestral blood in his veins was of superior quality, 
considered it proper that it should be trans- 
mitted; so after a brief courtship he wedded, 
in 1648, .Anne Winn, a daughter of his es- 
teemed friend, Edwin Winn. He became the 
father of eleven children, and from him have 
descended a race not only numerous but also 
noted for great moral worth and excellent traits 
of character. This worthy progenitor was a 
man of intelligence and great enterprise. He 
was a housewright, or builder, by trade. 

Colonel Aaron Cleveland, the father of him 
whose name forms the caption of this personal 
memoir, served as a captain in the French and 
Indian war, and at Fort Edward was with his 
command in the winter of 1756-'57. He bore 
a conspicuous part in the struggles of the Kev- 
olution as a gallant soldier and efiBcient ofKcer. 
He witnessed Governor Tryon's assault upon 
Horse-neck, and the plunge of General Putnam 
down the steep bluff, as bullets from the bafSed 
dragoons whizzed by him, even piercing his 
hat. Colonel Cleveland lived to see the suc- 
cessful close of the war, and on the 14th day of 
April, 1785, died, at his native town. 

He married, in Canterbury, June 7, 1748, 
Miss Thankful Paine, a woman of culture, who 
survived him many years, dying in 1822, at the 
age of eighty-nine years. They had ten chil- 
dren, of whom Moses was the second son and 
child. 

When but a child Moses Cleaveland gave evi- 
dence of a strong mind and excellent traits of 
character, which fixed the determination of his 
parents to give him a liberal education. When 



he arrived at the proper age they sent him to 
Yale College, where he graduated in 1777. 
His tastes and character of mind probably led 
him into the legal profession. At his native 
town he began the practice of law and very 
soon became a successful advocate. He gained 
prominence, and his abilities soon attracted 
public attention. In 1779 Congress recognized 
his merits by appointing him captain of a com- 
pany of sappers and miners in the United States 
army. Under this commission he served sev- 
eral years, and then resigned to take up again 
the practice of law. Subsequently he served 
several terms in the State Legislature, with dis- 
tinction. Aside from gaining prominence in 
his profession and as a legislator, he was also a 
prominent Mason, and was once Grand Marshal 
of the Grand Lodge of Connecticut. 

In Canterbury, Connecticut, he married, 
March 21, 1794, Miss Esther Champion, daugh- 
ter of Henry Champion, Esq., by whom he had 
four children, named Mary Esther, Francis 
Moses, Frances Augusta and Julius Moses. 
Through the subordinate military grades he 
was promoted, and in the early part of 1796 he 
was advanced to the Generalship of the Fifth 
Brigade of the State militia. 

As a colony, Connecticut acquired by grant 
from King Charles II., of England, in 1662, 
that vast tract of territory lying between the 
same parallels forming the northern and south- 
ern boundaries of the colony and extending 
from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean. The 
geography of the king was bad, for in granting 
lands to the variotis colonies he gave conflicting 
grants, and upon the formation of the Federal 
government several States set claim to western 
territory. In 1786 Connecticut relinquished 
her claim, Congress allowing her to retain only 
that part of the territory now known as the 
" Western Reserve," and which embraces the 
northeastern part of Ohio, covering 3,800,000 
acres. During the Revolution there were many 
citizens who had suffered great losses of prop- 
erty by fire, and in 1792 Connecticut donated 
to such citizens 500,000 acres of this land. 



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afterward known as tlie "fire lands;" and in 
1795 the State autliorized the sale of the re- 
maining part of the Western Reserve, and a 
committee to effect the sale was appointed. 
The " Connecticut Land Company " became 
the purchasers, paying the price of $1,200,000, 
which became a permanent fund for the sup- 
port of common sciiools in Connecticut. 

To look after the interests of this company 
there was appointed a board of general man- 
agers, among whom was Moses Cleaveland, who 
was a shareholder in the land company. This 
board of directors, on the 12th of May, 1796, 
commissioned General Cleaveland to go on to 
said land as superintendent over the agents and 
men sent to survey, and make locations on the 
lands, and to make and enter into friendly rela- 
tions with the natives on the land, and their 
neighbors. He was also instructed to secure 
such friendly intercourse amongst those who 
had any pretended claim to the lands as would 
establish peace, quiet and safety in the survey- 
ing and settling of such lands also as were not 
ceded by the natives under the authority of the 
United States. To accomplish this work he 
was authorized and empowered to act and 
transact the business by making contracts and 
to make such drafts on the treasury as might be 
necessary. The commission also placed under 
his directions all agents and men sent out to 
survey and settle the lands. Thus it is seen 
that to the skill, judgment and tact of General 
Cleaveland was completely left the management 
of the affairs of tiie company. 

The Western Reserve was then called " New 
Connecticut," and into the wilds of this terri- 
tory General Cleaveland led the first surveying 
and exploring party. This party numbered 
fifty persons, of whom there were General 
Cleaveland, land agent; Augustus Porter, prin- 
cipal surveyor; Seth Pease, astronomer and 
surveyor; Moses Warren, Amos Spaflord, John 
M. Holley, and Richard M. Stoddard, assistant 
surveyors; Joshua Stow, commissary; Theodore 
Shipherd, physician; Joseph Tinker, boatman; 
Seth Hart, chaplain ; thirty-seven employes and 



a few immigrants. In tlie party there were 
but two women, and they were married and 
came with their husbands. Along with them 
the party brought to tlie wilds of the Western 
Reserve thirteen horses and several head of cat- 
tle, of whicb a few of the party took charge, 
and started out on their trip from Schenectady, 
New York, where the whole party had concen- 
trated in June, 1796. Others of tlie expedi- 
tion, including General Cleaveland, passed by 
boats up the Mohawk river to Fort Stannix 
(now Rome), where they transfeired their boats 
over the portage to Wood creek, down which 
they passed to Oneida lake, thence over the 
lake and its outlets to Oswego river and on to 
Lake Ontario. Passing in their boats along the 
southern shore of Ontario, they reached the 
mouth of the Niagara river, up which they 
passed to Queenstown; they then crossed the 
seven-mile portage to Chippewa; then, again 
ascending the Niagara, passed into Lake Erie 
and on to Buffalo, where they joined tiiose of 
their party who had gone by land, in charge of 
the horses and cattle. 

At Buffalo General Cleaveland was greeted 
by an opposition from a delegation of Seneca 
and Mohawk Indians, under Red Jacket and 
Colonel Brant, who in anticipation of his arrival 
had awaited him for the purpose of preventing 
him from progressing on his expedition to the 
Western Reserve, to which territory they set 
claim. The Indians, however, consented to 
hold a conference with General Cleaveland, who 
was successful in quieting their claims by pre- 
senting them with goods valued at about $1,200. 

Along the southeastern shore of Lake Erie 
the expedition was continued, and on the 4th 
of July, 1796, the mouth of Conneaut creek, in 
the Western Reserve, was reached. Here the 
party gave evidence of joy and patriotism by 
giving three deafening cheers and naming the 
place Port Independence, and the day and event 
were likewise appropriately celebrated. The 
American flag fanned the breezes, a bountiful 
dinner of baked pork and beans and other 
luxuries was spread, their muskets were fired in 



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salute, and speeches were made. The shades 
of night closed a day of celebration, the 
first of it kind to occur on the Western 
Reserve. 

The next day these pioneers built a log cabin 
or so for the immediate accommodation of the 
party and their supplies. This occasioned in- 
quisitivcness on the part of the Indians in the 
vicinity, who sought to know why white men 
had encroached upon their domains. A coun- 
cil was provided for and General Cleaveland as 
the " Great White Chief " was the " chair- 
man;" and the work of the council began with 
smoking the " pijie of peace." An address to 
the "Great AVhite Chief" was delivered by 
Cato, the son of the old Indian chief, Piqua. 
The Indians were conciliated by gifts of a few 
glass beads and a keg of whiskey, and the work 
of the surveyors was begun, each detachment of 
surveyors being assigned special work and in- 
structed where to begin their survey by General 
Cleaveland. 

During the next few weeks General Cleave- 
land, with a select few of his staff in boats, 
passed along the shore of Lake Erie to what he 
supposed was the mouth of the Cuyahoga river, 
but in an attempt to ascend the river found 
obstructions in the way of sandbars and fallen 
trees, and the water being shallow he became 
convinced that it was not the Cuyahoga river; 
and such was his chagrin that the name " Cha- 
grin " was given to the stream, by which it has 
since been known. 

July 22d of the same year (1796) he reached 
the Cuyahoga river and landed on the eastern 
bank near its mouth. He and his staff ascended 
the steep bank, and for the first time they be- 
held a beautiful and elevated plain extending to 
the east, west and south, and covered with a 
dense forest of graceful trees. This beautiful 
plain, touched by the Cuyahoga river on the 
west and Lake Erie on the north, impressed 
him as being a favorable site for a city, no 
doubt to become of great commercial impor- 
tance. An area of one square mile was sur- 
veyed and laid off in city lots. 



In October, 1796, the surveys were com- 
pleted by the surveyors, who gave to the pros- 
pective city the name " Cleaveland," in honor 
of their chief, who accepted the compliment 
with characteristic modesty. Three log cabins 
for the accommodation of the surveyors were 
erected on the hillside near the river and a 
spring pouring forth an abundant supply of 
water. 

In 1796 four souls constituted the resident 
population of Cleveland; in 1797 the population 
increased to fifteen, and in 1800 it was reduced 
to seven by removals elsewhere. In 1820 one 
hundred and fifty people lived in Cleveland, 
and in 1830 the first census taken by the United 
States showed it to have a population of 1,075. 
The completion of the Ohio canal, with its 
northern terminus at Cleveland, gave better 
commercial advantages to the place, and, giving 
confidence also, assured the city's future pros- 
perity. 

In 1830 the first newspaper was established 
in Cleveland, and was known as the Cleaveland 
Advertiser; but so small was the sheet that in 
order to give room for the " heading," which 
was too long for the " form," the letter " a " in 
the first syllable of the word " Cleaveland " was 
dropped and thus the adoption of the spelling 
" Cleveland," which the public at once accepted. 

Within less than a century the city of Cleve- 
land has grown to such gigantic proportions as 
to now possess a population of 300,000, and 
this beautiful city that inherits the name of its 
founder cherishes his memory with a pride that 
approaches reverence. In honor of him and in 
appreciation of his character and public services 
the city has erected on its beautiful public 
square a statue to his memory. The accom- 
panying portrait of General Moses Cleaveland 
is from a likeness said to be an excellent one of 
him. 

In his bearing General Cleaveland was manly 
and dignified. He wore such a sedate look that 
strangers often took him for a clergyman. He 
had a somewhat swarthy complexion, which in- 
duced the Indians to believe him akin to their 



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own race. He bad black bair, quick and pene- 
trating eyes. Pie was of medium lieight, erect, 
thick-set and portly,and was of muscular limbs 
and his step was of a military air, all of which 
indicated that he was born to be a leader of 
men. He was a man of few words and of 
prompt action. The rigid, pure morality of his 
puritan fathers characterized this good man. 
He did not only achieve a great work in the 
founding of a great city, but many were his 
achievements and an honorable and useful life 
he lived. In life he had a purpose and lived 
for a purpose. He was of a decisive character, 
positive and lirm, yet socially he was both 
pleasant and agreeable, and was everybody's 
friend, and everybody seemed to be his friend. 
He was of strong courage and amid threatening 
dangers he was as calm as he was shrewd in his 
tactics and management. He died at Canter- 
bury, Connecticut, November 16, 1806, at the 
age of fifty-three years. He was born to lead 
a career of unusual interest, and his commission 
was to transform a wilderness into a civilized 
land. 



jILLIAMH. HUMISTOX,M. D.— One 

of the most exacting of all the higher 
lines of occupation to which a man 
may lend his energies is that of a physician. A 
most scrupulous preliminary training is de- 
manded and a nicety of judgment little under- 
stood by the laity. Then again the profession 
brings one of its devotees into almost constant 
association with the sadder side of life — that of 
pain and suffering — so that a mind capable of 
great self-control and a heart responsive and 
sympathetic are essential attributes of him who 
would essay the practice of the healing art. 
Thus when professional success is attained in 
any instance it may be taken as certain that 
such measure of success has been thoroughly 
merited. 

The subject of this refiume, who ranks with 
the eminent and successful practitioners of 
Cleveland, was born in Wellington, Lorain 



county, Ohio, July 27, 1855, the son of Henry 
D. and Miranda L. (Davison) Humiston, who 
are now residents of New Haven, Connecticut, 
and from prominent NeW England ancestry. 
The family is of Scotch, Irish and English e.x- 
traction and Great Barrington, Berkshire 
county, Massachusetts, was the abiding place of 
the lineal descendants for many generations. 

Onr subject grew to maturity and received 
hi.s preliminary educational training in Lorain 
and Wayne counties, Ohio. His supplementary 
literary education was secured in Wayne county 
and at Worthington, Minnesota. From Worth- 
ington he went to the University of Michigan, 
where he passed two years as assistant to Cory- 
don L. Ford, professor of anatomy. He then 
went with Professor Ford to the Long Island 
College Hospital, New York, where he se- 
cured the highest honors with the graduating 
class of 1879, and was soon thereafter tendered 
the position of house surgeon, simply upon merit. 

The Doctor began the practice of his profes- 
sion in the city of Cleveland in the fall of 1879, 
and his enterprise and marked ability soon se- 
cured recognition in the way of bringing to him 
a large and representative clientele. In the 
spring subsequent to his location here he was 
elected a member of the Board of Health, being 
the youngest representative in that important 
body. In this capacity he served for six years, 
when his health became impaired. He went 
abroad for a season of recuperation and for the 
purpose of further prosecuting his studies and 
especially pressing forward his investigations in 
the line of gynecology. He was absent two 
years, which time was passed in London, Paris, 
Berlin, Vienna and Dublin. In 1887 he was 
made a fellow of the British Gynecological 
Society, and also of the British Medical Asso- 
ciation. After his return to his home he 
opened a private hospital for the treatment of 
the diseases of women, with especial attention 
to those disorders which demand the interven- 
tion of surgeiy. He is still conducting this 
hospital, which is located at No. 874 Scranton 
avenue. 



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Dr. Huiiiiston is president of the Cleveland 
Medical Society, a member of the American 
Medical Association, of the Ohio State Medical 
Society, of the Cleveland Society of Medical 
Sciences and the Northeastern Ohio Medical 
Association, consulting gynecologist to the City 
Hospital and vice-president of the Hospital Staff. 

In social and fraternal affiliations the Doctor 
is identified with I. O. O. F., with that notal)le 
organization, tiie First Cleveland Troops, and 
with the Union Club. He is vice president of 
the Pearl Street Loan and Savings Company. 

He was married at Circleville, Ohio, in 1884, 
when he wedded Miss Harriet Miller, the ac- 
complished daughter of Adam Miller, a promi- 
nent resident of that place. Dr. and Mrs. Hum- 
iston have two children: Florence L. and Will- 
iam T. The attractive family home is located 
at 10i7 East Madison avenue, and the Doctor 
also has a very delightful summer cottage at 
Dover Bay Park. 



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r\ EV. F. WESTERHOLT, who is pastor 
of the St. Peter's (German) Catholic 
Church of Cleveland, was born in West- 
plalia, Germany, May 31, 1827, and has 
been Rector of the above church for twenty-six 
years, having become its pastor in 1867. Rev. 
Westerholt is the son of Hermann H. and Ger- 
trude (Panning) Westerholt. His father died 
in 1829, at the age of forty-nine years, and his 
mother died at the age of fifty-seven years. 
Having lost his mother when a child, he was 
subsequently induced to come to Cleveland, by 
an uncle, a brother of his mother, and here he 
lived from 1851 to 1855. He became a priest 
in Defiance in that year, and remained there for 
three years, and during this time he had nine 
missions. In 1858 he went to Delphos, Allen 
county, Ohio, where he remained nine and a 
half years, and had one large congregation of 
over 300 families, besides several missions. 
Before coming to America Rev. Westerholt had 
received a fair education in Germany, but on 
coming to this counti-y he completed his eccle- 



siastical education at St. Mary's Theological 
Seminary. For a time he lived with his uncle, 
G. H. Panning, in Mercer coiinty, Ohio, during 
which time he taught one term in the Catholic 
schools of that county. 

He was ordained priest, July 8, 1855, and 
from Delphos, Ohio, he returned to Cleveland 
to become pastor of St. Peter's Church and Vicar 
General. He was installed in this position Jan- 
uary 16, 1868, the successor of Rev. J. H. Luhr, 
the first pastor, and has retained the rectorship 
of this church from that date to this. 

In 1S69 Rev. Westerholt accompanied Right 
Rev. Bishop Rappe to Rome, Italy, to assist in 
the Vatican Council, as companion of Bishop 
Rappe. Before returning to America a visit 
was paid Egypt and the Holy Land, many places 
of historic importance being visited. In June, 
1870, they returned to America and at once 
Rev. Westerholt resumed his duties as pastor at 
Cleveland. 

On taking charge of the parish in 1868 the 
congregation was small and the house of wor- 
ship was inferior; now the congregation is one 
of the largest, and the church building is one of 
the best in the State of Ohio. At first the con- 
gregation consisted of about 200 families; now 
there are over 600 families. 

Rev. Westerholt was the originator of the St. 
Francis (German) Catholic Church on Superior 
street near Becker avenue, and has done much 
efiectual work in the upbuilding of the Catholic 
Church in Cleveland. When he first came to 
Cleveland there were but two little frame church 
buildings of their church in the city; now there 
are twenty-nine flourishing congregations, all 
having good church buildings. He was the 
one to introduce in Cleveland the Sisters of 
Notre Dame, who have an academy here. It is 
remembered that their work was highly praised 
and admired at the World's Fair at Chicago. 
In tlie success of introducing the Sisters of Notre 
Dame in Cleveland Father Westerholt can take 
just pride, for they have done much good for 
education in the city. Since 1870 he has had 
an assistant. 



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Fatlier Westerholt is one of the oldest and 
most worthy fathers in the Catiiolic Church of 
Cleveland. He has noted remarl<able changes 
and a marvelous growth in his church, indica- 
tive of hard work and successful laborers, in 
which .he has always taken just pride. He has 
served his church longer, in point of time, 
than any father now in tlie city. He is a man 
of worth and is highly esteemed for many ster- 
ling qualities of head and heart. 



TlOHN WALKER. — Longfellow wrote: 
b-, I "We judge ourselves by what we feel cap- 
^^ able of doing, while others judge us by what 
we have already done." If this golden sentence 
of the New England poet were universally ap- 
plied, many a man who is now looking out of 
himself with haughty stare down upon the noble 
toilers on land and sea, sneering at tlie omission 
of the aspirate, the cut of his neighbor's coat, 
or the humbleness of his dwelling, would be 
voluntarily doing penance in sackcloth and 
ashes, at the end of which he would handle a 
spade, or, with pen in hand, burn the midnight 
oil in his study, in the endeavor to make two 
blades of grass grow where only one grew be- 
fore, or to widen the bounds of liberty, or to 
accelerate the material and spiritual progress of 
his race. 

A bright example of one of the world's 
workers, is the man w*hose name introduces this 
biographical sketch. Mr. AValker was born in 
old England, in the broad-acred county of York- 
shire, noted for its hospitality. The date of his 
birth was August 3, 1847, and the town 
Middlesborough-on Tees. His father, James 
Walker, was a son of a blacksmith and was 
born August, 1824, in the factory town of 
Keighley, Yorkshire. He was one of six 
brothers, all mechanics. James Walker was a 
plain iron founder, who could sleek a mold, fix 
a core, pour a casting, or make a contract as 
well as any man in tlie iron districts of England. 
He died at Middlesboroiigh, January 6, 1877. 



His mother, Jane Walker, was born Septem- 
ber 25, 1828, near Newcastle-on-Tyne, but the 
family left their old homestead, about the year 
1832 for the new town of Middlesborough, 
which Gladstone about that time described as 
" the youngest child of England's enterprise," 
and which to-day is known throughout the 
world as the Ironopolis of England. Her father 
was a potter by trade, and an enthusiastic 
musician and prominent Oddfellow, until the 
time of his death, November 27, 1850. Her 
mother died sixteen years later. Jane Walker 
was a true and devoted wife, and has proved an 
affectionate mother and friend. James and 
Jane Walker were married December 31, 1846, 
at St. Hilda's Church, Middlesborough ou-Tees, 
Yorkshire, England. Mr. Walker is the only 
child of these estimable parents. The son was 
educated first in a common school and after a 
course of study in the private academy of 
Thomas Ainsworth, a teacher of the old regime, 
he served seven years and a half apprenticeship 
in the workshops of Bolckow, Vaughan & Com- 
pany, the largest iron concern in the world, 
with a capital of 115,500,000. 

Although twenty-four winters have come and 
gone since Mr. Walker crossed the Atlantic to 
seek his fortune under the " Stars and Stripes," 
the happy customs of his native land have not 
forsaken him, for his present residence and 
grounds, near the southern shore of Lake Erie, 
is the scene every Fourth of July of a great 
gathering of English folk from all sections of 
northern Ohio, and Sous of St. George from all 
parts of the State ever find a hearty welcome 
in his hospitable home. Esteemed for qualities 
of heart and mind alike, Mr. Walker is to-day 
one of the most popular Americans of English 
stock in this country. 

Upon coming to the United States he settled 
in Philadelphia, and for a time was in the em- 
ploy of William Sellers & Company, where he 
invented his famous Gear Scale, for setting out 
graphically the form of teeth for gear wheels. 
Subsequently Mr. Walker was connected with 
William AVright & Company, of Newburc, New 



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York; tlicii with Pool & Ilnnt of Baltimore, 
iinii later with Nordjke tfc Marinon of Imlian- 
ajiolis. 

In tlie year 1SS2 it became his purpose to 
organize a compaiiy for tlie manufacture of 
specialties under his own patent rights. lie 
was snccessful in interesting tlie following 
gentlemen: J. B. Perkins; Gen. M. D. Leggett, 
now a prominent attorney of Cleveland, who 
was Commissioner of Patents under General 
Grant; Hon. George W. Gardner, cx-niayor of 
Cleveland; Mr. H. T. Taylor, Mr. T. Kil- 
patrick, and others. A company was formed 
September 20, 1882, and to-day that com- 
pany has a world-wide reputation as " The 
Walker Manufactiirinir Company " of the city 
of Cleveland. 

Mr. Walker has quite a genius for mechanics, 
combined with remarkable executive ability. 
It was five years after the organization of the 
above named company that he brought out the 
great invention with which his name has been 
identified, and for which the Walker Manufac- 
turing Company is specially renowned. This 
invention was conceived by Mr. Walker as the 
result of his observations in the Cable Power 
House in Kansas City, Missouri, where he was 
watchin£f the sparks Hying from the winding 
drums, due to the friction of the cables. To 
him the question arose how this disastrous wear 
and tear could be prevented. He at once con- 
ceived the idea of a drum with differential rings, 
and straightway proceeded to his room in the 
Coates Hotel, where he made a drawing of this 
conception, a photograph of which may be seen 
at the works of the Walker IVIanufacturing 
Company. This company are makers of cable 
railway machinery, machine molded gears and 
pulleys. Walker's patent cranes, and general 
power-transmitting machinery, etc. J. B. Per- 
kins is president of the company; John Walker, 
vice-president and general jnanager; Z. M. 
Hubbell, secretary and treasurer; and W. H. 
Bone, works Tnanager. The company was in- 
corporated in 1882, with a capital of ^125,000. 
The works were at once established, and en- 



tered upon a career of unusual prosperity. It 
was soon found that, in order to meet the 
rapidly growing demands upon their resources, 
the establishment must be enlarged. In accord- 
ance with this need, the company purchased, 
in 1886, the entire plant of the Whipple Manu- 
facturing Company, adjoining their original 
works. They rebuilt, repaired and refitted the 
shops, thus nearly doubling their manu- 
facturing capacity. Since then, an im- 
mense machine shop and foundry have been 
built and equipped with massive machinery for 
finishing heavy work. Over 600 hands are 
employed in all departments, and their produc- 
tions are sold throughout the United States 
and in all parts of the civilized world. This 
company has built and put in operation cable 
machinery for the Metropolitan Street Railway 
Company, Kansas City, Missouri; St. Louis 
Cable & Western Railway, St. Louis, same 
State; AVashington it Georgetown Railroad Co., 
W^ashington, D. C; People's Railway Com- 
pany, St. Louis, Missouri; Baltimore City Pas- 
senger Railway Company, Baltimore, Mary- 
land; Catskill Mountain Cable Railway Com- 
pany, Catskill, New York; Cleveland City 
Cable Railway Company, Cleveland, Ohio, and 
others, making twenty complete cable plants 
in all. 

Besides this special work, they manufactured 
a full line of hydraulic machinery, traveling 
cranes, foundry equipment, etc., and make a 
specialty of shafting, pulleys, hangers, and 
machine molded gears; mostly produced under 
Mr. Walker's patents, which up to date (18<J3) 
number sixty-two, and to whose skill the phen- 
omenal success of this concern is mainly due. 
Mr. Walker is the inventor of the patent mold- 
ing machine used by the company, by means 
of which are produced large quantities of light 
and heavy gears, of improved design and ac- 
curate pitch, and much more rapidly than by 
any other process. 

Prior to the year 1888 Mr. Walker's time 
and genius had been almost exclusively devoted 
to the liuilding up of an engineering business. 



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the interesting story of which is told above, 
and which will be welcome to all who can ap- 
preciate hard work and that indomitable per- 
severance which have practically made the Eng- 
lish race the masters of the world. 

So far as Mr. Walker's business career is 
concerned, we have indicated enough to give a 
clear conception of his well earned snccess. 
There are other features, however, of his career 
in life to which we proudly call attention. In 
1887 transpired the world-wide celebration of 
the Queen's jubilee. The British-American 
citizens of Cleveland, and the joint committee 
of the English, Scotch, Welsh and Manx so- 
cieties, looking around for a worthy representa- 
tive of old England, selected John Walker, the 
rising manufacturer, as chairman. His tine 
presence, honest English face, hearty manner, 
unblemished record and growing popularity, 
eminently fitted him for this position, and the 
souvenir and newspaper records of that time 
indicate the wisdom of the choice, for a more 
brilliant celebration was not held outside the 
British isles, English and American alike, 
vying with each other in doing honor to the 
noble queen of England. Mr. Walker retains 
with pride the following telegram: 

" WiNDSOE, England, June 27, 1887. 
"Mr. John Walker, Cleveland, Ohio:— 
The Queen thanks the British and American 
residents of Cleveland for their kind telegram." 

From that royal time Mr. Walker lias been 
regarded as the foremost representative of the 
English community in Cleveland, with its 
300,000 inhabitants. 

When Past Grand President Harry Phipps 
requested Mr. Walker to join the Order Sons 
of St. George he unhesitatingly consented, and 
was initiated into Albion Lodge, No. 44, Feb- 
ruary 6, 1888. November 4, 1889, he was 
publicly presented by the members of the 
Albion Lodge, Xo. 44, with an illuminated 
certificate of the order, elegantly framed, as a 
token of respect and esteem; and, although the 
responsibilities of the immense industry bear- 



ing his name have prevented regular attend- 
ance at the lodge meetings, his means and in- 
fluence are always at the service of the seven 
lodges in Cleveland; in fact, his name is a house- 
hold word in the English-American homes of 
the city, for many a forlorn countryman in 
need of help has found John Walker a true 
Samaritan. 

The story of General Walker's career in the 
I Army of Uniformed Sir Knights has Ijeen told 
; with such minutife in the columns of news- 
papers and journals that it is needless to re- 
capitulate them in detail in this brief mention 
j of his honorable life. His appointment to the 
I command of the Ohio Division in February, 
I 1892, his unanimons election to the post of 
Lientenant-General, commanding the Army, on 
October 18, 1892, at the Detroit General 
Military Council; his great triumph at Chicago 
in 1893 in bringing about the unification of the 
divided forces of the army, are all as a pleasant 
tale. If he has achieved nothing more than the 
nnity of the brotherhood in the bonds of peace, 
he has done a work that will redound to his 
honor and renown in the history of this organ- 
ization. It must be admitted that General 
Walker is a leader of ability and great executive 
power. He has a magnetic power of drawing 
to his standard men of real worth and ability, a 
fact which is a powerful testimony to his ster- 
ling character, and when to this is added the 
splendid record of self-sacrificing work done by 
Mr. Walker, it is fitting not only that he has 
been elevated to the important post of Lieu- 
tenant-General, commanding the Army of the 
Uniformed Sir Knights, Order Sons of St. 
George, but that he has been elevated in the 
highest esteem, confidence and deference of his 
fellow citizens. 

Mr. Walker married Rose Hannah Calvert, 
of Further Gate, Blackburn, Lancashire, Eng- 
land, on September 21, 1867. Mrs. Walker was 
born September, 184.5. Her father, Benjamin 
Calvert, was a cotton power-loom weaver. In 
1891 Mr. Walker and his family made a three- 
months tour in Europe, visiting London, Paris, 



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and other famous continental cities. The pleas- 
ant feature of the tour was the joy with which 
they were greeted and the public receptions 
given in their honor in the towns of Blackburn, 
Lancashire and Middlesborough, where Mr. 
Walker spent his happy youthful days, all evi- 
dencing that he came here with a clean record. 
While in Blackburn, England, he laid a memo- 
rial stone for a new Methodist school, an exten- 
sion of the one he attended twenty-four years 
previously. A mallet with a suitable inscrip- 
tion on a silver plate was presented as a souvenir 
of the occasion. 

Mr. and Mrs. Walker are members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church of Cleveland, and 
contribute largely of their means and influence 
to the cause of church, as well as of education. 

We oifer the above as a brief review of the 
achievements of General "Walker as an American 
citizen, as a Son of St. George and Uniformed 
Sir Knight, to which is added his achievements 
as a mechanical engineer, and all is a heritage 
which any man can hand down to his children 
with pardonable pride. 



, RESTES C. PINNEY, one of the most 
prominent attorneys of the Forest City, 
is also one of the most prominent citizens 
of northern Ohio. To pursue a chronological 
order in giving our brief sketch of him, we will 
first state that his father was a native of New 
England, born in West Farmington, Connecti- 
cut, in 1805. In ISBi, with his wife and two 
children, he emigrated to Ohio, coming with an 
ox team. In 1840 he located on 100 acres of 
land in Hart's Grove, Ashtabula county, which 
place was at the time a dense forest excepting 
that one acre had been partially cleared; and 
this point was his home until his death, when 
he M'as seventy-four years of age. 

Uis father, the grandfather of Orestes, was a 
Captain in the Revolutionary war, whose 
brother was a Lieutenant in the same contest. 



Mr. Orestes C. Pinney, the youngest of his 
parents' nine children, was born April 27, 1851, 
reared on the farm and attended the Geneva 
(Ohio) Normal School. Leaving the farm in 
Hart's Grove in the autumn of 1867, he was 
employed a few days in the erection of a mill- 
dam at Windsor Mills in Ashtabula county, 
and spent the remainder of that fall digging po- 
tatoes iu Harpersfield and Madison, and earned 
besides his board $47.90. The ensuing winter 
he taught the Wheeler Creek public school in 
Geneva, four months, earning besides his ijoard 
$100. From this start he continued his educa- 
tion, taking up the study of the higher branches, 
without a teacher, and also studying law, till he 
was admitted to practice at the bar, in Septem- 
ber, 1873. He immediately opened an otKce at 
Geneva, where he practiced his chosen profession 
until February, 1890, when he accepted an 
oti'er to become the First Deputy in the United 
States Customs office at Cleveland, which posi- 
tion he held for a year and ten months, resign- 
ing to resume the practice of law in this city. 
Soon he entered the law office of Harvey D. 
Goulder, where he remained fifteen months, and 
then opened an office independently in the 
Perry- Payne building, where he is now practic- 
ing his profession, with success. 

In 1876 he was united in marriage with Miss 
Grace P. Cowdery, of Perry county, Ohio, and 
they have three sons, their pride and their joy. 



'Jr^j UFUS WAY SMITH, landscape, marine 
r^' and animal painter, was born in Bedford, 
11 ¥i Cuyahoga county, Ohio, May 26, 1840. 
V His father, Dr. Alvah Smith, married 

Mary Hamblin Way, from whom the subject of 
this sketch takes his middle name. On the 
father's side his ancestry were of Revolutionary 
stock, his grandfather having served honorably 
throucrh the entire war for independence, — 
entering the service at the age of sixteen, pass- 



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ing throngli the terrible winter at Valley Forge, 
and being present at the surrender at Yorktown, 
Virginia. 

Another ancestor on the father's side left 
England in 1643, because of his adherence to 
liberal principles in regard to church and State, 
settling in the colony of Massachusetts. His 
father's mother, whose maiden name was Chloe 
Van Iluysen, was from Holland, a member of 
her family having been an artist of eminence; 
and through her it is probable that Mr. Smith 
inherits his artistic talent. She was a woman 
of refinement and rare culture for those days, 
as is shown by evidences in the possession of 
the family, speaking and writing both lier own 
and other languages with ability. On both 
sides Mr. Smith's parents were from New Eng- 
land, his mother having settled in the Connecti- 
cut Western Ileserve in 1S14, and his father in 
1828. 

They removed to Cleveland in 1850, and the 
son entered the studio of the late Jarvis F. 
Hanks, an artist of considerable local repute at 
that time, and personally standing very high 
among his fellows. Here were passed many 
pleasant, happy days, drawing from the flat and 
from the antique, varied now and then by paint- 
grinding, brush-washing and other drudgery 
incidental to "life in an artist's attic." But the 
death of his teacher and kind friend prevented 
at that time his further study of art; and the 
removal of his parents to Cincinnati, where 
educational advantages were supposed to be 
superior, and the determination of his father 
that his son must begin life with a good educa- 
tion, placed many years between the boy's first 
efforts toward art and his subsequent renewal of 
those studies. 

After leaving Cincinnati the family settled in 
Bedford once more, and at the age of fourteen 
Rufus entered Twinsburg Institute. After a 
year there he went to Hiram College, in which 
the late President James A. Garfield was a pro- 
fessor, whom to know was to love and revere. 
Here the grand manhood of Garfield served as 
an inspiration, and to his brave and cheering 



words, his forceful, clear and logical teaching, 
Mr. Smith ascribes very much that has been 
most truly serviceable to him in the battle of life. 

While at college he began writing for publi- 
cation, contributing a number of articles to the 
Cleveland Plaindealer, then edited by J. W. 
Gray, and upon which Charles F. Browne ("Ar- 
temns Ward") was an editorial writer, and later 
to the Cleveland Herald, before its consolidation 
with the Leader. When nineteen years old Mr. 
Smith went to Illinois and taught school; was 
ofl'ered the position of head master in the semi- 
nary then flourishing at Lake Zurich, which he 
declined, fearing that it would interfere with 
the line of study he had marked out for him- 
self, and possibly induce him to continue life 
on a pathway entirely different from that which 
he wished to walk. Somewhat subsequent to 
this, while still in Lake county, he was offered 
the nomination for School Coramissroner, which 
also he declined, on the score of youth. 

During his last year at school, and while 
teaching, he had procured law-books and read 
them as chance offered, having been led to this 
field by the advice of friends who believed him 
possessed of very marked ability in that direc- 
tion. 

December 13, 1860, he married Miss Martha 
A. White, of Bedford; and now the urgency of 
new duties hindered to some extent his legal 
studies; but after a time he entered his name 
as a student in the oflSce of the Hon. William 
Slade, Jr., and Hon. N. B. Sherwin, and also in 
the Ohio State and Union Law College, then 
under the presidency of the late General John 
Crowell. Mr. Slade's absence in Europe as 
consul to Nice, and the taking of oflSce by Mr. 
Sherwin, made it necessary to seek another 
opening, and he entered the office of the late 
Albert T. Slade, one of the finest men and 
among the first lawyers then at the bar. Here 
again the "exigencies of war" interfered with 
study; but on the 28th of June, 1864, after a 
most thorough examination by a committee ap- 
pointed by the District Court then sitting at 
Newark, he was admitted to the bar of Ohio; 



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and Mr. Smith feels a justifiable pride in the 
fact that one of that committee was the Hon. 
Allen G. Thurman. 

After acting as Deputy Clerk of the Court of 
Common Pleas of Cuyahoga county for a year 
or more, he '-hung out his shingle" as an attor- 
ney, and 80 continued until his love for art be- 
came a force too potent to be resisted, and 
against the warmest remonstrances of his friends 
he abandoned the law, — " not that he loved Ctesar 
less, but that he loved Rome more." 

During his legal studies and practice he had 
written occasionally for the Cleveland Herald, 
the Rural New Yorker, and the Nation during 
its first year; but his first and true love was art, 
and under its influence he relinquished a career 
already quite assured for one that was new and 
untried, and in which failure would be disgrace, 
— this, too, at a time in life when many a man 
would have faltered, and perhaps looked long- 
ingly back to the known and certain; but, hav- 
ing made the decision and started, there has 
been no moment in which he has liesitated or 
felt tempted to return. 

With the exception of two years' study in 
Philadelphia and New York, Mr. Smith is en- 
tirely self-taught, as are many of the best Amer- 
ican artists. Nature has been liis inspiration. 

It might be interesting if we could recite the 
story of the sadness of these days of struggle, 
— the fatigues and failures, — the heartaches, 
and his determination to win against it all, and 
the final "coming out of bondage;" but Mr. 
Smith reserves these episodes, feeling that, if 
through them all there runs a thread of pathos, 
it is no more, perhaps, than is common to many 
lives, nor more pathetic than the events "inci- 
dent to the venture" usually are when one 
"swaps horses while leaping with them over a 
stream." Viewed from his present position, 
however, there is miich sunshine and gladness: 
there certainly are no regrets, even though so 
many days were dark. 

Among the first works of tliis artist which 
attracted the favorable notice of the critics 
while on exhibition in Philadelphia, was "The 



Old Mill," illustrating a verse or two from the 
ballad of Ben Bolt, one notice of which closed 
as follows: "This picture, painted by Mr. 
Rufus Way Smith, is one of the most perfect 
idealizations of landscape that can be found, — 
at least such is the opinion of connoisseurs and 
art critics of note. Indeed, for graceful draw- 
ing, strong but fine grouping and a wonderful 
vividness of color that is yet without a glaring 
element, it cannot be excelled." 

After returning to Cleveland Mr. Smith devoted 
himself almost exclusively to landscapes for some 
years, but finally turned his attention to animals, 
more especially sheep, and with such decided 
success that he is now best known in that line. 
Many of his pictures are owned in New York, 
Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Rochester, 
Toledo, St. Louis, Chicago and other cities, but 
chiefly in the city of his residence, where their 
possessors are among the most refined and 
wealthy people, — such as Mrs. President Gar- 
field, Hon. R. C. Parsons, Hon. Charles A. 
Otis, Hon. C. C. Baldwin, Hon. William E. 
Sherwood, Hon. B. D. Babcoek, George Hoyt, 
W. P. Soiithworth, Hon. W. S. Streator, H. C. 
Rannev, Hon. Rufus P. Ranney, Dudley Bald- 
win, Colonel Myron T. Herrick, Hon. John C 
Covert, James B. Morrow, Samuel B. Mather, 
Levi T. Schofield, Richard Bacon, Hon. James 
D. Cleveland, E. I. Baldwin, John D. Rocke- 
feller, Professor Cady Staley, Professor Potwin, 
Professor C. F. Olney, William Bowler, Hon. 
John Huntington and scores of others. 

Mr. Smith was also connected for one year 
with the Western Reserve School of Design for 
Women, as teacher of landscape painting, and 
delivered a series of lectures before the school 
upon the more practical methods in art. In 
1884 he was appointed by President Arthur as 
one of the Art Commissioners of Ohio for the 
New Orleans World's Fair and Cotton Centen- 
nial. 

His work has been exhibited at the galleries 
of the American Art Association, the New 
York Water-Color Club, Pennsylvania Academy 
of Fine Arts, and at the various expositions 



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about the country whenever the demands of his 
patronage would permit. For a year or more 
he was the art editor for "Town Topics," his 
articles gaining for him flattering recognition 
as a critic, showing discriminating and analyti- 
cal powers of a high order. 

During his summer trips to the coast of 
Maine, the island of Nantucket, and along the 
shores of New England, in search of motifs for 
his more important works, he has found time 
for a pleasurable indulgeisce iu literature, con- 
tributing a poem now and then to the Ladies' 
Home Journal of Philadelphia, and as an hon- 
ored special correspondent of the Cleveland 
Leader, to the columns of which he has always 
found a generous welcome. 

In speaking of Mr. Smith's work in art we 
could hardly do better than to quote the words 
of a recent critique upon them: 

"His last, however, upon which unusual 
thought and care have been expended, will be 
recognized as a great study by those who appre- 
ciate the quiet sentiment and poetry of nature. 
His pictures are not noticeable for size, strange, 
far-fetched scenes, or for unusual and odd 
methods of treatment; but they are noticeable 
and wonderful for their simplicity, sincerity 
and beauty, and in these days of temptation, 
noise, hurry and want of study in art a man is 
remarkable who resolutely sets himself through 
years of patient waiting and labor to express 
any good purpose. To this object Mr. Smith 
has devoted himself; and, since deciding to 
make a specialty of expressing the subtle and 
7nysterious sentiment of out-door nature, the 
ajiproval that has met his efforts speaks volumes 
for his present and for his future." 

Mr. Smitli possesses a "scrap-book" filled 
with favorable notices of his work, clipped 
from the Philadelphia Press, the New York 
Graphic, the New York Sun and other journals, 
M'hich he prizes very highly. 

In personal appearance Mr. Smith is of 
medium height, with broad shoulders, a well- 
shaped head, with extra depth from the high 
forehead to the base of the brain, dark-hazel 



eyes which light magically when in the pr 
of congenial friends or when inspired by some 
theme of interest, brown hair and moustache 
tinged with gray, mobile lips moderately full 
but expressive, and a chin which shows a firm 
will and unlimited perseverance. 

Among his personal characteristics are: Sin- 
cerity, appearing to be almost an assumption of 
brusqueness to those who do not know him 
well; an intense hatred of all shams, social or 
otherwise; a detestation of cant and bigotry; 
an absolute devotion to those friends who are 
worthy; and a decided tendency to liberalism 
in thought, believing that others may hold 
opinions in opposition to his own and yet be 
sincere. He does not "wear his heart upon his 
sleeve," and therefore has never made — has 
never cared to make — a multitude of summer 
friends; but those he has made are among the 
chosen few who know him as he is; and these 
friendships have been beatitudes: they are firm 
and eternal. 



flOHN WALWORTH and ASHBEL W. 
K I WALWORTH.— The student of Western 
^^ Reserve history finds frequent mention of 
the Walworths, father and son, and always with 
some honorable and useful connection. The 
former, Judge John Walworth, was one of the 
strong and venturesome men who came to the 
wilderness of Ohio in the early days of the 
present century and gave the moral, independ- 
ent and cultured bias that has been the predomi- 
nant feature of this section of the State. New 
England education and practical sagacity were 
the weapons with which such men worked, and 
the results have been seen in the rapid growth 
and commanding influence ever held by the 
Reserve in State and national affairs. 

The son, Ashbel W. Walworth, was a worthy 
successor of a noble sire and added new honor 
to a good name. In this record of the strong 
men who laid such good foundations and built 
so well thereon, the lives of father and son fit 



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in so well together that the story of the two can 
best be told as one. The family is of English 
descent and can trace its line of ancestry back 
to Sir William Walworth, Lord Mayor of Lon- 
don in 13SI, who was knigiited by Richard IL 
for striking down the rebel "Wat Tyler. The 
first named of the family mentioned in America 
was William Walworth, a descendant of the 
above, who came from London to this country 
at the close of the seventeenth century and set- 
tled on Fisher's island as a tenant of Governor 
Wiuthrop. The numerous incursions of Captain 
Kidd, the pirate, npon the unprotected islands 
and coasts made his residence unsafe and he re- 
moved to Connecticut. John "Walworth, one of 
his direct descendants, was of Connecticut birth 
and was born on June 10, 1765. He was mar- 
ried to Jnlianna Morgan, of Xew London, and 
in 1800 came to Ohio, where he had previously 
located and purchased a farm at the mouth of 
the Grand river, now known as Fairport, four 
miles north of Painesville. That point then 
promised to bo a better place of investment than 
Cleveland, the excellence of the harbor leading 
to the expectation that it would be of more sig- 
nal growth and might become the foundation of 
a great city. 

The early settlers were so near the stirring 
scenes of '76 that they never forgot their patri- 
otism, and the anniversary of the Declaration of 
American Independence was celebrated with 
more fervor in the early days of the century 
than is displayed in these later times. In 1801 
the first Fourth of July outburst ever noted in 
Painesville occurred at the residence of John 
"Walworth. He had purchased a tract of land 
embracing near 1,000 acres, and out of this had 
selected about 300 acres as a farm for his own 
use, where he erected a log cabin on the high 
bank immediately overlooking Grand River. It 
was in this cabin that the people of all the 
neighboring country decided to hold their patri- 
otic celebration. 

A. W. Walworth was born in Stonington, 
Connecticut, on December 6, 1790, and was 
consequently ten years of age when the long 



western trip was made to Ohio. He remembered 
it distinctly and took great pleasure in after 
years in narrating incidents connected there- 
with. He was naturally apt and ready, and be- 
gan at an early age to be of help to his father 
in the many public trusts that devolved upon 
him, gaining in this way an experience that was 
of the utmost value to him when compelled to 
carry public responsibilities of his own in later 
years. 

The year of John "\\^alworth's arrival in Ohio, 
1800, was one of no small importance, as it saw 
the settlement in this section of a number of 
men of commanding strength and influence and 
the forward movement along a number of lines 
of progress, ilr. Walworth settled at Fairport, 
Edward Paine located at Painesville, Benjamin 
Tappan at Unionville and Ephraim Quinby at 
Warren. Being a man of good education, 
sound judgment and good address, Mr. Wal- 
worth soon found himself one of the leading 
spirits of the community, and his physical 
strength was not such as would permit him to 
undergo the severe labors of a farm in a new 
country at a time when labor-saving machinery 
had not been heard of. He therefore naturally 
drifted into public life. He filled many posi- 
tions of trust with signal fidelity and in such a 
manner as to gain for him the unquestioned 
praise and respect of the community. A num- 
ber of the commissions issued to him have been 
preserved by his descendants and are historic 
relics of great interest. The following dates 
have been taken from these commissions: On 
July 4, 1802, he was made Justice of the Peace 
for Trumbull county; on April 14, 1803, he 
was appointed by Governor Edward Tilfin to 
the position of Associate Judge of the Court of 
Common Pleas for the County of Trumbull, for 
the period of seven years. As a judge the ap- 
pointee showed excellent judgment and was 
highly spoken of by contemporary opinion. On 
November 14, 1804, Judge Walworth was ap- 
pointed Postmaster at Painesville. His com- 
mission was made by Gideon Granger, then 
Postmaster General of the United States, and 



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the office was held until the removal of the ap- 
pointee to Cleveland in 1806. In 1S05 tlie 
Government decided that this coast should no 
longer be left open to free trade with Canada. 
A collection district was established for the 
south shore of the lake, called the District of 
Erie, and Judge Walworth appointed Collector. 
His commission was signed by Thomas Jeffer- 
son, President, and countersigned by James 
Madison, Secretary of State. Judge Walworth 
had for some time contemplated a removal to 
Cleveland, and on this appointment decided on 
a change. 

He disposed of his interests on the Grand 
river, and soon after made a purchase of a farm 
of 300 acres, almost literally bounded and de- 
fined by the limits of the First ward of Cleve- 
land under the recent redistricting — Huron, 
Erie and Cross streets, and the Cuyahoga river. 
He brought his family here in 1806, and made 
this place his home for the remainder of his life. 
One of his daughters, Julianna, afterward the 
wife of Dr. David Long, and mother of Mrs. 
Mary H. Severance, has left a record of that trip 
in which she says: " My father, John Walworth, 
moved to Cleveland from Painesville in April, 
1806. We came up in an open boat, which was 
wrecked, and my father came near being 
drowned. He was so weak when he came out 
of the water that he could barely crawl on his 
hands and knees." He was known by every- 
body and was soon as busy and useful in the 
new home as he had been in the old. He was 
made Postmaster of Cleveland before actually 
settling here. On October 22, 1805, the com- 
mission was issued and Judge Walworth be- 
came Postmaster of Cleveland. January 17, 
1806, saw him commissioned " Inspector of the 
Revenue for the Port of Cuyahoga," over Thomas 
Jefferson's hand, and under the countersign of 
James Madison, Secretary of State. His ap- 
pointment as "Collector for the District of 
Erie " bears the same date, and comes from the 
same source of power. On January 23, 1806, 
Governor TitKn appointed him Associate Judge 
of the Court of Common Pleas for Geauga 



County, to hold for seven years "if he shall so 
long behave well." Cuyahoga County was at 
that time attached to Geauga, for Judicial pur- 
poses. 

Judge Walworth was public-spirited in many 
ways, and was engaged in any measure that had 
in view the advancement of the interests of this 
section. When the scheme was originated in 
1807 for the improvement of the Cuyahoga and 
Tuscarawas rivers, so as to give better connec- 
tion between Lake Erie and the Ohio river, he 
was one of the leaders therein, and made agent 
and a member of the board of commissioners 
that had it in charge. Although he held sev- 
eral offices, the amount of business in each was 
so small that he was not compelled to neglect 
any of them. His report to the Government 
for the season running from April to October, 
1809, shows that the total amount of goods, 
wares and merchandise exported from thiscoun- 
try to Canada was but $50. 

In 1810, on the organization of Cuyahoga 
county as such. Judge Walworth was made 
Clerk of the Court and also Recorder. This 
laid one more responsibility upon him, but 
nothing suffered in his hands. He found time 
for labor or recreation in other fields. He was 
one of the founders of the first Masonic lodge 
in northern Ohio, organized in Warren in 1803, 
and was one of its officers. He was a friend to 
education, and one of the founders of the insti- 
tution out of which Western Reserve College 
afterward grew. In 1801, when the entire pop- 
ulation of the Western Reserve was not over 
1,500, the Rev. Joseph Badger, the famous 
missionary preacher, presented a petition to the 
Territorial legislature, asking for a charter for 
the establishment of an academy or college. 
The request was not granted. In 1802 Ohio 
was admitted to the Union as a State, and in 
1803 an act was passed incorporating the Erie 
Literary Society. John Walworth was one of 
the incorporators, among his associates being 
Rev. Mr. Badger, John S. Edwards, Turhand 
Ivirtland and other men of character. They re- 
ceived parcels of land from various persons. 



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from tlie proceed.s of whicli, in 1805, they 
erected an academy in BurtoD, Geauga county. 
This was the first school of the kind in northern 
Ohio, and was the germ of Hudson College. In 
fact, the name of Judge Walworth is met on 
almost every page of the early I'ecords of the 
section. In regard to him Colonel Whittlesey's 
history says: 

'•John Walworth, though not among the ear- 
liest, was one of the most prominent, settlers of 
the Western Reserve. . . Like most young 
men who live near salt water he spent several 
years at sea, and visited the South American 
States. He came to settle at Aurora, Cayuga 
Lake, New York, in 1792. They reached their 
new home at Painesville on the 8th of April, 
1800. He was small in stature, of very active 
habits, and had a pleasing countenance. Mr. 
Walworth could not have been selected to fill so 
many offices in the organization of the new gov- 
ernment if he had not been worthy of them. 
In those days professional office hunters seldom 
became the successful candidates. ... It 
was no small part of Mr. Walworth's good for- 
tune that he had a wife well suited to the cir- 
cumstances by which they were surrounded. 
Mrs. Walworth is remembered as a kind, noble, 
dignified, judicious woman, spoken of with re- 
spect and kindness by all who shared her society 
or her hospitality. When the stampede occurred 
at Cleveland on the occasion of Hull's surrender, 
she was one of three ladies who refused to leave 
the place. (Her husband was lying sick at the 
time.) She rode a horse not merely as a grace- 
ful exercise, but took long journeys in company 
with her husband. In 1810 she crossed the 
mountains in this manner, by way of Pittsburg 
and Philadelphia, to her old home in the East- 
ern States. With such training, a vigorous 
physique and a cheerful disposition, it is not 
strange that she survived three generations — 
long enough to witness the results of her hus- 
band's expectations. She died at Cleveland 
March 2, 1853." 

Three sons and two daughters were born in 
the family of this worthy couple, — Ashbel W., 



Horace F. and John P., and Mrs. Dr. Long and 
Mrs. Dr. Strickland. 

Judge Walworth did not live to see anything 
like a full realization of the dreams he had al- 
ways held of the greatness of the country, but 
died on September 10, 1812, in the very darkest 
days of the war. He was followed to his grave 
by the united and sincere sorrow and respect of 
the community, and great sympathy was ex- 
tended to his mourning wife and children. 
Judge Walworth's life had been lived in the^ 
sight of men, and his character stood each test 
that was applied to it. He was one of the most 
useful as he was one of the most lionored of 
Ohio's pioneers. 

Ashbel W. Walworth was but sixteen years 
of age when his father removed to Cleveland, 
but the maturity of his mind was such that even 
at that age he was of great assistance to his 
father in the conduct of the many trusts reposed 
in the hands of the latter. When the father 
was away, the son would take his place, and so 
able was the discharge of those duties that on 
the death of his father he was appointed to sev- 
eral of the offices the other had held. He had 
been made Deputy Postmaster on September 9. 
1809, and on the death of his father in 1812 
was made Postmaster, holding the office until 
1816, when he resigned, and was succeeded by 
Daniel Kelley. He was also made Collector of 
the Port of Cleveland, holding the office from 
1812 to 1829, when he was succeeded by Judge 
Samuel Starkweather. He was in demand in 
all quarters where public trust needed the ex- 
perience and faithful care he was so able to give. 
In 1815 he was elected Township Clerk of 
Cleveland, being re-elected in 1816 and again 
in 1817. In 1821 he was made Township Treas- 
urer, and again in 1S22: became a Justice of 
the Peace in 1823, and again held that office in 
1826; and continuously held the office of Treas- 
urer of Cleveland village from 1817 to 1829. In 
1840 he represented the First ward in the Cleve- 
land City Council. 

He was foremost in any good work. In 1827, 
on the organization of the Cuyahoga coloniza- 




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-ry. 



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tioii society, a brancli of the national society, he 
tilled the important position of Ti'easurer. The 
purpose of this organization was to provide 
homes for colored people in Africa as rapidly 
as they could be freed and sent over there. One 
public service in which Mr. Walworth was for 
some time engaged, while Collector of tliis 
Port, was of great moment to the shipping in- 
terests of Cleveland and Lake Erie. The diffi- 
culty of entrance to the mouth of the Cuyahoga 
by way of the old river bed was of the most 
serious character, and an insurmountable barrier 
to the growth and development of Cleveland. 
The attention of the general Government was 
called to the matter, and in the winter of 
1824-'25, Congress passed an act appropriating 
$5,000 for the construction of such a breakwater 
at the mouth of the Cuyahoga as to enable vessels 
to enter this port in safety. This matter was 
contided, without instructions, to the hands of 
Mr. Walworth, who expended the money under 
scieutitic advice, in the construction of a pier 
running out from the river mouth. Little bene- 
fit was obtained, and, at a mass meeting of citi- 
zens in the fall of 1825, it was decided to send 
Mr. Walworth to Washington to secure anotlier 
appropriation for the work. He met with 
much opposition, but finally, in 1826, $10,000 
were voted to the scheme, and the present 
new river mouth was opened and the problem 
solved. 

Id 1816 Mr. Walworth was one of a party of 
leading Cleveland gentlemen who associated 
themselves under the name of the Cleveland 
Pier Company, for the purpose of erecting a 
pier in Lake Erie at this harbor, for the accom- 
modation of vessels too large to come near the 
shore. A pier was actually started, but the 
treacherous bed of the lake and the fierce storms 
for which Erie was always noted, brought the 
scheme to naught. He was for some time as- 
sociated with Thomas M. Kelley, under the firm 
name of Kelley & Walworth. They were en- 
gaged in the forwarding and commission busi- 
ness on River street, and quite e.xtensively en- 
gaged in shipping. 



Mr. Walworth's family residence stood on 
Superior street, where the Leader building now 
stands. A small ofiice at one side was used for 
the transaction of his business. He was mar- 
ried, on August 24, 1820, to Mary Anne Dunlap, 
of Schenectady, New York, who survived him 
nearly a quarter of a century, dying September 
17, 1870. They had six children, of whom four 
are now living, to wit: John Walworth, Anne 
Walworth, Sarah Walworth, and Mary W., now 
Mrs. S. A. Bradbury. The second son, William, 
and youngest daughter, Jane, are deceased. 

Mr. Walworth was suddenly called out of the 
useful labors in which he was engaged and the 
happy home he loved so well, on August 24, 
1844. He had been a professing Christian for 
a number of years, showing his faith in his 
works, and meekly following the lead of the 
Master. He was a member of the First Pres- 
byterian Church, and gave its interests his best 
thought and most loyal service. He was a man 
of great industry, strict habits of life and of the 
utmost honor and honesty in all the relations of 
life. He was of a very social disposition, and 
made friends wherever he went. He had the 
hospitable habits of the old settlers, and his 
home was always open and made welcome to 
whomsoever might come. His heart was kind, 
his sympathies broad, and his manners genial. 
When he was called to the rest of the other life, 
the feeling of the entire community was that a 
good and noble man had gone to his reward. 



JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD, twentieth 
President of the United States, was born 
November 11, 1831, in the wilds of Orange 
township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio. Paternally', 
he descended from a Puritan family, his ances- 
tors coming from Chester, England, to the 
colony of Massachusetts Bay as early as 1630. 
Maternally he was from a French Huguenot 
family. His parents were Abram and Eliza 
(Ballou) Garfield, who were married in 1820, 
he aged twenty, she eighteen years. The father 



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was a native of Worcester, Otsego county, New 
York, and the mother of New Hampshire, and 
a relative of Hosea Ballon, the celebrated 
preacher and author. Abram and Eliza Garfield 
had four children: Mehetable, Thomas, Mary 
and James A. In May, 1833, the father died, 
and upon his death-bed he said to his wife, 
"Eliza, I have planted four saplings in these 
woods: I leave them to your care." 

James was less than two years old when his 
father died, and a low point of human need 
seemed to have been reached by his family; but, 
displaying a vigor and endurance of which they 
themselves had hitherto been ignorant, with all 
their industry and toil, his mother worked on 
the farm and at the spinning-wheel, while 
Thomas, the eldest son, although but a youth, 
entered at once upon the responsibilities and 
hard labor of manhood. Amos Boynton, a half- 
brother of Abram Garfield, lived near by, and, 
though of limited means himself, cheerfully 
aided them as much as he could, while the 
hardy settlers in the neighborhood were gen- 
erous and sympathetic toward the unfortunate 
family. 

From the outset the life of James was one of 
toil. Born and fostered in a log cabin, his 
childhood was as humble and rude as backwoods 
life could make it. The opening of his life was 
most unpromising, and adds another example 
to the thousands in the lives of the great men 
of America, showing that poverty and want in 
.hildhood need not prevent growth in goodness 
or achievements in greatness. By force of cir- 
cumstances he was compelled to work in early 
childhood and youth, and thus was developed 
that habit of industry and that physical strength 
which made his after success possible. During 
his youthful days he was not distinguished 
above other boys, either for his genius as a 
farmer, woodsman or herdsman, or for his 
accomplishments as a debater in the country 
lyceum,or as a scholar in the schools. He was 
regarded as being neither precocious nor dull as 
a boy, but as having good common sense and 
doin<; his work well. 



Until he was about si.xteen years of age he 
had an intense longing to lead the life of a 
sailor, but, failing to secure a position giving 
him opportunity to gratify this longing, he be- 
came a driver on the Ohio & Pennsylvania 
canal, as an employee of his cousin, Amos 
Letcher. For a short time only, however, he 
held this position, for having sickened of fever 
he returned home. About this time his atten- 
tion appears to have been turned toward literary 
attainments and the higher ambitions of life. 
Hitherto he had given little attention to books, 
and now he firmly and irrevocably resolved that, 
at whatever sacrifice, he would obtain a colle- 
giate education. 

By day he worked upon the farm or at the 
carpenter's trade, and at night studied his books. 
By this means he was soon enabled to enter the 
seminary at the adjoining town of Chester. 
With the earnings of his vacations, together 
with the heroic self-sacrifice of his mother and 
elder brother, he was enabled to secure the ad- 
vantages of several terms at that seminary. 
From Chester he went to Hiram College, an 
institution established in 1850 by the Disciples 
of Christ, to which church he, as well as nearly 
all of the Garfield family, belonged. In order 
to pay his way at Hiram he assumed the duties 
of janitor, and at times taught school. At 
Hiram he continued his studies till sufliciently 
advanced in the classics and mathematics to be 
qualified to enter Williams College, Massachu- 
setts, two years in advance. September, 1854, 
he entered that college, and graduated with 
honors in 1856. Returning to Ohio he became 
a teacher at Hiram, (vhere he was also jiressed 
into the additional work of preaching the gos- 
pel. He soon became popular both as a teacher 
and preacher, and within less than one year he 
was promoted to the presidency of Hiram Col- 
lege, where he was the loved and honored friend 
of rich and poor, great and small. 

While a student at Hiram he met in one of 
its classes Lucretia Rudolph, and in the autumn 
of 1858 married her, in her father's house at 
Hiram, and began a home life of his own. She 



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ever afterward proved a worthy consort in all 
the stages of her husband's career. They had 
seven children, five of whom are still living. 

After his marriage he began the study of 
law, and giving to it his extra hours he was able 
in 1S60 to pass the necessary examination and 
was admitted to the bar. He was a man of 
strong moral and religious convictions, and as 
soon as he began to look into politics he saw 
innumerable points that could be improved. 
He was attracted to legal studies by his active 
and patriotic interest in public affairs. He was 
an Abolitionist, Free-soiler and Republican, 
and always open and bold in the declaration of 
his political principles, whether in college, 
church or caucus. In 1859 he made his first 
political speeches, and in the fall of that year 
he was elected to the Ohio State Senate by a 
sweeping majority, and when he took his seat, 
in January, 1860, he was the youngest member 
of that body, being but twenty-eight years of 
age. 

During the trying years of 1860 and 1861 he 
was a very useful and eloquent member of the 
State Senate, and on the breaking out of the 
Civil war in 1861 Mr. Garfield resolved to light 
as he had talked. He was appointed a member 
of Governor Dennison's staff to assist in organ- 
izing troops for the war. August 14, 1861, he 
was commissioned as Lieutenant-Colonel of the 
Forty-second Regiment of Ohio Volunteer In- 
fantry, composed largely of his classmates and 
students at Hiram College. Colonel Garfield's 
regiment was immediately thrown into active 
service, and before he had ever seen a gun fired 
in action he was placed in command of four 
regiments of infantry and eight companies of 
cavalry, charged with the work of driving the 
Confederates, headed by Humphrey Marshall, 
from his native State, Kentucky. This task 
was speedily accomplished, although against 
great odds. On account of his success, Presi- 
dent Lincoln commissioned him Brigadier-Gen- 
eral, January 11, 1862, and, as he had been the 
youngest man in the Ohio Senate two years be- 
fore, so now he was the youngest general in the 



army. He was with General Enell's army at 
Shiloh, also in .its operations around Corinth 
and its march through Alabama. June 15, 
1862, General Garfield was detailed to sit in a 
trial by court-martial of a lieutenant of the 
Fifty-eighth Indiana Volunteers. In this case 
his skill, combined with his memory of judicial 
decisions, elicited from officers sitting with him 
in the court commendation of his signal ability 
in such matters. 

On account of fever and ague he obtained a 
leave of absence July 30, and daring the sum- 
mer months he was at Hiram. 

Recovering his health he reported to the War 
Department at Washington, according to order 
from the Secretary of War. This was about 
September 25, 1862. He was ordered to sit in 
the court of inquiry in the case of General IVJx- 
Dowell, and November 25, 1862, he was made 
a member of the court in the celebrated trial of 
General Fitz John Porter for the failure to co- 
operate with General Pope at the battle of Bull 
Run. 

In January, 1863, he was ordered into the 
field, being directed to report to General Rose- 
cransat Murfreesborough. He became chief of 
staff to General Rosecrans, then commanding 
the Army of the Cumberland. His military 
history closed with his brilliant services at 
Chickamauga, where he won the stars of Major- 
General. 

In the fall of 1862, without any efl'ort on his 
part, he was elected as a Representative in 
Congress from the Nineteenth Congressional 
district of Ohio, which had been represented for 
sixty years mainly by two men, — Elisha Whit- 
tlesey and the renowned anti-slavery champion, 
Joshua R. Giddings. He resigned his com- 
mission on the 5th of December, 1863, having 
served in the army more than a year after his 
election to Congress, and took his seat on the 
same day in the House of Representatives, 
where he served until elected to the United 
States Senate in 1880, just before his nomina- 
tion to the presidency. His election to the 
Senate by the Ohio Legislature was a just and 



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reasonable compliment to him for his eminent 
services through sixteen years of a most active 
leo-islative life. During his life in Congress he 
compiled, and published by his speeches there 
and elsewhere, more information on the issues 
of the day, especially on one side, than any oilier 
member. Upon entering Congress he was the 
youngest member, but for this work he was 
well endowed by nature and education. He was 
a ready speaker, — apt, eloquent, pointed, vehe- 
ment. He was possessed of all the physical 
characteristics of dignity, — strength, counte- 
nance and voice, which are so useful in the 
public forum. Thus he was well equipped for 
a place in a deliberative assembly. 

General Garfield was appointed on many im- 
portant special as well as other committees by 
Congress. He was sent by the President to 
Louisiana to report upon the political condition 
of the people with reference to reconstruction, 
and was chosen one of the High Commission 
to which was referred the contested presidential 
election in 1876, and which gave Rutherford 
B. Hayes the seat. In June, 1880, at the 
National Republican Convention held in Chi- 
cago, General Garfield was nominated for the 
Presidency, both to the surprise of himself and 
the country. He was a delegate to the conven- 
tion and was an open advocate of the nomina- 
tion of Hon. John Sherman, of Ohio. The 
party was in danger of a most serious division, 
in which the adherents of General U. S. Grant 
and of Hon. James G. Blaine were the con- 
testants. The only safe measure to adopt was 
found in the nomination of an unobjectionable 
man who was allied with neither faction, and 
hence with great enthusiasm they turned to 
General Garfield; and, although many of the 
Kepublican party felt sore over the failure of 
their i-espective heroes to obtain the nomination, 
General Garfield was elected by a strong ma- 
jority both of the people and of the Electoral 
College, and was inaugurated at Washington, 
March 4, 1881, amid great rejoicing. 

Even as the office was higher than any other 
which he had held, and as the honor was the 



greatest the world could bestow, so the annoy- 
ances which accompanied him into office were 
more discouraging than he had ever experi- 
enced, and most appalling dangers surrounded 
him. Even before his inauguration he was be- 
sieged by office-seekers at Mentor, his home in 
Lake county, Ohio. On every hand and in 
every way did seekers after national honors and 
pay intrude recklessly and remorselessly upon 
his time and attention. Among these thou- 
sands of office-seekers was one Charles J. Gui- 
teau, a native of Illinois, but who at the time 
claimed to be a resident of New York. Guiteau 
had unsnccessfullj practiced law at Chicago 
and New York. His had been an erratic life, 
and his ambition most unbounded. He had 
professed many kinds of religious beliefs and 
had attempted to lecture on religious and social 
themes. He had the appearance of a gentle- 
man, and in the political campaign of 1880 he 
ingratiated himself into the good will of some 
members of the Republican committee of New 
York, and made a few unsuccessful speeches. 
On the fact that he had taken part in the con- 
test he based his claims for a consulship at 
Marseilles, France, and importuned President 
Garfield for the appointment. The appoint- 
ment was refused, and then Guiteau boldly 
threatened vengeance and was forcibly ejected 
from the "White House. He then firmly re- 
solved to assassinate the President at the first 
opportunity. Soon after there arose a political 
difference between the President and Senator 
Conkling, of New York, concerning the appoint- 
ment of a collector for the port of New York. 
This dispute was merely an outburst of the 
smothered feeling lingering after the defeat of 
a favorite candidate in the Republican conven- 
tion, and may have been less remotely con- 
nected with the fact that the President had 
placed in iiis cabinet with William Windom, 
Wayne MacVeagh, Robert T. Lincoln, William 
H. Hunt, Samuel J. Kirkwood and Thomas L. 
James, Senator James G. Blaine, who had been 
one of the candidates opposed in that conven- 
tion by Senator Conkling. Both senators from 



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New York failed in their efforts to prevent the 
Senate from contirniing certain appointments of 
the President, and after the President had 
threateningly, though temporarily, withdrawn 
the unconfirmed nominations from before the 
Senate of some of Senator Conkling's friends, 
both of the New York senators resigned and 
went back to their State Legislature, expecting 
a triumphant re-election as a rebuke to the 
President. They failed of election, and in their 
stead men favoring the President were chosen. 

This contest occasioned great excitement and 
aroused much bitter feeling in the nation. 
Guiteau, blinded by his desire to kill the Presi- 
dent, drew much encouragement from the quar- 
rel, and expected that in his deed he would find 
support and defense from the defeated party. 
However, he did not consult any of them, or 
apprise any man of his intentions. On the 
morning of July 3, 1881, while the President 
was in the Baltimore Railway station at Wash- 
ington, accompanied by Secretary Blaine, Gui- 
teau embraced his first opportunity to assassi- 
nate the President. Guiteau, stepping behind 
his victim, tired two shots into the President's 
back, one shot taking fatal effect. For the 
awful crime Guiteau was hanged. 

On Monday night, September 19, after eighty 
days of suffering, the martyred President peace- 
fully drew his last breath. Midnight bells all 
over the land tolled in gloomy concert, and the 
grief-stricken people sprinkled their pillows 
with tears, saying ''Our President is dead!" 
The next day messages of condolence, sympathy 
and grief came to the heart-broken widow from 
all parts of the world. 

He died at Long Branch, whence his remains 
were removed to Washington. The body was 
placed in the center of the hall of the Capitol 
at Washington, under the great central dome, 
and there for three days lay in state. Once 
during those sad days the multitude was shut 
out, and for an hour the stricken widow was 
left alone with her dead, — one of the saddest, 
sweetest pictures in our nation's history. The 
funeral services at the Capitol were very brief 



and unceremonious, in accordance with the 
usual customs of the Disciples' Church, of 
which the President had been a member. The 
remains were borne to Cleveland, and there, on 
the 26th of September, the last funeral rites 
were held in the open air of the public square, 
and then the remains were reposed in a tomb 
in the beautiful Lake View Cemetery of Cleve- 
land, where to his memory was subsequently 
erected one of the handsomest, largest and most 
fitting monuments of the nation. 

President Garfield passed all the conditions 
of virtuous life between the log cabin in Cuya- 
hoga and the White House in Washington, and 
in that wonderful, rich and varied experience, 
still moving up from higher to higher, he 
touched every heart of the nation at some point 
or other, and became the representative of all 
hearts and lives in the land, and was not only 
the teacher but the interpreter of all virtues. 

THOUGHTS UPON THE TRAGIC DEATH AND PUBLIC 

LIFE OF PRESIDENT JAMES A. GARFIELD. 

BY A. TEACHOOT. 

Listen all ye, my friends! what do we hear? 

Is Garfield dead, and our friend no more ? 
Surprise and horror check the burning tear: 

He is gone like the sand washed from the shore. 

No more we hail the morning's golden gleam; 

No more the wonders of the view we sing; 
Friendship requires a melancholy theme; 

At her command the awful news I bring. 

Garfield, the great master of the boundless space, 
Thee would my soul-racked muse attempt to paint; 

Give me a double portion of thy grace 
Or all the powers of language are too faint. 

Weep on, my countrymen ! give your general tear 
For the friend of all mankind, even the liberated slave. 

An honest pang should wait on Garfield's bier 
And patriot anguish mark the patriot's grave. 

When from the schoolroom at Hiram he had retired 
'Twas you, my friends, surrounded by unnumbered foes, 

That called him forth, his services required 
And took from him the blessing of repose. 

With soul inspired by virtue's sacred flame 

To stem the torrent of corruption's tide. 
He came, with all his love for liberty he came. 

And nobly in his country's service died. 



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In Ihe last awful moment, the departing hour, 
AVhen life's poor lamp more faint and fainter grew 

As memorj' feebly exercised her power. 
He only felt for liberty and you. 

He viewed death's arrow with a Christian's eye, 
With firmness only to a Christian known, 

And nobly gave your miseries that sigh 
With which he never gratified his own. 

Let all who love our country elevate his fame 

And give his laurel everlasting bloom,— 
Record his worth while gratitude has name 

And teach succeeding ages from his tomb. 

The sword of justice cautiously he swayed; 

His hand forever held the balance right; 
Each human fault with pity he surveyed, 

But treachery found no mercy in his sight. 

He knew when enemies besiege a throne 

Truth seldom reached a monarch's ears; 
Knew if oppressed a loyal people groan, 

And it was their cry he should hear. 

Hence, honest to his people, his manly tongue 
The public wrongs and loyalty conveyed. 

While titled tremblers, every nerve unstrung. 
Looked all around confounded and dismayed; — 

Looked all around astonished to behold. 
Trained up to flattery from their early youth, 

An artless, fearless citizen unfold 
To royal ears a mortifying truth. 

Titles to him no pleasures could impart ; 

No bribes his sense of right would entertain; 
The star could never gain upon his heart, 

Nor turn the tide of honor from his name. 

For this his name our liberty shall adorn. 
Shall soar on fame's wide pinions all sublime 

Till heaven's own bright and never-dying morn 
Absorbs our little particle of time. 

Far other fate his enemies shall find. 

Who sigh for place or languish after fame. 
And sell their native probity of mind 

For bribes of statesmen who would thus disgrace their 
name. 
And here a long inglorious list of names 

On my disturbed imaginations crowd. 
" Oh! let them perish," loud the muse e.xclaims, 

" Consigned forever to oblivion's cloud." 

Clean be the page that celebrates his fame. 

Nor let one mark of infamy appear; 
Let not the vicious mingle with his name; 

Let indignation stop the swelling tear. 

The swelling tear should plenteous descend; 

The deluged eye should give the heart relief; 
Humanity should melt for nature's friend 

In all the richest luxury of grief. 



He, as a planet with unceasing ray, 

Is seen in one unvaried course to move. 
Through life pursued but one illustrious way. 

And all his orbit was his country's love. 
Immortal shadow of my much loved friend. 

Clothed in thy native virtue, meet my soul 
When on th6 fatal bed my passions bend 

And curb the floods of anguish as they roll. 

In thee each virtue found a pleasing cell ; 

Thy mind was honor and thy soul divine; 
With thee did every God of genius dwell; 

Thou most the hero of all the nine. 

Now, as the mantle of the evening swells 

Upon my mind, I feel a thickening gloom; 
Ah ! could I charm by necromantic spells 

The soul of Garfield from the deathly tomb. 
Then would we wander through this darkened vale 

In converse such as heavenly spirits use. 
And born upon the pinions of the gale 

Hymn the Creator and exert the muse. 

But, horror to reflection ! now no more 
Will Garfield sing the wonders of the plain 

When, doubting whether they might not adore. 
Admiring mortals heard his nervous strain. 

But he is gone, and now. alas! no more 
His generous hand neglected worth redeemed; 

No more around his mansion sliall the poor 
Bask in his warm, his charitable beams. 

No more his grateful countrymen shall hear 
His manly voice in martyred freedom's cause; 

No more the reckless outlaw will fear 
His severe lash for violated laws. 

Yet say, stern virtue, who would not wish to die 
Thus greatly struggling a whole land to save? 

Who would not wish, with ardor wish, to lie 
With Garfield's honor in a Garfield's grave? 

Not honor such as princes can bestow. 

Whose tyrant hand to a lord can raise. 
But for the brightest honor here below 

A grateful nation's unabating praise. 

But see! wherever liberty on yonder strand, 
Where the cliff rises and the billows roar, 

Already takes her melancholy stand 
To wing her passage to some happier shore. 

Stay, our Heavenly Father, stay; nor leave this blessed 
land 

So many ages thou hast exercised thy peculiar care; 
O stay and ever cheer with thy Almighty hand. 

Lest quick we sink in terrible despair! 
Let my sons, the laws your fathers bought 

With such rich oceans of undaunted blood 
By traitors thus be set at naught. 
While at your hearts you feel the purple flood. 



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Unite in firm, in honorable bonds; 

Break every link of slavery's hateful chain; 
Nor let your children at their father's hands 

Demand their birthright and demand in vain 

Where'er the murderers of their country hide, 
Whatever dignities their names adorn. 

It is your duty — let it be your pride — 
To drag them forth to universal scorn. 

So shall your loved, your venerated name. 
O'er earth's vast convex gloriously expand; 

So shall your still accumulated fame 
In one bright story with our Garfield stand. 



1 ALTER 1. THOMPSON, Counciltnan 
from the Fifth District of Cleveland, 
and a prominent contractor and builder, 
was born in this city, August 15, 1853. He 
secured a liberal education and at seventeen 
years of age began learning his trade as an ap- 
prentice to S. C. Brooks & Co. From 1874 to 
1881 he was a day workman; he then decided 
to risk his own judgment and his limited capi- 
tal in a few contracts. He succeeded, and the 
next year he ventured farther, and each succeed- 
ing year extended his business until all his own 
time was devoted to supervision of work, execu- 
tion of plans and submitting bids for new 
contracts. 

Mr. Thompson's ancestry is English. His 
father, Charles Thompson, was born in Lincoln- 
shire, England, and in 1835 took up his resi- 
dence in this city. He was a cooper l)y trade, 
and for many years has been superintendent of 
the barrel department of the Standard Oil Com- 
pany of this city. He came to Cleveland with 
two other young men and learned liis trade 
here. He is a gentleman of exemplary habits, 
good business judgment and a modest, quiet 
citizen. His father was a sea captain, conduct- 
ing vessels between New York and Liverpool. 

Our subject's mother, whose name before 
marriage was Avarina Jenkins, was a native of 
Wales; and her father, Isaac Jenkins, came to 
Cuyahoga county before 1840 and became a 
farmer near Warren sville, this State. The chil- 
dren by this union are: Louisa, wife of William 



Kyle, of Cleveland; Walter L; C. E., in the 
employ of the Mercantile National Bank of 
Cleveland; and E. E., in the Cleveland & Pitts- 
burg Railroad ofKces. 

October 30, 1878, Mr. Walter I. Thompson 
was united in marriage, in Cleveland, to Miss 
Olive N. Quayle, daughter of Robert Quayle, 
a Manxman and a blacksmith. Mr. Thompson's 
children are John William and Avrina Olive. 

In politics our subject has always been a Re- 
publican, and has been more or less active in his 
party's interests ever since he became of age; 
but not until the spring of 1892 did he submit 
to the use of his name as a candidate for any 
elective office. He was then elected to his pres- 
ent position as Councilman from the Fifth Dis- 
trict of Cleveland, to succeed J. I. Nuun, a 
Democrat, in the organization of the Council 
of 1892 he was appointed chairman of the 
committee on printing and member of the com- 
mittees on appropriations and city property. 
In 1893 he was chosen chairman of the latter, 
and also served on the committees on appropria- 
tions and fire. 

In respect to the fraternal orders he is a 
member of the Cleveland City Lodge and of 
Webb Chapter, of the Masonic order, also of 
Banner Lodge, I. O. O. F., of the Masonic 
Club, Builders' Exchange and Employing Car- 
penters' Association. In Odd Fellowship he 
has passed all the chairs, and is Junior Warden 
in the Masonic lodge. 



'^) URROUGHS FRANK BOWER, vice- 
Iry, president, treasurer and general man- 
•^^ ager of the World Publishing Company 
(Cleveland World), was born in Ann Arbor, 
Michigan, October 31, 1855, and is conse- 
quently in his thirty-ninth year. He comes of 
German and American stock. His father, 
Henry Bower, was born in Pennsylvania, 
brought up on a farm, taught school, and 
moved to Michigan in the '30s, where he en- 
gaged in the business of buying and selling 



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pine land, manufacturing lumber, and carrying 
on a general mercantile business until his death 
in 1870. His mother, whose maiden name 
was Margaret G. Chase, was of Geneva, New 
York, a daughter of Captain Chase, who dis- 
tinguished himself in the war of 1812. 

Mr. Bower was the youngest of four chil- 
dren, and was intended for the bar, which pro- 
fession his elder brother had embraced, but the 
sudden death of his father when young Bower 
was fourteen years old required a change in 
plans. Some time prior to the death of Mr. 
Bower's father, his eldest son, Henry E. H. 
Bower, brother of the subject of this sketch, 
published a weekly newspaper at Ann Arbor 
called the Democrat. It was in this office that 
young Bower obtained his initiation into the 
newspaper business. After his father's death, 
the Democrat being sold, young Bower took up 
civil engineering, but this not being to his taste 
lie abandoned it and went West. 

In December, 1874, he returned to Ann 
Aibor and became the local editor of the 
Courier. At the time he accepted this position 
he had not yet turned his nineteenth year. 
During 1875 and 1876 he also attended lectures 
at the University of Michigan, and in 1876 
entered the law department of the university 
and also studied law in the office of Prosecuting 
Attorney Robert E. Frazer, now Judge Frazer, 
of Detroit. Mr. Bower supported himself while 
in college by corresponding for a number of 
newspapers and conducting a humorous depart- 
ment in Ballou's Monthl}', a Boston publication. 
He was accorded the degree of LL. B. in March, 
1878, and soon thereafter was admitted to the 
bar in the Washtenaw circuit court. He was 
chosen by the Greek-letter secret society of the 
law department as its representative on the Pal- 
ladium board for 1878, and was also elected, 
after a spirited contest, toast-master of his class. 
After graduating he arranged to practice law 
in Kansas City, but fate again overruled him. 
Soon after graduating he was sent for by the 
Detroit Evening News to fill temporarily an 
absent reporter's place. About this time the 



country was indignant on hearing of the dis- 
covery, in the dissecting room of the medical 
college at Ann Arbor, of the body of the son of 
General Nevins, of Ohio. Bower was assigned 
to this case by the News. His inside knowl- 
edge of the medical department, obtained while 
a student at the university, was all brought into 
use in this series of articles, which immediately 
gave him a local reputation as a newspaper re- 
porter. Later he obtained and wrote up for the 
News in an exhaustive manner the facts con- 
cerning the mysterious disappearance of Mar- 
tha AVhitla, a young woman whose dead body 
was found in the River Rouge, sewed up in a 
sack. In these articles a citizen of Detroit 
considered himself accused of the murder of 
this girl, and he brought suit for $50,000 dam- 
ages against the Evening News. After an ex- 
citing trial, extending over many weeks, the 
jury returned a verdict in favor of the News. 
This vindicated Mr. Bower's statement of the 
facts, and as the plaintiff left the court room, a 
discomfited suitor, he was arrested on the charge 
of wilful murder. Two murder trials followed, 
the jury disagreeing on tiie first trial and ac- 
quitting on the second trial. 

In 1878 Mr. Bower revived the Ann Arbor 
Democrat, turned the management over to his 
brother, Henry E. H. Bower, and continued his 
newspaper work in Detroit. In July of the 
same year he and Henry A. Griffin, the well- 
known Cleveland journalist and Secretary of the 
Ohio State Board of Commerce, started the De- 
troit Daily Mail. Capital was lacking to make 
it a success, and the paper suspended in a few 
weeks. In 1884 Mr. Bower became the man- 
aging editor of the Detroit Post and Tribune. 
When that paper was sold two years later he 
transferred his services to the Detroit Journal, 
and soon became its managing editor, remain- 
ing with it until the reorganization of the 
World Publishing Company of this city in July, 
1890, when he was invited to accept its man- 
agement. He assumed his new duties on July 
7th of that year. The World was only a small 
four- page daily of insignificant circulation; but 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



capital was interested, Mr. F. B. Squire be- 
coming president of the company. Mr. Bower 
is one of the large stockholders. The World 
has grown in less than four years under his 
management to be the paper it is to-day. 

In 1891 Mr. Bower wedded Mrs. Agnes Sin- 
clair Riggs, of Detroit, widow of Major John 
H. Riggs, and since his marriage has resided at 
909 Prospect street. He is one of the hardest- 
working men in Cleveland, devoting his entire 
time to the management of the World. 



ULLIAM A. KNOWLTON, M. D., one 

of the well known and popular phy- 
sicians of Cleveland, is a prominent 
resident of the South Side of the city, where 
he has built up a representative and lucra- 
tive practice since he established himself 
in business there, in 1890. He was born at 
Olmsted Falls, Ciiyahoga county, Ohio, May 16, 
1839, his parents being Dr. William and Mrs. 
Charlotte (Haskell) Knowlton, both of whom 
were natives of the State of New York, where 
they grew to maturity, and were married. The 
father, who was a skilled physician and surgeon, 
came with his family to Ohio in 1838 and located 
at Olmsted Falls, where he engaged in the prac- 
tice of his profession, becoming widely and 
favorably known for his ability and honor. He 
had received his medical education in the East 
and kept pace with the advancement made in 
his line of occupation. He had to endure the 
manifold hardships which ever fall to the lot of 
the pioneer physician, but he served the people 
in his field of labor faithfully and unselfishly, 
gaining the high esteem and the affection of 
those to whom he ministered. His death oc- 
curred in February, 1856, at which time he had 
attained the age of fifty years. His widow sur- 
vived until 1865, passing away about the age of 
sixty-two years. The Haskell family was one 
of prominence in New York; a brother of Mrs. 
Knowlton was a member of Congress from the 
district in which Genesee, that State, is located. 



Of the six children born to Dr. and Mrs. 
William Knowlton our subject was the youngest, 
and of the number only three are now living, 
namely: Ellen M. Voorhees, who is still a resi- 
dent of Cuyahoga county; Rev. A. W. Knowl- 
ton, a Presbyterian clergyman, located in Wayne 
county; and our subject. Another brother, Dr. 
Augustus P., who died a few years since, was a 
practicing physician at Berea, Ohio, and had 
attained to a position of prominence in his pro- 
fession, being well known in Cleveland and in 
other parts of the State. 

Our subject received an academic education 
under the tutoi'ship of Professor Samuel Bissell, 
of Twinsburg, Ohio, and subsequently began the 
study of medicine under the preceptorship of 
his brother, Augustus P., at North Royalton, 
Cuyahoga county. He is a graduate of the 
medical department of Wooster University and 
also holds a diploma from the medical depart- 
ment of the Western Reserve University. He 
began the practice of his profession at Brecks- 
ville, where he remained for nearly a quarter of 
a century, coming to Cleveland in 1890 and lo- 
cating at 530 Jennings avenue, where his head- 
quarters have since been maintained. He has 
recently secured a preferment which amply 
attests his ability and reputation, having taken 
the chair of obstetrics in the medical department 
of the Wooster University. He is a member 
of the Cuyahoga County, the Cleveland and the 
Ohio State Medical Societies. In his fraternal 
relations he retains a membership in each the 
Masonic order, the Independent Order of Odd 
Fellows and the Grand Army of the Republic. 

Of the Doctor's war record it may be stated 
that he enlisted in May, 1862, for three months' 
service as a member of Company E, Eighty- 
fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. On being 
mustered out at the expiration of his term of 
enlistment, he again made ready to go to the 
front, and in October of the same year re- 
enlisted in Company E, Sixth Ohio Volunteer 
Cavalry, which was duly assigned to service in 
the Army of the Potomac. He was wounded at 
St. Mary's Church on the 24th of June, 1864, 



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and was thus so disabled as to be unable to again 
join his company, which took an active part in 
numerous engagements, being one of the com- 
luands that served under General Sheridan. Dr. 
Knowlton rose by successive promotions until 
he was finally commissioned Captain by Gover- 
nor Brough. He was mustered out with his 
regiment in 18(35. 

In 1868 Dr. Knowlton was united in mar- 
riage to Mrs. Jeimie M. Seymour, of Cleveland, 
Ohio. She died in 1880, at the age of forty 
years. The second mari-iage of the Doctor oc- 
curred in 1882, when he was was united to Miss 
Fannie E., daughter of Owen P. Snow, of 
Brecksville. They have had three children, one 
of whom, Douglass, died at the age of one year. 
Those living are Margaret, aged eleven, and 
Donald, aged one year. Mrs. Knowlton is a 
devoted member of the Pilgrim Congregational 
Church of Cleveland. 



■ ON. DAVID MOEISON, of Cleveland, 
was born in this city, of Scotch-Ameri- 

> can parentage, and was thus equipped l)y 
nature with some of the best gifts of na- 
tivity to ■which man can fall heir — the Scotch 
thoroughness and thrift and the American keen- 
ness and practical insight. His mother, Char- 
loUe C. (Bidwell) Morison, was a descendant of 
an excellent New England family, who trace 
their ancestry direct to the Mayflower, many of 
whom were Revolutionary patriots and citizens 
of Connecticut. His father, David Morison, 
Sr., was born in Edinboro, Scotland. After ac- 
quiring a collegiate education Mr. Morison pre- 
pared himself for the vocation of a thorough 
merchant and manufacturer, and at length came 
to America, locating in Cleveland. 

Mr. Morison, the subject of this sketch, has 
been a Republican since his boyhood, taking 
from the first a deep interest in political ques- 
tions and always having an opinion of his own. 
He has also been one of those who believed that 
it was the duty of every good citizen to take a 



part in political affairs, and in consequence he 
has been an active worker in support of the 
principles and party in which he believed. 

In 1877 he was elected to the City Council 
and became a most useful and trustworty mem- 
ber. He was complimented with the presidency 
of that body in April, 1882, and his remarks on 
accepting the trust showed the deep sense of re- 
sponsibility he felt in assuming that office. In 
addition to his services in the Council, he was 
also an active member of the Board of City Im- 
provement, being the representative of the 
Council in that body in 18S0-'81, and the citi- 
zen member in 1886. 

Among the measures for the public good to 
which he gave his voice and vote during this 
service were: The acceptance of Wade Park; 
granting a right of way to the New York Cen- 
tral & St. Louis Railroad through the city; au- 
thorizing the purchase of the Fairmount street 
reservoir; the extension of the franchise of the 
Brooklyn street railroad in Scovill avenue to 
Woodland cemetery, and the introduction of 
Medina block stone for paving, instead of the 
old cheap method. 

In 1886 Mr. Morison was elected to the State 
Senate by a majority of 3,425 votes, in a district 
occasionally Democratic, and was i-e-elected to 
that body in 1888. While in the Senate he se- 
cured the passage of a bill giving Cleveland the 
Federal plan of government. At the next ses- 
sion the Cleveland municipal reform bill was 
brought before the Senate, and Mr. Morison 
made an able address in support of the measure 
and secured its unanimous passage. 

In making up his cabinet in April, 1891, 
Mayor Rose invited Mr. Morison to become Di- 
rector of Charities and Correction, to accept 
which he resigned his seat in the Senate. The 
administration of ai?airs in that office was most 
economical and eflScient. The institutions under 
his charge were in debt, and in a deplorable 
condition as regards sanitation and otherwise. 
By Mr. Morison's wise guidance all these con- 
ditions were remedied, even perfected, and the 
institutions made almost self-supporting. He 



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retired from the City Plall in April, 1893, con- 
scious of having performed liis whole duty and 
with the thanks of a gi-ateful public. 

For many years he lias given his spare time 
to extending his real-estate investments. He is 
a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Ori- 
ental Commandery, K. T., Knights of Pythias, 
Red Cross Lodge, Court St. Clair, I. O. F., 
Cleveland Athletic Club, Masonic Club and 
many other organizations. 



Kr^-j T. EEV. LOUIS AMADEUS EAPPE, 
f^^ who was first Bishop of Cleveland, was 
Jj ^ born February 2, 1801, at Andrehem,De- 
V partment of Pas de Calais, France. His 

parents were of the peasantry, and though 
humble they were truly virtuous people. In 
early life the son was under the necessity of 
assisting his aged father in cultivating the 
fields, and hence his literai-y training was some- 
what neglected up to the age of twenty years, 
at which age he started for the College of 
Boulogne, then under the direction of the cele- 
brated Abbe Haffringue. His jjurpose was to 
prepare himself for the priesthood, having been 
so induced by tlie influence of his mother. 
After completing his collegiate course, he en- 
tered the Seminary of Arras, and March 14, 
1829, was ordained priest by Cardinal Latour 
d'Auvergne. His first charge was a country 
parish in the village of Wizme. About five 
years after his ordination he was appointed 
Chaplain of the Ursuline Convent at Boulogne. 
This position Father Rappe held from 1834 to 
1840, during which time he read with great 
interest the " Annals of the Propagation of the 
Faith," which prompted him to devote himself 
to the American Missions. 

Through the influence of Bishop Pnrcell, 
of Cincinnati, then visiting Europe, Father 
Rappe was induced to come to America in the 
year 1840, for the purpose of entering upon the 
toilsome and self-sacriticing life of a missionary. 
Receiving permission from his Ordinary to 



leave his diocese, and bidding farewell to his 
charge, he set sail for America, arriving at Cin- 
cinnati toward the close of 1840. By Bishop 
Purcell he was at once sent to Chillicothe, in 
order to learn the English language, with 
M'hich he was not familiar on coming to 
America. A few months later he was able to 
make himself understood in English, though he 
progressed slowly in the language and never 
acquired skill in its pronunciation. 

From the summer of 1841 to the spring of 
1846 his labors were in the northwestern part 
of Ohio, from Toledo to the Indiana line and 
to the south as far as Allen county. His labors 
were trying and filled with great privations and 
difficulties. It was here that he saw the dan- 
gerous effects of intemperance, and throughout 
the rest of his life he was an ardent worker for 
temperance, both in word and example. He 
was successful in his labors in the Toledo field, 
which grew in point of numbers and thus in- 
creased his duties manifold. He was a mission- 
ary of indomitable zeal and untiring energy, 
and being of great power of endurance he was 
enabled to perform much work. At last assist- 
ance was necessary, and in 1846 he was sent a co- 
laborer in the person of Father De Goesbriand. 
Father Rappe was affable in his intercourse 
with his people and was of great power and in- 
fluence among them. As a teacher of the 
catechism he had a special gift, and was 
equally gifted in his ability to bring the adults 
of his flock to frequent confession and i-egular 
attendance at mass. 

Bishop Purcell, finding the work of attend- 
ing the diocese, then comprising the whole of 
Ohio, too great for him, asked the Holy See for 
a division of the diocese, and Cleveland was 
designated an episcopal see, and the zealous 
"Missionary of the Maumee," Father Rappe, 
was chosen as first bisliop of this diocese. Octo- 
ber 10, 1847, he was consecrated, at Cincinnati, 
by Bishop Purcell. Immediately afterward 
Bishop Rappe took possession of his see, his 
diocese comprising all that portion of Ohio lying 
north of the southern limits of Columbiana, 



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Stark, Wayne, Crawford, AVyandot, Hancock, 
Allen and Van Wert counties. There was then 
but one church in Cleveland, namely, St. Mary's, 
built in 1836, and but one priest. To supply 
the growing Catholic population in Cleveland 
it was necessary to erect another building for 
church purposes. In 1848 a frame building, 
30 X 60 feet, was erected on Superior street, 
near Erie, and for several years it was used as a 
temporary church and parochial school bouse 
(the first in Cleveland), folding doors closing 
the sanctuary during school hours. Later 
Bishop Rappe had plans made for a cathedral, 
and in the fall of 1848 the corner stone was 
laid. 

Bishop Rappe went to Europe in 1849 for 
the purpose of securing priests for his diocese, 
and members of religious communities for 
schools and charitable institutions. In Septem- 
ber, 1850, lie returned with four priests, five 
seminarians and six Ursuline nuns. During 
the Bishop's absence the mansion of Judge 
Cowles, on Euclid avenue, was bought for the 
Ursuline Sisters. It served as the mother- 
house of the community until 1893. These 
sisters immediately opened a select school and 
academy, and in 1851 St. Mary's Orphan 
Asylum for girls was established on Harmon 
street, and the next year St. Vincent's Asylum 
i'nr boys was opened on Monroe street. 

The most important wants of the diocese now 
being supplied. Bishop Rappe turned his atten- 
tion to the details of diocesan work. Much 
work was accomplished in the upbuilding of 
schools and charitable institutions, and the sev- 
eral churches rapidly grew both in number and 
strength, and amid all these great duties Bishop 
Rappe never once showed signs of fatigue. 

Previous to 1863 Cleveland had no hospital, 
and the Civil War increased largely the neces- 
sity for a hospital, which Bishop Rappe would 
have ere then built had he been able. Now he 
proposed to build one and supply it with com- 
petent nurses, provided the public would give 
bim active assistance; and the public gladly 
embraced the opportunity. In 1865 a §75,000 



hospital was completed. It was named Charity 
Hospital and placed under the charge of the 
Sisters of Charity. 

In 1869 Bishop Rappe visited Rouje, attending 
the Vatican Council; and returning with frail 
health and failing eyesight he resigned, August 
22, 1870, as Bishop of Cleveland, in which po- 
sition he had borne arduous duties, performing 
tiiem with phenomenal zeal, fitness and becom- 
ing success, for a period of nearly twenty-three 
years. He retired after bis resignation to Bur- 
lington, Vermont, and thereafter engaged in 
his former and favorite work of giving missions 
and catechising the young, till his death, which 
came to him September 8, 1877. To Cleveland 
his remains were brought and placed in the 
vault in the Cathedral basement. 

Bishop Rappe was, indeed, a remarkable 
man; he was endowed with a strong mind and 
an affectionate and devout nature; he was a 
true patriot, a devout Christian, and his life 
was long and well filled with usefulness to his 
God and fellow man. 



'|r\T. REV. RICHARD GILMOUR, sec- 
r^ ond Bishop of the Cleveland , diocese, 
11 »:i was born in the city of Glasgow, Scot- 
^ land, September 28, 1824, and came to 

America in 1829. He was brought up and 
educated as a Scotch Covenanter, but in early 
manhood he became a Catholic, and his conver- 
sion was due to unaided investigation and reason. 
He studied for the priesthood at Mount St. 
Mary's College, Emmitsburg, Maryland, and 
was ordained priest August 30, 1852, by the 
Most Rev. Archbishop Purcell, who now sent 
him to a field of labor in southern Ohio, north- 
eastern Kentucky and southwestern Virginia. 
Here also he labored under great trials and disad- 
vantages, though with great and pleasing suc- 
cess, till 1857, w-hen he was called to Cincin- 
nati, and made pastor of St. Patrick's Church, 
one of the largest congregations in that city. 
Here also he was very successful. Among other 



CUTAHOGA COUNTY. 



achievements was tlie organization of one of the 
largest parochial schools in Cincinnati. After 
eleven years of faithful service for this congre- 
gation he became a professor in St. Mary's 
Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, and later 
pastor of St. Joseph's Church at Dayton, Ohio. 
In 1872 he was made Bishop of Cleveland, be- 
ing consecrated as such by Archbishop Purcell, 
on the llth of April that year. 

Like his lamented predecessor, Bishop Eappe, 
he was a man of indomitable zeal and wonder- 
ful energy. He found his new position full of 
difficulties and incessant work. Not sparing 
self he so overtaxed his physical strength that 
he was obliged to cease all duty for nearly two 
years, for on June 24, 1874, he fell a victim to 
nervous prostration, from which he did not 
fully recover until about 1877. Most of this 
period of enforced rest he spent in southern 
France, whence he returned in July, 1876, 
gradually resuming his arduous labors. He 
soon had the satisfaction to see his diocese rank 
with the first in point of system and order. He 
was an ardent advocate for the parochial schools, 
for which in earlier years he prepared a com- 
plete set of readers, that soon found adoption 
throughout the country. As a public speaker 
he had few equals; as a writer he ranked with 
the best, his style being clear, forcible, and even 
trenchant at times. He was a man of strong 
individuality. Tall of stature, and command- 
ing in appearance, he would easily be singled 
out in any assembly as a man of force and 
mental strength. Fair-minded and strictly just, 
he keenly resented injustice or deception. At 
first sight he impressed one as stern and re- 
served, but in reality he had a most kindly 
disposition and generous impulse. As a con- 
verger he had few superiors. He was most 
frugal in his habits, and methodical as well as 
painstaking in his work. He was thoroughly 
American in sentiment, but had an impartial 
respect and kindly feeling for all nationalities. 
He had the universal respect of his non-Catholic 
fellow citizens, who recognized in him a man 
of rare intellect and great force of character. 



Of this respect they gave evidence in the me- 
morial meeting held in his honor, after his 
death, in Music Hall, Cleveland, when all the 
speakers were men of prominence, not one of 
whom Catholic, and representing all shades 
of belief, and even of unbelief, but who had 
none but words of praise for him, applauded by 
the thousands assembled to honor his memory. 
It was indeed the most unique assembly ever 
held anywhere in the country. His death was 
lamented as that of a great man, good citizen, 
and able prelate, a loss to city, country and the 
church he served so well. 

He died at St. Augustine, Florida, on April 
13, 1891, after about one year's illness. His 
remains rest in a crypt under the cathedral in 
Cleveland, next to those of his predecessor, 
Bishop Rappe. 



THE KT. REV. IGNATIUS FREDERICK 
HORSTMANN, D.D., third Bishop of 
Cleveland, was born in Philadelphia, or 
rather the part of it that was then the 
District of Southwark, on December 16, 1840. 
His parents, natives of Germany, came to this 
country in early life, and his father was a very 
prominent and prosperous business man in the 
city of his adoption. Young Ignatius began 
his education in a private academy conducted 
by Madam Charrier and her daughter, Mile. 
Clementine, and situated on German street, east 
of Third street. From this institution he passed 
to the Mount Vernon grammar school, and, 
having finished the regular course with distinc- 
tion, was promoted to the Central high school, 
at which he graduated in 1857, with an ex- 
ceptionally high average. Indeed, those who 
were then and previously his classmates say that 
he was ever at the head of his class. Then he 
entered St. Joseph's College, conducted by the 
Jesuits, and located at the northeast corner of 
Juniper and Filbert streets, Philadelphia. 
Evincing a strong inclination foi- the priest- 
hood, he entered the preparatory seminary at 



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Glen Riddle, being one of the lirst of its 
students. Bishop Wood was so pleased with 
his aptitude for and application to study that he 
chose him as one of the first whom he sent to 
the newly established American College in 
Rome. There he continued to fulfil the promise 
that he had already uniformly gi^'en, and soon 
took foremost rank in the classes of the Prop- 
aganda, winning a number of medals in literary 
and oratorical contests. 

Completing the prescribed course of studies, 
he was elevated to the priesthood in the Eternal 
City on June 10, 1865, by Cardinal Patrizzi. 
He continued his studies in Rome, and a year 
later won the degree of Doctor of Divinity. 
Returning to Philadelphia he was, in the latter 
part of 1866, appointed Professor of Logic, 
Metaphysics and Ethics, as well as of German 
and Hebrew, in St. Charles Borromeo's Semi- 
nary, in the old building at Eighteenth and 
Race streets, until 1871, and afterward at Over- 
brook, Pennsylvania. He remained there until 
the close of 1877, when he was appointed pastor 
of St. Mary's Church, Philadelphia. He served 
this parish with admirable ability and tact, 
and drew to the church large congregations to 
hear his learned and interesting discourses. So 
carefully did he manage the finances of the 
parish that when he left, after having been in 
charge considerably less than eight years, there 
was a balance of over §19,000 to the church's 
credit. 

In September, 1885, Archbishop Ryan ap- 
pointed him Diocesan Chancellor, which im- 
portant and exacting position he filled with 
distinguished ability, till his elevation to the 
Episcopate, February, 1892. As Chancellor he 
had more leisure for literary work than he had 
as a pastor. His extensive learning and critical 
taste have been of use not only to himself but 
also to the intelligent Catholic-reading public 
in his valuable labors on the editorial staff of 
the American Catholic Quarterly Review. In 
addition to attending to the works so far re- 
ferred to, he was Spiritual Director of the 
Catholic Club and Chaplain of the Convent of 



Notre Dame, including the spiritual direction 
of three organizations that meet there and that 
are composed largely of former pupils of the 
academy. 

Many appropriate demonstrations in his honor 
were held in this city on the occasion of the 
twenty-fifth anniversary of his ordination, which 
was celebrated impressively. Archbishop Ryan 
preached the jubilee sermon in the cathedral. 
At a grand reception at the Catholic Club in 
behalf of his lay friends a purse of $4,200 was 
presented, which sum he immediately turned 
over to St. Vincent's Home. 

February 25, 1892, he was consecrated Bishop 
of Cleveland, thus succeeding Bishop Gilmour, 
who died in April, 1891. Bishop Horstmann 
was duly installed in Cleveland a few weeks 
later, an immense multitude welcoming him to 
the Forest City. During his short career as 
Bishop of the large and important Diocese of 
Cleveland he has impressed all who have thus 
fai' met him as a man full of energy, firmness 
and kindness. He is a fluent speaker, an able 
writer, and is endowed with great business tact, 
and thoroughly in touch with his people. 



'Jr^ EV. C. A. THOMAS, senior agent of 
r?^ the publishing house of the Evangelical 
11 ^ Association of Cleveland, was born in 
V Hesse, Germany, March 22, 1840, a son 

of Henry and Catharine (Knoth) Thomas, also 
natives of Germany. His father, who has been 
engaged in the shoe trade, is now retired, aged 
eighty-seven years, with powers of body and 
mind well preserved. He resides with his son, 
whose name introduces this sketch. He came 
with his family from Germany in 1854, settling 
at Lockport, New York. His wife died about 
1884, at the age of seventy one years. Both 
were worthy and devoted members of the 
Evangelical Association. Their exemplary 
lives as sincere and consistent Christians are an 
endearing heritage to the fainilv and a boon to 



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their acquaintances in the church of their choice. 
Of their twelve chihlren five are living, one of 
whom, Henry, a twin brother of the subject of 
this sketch, is a minister in the Canada Con- 
ference of the Evangelical Association. 

When a youth Mr. C. A. Thomas was edu- 
cated both privately and at public schools, in 
both German and English, and both in the old 
counti-y and America, and to a great degree 
without tutors. He began preaching at the age 
of nineteen years, in Canada, the Xew York 
Conference embracing a portion of that country. 
He was on circuits for twenty years before 
coming to Cleveland, in 1879, and for over four- 
teen years he was editor of the Evangelical 
Magazine and of Sunday-school literature; he 
is the oldest editor now in the publisiiing house, 
with which he has been connected for more than 
fourteen years. In this situation he was the 
successor of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Lauer, 
who suddenly died December 31, 1898. After 
that event the Board of Managers and the 
junior publisher, who survived Mr. Lauer, 
were of the united opinion that Mr. Thomas 
possessed all the qualifications for the position; 
and his success since then, thougli he has had 
the place but a short time, has already given 
ample evidence that their judgment was correct. 
Mr. Thomas is one of those men who consider 
their lives to be made up of plain duties, and his 
liighest ambition is to discharge those duties 
to the honor of God and with justice to all men. 
He is the author of a number of books in Ger- 
man, is a fluent writer and ready speaker. 

When he assumed the management of tlie 
Religious Belleslettric Magazine its circulation 
increased from 6,000 to 14,500, and it has out- 
stripped every other publication of its kind in 
the German language in this country. His 
success as editor was due largely to the fact that 
he familiarized himself with the wants and 
needs of the readers of the magazine, and has 
been successful in his endeavor to meet those 
wants. In this effort he did not undertake to 
cater to morbid appetite, but kept strictly within 
the channel of purity and noble ambition. This 



feature has brought the Evangelical Magazine 
to the front, and is now the leading German 
periodical in this field in America. 

Rev. Thomas is from a family noted for good 
health and longevity; is of medium size, wiry 
constitution and jovial disposition, and alert as 
a young man. He is a close observer, a good 
judge of human nature, has clear conceptive 
powers, a keen sense of jiistice, and is therefore 
a man of the highest sense of dignity, supported 
with the prudence of consideration and equity. 
As a preacher he was singularly successful. 
This is accounted for by his originality, which 
is full of energy and life, and just so much of 
good humor as to make him an interesting 
speaker both for young and old. He is a natural 
disciplinarian, which quality he demonstrated 
with signal ability while serving the church as 
Presiding Elder and also as editor of the Evan- 
gelical Magazine. 

February 27, 1866, is the date of his marriage 
to Miss Joanna Spies, daughter of Rev. C. A. 
Spies, of this city, and of the same church, who 
resides with this family. His age is now eighty- 
three years, and he is retired from the ministry, 
which he commenced in 1857, and during which 
he did much for the religious welfare of the 
German people of this country, both in the 
United States and in Canada. Mr. Thomas' 
residence is at 31 Steinway avenue, Cleveland. 
His children are: Edward, a machinist of this 
city, who married May Judkins; Emma, of the 
home circle; Adaline, who has been a successful 
teacher in the public schools for a number of 
years; Joanna, who died at the age of nineteen 
years. May 27, 1893, a most lovely girl; and 
Harvey, now a pupil in the public schools. 

The Cleveland publishing house of the Evan- 
gelical Association is located at 265 to 275 
Woodland avenue. The building is a solid brick 
block, four stories high besides the basement, and 
covering the entire square between Vine and 
Herman streets; having 100 feet front on Wood- 
land avenue, it is equivalent to five full-sized 
stores. Half of it was built in 1874, and half 
in 1884. It embraces, besides publishing and 



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wholesale departments, a retail book store and 
a number of offices, and a large press-room 
fronting on Woodland avenue. The house pub- 
lishes a number of periodicals, both in German 
and English, weeklies, monthlies and quarterlies, 
having subscribers by the hundred thousand 
scattered throughout America, Germany and 
Japan, and even to some extent in Russia, Pales- 
tine and parts of Africa. It is safe to say that 
this house has done its full share in distributing 
good and wholesome literature. It has the old- 
est German religious papers in this country, 
some of which were commenced as early as 
1836; and a complete file of the oldest period- 
ical is still preserved entire. The institution also 
publishes music, conducts a bindery and electro- 
typing establishment and do job work generally. 
No publishing house in the United States has a 
better name, or has in the time of its existence 
exerted a greater influence for good. 



D 



W. GAGE, attorney, Cleveland, was 
born September 26, 1825, at Madison, 
Lake county, Ohio, a son of James and 
Charlana (_Turney) Gage. His father was born 
in Norway, Herkimer county. New York, and 
early in life, probably when twenty-one years 
of age, came to Ohio, settling in Madison, 
where he spent nearly the whole of his life. He 
was a carpenter and joiner by trade, and also 
devoted a portion of his life to farming. 

In the village of Madison David W. Gage 
was reared, attending the district school until 
he was seventeen years of age, when he pre- 
pared forcollegeat Twinsburg Institute, Paines- 
ville Academy and Madison Seminary. When 
he was about ready for college he was attacked 
with typhoid fever, and a severe spell of sick- 
ness prevented his taking a course in college, 
and left him in not the very best of health, and 
warned him of his inability to go through the 
ordinary work of completing a college educa- 
tion. He had, however, gained a very liberal 
education, and as his tastes directed him to the 



profession of law, he began his preparations for 
that vocation by entering the law office of S. B. 
Axtell, in Painesville, where he read law during 
the years 1848 and '49. Subsequently he came 
to Cleveland and spent the years of 1852 and 
'53 in reading law in the office of Williamson 
& Riddle. He was admitted to the bar at 
Columbus in the winter of 1853-54, and imme- 
diately thereafter entered upon the practice of 
his profession. He began practice in Cleve- 
land, and continued until 1868, in which year 
he removed to Iowa, where he remained for 
five years. He then returned to Cleveland, in 
which city he has since remained, continuing in 
an active, lucrative general practice. While in 
Iowa he held the position of United States 
Commissioner for that State, and since he re- 
turned to Ohio he has been conspicuous as a 
leading spirit in the Prohibition movement. 
He is a member of the Sons of Temperance and 
of the Royal Templars, and for a number of 
years was a member of the Masonic order. He 
is a Christian gentleman, beingamember of the 
East End Baptist Church, where he is an active 
worker as a Deacon. 

Mr. Gage was married September, 1855, to 
Miss Mary J. Cole, daughter of Wm. H. Cole, 
of Warrensville, this county. The home of Mr. 
and Mrs. Gage have been blessed by the birth 
of the following children: Cora B., now the 
widow of A. R. Newton; Mattie G., now the 
widow of J. W. Street; and Julia J., now Mrs. 
W. B. Gerrish, of Oberlin, Ohio. 



ffj ENRT CLAY WHITE, a member of 
Ir^ the bar of Cuyahoga county, was born 
II ^ in the town of Newburg, in said county, 
^ near the city of Cleveland, on the 23d 

day of February, A. D. 1839. His father, 
Wileman AV. White, emigrated from Berkshire 
county, Massachusetts, to Cleveland, Ohio, 
when it was a struggling village, in the year 
1815. He was bred to the trade of carpenter 
and joiner, and entered at once upon an active 



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career as a builder and contractor in the grow- 
ing village of Cleveland, and constructed the 
first frame church edifice in the city, and the 
first bridge across the Cuyahoga river. He was 
an active builder and business man until 1838, 
when he removed from the city and purchased 
a large farm with mill, etc., in the township of 
Newburg and located upon the Ohio canal, 
which was then the great line of communica- 
tion between the lakes, Pittsburg, Cincinnati 
and other points. 

The mother of the subject of this sketch was 
also a native of Massachusetts, born in Berk- 
shire county. The father died in 1842, leav- 
ing Henry, his youngest son, only four years of 
age. He thus lost the nurture and guiding 
hand of his father, and from domestic vicissi- 
tudes very soon lost liis home and was obliged 
to resort to many humble occupations to make 
a living. In 1851 he attended school for a year 
or more at the Eclectic Institute, the prede- 
cessor of Hiram College, Ohio, and later, in 
1856, returned to that school, when it was pre- 
sided over by James A. Garfield, then its young 
principal. Mr. White spent five years at this 
school, laying the foundation for a fair educa- 
tion. He was one of those who, to the extent 
of his capacity, was blessed by the inspiration 
and ideals received from the teaching and in- 
tercourse with Mr. Garfield, who early achieved 
success as a great teacher. Mr. White, in the 
fall of 1860, entered the Law Department of the 
University of Michigan and graduated there in 
1862 as B. L. ; he then came to Cleveland, 
Ohio, where he has since resided, having been 
admitted to the bar in 1862. For ten years 
after his admission to the bar, in consequence 
of the depression in legal business due to the 
war of the Rebellion, he entered the Clerk's 
office of the Court of Common Pleas and served 
there in all capacities for ten years, until 1874, 
when he entered actively into the practice of 
law. In the fall of 1887 he was a candidate for 
Probate Judge of the county of Cuyahoga, 
seeking the nomination at the hands of the 
Pepiii)lican party, having for his chief opponent 



Honorable Daniel R. Tilden, who had held the 
office for thirty-three years in succession. Mr. 
White was nominated and elected by a hand- 
some majority, and entered upon his first term 
on the 9th day of February, 1888, and has 
since been twice re-elected and is now holding 
said office for his third term. In politics he is 
a Republican, having taken part in the cam- 
paign of 1860, which resulted in the election of 
Abraham Lincoln. He is a member of the 
Disciples' Church. He was married in 1866 
and has four children. 



r^EUBEN WILLSON WALTERS, phy- 
r^^ sician and surgeon of Chagrin Falls, 
II »». Ohio, was born at Russell, Geauga 
v County, Ohio, August 22, 1838, a son of 

Reuben R. Walters, who was born in Herkimer 
county. New York, in 1804, a son of Nathaniel 
Walters, born in Dutchess county. New York, a 
son of John Walters, a native of England. Na- 
thaniel Walters, a grandfathei-, married a Miss 
Robins, also anative of New York State, Dutch- 
ess county, and a daughter of an old family of 
the State. 

Reuben R. Walters, father of Reuben W. 
Walters, came to Ohio in 1837 and settled in 
Russell. He was a carpenter and joiner and 
cabinet-maker by trade, and was a good me- 
chanic. He was the man that cast the first Ab- 
olitionist vote in Geauga county. Later he 
became a Republican and finally a Prohibition- 
ist, was a Deacon in the Free-will Baptist 
Church, and died at Chagrin Falls, January 9, 
1888, at eighty-three years of age. The mother's 
maiden name was Emily White; she died at 
Chagrin Falls, March 10, 1890, aged eighty- 
five, surrounded by all the care and comforts her 
son, our subject, could give her. She had one 
other son, Franklin R., who died in 1854. 

Reuben W. grew up in Chagrin Falls and 
here received his early education. During the 
war he enlisted, August 15, 1862, at the time of 
Lincoln's call for " 300,000 more," and in the 



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Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company D, 
and as hospital steward he served until March, 
1865. He was at the battles of Lookout Moun- 
tain, Missionary Ridge, etc., Georgia, and other 
engagements of less note. As hospital steward 
he served with credit and honor. 

Doctor Walters graduated in the Medical De- 
partment of Western Reserve University, Feb- 
ruary 19, 1867, and also graduated at the 
Homeopathic Hospital College of Cleveland six 
years later. 

Doctor Walters was married December 5, 
1867, at Conneautville, Pennsylvania, to Sarah 
Francis White, a lady of education, refinement 
and good family. She was born at Garretts- 
ville, Ohio, a daughter of H. K. White, now 
deceased, and Laura (Ellinwood) White. Before 
her marriage she was a successful and popular 
teacher. She died March 20, 1893, leaving two 
sons: Wilson H., a graduate of the Chagrin 
Falls liigh school in 1892; and Frank, a boy of 
fourteen, attending school at Mount Vernon, 
Ohio. Mrs. Walters was a worthy wife and 
mother, a helpmate to her husband, a Christian 
lady. 

Doctor Walters is a member of the G. A. R., 
N. L. Norris Post, No. 40. He is one of the 
twelve commissioners of the Soldiers' and Sail- 
ors' Monument, at Cleveland, Ohio. He is a 
worthy member of the Seventh-Day Adventist 
Church. The Doctor has been active in the best 
interests of the town, and is one of its most 
worthy citizens. The Doctor was President of 
the Board of Education from 1879 to 1882, and 
clerk of the same during those years. 



FRANK S. CLARK, M. D.— In the great 
competitive struggle of life, when each 
-- man must enter the Held and fight his 
way to the front, or else be overtaken by 
disaster of circumstance or place, proving either 
a coward or a victim, there is ever a particular 
interest attaching to the life of one who has 
turned the tide of success, has surmounted ob- 
stacles and has shown his ability to cope with 



others in their rush for the coveted goal. The 
record of such lives must ever be a fecund 
source of interest and incentive. 

Dr. Clark, who has gained enviable prestige 
as one of the most able and successful of the 
younger practitioners of medicine and surgery 
in the city of Cleveland, was born in Summit 
county, Ohio, on the 27tli of May, 1865, a son 
of n. J. and Lizzie P. (Blackman) Clark, both 
of whom are natives of Ohio. The father is 
now actively engaged in the general mercantile 
business. In early life he was for about twenty 
years a prominent teacher, being for some time 
superintendent of the public schools at Oberlin, 
Ohio. He is a graduate of the Western Reserve 
University, and at one time he had charge of the 
academy at Poland, Ohio. He is a resident of 
Oberlin, and has for years been a Deacon of the 
First Congregational Church of that place. 

Our subject is the second of a family of five 
children, two of whom died in childhood. Those 
living are noted as follows: Mary A. is a grad- 
uate of Oberlin College, and has been a success- 
ful teacher. She taught at Nashville, Tennes- 
see, under the auspices of the American Mis- 
sionary Association of the Congregational 
Church. Edward W. Clark is a graduate ot 
Oberlin College, in which institution he was for 
two years an instructor in Latin and Greek, for 
the teaching of which languages he is now 
(1893) in Germany perfecting himself. 

Dr. Clark completed a classical course at 
Oberlin and graduated in 1887, receiving the 
degree of A. M. in 1890. In the fall of the 
same year he began the study of medicine in 
the medical department of the Western Reserve 
University, graduating in 1890. He filled the 
position as house physician at Lakeside Hospital 
for one year and then entered upon a general 
practice in the city of Cleveland, leaving the 
hospital in April, 1891. He had charge of 
the Maternity Hospital for one year after sev- 
ering his connection with the Lakeside Hospital. 
He is a member of the Cuyahoga County and 
the Cleveland Medical Societies and is also 
ideiititied with the State medical association. 



P-^JR«-' 





CUTAHOOA COUNTY. 



Dr. Clark has met with success in his pro- 
fessional work, has gained recognition for his 
worth and ability and is one of the most prom- 
ising among the young physicians of the Forest 
City. He has been a close and conscientious 
student, is thoroughly abreast of the progress 
made in the science of medicine and is en- 
thusiastic in his profession. He is at present 
visiting physician and surgeon to St. Alexis 
Hospital. 



ffj ON. HENRY B. PAYNE, an eminent 
fH| citizen, lawyer and statesman, was born 
II 41 in Hamilton, Madison county, New 
"^ York, November 30, 1810. His father, 

Elisha Payne, was a native of Connecticut, and 
left Lebanon in that State in 1795, settling in 
Hamilton, where he was instrumental in found- 
ing the Hamilton Theological Seminary, being 
a man of pure personal character and public 
spirit. The Payne family is of English origin, 
but the mother of Henry B. Payne came of tlie 
noted Douglas stock. 

Mr. Payne graduated at Hamilton College at 
the age of twenty-two, distinguished for mathe- 
matical and classical attainments. He immedi- 
ately began the study of law in the office of John 
C. Spencer, an eminent lawyer of Canandaigua, 
afterward Secretary of War in President 
Tyler's Cabinet. Stephen A. Douglas was at 
the same time a student in the office of a rival 
law firm, and then and there Payne and Douglas 
began a personal and political friendship of a 
life-time. In 1833 westward was the course of 
empire for young men of education and high 
spirit, even as it is now, and the two young 
lawyers emigrated to Cleveland, Ohio, then a 
thriving village of about 3,000 people. Douglas 
had preceded Payne some months, and when the 
latter arrived he found the future senator of 
Illinois sick nigh unto death. His first mission 
was to nurse his friend back to health or close 
his eyes in death. For three weeks he never 
left the bedside of Douglas. When the latter 



recovered he announced his intention of going 
further west. Mr. Payne, while regretting the 
separation, aided him financially to make the 
journey, and three years later was gratified to 
hear of Douglas as Prosecuting Attorney of 
Sangamon county, Illinois. 

Mr. Payne, sagaciously prophesying the bright 
future of the then handsome village, adopted 
Cleveland for his permanent abode, and after 
a student year in the office of Sherlock J. An- 
drews, then the foremost advocate of northern 
Ohio, he was admitted to the bar. The follow- 
ing year he formed a partnership with the late 
Judge Hiram V. Willson. The legal firm of 
Payne & Willson starting under favorable 
auspices, in a few years they found their office 
doing the leading business in the State. 

The professional life of Mr. Payne was com- 
paratively short, embracing only some twelve 
years, as he was compelled, in 1846, in the 
midst of an overwhelming business, to retire 
from practice by reason of physical debility 
arising principally from hemorrhage of the 
lungs, the result of crushing mental and physi- 
cal labor. After the lapse of fifty years but 
few of his contemporaries remain who knew 
him at the bar. If, however, the legends which 
have come down the decades from the lips of 
eminent veterans of the profession may be re- 
lied on as history, they bear testimony to his 
legal accomplishments and great forensic abilty, 
even from his first appearance. His characterist- 
ics were quickness of perception, a seeming in- 
tuitive knowledge of the principles involved, a 
wonderful comprehension of testimony, and as 
an advocate he possessed i-are and peculiar gifts. 
He did not, however, trust alone to his inherent 
powers. Being an alert and industrious student 
he thoroughly prepared every case, and then 
doubly armed he was a formidable opponent. 

In 1836, upon the organization of the gov- 
ernment of the city of Cleveland under a mu- 
nicipal charter, he was appointed the first of 
that long list of legal advisers designated City 
Attorney or Solicitor. The same year he mar- 
ried Miss Mary Perry, the accomplished and 



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only daughter of Nathan Perry, a worthy mer- 
chant of the pioneer days of northern Ohio. In 
commemoration of the happy event and life-long 
domestic compatiionship, he recently, after the 
lapse of nearly sixty years, erected on Superior 
street the mon>imental and beautiful structure 
appropriately christened •' Perry-Payne." 

After his retirement from the bar and the 
restoration of his health, he was not inactive; 
he not only devoted himself to his extensive 
private affairs, hut such was the public confi- 
dence ill his financial abilities and personal in- 
tegrity that his services were almost constantly 
demanded, either in the Council to aid in re- 
storing or sustaining municipal credit, or in the 
reconstruction of its various departments, — 
always a gratuitous service. 

Mr. Payne was an early and leading spirit in 
railroad enterprises in Ohio. In 1849 he, with 
John W. Allen, Richard HiUiard and John M. 
Woolsey, inaugurated measures for the con- 
struction of the Cleveland & Columbus Rail- 
road, and mainly to Henry B. Payne, Richard 
Hilliard, and Alfred Keiley the success of the 
great enterprise was due. The road was com- 
pleted in 1851 and Mr. Payne was elected its 
president, which office he resigned in 1854. He 
became a director in 1855 of the Cleveland, 
Painesville & Ashtabula (afterward Lake Shore) 
Railroad. These and other enterprises and in- 
dustries with which his name has been associ- 
ated as subscriber and promoter, have largely 
contributed to advance the little village of his 
adoption in 1833, to a city of 300,000 in 1893. 
In 1855 he served as a member of the first 
board of Water Works Commissioners, under 
whose auspices that great and indispensable 
system was planned and executed in behalf of 
the city. 

In 1862 he became president of the Board of 
Sinking Fund Commissioners, which position 
he has ever since held. The city takes pride in 
the management of its sinking fund, which in 
the hands of able and honest commissioners, in 
thirty years, has augmented from about $360,- 
000 to 13,000,000. with a nominal annual ex- 



pense of only a few hundred dollars for clerical 
service,— an unprecedented example of the man- 
agement of a public financial trust. 

In 1848 he was a Presidential Elector on the 
Cass ticket. In 1851 he was elected State Sen- 
ator, serving two years with such ability as to 
win universal recognition in the State as a par- 
liamentary leader and statesman. The first ap- 
preciation of the public talents of Mr. Payne, 
and the devotion of his party in that Legislature 
to him, is recorded in the twenty-six ballotings 
for United States Senator, in which his party 
remained true to him in every ballot, while their 
opponents, the Whigs, matched him alternately 
with many of their ablest men, Ewing, Corwin, 
Andrews, and several others, the balance of 
power being held by some few Free Soil mem- 
bers, the ultimate result being the election of 
Benjamin F. Wade by one majority. 

The stirring event in the State in 1857 was the 
nomination of Mr. Payne by the Democratic 
party for Governor. The conclusion of his 
brilliant and captivating speech accepting the 
nomination was alike gallant, inspiriting and 
characteristic, when he said, " In the battle in 
which we are engaged I ask no Democrat to go 
where 1 am not first found bearing the standard 
which you have placed in ray hands." He made 
a canvass so remarkable for its spirit, aggressive- 
ness and brilliancy that although his party had 
but recently been in a minority of 80,000, he 
came within a few hundred votes of defeating 
Governor Chase for his second term. The offi- 
cial count alone determined the result. 

He was a delegate to the Democratic national 
convention held at Cincinnati in 1856, which 
nominated Buchanan for president; and dele- 
gate at large to the convention at Charleston in 
1860, and reported from the committee the 
minority resolutions, which were adopted by 
the convention. He was selected by Senator 
Douglas to reply to the attacks of Yancey and 
Toombs in that convention. The speech made 
by Mr. Payne in the Charleston convention was 
remarkable for its perspicuity, brilliancy and 
power, — condemning incipient secession and 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



littering prophetic warnings to the South if 
they persisted in going out of the Union. The 
speech made him a national reputation, winning 
for him the gratitude of the Northern delegates 
and commanding the respect of the Southern 
members. 

In 1872 the Democratic State convention, 
held at Cleveland, selected him as a delegate at 
large to the convention which nominated Horace 
Greeley. He was made chairman of the Ohio 
delegation, and on his return entered with his 
accustomed zeal and spirit into the campaign. 

In 1874 he accepted the Democratic nomina- 
tion in the Cleveland District for Congress, and 
in a district which has always given a large Re- 
publican majority he was elected by nearly 
2,500 majority. It was at a time when there 
was expressed, justly or unjustly, much public 
indignation touching financial scandals in Con- 
gressional and official service, and in his speech 
accepting the nomination he was moved to say: 
"If elected, and my life is spared to serve out 
the terra, I promise to come back with hand 
and heart as undefiled and clean as when I left 
you;" and he kept the faith. He at once took 
high rank in Congress and was appointed on 
the committee on Banking and Currency. This 
was his appropriate field of labor, and his 
propositions, explanations and arguments in 
committee commanded the profoundest con- 
sideration. The financial bill known as the 
"Payne Compromise" was doubtless the master 
work of his Congressional life. The Resump- 
tion Act had recently passed, and all the West- 
ern Democrats had been elected with the under- 
standing that it should be repealed. The Eastern 
Democrats were in favor of cast-iron resump- 
tion. The bitterest feeling sprang up between 
the two factions, and a split upon the currency 
question seemed imminent. Payne had always 
been faithful to his convictions as a Democrat, 
but "soft" money was not a portion of his 
creed. Tlie extreme "hards" wanted to abolish 
paper currency: the extreme "softs" wanted to 
wipe out the banks. There were some forty 
propositions pending. Payne then presented 



his plan. He proposed to retain both the banks 
and their currency and the greenbacks, but was 
in favor of the Government making the paper 
money as good as gold. He proposed that the 
banks and the Government should bear the 
burdens of resumption by returning twenty per 
cent, of the paper each had in circulation, thus 
reducing the volume of the paper, and paving 
the way for a natural resumption. His plan 
met with decided opposition from both factious, 
but he calmly reasoned with his opponents until 
he made many converts among thinking men, 
both statesmen and bankers. The Payne plan 
was adopted by a Democratic caucus, after 
nearly three months of discussion, and reported 
to the House by Mr. Payne. Senator Bayard 
gracefully yielded to Mr. Payne's views, saying 
to him, "I have made a careful examination of 
your proposition and find there is no sacrifice 
of principle in it. It is an adjustment of some 
financial principles to a strained condition of 
affairs." Mr. Seligman, the eminent New York 
banker, said, "The principles of Payne's com- 



promise 



if enacted into law would 



prove 



a solu- 



tion of our complicated system, and give us a 
safer currency than England. It made no war 
on banks, but it recognized them as a safe 
medium for handling the currency, and increas- 
ing and decreasing the volume of currency, ac- 
cording to the needs of trade, and removed it 
from the domain of politicians, too many of 
whom knew but little about the financial affairs 
of the country." 

He was chairman of the House Conference 
Committee on the Electoral vote, a strong ad- 
vocate of the Electoral Commission bill, and a 
member of the Commission himself. His record 
through all that exciting period is creditable to 
him in the highest degree, both as a represent- 
ative Democrat and a statesman. 

From the disruption of the Charleston con- 
vention Mr. Payne was conscious that an 
attempt would be made to separate the States, 
and it was in his first public utterance there- 
after, and before the first act of secession, that 
he replied to the hostile sentiments expressed 



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by a Southern gentleiiiai). declaring that "the 
Union had a mortgage upon every dollar that 
he owned for its preservation." In the gloomy 
days of 1862 he united with other citizens in a 
guarantee to the county treasurer against loss 
by advancing $50,000 for military necessities, 
trusting to a future legislature to sanction such 
advances. During the reverses of the Union 
army early in the war, when the President 
called for 500,000 volunteers, Governor Tod 
appealed to him for his influence in aiding to 
meet that call. He reported with alacrity, 
stumping the State, encouraging enlistments, 
raising funds, and preaching the salvation of 
the Union. 

Mr. Payne's name was presented as a candi- 
date for the Presidency before the national 
Democratic convention held in Cincinnati in 
1880. Ohio had instructed her delegates to 
vote for Thurman, which they felt obligated to 
do unless released by him. Although Mr. Payne 
did not receive a single vote from his own State, 
he, nevertlieless, was the third highest in the 
list on the first ballot, whicli stood: Hancock 
171; Bayard 153; Payne 81, the remainder of 
738 being widely scattered. At this juncture, 
if ;N[r. Payne could have received the Ohio 
vote, to which, as her leading candidate, he 
seemed fairly entitled, he could have been nomi- 
nated, but the delegation being unable to get 
released from their instructions, Mr. Payne 
promptly requested the withdrawal of his own 
name. 

In 1885 Mr. Payne was elected United States 
Senator for the term of six years, ending in 
1892, being the first Democrat ever elected 
from the northern half of the State. It was an 
unsonght and gratuitous gift of the Legislature, 
and of the party with which he had been for a 
lifetime recognized as one of its most brilliant 
leaders — and a graceful climax of an honorable 
life. 

Mr. Payne's family relations have been for- 
tunate and happy. His wife, a few years his 
junior, is still by his side. They have had five 
children, but sadly three times the family circle 



has been broken, first in the death of the 
youngest, and then of the eldest son; and lastly 
in the death of Mrs. W. C. Whitney, of New 
York. The survivors are Colonel Oliver H. 
Payne, of New York, and Mrs. Bingham, of 
Cleveland. 



'T^ EV. J. H. C. KOEXTGEX. D. D., pas- 

\^^ tor of the First Reformed Church, which 
Jl ~s was the first German church on the West 
V Side in Cleveland, Ohio, was born in El- 

berfeld,Ehein Province, Prussia, Germany, June 
19, 1844. His parents were Ferdinand and 
Henrietta (Huesser) Roentgen. The mother 
died in Germany in 1860, aged fifty-two years. 
The father, a cigar manufacturer, came to Amer- 
ica with his family in 1872. They stopped at 
Sheboygan, Wisconsin, where they remained 
some two years, removing thence to La Crosse, 
Wisconsin, in 1874. Here the father died in 
1882, aged seventy-six years. Both father and 
mother were life-long members of the Reformed 
Church. 

Rev. Dr. Roentgen is the third in a family of 
five children, three of whom died in early life. 
A younger sister, the wife of Rev. Julius Grauel, 
resides at OIney, Illinois, where her husband 
has a charge. She and Dr. Roentgen are tlie 
only surviving members of their family. 

Dr. Roentgen was educated in Europe and 
came to this country with his father. Here he 
studied theology at Franklin, Sheboygan county, 
Wisconsin, graduating in 1874, and was ordained 
by the Sheboygan Classis of the Reformed 
Church in the United States, October 11, 1874. 
He took his first charge, a mission at La Crosse, 
Wisconsin, October IS, 1874. Here he labored 
effectively, erecting a building for the parochial 
school, and so wisely directing his efforts that 
when he left in December, 1882, what had been 
a mission was a self-sustaining church of nearly 
200 members. From La Crosse Dr. Roentgen 
came to Cleveland, January 8, 1883, to become 
pastor of the First Reformed Church, which he 



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has served ever since. This church was organ- 
ized in 1848. When lie came the membership 
numbered between three and four hundred; it 
now numbers between four and five hundred. 
The Sabbath-school has over 250 members. 

The degree of Doctor of Divinity was con- 
ferred upon Rev. Dr. Eoentgen in June, 1892, 
while a teacher in Calvin College, by the Frank- 
lin and Marshall College, of Lancaster, Penn- 
sylvania, the oldest and greatest college of his 
church, and he taught in Calvin College from 
1885 to 1892 preaching in his church at the 
same time. 

He was married December 15, 1874, to Miss 
Maria Louisa Frederica Walther, daughter of 
Carl and Louisa Walther, natives of Germany 
and residents of Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Dr. 
and Mrs. Roentgen have had four children, viz.: 
Louisa, deceased at nine years; Henry, Dorothea 
and Arthur. The Doctor's only cousin is Dr. 
W. Roentgen, a professor in the University of 
Stuttgart, Wiirtemberg, Germany. 

Dr. Roentgen is a scholarly man, of good 
personal appearance, strong mentally, quick in 
perception and active. He holds a prominent and 
important place in the church of his choice, and 
is in the prime of a vigorous and useful man- 
hood. He is in rugged health and gives promise 
of many years of active usefulness to his church 
and to the community wherever his lot may be 
cast. 



FATHER W. KOERNER, rector of St. 
Procop's Catholic Church, was born in 
— Bohemia, August 31, 1859. His parents 
were Charles and Theresa Koerner, both of 
whom are deceased. 

W. Koerner was educated in his native town, 
Wittingau, and also in Bndweis, and in St. 
Francis Seminary in Milwaukee, where he com- 
pleted his theological course in 1883, and was 
ordained priest February 16, that year, by Arch- 
bishop Patrick Feelian, of the Chicago Diocese. 
His first work was in St. Procop's Church, 
Chicago, where he served as assistant priest for 



fifteen mouths. From there he went to Detroit, 
where he labored as pastor of the St. Wences- 
laus Church, built the schoolhouse and renovated 
the church building at an expense of many 
thousand dollars. He remained there over five 
years, then went to Kellnersville, Wisconsin, 
where he served nearly four years as Bohemian 
missionary, and renewed the interior of the 
church, ordering all the equipments from Cleve- 
land. His next field of labor Wf3 Muscota, 
Wisconsin, a few months, coming thence to 
Cleveland, August 22, 1893, to take charge of 
his present work. 

He has about 450 families under his care. 
The school numbers about 465 children, with 
six rooms and six teachers. Everything is in 
excellent working order. 



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FRANK OPPERMAN, pastor of 
nited Evangelical Church in Cleve- 
known as " Friedens Kirche," was 
born in Germany, April 18,1863. His 
parents were John and Cecilia Opperman. His 
father, a minister, died in Germany, in 1863, at 
about fifty years of age, and his mother still 
lives in her native land (Germany), aged sixty- 
eight years. Of their children, John, born De- 
cember 4, 1861, and still residing in Germany, 
and the subject of this sketch, are the only ones 
living. Both the grandfathers also were minis- 
ters. 

Rev. Frank Opperman graduated at Werni- 
gerode, in Germany, in 1881, and studied theol- 
ogy at Berlin. He served in the army one year 
— the time required of professional men in 
Germany — and oame to America in January, 
1886. Here he studied in the seminary of the 
Evangelical Synod at St. Louis, Missouri, com- 
pleting the course in 1887. He then returned 
to Germany and studied theology. In October, 
1888, he returned to America and was appointed 
minister at Strasburg, Tuscarawas county, Ohio, 
remaining until April, 1891, when he came to 
his present congregation. His contrre^jation 



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has seventy-five regular members, and about 
thirty irregular; Sabbath school, 150 children, 
with twenty-one teachers. 

Mr. Opperman was married February 12, 
1889, in Germany, to Miss Mary Wiedfeldt, 
daughter of Rev. Emil and Elizabeth Wiedfeldt. 
Her father is a minister of the United Evangeli- 
cal Church in Germany; was educated in the 
University of Halle, Germany, and labored as a 
minister for about twelve years in Salzwedel 
and Estedt sixteen years, in which latter place 
he still remains. His father-in-law, Charles 
Wildberg, was a minister in the same place 
twenty-five years. Rev. Emil Wiedfeldt and 
his wife, Elizabeth, had four children, — Mrs. 
Opperman, Charles Martin, Emanuel and Eliza- 
beth, — all living at home except Mrs. Opper- 
man. The boys are attending the gymnasium. 

The subject of this brief notice is a man 
young in years for the responsible positions he 
has held and is still holding;_but he is scholarly, 
pleasant and easy in address, and is growing 
rapidly in favor with all good people. His wife 
is a cultured, attractive lady and a wonderful 
helper in the arduous duties of a minister's wife. 
They have one child, Elsa by name. 



fj^ EV. MARTIN LAUER, deceased, late 
Y^^ senior agent of the Publishing House of 
II ^ the Evangelical Association at Cleveland, 
^ was born in Germany, January 18, 1824. 

His parents were John Martin and Elizabeth C. 
(Hansan) Lauer, natives of Germany. His father, 
a horticulturist, died in Germany. Both the 
parents were well-to-do, honest Germans, be- 
longing to the national church, and were widely 
known and highly respected as worthy people. 
The wife's father, Martin Hausan, and his 
brother, represented the German Government 
at different times in Holland, and Martin held 
other positions also under the Government. 

The subject of this sketch was nine years of 
age, in 1S33, when his father died, at the age 



of thirty-nine years, and his mother came to 
America in 1835, bringing her family of four 
children, namely, Martin, the eldest; Anna 
Maria, who died and was buried in Cleveland, 
and was the wife of Matthew Tribel, who now 
lives in Kansas; Elizabeth, wife of Jacob Keller, 
of St. Paul, Minnesota; and Catherine, who 
died unmarried in Buffalo, Xew York. 

Mr. Lauer was educated in Buffalo, New 
York, where the family settled, and also in 
Rochester, same State. He began preaching at 
the age of twenty years, in the forests of New 
York and the Province of Canada. In 1846 he 
was ordained by Bishop Seybert, the first bishop 
of the Evangelical Association. In 1847 he was 
sent to Laban, Pennsylvania, which was quite a 
Favorable change from the back woods. Thence 
he went to New York State, preaching success- 
ively in the cities of Buffalo (his old home), Al- 
bany, Syracuse and Rochester. He was then 
made Presiding Elder. He was a member of the 
Board of Publication of his Church from its or- 
ganization in 1859 to 1875, and was finally 
elected editor of the Christliche Botschafter, and 
came to Cleveland, where he passed the re- 
mainder of his life. His election prohibited 
him from membership in the Board of Publica- 
tion, owing to a rule that no officer of the Pub- 
lishing House can be a member of the Board of 
Publication. In 1879 he was elected senior 
agent of the Publishing House. 

He was also President of the Orphans' Home 
of the Evangelical Association, located at Flat 
Rock, Seneca county, Ohio, in which institution 
are sheltered at present about 140 children. It 
has 300 acres of land, well improved, good brick 
buildings, furnished with the best modern ap- 
pliances and improvements and about §70,000 
as an endowment fund. Mr. Lauer was also 
President of the Missionary Society of his 
church from 1879, both Home and Foreign, un- 
til the time of his death. At the last meeting 
of that society there were representatives from 
the United States, Canada, Germany, Switzer- 
land and Japan. They have been very success- 
ful in their missionary work, especially in Japan. 



CUTAHOOA COUNTY. 



The life of Rev. Martin Lauer is a part of the 
imperishable record of his church's achieve- 
ments in the various and extended sections of 
country where he labored. He was admitted to 
bis conference before he had reached his major- 
ity. The short stature and massive frame, in 
symmetric harmony with the fine-cnt features, 
the broad, high forehead, small, brown eyes 
shining forth under the bushy eye-brows, the 
classic nose and massive chin, convinced every 
observer of the great mind he possessed. He 
was a thinker, and always saw his way clear be- 
fore he acted. This was true of him as a min- 
ister, and he never entered the pulpit without 
being perfectly conversant with the subject 
matter of his discourse. In public meetings he 
would never participate in a discussion unless 
in possession of such a degree of knowledge of 
the matter under consideration that he always 
knew what to say, and as a rule gained his point. 
His whole appearance, in connection with his 
acute intelligence and practical way of conduct- 
ing affairs, recommended him as a competent 
manager of an extensive business establishment. 
His quiet but decisive way of expressing his 
views and his clear judgment inspired confi- 
dence and respect. His conversation, cautious 
disposition and strong mind, his candid manner 
of action and of accomplishing his work, made 
him a favorite among the clergy of his church 
as well as the business world, and the " beloved 
Father Lauer" among all who knew him. 

He had studied closely the problem of his 
early life, and how to make the most and best 
of it, which showed that he followed a clear and 
marked line. He considered his relations to be 
threefold in character, and this involved a three- 
fold responsibility. The first of these three re- 
lations, in a manner, embraced also two others; 
and this was his relation to God. In early lite he 
made a profession of Christianity in the church 
of his choice, in whose communion he spent all 
his life. He showed his attachment to his 
church by a uniform fidelity. His religion was 
not a mere profession, but personal and practi- 
cal, and his life purpose and aim was to do what 



was right and pleasing to God. He had broad 
views of truth and a high and wide conception 
of duty. He once said, " Ifew light is ever 
breaking forth from the Word of God, and that 
Word liveth and abideth forever: it is an infal- 
lible source of truth. The sum of its teaching 
is, ' Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all 
thy heart, and thy neighbor as thyself.' It is a 
standard as high as Heaven, and I shall aim to 
make it the guiding star of my faith and life." 

The second relation was that which he bore 
to himself. He regarded his faculties and pow- 
ers as something almost apart from himself; 
that is, he considered them a trust, Avhich God 
had committed to his keeping for its right and 
faithful use, for which he was responsible. He 
formed his plan early in life. He always said, 
" Certain things are required of me — plain du- 
ties." These he aimed to perform. The line of 
life which he selected was one of strict integ- 
rity, and personal business and honor. To these 
he adhered with fidelity, and by this course was 
led on the highway of ministerial success. 

This naturally involved a third relation, — that 
to his fellow-men. He had learned in his early 
experience how good a thing it was to have the 
friendship and sympathy of others, and there- 
fore he always made friends. He always kept 
an open heart and ready hand, and a pleasant 
smile to gladden others, and always manifested a 
lively interest in the good order and moral wel- 
fare of the community in which he lived. 

His devoted wife was for nearly half a cen- 
tury the human comfort and stay of his life. 
She and all her children belong to the Evan- 
gelical Association. Mr. Lauer was married 
May 16, 1849, to Miss Catherine Schlotzhauer, 
in the city of Albany, New York, and they had 
twelve children, five of whom are still living, 
namely: Herman M., who married Fannie Mil- 
ler, and is a carpenter contractor of Cleveland; 
Edward T., who married Christina Phillipe, and 
is in the paving business; Cornelius A., who 
married Elizabeth Morman, and is in the insur- 
ance business; Clara L., who was married May 
16, 1893, to William T. Hudson of Cleveland: 



CUYAnOGA COUNTY. 



Mr. Hudson is connected with the Standard Oil 
Company; and Lydia Paulene, still of the home 
circle. She is Corresponding Secretary of the 
largest Young People's Society of Christian En- 
deavor in Ohio, and a great church worker, a 
teacher of marked ability. The other children 
are all deceased, and all died in early childhood, 
excepting one son, Paul Erasmus, who died in 
February, 1893, at the age of thirty years. He 
was a man of much promise, possessing good 
business ability and that enterprising spirit that 
overcomes all obstacles. After passing through 
the high school of Cleveland he entered Adel- 
bert College, same city. After graduating at 
Adelbert he served as principal four years in the 
Green Springs Academy, in Seneca county, 
Ohio, where he also married Miss Alice Hesser. 
He then spent three years in Johns Hopkins 
University, where he graduated with the degree 
of Ph. D. He was appointed Supervisor of the 
Public Schools of Cleveland, but served only a 
few months when he was taken sick with ty- 
phoid fever, from which he died. He was a 
man of great intellectual force, and well defined 
and clear-cut views. He exercised a wide influ- 
ence for good, and his early Christian cliaracter 
will long be remembered by a large circle of 
friends and acquaintances. His early death was 
sadly mourned and his ripe Christian character 
made a lasting impression upon his friends. 

E.JV. Martin Lauer was taken sick about the 
middle of December, 1893, and after a two- 
weeks illness departed this life at 8:50 o'clock 
in the evening of December 80, 1893. 



E. SCHUTT, Superintendent of Mails 
in the Cleveland (Ohio) post-office, has 
been identified with the United States 
mail service since November, 1879. He was 
born at Avilla, Indiana, March 23, 1857, of 
Scotch-German extraction. His father, Thomas 
Schutt, still living at Avilla, is a farmer and was 
a pioneer to Noble county, being the first to cut 
a tree from the farm on which lie now resides. 
He was born at Penn Yan, Yates county. New 



York, March 21, 1817, and emigrated to the 
Hoosier State in 1844. At that time railroads 
were unknown in the "Western States, and the 
journey "out West" was made by boat from 
Buffalo to Toledo, thence on foot the remaining 
100 jniles through an almost unbroken wilder- 
ness. 

The mother of Mr. Schutt died in 1864, and 
the subsequent four years of his life were spent 
with an indulgent grandmother, after which he 
returned to the farm (the father having re-mar- 
ried), where in addition to attending to the usual 
duties of a farmer's boy he managed to obtain a 
liberal academic education, and at the age of 
seventeen commenced teaching school; this vo- 
cation was followed for two years, at the close of 
which he entered the office of J. M. Teal, D. D. 
S , at Kendallville, Indiana, where he began the 
study of dentistry, which was not entirely com- 
pleted when he was tendered and accepted the 
position of railway postal clerk, — not, however, 
with the intention of making it a life work, 
dentistry being his chosen profession; and dur- 
ing his entire connection with the mail service 
he has found time to read the current dental 
literature, and, until assuming charge of his 
present position, to put into practice any im- 
provements or advanced ideas found therein, 
the diflicult operation known in dental surgery 
as replantation having been many times success- 
fully performed by him. 

Having satisfactorily passed the probationary 
period he was permanently appointed as a rail- 
way postal clerk in May, 1880, at a salary of 
$900 per annum. From this time on he took a 
greater interest in the service, was successively 
promoted through all the intermediate grades, 
and in March, 1886, was appointed clerk in 
ch-irgo between Syracuse, New York, and Cleve- 
land, Ohio. This position was filled with en- 
tire satisfaction to the department, as was 
evidenced by his appointment, May 1, 1891, to 
the position he now holds. 

In the spring of 1890, Postmaster General 
AVanamaker offered a gold medal to the clerk 
making the best record in the railway mail ser- 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



vice at the close of that year; this was won by 
Mr. Schutt, in the Ninth Division, his record 
for the year being as follows: In addition to the 
duties of clerk in charge, he distributed 1,490,- 
944 pieces of mail, with but 128 errors, being 
an average of 11,648 pieces correct to each error, 
and was examined on 10,396 postoliices, of 
which 99.93 per cent were correctly cased, at 
the rate of 82 per minute, with 680 separations. 



ffffON. SAMUEL WILLIAMSON, a 
\i~\ shrewd attorney and able financier, died 
11 il January 14, 1884, at his residence. No. 
^ 930 Euclid avenue, Cleveland, nearly 

seventy-six years of age. He was born March 
16, 1808, in Crawford eoiinty, Pennsylvania, 
and was the oldest of the seven children of 
Samuel and Isabella (McQueen) Williamson. 
His father removed from Cumberland county 
to Crawford county in 1800, where he first met 
his wife. On the 10th of May, 1810, he removed 
with his family to Cleveland, where in partner- 
ship with his brother he began the business of 
tanning and currying, which he continued until 
his death in September, 1834. He was a man 
of enterprise and public spirit, liberal in politics 
and highly esteemed as a citizen. For many 
years he was Justice of the Peace for Cleveland 
township and Associate Judge of the Common 
Pleas Court. 

His son, whose honored name introduces this 
personal memoir, was only two years old when 
he was brought to this city by his parents. On 
reaching the age of seven years he was sent to 
the public schools, which he attended till 1826; 
at that time he entered Jefferson College, in 
Washington county, Pennsylvania, and gradu- 
ated in 1829. Keturning to Cleveland he en- 
tered the office of the late Judge Sherlock J. 
Andrews, where he read law for two years. In 
1832 he was admitted to practice in the Cuya- 
hoga courts and immediately formed a partner- 
ship with the late Leonard Case, continuing his 
professional labors with iiim until 1834, when 



Mr. Williamson was elected County Auditor, in 
which office he remained for the period of eight 
years, when he resumed the practice of law. 

In 1843 he married Mary E.Tisdaie, of Utica, 
New York, and died leaving a wife and three 
sons, namely: Judge Samuel E. Williamson, of 
Cleveland; George T. Williamson, of Chicago; 
and Rev. James D. Williamson, of Cleveland. 

Mr. Williamson continued the practice of law 
with but slight interruption, in partnership with 
A. G. Riddle, until 1872, when he gave up the 
arduous labors of his profession and retired from 
its active pursuit to the enjoyment of a more 
quiet life. He did not cease to work, however, 
but gave much of his personal attention to the 
affairs of the Society for Savings, of which he 
had been the president for several years. At 
the time of his death he was the oldest citizen of 
Cleveland, having lived here since he was two 
years old, or nearly seventy-four years. He held 
many responsible positions in this city, besides 
having directed many large business interests, 
and he always showed himself capable of dis- 
chai-ging every trust confided to his care. Dur- 
ing the time he practiced law his mind was not 
entirely engrossed by professional interests; on 
the contrary, he was elected to a number of pub- 
lic offices which call for sterling worth and abil- 
ity, and he discharged all his duties with 
unvarying fidelity and marked skill. In 1850 
he was elected by this county to the State Leg- 
islature, and in 18o9-'60 he was a member and 
president of the State Board of Equalization. 
In the fall of 1862 he was elected to the State 
Senate, where he served two terms. He also 
rendered valuable service as a member of the 
City Council and of the Board of Education, 
being especially conspicuous in the latter body 
for his activity in promoting improvements in 
public education. He was a director of the 
Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis 
Railroad, and was also its vice president at one 
time, and for many years its attorney. Several 
years prior to his death he became president of 
the Society for Savings, in which position he 
displayed marked ability as a financier, exhibit- 



CO YAHOO A COUNTY. 



ing good judgment, strictest integrity, a keen 
sense of honor, and a bigli order of business 
talent. 

In many respects Mr. Williamson was a very 
extraordinary man, for example in the extent of 
his practical acquirements derived from experi- 
ence, and in his temperament, character, and 
persistent fidelity to duty. For seventy-four of 
the seventy-six years of his life he lived in 
Cleveland, which place he saw grow from a mere 
hamlet of a few hundred souls to a city of great 
and immense proportions and consequence. He 
had seen generations come and go until there 
was rolled up, upon tlie ground that was sur- 
rounded by a wilderness in his childhood, a city 
of over 200,000 inhabitants. He came to the 
bar with no extraoi-dinary or adventitious cir- 
cumstances to give eclat or introduce him prom- 
inently before the public. He possessed none 
of those elements of genius and oratory which 
are sometimes used to attain temporary reputa- 
tion at least, and elevate men to high positions. 
His strength consisted in the fact that from the 
beginning to the end he brought to the dis- 
charge of duty, labor, integrity, industry and 
fidelity to all the great trusts that were imposed 
upon him through a long life. Whether as a 
practicing lawyer, a county oflicer, a legislator, 
or finally, during the last years of his life, as 
president of one of the largest institutions in 
the city, with immense responsibilities to the 
poor and those of small means, he passed 
through life without leaving a suspicion upon 
any man's mind that in the discharge of any of 
the duties which these places imposed he had 
not been faithful and honorable to the utmost. 
His arguments to the court were always happy, 
often strong, and in the terseness of their lan- 
guage and legal logic, beautiful. The real point 
was made clear, its decisive character shown 
and the books and cases that only approach it 
had no part in his argument. His proper place 
was upon the bench; his mind was eminently 
judicial, with a controlling moral bias for the 
right. The kindest of men, he was the tender- 
est and most considerate of friends. He was 



ever earnest, yet not stern or puritanical. Such 
men as he make more secure the free institu- 
tions of this country and gladden the lives of all 
those with whom they are connected, and their 
death creates a void which is not always tilled. 
Such material was used in building up Ameri- 
can independence. His character and worth, 
being such, could not but command the highest 
confidence and esteem of liis fellow men. Uni- 
versal expressions of sorrow and regret at his 
demise wei-e heard on all sides. As a man he 
was always courteous and gentlemanly to those 
with whom he came in contact, and no one knew 
him but to honor and respect him. He was for 
many years president of the First Presbyterian 
Society, and he carried with him into the walks 
of private life the precepts of Christianity, 
which were so strongly interwoven with his 
character. He died full of years, surrounded by 
the love of troops of friends and possessed of 
all the honors that should accompany old age, 
and his good name will long keep a conspicu- 
ous place in the memory of the citizens of 
Cleveland. 



f^iEV. FREDEKICIv von SCHLUEM- 
r^ BACH, pastor of the Independent 
II ^ Evangelical Protestant Church of Schifi- 
^ lein Christi, was born in Germany in 

the Kingdom of Wurtemberg, June 27, 1842. 
His parents were George and Adelaide (Eggel) 
von Scliluembach, both natives of Germany, who 
never came to America. George von Schluem- 
bach was a military man, as was also his father, 
Christopher von Scliluembach, who was a Per- 
sonal Adjutant of King William of Wurtem- 
berg. Our subject's ancestors were made nobles 
in the sixteenth century by the Emperor of Aus- 
tria. The son, George, was an oflicer — a cap- 
tain in the Fourth Cavalry Regiment of Wurt- 
emberg. In his later years he retired from the 
Captaincy but served as Adjutant of Prince 
Frederick of Holienlohe Oehrinsen until old 



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age disabled him. He died in 1879, aged 
seventy-eight years. His wife died in 1860, 
aged sixty. Eoth were members of the Lu- 
theran Church, good Christian people, devout, 
orthodox and conservative. Their devout lives 
and Ciiristian example are an endearing herit- 
age to the family, and to a very large circle of 
acquaintances. Of their eight children only 
three daughters and two sons are now living. 
A brother, Alexander, and a sister, Wilhelmina, 
are residents of Cleveland. They, with Fred- 
erick and William, — the latter of whom died with 
yellow fever in New Orleans, — are all of the 
family who came to America. 

Frederick von Schluembach, the youngest of 
the above, was educated for military life in the 
city of Ulm, in Wurtemberg. He entered the 
German army in 1858, as cadet, and served un- 
til 1859, when he left the army and came to 
Philadelphia. He there worked hard in various 
positions; at last as clerk in a homeopathic 
drug-store until the war between the States 
broke out. He enlisted May 5, 1861, in re- 
sponse to President Lincoln's call for 75,000, in 
the Twenty-ninth New York Infantry, called 
the " Astor Regiment" and later the " Stein- 
wehr Eegiment," named for Colonel, later Gen- 
eral, Steinwehr. Mr. von Schluembach was 
commissioned First Lieutenant of Company B, 
and was in the Army of the Potomac, taking 
part in almost all the leading battles in which 
that army was engaged. He was disal)led in 
the second battle of Bull Run, was captured on 
the field and taken to Libby Prison. He was 
one of the 150 officers that were held by Jeffer- 
son Davis until General Butler and President 
Lincoln stopped all exchange of prisoners until 
these officers were released. Butler was instru- 
mental in bringing this about. Lieutenant von 
Schluembach was exchanged soon afterward and 
returned to Philadelphia. He re-enlisted in 
Company H, One Hundred and Eighteenth 
Regiment of Pennsylvania, and served until he 
was wounded in the battle of the Wilderness 
under General Grant. He was brought into 
Alexandria, Virginia, to the hospital, and never 



went into service again, being discharged May 
20, 1865. He remained in Philadelphia until 
1866, and then started a grocery store atWilkes- 
barre, Pennsylvania. During this time he was 
a great Republican politician, a high officer in 
the Union League of Pennsylvania and stumped 
the Eastern States for General Grant. In 1868 
he moved to Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, and 
imdertook the publication of a German Repub- 
lican newspaper. Later he became Government 
mail agent on the Lehigh Valley Road, the 
printing office having burned out without in- 
surance. 

In the spring of 1872 our subject was called 
to the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, and sent to the Pennsylvania Avenue 
Church of Baltimore, Maryland. He remained 
there three years, as long as the rules of his 
church would allow any minister to remain in 
one place, and during this time he organized 
the German Bund of Young Men's Christian 
Association, becoming its General Secretary. In 
1875 he was sent by his church as a missionary 
to Galveston, Texas, and then to Waco, same 
State, in 1878. In 1879 he was appointed Ger- 
man General Secretary of the International 
Committee of the Young Men's Christian As- 
sociation of the United States and Canada, with 
headquarters at New York city. In 1880 he 
was called by Mr. Dwight L. Moody to assist 
him as a German evangelist. He then visited 
all the prominent cities of the United States, 
and becoming overworked was sent to Germany 
by his friends of New York. Thei-e he had an 
operation performed for an abscess caused by ex- 
posure in the late war. During his convales- 
cence he was called by Professor Christlieb and 
Court Chaplain Stoecker to become an evan- 
gelist in Germany, and until 1889 he worked 
as an evangelist in both Germany and America. 
While an evangelist in Germany Mr. von 
Schluembach lahored among the highest as well 
as the lowest of the people, being supported by 
the influence of the Countess Waldersee and 
also that of Count Bernstorff, the Chamberlain 
of the late Empress Augusta. In Berlin and 



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other cities he organized the Young Men's 
Christian Associations on the American plan, 
with great success. 

lu 1883 Mr. von Schluem bach started a Ger- 
man colony in Texas, where he joined the Evan- 
gelical Synod of the United States, which sent 
him in 1890 to his present church, to rescue the 
building from the hands of the marshal in the 
the United States Court of Cleveland. 

In 1892 the church of Schifflein Christi be- 
came again an independent congregation, and 
called Mr. von Schluembach for its permanent 
pastor. The congregation has since increased 
in membership, and is gradually emerging fi'om 
its trouble. 

Mr. Schluembach is a man of broad and en- 
lightened views on all subjects of general im- 
portance and is well-informed and ripe in the 
experience of the world. In person he is of 
goodlj' size, strongly built and robust, with the 
soldier's movement and bearing. He possesses 
a vigorous intellect, is quick in perceptive fac- 
ulties and of a genial, kind and gentle disposi- 
tion. His cyclopaedic learning, his capacity for 
various literary work, his devotion to books, and 
more than all the sterling elements of large and 
noble manhood which he possesses, are among 
the qualities which even a comparative stranger 
will soon recognize. He is classed among the 
best and most noted citizens of Cleveland. 



It yif M. HOBAKT, one of the prominent 
IW I iiiembers of the Cleveland bar, and 
II 4i senior member of the well known law 
/ firm of Hobart & Bacon, is a native of 

the old Bay State, having been born at Am- 
herst, Massachusetts, on March 26, 1846. His 
parents were Edmund and Esther (Montague) 
Hobart. His father still resides in Amherst, 
and has been a prominent man in his locality 
all his life, having held at different times many 
positions of honor and trust. The Hobart family 
originally came from Hingham, England, the 
first one of the name in America being the 
Rev. Peter Hobart, who came over in 1632, lo- 



cating first in Hingham, Massachusetts, near 
Boston. He had five sons, and all were minis- 
ters of the Congregational Church. 

Esther Montague, Mr. Hobart's mother, was 
the daughter of Moses Montague, of Sunder- 
land, Massachusetts. She died in 1851, leaving 
our subject as an only issue. The Montagues 
are from the well known English family of that 
name. His father married again and two sons 
were born to him by his second wife, one of 
whom is deceased, and the other, Frank Adams, 
resides on the family homestead with his father. 

Mr. Hobart prepared for college at Williston 
Seminary, East Hampton, Massachusetts, and 
in the fall of 1868 entered Amherst College, 
from which he graduated with honor in 1872. 
In the fall of the same year he entered Colum- 
bia Law School in Xew York city, but soon 
afterward failing health moved him to suspend 
his studies for a time and upward of a year was 
spent in traveling in Europe. In the fall of 
1874, however, his law studies were resumed at 
Columbia Law School, and in May of the follow- 
ing year he graduated. Following his gradu- 
ation he was admitted to the bar in New York, 
then in Massachusetts, and later in Ohio. In 
July, 1875, he located in Cleveland, where he 
soon succeeded in gaining a good practice. 
During the years 1877 and 1878 Mr. Hobart 
was acting City Prosecutor of Cleveland, and 
in 1880 was appointed by President Hayes as 
Supervisor of the United States Census for the 
Si.\th District of Ohio. For one term, during 
the years 1881-'82, he served as clerk to Mayor 
Herrick and the Board of Improvements. At 
the municipal election in 1888 he was elected 
from the Fourteenth ward as a member of the 
City Council, which body upon its organization 
chose him as its president. 

Mr. Hobart has continued the practice of law 
since 1875, with the exception of the time he 
served as Mayor's clerk, has met with success, 
and is now recognized as one of the able mem- 
bers of the bar, with a large clientage and a 
firm position. The firm of Hobart «fe Bacon 
was formed in June, 1887. 





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CUTAHOOA COUNTY. 



Mr. Hobart is a member of the Masonic fra- 
ternity, being a thirty-second-degree Mason and 
a member of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a 
member of the Masonic Club. 

Mr. Hobart was married on December 5, 
1882, to Miss Peckham, of Lebanon, Connecti- 
cut, and they have had two children: Marion 
Montague, born November 9, 1885; and Harold 
Peckham, born August 22, 1888. Mrs. Hobart 
is a highly educated and estimable lady. 
Through her mother she is closely related to the 
late Jeremiah Mason, of Boston, the distin- 
guished jurist, and through her father to Erie's 
hero, Commodore Perry. Her father, James 
M. Peckham, was one of the most prominent 
and esteemed citizens of Lebanon, Connecticut. 



[[ J ( ON. WILLIAM J. WHITE, Member of 
lM| Congress from the Twentieth Ohio Dis- 
II 41 trict, is a native of the Dominion of 
'^ Canada, born in 1850. His early youth 

was spent on the farm of Benjamin Crafts in 
Geauga county, Ohio, and for two years he lived 
in the home of M. B. Crafts, a cousin of the 
Hon. C. E. Crafts, present Speaker of the House 
of Representatives of the General Assembly of 
Illinois. 

At the age of eighteen years he came from 
lus country home in Geauga county to the city 
of Cleveland. His boyhood had been of peculiar 
privation and hardship, and he had been exposed 
to temptations to which a character of less 
strength and poise must have yielded. Althougii 
deprived of a mother's loving care in his child- 
hood tiie principles of truth and honor had been 
instilled in his nature from his very existence, 
so that he passed into manhood with an utitar- 
aished reputation. His education was obtained 
by attending the public schools in winters and 
two terms in an academy. 

The beginning of his commercial career was 
in Cleveland, where he began a small business 
in the sale of confectionery and popcorn. His 
connection with the chewing-gum trade dates 



from the winter of 1871. Going to the estab- 
lishment of Merriam, Morgan & Company to 
purchase paraffine he was refused a less quantity 
than a case, costing $24. He did not have a 
sufficient sum, and was obliged to defer the ex- 
periments which he purposed making with the 
wax. In the spring of 1876 he bought a rem- 
nant of stock from the assignee of George E. 
Clark, manufacturer of the " Busy-bee" gum, 
in order to get the tin prizes to put in popcorn 
bags. This purchase included the equipment 
used in the manufacture of gum and a small 
amount of paraffine. With this Mr. White at 
once began the experiments he had had so long 
in contemplation, meeting with great difficulty 
in removing the gum from the marble slab; but 
in this, accident, or destiny, favored him; some 
of the paraffine dropped on a greased slab, 
hardened quickly and was easily removed. Soon 
followed Mr. White's first brand of chewing- 
gum, which was called the ■' Mammoth." The 
venture was successful and the demand steadily 
increased in both the wholesale and retail trade. 
The first shipment was made to George Schoff, 
Massillon, Ohio, and consisted of fifty boxes at 
thirty cents a box. Two years later Mr. White 
introduced the " Diamond " brand of chewing- 
gum, which was put iipon the market through 
the confectioners and proved an immense suc- 
cess. Eighty girls were at one time employed 
in the manufacture of this especial brand, and 
the sales were enormous. The increase in the 
business of manufacturing gum necessitated the 
abandonment of the confectionery trade, and the 
candy- wagon of Mr. White was given in charge 
of another person. 

All went well for a season; then there was a 
change in the wheel of fortune, and Mr. White 
was left with a large stock of goods, machinery 
and $500 in cash, but no further demand for 
iiis manufactures. This failure was probably 
due to mismanagement on the part of jobbers. 
Mr. White went out on the road, visited Buffalo 
and Jamestown, where he placed some goods, 
and also made a shipment of a few cases to Chi- 
cago; later he visited Peoria, Burlington, Keo- 



CUTAIIOGA COUNTY. 



kuk, Qiiincy, Hannibal and St. Louis, taking 
orders for the old-fashioned '> Mammoth,'' 
" "White Mountain," and " Diamond." At the 
end of a three-years struggle he had gained an 
invaluable experience, and had become ac- 



luainted with 



many 



of the wholesale dealers. 



In 1882 " Picture Tablets " and " Cleveland 
Bell," two new brands, were placed upon the 
market, a large order being shipped to Akron, 
Ohio. Mr. White continued a heavy business 
upon a small capital, and in 1882 went out on 
the road as his own salesman, continuing to 
work in this line until 1887, when the trade was 
sufficiently established to permit his retirement. 
The responsibility had so increased that he 
deemed it advisable to take a partner in the 
business, and in June, 1885, C. T. Heisel be- 
came a member of the firm. This arrangement 
did not prove satisfactoi-y, however, and No- 
vember 14, 1885, the partnership was dissolved, 
with the written agreement that Mr. White was 
to continue in the manufacture of gum. He 
had large demands, and was scarcely able to till 
the orders received the last part of the year 
1886. 

Placing the " Red Robin," the leading brand in 
chicle gum, on the market, he pushed its sale with 
great zeal, advertised it extensively and succeeded 
in creating a heavy demand. Imitations soon fol- 
lowed, so it became necessary to manufacture 
the same goods under a new name not descrip- 
tive; the result was the famous "Yucatan," 
placed on the market December 1, 1886. 
Seventeen stores had it on sale, and it was as- 
certained that a gum flavored with peppermint 
was a good seller. Mr. White continued the 
manufacture, pushed the sale, and has met with 
a success rarely equaled in the commercial 
world. The number of pieces of "Yucatan" 
sold in 1887 were, 4,799,000; in 1888,66,636,- 
700; in 1890, 126,874,000; and in 1893 the 
business had increased to nearly 150,000,000. 
Mr. White has originated every brand manu- 
factured in his establishment, and most all of 
liis machinery has been modeled by himself, 
and on nearly all he holds patents. In March, 



1888, he purchased two acres of land on the 
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad, 
west of the city, and there built one of the 
largest chewing-gum factories in the world. 
The business has been phenomenal, and 
" White's Yucatan Chewing-gum " is known 
around the world. In his factory are employed 
285 people, the greater proportion being girls. 

He is also interested in a number of different 
enterprises to which he has brought the same 
sagacity and sound judgment which have 
characterized all his movements. His Two 
Minute Stock Farm, the home of many fine 
horses, is situated in Rockport township. His 
employees hold him in the highest esteem, and 
he is known in commercial circles as a man of 
the strictest integrity. He is essentially self- 
made, the success he has attained being the 
result of unflagging industry and untiring effort. 

Mr. White was united in marriage, April 23, 
1873, to Miss Ellen Mansfield, daughter of 
Orange and Maretta (Howard) Mansfield. Mrs. 
White was born in Cleveland, July 12, 1850; 
she is a lady of refined taste and lovely disposi- 
tion, and has been a most valuable assistant and 
an unfailing source of encouragement to her 
husband through all his years of toil. Mr. and 
Mrs. White are the parents of eight children: 
Willie B., Harry W., Gloria Marie, Charlie G., 
deceased. Pearl Maretta, Miles Arthur, Ada 
Maloria and Ralph Royden. Their beautiful 
home "Thornwood " is situated in the midst of 
a lovely grove on the shore of the lake midway 
between the city and Rocky river; it is a typical 
American home, the center of luxury, taste and 
refinement; a lavish hospitality is dispensed, 
and a generous hand is extended to the needy 
and less fortunate in life. 

Politically Mr. White is identified with the 
Republican party. In 1889 was elected Mayor 
of West Cleveland village, declining a renom- 
ination at the expiration of his first term. 
He was elected a member of Congress in the 
fall of 1892; and although his Congressional 
record is in its infancy it is safe to predict for 
him a more tiian ordinarily useful career. A 



CUFAHOOA GOUNTT. 



man without afi'ectation, clever and generoua to 
a fault, he is held in the highest regard through- 
out the social and commercial world in which 
he has moved. 



ORITZ S. LIEBICH, one of the most 
prominent artists of Cleveland, Ohio, 
^ has been a resident of this city since 
1863. He is a native of Saxony, Ger- 
many, born March 9, 1825, and is a member of 
one of the titled families of the Empire. lie 
w^as reared and educated in his native land. In 
early youth he developed a marked taste for 
artistic drawing, but entered the more practical 
walk of commercial life. In 1862 he emigrated 
to America and since that time has cultivated 
his talent in art. He has devoted many years 
of his life to teaching, some of his pupils hav- 
ing attained not only enviable reputation but 
fame as well. For twelve years he was teacher 
of free-hand drawing in the Jewish Orphan 
Asylum, and during a long period had a private 
school. In 1876 he and his son, A. K. A. 
Lieliich, opened a photographic studio, and four 
years later opened a gallery at the corner of 
Ontario and Huron streets. In 1890 they re- 
moved to their jtresent quarters, 86 Euclid 
avenue. Mr. Liebich superintended the con- 
struction of the studio during the erection of 
the building, and it is Utted out with all the 
most approved appliances of modern photo- 
graphic art. They have a large patronage, de- 
manding the most finished and artistic work. 
In 1885 a branch establishment was opened on 
Broadway, which has since been sold. In the 
Euclid avenue studio several superior artists are 
employed in the execution of high-class work, 
all of which is under the direct supervision of 
the younger Liebich. 

Moritz S. Liebich was married in Germany to 
Aline Gerlach, who is now deceased. There 
were born to them a family of five children, 
three of whom are living: Jennie is the wife of 
Albert Petersiige, a druggist of this city ; A. K. A. 



ith his father; Rosa resides with 
her father. Mr. Liebich is an honorary member 
of the Cleveland Gesang- Verein, which he joined 
thirty years ago. He has been a prominent 
figure in many other German societies in this 
city, and is held in the highest esteem by a wide 
circle of acquaintance. 

Arthur K. A. Liebich was born in Germany, 
September 10, 1854, but was reared in this city. 
In his youth his attention was directed to art, 
and at the age of sixteen years he took up pho- 
tography to which he has since devoted his best 
efforts. Visiting the principal cities of this 
country he has investigated the most approved 
methods and studied under the direction of the 
most advanced photographers. Years of loyalty 
to his art have brought their reward, and Mr. 
Liebich has to-day the gratification of being 
classed with the leaders in his especial line of 
work. 

He is a member of Concordia Lodge, No. 315, 
A. F. & A. M.; of Webb Chapter, No. 14, 
R. A. M.; or Hollyrood Commandry, No. 32, 
K. T., and of Lake Erie Consistory. He is Past 
Chancellor of Criterion Lodge, No. 38, K. P., 
and of Argonaut Division, U. E. He is Regi- 
mental Quarter- Master of the Fifth O. N. G., 
receiving his appointment in 1891. He is also 
a member of many of the German societies of 
the city. Mr. Liebich was married in 1881 to 
Miss Alice A. Lacey, of Aurora, Ohio. 



CHARLES B. COUCH, purchasing agent 
for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern 
Railroad, was born in Massachusetts, 
Berkshire county, in September, 1838, and be- 
gan railroad work on what is now the Franklin 
branch of the Lake Shore Railroad, thirty-tliree 
years ago. He was rodman of a surveying 
party, and on leaving this position became 
assistant engineer of the road, connected then 
with the Cleveland & Erie. Upon the consolida- 
tion in 1873, Mr. Couch was made division 
superintendent from Cleveland to Buffalo, wliich 



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CU7AU0GA COUNTY. 



position he filled until 1890, when he took pos- 
session at his present office. This is only a verj 
brief resume of a long and faitliful service for 
one company, and not pretending to be a de- 
tailed account of the vast labors performed or 
the many aims accomplished in his efforts, with 
his official associates, to build up a great trunk 
line of railroad and develop a new country. 



ON. JOSEPH T. LOGUE, Judge of the 
Police Court of the city of Cleveland, 
4i was born in Northfield, Summit county, 
Ohio, July 9, 1849. His father, J. W. 
Logue, D. D., a United Presbyterian minister, 
and the founder of the first church of that de- 
nomination in Cleveland, was born in York, 
Pennsylvania, in 1812. He prepared for the 
ministry in Albany, New York, graduating at 
Union College there. He came to Cleveland in 
1843, and until ten years ago was a most active 
man in church work. Dr. Logue married Mary 
Jane Cooper, born in Baltimore, Maryland, and 
educated in an academy of that city. Their 
oldest child is: Jane C, now Mrs. Rev. W. T. 
Campbell, D. D., of Monmouth, Illinois; Mrs. 
Campbell graduated at Oxford University, Ohio, 
where she was for some years lady principal, 
and she was elected lady principal of Mon- 
mouth College, Illinois, and retired from school 
work only upon lier marriage. The others born 
in this family were: Judge Joseph T.; Nettie 
G. (deceased), wife of J. C. Alexander, now 
Commissioner of Cuyahoga county; and Rev. 
J. R. Logue, pastor of the United Presbyterian 
Church in Washington, Iowa. 

Judge Logue studied in the district schools 
of Northfield, Ohio, and took up languages 
with liis father. At nineteen years of age he 
engaged in the grocery business in Northfield, 
and was so engaged four years. He then de- 
cided to pursue the law, and began a course of 
reading with Emerson vie Wildes, of Akron, 
Ohio, and completed it with Brinsmade & Stoue, 



of Cleveland, being admitted to the bar April 
20, 1876. He then opened an office and was 
engaged in general practice till 1891. 

Judge Logue is a strong party man in poli- 
tics. He is a Republican and has served his 
people as Councilman, being elected first in 
1887 from the Nineteenth ward, and re-elected 
in 1889. He was a member of the Board of 
Improvements and was chairman of the Judi- 
ciary Committee. In the spring of 1891 Judge 
Logue was the party candidate for Police Judge 
and was elected by a majority of 2,200. In 
April, 1893, lie was re-elected by a majority of 
2,835, while the city went Democratic by 1,500 
votes! 

August 30, 1881, Judge Logue married, in 
Cleveland, Nellie J., a daughter of E. C. Greer, 
a real-estate dealer, who married Jennie M. 
Boothe. 

Judge and Mrs. Logue are the parents of two 
children, Roy G. and James Cooper. 



CHARLES P. SALEN, Secretary of the 
Board of Elections and the popular leader 
of the young Democracy of Cuyahoga 
county, was born in Portsmouth, New Hamp- 
shire, December 5, 1860. He came to Cleve- 
land in 1806 with his father, Peter Salen, the 
pioneer West Side photographer. Peter Salen 
was born in northwestern Germany, sought a 
home in the United States when a mere youth, 
settling in Boston, Massachusetts, and later 
moved to Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He 
married Fredericka Wyx, from Reims, France. 
She died in 1874, her children being Louis (de- 
ceased at the age of twenty-two), Matilda J., 
Charlotte and Charles P. 

"Charley" Salen secured his education at 
the graded schools of the West Side, Cleveland, 
and graduated at the high school in 1878, com- 
pleting a four years' course in three years. In 
1874 he entered Concordia College, of Fort 
Wayne, Indiana, and pursued his studies there 
one year. In 1880 he entered the office of the 



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old West Side Sentinel, severing his connection 
with it only when he embarked in the 
newspaper business for himself, forming a 
partnership with E. M. Heisley and starting a 
weekly Democratic organ. Upon being elected 
City Clerk in 1883 he disposed of his paper 
and did not again enter newspaper work till the 
expiration of his term of office in 1885, when 
lie started the Graphic and conducted it two 
years, disposing of it on again assuming the 
duties of the office of City Clerk. Upon Mr. 
Salen's iirst election to this office he was the 
youngest city official on record, being then only 
twenty-two years of age. He came into promi- 
nence by being the founder of, and prominently 
connected with, the Young Men's Democratic 
League of Cleveland, an organization made up 
almost entirely of first voters. lie served the 
league both as president and secretary. On the 
exjiiration of his two terms as City Clerk Mr. 
Salen became interested in the building up and 
the improvement of Beyerle's Park, managing 
it two years and making it the most celebrated 
out-door amusement resort between New York 
and Chicago. 

The Cleveland Morning Times was started in 
1889, with Mr. Salen as city editor, who con- 
tinued in that relation six months. In 1890 
he was made Secretary of" the Board of Elec- 
tions, and the next year, when the ballot reform 
law was introduced, he was chiefly instrumental 
in outlining the working of the Australian bal- 
lot system, developing a complete system of 
booths, etc. In the spring of 1893 Mr. Salen 
was advocated strongly by the young Democrats 
of Cleveland as a candidate for Mayor, and after 
a warm fight was defeated by a close vote. To 
him also belongs the credit of discovering Tom 
L. Johnson in politics, whom he brought out in 
1888 and secured his nomination to Congress. 
In 1890 and 1892 he managed Mr. Johnson's 
campaigns, when he was elected, overcoming a 
Eepublican plurality in 1892 of 2,500, making 
a total Democratic gain of 6,000 votes, the 
largest gain shown by any district in the United 
States. 



Mr. Salen has attended every county conven- 
tion since reaching his majority. Frequently 
be represents his party at State conventions, 
being chairman of the Cuyahoga county delega- 
tion at the Cincinnati convention in 1893. He 
was a delegate to the National Democratic Con- 
vention of 1892 at Chicago, from the Twentieth 
Ohio District, and was one of the fourteen 
original supporters of Grover Cleveland for a 
third nomination. Mr. Salen is interested in 
several business enterprises of Cleveland, and is 
a safe, conscientious business man. He pos- 
sesses the confidence of the citizens of the Forest 
City irrespective of party, and a bright future 
is predicted for him. 



ORTON W. COPE, a representative 
member of the Cleveland bar, and a son 
of the late Lindley Cope, was born on 
the 25th day of February, 1855, at 
Smithfield, Jefferson county, this State. His 
parents were Lindley and Elizabeth Cope. The 
father was born near Smithfield, in 1824, and 
to farming the greater portion of his life was 
devoted. He was an extensive dealer in, and 
breeder of, sheep and other live stock. He 
died rather early in life, being but forty-two 
years of age at the time of his death. lie was 
a son of Josepli Cope, who was a native of 
Pennsylvania, from which State he came to 
Ohio about 1828. The subject of this sketch 
is a representative of the seventh generation of 
the Cope family in America. The first of this 
family in America came from England about 
1G70, and settled in eastern Pennsylvania. 

Morton W. Cope was first sent to the district 
schools of Jefferson county. In 1868 the death 
of his father occurred, and about that time his 
widowed mother removed with her family to 
East Cleveland, and thereafter he attended the 
schools at Collamer during the years of 1869 
and '70. In the summer of the latter year he 
attended the school at Smithfield, and later the 
high schools of East Cleveland, at which he 



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graduated in the first class graduated by what 
was known as the " Cleveland East High 
School," the date of his graduation being 1873. 
He then went upon the farm in Jefferson 
county, where he remained until 1878, with 
the exception of the year 1875 and 1876, in the 
winters of which years he attended school in 
Cleveland, studying Greek and Latin. In the 
year 1878 Mr. Cope began the study of law in 
the office of George B. Solders (now Judge 
Solders), and was admitted to the bar at Co- 
lumbus in May, 1880. Ho then went to Coun- 
cil Bluffs, Iowa, and was admitted to all of the 
courts of that State, but in the fall of the same 
year he returned to Cleveland and entered into 
the practice of law witii T. K. Dissette as a 
partner, with whom he remained two years, and 
since then Mr. Cope has practiced his profession 
alone. 

He was married April 12, 1882, to Miss 
Allie E. Moulton, daughter of W. J. Moulton, 
of Cleveland. She has borne him one child, a 
daughter. Donna A. by name, age seven years. 



Iff ENRY HOEHN, Cleveland's most ef- 
IrH ficient and popular Superintendent of 
II il Police, was born in the Province of 
^ Rhine, Bavaria, in November, 1840. At 

the tender ago of fourteen he left home and 
friends and set out for America. He stopped a 
few months in New York city before coming 
to Cleveland, and soon after his arrival here we 
find him in the employ of John Kirsch on 
Bridge street, learning the cooper's trade. He 
remained a knight of the hammey and saw till 
the rupture between the States made the rais- 
ing of troops a military necessity. In response 
to the first call, the superintendent enlisted in 
Company K, Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 
for three months' service. This command was 
ordered from Cleveland to Camp Dennison, 
Cincinnati, where it completed its term of en- 
listment, and from which place Mr. Hoehn re- 
turned to Cleveland. In August, 1862, he en- 



listed in the Twentieth Ohio Independent Light 
Artillery, Captain Smithnight's company, which 
went at once into the field, arriving at Nash- 
ville immediately after the battle of Stone river. 
It was assigned to the Army of the Cumberland, 
and remained a part of it till the close of the 
war. Some of the fiercest engagements of the 
war were participated in by this army, — Chick- 
aniauga, Franklin and Nashville being among 
the number. Mr. Hoehn enlisted as a private, 
and was promoted through successive offices to 
a Lieutenancy, receiving his commission just 
after the battle of Nashville. 

In the winter of 1861 Mr. Hoehn married 
Sophia Ileizman, of German birth, who came 
to America at twelve years of age, and died 
September 7, 1893. The children of this mar- 
riage are Addie, now Mrs. Jacob Kaiser; Albert 
a druggist; and Henry, who lost his life by 
drowning near Akron, Ohio, June 24, 1892, at 
the age of nineteen years. 

Superintendent Hoehn's connection with the 
police force of Cleveland began in 1866, when 
he was appointed a patrolman. It was at once 
recognized that he possessed the proper traits 
for an ideal peace officer, and he rose by j)ro- 
niotion, as he did in the military service, to a 
Lieutenancy, and later to a Captaincy. For 
many years he was stationed on down-town 
beats, where crime was rifer, and where a less 
resolute officer would have been a certain fail- 
ure. As a police officer Superintendent Hoehn 
has rendered invaluable service to his city. He 
has followed up traces of, and run to the wall, 
many noted criminals, in many instances taking 
his life in his hand as it were, and but for his 
extreme and unusual modesty we would mention 
herein noted cases. 

On June 22, 1893, Suj)eriiitendent Hoehn re- 
ceived the following communication: 

"Henry HoEUN, Captain of Police: Dear 
Sir: — You are hereby notified that you have 
this day been appointed Superintendent of 
Police, to take effect July 1, 1893. 
" Respectfuly yours, 

"W. C. PoLLXER, Director.'''' 



CUTAUOOA COUNTY. 



This action of Director Pollner placed at the 
head of the police department a man who lias 
devoted the greater part of his life to police 
duty, and one who commands the respect and 
conlidence of every one. His manner is plain 
and unpretending, and the lowliest may ap- 
proach him and receive the same attention as 
those of the highest station. He is wholly 
conversant with his duties and will be content 
only in their performance. 



LEVI JOHNSON was a prominent and 
I esteemed citizen in Cleveland for many 
) years and his life was closely interwoven 

with the early history of the city. He was a 
native of Herkimer county, New York, born 
April 25, 1786. From the days of his child- 
hood he was taught the lessons of industry. 
Losing his parents in early life he was taken 
into the home of an nncle, where he lived until 
he was fourteen years of age, his duty being to 
labor upon the farm and attend to such chores 
as are peculiar to farm life. 

At the age of fourteen he formed a desire to 
be a carpenter and joiner, and at that time en- 
tered the shop of one Ephraim Derrick, with 
whom he remained four years. He then changed 
masters, and for the three years thei-eaf ter worked 
under one Laflet Remington. Then for one 
year he worked at barn-building along with one 
Stephen Remington, and it was during this 
year that occurred an event which shaped his 
future life. Considerable interest had been 
excited by the great tide of emigrants that were 
going westward to Ohio, and about this time a 
brother of Stephen Remington was sent West to 
investigate the land and report upon its fitness 
tor occupancy. Remington came to Ohio and 
visited Newburg, Cuyahoga county, and being 
strongly impressed with the advantages of the 
place reported glowing accounts of the land, and 
many were induced to emigrate westward. 
Stephen Remington quit barn-building, shut up 



his shop, packed his tools and started in the fall 
of 1807 for the West, and in the succeeding 
spring the subject of this sketch followed his 
former associate and friend. He reached Bloom- 
field, New York, and there worked, during the 
summer season, at his trade. A few months 
later he set out with knapsack and on foot for 
Ohio. Reaching Buffalo he found employment 
and there worked during the winter. In Febru- 
ary of 1808 his uncle reached Buffalo on his way 
to Ohio, and young Johnson joined him on the 
journey westward. 

Cleveland was reached on the 10th day of 
March, 1809, the party arriving by way of 
sleighs, but after reaching Cleveland, the snow 
failing, the sleighs were abandoned, and on 
horseback some of the party proceeded to Huron 
county, where they fell in with Judges Wright 
and Ruggles, who were agents for the " fire 
lands." A desire was expressed for a sawmill 
in the vicinity, and Johnson and his uncle con- 
tracted to build one at the town of Jessup, now 
known as AYakeman. Later Levi returned to 
Cleveland, where he was fortunate in finding a 
home in the family of Judge Walworth, who 
engaged him to build an office. Hitherto all 
the houses in Cleveland were l)uilt of logs, but 
the office was made a frame, the first frame build- 
ing erected in Cleveland. At that time Euclid 
was a flourishing settlement and rejoiced in the 
important feature of a sawmill, and from this 
sawmill came the lumber from which said office 
was built on Superior street, about in the same 
locality of the present American House. After 
this young Levi i-eturned to Huron county for 
the purpose of fulfilling a contract made with 
his uncle for the erection of a sawmill, which 
work consumed some three or four months. 
He then returned to Cleveland and settled down 
for the remainder of his life. The next two or 
three years of his life were spent in building 
houses, barns and other buildings in Cleveland 
and in Newburg, and while building a sawmill 
on Tinker's creek for Mr. Jessup he formed the 
acquaintance of Miss Margret Montier, dis- 
tinguished as being the first white girl that 



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lauded in Huron county, where she lived with a 
family named Ilawley. Young Johnson fell in 
love with the young, lady and she with him. and 
when he returned to Cleveland she accompanied 
him and was given a home with the family of 
Judge Walworth, the leading citizen of the 
then thriving village of sixty inhabitants. The 
young couple were married in 1811. 

In 1812 Mr. Johnson entered into a contract 
to build a courthouse and a jail on the public 
square opposite where the First Presbyterian 
Church now stands. The material was to be of 
logs, laid with their broader sides together, for 
greater security. About noon on September 
12, 1812, Johnson and his men were just com- 
pleting the finishing touches on the building 
when was heard the roar of distant thunder, 
which proved to be the reports of distant cannon. 
At once he and his workmen hastened to the 
banks of the lake, where they found nearly all 
the inhabitants of the village eagerly looking 
westward whence the sounds came. The sounds 
were from the famous naval battle in which 
Commodore Perry won a victory that immortal- 
ized his name. 

A few days afterward Mr. Johnson and a 
friend by the name of Rumidge picked up a 
large flat-boat that had been built by General 
Jessup for the conveyance of troops, and which 
had been abandoned. Mr. Johnson and his 
friend each purchased 100 bushels of potatoes 
and with this flat-boat took the same to the army 
at Put-in-Bay. The potatoes were sold at a 
handsome profit over the purchase price, and 
thus Johnson gained his first financial start in 
life. Subsequenty Johnson and his associate 
freighted the flat-boat with supplies, which 
were taken to the army at Detroit and sold, and 
again the speculation was successful. Mr. John- 
son contracted with the quartermaster of the 
post to bring a cargo of clothing from Cleveland 
to the army at Detroit, but it being late in the 
season the boat was obstructed by ice and a land- 
ing was made at Huron. This adventure was 
also successful and by this time Johnson became 
a man of means. The success of his adventure 



probably gave him a taste for navigation, for his 
first step was to build a vessel of his own. The 
keel was laid for a ship of thirty-five tons, to be 
named The Pilot, and under many difliculties 
the ship was finally finished, and great difliculty 
in the launching of the boat was overcome by 
hoisting the same on wheels and drawing it to 
the water's edge by twenty-eight yoke of oxen. 
It was launched upon the river at the foot of 
Superior street amid great cheers of a large 
crowd who had assembled to observe the first 
ship launched at Cleveland. This was not only 
the beginning of navigation for Cleveland, but 
was also the beginning of a series of great suc- 
cesses to Mr. Johnson. The little ship was in 
immediate requisition for army purposes and 
cargoes of army stores were transported between 
Buff'alo and Detroit. Upon it two loads of sol- 
diers were taken from Buffalo to the command 
of Major Camp at Detroit, and on his return 
trip the guns left by Harrison at Mauinee were 
taken to Erie. 

Mr. Johnson received rather a severe blow at 
this time, on account of the quartermaster's 
absconding with S300 of his money. In the 
spring of 1815 Mr. Johnson resumed carrying 
stores to Maiden, reaching there on his first trip 
March 20. Irad Kelley, a pioneer of Cleveland, 
was a passenger on this trip. On Mr. Johnson's 
second trip to Detroit he was hailed when pass- 
ing Maiden, but no attention was given, and a 
shot was fired upon the vessel from tlie port, 
the shot passing through the foresail; but it 
was not heeded. Then a second shot was fired, 
which caused Mr. Johnson to bring his vessel 
to shore. Going to shore the mail was de- 
manded of him, but he refused to give up the 
same, saying that he was not so instructed. 
Then a party of men from the fort made for the 
vessel, but Johnson, boarding the same, spread 
sail and being favored with a good breeze drew 
away from his pursuers and proceeded on his 
journey to Detroit, where he placed the mail in 
the postotfice. 

During the early part of the war of 1812 Mr. 
Johnson was chosen Coroner of Cuys 



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county, being the first to hold that office in this 
county. He was also the first Deputy Sherift 
of the county. 

His success upon the lake caused him to build 
the schooner Neptune in 1815. It was of 
sixty-five tons' burden, and its first trip was to 
Buffalo, returning with a cargo of merchandise 
for Jonathan Williamson. In 1817 the vessel 
made a trip to Mackinac for tlie American Fur 
Company, and in the fur trade the vessel oper- 
ated till the fall of 1819. In 1824 Mr. John- 
son, in company with others, built the steamer 
Enterprise, which was of about 200 tons' burden. 
This, the first steam vessel built in Cleveland, 
was employed by Mr. Johnson upon the lake 
between Buffalo, Detroit and Cleveland until 
1828, when he sold his interest and left the lakes. 
lu company with Goodman & Wilkeson Mr. 
Johnson built, in 1830, The Commodore, on 
the Chagrin river, and with the construction of 
this vessel closed his shipbuilding career. He 
was now worth probably $30,000, rather a lai-ge 
fortune for those days, which he largely invested 
in real estate. In 1831 he contracted to build 
for the general Government a lighthouse on 
Water street. In 1836 he erected a lighthouse 
in Sandusky, and in 1837 he built 700 feet of 
stone pier on the east side of the mouth of the 
Cuyahoga river. In 1840 he built the Saginaw 
lighthouse, and in 1842-'43 the lighthouse on 
the West Sister island. The year 1847 closed 
his lighthouse building, when he erected the 
Portage river lighthouse. 

He had now become a well known man. He 
had invested his money in real estate, which had 
enhanced greatly in value as the city grew in 
importance, and his total wealth probably 
reached $3,000,000 ! In various enterprises was 
he interested. As early as 1816 he was a di- 
rector in the Commercial Bank of Lake Erie. 
He erected many excellent buildings in the city, 
and in fact was a man of great enterprise and 
contributed much to the development of Cleve- 
land. 

Many years were allotted to him, and his life 
was a long and useful one. He died December 



19, 1871, at the age of eighty-six years. His 
good and faithful wife had preceded him in 
death some eight years previously. The follow- 
ing were his children: Harriet, now the widow 
of Alexander Sackett; Perry W., who died at 
the age of fifty-five years, after a successful life 
upon the lakes as a captain: he died leaving a 
widow and two children, namely, George J. and 
Martha; and the youngest child of Levi John- 
son was Philander L., a personal sketch of whom 
is given below. 

Philander L. Johnson was born in Cleve- 
land June 22, 1823. He was reared and edu- 
cated in the city and very early in life became 
associated with his father in business, and dur- 
ing his father's life he was very closely identified 
with the business interests of his father. Like 
his father, Mr. Johnson was endowed with ex- 
cellent business judgment and sagacity and his 
business experience has been remarkably suc- 
cessful. He has made many advantageous 
investments which contributed to the enlarge- 
ment of his father's estate during the latter 
years of the senior Johnson! Since the death 
of his father he has continued a successful busi- 
ness career. At the time of his father's death 
he received in his own name a considerable 
fortune, which he has largely increased by 
judicious investments, and he is now one of the 
wealthiest citizens of Cleveland. For the last 
several years he has given considerable attention 
to navigation. He and others purchased the 
barge Kate Winslow, and later built the H. J. 
Johnson and the George Pressley. In 1892 
was purchased the Minnehaha, and in 1893 the 
Nellie Reddington. Mr. Johnson has large and 
valuable real-estate possessions in Cleveland, 
and much of his time is required in looking 
after these realties. 

In politics he is a stanch Democrat, and has 
taken rather an active part in the interests of 
his party. 

He was married to Sarah M. Clark, a daugh- 
ter of Michael and Sarah Clark. Mrs. Johnson 
was born in Dublin, Ireland, but reared in 
London, England. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have 



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a family of four daugliters aud one son, namely: 
Margaret and Mary, twins; Margaret is the wife 
of Larimer Porter, of Cleveland; the third child 
is Harriet K.; the fourth Clara; and the son is 
Levi A., who is a student in Yale College. The 
son is a young man of great promise. He is of 
a bright intellect and entered Yale College after 
having taken a thorough course at Andover. 
One other son, whose name was Clark, died at 
the age of eleven years, in 1891. 

Mr. Johnson is a member of the A. F. & 
A. M. order,— of Webb Chapter, No. 14, of the 
Cominandery, of the Ohio Consistory, of the 
Mystic Shrine and the order of Knights of 
Pythias, and he is a member of the Vessel 
Owners' Association and of the Cleveland 
Chamber of Commerce. 



f[J|ON. JOHN HARRINGTON FARLEY, 
|r^ Director of Public Works and ex-Mayor 
JJ 41 of the city of Cleveland, is a character 
"v well and favorably known to the citizens 

of the Poorest City, whom he has served fre- 
quently and creditably. He was born in Cleve- 
land, February 5, 1846, the place of his birth 
being on Bank street. 

His fatiier, Patrick Farley, became a citizen 
af Cleveland as early as 1833, which year he 
came from Ireland, his native land, to this 
country. Patrick Farley became a well-known 
and conspicuous figure in business circles in 
this city. He had the contract for the distri- 
bution of mail and expressage coming to or 
passing through the city. This was before the 
introduction of the modern mail and express 
car, and the volume of business done was enor- 
mous. He gave attention to little else than to the 
business, and as a result the same grew in pro- 
portion, and in consequence became an import- 
ant source of revenue to him. As a business 
man, Patrick Farley was competent and suc- 
cessful. He accumulated a good estate and es- 
tablished for himself an enviable reputation. 
He was made a Mason in Ireland, and was a 



charter member of the first Knight Templars' 
organization in Cleveland, and was an enthusi- 
astic member, contributing materially to its 
growth and prosperity. He married Ann 
Schwartz, who was born in Rhine, Bavaria, 
Germany, and came to the United States with 
her father, John Schwartz, who, though a builder 
by trade, became a farmer in this country, set- 
tling in Lorain county in 1832 and becoming a 
respectable citizen and a successful tiller of the 
soil. Patrick and Ann Farley had a number of 
children, of whom the following survive: Mrs. 
James Collins, John H. Farley, Mrs. August 
Nolze, and Mary, who is unmarried. 

The education of Mr. John H. Farley was re- 
ceived in the public schools of Cleveland. He 
left school before he attained his majority to 
assume charge of and close up a wholesale gro- 
cery and liquor business belonging to the estate 
of his deceased brother, Andrew. This business 
matter required a year of his time, and after 
having wound up the same, he became a manu- 
facturer of brass goods, associated with Mr. 
Farnan, and in this business he remained en- 
gaged until 1883, since which date he has ren- 
dered service as a public official in important 
capacities. Rather early in life a fascination 
for that excitement incident to a political cam- 
paign seemed to posoess Mr. Farley, and being 
naturally endowed with those qualities which 
control men's actions on political questions, he 
became a valuable adjunct both in the councils 
of his party and in the management of cam- 
paigns. His first political preferment came to 
him in 1871, when he was elected a member of 
the City Council, to whicli body he was twice 
re-elected and in which he served one term as 
president. He was an efficient and competent 
member of the Council and his services ren- 
dered in that capacity established for himself a 
most enviable record as a public official. In fact, 
Mr. Farley has always been active in the inter- 
ests and welfare of the city of Cleveland. Prior 
to 1883 he was twice a candidate for Mayor of 
the city, and though he was a very popular can- 
didate and at each time made a creditable race, 




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it was not possible to overcome the strength of 
the Eepublican party, which was largely in tlie 
majority as to voters. In 1883 Mr. Farley 
made a third race for Mayor, as the Democratic 
candidate, and this time was successful, and 
being elected to the highest position in the gift 
of the people of Cleveland he became Mayor of 
the city in the spring of 1883, and held the 
otiice for a period of one term. As the chief 
executive of the city, his record was clean, hon- 
orable and conducive to the best interests of 
the city. No other executive of the city was 
ever more watchful of her interests or gave her 
a more economic and efficient administration 
than did Mayor Farley. 

After going out of the Mayor's office Mr. 
Farley was appointed by President Cleveland 
as Collector of Internal revenue for the Eight- 
eenth District of Ohio, and as such he served 
four years, closing his services with the close of 
the Cleveland administration. In the spring of 
1893 he was appointed by Mayor Blee as Di- 
rector of Public Works in the city of Cleve- 
ladd. The position is one of great importance, 
its management concerning the interests of 
every property owner of the city, but already 
has Mr. Farley manifested in his management 
of the public works marked ability and un- 
doubted competency. 

In a political way Mr. Farley has a State 
reputation as a campaigner and manager, as 
well as an organizer of political forces. He has 
for the last several years been a member of the 
Democratic State executive committee, and in 
the presidential campaign of 1892 he was 
chairman of that committee, and as such, it is 
said of him, though he conducted the campaign 
undermost unfavorable circumstances, by reason 
of having a very small campaign fund, he nev- 
erthe less succeeded in organizing thoroughly 
well his party throughout tlie State and one of 
the most heated campaigns in its history was 
made, resulting in the election of one Demo- 
cratic presidential elector, which is pointed out 
as evidence of the almost successful eflForts of 
the Democratic party to carry the State of Oliio. 



Mr. Farley was a delegate to the Democratic 
national conventions of 1880, 1884 and 1892, 
where he was always an ardent supporter of the 
principles of tariff reform and sound currency. 

In personal bearing Mr. Farley is a most 
pleasant man, being plain, easy and unpreten- 
tious. He is distinguished for his frankness 
and for being outspoken, and is well defined in 
his position regarding public matters. 

In closing this biographical sketch it is ap- 
propriate that mention be made of Mr, Farley's 
marriage, which was consummated in Cleveland, 
in 1884, when he wedded Margaret, a daughter 
of Captain William Kenny, who it will be re- 
membered was the first to organize and take 
from the city of Cleveland a company of vol- 
unteers to the front upon the breaking out of 
the Civil war. 



ANDALL PALMER WADE, deceased, 
was one of the most accomplished and 
cultured men who ever graced com- 
mercial circles in the city of Cleveland. 
Possessed of sound judgment and rare acumen 
he was always found among the leaders of any 
movement with which he was associated. It is 
with much pleasure that the following space is 
devoted to a brief outline of his career. 

Mr. Wade was born at Seneca Falls, New 
York, August 26, 1835, the only son of Jeptha 
H. and Rebecca Louisa (Faur) Wade. During 
his early childhood his parents removed to 
Adrian, Michigan. When he was a lad of 
eleven years he entered the telegraphic service 
as errand boy, and there made the most of his 
opportunities; before he was seventeen years of 
age he had learned to read the instrument by 
sound, an accomplishment at that time unheard 
of in the West; he had also tilled the position 
of chief operator in Cleveland, Columbus and 
Cincinnati. 

Realizing the advantages to be derived from 
thorough mental training and discipline, lie 
withdrew from the business world and devoted 



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four years to study; at the age of twenty-one 
years he was graduated with highest honors 
from the Kentucky Military Institute, near 
Frankfort, and also enjoyed the distinction of 
being the most expert swordsman of the entire 
body of students. 

Mr. Wade was married in 1856 to Anna E. 
McGaw in Columbus, Ohio. The next three 
years were spent as an official in one of the 
largest banks in Cleveland. For the purpose 
of gaining wider information and broader cul- 
ture, but with no intention of practicing the 
profession, he gave considerable time to the 
study of the law under the direction of Judge 
Ilayden, and received a certificate upon exami. 
nation allowing him to practice in both the State 
and United States courts. 

At the breaking out of the civil war he was 
offered the position of chief clerk of the United 
States Military Telegraph department with head- 
quarters at Washington; he accepted the place 
and was one of the four men who knew the 
secret cipher used in transmitting messages to 
the front. He was soon afterward commis- 
sioned quartermaster with the rank of captain, 
which office placed him second in command in 
the Military Telegraph department with head- 
quarters at Cleveland; he was also assigned the 
duty of purchasing and supplying all the mili- 
tary districts with telegraphic materials. The 
red tape and technicalities constantly required 
in this branch of the Government service be- 
came so irksome that he resigned at the end of 
two years. 

The largest retail jewelry ])usine8s in the city 
of Cleveland was established and conducted by 
Mr. Wade; but after several years he disposed 
of his interests in this line, and devoted his 
time to the management of the family estate, 
which then demanded the entire attention of 
himself and father. Public-spirited and pro- 
gressive to a marked degree, he gave a liberal 
support to many commercial enterprises, and 
was prominently connected with the following 
corporations: As secretary of the Cleveland & 
Cincinnati Telegraph Company; as secretary, 



treasurer and director of the Cuyahoga Mining 
Company; as secretary, treasurer and director 
of the Chicago & Atchison Bridge Company; 
as president and director of the Nonesuch Min- 
ing Company; as director of the Kalamazoo, 
Allegan & Grand Eapids Railway Company; as 
director of the Citizens' Savings & Loan As- 
sociation; and as president and director of the 
American Siieet & Boiler Plate Company. He 
was an accurate accountant and a skillful 
draughtsman, an excellent linguist, speaking 
German and French fluently, and a talented 
musician. He was liberal in his religious 
views, generally attending the Church of the 
Unity, of which he was Treasurer. In the 
midst of life's most useful and honorable ac- 
tivities he was approached by the pale visitant, 
and June 24, 187G, yielded to man's inevitable 
fate. 



SMITH NEVILLE, secretary and treasurer 
of the Pearl Street Savings 6z Loan Com- 
- — - pany, is one of the West Side's wide- 
awake, thorough-going and reliable business 
men. 

Mr. Neville was born in Cleveland, Ohio, 
June 14, 1859, son of Smith and Charlotte 
(Boyd) Neville, the former a native of Cleve- 
land, Ohio, and the latter of Wheeling, West 
Virginia. The senior Smith Neville was a 
shipbuilder by trade, which business he followed 
all through life. Some time in the 'fiOs he left 
Cleveland and went to Sheboygan, Wisconsin, 
where he died in 1872. His widow is now a 
resident of Cleveland. The subject of this 
sketch is the oldest of their five children, the 
others being as follows: David, John, Lottie and 
William. William died in 188(3, aged twenty 
years. The others are all in Cleveland. Miss 
Lottie is one of the popular and successful 
teachers of the city. 

Smith Neville was educated at Sheboygan 
and Cleveland. After leaving school he entered 
the employ of the National City Bank of Cleve- 
land, with which he remained for twelve years. 



CUTAHOOA COUNTY. 



serving in tlie capacity of collector, Loolv-keeper 
and teller. Upon severing his connection with 
that bank, he entered upon the duties of his 
present position. That was in 1890. 

The Pearl Street Savings & Loan Company 
has a capital stock of $100,000. It is officered 
as follows: David E. McLean, president; W. H. 
Humiston and George Faulhaher, vice-presid- 
ents; Smith Neville, secretary and treasurer. 
This bank does a commercial and savings bank 
business, issues New York and foreign ex- 
change, and makes collections a specialty. 

Mr. Neville was married in 188G, to Miss Ada 
Bentley, daughter of Chester Bentley, a pioneer 
of Cleveland. Mr. Bentley came from Con- 
necticut to Cuyahoga county in 1832. Mr. and 
Mrs. Neville have three children: Josephine, 
Ruth and Mildred. Mrs. Neville is a member 
of the Congregational Church. 

Politically, Mr. Neville votes with the Re- 
publican party, but he has never sought any 
political office. He is a raeinber of Ellsworth 
Lodge, F. & A. M. 



JM. McKINSTRY, Grand Secretary of the 
Royal Arcanum for the State of Ohio, was 
born in Torrington, Connecticut, November, 
17, 1844. Anything approaching a full history 
of his antecedents, would, if accessible, consume 
an ordinary volume in itself, for his ancestors 
both paternal and maternal ante-date the Amer- 
ican Revolution, the latter especially being 
honored with having a representative aboard 
the historic Mayflower on her arrival at Plym- 
outh Rock in 1620. His ancestors on both 
sides achieved distinction in the Revolutionary 
war, one of them being a member of General 
Washington's special body-guard. The pioneer 
forefather of the McKinstrys graduated at Edin- 
burg in 1712, and came to this country in 1718, 
the first of the name to land on American shores, 
and settled in Massachusetts. A fondness and 
adaptation for religious work seems to have pre- 



vailed among the older members of the family, 
as they were ministers of the gospel. J. M. 
McKinstry's great-grandfather was one of these. 
He left the old Bay State, and was the first 
minister to locate in Ellington, Connecticut, 
more than a century ago. One of his sons, our 
subject's paternal grandfather, Perseus McKin- 
stry, was a resident of Chicopee, Massachusetts, 
and was married to Grace Williams: he died in 
1829. Their fifth child was Rev. John A. Mc- 
Kinstry, father of the subject of this sketch. 
An inclination toward literary work seems to 
have pervaded the family, two brothers being 
owners and publishers of successful newspapers, 
viz., the Fredonia Censor of Chautauqua county. 
New York, and the Faribault Republican, of 
Minnesota. 

Rev. John A. McKinstry was born in Massa- 
chusetts, in 1811. His education was received 
in the same State, he being a graduate of Am- 
herst College. He was engaged in pastoral 
work in Connecticut until 1864, when he came 
to Ohio and located in Richfield, Summit 
county, and in this State completed a long 
career, and from the standpoint of successful 
work a profitable one. His popularity was 
attested by the fact that without a dissension he 
occupied the pastorate of the same parish for 
twenty-three years, voluntarily relinquishing it 
on account of increasing years. He died at 
Painesville, in 1889. He married Miss Mary 
E. Morton, a daughter of John B. Morton, of 
Hatfield, Massachusetts, which family was 
closely intermarried with those named White, 
the two family lines being among the foremost 
in New England. John Morton McKinstry 
has one brother, William A., who is secretary 
of the Cleveland Commercial Travelers' Associa- 
tion, and one sister, Harriett E., who is a pro- 
fessor in the Lake Erie Female Seminary at 
Painesville. 

He received his education at Willistou Semin- 
ary in East Hampton, Massachusetts, and at 
Yale College. He went to California after leav- 
ing school, and for some years was engaged in 
teaching in the cities of that State. He returned 



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to Cleveland, and in 1869 engaged in the 
wooden-ware business, being one of the founders 
of the Forest City Wooden-ware Company. 

For many years and until 1891, Mr. McKin- 
stry was a " Knight of the Grip," covering in 
the wooden-ware trade the entire country, and 
visiting nearly every city of any consequence in 
every State. He is as a result most widely 
known as a commercial man, and greatly ad- 
mired by his legion of friends, both in and out 
of the fraternities. He became interested in 
fraternal benefit work in 1885, when he was made 
orator of To Kalon Council, Eoyal Arcanum, 
of Cleveland, but a few months after joining the 
order. Later he was made Vice Regent, and 
for two terms filled the office of Eegent. His 
next work was in connection with the Grand 
Council of the State, passing from Grand Orator 
to Grand Eegent, reaching the latter office in 
1891. In 1892 he was elected Grand Secretary, 
and the following year was re-elected, unani- 
mously. The same year he was elected a repre- 
sentative to the Supreme Council of the Eoyal 
Arcanum by a unanimous vote. He is first 
Vice-president of the Commercial Travelers' 
Home Association. For two terms he was the 
National President of the Travelers' Protective 
Association, and is Past Councilor of the United 
Commercial Travelers' Association. He is Past 
Commander of the Knights of the Maccabees, 
and was Grand Trustee of the same order. He 
is President of Cuyahoga Council of the Na- 
tional Union, and a member of the National 
Union Cabinet, and is presiding officer of three 
other orders. 

Mr. McKinstry has also achieved some promi- 
nence as a political organizer, and was elected 
by a large majority to a seat in the City Coun- 
cil in the face of adverse political majoritj', No- 
vember 4, 1870. 

He married Laura M. Newton, a daughter of 
Lucius Newton, of Eichfield, Summit county, 
Ohio. Mr. Newton is also of New England ex- 
traction, having been born in Goshen, Connecti- 
cut, and becoming one of the early settlers of 
Summit county. His wife was Caroline Brock- 



way. Mr. Newton is living, at about seventy- 
eight years of age, and his wife is about seventy. 
They have no children. 

Mr. McKinstry is by nature adapted to the 
offices he performs. Ever genial and courteous, 
he makes friends wherever he goes. He is a 
hard worker and puts in his " licks " when and 
where they will produce the greatest good for 
the order. He is an entertaining talker and an 
interesting speaker. His speeches reveal an 
unusual fund of wit, and make him an excep- 
tional entertainer at public gatherings. 



D,E. E. E. BEEMAN, president of the 
J Beeman Chemical Company of Cleve- 
— - land, Ohio, was born in LaGrange, 
Lorain county, Ohio, in 1840. His father is 
Dr. J. Beeman, now one of the oldest resident 
physicians of the city of Cleveland. Dr. E. E. 
Beeman spent his boyhood days in Lorain and 
Erie counties. At the age of eighteen years he 
made Newburg, this county, his home. He 
received a public-school education, and then 
attended for two years Oberlin College. At 
the age of eighteen years he began to read 
medicine, under the direction of his father, and 
in 1861 graduated at the Cincinnati Medical 
College. In 1862 he enlisted in the army serv- 
ice for three months. He became one of the 
Cleveland Grays under Captain Frazee, Company 
D, Eighty-fourth Eegiment Ohio Volunteer 
Infantry. Serving out the term of enlistment 
he returned home, and in 1862 married Mary 
Cobb. 

During the years 1863 and 1864 Dr. Beeman 
was engaged in the drug business on Ontario 
street, being associated with his father. There- 
after he practiced medicine for twelve years at 
Birmingham, Ohio, then for six years at Wake- 
man, this State. 

He then returned to Cleveland, where he en- 
gaged in the manufacture of pepsin. For six 
years and a half he was engaged in manufactur- 
ing pure pepsin, and was the first to intro- 



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duce pure pepsin into use by the medical pro- 
fession. In 1888 he formed a partnership with 
A. L. Johnson and William Cain for the pur- 
pose of manufacturing pepsin on a more exten- 
sive scale than he had hitherto been able to do. 
The Beeman Chemical Company was organized, 
witii Dr. Beeman as one of the stockholders 
and the manager, and at that time, as now, a 
lady. Miss Nellie M. Horton, was employed as 
bookkeeper. It was she who suggested to him, 
in January, 1890, the idea of a pepsin chewing 
gum, which idea the Doctor took with favor. 
He began at once experiments, which resulted 
a month later in bringing forth what is now 
widely known as " Beeman's Pepsin Gum." 
At first this gum was sold in boxes at the price 
of 15 cents each. Its commercial success was 
phenomenal and far beyond the expectations of 
the producers. When the success of the new 
venture was assured the company was reorgan- 
ized and Dr. Beeman sold a block of stock to 
Miss Horton for her bright idea, and the com- 
pany, realizing that the manner of putting up 
the gum at the expense to the consumer of 15 
cents per box was not just the thing, decided 
to reduce the size of the package and hence the 
price. It was then that the present form of 
package at a price of 5 cents each was inaugu- 
rated. In 1891 Johnson and Cain sold their 
interests to George II. Worthington, James 
Nicholl and James M. Worthington. The 
business of the concern rapidly increased in 
value, and December 27, 1891, tlie company 
was incorporated as a stock company, with a 
capital stock of $225,000, the stock being owned 
and controlled by Dr. Beeman, the two Messrs. 
Worthington, Mr. Mitchell and Miss Horton. 
Dr. Beeman became president, James Nicholl 
vice-president, George H. Worthington secre- 
tary and J. M. Worthington treasurer, while 
Miss Nellie M. Horton became assistant secre- 
tary. The success of this business firm has 
been phenomenal. In the year 1892 a business 
of a half million dollars was done, and the first 
half of the year 1893 shows an increasing busi- 
ness. 



In the manufacture of the Beeman Pepsin 
Gum are employed upward of 120 girls. They 
are now shipping on an average one and a half 
tons per day. The magnitude of the business 
is simply wonderful, and it appears strikingly 
so when it is understood that per month there 
are consumed 200 barrels of granulated sugar 
and other materials in proportion, while the 
labels are purchased in 15,000,000 lots. Tlie 
foil used in wrapping is purchased in Germany 
in lots of five tons each. In Germany is also 
bought, in lots of two and a half tons each, the 
oil of wintergreen, with which the gum is 
flavored. 

Dr. Beeman, the subject of this sketch, is 
one of the best known manufacturers of chew- 
ing gum in the United States, and this product 
is widely known throughout a broad domain. 
He is a prominent citizen, esteemed and re- 
spected. Has served as a member of the Cleve- 
land City Council for four terms, first being 
elected as a Democrat, while his last two elec- 
tions were at the hands of the Kepublican 
party. 

He is a Koyal Arch Mason, and a pleasant, 
genial gentleman of fine physique, manly and 
attractive appearance. His family consists of 
two sons, — Harry and Lester. The older is 
located in Orlando, Orange county, Florida. 

Miss Nellie M. Horton, assistant secretary 
and manager of the Beeman Chemical Com- 
pany, was born in New York State, a daughter 
of C. T. and Margaret Horton. The home of 
her girlhood was Campbell, that State, where 
she received a fair education in the public 
schools. At the age of eighteen years she came 
to Cleveland and for a short time thereafter was 
employed by her uncle, L. B. Silver, for whom 
she kept books. She was then for four years 
cashier and bookkeeper for VanEpps & Com- 
pany of this city. She then became bookkeeper 
for the Beeman Chemical Company, and it was 
she who suggested the idea to Dr. Beeman of 
making a pepsin gum. It is just to say that 
she took an active part in compounding the 
first sample of the gum produced as well as in 



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originating the idea, and she has rendered val- 
uable assistance in making the product a suc- 
cess. As a reward to her for the suggestion of 
this idea she was sold a block of stock in the 
company, and now is a part owner of this 
stupendous and successful business concern. 
Her shares render her an independent woman. 
Miss Horton is a bright, comely little woman 
with black curly hair, and is accorded promi- 
nent and well deserved mention in Mrs. Ing- 
ham's book. The Women of Cleveland, which 
has already been accepted as a very valuable 
contribution to literature relating to the achieve- 
ments of the many noble women Cleveland has 
produced. 



ELIJAH D. PEEBLES, editor and mana- 
ger of the Berea Advertiser, was born 
1 April 16, 1835, in Middleburg township, 

where he was reared. His parents, the late 
Charles and Lucretia M. Nelson Peebles, were 
natives bf Amherst, Massachusetts. They first 
settled, after marriage, in Berea, New York, 
where they remained one year, and in 1832 came 
to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, settling in Middle- 
burg township, three miles east of Berea. His 
father was a farmer by occupation. He died iu 
Middleburg, May 6, 1875, at the age of seventy- 
seven. His mother died in Berea, November 
21, 1891, at ninety. They had four children, — 
two sons and two daughters. 

Elijah D. was the second son. When twenty 
years old he attended the Baldwin University 
for some three years and then engaged in teach- 
ing till the war broke out, when he enlisted, in 
1861, in the three months' service, in the Hi- 
bernian Guards of Cleveland. Returning to 
Berea, he again engaged in teaching, chiefly in 
Ohio, but also in Michigan, Wisconsin and Min- 
nesota, until March 31, 1864, when he again 
enlisted, this time in Company A, Brackett's 
Battalion, Minnesota Cavalry, and served till 
May 16, 1866, when he was mustered out of the 
service and returned to Berea, where he engaged 
in farming for that summer. 



August 23, 1866, he was united in marriage 
with Miss Nettie Casterline of Cortland, Ohio. 
She was a daughter of Ludlow Casterline, and 
was born in Cortland, February 5, 1842. Mr. 
and Mrs. Peebles have three children: Lucretia 
M., Charles C. and John C. I. 

Mr. Peebles accepted the position of principal 
in the Berea Union School in January, 1867, 
and was thus occupied about a year and a half. 
He was also principal of the Seville public 
schools for one year. During the summers of 
1870 and 1871 he was employed as time-keeper 
at one of the large quarries in Berea. He after- 
ward accepted a position as principal of the 
Port Crescent public schools, at Port Crescent, 
Michigan, where he remained for five years, 
when he resigned and returned to Berea in the 
fall of 1876, and in the spring of 1877 he be- 
came connected with the Berea Advertiser as 
editor and manager, which position he has since 
filled. 

Mr. Peebles has been connected with the Con- 
gregational Church since 1809. He is a mem- 
ber of the Masonic fraternity, the Odd Fellows 
and the G. A. R. 



P)ROF. EBEN FISH, formerly a teacher 
and now a prominent orchardist and farm- 
er of Brooklyn township, was born in the 
house where he now resides, December 
24, 1836. His father, Daniel Fish, a native of 
New London, Connecticut, came to Cuyahoga 
county in 1817, with an ox cart, locating upon 
the farm mentioned. Building a log house, he 
occupied it and proceeded to clear and improve 
the land, on which he continued to make his 
home until his death, which occurred October 
15, 1880, in his eighty-ninth year. Politically 
he was a Whig and Republican, and in religion 
a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
He aided in the building of the first churches in 
the township. He was a model man, well known 
as a leading citizen throughout the county. 
Ebenezer Fish, the father of Daniel, was a na- 



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live of Connecticut, of English ancestry. He 
was a descendant of one of three brothers who 
emigrated to this country from Enghand in Co- 
lonial times. He engaged in the Revolutionary 
war, and finally died here in Brooklyn township, 
this county. The brothers of Daniel Fish en- 
tered from the Government much of the land 
where Brooklyn village now stands. Daniel 
married Matilda Chester, a native of Groton, 
Connecticut, whose father was also a native of 
that State and of English ancestry. Mr. and 
Mrs. Daniel Fish had two daughters and seven 
sons, as follows: Alford, of Wisconsin; Lydia, 
the wife of Stephen Hook, now deceased; Cal- 
vin, who died at the age of fourteen years; Julia, 
who died aged forty-nine years; Charles, who 
was killed on the railroad; Hubbard, who gradu- 
ated at the Ohio Wesleyan University at Dela- 
ware, and is deceased; Elisha, who died while 
attending the same institution; Leonard, of 
Brooklyn township; and Eben, whose name heads 
this sketch. 

Professor Fish, the youngest of the family, 
attended the Brooklyn Academy, Baldwin ITni- 
versity and the Cleveland Institute, at which last 
institution he graduated in July, 1863. During 
the following three years he was principal of 
the Geauga (Ohio) Seminary, after which he 
was engaged in business in Cleveland about five 
years. In 1875 he located on the old homestead. 
He taught mathematics and the natural sciences 
for five years at Cleveland College on Pearl 
street, and since that time he has devoted his 
attention to the raising of fruit and to general 
farming, on the old homestead mentioned. In 
his political principles he is a decided and out- 
spoken Prohibitionist, believing in having some 
issue before the public wortli fighting for, or at 
least devoting the attention for the time being 
to the most important issue, and when that is 
settled take the next in importance, and so on. 

December 14, 1865, he married Mary A. Scott 
Fish, a native of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, who 
resided successively in Kentucky, Indiana and 
Illinois. She graduated at the Southern Illinois 
Female College, in Salem, Illinois, and taught 



in the same institution a year; taught a year at 
Olney, same State, where she married Mr. Fish. 
From that point they came to Ohio, and both 
engaged in teaching at the Geauga Seminary 
three years. She was principal of the public 
school one year, when, on account of failing 
health, she was obliged to abandon the position. 
Mr. and Mrs. Fish's children are: Mabel I., the 
wife of Professor L. H. Ingham, filling the chair 
of Greek and natural science at Kenyon College; 
Florence A., the wife of Professor P. J. Mohr, 
principal of the high school at San Bernardino, 
California; M. Grace, a student at Baldwin Uni- 
versity; and Jessie H., attending the grammar 
school at Brooklyn village. 



HARLES H. CARPtAN, Deputy County 
Auditor, was born in Warrensville, Cuya- 
hoga county, Ohio, March 7, 1860. He 
is a son of Robert Carran, a farmer, who came 
into Ohio early in the '30s from the Isle of 
Man. By trade he was a shoemaker, but dis- 
carded the bench several years ago. He first 
married, when twenty-two, Miss Kneale, and 
they had seven children: J. J., deceased; T. J.; 
William, who died in the army; R. A.; and 
L. C. T. J. was at one time State Senator from 
Cuyahoga county, but is now a resident of Los 
Angeles, California. Our subject's mother was 
Ann Quayle, a Manx lady. Her children were: 
Francis, deceased; Charles H. ; N. R. ; and 
Martha, wife of Robert Carr. 

Charles H. Carran, after jjassing through the 
grammar-school department of the Cleveland 
schools, entered the employ of the Lake Shore 
& Michigan Southern Railroad Company as a 



clerk, remaii 



ing 



four 



years, 



being bill clerk for 



Agent Andrews of that company. In 1882 he 
left the railroad service and traveled for his 
brother, who was in the oil business. Later on 
he became his bookkeeper and remained with 
him till 1887, when he was appointed Deputy 
City Auditor, under Auditor Athey. In 1891 
he was elected Auditor of the Board of Educa- 



CUTAHOOA COUNTY. 



tion, but was one year later legislated out of 
ofHce. lie then engaged in the oil business, 
and closed it onlj' to accept his present office. 

Mr. Carran married, in Cleveland, September 
27, 1892, Miss Harriet, a daughter of Louis 
Ritter, a pioneer to Cleveland from Germany. 
Mrs. Carran graduated at the Cleveland high 
school in 1885, being also valedictorian. She 
was engaged three years as teacher, tlie second 
year being special teacher of German. Mr. 
Carran is a Royal Arch Mason, an Odd Fellow 
and a Knight of Pythias. 



D. II. MALONEY, commercial agent for 
1 the Chicago, Rock Island Pacific Rail- 
road Company for Cleveland and northern 

Ohio, was born in Niagara Falls, New York, 
February 2, 1861, and obtained a meager edu- 
cation from the village schools. At the age of 
fourteen years he commenced his railroad ex- 
perience by entering the service of the passenger 
department of the Erie Railway as office boy; 
and 80 trustworthy and efficient was he that 
within three months he was permitted to sell 
tickets at the station. He continued to serve 
that company at tiie Falls for four years, and on 
leaving was transferred to the terminus of the 
Great Western Railway (now the Grand Trunk) 
at Clifton, Ontario, as passenger agent. Re- 
maining at that point until the fall of 1881, he 
came to Cleveland, and on November 1 that 
year engaged with tiie New York, Chicago & 
St. Louis ("Nickel Plate") line as contracting 
freight agent, serving until about September 
15, 1889, when he became the commercial 
agent of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific 
Railway Company for northern Ohio, and 
opened an office in Cleveland, in which office he 
has built up a creditable and profitable business 
in freights to points west of ('hicago reached by 
his line. Prior to his taking this office here 
this patronage had been distributed among 
competing lines. Mr. Maloney has an extraor- 
dinarily high degree of vitality and vivacity, 



and is a hustler, making " life a burden " to his 
competitors, while he himself is as jolly a man 
as can be found. 

Mr. Maloney is a son of John Maloney, a 
livery and hotel man at Niagara Falls. He 
was a native of county Clare, Ireland, married 
Catharine Green and brought up a family of 
five children, namely: D. H., our subject; Dr. 
F. W., of Rochester, New York; J. B., travel- 
ing agent for tiie Grand Trunk Railroad Com- 
pany and Canadian Pacific jointly; Mrs. James 
Bampfield and Mrs. John Ellis, of Niagara 
Falls, Ontario. 

Mr. D. H. Maloney was married July 29, 
1885, in Buffalo, New York, to Miss Mary 
Delaney, a teacher in the Buffalo public schools, 
and their children are Louise and Martha. 



THOMAS W. MINSHULL, superintend- 
ent of the registry department of the 
Cleveland post office, was born at Bir- 
mingham, England, July 18, 1844. His 
father, George MinshuU, a mechanic, died in 
his native country, in 1863, at fifty-five years of 
age. He married Miss Sarah Jordan, and 
Thomas W. was the third of their five children. 
Mr. Minshull came to the United States in 
1874 and secured employment with a firm of 
carriage workers at Orville, Wayne county. 
Three years later he went to Cuyahoga Falls 
and accepted a position with L. W. Loomis. 
In 1881 he came to Newburg as bookkeeper for 
Carlisle & Tyler, and, after serving for five 
years in tlie same capacity with the Fuller & 
Warren Company of Cleveland, he was made 
assistant superintendent of registry, soon suc- 
ceeding to the superintendency. Mr. Minshull 
is interested as a stockiiolder in the C. B. Mc- 
Elroy Manufacturing Comp;uiy, manufacturers 
of jewelry. 

November 2, 1883, Mr. Minshull married 
Miss Lizzie Hebebrand, born in Cleveland, 
Ohio, of German ancestry, and they have one 
child, Harry. 



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07 



Mr. Mineliull is Colonel of the Second Regi- 
ment of Knights of Pythias, the largest regi- 
ment in the United States. He was four years 
Inspector General of the State, and was nomi- 
nated for Brigadier Genera! at their last meet- 
ing, but declined. lie is Past Regent of tiie 
Royal Arcanum, R. A., Past Protector of the 
Knights and Ladies of Honor and Past Sir 
Knight Commander of Columbia Tent, K. O. 
T. M. He is Deputy Supreme and Past Coun- 
cillor of the Royal Additional Eeneiit Associa- 
tion, passed through the chairs in the society of 
the Sons of St. George, and is at present Briga- 
dier General of the Uniform Rank, Royal 
Arcauum of Ohio. 



f/^"^ (i. BARKWILL, secretary and treasurer 
of the Columbia Savings & Loan Com- 
pany, and one of the foremost brick 
manufacturers of Cleveland, was born in this 
city, August 6, 1847. After securing a fair 
knowledge of books from the public schools he 
began business as his father's assistant in the 
manufacture of brick, on what is now the site 
of the Standard Oil Company and of the axle 
works, at junction of Broadway and New York, 
Pennsylvania & Ohio Railway. 

On reaching his majority, Mr. Barkwill, 
having a complete knowledge of the manufac- 
ture of brick, opened a yard on Canal Road, 
and was a competitor for several years, when 
ho retired from that work and engaged in the 
provision business as a member of the firm of 
C. Prentiss & Company. Not being satisfied 
with the financial results produced by this line 
of operation, he severed his connection with the 
firm in 1S77, and entered the employ of the 
Standard Oil Company, with whom he con- 
tinued until 1881. In 1882 he again turned 
his attention to the manufacture of brick, with 
his yard at the foot of Mound street, where he 
still continues, enjoying a high reputation as a 
faithful manufacturer and dealer. 



He is a meml)er of the insurance firm of 
Barkwill & Kingman; is treasurer of the Can- 
field Oil Company, and has large real-estate in- 
terests in the city. In 1891 he was elected 
secretary and treasurer of this financial institu- 
tion, of which he is also a director. 

Mr. Barkwill's father, Charles Barkwill, be- 
came a resident of Cleveland about the year 
1840, soon after whicli he embarked in the 
manufacture of brick, and was a formidable 
competitor for many years. He was born in 
England, and died in this city in 1884, aged 
sixty-eight years. His estimable wife, nee Eliza- 
beth Ball, survives him, aged seventy-eight 
years, and is the mother of two children: C. G. 
Barkwill and Mrs. Frank Streetor, of Paines- 
ville, Ohio. 

Mr. C. G. Barkwill was married June 15, 
1870, in this city, to Miss Maria O., a daugh- 
ter of a well known pioneer of Cleveland, SimeoTi 
Streetor, who came here from eastern New York 
early in the century, and purchased a farm of 
220 acres on Broadway and vicinity, all of which 
is now absorbed by the city. He resided on this 
tract as a farmer until 1872, when he retired 
from active pursuits, and died in the year 1879, 
aged eighty-four years. His children, besides 
Mrs. Barkwill, were Frank Streetor, of Paines- 
ville, and Miss Electa A. Streetor, residing with 
the subject of this sketch. 

Mr. and Mrs. Barkwill's children are: Faith 
E., a graduate of Wellesley College; Lucy, a 
student in the same institution; Earnest, at the 
Central High School; Margaret and Isabel. The 
family are active members of the Woodland Ave- 
nue Presbyterian Church. 



'Jf^^EV. HENRY EPPENS, pastor of St. 
r?^ Paul's United Evangelical Church, 518 
11 ^ Scoville aveuTie, Cleveland, Ohio, is one 
V who by reason of his high attainments, 

the good ho has accomplished and the promi- 
nent position which he holds, deserves more 
than passing recognition in this connection. 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



He was born at Burlington, Iowa, November 
25, 1846, the son of Kev. Henry and Anna 
(Norman) Eppens, natives of Germany. Tlie 
father came to America in 1844 and his mar- 
riage occurred the succeeding year. He was a 
clergyman of the same religions body as is his 
son, and he had occupied a position of unusual 
prominence in his native land, having had 
charge for a time of a theological seminary at 
Hamburg, Germany. He subsequently became 
superintendent of an orphans' home, which in- 
cumbency he resigned to come to America. 
Arriving here he proceeded to Burlington, 
Iowa, where he assumed a pastoral charge. 
About this time (1845) the synod of the church 
was organized and he became one of its charter 
members, the entire number comprising not 
more than seven or eight individuals. He was 
very prominently identified with the early his- 
tory of his church, was widely known, a man 
of scliolarly attainments and of pronounced ex- 
ecutive ability, being held in high esteem as a 
man of true Christian character, as a leader in 
tlie work of the church and as an influential 
citizen. He served in pastoral charges at va- 
rious points in the Union for a period of thirty- 
two years, and was tiien elected to a general 
supervision of the work of his church, assuming 
charge of the business affairs of the theological 
seminary at St. Louis, Missouri. His wife died 
in 1880, at the age of seventy-two years. She 
was a cheerful, devoted Christian woman, a 
cherished companion and zealous in all good 
works, having been a lifelong member of the 
cliurch of which her husband was so worthy a 
disciple. After the death of his loved wife the 
venerable clergyman came to the home of his 
son, our subject, where he remained for a time, 
going thence to Lockport, New York, where ho 
made his home with his adopted daughter until 
death summoned him to eternal rest. He was 
gathered tolas fathers in the year 1884; at the 
advanced age of eighty years, and in his death 
there was a signal and solemn consistency, for 
he had run his course and by a goodly and 
righteous life had richly merited his reward. 



The subject of this sketch, who is ardently 
carrying forward tlie good work to which his 
honored father devoted his life, was the elder of 
two children. The second son, liev. Conrad 
Eppens, was born in 1848 and died in 1881, 
aged thirty-three years. His wife, Carrie, nee 
Herbold, is still living. He had been for nine 
years pastor of the church at Hermann, Mis- 
souri, and at that place he died, his untimely 
demise being attended with sorrowful regret by 
the church in whose cause he had labored so 
devotedly and successfully, as well as by a large 
circle of friends to whom he had become en- 
deared. His children are: Edward, who is pre- 
paring himself for the ministry at the theologi- 
cal seminary in St. Louis, Missouri; Ella, who 
is a 'capable teacher, employed at Canal Dover, 
Ohio; Julius; and Herman. 

Lena Eppens was an adopted sister of our 
subject, her parents having died within a week 
after her birth. She was tenderly reared by 
her foster parents and is now the wife of Rev. 
Theodore Muuzert, of Lockport, New York. 
For those who had given her affection and home 
she has ever maintained a true filial solicitude 
and has stood ready to testify her gratitude by 
every possible means. 

Rev. Henry Eppens, Jr., secured his theologi- 
cal education at the seminary in St. Louis, Mis- 
souri, and was ordained to the ministry May 2, 
1870. His first pastoral charge was at Canal 
Dover, Ohio, where he served for fourteen 
years, laboring zealously and effectively. 
Through his efforts a handsome and commodi 
ous church edifice was erected and he built up 
the church membership to a representative 
standpoint. He came to Cleveland and assumed 
his present charge in 1884, his earnest efforts 
having here been attended by most satisfying 
and goodly results. An incubus of indebted- 
ness on the church property, to the amount of 
about §7,000, has been nearly cleared away; 
the congregation has increased in membership, 
representing at the present time about 125 fam- 
ilies; the Sunday-school lias an average attend- 
ance of 300 individuals; and in short the church 



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is in a most healthful and prosperous condition, 
showing the pleasing combination of a devoted 
people and a cultured, worthy and industrious 
pastor. 

On the 18th of June, 1871, our suliject was 
united in marriage to Miss Margaret Schlundt, 
daughter of Ilev. J. F. Schlundt, who at that 
time held a pastoral charge at Holland, Dubois 
county, Indiana. Mrs. Eppens' parents are still 
living, being residents of North Amherst, Lo- 
rain county, Ohio, the father having retired 
from active clerical labors and being now eighty- 
two years of age. His wife, Sophia, is now 
seventy-six years old. Mrs. Eppens is the sixth 
in a family of eight children, four sons and four 
daughters, namely: Charles; Henry; Kev. John, 
who is at present stationed near Evansville, In- 
diana; Catlierine, wife of Kev. F. M. Haefele, 
who holds a charge at North Amherst, Ohio; 
Jacob, deceased; a daughter deceased in in- 
fancy; Mrs. Eppens; and Sophia, who is at 
home, caring for her aged and worthy parents. 

Rev. and Mrs. Eppetis have six children: 
Frederick, a clerk in the First National Bank, 
of Cleveland; Christian, a bookkeeper in the 
same institution; Anna, Emma, Ida and 
Frieda. 



STILES H. CURTISS.— Whether the ele- 
-• ments of success in life are innate attri- 
— butes of the individual, or whether they 
are quickened by a process of circumstantial 
development, it is impossible to clearly deter- 
mine. Yet the study of a successful life is none 
the less interesting and profitable by reason of 
the co-existence of this same uncertainty. So 
much in excess of successes is the record of fail- 
ures or semi-failures that one is constrained to 
attempt an analysis in either case and to deter- 
mine the method of causation in an approx- 
imate way. The march of improvement and 
j)rogress is accelerated day by day and each mo- 
ment seems to demand of men a broader intelli- 



gence and a greater discernment than did the 
preceding. Successful men must be live men 
in this age, bristling with activity, and the les- 
sons of biography may be far-reaching to an 
extent not superficially evident. 

He whose name introduces this sketch is the 
junior member of the firm of Smith & Cnrtiss, 
wholesale dealers in teas, coffees and spices in 
the city of Cleveland. He is a native of the 
State with whose commercial enterprises he is 
now concerned, having been born in Summit 
county, May 27, 1846, the son of Charles and 
Mary (Gleeson) Curtiss, who were prominent 
in the pioneer history of the county named. The 
father was a native of Connecticut and the 
mother of the State of New York. Charles 
Curtiss emigrated to Ohio in 1840 and took up- 
his residence in Summit county, which was 
then in the initial processes of reclamation at 
the hands of the pioneer settlers. He attained 
to a position of prominence in the community 
and gained recognition as a man of sterling 
worth and integrity. In i860 he removed to 
Cleveland and at once engaged in the same line 
of Ijusiness to which his son, our subject, now 
devotes his attention. He was also interested 
in agricultural pursuits after his removal to 
Cleveland, owning and operating a fine farm. 
He was connected with the Summit county 
branch of the State Bank of Ohio, and retained 
his financial relations with this institution until 
it was mei-ged into the National Bank. He was 
for many years a zealous and consistent mem- 
ber of the Presbyterian Church, and held offi- 
cial preferments of importance in the connec- 
tion. He was a man of unswerving integrity, 
a popular and public-spirited citizen and a busi- 
ness man of much ability and acumen, at all 
times careful and conscientious in his methods. 
The ei-terprise which he established in Cleve- 
land prospered under his effective direction and 
constantly increased in importance and range of 
operations. He continued his connection with 
the industry until the time of his death, when 
it passed into the hands of his son, as already 
noted. The death of this honored pioneer oc- 



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curred December 27, 1872, at which time he 
was in his sixty-first year. His wife survives 
liim and has now attained the venerable age of 
eighty-one years. Her parents, Moses and 
Polly Gleeson, were prominent among the 
early pioneers of Cuyahoga county. 

Charles and Mary Curtiss were the parents 
of three children, two sons and one daughter. 
The eldest son, Charles E., took up arms in his 
country's cause at the outbreak of the late civil 
war, enlisting, at the age of seventeen years, in 
Battery J-), First Ohio Light Artillery. lie was 
severely wounded at the battle of Ivy Mountain, 
and being incapacitated for service by reason 
of his injuries was sent liome, where lie re- 



mained for 



year 



when on account ot his con- 



tinued disability he was discharged iVom 
further service in the field. He removed to 
Arizona, where he was a prominent business 
man and Adjutant-General of the Territory at 
the time of his untimely death, his demise oc- 
curring January 22, 1879, at which time he was 
but thirty-five years of age. The subject of 
this review was the second child, and the third 
was Anna, who is now the wife of Tiiomas II. 
Brooks, a well known business man of Cleve- 
land. 

Stiles II. Curtiss was educated at the West- 
ern Reserve College, at wliich institution he 
graduated in 1867. He commenced the study 
of law, prosecuting liis reading under the pre- 
ceptorship of the prominent Cleveland law firm 
of Prentiss & Baldwin. He was admitted to 
the bar in 1869 and from that time continued 
in the practice of his profession in Cleveland 
until 1872, when, upon the death of his father, 
he succeeded to the latter's commercial inter- 
ests and has since carried on the business most 
successfully. The firm of Smith & Curtiss is 
one of the representative associations in its 
line, the business having experienced a steady 
and healthful growth until it is one of the most 
extensive in the State as considered in connec- 
tion with kindred enterprises. Mr. Curtiss is 
prominent in business circles of the city and 
has iiiiDiirtuut financial interests aside from the 



one already mentioned. He is a director in the 
State National Bank and the Citizens' Savings 
& Loan Association. 

As evincing his practical interest in and sup- 
port of charitable and benevolent enterprises, 
we call attention to the fact that he is a trustee 
for the Children's Aid Society, and also for 
the Floating Bethel. He is also a trustee 
of the Second Presbyterian Church, of which or- 
ganization he and his wife are esteemed njem- 
bers. 

The marriage of our subject occurred Septem- 
ber 30, 1875, when he was united to Miss 
Lucia M. Stair, daughter of Edwin and Marcia 
L. Stair, of Cleveland. The children of Mr. 
and Mrs. Curtiss are four in number: Charles 



E., H( 



311 ry 



8., Edwin S. and Anna M. 



FJREDEEICK SPERRY WARNER, son 
of Wareham J. Warner, deceased, was 
-- born in Cleveland, March 6, 1846, ended 
his school days at Humiston's Institute, then on 
the South Side, and in 1861 entered the Forest 
City Bank as collection clerk, and remained 
there until it closed business. He was next 
employed by Orville B. Skinner at the old Mer- 
wiu street depot of the Cleveland, Columbus, 
Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railroad for several 
years, and then was in Toledo a year, clerking 
in the Cincinnati, Hamilton k, Dayton Railroad 
office. Returning to Cleveland, he was engaged 
by the old Lake Shore Railroad Company as 
clerk at the old pier depot until 1865, when he 
became bookkeeper for Corning & Company, 
remaining with them some nine years, and on 
account of ill health, in 1874, he went West 
and located in Independence, Kansas, engaging 
in hotel business as proprietor of the Caldwell 
House. Closing there in 1877 he returned 
again to Cleveland, which city he has since 
made his home. For some weeks after his re- 
turn he was occupied in renewing old acquaint- 
ances. April 6, 1878, he engaged in the whole- 
sale and retail grocery trade extensively at 163 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



Ontario street, succeeding by purchase the firm 
of Pope & Hammer, until April 1, 1883, when 
he quit the business and for some years attended 
to the settlement of the estate of his father, 
who died December 1, 1883. Since that date 
he has devoted his time to Fire, Life and Acci- 
dent Insurance business as a solicitor. 

He is a veteran member of Tyrian Lodge, 
A. F. & A. M., and a member of Cleveland 
Lodge, B. P. O. E. 

June 9, 1880, he was married, in Cleveland, 
to Miss Agnes A. Morris, whose father, John 
W. Morris, is a pioneer of this city, and for 
many years was a prominent ship builder. He 
was born in Rhyl, North Wales, February 14, 
1814, and came to Cleveland June 5, 1842. 
Mr. and Mrs. Warner's children are: Edith 
Morris, Posalind Morse, Lillian, deceased, and 
John Morris. 



'fr^j OBERT CHRISTIAN, e.x-Deputy Col- 
)r\^ lector of Customs at tiie port of Cleve- 
Jl *^ land, was born in the Isle of Man, Jan- 
^ uary 28, 1819. His parents were Jolin 

and Elizabeth (Watlerson) Christian. 

His father, a farmer and weaver by occupa- 
tion, and a local Methodist preacher in his ver- 
nacular tongue — the Manx-Gaelic — as well as 
in English, died in 1844, at the age of fifty- 
seven years. His wife departed this life in 
June, 1822. They were tiie parents of two sons 
and two daughters. Catherine, tbe eldest child, 
was born in 1817, married Robert Cottier, of 
Ballaclucas Marown, and are both now de 
ceased, the former dying in 1852. Charlotte, 
born in 1818, married Robert Faraker, of the 
town of Peel, and died in London, in 1885, 
leaving five sons and one daughter, all in Lon- 
don. One son, Robert Faraker, is a minister 
in the established church. John, tiio youngest 
child of John and Elizabeth Christian, was born 
in 1822, and died in 1842, at the age of twenty 
years. He also had two sons and two daughters, 



by his second wife, two of whom are still living, 
namely: Edward, in Brooklyn, New York; and 
Margaret, in Cleveland. 

Robert Christian, the third child in order of 
birth, came to the United States in 1850, locat- 
ing in Cleveland, Ohio. While in his native 
country he served an apprenticeship of four 
years at the grocery trade, receiving only his 
board and lodging, and afterward followed that 
business on his own account twenty-four years. 
He crossed the ocean first on the ship Prince- 
ton, one of the Black Ball line of sailing ves- 
sels. In 1855 he returned to his native place, 
going this time on the ship Constitution (Cap- 
tain Caldwell), spending seven weeks on the 
voyage, namely, from January 28 to March 17, 
1856. During this time the steamer Pacific 
was lost, with all on board. One man was ac- 
cidentally killed on the ship Constitution during 
the voyage. 

On first coming to this country Mr. Christian 
spent three weeks in New York, three weeks in 
Albany, two months in Buffalo, where he was 
joined by his family, and they then came to 
Cleveland, on the Saratoga, the railroad being 
open only as far as Dunkirk. He opened a 
grocery store on what is now Ontario street, 
between Bolivar and Huron streets, and on the 
site the Christian Block is now located. The 
street was then known as Pittsburg street, later 
was changed to Broadway, and finally assumed 
its present name. In the spring of 1857 he 
moved his family to Cedar avenue, where he 
now resides. April 1, 1864, he became an em- 
ployee of the customs collector as deputy at the 
marine desk, and after eight years' service in 
this relation he served as general deputy for 
fifteen years. He left the customs service 
January 18, 1887, and has since lived retired. 

He was married in the Isle of Man, August 
12, 1845, to Miss Elizabeth Bridson, who died 
in 1884, at the age of seventy years. They 
united with the First Baptist Church in 1857. 
Mr. and Mrs. Christian have had five children, 
three of whom died in infancy. The eldest 
living child, George Bridson, was born June 



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23, 1846, and during the war was in the 100- 
day service, under Captain Jeremiah Ensvvorth, 
now deceased, in Company F, One Hundred 
and Fiftieth Regiment of the Ohio National 
Guard. While stationed at Fort Totten, near 
Washington, District of Columbia, the regi- 
ment had a skirmish with General Early in his 
raid on Washington. 

George B. Christian married Eliza Jane 
Worswick, of Cleveland, Ohio, October 9, 1890, 
and they have one child, Bessie. Mr. Chris- 
tian, Jr., has served as clerk in the First Bap- 
tist Church for the past fourteen years, and is 
vice-president of the Cleveland J'rovision Com- 
pany, pork-packers, with whom he has been 
identified for the past thirty years. 

Elizabeth, the only living daughter of Robert 
and Elizabeth Cliristian, is still a member of the 
home circle: she is an artist of a high degree of 
natural taste. 

In political matters the men in this family 
are Republicans; and the subject of this sketch 
has performed an important part in his line in 
the best Interests of the Government and city. 
The success attained by him is mainly due to 
his native sagacity, and to his courteous, gen- 
tlemanly bearing and his high and honorable 
business methods. lie is thorouglily alive to 
the best interests of the day, keeping fully 
abi'east of the times. 



1R. M. L. ALLEN, physician and surgeon, 
525 Pearl street, Cleveland, was born in 
Hancock county, Ohio, July 12, 1853. 
His father, D. G. Allen is a native of Jefferson 
county, this State, and is still a resident there, 
on a farm, following his life-long vocation, 
agriculture, and also engaged in milling, hav- 
ing control of a lai'ge mill. He akso raises live 
stock, as fine sheep and horses; but as he is 
now seventy-one years of age lie is partly re- 
tired from active life. He has been an Elder 
ill the Frcsbyterian Church from early man- 
iiood, has oi'oaiiized two cluirciies and lias al- 



ways been a very intluential man in church and 
other local interests. He has been married 
three times and has si.\ children, Dr. M. L. 
being the third child by his first marriage, to 
Sarah McCandiess, a native of Virginia. The 
other children are: Mary, wife of AV. W. Den- 
nis, a carpenter of Cleveland; James B., in 
Maysville, Missouri, who married Miss Flora 
Phillips; S. M., who is a resident of Pennsyl- 
vania and married Anna Crawford. The sub- 
ject of this sketch was but one year old when 
his mother died, aged thirty years, a devout 
member of the Presbyterian Church. For his 
second wife Mr. D. G. Allen married Lucinda 
Abaugh, who also died at the age of thirty 
years, leaving one child, William. By the third 
marriage Mr. Allen wedded Mrs. Sarah Allman, 
and they also have one child, D. S. 

In his youth Dr. Allen was educated at Har- 
lem Springs and Hopedale, Harrison county, 
this State; read medicine under the instructions 
of Dr. Thomas Crawford of Augusta, Ohio, and 
completed Iw's medical course in the medical de- 
partment of the Western Reserve University in 
Cleveland, graduating in the class of 1888, 
since which time lie has pursued his chosen 
profession at the place where he is now located, 
having enjoyed splendid success. In respect 
to the fratei-nal orders he is a Mason and a 
member of the order of Knights of Pytliias. 

He was married in October, 1889, to Miss 
Eva McEntire, daughter of Peter and Mattie 
McEntire, of East Springfield, Ohio. Both her 
parents are still living, on a farm, — the father 
now aged sixty-five years, and mother sixty 
years, — members of the Presbyterian Church. 
He is a good farmer and stock-raiser, giving 
much attention to draft horses. Mrs. Allen is 
the fourth in a family of seven children, as fol- 
lows: Jane, Rosa, Ross (deceased at the age of 
twenty-seven years), Eva (Mrs. Allen). Vincent, 
Morton and . 

Dr. and Mrs. Allen are members of the Lo- 
rain Street Methodist Episcopal Church, in 
wiiicli religious body ho holds an official rela- 
tion. ( >ii iiatimial nuciitions he is an ardent 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



Republican, and has done much for his party. 
He is a splendid young physician, standing well 
in the profession and among all those who know 
him intimately. 

Although but ten years of age during the 
second year of the last war, he has a " war 
record," — at least he saw a specimen of army 
life, as follows: General John Morgan, while 
on his raid throngh Ohio, stopped with his men 
at the Doctor's parental home, and both the 
men and their horses were fed, eating every- 
thing on the premises, both at the house and at 
the barn! Each man had two horses. They 
arrived about ten o'clock at night and departed 
about si.x next morning. 



DAVID R. AND DAVIS HAW LEY, pro- 
) prietors of the Hawley House, Cleve- 
land, are two of the best known hotel- 
men of the city, having been connected with 
the hotel business of this place for the past 
twenty-eight years. No two men in the city, 
perhaps, have a larger acquaintance among the 
traveling public. Embarking in hotel life 
while in their 'teens they naturally grew into 
the business nntil they assimilated, as it were, 
in their very natures all the elements that con- 
stitute the true type of a modern hotel-man, for 
which very few are well fitted. 

When they first came to this city, in 1(S66, 
they secured employment in the Weddell 
House, then conducted by the Kirkwood 
Brothers, D. R in the dining-room and Davis 
as cigar boy. After a time the former secured 
employment at the City Hotel as steward, and 
later as clerk, until 1871, when he purchased 
the old Clinton Hotel, entering into partnership 
with A. M. Lowe. In 1878 he placed the man- 
agement of that house in the hands of his 
brother Davis, who was by this time clerking 
for him. He then purchased the City Hotel 
and gave his attention to its management; but 
he soon disposed of this property and l)ought 
the Striebinger Hotel, which he soon afterward 
sold. 



In 1882 the two brothers, in company with 
John Laiigton, erected the Hawley House, 
which institution had long been their "cher- 
ished dream." Their desire was to erect and 
own one of the best hotel buildings in the city, 
and they had postponed the fulfillment of it for 
a long time on account of the over-cautiousness 
of some of their friends who advised against it. 
It was therefore with some misgivings that 
they embarked in this heavy financial responsi- 
bility, but their success has proven the correct- 
ness of their judgment, for never has a month 
gone by since the house was opened when a 
good showing was not made on the favorable 
side of the ledger. The house has been under 
the immediate supervision of the brothers ever 
since its opening, and thus its good manage- 
ment has been uniformly assured. 

The Hawley brothers came to Cleveland poor 
boys and among entire strangers; but they had 
the courage and sound business judgment that 
have prospered them and placed them in easy 
circumstances; and to say that loyalty to the 
best interests of Cleveland has been constantly 
one of their first thoughts would be superfluous 
to the citizens. 

They were born on a farm in Upper Canada, 
the sons of Davis and Amelia (Lake) Hawley, 
native Canadians. Their father died in 1863, 
and their mother in 1868. They spent their 
boyhood days on the farm with their parents,^ — 
David R. until he was eighteen years of age, 
and Davis until fourteen. The elder went to 
Rochester, New York, and obtained employ- 
ment in the Clinton Hotel, where he remained 
until he came to this city, in 1866. He was 
born April 20, 1843, and has been twice mar- 
ried, — first in 1867, to Miss Mary Morey, who 
died in 1878, leaving two sons, — Charles and 
Frank. For his second wife lie married, in 
1892, Miss Nellie Rouse. Mr. and Mrs. D. R. 
Hawley reside on Sibley street. 

Mr. Davis Hawley was born September 18, 
1850, and on leaving home at the age of four- 
teen years first went to Detroit, Michigan, 
where he was employed until 186G, when lie 



OUYABOOA COUNTY. 



came to Cleveland, as before stated. After 
being cigar boy at the Weddell House three 
years, he entered the employ of the White Sew- 
ing machine Company, in their shops, for three 
years, when he became clerk for his brother at 
the old Clinton House. He remained in that 
relation there, sharing the profits, until the 
erection of the Hawley House in 1882. In 
Freemasonry he is a member of the Cleveland 
City Lodge, No 15, of Webb Chapter, No. 14, 
Oriental Commandery, No. 12, Cleveland Coun- 
cil, No. 32, and also of the Masonic Club, of 
this city. He was one of the organizers of the 
Cuyahoga Building and Loan Company, of 
Cleveland, in 1863, of which he was elected first 
vice-president and a member of the board of 
directors and also a member of the executive 
and appraisal committees. Of this company he 
is one of the main factors. Being a lover of 
good sport, he also aided in the organization of 
the Cleveland Base Ball Club, to which he has 
now for six years given much attention, being 
secretary of the club; and he was also one of 
the organizers of the Cleveland Athletic Club, 
of which he is one of the directors. 

He was married in November, 1873, to Miss 
Mary Switz, of this city, and they have one 
child, named Davis, .Ir. This family resides at 
the hotel. 

Ill 1890, on the death of Mr. Langton, the 
brothers assumed full control of the hotel. 
Besides their possession of the hotel property, 
the Hawley brothers have invested a consider- 
able amount in real estate elsewhere in the city. 
They are members of the Cleveland Hotel- 
keepers' Association. 



LUKE BRENNAN, the oldest active rcsi- 
I dent contractor in the city of Cleveland 
1 and a gentleman who has paved more 

miles of streets, built more rods of sewer and 
cleaned a greater number of streets than any 
other one man, came to Cleveland in 1853. He 
brought with him ciiuugh cajiital for buying a 



team and set to work supplying himself with 
material to be used in completing his contracts 
for both pavement and sewer, which he secured. 
He did the work on many of the largest con- 
tracts let and many of the streets he has paved 
twice, including Superior and Broadway. For 
many years he was given the contract for all 
street cleaning and street improvement of the 
entire city. 

Mr. Brennan came from Brooklyn, Con- 
necticut, where he located on coming to the 
United States in 1849. lie was without capi- 
tal except an industrious nature and an active, 
muscular body. He hired himself out as a 
farm hand, and being economical saved up suffi- 
cient in five years to start himself in business in 
Cleveland, and his progress in the city has been 
most satisfactory. He is unusually fortunate 
in the figuring on contracts, and of building, 
receiving them in many instances at a figure 
which has enabled liim to sublet and still reap 
a handsome margin. 

Mr. Brennan is probably as widely known as 
any man in the city, from the nature of his 
business. He is most easily approached and an 
interesting gentleman, when he has leisure 
time. Two incidents in his life of special inter- 
est we will mention iiere, one demonstrating the 
luck of some men, and the other demonstrating 
Mr. Brennan's sympathy with injured human- 
ity. Some years ago a cannon target practice 
was given in Cleveland, presided over by the 
light artillery, when a prize of $150 was offered 
for the one hitting the "bull's eye" at a three- 
fourths mile range. Mr. I^rennan happened 
along, paid for a shot, made mental calculation 
as to his sight, fired, and although unused to 
lire-arms, his ball struck the target and won 
the money. 

In ISSO, while taking a journey, Mr. Bren- 
nan overheard a detective planning with an ac- 
complice to secure the conviction of a prisoner 
named Welch, accused of murder at Fremont, 
Ohio. It transpired finally that tlirough man- 
factured testimony, Welch was convicted and 
senttMiced to be hanged, for all which the de- 




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OTTYABOdA COUNTY. 



tective was to receive $3,000. As the day of 
execution came nearer, Mr. Breiiiiaii became 
more and more convinced tliat an innocent man, 
tliough a bad citizen, was about to suffer death, 
and lie determined to prevent it by repeating to 
Governor Foster the conversation with his female 
companion in the train. He went to Colum- 
bus, was introduced to the Governor, told him 
his secret and Mr. Welch's sentence was com- 
muted to life imprisonment. 

Mr. Brennan has visited Ireland twice since 
he left it in 1849, the last time taking with him 
his wife and daughter, dining with the Lord 
Mayor of Dublin, who married a cousin, a Miss 
Brennan. 

Mr. Brennan was a son of Ennis Brennan, 
who came to Cleveland in 1862, and died here 
in 1872, aged sixty-five. His wife was Ellen 
Gavican, who died in 1884, aged eighty-four 
years. They were from county Roscommon, 
Ireland, where Mr. Brennan, our subject, was 
born, in October, 1880. 

In April, 1852, Mr. Brennan married Cathe- 
rine Barlow, from his own county in Ireland. 
Their children are: Frank, deceased; Hubert, 
deceased; Anna, wife of Charles M. Le Blond, 
of Cleveland; John F., who married Miss Lil- 
lian Ohlemacher, of Sandusky, Ohio; Teresa, 
wife of Charles P. O'Eeilly, of Cleveland; and 
Georgie, Joseph, Mary Ellen and Luke died in 
infancy. 

Mr. Brennan is an active memljer of the 
Knights of St. John, and was a delegate to the 
Catholic convention in Baltimoi-e in 1890. 



DR. DANIEL HEIMLICH, a physician 
and surgeon of Cleveland, was born in 
— ' this city, October 4, 1867, a son of Abra- 
ham and Clara Heimlich, natives of Austria, 
but now residents of Cleveland. In 1885 our 
subject graduated at the West high school, four 
years afterward completed the course at Adel- 
bert College, and in 1892 graduated in the 
Medical Department of the Western Reserve 



University. He then went to Europe, and at- 
tended medical lectures in Berlin, Vienna, Lon- 
don and other large cities, also studied under 
the best instructors of the continent. Dr. Heim- 
lich returned to this city in 1893, and has since 
been engaged in the active practice of medicine 
and surgery, having an othce at 521 Woodland 
avenue. His residence is located on the West 
Side, where he has resided for nineteen years. 
In 1893 he became the Democratic candidate 
for Coroner, and was elected by a very large 
majority, having run much ahead of his ticket. 
Dr. Heimlich was a student of Dr. Gustav C. 
E. Weber, of this city. He is a member of the 
Cleveland (Ohio) Medical Association, and is 
physician for the H. B. & S. U. Society. He 
is well read in his studies, and stands high in 
his profession. 



JOSEPH C. SHIELDS, Treasurer of Cuya, 
hoga county, was born in New Alexandria, 
Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 
the year 1827. His parents were John and 
Elizabeth (Skiles) Shields, both natives of Penn- 
sylvania, his father being of Irish and his 
mother of German descent. He served as a 
private in the war of 1812. The paternal grand- 
father of our subject was a Colonial soldier of 
the Revolution. 

Joseph C. Shields was given a fair common- 
school education, and served an apprenticeship 
of five years and eight months at the trade of 
tanner and currier, which trade he followed for 
a period of two years after serving an appren- 
ticeship. He then went to Pittsburg, Penn- 
sylvania in 1845, and there followed the trade 
of mechanic till the spring of 1852, when he 
came to Cleveland to accept a position as hotel 
clerk, which position he gave up some nine 
months later in order to accept employment in 
the service of the Cleveland Transfer Company, 
with whom he was engaged till September, 
1853. Next he was in the employ of the Cleve- 
land & Toledo Railroad Company until the fall 



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of 1858, when he went to Central America to 
superintend a stage line across the isthmus of 
Tehuantepec. He was engaged there till the 
winter of 1860, when he accepted employment 
from the Adams Express Company at Xew Or- 
leans. In April, 1861, he again entered the 
service of the Cleveland & Toledo Railroad 
Company. 

In the same year Mr. Shields enlisted as a 
private in the Cleveland Light Artillery, and 
after an army service of three months he again 
took up railroading. In July, 1862, he re- 
cruited the Nineteenth Ohio Battery, better 
known as "Shields' Battery," with which he 
left for the seat of war October 6, 1862. This 
battery was engaged in upward of fifty fights 
and skirmishes, some of tiie most important be- 
ing Kocky-Face Tlidge,_ Kesaca, Dallas, Pine 
mountain, Stone mountain, Kenesaw mountain, 
Atlanta, Jonesborough, Lovejoy Station, P^'rank- 
lin, Nashville and others. Tiie battery was 
ordered to North Carolina from Nashville by 
way of Washington, reaching Washington with 
the close of the war. The battery returned 
home to Cleveland, where they were mustered 
out of the service June 27, 18G5, Mr. Shields 
with rank of Captain. 

U[)on the close of the war he again took up 
railroading on the same road where he was 
formerly employed, and for several years was 
master of transportation, and then for seven- 
teen years he was a passenger conductor. 

In August, 1886, he entered the County 
Treasurer's office as a deputy, and as such served 
until he was elected County Treasurer as the 
Republican candidate in the fall of 1889; and 
to this office he was re-elected in the fall of 
1891, his second term expiring in September, 
1894. 

Mr. Shields is a member of the Forest City 
Post, G. A. R., of which he served two years as 
Commander. He is also a member of the Cuya- 
hoga County Soldiers' & Sailors' Union, Loyal 
Legion, and other societies pertaining to soldiers. 
In many ways he has been prominently con- 
nectcil with public measures, both social and 



political. In 1867-'68 he served as a member 
of the City Council for Cleveland, and he has 
long since held a very high station in the es- 
teem and confidence of his t'ellow-citizens. 

In 1862 Mr. Shields married Miss Ellen S. 
Crawford: they have no children. 



fjERRY H. BABCOCK, senior member of 
the wholesale grocery house of Babcock, 
Ilurd tk Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, 
was born at Ravenna, Portage county, 
Ohio, January 23, 1816, the son of Almon and 
Mary (Collins) Babcock. His father was born at 
West Granville, Massachusetts, November 9, 
1788, the son of Perry and Cynthia (Hickox) 
Babcock; and Perry Babcock was born at Wes- 
terly, Rhode Island, in 1765, and was the son of 
Jonathan and Susanna (Perry) Babcock; Jona- 
than Babcock was born also at Westerly, Nov- 
ember 19, 1735, the son of David and Dorcas 
(Brown) Babcock; David was born at South 
Kingston, Rhode Island, December 22, 1700, 
the son of George and Elizabeth (Hall) Babcock; 
George was a native also of South Kingston, 
born in 1674, the son of John and Mary (Law- 
ton) Babcock; John Babcock was born at Plym- 
outh, Massachusetts, in 1644. He was a" free- 
man" in 1669, "conservator of the peace" in 
1678, and "deputy" in 1682-'84. He was the 
son of James Babcock, of Portsmouth, Rhode 
Island, who was born in England in 1612, and 
landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in July 
1621. He was admitted an "inhabitant" in 1642, 
and a "freeman" in 1655. He was twice mar- 
ried. 

Almon Babcock left Gi-anvilie, Massachusetts, 
in 1810, and came to Charlestown, Portage 
county, Ohio, as agent for his father, one of the 
members of the Charlestown Land Company. 
In 1814 he married Miss Mary, the only daugh- 
ter of Robert Johnson Collins, of Rootstown, 
Portage county, Ohio, she being on her mother's 
side a descendant from the old and well-known 
family of Wadsworths of Hartford, ( 'onnecticut. 



CU7AH00A OOVNTY. 



He was an active and enterprising man and stir- 
ring character in liis day, in the new Western 
Reserve. In the war of 1812 he served under 
General Wadsworth, and afterward settled in 
Ilavenna, and made that place his home during 
the remainder of his life. He built the first 
briclv house in Ravenna, and opened a hotel, 
whicli soon became a favorite stopping place on 
tlie stage route between Cleveland and Pitts- 
burg. He also ran a blacksmith shop and owned 
a farm. His death occurred in 1850. 

Mr. Perry H. Babcock was given a good com- 
mon-school education, and learned the black- 
smith's trade in his father's shop at Ravenna. In 
1839, while working at this trade, he met with 
an accident, and during the enforced idleness 
which followed he accepted an invitation to 
make a trip to Cincinnati as the guest of D. D. 
and D. McDonald, owner of a flat-boat. This 
trip required thirty days, — quite a contrast be- 
tween then and now, when the same distance can 
be made by rail in a few hours' time. 

During this trip Mr. Babcock was impressed 
with the possibilities of the profits that might 
lie earned in the forwarding and commission 
l)usiness, and determined at no distant day to 
put his ideas into practice; and it was probably 
this trip, intended as one of pleasure, that 
(•hanged the whole course of his life; and it may 
be said that the accident, regretted at the time, 
turned him from the blacksmith-shop to the 
busy marts of commerce, and made jwssible the 
success of after life, making him a successful 
merchant instead of a skilled mechanic. 

While in Cincinnati he engaged as a clerk in 
a wholesale grocery house, and remained in that 
city until 1841, when he returned to Ravenna. 
The following year he hired a boat and brought 
a load of coal from the Briar Hill mines (now 
Youngstown), owned by Tod & Stanibaugh, 
which was the first load of coal ever brought 
from those mines to Ravenna. (The senior 
meml)er of the above firm, David Tod, was after- 
ward Governor of Ohio.) Previous to that time 
coal from the Tallmadge mines in Summit 
county Iiad been used at Ravenna. 



Mr. Babcock remained at Raveima until 1845, 
during the season of which year he was in Pitts- 
burg, forwarding goods through to the lakes in 
connection with Hubby and Hughes of Cleve- 
land. Then, owing to his recent marriage, he, 
in the spring of 1846, removed to Aurora, Ohio, 
where he engaged in business with Hurd & 
Sons, Mr. Hurd being his father-in-law. The 
firm was engaged in the general mercantile busi- 
ness peculiar in those days. His work was en- 
tirely on the outside, attending to the purchases, 
while Mr. Hurd attended to the inside business. 

Mr. Hurd was a splendid business man, a 
"natural-born" gentleman, and was one of the 
most popular men of Aurora. The firm con- 
tinued at Aurora until 1853, and then removed 
to Cleveland in order to secure a larger field for 
operations, and formed the partnership of Bab- 
cock, Hurd & Company. Altogether this firm 
has been in existence forty-eight years, and thus 
Mr. Babcock is a member of one of the oldest 
houses in northern Ohio. 

The commission business was finally dropped 
by this company, and they confined themselves 
to the wholesale grocery business exclusively. 
George Babcock, a son of the subject of this 
sketch, became a member of this firm in 1865, 
and remained a member until his death in 1883. 
Hopson Hurd, Jr., died March 31, 1890. At the 
jiresent time the firm is composed of Perry H. 
Babcock (whose name heads this sketch), his 
son Charles, H. A. Bishop, McClellan Hurd, 
son of Elisha Hurd, and Harry C. Hurd, son of 
Ilopson Hurd, Jr. The place of business is at 
Nos. 102-4-6, Water street, corner of St. Clair 
street. 

In 1852 the firm of II. Hurd & Son, which 
was in reality the predecessors of the present 
firm of Babcock, Hurd & Company, made the 
largest cheese ever made in Ohio, weighing 
1,000 pounds. It was made for the State fair 
held at Cleveland in that year, and there being 
no competition in the cheese industry at that 
fair, and as there was some jealousy existing in 
Cleveland toward outside towns, no premium 
was awarded for it. It was sold, at 12J cents 



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a pound, to Aldeii Pease, of Portage county, 
who sent it to St. Louis for the holiday market. 

In 1843 Mr. Babcock was married to Maria, 
daughter of Hopson Hnrd, Sr., of Aurora. Her 
death occurred in 1882, and January 30, 1884, 
Mr. Babcock was married to Miss Caroline 
Baldwin, a daughter of tlie late Frederick Bald- 
win of Hudson, Summit county, Ohio. 

Few of Cleveland's citizens have met witli 
greater success or attained a more prominent 
position in mercantile circles than has Mr. Bab- 
cock. For nearly half a century he has been 
closely identified with the business interests of 
Cleveland and northern Ohio, and his career has 
been a steady march onward and upward. He 
is yet in the prime of his mental and physical 
energy, retains an unabated interest in his 
business, and is punctual in his office hours. 
He has been a director of the National City 
Bank since 1874, and vice president of that in- 
stitution since 1876. He is a life member of 
the Western Reserve Historical Society, and 
takes a deep interest in the work of this organ- 
ization. In business and private life he com- 
mands the friendship and respect of all who 
know him. He is quiet and modest in bearing, 
quick in his perceptions and decided in his 
movements, upwright in his dealings, and a 
typical business man, to whom success has come 
because he has put forth that eneigy and de- 
termination that forced it. 



fl( RTIIUR B. FOSTER.— We are now per- 
//_\\ mitteil to dii-ect attention to one of the 
1/ li distinctively representative business men 
' of Cleveland, one who has been a resi- 

dent of the city for nearly a quarter of a cen- 
tury, and who is intimately concerned with cer- 
tain of her most important industrial enter- 
prises. 

Our subject comes from a line of ancestors 
wlio iiave been identified with the interests of 
America from the early Colonial period, repre- 
sentatives of tlie family having been active 



participants in war of the Revolution. The 
father of our subject was C. R. Foster, who was 
for many years engaged in the merchant tailor- 
ing business at Garrettsville, Portage county, 
Ohio. He was born in 1823 and died at the 
age of sixty-five years; his wife passed away in 
1869, at the age of thirty-eiglit years. 

Arthur B. Foster was born at Garrettsville, 
Ohio, December 14, 1844, and was reared in 
his native town, completing his education at the 
Nelson Academy, at which he graduated in 
1861. 

In 1862, a youth of eigliteen years, he en- 
listed in the One Hundred and Fourth Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry, as a musician, and served 
for three years, receiving his discharge at 
Cleveland, in 1865. He thereupon returned 
home and engaged in business with his father, 
and continued this association for a period of 
five years. He then came to Cleveland and en- 
gaged with the Domestic Sewing Machine Com- 
pany as a traveling agent, remaining thus em- 
ployed until 1878, when lie was advanced to 
tiie position in charge of the wholesale ofKce as 
local manager. From 1882 until 1890 he had 
charge of the western department of the com- 
pany's business, as general manager, finally re- 
signing this preferment and identifying himself 
with the National Screw & Tack Company, of 
which he became president. In May, 1890, he 
severed his connection with the enterprise noted 
and purchased the controlling interest in the 
stock of the Cleveland Electric Manufacturing 
Company, of which he is vice-president, treasurer 
and general manager. He is also president of 
the Cleveland Trunk Company, and has other 
business interests of representative order. Tiie 
Cleveland Electric Manufacturing Company 
was organized in 1880 and was duly incorpo- 
rated with a capital stock of ,^5100,000, e.x-Mayor 
W. G. Rose being the first president of the cor- 
poration. The company was organized for the 
purpose of manufacturing and putting on the 
market the American watchman's time de- 
tector, tlie first device of the kind in which use 
was made of electricity. The present company 



GUTAHOOA COUNTY. 



own and control the patents on this invention, 
which lias met with the most favorable re- 
ception, the business of the company ramifying 
into all sections of the Union and also into for- 
eign countries. There are more of these de- 
tectors in use than of all others combined. The 
coinpany manufacture all their own goods, a 
corps of seventy-five operatives being retained 
in the manufacturing department. 

Mr. Foster is prominently identified with the 
Masonic order, I)eing Past-Commander of the 
Knights Templar, and is an active member of 
the Chamber of Commerce. In his political 
proclivities he is a Ilepublican, maintaining a 
consistent interest in the issues of the day. 

The marriage of our subject occurred in 1865, 
when he was united to Miss Belle Wright, a 
daughter of A. J. Wrigiit, a well-known resi- 
dent of Tolland, Connecticut. 



F 



"=^RED C. EMDE, Supervisor of the Di- 
|( vision of Cemeteries in the Department 
^ of Charities and Correction of the City 
of Cleveland, was born in this city September 18, 
1863. His parents came to this country from 
Germany early in the '50s, and have ever since 
been residents of Cleveland. His mother, how- 
ever, died a few years ago; and his father, who 
until that time was a merchant, retired from 
business, in which relation he still continues. 

Mr. Emde, the subject proper of this sketch, 
was educated at the German Lutheran schools 
in this city, and at the age of thirteen was ap- 
prenticed to A. T. Townsend, at that time a 
prominent druggist here, and became a practi- 
cal pharmacist. Striking out at the age of 
eighteen, he traveled extensively, employed in 
his profession in various large cities, notably at 
New Orleans, Louisiana, where he remained a 
number of years. Returning to his native city, 
after an absence of about five years, he was em- 
ployed by H. G. Biddle for a few years, and 
then, in 1889, went into business for himself, 
which he conducted very successfully until ap- 



pointed to his present position, the duties of 
which were such that to attend to them he had 
to retire temporarily from other business. He 
is now having a block built on East Prospect 
street, where, when his term as Cemetery 
Supervisor expires, he intends to open again 
a first-class pharmacy. 

In his political principles Mr. Emde has al- 
ways been an ardent Democrat, being a regular 
attendant as delegate to city, county and State 
conventions, and was appointed to his present 
position May 1, 1893, by Director W. J. Mc- 
Kinnic, as a reward for competency and party 
service. In his fraternal relations he is a mem- 
ber of Forest City Lodge and Cleveland Ciiapter 
of Masons, and of the Knights of Pythias. 

August 3, 1887, is the date of his marriage 
to Miss Jessie N. Willianis, daughter of George 
and Eiinice li. Williams, representatives of one 
of the oldest families of the Western Reserve. 
Mr. Williams was a member of the famous 
Seventh Ohio regiment, serving througli the 
entire war, and for a time was a prisoner at 
Andersonville. He is now living retired at 
Chardon, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Emde are the 
parents of two children: Eunice S., aged five; 
and Helen M., aged three years. 



|]ALTER A. THIEME, one of the well- 
known young members of the Cleve- 
land bar, and a member of the law firm 
of Thieme & Zangerle, was born in Cleveland, 
Ohio, April 18, 1866. His parents were 
August and Pauline (Schmidt) Thieme, both 
natives of Germany. His father came to the 
United States in 1850 and located first at Buf- 
falo, New York, but in 1852 he came to Cleve- 
land. He founded the German paper Waechter 
am Erie, which he continued to own and edit up 
to his death in 1879. This paper was one of the 
leading German publications of Ohio and had a 
great influence in the city and State. Its pub- 
lication was continued until October, 1893, when 



CUTAHOGA COUNTY. 



it was consolidated with the Anzeiger, of this 
city. The widow of Mr. Thieine is still living, 
residing in Cleveland. 

The subject of this sketch was reared in 
Cleveland and educated in tlie ])ublic scliools 
here. In 1884 he entered Ann Arbor Univer- 
sity, took a two years' law course, and graduated 
with the degree of LL. B. He ne.xt read law in 
the office of Judge George B. Solders, of Cleve- 
land, for two years, and in 1888 was admitted to 
the bar. For some time following his admission 
to the bar he was in the ofKce with Judge Sold- 
ers, and next was with W. D. Pudney. Later 
he formed a partnership with John A. Zangerle, 
under the name of Thieine vfe Zangerle. 

Mr. Thieme has taken an active and promi- 
nent part in politics. He has served as Chair- 
man of the Democratic County Central Com- 
mittee and has been a member of the Demo- 
cratic State Central Committee. 

In October 1893, he occupied the bench of 
the West Side Police Court, during the absence 
of Judge J. T. Logue; and he presided over 
that court with marked alnlity and dignity, 
adding new laurels to his already bright crown. 



'jl^j EV. J. P. MOLONY, who is the ai)le 
r^ and iionored priest in charge of the im- 
II ¥\ portant parish of St. Malachi's Roman 
V Catholic Church, in Cleveland, Ohio, 

was born in county Tipperary, Ireland, in the 
year 1829, the son of Daniel and Ann (Dwyer) 
Molony, both of whom were natives of the 
Emerald Isle, that land of legend and romance. 
The father was called to eternal rest many years 
ago, and the death of the mother occurred when 
her son, the subject of this review, was a youth 
of seventeen years. Both died in their native 
land and both were zealous and devout mem- 
l)urs of the Catiiolic Church. Our subject was 
the fifth in a fainily of six children, all of whom 
are living, one being a resident of California, 
one of Montana, and three of Aiistralia, where 
they are concerned in farming operations. The 



family comprised four girls and two boys, the 
one brother of our subject being at this time a 
resident of Australia. 

Father J. P. Molony received his preliminary 
education in Ireland, coming to the United 
States soon after attaining his majority, lie 
entered St. Mary's Seminary, on Lake street, 
Cleveland, and there pursued his theological 
studies under the direction of Bishop Rappe. 
He was ordained to the priesthood June 25, 
1859, at the same time as were Fathers Scanlon 
and O'Callaghan, Bishop Rappe, of honored 
memory, officiating at the ordination. 

Fatiier Molony's first parochial charge was at 
Defiance, Ohio, where he remained for two 
years, going thence to Napoleon, Henry county, 
assuming ciiarge of the entire missionary field 
extending from Ft. Wayne, Indiana, to Maumee 
City. He finally removed to Mansfield, Rich- 
land county, and there remained until 1864, 
when he came to Cleveland, which city has 
since been the field of his zealous labors. The 
organization of St. Malaclii's Church was per- 
fected in 1865, its membership being drawn 
principally from St. Patrick's parish. Prior to 
the erection of the present church edifice the 
congregation worshipped at St. Mary's, on the 
Flats. The early part of our subject's present 
pastorate was served under Bishop Rappe, and 
he now labors under the direction of Bishop 
Gilmour. Upon the organization of the church 
the membership represented about 800 or 900 
families, but the parish has now about 600 fam- 
ilies of church adherents. The decrease in 
membership is due to the fact that manu- 
facturing establishments have gradually en- 
croached upon the district, which twenty five 
years ago was almost entirely a residence por- 
tion. The Sunday-school has a membership of 
about 600 individuals. That Father Molony 
has carried forward the work in his parish 
faithfully and vigorously is evident from the 
permanent improvements that stand exponent 
ifor the success of his efforts. The first lot for 
the church was purchased in 1866 and further 



acquisitions iti tiiis 



i-ere made sul)se- 



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quently. The cliurcli building is a beautiful 
])i-ick edifice, the corner-stone of which was laid 
in April, 1867, with imposing ceremonies, the 
Very Reverend A. Caron, V. G., officiating. 
The first mass in the new church was said on 
Christmas day, 1868, on which occasion the 
offerings borne to the altar aggregated $1,052. 
The dedicatory services were conducted by 
Archbishop Purcell, on the 5th of March, 1871. 
Tiiere are maintained in connection with the 
cliurch two parochial schools, — one on Pearl 
street for boys, and the other on Washington 
street, just west of the church, for girls. The 
parish is entirely free from indebtedness, — a 
a fact that bespeaks the executive and financial 
altility of Father Molony, through whose 
services this abundant prosperity has been 
brouglit about. The holdings of tlie church 
represent an expenditure of ^ fully 3115,000, 
while tlie actual valuation of the property will 
aggregate $126,000. 

Within the past twenty-five years, as shown 
by the parish records, there have been 4,752 
baptisms; 2,641 confirmations; 627 marriages, 
and 3,137 deaths. 

Father Molony was alone in the exercise of 
his priestly functions and incidental duties for 
a period of six years, after which time the exi- 
gencies of the work and the manifold calls upon 
his time and attention rendered imperative the 
securing of an assistant. The first to serve as 
incumbent in this position was Father T. M. 
Smyth, who remained for four years. He is 
now located at East Liverpool, Ohio. Father 
Kinkead was his successor, and served from Oc- 
tober, 1875, until January, 1877. He now has 
a charge at Defiance, Ohio. Father W. T. 
Fitzgerald was assistant at St. Malachi's from 
1877 to 1880, and died at Columbus, Ohio, soon 
after resigning the duties of the position noted. 
Father F. M. Scullin was the incumbent from 
1880 to 1882, and is now established at Niles, 
Ohio. Father John Hannin, who supplied the 
vacancy in the year last noted, and who re- 
mained for seven years, is now laboring in St. 
Calemas' Church in Cleveland. The present 



incumbent as assistant rector is Father John 
McIIale, who is an able coadjutor of Father 
Molony. In connection with the work of the 
parish eight different societies are maintained, 
provisions in this line being made for both old 
and young. 

Father Molony is an indefatigable worker, as 
may be judged from his visible accomplish- 
ments. As a financier his ability is unquestioned, 
while as a man and a priest he is in every way 
aluive reproach. 



Iff ON. AUGUSTUS J. RICKS, LL. D., is 
Ir^ a gentleman too well known in Northern 
Jl 41 Ohio to necessitate much of an intro- 
^ duction. He is familiar to most resi- 

dents and exceedingly popular, not only in 
Cleveland bnt also the entire State of Ohio. 

He is a son of Charles F. and Regina Mar- 
guerite (La Pierre) Ricks, the mother being a 
daughter of a French officer. The father was 
of a good and esteemed Prussian family. His 
grandfather was a man of large means and en- 
gaged in the forwarding and commission busi- 
ness. He was the owner of a large number of 
horses and wagons for the transportation of 
goods from city to city, all of which Napoleon 
seized for the use of the French army in its 
German campaign of 1813. This seizure of his 
property came to him as a sudden and sweeping 
misfortune, and, depriving him of his business 
and property, left his sons dependent upon their 
own exertions for the future. The eldest bro- 
ther, remaining in Prussia, entered the army, 
served in the staff corps throughout the brilliant 
campaign against Austria in 1866, and during 
the last Franco-Prussian war he was a General 
of the staff of the late Emperor Frederick. He 
is now on the retired army list as " Wirklicher 
Geheimer Kriegs Rath a D," being retired after 
an active service of over fifty years. He now 
resides in Wiesbaden. 

Charles F. Ricks followed the tide of immi- 
gration to America, and coming to Ohio settled 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



at Massillon, at that time one of the most im- 
portant towns in the State. Of this town he 
became a leading business man and served as its 
Postmaster two terms. In this town the sub- 
ject of this sketcli was born, February 10, 1843. 
His early scholastic training was received iu the 
public schools, and after graduating at the Mas- 
sillon high school he entered, in 1801, Kenyon 
College, then the foremost college in the AVest. 
While an undergraduate he joined the Philoma- 
thesian Literary Society, a secret organization 
founded in 1827, and also the Iota Chapter of 
the Psi Upsilon fraternity, which had but a few 
years before granted its Iota Chapter, which was 
the first chapter granted by it in any other than 
Eastern States. He did not graduate at Kenyon 
College, but left the institution to enter the 
Union army. Recently Kenyon conferred upon 
him the degree of LL. D. At the outbreaking 
of the Civil war the halls of old Kenyon were 
deserted, and in the spring of 1862 Mr. Ricks 
was found with a commission from Governor 
Tod for the purpose of recruiting a company in 
his native city of Massillon for the One Hundred 
and Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was 
commissioned by Governor Tod as First Lieu- 
tenant, and the captaincy of the company re- 
cruited was refused by him because of his youth 
and inexperience. He served throughout the 
war with honor and credit, being with General 
Burnside in East Tennessee at the capture of 
Cumberland Gap, at the siege of Knoxville and 
the operations of the army during the wiuter of 
1863-'64. He was detailed in January of 1864 
as aid- de-camp on the stati' of Brigadier- Gen- 
eral M. S. Hascall, commanding the Second Di- 
vision of the Twent^'-third Army Corps, and on 
this position he served throughout the Atlanta 
campaign. Iu June of 1S65 he served as aid- 
de-camp with rank of Captain on the staff of 
Major General J. D. Cox in Xorth Carolina, 
and thus at the close of the war we tind him 
serving with the rank of captain. 

After the close of the war he returned to his 
home in Massillon and there began reading law. 
During the war he became acquainted with East 



Tennessee and was impressed with the city of 
Knoxville, which invited him thither in Sep- 
tember of 1865. There he entered the law 
ofHce of the late Judge John Baxter, of the 
United States Circuit Court, and the following 
year became a member of the tirm of Baxter, 
Champion ife Ricks, which for years was one of 
the leading law firms in the State of Tennessee. 
In 1870 he was drawn into editorial work, 
rather against his inclinations, but to meet a 
supposed temporary emergency, without intend- 
ing to interrupt his practice as a lawyer. He 
became the editor and one of the founders of 
the Knoxville Daily Chronicle, the only Repub- 
lican daily paper then published in the Southern 
States outside of the city of Louisville. In 1875 
Mr. Ricks disposed of his interest in the Chroni- 
cle to the well known " Parson" Brownlow, and 
then returned to Massillon, Ohio, by reason of 
family and business considerations. At Mas- 
sillon he entered into a partnership with Judge 
Anson Pease in the practice of their profession. 
In March of 1878 he was made clerk of the 
United States Circuit Court for the Northern 
District of Ohio, receiving his appointment from 
Judge Baxter, his former partner, and in 1886 
he was appointed Clerk of the District Court 
by Judge Martin "Welker. From 1878 to 1889 
Mr. Ricks acted as Standing Master in Chancery 
for the Northern District of Ohio, and during 
that time he decided many important cases 
arising out of the foreclosure of what was then 
known as the " Narrow-Gauge System" of rail- 
roads, connecting Cincinnati, Toledo and St. 
Louis, the Wabash and other railroads, involv- 
ing large interests and new questions in mar- 
shaling, mortgage and other liens, and claims 
against railroads, and relating to the powers and 
authority of the United States courts in the 
operation of railroads through receivers. Many 
of his reports as Master were reviewed in the 
Supreme Court and all were sustained. Upon 
the retirement of Judge Welker from the United 
States District Court for the Northern Ohio 
District, in June of 1SS9, Capt. Ricks was ap- 
pointed Judge of this district by President liar- 




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rison. In this office Judge Ricks has displayed 
great ability, liis decisions being noted for their 
l)readth and accuracy. His decision in March, 
1893, in what is commonly known as the " Ann 
Arbor" case, involving tlie right of employees 
of railroads to quit the service of their employer 
without reference to conditions or circumstances 
under which they attempt to leave such employ- 
ment, attracted very general attention, and has 
been followed and approved in several recent 
and equally important cases. 

He has long since held a very high rank in 
his noble profession, and as a jurist and judge 
he is profound and learned. As a politician 
Judge Kicks has always been a firm and stanch 
Republican, but since accepting his present of- 
fice, the dignity, etiquette and usefulness of the 
same has not permitted him to take that inter- 
est and active part in the interests of the party 
which he would be inclined to under othei- cir- 
cumstances. He has always taken an enthusi- 
astic interest in Kenyon College, his alma mater, 
and has delivered lectures on Common Law and 
Code of Pleading. 



ILLIAM TAYLOR.— The late AVilliam 
,, Taylor, who was the head of the large 
1 wholesale and retail dry-goods house of 
"William Taylor, Son & Company, was one of 
Cleveland's most successful merchants and hon- 
ored citizens. He was a native of Scotland, 
born at Torphichen, Linlithgowshire, on July 
13, 1832, came to America when a young man 
and took a position in the dry-goods house of 
Hogg, Brown & Taylor, in Boston, his brother, 
John Taylor, being the junior member of that 
firm, which in its time was one of the largest 
in the country. From Boston Mr. Taylor re- 
moved to Nashua, New Hampshire, and engaged 
in the dry-goods business at that place until 
1870, when he came to Cleveland, accompanied 
by Thomas Kilpatrick, with whom he estab- 
lished the dry-goods house of Taylor, Kilpat- 
rick Aj Company, opening their store in the 



Gushing Block on Euclid avenue and the Public 
Square, the present location of the business. 
In January, 1885, Mr. J. Livingstone Taylor 
became a member of the firm, and this partner- 
ship was dissolved in 1886, Mr. Kilpatrick re- 
tiring. The firm then became William Taylor, 
Son & Company. During the latter part of 
the year 1887 Mr. Taylor's health began failing, 
and his death occurred on the 20th day of De- 
cember of that year. 

Mr. Taylor was a man of sterling worth and 
character. As a business man he was very 
successful and was widely known in commercial 
circles, particularly in the East. As a citizen 
he was all that could be desired, being enter- 
prising, public-spirited and patriotic. He was 
an active church member and worker, having 
been an Elder, Trustee and Sabbath-school 
teacher in the Woodland Avenue Presbyterian 
Church. In all the local charities he was most 
liberal in his contributions, and his direct dona- 
tions tu the deserving poor were large and time- 
ly. His desire to assist worthy young men in 
life resulted in the establishment in business of 
many who might otherwise have been forced to 
occupy subordinate positions in life, instead of 
becoming proprietors of establishments of their 
own. In all that pertained to Scotland Mi'. 
Taylor was an enthusiast. He was a life mem- 
ber of the Boston Scotts' Charitable Society, 
and of the Cleveland St. Andrew's Society, tak- 
ing an active and generous interest in the work 
of the latter organization. The St. Andrew's 
Society passed the following resolutions upon 
his death, which are a just tribute to the man 
and member: 

'■'■Resolved, That in the death of Mr. William 
Taylor, our society and the community has sus- 
tained an irreparable loss. By the urbanity of 
his manner, the integrity of his life, the sincer- 
ity of his friendship, and the genial, generous 
sunshine of his noble, manly nature, he en- 
deared himself to all who had the pleasure of 
making his acquaintance. The death of such a 
man is a public calamity, and while wc bow in 
tearful sorrow to the inscrutable providence 



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that removed him from our midst, we neverthe- 
less are cheered bj the recollection that he illus- 
trated in his death, as in his life, the true nobil- 
ity of a Christian character. 

"Resolved, That we will sacredly cherish 
his memory in our hearts because of his many 
private virtues, his great moral worth and ex- 
cellent business qualities, his great executive 
ability and unflagging industry. Generous- 
hearted and sincere, his good riglit hand was 
ever ready to aid a friend. He never spoke ill 
of his fellow men or gave countenance to evil 
report, but on every occasion stood ready and 
willing to become the champion and defender 
of the oppressed. Many, very many, of his 
countrymen and other nationalities owe lasting 
debts of gratitude to him for repeated acts of 
disinterested kindness and unselfish eti'orts in 
their behalf. 

Resolved, That, as a testimonial of our af- 
fectionate memory of his noble deeds, we attend 
his funeral, as many as can conveniently, as a 
further expression of our sadness and sorrow, 
and extend to the bereaved family our heartfelt 
condolence, and that we be reminded in our 
business that in the midst of life we are in 
death. 

'•'■Resolved, That a copy of these minutes be 
presented to the family of the deceased brother, 
and that the same be spread on the records of 
the society." 

In Boston, in 1870, Mr. Taylor was united in 
married with Margaret Duncan, who was born 
in Ballachulish, Scotland, in 1835, and came to 
America in 1847. Mrs. Taylor survived her 
husband about two and a half years, and died 
on June 18, 1889. Four children were born in 
their family, one of whom, the late J. Livings- 
tone Taylor, survived childhood. Mrs. Taylor 
was one of the noble women of Cleveland. She 
was a devout Christian and church worker. 
By her good works was she known, by her ef- 
forts in behalf of the poor, by her devotion to 
tlie cause of charity. Never was an appeal 
made to lier in vain. She sought out the poor 
homes and gave freely of her ample 



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means. Her soul lay in the work, and her many 
deeds of charity and kindness were performed 
in secret and an unostentatious manner, by the 
bedside of the sick and stricken, and among 
these who had need of her gentle voice and 
helping hand. Following the death of her hus- 
band Mrs. Taylor and son united with the Case 
Avenue Presbyterian Church. 



SAMUEL GLUCK, Secretary of the Jew- 
ish Hungarian Congregation, also engaged 
in the insurance business in Cleveland, 
was born in Hungary, February 28, 1830. His 
father, Jacob Gluck, died in that country 
about twenty-five years ago, at the age of sixty- 
five years. His widow came to the United 
States in 1880, and since that time has been an 
honored resident of Cleveland. She is now 
eighty-nine years of age. 

Samuel, their only son, received his education 
in Hungary and Germany, and followed mer- 
chandising at his native place until coming to 
America in 1879. Li 1848 he served nineteen 
months in the war between Austria, Russia and 
Hungary, having lield the position of First 
Corporal of his company, and took part in the 
battles of Kapalna, Buda Festli, Waitzen and 
others. He was never wounded or captured 
during his service. On coming to this country 
Mr. Gluck was in a terrific storm for six days, 
and death seemed imminent almost any moment. 
After arriving, he came direct to Cleveland, 
where he first sold medicine and later served as 
bookkeeper in a German passage business, also 
in the office of the Metropolitan Insurance Com- 
pany. He is now agent for several insurance 
companies. 

Mr. Gluck was married in December, 1856, 
to Miss Hannah Grossman, a daughter of Moses 
Grossman, formerly of Germany, but long since 
deceased. They have had six children, viz.: 
Fannie, wife of Fritz Kohn, of Hungary, and 
their children are Hugo and Josephine; Ilar- 
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and tliey have two sons and two daughters; 
Rigiem, wife of Morris Klein, of New York; 
Laura, wife of Solomon Uliner, of New Straits- 
ville, Ohio, and their four children are Willie, 
Jakie, P'raiikie and Martha; Pauline, married 
and living in Omaha; and Linka, wife of D. 
Samliner, of Colorado, and they have two chil- 
dren, Gerome and Helen Root. The family 
are members of the Jewish Congregation. Mr. 
Gluck is a member of the Sons of Benjamin, 
Berith Abraham and the Equitable Union. 



APTAIN JOSEPH B. MOLYNEAUX,a 
member of the Board of Equalization and 
Assessment, was born near Ann Arbor, 
Michigan, January 1, 1840. At seven years of 
age he was thrown upon his own resources. In 
1844 his mother died and his father, Thomas 
Molyneaux, removed with liis children to Elmira, 
New York. Young Josepii attended school very 
little, being employed providing for that sup- 
port which ought to be guaranteed to every child 
of immature years. In 1852 he was dispatch 
messenger, operating between New York city 
and Dunkirk. He was ne.xt emploj'ed as bell- 
boy by Henry Rogers, proprietor of the Ameri- 
can House at Binghamton, New York. He 
spent one year with Professor Lowe, afterward 
the famous aeronaut, who was giving magical 
performances about the country. Leaving the 
professor at Bellville, Ohio, he came to Cleve- 
land, after first studying medicine about one 
year in the office of Dr. Whitcomb. He set 
about learning the printer's trade in the office of 
Wicks & Williston, job printers, and was with 
them and with the old Herald till the breaking 
out of the Civil war. 

Mr. Molyneaux entered the service of the 
Union early in 1861, enlisting as a private in 
Company B, Captain DeVilliers, Seventh Ohio 
Regiment, Colonel E. B. Tyler. This regiment 
was organized for three months' service, during 
which period Mr- Molyneaux was made a Ser- 



geant and drill master of his company, and 
upon reaching Camp Dennison he was made drill 
master of the non- commissioned officers of the 
regiment. Upon tiie reorganization of the reg- 
iment in June, 1861, for three yeai-s' service, 
Sergeant Molyneaux was unanimously elected 
First Lieutenant of his company, James Sterling 
being chosen Captain. The regiment was or- 
dered into western Virginia and was immediately 
called into action, the first engagement being at 
Cross Lanes, August 26, 1861. In quick suc- 
cession followed the engagements at Fayetteville, 
Dogwood Gap, McCoy's Mill, Ballou's Gap and 
Bloomery Furnace, at which last place another 
battle was fought during a later campaign. In 
September, 1861, Captain Molyneaux was 
detailed, immediately after the Cross Lanes 
engagement, by Colonel Tyler to assume com- 
mand of Company E of the same regiment. 
Another detailed order terminated a brief ser- 
vice with this company, placing him in command 
of a company of the First Kentucky Regiment, 
and the day following his assuming command 
he was ordered to proceed from Camp Enyart 
across the Kanawha river in pursuit of General 
Imboden's cavalry, who were relieving the 
country of many of its surplus cattle. This 
expedition was successful. 

About December 1, 1861, a detachment of the 
regiment, with Captain Molyneaux in command 
of two companies, participated in the pursuit by 
General Benham, of Generals Floyd and Wise, 
up Loop creek, over Cotton mountain and 
through Fayetteville, nearly to Raleigh, Vir- 
ginia. Upon returning from this brief cam- 
paign in January, 1862, Captain Molyneaux was 
promoted to be Adjutant of the regiment. He 
accompanied General Lander as a volunteer aide 
on a raid in which more prisoners were taken 
than the number of Federal soldiers engaged in 
the fight. 

Genei-al Lander's death occurred soon after- 
ward, and Captain Molyneaux was given com- 
mand of the escort consisting of the entire divi- 
sion of the army, to conduct the remains from 
the general's headquarters to the train. 



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Captain ]\[ol_yiieaux was with his regiment in 
the battles of Strasbiirg, Winchester, Edenbnrg, 
Gaines Cross Eoads, White Plains, Front Eojal, 
Port Kepnblic, Bristow station and Cedar 
mountain, in which last engagement he had two 
horses shot from under him, and received three 
wonnds, — in the head, the right hand and the 
left leg. His wounds were healed in quarters 
and he remained on duty most of the time. He 
was present at the battle of Antietam, Berry- 
ville and Dumfries, and just prior to the last 
named engagement and after three times waiving 
his rank he was promoted to a captaincy, being 
assigned to the command of Company A, Seventh 
Regiment. He accepted the promotion reluct- 
antly, but remained in command of his company 
till after 18G3, when his disability forced him to 
resign his commission. 

Soon after his return to Cleveland Captain 
Molyneaux was prevailed upon to take command 
of a newly organized company, afterward Com- 
pany E, One Hundred and Fiftieth Oiiio 
National Guards, 100 men. This regiment was 
ordered to Washington, District of Columbia, 
and Captain Molyneaux was assigned to the 
command of FortTliayer, near Bladensburg, and 
took jiart in the repulse of General Early's 
attack on the capital. Upon the expiration of 
its time of service this company returned to 
Cleveland and was mustered out in August, 
1864. 

On re-entering civil pursuits Captain Moly- 
neaux arranged a partnership with G. S. New- 
burg and engaged in the printing and printers' 
supply business, continuing in the business till 
January, 1883, when he received the appoint- 
ment of Deputy County Recorder. This office 
he tilled until June 1, 1886, when he was 
appointed Assistant Postmaster, by Postmaster 
Jones, serving until relieved by the new admin- 
istration in May, 1891. In May, 1892, Captain 
Molyneaux was appointed to serve on the Board 
f)f Equalization and Assessment for three years. 

Tliomas Molyneaux, the founder of the family 
in this country, was born in Ireland and emi- 
grated to America in 18;32, and in company 



with two brothers-in-law settled on a farm near 
Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Molyneaux family 
were of French origin, the Captain's grand- 
father being compelled to leave the land of the 
Bonapartes because he got on the wrong side of 
the Revolution of 1793. Thomas Molyneaux 
married Margaret Twambly, whose father, Peter 
Twambly, was an Irish tobacconist. 

Four sons were born by this marriage: Robert, 
now a resident of Elmira, New York; Henry 
and Thomas, both killed in battle; and Joseph 
B. Thomas Molyneaux was lost at sea while 
returning to Ireland to become an inheritor in 
an estate of the family. 

May 26, 1863, Captain Molyneaux married, 
in Cleveland, Nettie, a daughter of William A. 
Lyon, an engineer and pattern-maker, and later 
in life an enthusiastic Freemason. The Captain's 
children are: William V., a clerk in the post 
office; Robert T. and Ray L. 

He is a member of Iris Lodge and Webb 
Chapter ,A. F. & A. M., of the National Union, 
the Loyal Legion, and of the G. A. R. He 
is a member of the Soldiers and Sailors' Monu- 
ment Commission. 



J|OHN THOMAS, prominent in life insur- 
[ ance circles, was born at Duanesburg, 
-^ Schenectady county. New York, in 1838. 
His father was the Rev. W. B. Thomas, 
rector of the Episcopal Church at that place, 
and his paternal grandfather was Dr. John 
Thomas of Poughkeepsie, New York, who was 
a surgeon in the Revolutionary war, being a 
personal friend of General George Washington. 
Mr. Thomas' mother was a daughter of Henry 
Livingston, a (^olunial officer of the American 
Revolution. 

While he was yet a cliiM, Mr. Thomas' par- 
ents removed to Poughkeepsie, New York, 
their birth-place, and here they educated their 
son at the Dutchess County Academy, and other 
schools. In his fifteenth year lie acquired the 
art of telegraphy at the regular commercial 
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tor, and was appointed to a position on the 
Western division of the New York & Erie 
Railroad. After one year's service he was made 
chief operator of one of the larger offices, and 
in the course of another jear was appointed 
chief operator of that division of the line, with 
an ofKce at Jersey City, where he remained 
about eighteen months, at the close of which he 
accepted the position of telegraphic train dis- 
patcher on the Michigan Central Kailroad with 
his office at Kalamazoo, Michigan. His age 
was eighteen at tiie time of accepting this re- 
sponsible position, which he held for seven years. 
In 1863 he obtained leave of absence for the 
purpose of offering his services to the Govern- 
ment during the Civil war. For a time he 
served in the telegraphic corps of the army, and 
was then appointed train despatchcr of the 
United States military railroads, with the office 
at Alexandria, Virginia, those roads being 
under the superintendence of Mr. J. H. Dever- 
eux. In the spring of 1864, Mr. Devereiix 
having accepted the appointment of superin- 
tendent of the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad, 
Mr. Thomas took the position of superintendent 
of telegraph and train despatcher on the same 
road, having previously made formal resignation 
of his position on the Michigan Central Rail- 
road. In 1868 Mr. Thomas was made assistant 
superintendent of the Cleveland & Pittsburg 
Railroad under superintendent William Stewart, 
who succeeded to Mr. Devereux" vacated post. 
In 1871, the Pennsylvania Company, under the 
general management of Mr. J. JM. McCullough, 
who was also president of the Cleveland & 
Pittsburg Railroad, leased the Cleveland & 
Pittsburg road for 999 years. Mr. Stewart was 
made general freight agent for all western lines, 
and Mr. Thomas superintendent of .the Cleve- 
land & Pittsburg Division. This position Mr. 
Thomas held for more than ten years. On en- 
tei-ing the service of the Cleveland & Pittsburg 
Company, in 1864, his office was in Wellsville, 
at which point he resided until 1872, when he 
removed to Cleveland, having built a residence 
on Willson avenue, in that city. 



In 1866 he suggested the establishment of 
the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad Reading 
Room Association. This association now has a 
fine library of over 2,000 volumes, located in 
the station building at Wellsville. 

In 1869 he took a very active part in the 
erection of the Episcopal Church in Wellsville, 
and soon after a rectory also. An excursion by 
rail to Cleveland, and by steam on Lake Erie, 
netted a considerable sum to the church build- 
ing fund. In 1870 Mr. Thomas was largely 
instrumental in the preparation of a code of 
rules and regulations for the working of the 
Cleveland & Pittsburg road, which in actual 
operation proved very siiccessfal. Later, and 
under the management of Mr. J. D. Layng, 
then general manager of the Pennsylvania Com- 
pany, a special committee of superintendents 
was appointed to prepare a code of rules for 
the governance of all the western lines of the 
Pennsylvania Company. Of this committee, 
Mr. Thomas was made chairman. The work of 
this committee, when submitted to the general 
manager and other general officers, was ap- 
proved, and the code of rules so prepared con- 
tinued in force for a number of years. 

In January, 1882, Mr. Thomas was tendered — 
and accepted — the position of general superin- 
tendent of the Chicago Division of the Balti- 
more & Ohio Railroad Company, with head- 
quarters in Chicago. This position he retained 
for one year and three months, when he resigned 
and at once returned to the service of the 
Pennsylvania Company as general superin- 
tendent of all northwestern lines, except the 
Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad. This position 
he retained about two years and a half, with his 
residence at Pittsburg. He then returned to the 
Cleveland & Pittsburg Division of the Penn- 
sylvania lines, and again resided in Cleveland. 
He held the position of superintendent and 
later general agent of the company in Cleveland. 
In August, 1892, he resigned railroad service. 
He had entered that service when fourteen 
years of age, and he resigned at the age of fifty- 
four, — just forty years of service. His resig- 



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nation was teudered in order to accept the 
general agency for Northern Ohio of the 
Berksliire Life Insurance Company of Mas- 
sachusetts, iu which position he has charge of 
tlie Cleveland ofSce. In 1S93 Mr. Thomas was 
elected a member of the executive committee of 
the Life Underwriters' Association, and a dele- 
gate to the National Convention. 

From youth, Mr. Thomas has been a member 
of the Episcopal Church. He has for many 
years been a member of St. Paul's parish in 
Cleveland, and was for a long time the superin- 
tendent of the Sunday-school. He has many 
times been a delegate to the diocesan convention 
of the church, and the convention of 1893 
elected him treasurer of the diocese of Ohio. 

October 17, 1865, Mr. Thomas married Miss 
Elizabeth Bean, of WellsviUe, Ohio. She died 
after a very brief illness, in May, 18G9. Two 
sons, John and Hugh Livingston, were born 
in this family, the eldest of whom, John, died 
in early infancy. 

February 7, 1877, Mr. Thomas married 
Miss Margaret H. Bouton of Brooklyn, New 
York, and the marriage has been blessed by the 
Ijirtli of two daughters. Marguerite Livingston 
and Helen Electa. 



Iy R. F. E. BUNTS, physician and surgeon 
Ij of Cleveland, was born in Youngstown, 
— -^ Mahoning county, Ohio, June 3, 18G1, a 
son of Captain William C. and Clara (Barnhisel) 
Bunts, natives also of this State. His father 
was an attorney, and at the time of his death, 
January 17, 1874, at the age of forty-one years, 
was serving his second term as City Solicitor 
for Cleveland. 

In 18G2 he enlisted iu the One Hundred and 
Twenty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in Com- 
pany B, as Captain, Ijut, owing to poor health, 
lie soon resigned his position and served as 
Judge Advocate, and later as acting Assistant 
Adjutant General on the staff of Major General 
Ilosecrans, at Nashville, and reniained in that 



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Returning to Cleveland in 1866, he was 
United States District Attorney until elected 
City Solicitor. For a young man he had a very 
bright legal career before him; was extensively 
and favorably known throughout the State. He 
had a peculiar individuality that made his friend- 
ships sincere and lasting. He was Department 
Commander of Ohio in the G. A. R. for two 
years; was prominent in politics, a Republican 
and a Freemason. His greatest interest, how- 
ever, was in the work of the Grand Army post. 
His wife, born in 1838, is living with Dr. Bunts 
in Cleveland. The children in the above fam- 
ily were: Henry C, an attorney in Cleveland; 
F. E., our subject; Cora L., wife of John Stam- 
baugh, Jr., of Youngstown; Fred W.and Sue A. 

Di'. Bunts, whose name heads this sketch, 
was educated in the Cleveland high school and 
at Girard, where he received from General Gar- 
field the appointment of Cadet Midshipman to 
the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, in 
1877. In the competitive examination at War- 
ren he stood No. 1. Graduating in 1881, he 
made a two years' cruise to the Asiatic Station, 
visiting the islands of the South Pacific and the 
principal ports of China and Japan. On this 
expedition he served as signal officer on the 
staff of Rear Admiral J. M. B. Clitz. He 
visited the island of Samoa, later the scene of 
the disaster in which three United States vessels 
and several German ships were lost. One class- 
mate, Lieutenant F. E. Sutton, was among tlie 
lost. Dr. Bunts was detached from the Asiatic 
Station in order to come home for promotion, 
reaching home in June, 1883, after an absence 
of two years. He passed the examination, then 
resigned and commenced the study of medicine, 
in the fall of 1883. His preceptor was Dr. 
W. J. Scott, of Cleveland, and he graduated in 
the medical department of the Western Reserve 
University, in 1886. Then, until October fol- 
lowing, he was house physician at tMiarity Hos- 
pital. Next, associating himself with Dr. P'rank 
J. Weed, he opened up in general practice. Dr. 
Weed died in 1891, and Dr. Bunts is now 
located at No. 3S0 Pearl street. He is a mem- 



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ber of the American Medical Association, the 
Ohio State Medical Society, tlie Cuyahoga County 
Medical Society, the Cleveland Society of Medi- 
cal Sciences and of the Ohio State Eailway As- 
sociation; he is also a Fellow of the American 
Electro-tlierapeutic Association. lie is surgeon 
for the Cleveland, Cincinnati & St. Louis Rail- 
road Company and of the New York, Cliicago 
& St. Louis Railroad Company. He was made 
lecturer on minor surgery in the medical de- 
partment of the University of Wooster in 1887, 
Professor of the same in 1888, Professor of the 
Principles of Surgery in 1889, and Professor of 
Principles of Surgery and Clinical Surgery in 
1892, which latter position he filled until 1894, 
when lie resigned and accepted the same chair 
in the Medical College of tlie Western Reserve 
University. 

In the autumn of 1889 and spring of 1890, 
Dr. Bunts was in Berlin, Paris, Vienna and 
London, studying surgery in the hospitals of 
those cities. Dr. Bunts is well read in his pro- 
fession, in which he takes great pride and ex- 
hibits a high degree of skill. 

In 1889 the Doctor married Miss Harriet E. 
Taylor, a daughter of V. C. Taylor, of Cleve- 
land, and they have two children. Their names 
are Clara Louise and Virgil Taylor. The Doc- 
tor is a Republican in his political sympathies. 



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C. ROLAND, cashier of the Cleveland 
post office, was born in Ohio county, West 
Virginia, November 26, 1846. His grand- 
father, Abram Roland, emigrated to that county 
from eastern Pennsylvania, where the family 
had been settled many years, near Lancaster. 
Abram Roland first left home at fourteen years 
of age, but remained in Pennsylvania until his 
marriage to Miss Cline, after which he settled 
in what became known as West Liberty, West 
Virginia, near Wheeling. The valley in which 
Wheeling is situated was not then even a settle- 
ment, the Zano block-house famous in Indian 
warfare l)eino; built about that time. Mr. 



Roland was a powerfully built and active man, 
and was identified with many of the stirring 
events which marked the early history of Ohio 
county. Being a tanner, he established yards 
at West Liberty and conducted his trade there 
for fully fifty years, or until his death, which 
occurred about 1840. 

George W. Roland, the father of the subject 
of this sketch, was born July 24, 1812, being 
one of the youngest of a large family of chil- 
dren. In early life he was a very active and 
successful business man: was a contractor and 
builder in Wheeling, and many of her best 
buildings bear testimony to his workmanship. 
Prior to the war he operated a large planing- 
mill in that city. In 1863 he moved to Belmont 
county, Ohio, and engaged in farming as well as 
building. In 1870 he moved to Dallas county, 
Iowa, and gave his time to agriculture till his 
death, in March, 1892. He married Susan Ann, 
a daughter of George Brown, who was a farmer 
of Jefferson county, Ohio, and they had six chil- 
dren, two of whom reached the age of maturity, 
namely: Mrs. Elizabeth McCoy, of Chillicothe, 
Missouri; and J.C. Roland. Mrs. Roland died 
in 1848, and Mr. Roland, in 1850, married 
Rebecca Anne Moore. The children by that 
union were: J. M., a jeweler at Greenville, 
Pennsylvania; and Mrs. Anna Clark, of Dallas 
county, Iowa. The third marriage of Mr. Ro- 
land occurred in 1857, when he wedded Mary 
Ann Faris, and their children are: George B., 
William F. and Arthur W., — all of whom are 
located in the far West. 

Mr. J. C. Roland was educated in the public 
schools of Wheeling, completing the course at 
fourteen years of age, and soon afterward en- 
gaged in the jewelry business with a brother- 
in-law at Grafton, same State; but the business 
was cut short early by young Roland's enlist- 
ment for the Union in the great war. August 
7, 1862, at Wheeling, he joined Company II, 
Fifteenth West Virginia Volunteer Infantry. 
His regiment remained in that State until the 
spring of 1864, when it was transferred to the 
Kanawha valley and attached to General Crook's 



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division of the Ai-my of West Virginia. It 
participated in the battles of Cloyd mountain 
and Xew river bridge, May 9 and 10, and, join- 
ing General Hunter at Staunton, Yirginia, par- 
ticipated in the engagement at Lynchburg, Vir- 
ginia, June 17 and 18. On the failure of the 
army to reduce the place, it retreated by way ot 
the Kanawha, Charleston and the upper Ohio 
to Harper's Ferry, which point it reached in 
time to follow General Early and engage him at 
Island Ford, Kernstown, Berryville, Opequan, 
Fisher's Hill and Cedar creek. In December, 
1864, Mr. Roland's division of the Army of 
Western Virginia was transferred and made a 
part of the Second Division of the Twenty-fourth 
Army Corps, Army of the James, and thrown 
in front of Richmond, later to the left and center 
of Petersburg, taking active part in the opera- 
tions around that city. After the fall of Peters- 
burg his division followed and supported Sheri- 
dan's cavalry to Appomatto.x Court House, and 
was in front at the attack on the remnant of 
Lee'e array and the capture of the same, April 
9, 1805. Mr. Roland's division took possession 
of Lynchburg, and soon afterward marched to 
Richmond, and was mustered out June 14, 
1805. During the latter part of his sei-vice Mr. 
Roland was attached to brigade headquarters as 
Chief Orderly. 

On returning to civil pursuits Mr. Roland 
was engaged for two years in building opera- 
tions with his father. In December, 1869, he 
came to Cleveland and connected himself with 
the Plain-dealer as advertising solicitor. Later 
he served as secretary and business manager of 
the concern, and after the paper changed hands 
was manager of the advertising department. In 
1887 he accepted his present position under 
Postmaster Armstrong. He is an active mem- 
lier of the G. A. R., being a member of the 
Army and Navy Post. In 1873-74 he was 
Assistant Adjutant General of the Department 
of Ohio. He is frequently a delegate to State 
and national encampments, and is a Past Com- 
mander of his post, and a meml)er of the Depart- 
ment Council of Administration. 



November 2, 1869, Mr. Roland married 
Louise, a daughter of Hon. A. C. Ramage, of 
Belmont county, Ohio. Their children are Mary 
Louise and John C, Jr. 



DE FORREST BAKER, one of the lead- 
1 ing physicians of Cleveland, located in 
— ' ' the Kendall Building, 106 Euclid ave- 
nue, was born in Lorain county, Ohio, Septem- 
ber 17, 1851, a son of Benjamin and M. U. 
Baker. In his early life the fatlier was a mer- 
chant in New York city, next engaged in mill- 
ing at Columbia, Lorain county, Ohio, and 
afterward traded his mill for a farm in that 
county, where he still resides, aged eighty-one 
years. For many years he has been an officer 
in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Baker 
departed this life December 22, 1860, having 
also been a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. They were the parents of three chil- 
dren. The eldest, Bethia W., is still at home. 
The second child, Merrill E., was formerly en- 
gaged in railroading, and is now superintendent 
of the Cleveland Stone Company at the West 
View Stone Quarry. For the past thirty-three 
yeai-s he has been Recording Steward in the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, and has also been 
Superintendent of the Sunday-school for many 
years. Mr. Baker married Eugenia M., a 
daughter of Rev. Disbro, pastor of the Method- 
ist Episcopal Church. To this union has been 
born one daughter, Edith, wife of Professor 
Palmer, of Lake Forest University, Illinois. 

De Forrest Baker, the youngest child in the 
abova family, received his education in the 
Baldwin University. He studied medicine with 
Dr. Van Norman, later with Dr. Boynton, and 
graduated at the Homceopathic Hospital Col- 
lege of Cleveland, in February, 1878. After 
practicing his profession in Norwalk, Ohio, for 
a time. Dr. Baker came to Cleveland, and the 
firm of Van Norman & Baker was established. 
That partnership existed four years. The Doc- 
tor is a memlier of the Ohio State Homceopathic 



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Medical Society, is a charter member of the 
Hound Table Club, is Lecturer to the School of 
Trained Nurses at the Pluron Street Hospital, 
and professor of psediatrics and diseases of the 
nervous system in the Cleveland University of 
Medicine and Surgery. 

Dr. Baker was married October 19, 1881, to 
Miss Carrie Day, a daughter of I. D. and Eliza- 
Ijeth Wagar, of Lakewood, Ohio. Mrs. Baker 
is an artist in oil painting and music, and a 
member of the New Jerusalem Church. Our 
subject and wife have had two children: Hazel 
Urania, and Elizabeth, who died at the age of 
four and a half months. In political matters 
the Doctor affiliates with the Republican party. 



I| LIVINGSTONE TAYLOR, deceased, son 
J^ ll of tlie late William and Margaret(Duncan) 
Vi^ Taylor, was one of Cleveland's most prom- 
inent young business men and citizens, having 
succeeded his father as the liead of the large 
dry-goods house of William Taylor, Son & Com- 
pany: 

Mr. Taylor was born in Boston, Massachu- 
setts, on November 12, 1861, and came with 
his parents to Cleveland when nine years of 
age. He received his education in the public 
schools of Cleveland, his earliest education, 
however, having been received from his moth- 
er. He was an ambitious student and grad- 
uated at an early age, with honors, from 
the Cleveland Central High School, being a 
member of the first graduating class at that in- 
stitution. Upon leaving school he entered the 
ilry-goods house of Taylor, Kilpatrick & Com- 
pany, taking a subordinate position as a clerk, 
it being the desire of both himself and father 
that he work his way up from the lowest con- 
sistent position to a place in the firm, receiving 
promotion as he earned it, and thus becoming a 
pi'actical merchant. He was energetic, pains- 
taking and attentive to his duty in all the de- 
tails, and his advancement was rapid from a 
jilace beliind the counter to one of responsibil- 



ity in the wholesale department, and thence to 
a membership in the firm, which became Will- 
iam Taylor, Son & Company, in 1886. Upon 
the death of his father in 1889 he succeeded hitn 
as tlie head of the firm. 

He was married on April 30, 1890, to Miss 
Sophia Strong, daughter of Mr. Charles H. 
Strong, one of the well known pioneer citizens 
of Cleveland. Mr. Taylor's death occurred on 
November 7, 1892. His business interests 
upon his death were taken up by Mrs. Taylor, 

There was much in the life of Mr. Taylor 
worthy of emulation l)y the rising generation, 
and it is the ol)ject of this brief sketch to pre- 
serve for the future the salient points in his 
character. Though but thirty-on<3 years of age, 
his success in business was far beyond that of 
the average man of iiis years, and his reputa- 
tion in commercial cii-cles, both at home and 
aljroad, was most enviable. The establishment 
of which he was the head was one of the largest 
and naost substantial in the State of Ohio, and 
it was due to a great extent to his eflPorts and 
methods that it reached the proud position it 
then and now occupies. He was a member of 
the Board of Trade of Cleveland, and was in- 
terested in public matters to the extent of lend- 
ing his aid to all movements having for tiieir 
aim the building up, beautifying and edifying 
of the city. But it was aside from the busy 
marts of commerce and business that the char- 
acter of Mr. Taylor was most beautiful, his 
worth as a Christian man and worker overshad- 
owing somewhat the brilliant man of business. 
He was a member of the Case Avenue Presby- 
terian Church, and was one of the most active 
and persistent workers in the church. His pas- 
tor paid the following tribute to the life of Mr. 
Taylor: 

" His godliness was a particularly prominent 
trait in his character. There are two conditions 
in which it is liard to Uvea truly religious life — 
in poverty, and in prosperity. I can easily un- 
derstand how heavy business responsibilities 
and cares may tend to draw a man's attention 
away fr.;>in religious matters, but such was not 



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the case with Mr. Taj lor. He was present at 
the regular meetings of his church, the morn- 
ing preaching, the evening service, the prayer 
meeting. I ever knew jnst where to cast my 
eyes to find him. He was always faithful in 
attendance so long as his health remained. 
When, one by one, the activities of his life were 
given up, I knew that his devotion to God was 
as great as ever. There were three things that 
characterized his life and made it round and 
complete. They were his godliness, his truth- 
fulness and his manner of taking God into his 
affairs of life." 

Another minister, and a warm personal friend, 
compared the life of Mr. Taylor as a wliole with 
that of John the Baptist, whose allotted work 
was finished before his death, and said: "As 
one to whom the departed brother was as a 
son, I feel that I can answer the question, 'Why 
was his life so brief?' It was because his work 
was finished, his allotted task ended, his course 
fulfilled. His life was not a failure, not an un- 
completed fragment, but a full, round exist- 
ence." 

The following tribute is from a co-laborer in 
Y. M. C. A. work: 

" He was first a clerk in his father's store, 
soon a partner, and a little later on he suddenly 
had the responsibilities of an enormous whole- 
sale and retail business thrust upon him, at the 
age of twenty-six, by the death of his father. 
Then rapidly increasing cares, a steadily enlarg- 
ing business, trebling in five years, expanding 
wealth, a widely known business man, the head 
of one of the largest establishments in Ohio, 
and all this before he was thirty. This was the 
world's view of the rising young man. But 
from the standpoint of personal friendships he 
was most of all and foremost of all a devoted, 
humble, earnest Christian. He was a rare and 
beautiful example of sterling manhood. Fol- 
lowing in the footsteps of his remarkable moth- 
er, he was a devoted Bible student, of unusual 
attainments. He was an able personal worker, 
an earnest, vigorous speaker, in association busi- 
ness affairs one of the wisest and shrewdest 



counselors, and an untiring officer. He made 
money rapidly, but ever and only for his Mas- 
ter's glory; the larger the profits, the greater 
the proportion given back to the Lord. In an 
absolutely literal sense Jesus of Xazareth was 
a partner in the business, and Mr. Taylor was 
always on the lookout for places to wisely in- 
vest the proportion of profits belonging to the 
Lord. He had a right view of the purposes of 
life, and he had a right idea of the proper re- 
lations between employer and employed. The 
moral responsibility of an employer and the 
purpose of business in life were both well un- 
derstood by him. He held a right view of the 
stewardship of money. I have heard him say 
that he would never allow himself to become a 
millionaire, and he gave himself wholly to his 
convictions. His views upon the subject of the 
observance of the Sabbath were very strict, and 
he was most careful in following them. He 
would allow no work to be done about the store 
on Sunday under any consideration, and all 
those connected with him were fully aware of 
his convictions upon this point." 

Mr. Taylor was twice president of the Y. M. 
C. A. of Cleveland, and the following resolu- 
tions were adopted by that organization upon 
his death: 

" Whereas, It has pleased our Divine Mas- 
ter to remove from our association ranks, by 
death, our beloved brother John Livingstone 
Taylor, from May 1, 1889, to his death a direc- 
tor, and for two years, ending May 1, 1892, its 
president; and 

" Whereas, His sudden departure has strick- 
en our hearts with an overwhelming sense of 
the irreparable loss we have sustained, we, the 
board of dii'ectors of this association, desire to 
give expression in some fitting manner to his 
beloved companion, his business associates, and 
the community at large, of our appreciation of 
his warm-hearted loyalty and his wise counsels 
in aid of the work for young men in this city. 
Therefore, be it 

'^Jief:'ilved, That in the death of John Liv- 
ingstone Taylor this association has lost a true 



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friend, one whose noble example of sterling 
Cliristian manhood, bnsiness integrity, and true 
benevolence must leave its impress for good, 
upon the minds and hearts of all who knew 
him ; one who was a kind and faithful employer, 
with a deep and earnest responsibility for the 
highest interests of those whom he employed; 
and one who was ever ready, by his influence, 
and his means, as God had prospered him, to 
push forward the work of the Young Men's 
Christian Association, and advance the cause of 
Ciirist's kingdom in our midst. 

"•Resolved, That we extend our fraternal 
sympathy to the church in whose communion 
our brother worshiped; to the several benevo- 
lent organizations in this city, who ever found 
in him a warm, generous, constant friend, and 
to the missionaries of the cross in remote parts 
of the world, who have had cause to know, by 
reason of his unsparing gifts to them, how far 
his aid lias gone in relieving the burdens of the 
suffering and bringing souls to tlie foot of the 
cross. 

^'■Resolved, That we bow in iiumble submis- 
sion to tiie will of him whose ' ways are past 
finding out,' and may ' the God of peace, that 
peace which passeth all understanding,' bless us 
and cause his face to shine upon us, that we 
may be guided in this life to a closer emulation 
of tlie example of our departed brother; and 
may his memory speak to us, though liis voice 
lie silent; and may his life be a benediction to 
us, and at last may we meet and commune with 
him in the upper and better kingdom. 

^'■Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions 
be presented to his bereaved companion, and 
that they be engrossed upon the records of tlie 
association." 

Mr. Taylor was also an active member and 
oflicial of the " Floating Bethel," which society 
adopted the following resolution on his death: 

" Whereas, John Livingstone Taylor, one of 
the board of directors, who, on November 7, 
18U2, was called to a glorious future by the 
Savior he so much loved, honored and served, 
we feel our loss is very great; he was one of 



our most cheerful counseloi-s and conti-ibutors; 
no worthy missionary cause did he ever pass by; 
like the disciples of old, wiio gave the loaves 
and fishes to the Master to be blessed before 
they gave to the multitude, so he sought God's 
blessing upon his gifts; the fragments of his 
gifts when gathered up will be very great, for 
he cast his bread upon the wa ter, believing that 
he should find it after many days; therefore 

"■Resolved, That we extend to his widow our 
sympathy in her great bereavement. Her loss 
is felt by all who knew him. May God help 
her to bear her sorrow! " 

The charity of Mr. Taylor to all worthy ob- 
jects was unfailing and formed one of the chief 
characteristics of his life, yet it was given in a 
most humble and unostentatious way, and the 
good he did in this line will serve to long keep 
green his memory to those who were the recipi- 
ents of his generosity, both in money and in 
kind, sympathetic words of cheer and comfort. 




i\ EV. ALBERT BRONSON PUTNAM, 
/ Rector of Emmanuel Protestant Episco- 
^ pal Church of Cleveland, was born in 
Knox county, Ohio, March 17, 1848. 
Norman W. and Maria (Douglass) Putnam were 
his parents. His father was a native of Ver- 
mont and his mother of New York. In early 
life the father was a teacher of music and let- 
ters in New England and Northern New Y^ork. 
He came to Ohio in 1829, driving all the way 
in a wagon. He was a relative of Bishop 
Chase, at whose invitation became to Ohio and 
settled in Gambler, where he lived until 1892, 
when lie died, at the age of ninety-two years. 
For many years lie was in mercantile business 
at Gambler, but in his later days purciiased a 
farm and lived near that village. Being a man 
of a high order of intelligence and considerable 
literary attainment he furnished many valuable 
articles to various newspapers; was a thorough 
musician and a singer of ability, and a man of 
genial spirit and charitable disposition. In 



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many ways he was a remarkable man. For 
many years he was a Vestryman of Hareourt 
Parish, Gambler, and at times the leader of its 
clioir as well as its organist. In politics he al- 
ways took considerable interest, first being a 
Whig and later a Eepublican. His wife, of 
Scotch extraction and an amiable and good 
woman, died in 1886, at the age of seventy- 
three years. Through life she was a devout 
member of the Episcopal Cliurch. Her grand- 
parents, Thomas and Margaret Douglass, were 
married in 1769, came to America in 1776 and 
settled in New Jersey. The subject of this 
sketch is one of ten children, of whom five are 
living. The names of these children are: Anna 
E., Donglass, Eufus, Margaret R., John Henry, 
Maria Louisa, Albert Bronson, Mary (first) de- 
ceased, Mary (second) deceased and Frank. 

Donglass Putnam was in the Eleventli Eegi- 
ment of Indiana Volunteers in the war of the 
Rebellion and for three months served under 
General Lew AVallace. At the e.\piration of 
tiiis term lie enlisted in tiie Forty-third Indi- 
ana, in which he served until the close of the 
war. For several years he was quartermaster, 
being later promoted to a captaincy. He died 
in 1879, at the age of forty- three years. 

John H. Putnam graduated at Kenyon Col- 
lege in 1864, and immediately enlisted i n the 
Forty-third Indiana Regiment, in which lie 
served till the close of the war. In 1879 he 
died at Topeka, Kansas, where lie had gained 
considerable reputation as an attorney at law. 

Rev. Albert Bronson Putnam attended school 
in Gambier until in 1869 he was graduated at 
Kenyon College, at Gaml)ier. He graduated 
in tlieology also, and was ordained in Gambier, 
in 1872. As a minister he began his career at 
Painesville, Ohio, where he was temporarily 
located. His first rectorship was at Christ's 
Cliurch, Hudson, Ohio. Then he spent eight 
years in the State of Pennsylvania. In 1882 
he became rector of Hareourt school for boys 
at (lambier, of which he had charge for three 
years, wlien he became rector of St. Paul's 
Church, at ^It. Vernon. Upon coming to 



Cleveland iu 1889 he took his present cure, 
when there were but seventy-two communi- 
cants; the number has since increased to 250. 
In connection with the church is a Sunday- 
school — which over 150 pupils attend — and 
other parish organizations. 

The church of which tlie Rev. Mr. Putnam 
is now rector was established in 1876, with 
Rev. B. T. Noakes as its first rector. He served 
the parish for thirteen years and was succeeded 
by Mr. Putnam. Mr. Putnam was President 
of the Convention of the Diocese of Ohio in 
1889, which elected the Rev. Dr. Leonard 
Bishop, and has twice been sent by the Diocese 
of Ohio as a Delegate to the General Conven- 
tion of the Protestant Episcopal Church. 

January 7, 1875, Mr. Putnam married, at 
Massillon, Ohio, Miss Cora E. Dunn, a daugh- 
ter of John and Julia M. (Randall) Dunn. The 
mother is a sister of Alexander Randall, Gov- 
ernor of Wisconsin, 1857-'60 and afterward 
Postmaster General of the United States under 
President Johnson, and United States Minister 
to Italy. The children of Mr. Putnam and 
wife were Norman K., Julia D. and Frederick. 
In 1886 Mrs. Putnam died, at the age of thirty- 
two years, and in 1889 Mr. Putnam married, 
for his second wife. Miss Mary A. Dunn, a sis- 
ter of his first wife. ]iy this man-iage one 
child, Cora, has been born. 



F 



EV. JOHN H. NIEMANN, nastorof the 



( Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Church on 



Jj ^ Jersey street, Cleveland, was born in 
/ Hanover, Germany, April 11, 1S48. His 

parents were II. H. and Mary E. Niemann, both 
of German birth, who came to the United States 
in 1852, landing at New York City, whence 
they repaired to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where 
for years the father was superintendent of the 
Lutheran cemetery and where he died in 1874:, 
at the age of sixty-six years. The mother's 
death occurred in 1859, at Pittsburg, in her 
thirty-fifth year. They were life-long and faith- 



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fill members of the Evangelical Lutheran 
Church, and esteemed for their piety and indus- 
try. They had six children, of whom only three 
are now (1893) living. 

Rev. Niemann was a child of four years when 
his parents came to America. Upon reaching 
the proper age he was sent to Fort Wayne, In- 
diana, where he entered Concordia College, and 
between the years 1860 and 1866 completed a 
course. He then took a theological course at 
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri, com- 
pleting the curriculum in 1869. 

His first work as a minister was at Little 
Kock, Arkansas, where he remained until Jan- 
uary, 1876. He was the second pastor of his 
church in the State of Arkansas, the first being 
Rev. M. L. Wyneken, whose charge was at Fort 
Smith. In January, 1876, Rev. Niemann came 
to the city of Cleveland and became the pastor 
of Trinity Church, remaining as such until this 
date, 1893. His work here has been character- 
istic of ability, and he has succeeded in the ma- 
terial upbuilding of his congregation. lie has 
established three new churches in the city since 
coming to Cleveland. When he came to Cleve- 
lend there were only two churches of the Evan- 
gelical Lutheran denomination in the city; now 
there are eight, besides two missions. In the 
congregation of Trinity Church there are about 
300 families. In connection with the church 
is a parochial school, where attend upward of 
400 children, instructed by five male teachers. 
Tlie school is a graded one, and its pupils upon 
graduation are periTiitted admission to the Cleve- 
land public high schools. There is one mission 
utulerRev. Niemann's charge. He has for the 
last thirteen years been President of the Mid- 
dle District of the Missouri Synod of his church, 
sail! synod numbering about 1,400 ministers. 
This district comprises the States of Ohio and 
Indiana, having 110 congregations ami being 
one of the largest and most important districts 
of said Missouri Synod. 

Rev. Niemann was married October 8, 1872, 
to Miss Julia E. Walther, a daughter of C. F. 
W. Walther, I). D., president of Concordia 



Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Walther 
is best known as the " Lutheran Theologian " in 
this country, was the organizer of the Luth- 
eran Church in the United States, and died 
May 7, 1887, at the age of seventy-six years. 
His wife, Emily, died in 1875, at the age of 
seventy-four years. Mrs. Niemann, the youngest 
of four children, is a lady of culture and refine- 
ment. Rev. and Mrs. Niemann have but one 
child, namely, Ottilie, still of the home circle. 
Rev. Niemann has been a prominent mem- 
ber and a central figure in one of the large and 
influential religious bodies of this city for many 
years. He is yet in the prime of a most vigor- 
ous and useful manhood and his influence and 
best efforts have ever been recorded in the best 
interest and welfare of the cause of his Master 
in the church of his choice. He is genial, 
scholarly and in every way a most pleasant and 
cultured geutletnan. His library is large and 
of the standard theological and classical works. 
He has proved the right man in the right place, 
and the importance and success of his labors can 
best be told and understood when one observes 
the many institutions which he has organized, 
fostered and brought into prosperity, and the 
fact that no other ininister in the Middle Dis- 
trict enjoys a more universal esteem and re- 
spect. 



LONZO E. HYRE, editor and business 
manager of The Cuyahogan, published 
at Brooklyn, Ohio, was born January 1, 
1860, in Fairfield county, this State. His 
parents were Dr. H. C. Hyre and Amelia C. 
(Poff) Hyre. He is the elder of two children, 
the younger of whom died very early in life. 
Subsequent to the birth of these children the 
parents located in Brooklyn. 

Alonzo E. Hyre received his education in the 
public schools of Lancaster, Springfield, Colum- 
bus and other places, supplementing it by a 
course at Buchtel College, at Akron, Ohio, where 
he graduated in 1884 with the degree of B. S. 
While here at college he organized The Buchtel 



CUYAHOGA GOUNTF. 



Record, a higli-class college monthly, conducting 
the same two years. After bis graduation Mr. 
Hyre traveled tiiroughont the country in com- 
pany with George C. Miln, who was noted as a 
[ireaclier, and who left the pulpit for the stage, 
gaining considerable notoriety in the Shaks- 
perean plays. Mr. Hyre gained quite a reputa- 
tion as a comedian, and while in this profession 
was given the privilege of visiting the leading 
portions of the country, and gained considerable 
experience as well as a knowledge of the various 
important cities, among which Cleveland was 
most inviting to him. lie accepted the position 
of city editor of the Cleveland Daily Argus, a 
position which he held for almost two years, 
and giving up the same he began tlie publica- 
tion of a society and di'amatic paper known as 
Vanity Fair, which he issued for about two 
years. He then assumed the city editorship of 
the Sunday "World, and in that capacity did 
much to raise the standard of that journal, with 
which he was connected for one year. He then 
became interested, in 1888, in The Cuyahogan, 
and since that date has been manager and editor 
of the same. This journal he has made one of 
the most successful and prosperous of county 
and suburban papers. It has a wide circulation 
and is one of the cleanest, most respectable and 
newsy sheets of its kind. 

Politically Mr. Hyre is a Republican, and he 
has figured conspicuously as a worker in the 
ranks of his party. He was for four years a 
member of the county committee, and for two 
years one of the executive committee of his 
party. Recently he was urged by friends to 
become a candidate for the legislature, but for 
this honor he declined to enter the race. As an 
editor he is both brilliant and successful, and 
bears a most striking personal resemblance to 
the celebrated " Bill Nye." Mr. Hyre's friends 
claim that the resemldance does not stop with 
the smooth face and pate, but that in wit and 
genial humor he is not far behind " The 
Boomerang" editor. 

Mr. Hyre was married April 15, 1886, to 
Miss S. Emma Cadwallader, of Akron, Ohio, 



who was a student of Buchtel College and a 
member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma. Mr. 
and Mrs. Hyre have two children: Rexford C, 
born March 11, 1887; and Raymond E., Jan- 
uary 29, 1890. 

Fraternally Mr. Hyre not only belongs to the 
Knights of Pythias and National Union, Ijut is 
also a member of the Greek letter college fra- 
ternity. Delta Tau Delta. 



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E. LINDEN, M. D., Ph. G., a practic- 
ing physician of South Brooklyn vil- 
lage, was born in the city of Cleveland 
on the 6th day of October, 1858. His parents 
were John and Sibylla (Kueth) Linden. Both par- 
ents were born in Germany: hence our subject 
is of German lineage. His early scholastic 
training was received in the schools of Cleveland 
Germany and Switzerland. After graduating 
at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 
1881 he entered Western Reserve Medical 
College where he graduated in 1883. He 
then went to Berlin, Germany, where at the 
Royal College of Medicine he received a di- 
ploma in 1884. Returning to America he 
entered upon the practice of his profession in 
Cleveland, and a few years later located at 
South Brooklyn, where he has since enjoyed a 
large and lucrative practice. 

In 1885 he wedded Nellie E.Ward, daughter 
of the late Daniel Ward of Cleveland, and they 
have two children: James Emil, born Septem- 
ber 29, 1886; and John Edgar, October 14, 
1888. 

Dr. Linden himself is one of ten children, 
seven of whom are living. Of these children, 
John Linden is a prominent merchant of Cleve- 
land; Hugo Linden is a Cleveland druggist; 
Mrs. Lizzie Albrecht resides in Detroit, Michigan; 
Mrs. Bertha Mitchell is a resident of Chicago; 
Mrs. Martha Muehlenbeck, of South Brooklyn; 
and Clara resides with her parents, wiiose home 
is now in Coblenz on the Rhine, Ciermany. 



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Fraternally Dr. Linden is a member of the 
order of Kniglits of Pythias and is at present 
M. of E. and D. G. C. of liis lodge. He was a 
charter member of Brooklyn Lodge, No. 426. 
He is also a member of the Chosen Friends, 
Cleveland Council, No. 5, and the Equitable 
Aid Union, of which order he is Grand Presi- 
dent of Ohio. He is also a member of the 
Cleveland Medical Society. The Doctor has 
collected an excellent library, and is a close and 
continuous student of his profession, keeping 
pace with all new investigations and results in 
the same. He is a member of the local board 
of health and is very active in securing the de- 
velopment of such measures, and carrying into 
effect such rules and regulations as are condu- 
cive to the health of the public. Li fact Dr. 
Linden is a thorough and successful practi- 
tioner and as a citizen he is highly esteemed and 
honored. 



17^) EV. REUBEN YEAKEL, Historian, 
K^ othcially appointed by the General Con- 
II' »!s ference and Board of Publication of the 
^ Evangelical Association, was born in 

Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, August 3, 
1827. His parents were Charles and Susanna 
(Yeakel) Yeakel, natives also of America. Mr. 
Yeakel's grandfather, Jacob Yeakel, was also a 
native of the Keystone State; and his great- 
grandfather, Christopher Yeakel, came from 
Germany in 1734:, settling in Montgomery 
county, mentioned. Charles Yeakel was an in- 
telligent and thorough farmer, frank and 
honest, and deeply religious; and his wife was 
also a devout woman, a member of the Evangeli- 
cal Association. Both died at the age of eighty- 
six years,— he in 1874 and she in 1880. Their 
children were: Jesse, who entered the gospel 
ministry in 1852 and now resides in Philadel- 
phia; Reuben, the subject of this sketch; 
Lydia, wife of Nathan Sterner, a carpenter of 
AUentown, Pennsylvania; the other three chil- 
dren are deceased. 



Mr. Yeakel, whose name introduces this 
sketch, educated himself, mostly, and in 1853 
he began his career as a minister of the gospel, 
in Pennsylvania; in 1859 he was elected by 
the General Conference Corresponding Secre- 
tary of the Missionary Society of the Evangeli- 
cal Association, which position he filled for 
several years; in 1863 the same body elected 
him editor of the Sunday-school and tract litera- 
ture of the church, and he was re-elected in 
1867, and held the position till 1871. In 1867 
he was also appointed biographer of Jacob Al- 
bright and his co-laborers, of which Rev. Mr. 
Dreisbach was one. In 1871 the same confer- 
ence elected him Bishop, which position he held 
until 1879, when he declined a re-election and 
went to Naperville, Illinois, where he was prin- 
cipal of the Biblical Institute in the North- 
western College of the Evangelical Association, 
teaching systematic theology and other branches 
until 1883; and while there he established a 
theological quarterly, in the German language, 
on his own responsibility, and he still edits and 
publishes this periodical, which is now bi- 
monthly. It has now reached its fifteenth 
volume. The title-page translated is, "Bi- 
monthly Periodical for Theology and Church; 
founded by R. Yeakel, and conducted with the 
co-operation of prominent theologians in Amer- 
ica and Germany; edited and published by 
Rev. R. Yeakel, Rev. M. J. Cramer, D. D., 
Prof. F. L. Nagler, D. D., and Rev. C. G. 
Koch." This periodical is undenominational, 
is of great service to the church, prized most 
highly, and is the only periodical of the kind in 
the German language in America. 

After his service closed at the college he was 
called to the Cleveland publishing house as joint 
editor of the Christliche Botschafter, which place 
he held four years. In 18S7 he was given the 
duty of writing the general history of the Evan- 
gelical Association; and still more recently also 
the biography of Bishop Joseph Long, Rev. 
William W. Orwig and Rev. Charles Hammer, 
the last mentioned of whom was manager of 
the publishing house for many years. 



CV7AH0GA COUNTY. 



Mr. Yeakel has attended the General Con- 
ference of this church ever since 1855, being a 
delegate at almost every session. In some re- 
spects he has been the pioneer coilater of the 
preliminary history of his church. Rev. W. 
W. Orwig was appointed by the West Pennsyl- 
vania Annual Conference to compile the history 
of the church from 1800 to 1845, and Mr. 
Yeakel was appointed jointly by the General 
Conference and by the Board of Publication to 
supply the history from 1750, the decenninin 
of the birth of Jacob Albright, and to bring 
the history down to the present time, and also 
to i-evise tlie history previously made. lie is 
more conversant with early church history and 
of the fatiiers of his church than any other man 
living. Since 1855 lie has written a great 
multitude of articles for the press, both in Ger- 
man and in English. The amoutit of work he 
has done is evidence not only that lie has been 
very busy, but has a capacious, well-furnished 
and ready mind. 

He came to Cleveland in 1860, as Correspond- 
ing Secretary of the Missionary Society of tiie 
Church, and with few interruptions has been a 
resident here ever since. lie was first married 
in 1855 to Miss Sarah Scliubert, daughter of 
David Schubert of Pennsylvania, and they liad 
two children, — Charles and Rosa; the latter 
died at the age of four years. The mother of 
these children died in 1874, aged forty-seven 
years, a devoted member of the church. For 
his second wife Mr. Yeakel married, in 1876, 
Mrs. Caroline Klein, of Norristown, Pennsyl- 
vania, a member of the same church. 

In his political sympathies Mr. Yeakel is a 
Republican, voting, however, with some care 
as to the personnel of the proposed tickets. 
The following outline of his personal character- 
istics is furnished by a co-laborer who has long 
been acquainted with him: 

In personal appearance Mr. Yeakel inspires 
confidence and respect, possessing a splendid 
physi(jue. He is probalily more than six feet 
two inches in height, iiis rugged frame and 
l)road shoulders being surmounted by a mas- 



sive head, covered with a heavy stock of hair, 
worn somewhat long. His form is bent, as if 
weighed down with care. Beneath his expan- 
sive forehead and jutting eyebrows, which 
frown like buttresses, there gleam a pair of 
calm, keen eyes from deep, cavernous sockets. 
His face wears an expression of benignity, 
thoughtfulness and gravity. Deep convergent 
lines about the region of the eyes indicate the 
close thinker and constant reader, wiiile the 
steady gaze of those eyes give but a hint of the 
steadier and more penetrating gaze of an in- 
tellect of extraordinary power of concentration. 
He is a profound student who delights to "lose 
himself in thought." He revels in the mastery 
of abstruse problems, which practice enal)les 
him to gain unusual insight into the inner 
meaning of the Scriptures. His analytical 
powers are such that he is acknowledged as one 
of the most discriminating of exegetes. In 
recognition of this the degree of Doctor of 
Divinity was tendered him by a high authority, 
which however he firmly declined, with char- 
acteristic modesty, not to say indifference to 
such titular distinctions. 

He is also a historian and biographer of 
much experience. His habit of investigation, 
his patient research, his mastery of details, his 
remarkable ability to apprehend the historical 
value of apparently trifling minutiii?, have 
made him an authority on the subjects to which 
he has devoted himself; and his opinion is 
eagerly sought and readily accepted. He has 
rendered his church invaluable service by his 
historical labors. Few men have the unweary- 
ing patience, the indomitable perseverance, 
which he manifests to search tjirough time- 
worn documents and musty records for obscure, 
connecting links in a chain of evidence neces- 
sary to establish an historical fact. 

Mr. Y'eakel is also an ecclesiastical legislator 
of recognized ability. For years the Discipline 
of the Evangelical Association has received 
marks from his molding hand. It owes much 
of its symmetry and consistency to his skill. In 
the important litigations through which the 



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clinrch has recently passed he was the chief ex- 
pert witness for the church, to whose interpre- 
tations of the laws of this ecclesiastical body 
attorneys and courts alike deferred without 
(][uestion of dissent. 



■IIAELES HENRY STRONG. Among 
j> the representative citizens of Cuyahoga 

^ county, Ohio, is Mr. Charles II. Strong, 
tiie well-known contractor and civil engineer of 
Cleveland. Mr. Strong is a descendant of one 
of the early New England families, and is the 
grandson of one of the first settlers of Cuyahoga 
county. 

The first of the Strong family to come to 
America was the Elder John Strong, who was 
born in 1605, in Taunton, England, the son of 
Itichard Strong, a native of Caernarvon, Eng- 
land. Elder John Strong removed to London, 
and on March 20, 1630, he sailed in the ship 
Mary and John for the New World, arriving at 
Nantasket, Massachusetts, on the BOth of May 
following. He became the father of eighteen 
children, two born in England to his first wife, 
the others born in America to his second wife. 
His son John, from whom our subject descended, 
was born in England in 1626, and" was but a 
child of four years when he came to America. 
He was known as John Strong, Jr. He settled 
at Windsor, Connecticut, w^here he married and 
became the father of seven children. His fifth 
son was Josiah, who was born at Colchester, ' 
Connecticut, on January 11, 1678. His son, 
Josiah Strong, Jr., was born on September 9, 
1709, at Middle Haddam, Connecticut, and his 
son. Deacon Josiah Strong, was born January 
28, 1740, at the same place. Deacon Josiah 
Strong was the father of Judge John Harris 
Strong, the grandfather of our subject. Judge 
Strong was born in Middletown, Connecticut, 
on January 19, 1792. In August, 1811, he 
removed to Ohio, and settled in Euclid, Cuya- 
iioga county. He was agent for the sale of 
lands in and about Cleveland for Lord and 



Barber, of Connecticut. He served as Judo-e 
of the Common Pleas Court of Cuyahoga 
county from 1817 to 1823, and died in otKce on 
April 28 of the latter year. He w-as the father 
of ten children, his fourth son, Rodney, being 
the father of our subject. Rodney Strong was 
born August 8, 1790, at Chatham, Connecticut, 
and was twenty-one years of age when he" came 
to Ohio. He returned to Connecticut for his 
marriage to Mary Taylor, of Middle Haddam. 
He was the father of seven children, of whom 
three daughters and two sons are living, our 
subject being the youngest child. He was a 
ship-calker by trade, and also followed farming. 
He was an energetic, pushing man, served as a 
Justice of the Peace for a time, and was a mem- 
ber of the old original Trinity Church of 
Cleveland. His death occurred in 1865. 

Charles Henry Strong was born on March 1, 
1831, at CoUamer, Cuyahoga county. He was 
reared on the farm, where he remained until he 
was twenty years of age. He was educated at 
the old Shaw Academy at Collamer, securing a 
good English education. Leaving the farm he 
engaged in surveying and civil engineering, 
spending a year in the office of the city engin- 
eer of Cleveland. At twenty-one years of ao-e he 
engaged at railroad work, in Indiana, Ohio and 
Pennsylvania. In 1861 he was connected with 
the building of the Atlantic & Great Western 
Railroad, having the position of engineer in 
charge of construction, through Ohio and Penn- 
sylvania. He was also connected with the 
changing of the gauge on tiie Cleveland & 
Mahoning Railroad coming into Cleveland, and 
had charge of the mason work where that road 
passes under Detroit street and on thecut through 
to the old river bed. 

In 1867 Mr. Strong was appointtd City Civil 
Engineer of Cleveland, which office he held for 
nine years. He designed and prepared the 
plans of the Superior street viaduct, and did the 
first year's work in the construction of the 
same. In 1877 he took up contracting in con- 
nection with civil engineering, in which he has 



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on the Cleveland breakwater, building the first 
section of it from the sliore out into the lake. 
He completed the construction and laid the track 
of the Valley Kailroad from Cleveland to 
Canton. He had the contract for the greater 
part of the Connotton Valley Eailroad (now the 
Cleveland & Canton). In 1883 his son, Harry 
Brightinan Strong, became associated with him 
in business, and together they constructed 
United States lock No. 2 on the Great Kanawha 
river improvement, twelve miles below Kan- 
awha falls. This lock is a very large one, and 
required two year.-j in construction. Since com- 
pleting that piece of work they have done con- 
siderable railroad work, dredging, pile driving 
and steam-shovel work. Their offices are located 
at Nos. 802-803 in the Cuyahoga Building. 

Mr. Strong was married on March 17, 1857, 
to Elizabeth B. Roe, of Huron county, Ohio, a 
daughter of Barnett Roe. The Roes came direct 
from England to Ohio. The children of Mr. 
Strong are: H. B.; Sophia E., widow of the late 
J. Livingstone Taylor; A. M.; Charles H., Jr.; 
and Ruth I. Mr. Strong is a member of the 
Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and of the 
Civil Engineers' Club of Cleveland, and of the 
American Society of Civil Engineers. He is 
also a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. 



\^J,'()RMAN A. GILBERT, attorney at law, 
was born in the State of Iowa, August 2, 
1846, a son of the late Albert and Esther 
(Bond) Gilbert, of old Stockbridge, 
Massachusetts. Mr. Gilbert comes of an old 
Revolutionary stock, both his paternal and mu- 
ternal ancestors being prominent in the early 
history of Massaciiusetts. Ills parents removed 
to Avon in the Genesee valley of New York, 
and from there to Trumbull county, Ohio, and 
there their marriage was consummated. At 
Hartford, Trumbull county, they lived for several 
years, the father being engaged in farming. 
About 18iO they removed to Clay township, 
Washington county, Iowa, where the father 



continued the pursuit of farming. In 1849 he 
went to California, and there died in 1851. 
The family then returned to Ohio and located 
at West Farmington, Trumbull county. The 
mother died in 1892, at the age of eighty-si.x 
years, at the home of the subject of this sketch. 

The Gilbert and Bond families settled early 
in Massachusetts, and many of its members 
have gradually worked their way westward, un- 
til now most of them are located in the States 
of Michigan and Iowa. 

Though born in Iowa, the subject of this 
sketch was brought to West Farmington at the 
age of five years. His early education was re- 
ceived at the Western Reserve Academy at 
Farmington, and this academy he left a few 
months before he would have graduated, for the 
purpose of entering the law othce of A. W. 
Jones of Youngstown, under whom he studied 
law for a period of three years. He attended 
the Cleveland Law School, graduating in 1867 
with the degree of LL. D., then located in 
Union county, Ohio, and entered upon the 
jiractice of his profession, continuing for four 
years iu that county. In 1871 he came to 
Cleveland, where for the first two years he 
practiced alone; next he became associated with 
J. A. Smith, under the firm name of Gilbert & 
Smith, with whom he remained for two years; 
then he became a member of the firm of Gilbert, 
Johnson it Schwan, remaining until ISlH, after 
which he became associated with A. T. Hills, 
forming the firm of Gilbert & Hills, which 
firm still exists, ranking among the best at the 
Ohio bar. They do a general practice in both 
State and United States courts. 

In 1891 Mr. Gilbert was nominated by his 
party (Rej)ublican) as candidate for Common 
Pleas Judge, but was defeated with the rest of 
the ticket at that election. He was a member 
of the Cleveland City Council from 1877 to 
1881, during which period he served for a time 
as vice president of that body. He was also 
a chairmain of the finance committee, and dur- 
ing his services in this position Cleveland bonds 
for the first time, were sold bearing interest at 



CV7AS00A COUNTY. 



a rate less than six per cent., and immediately 
brought a premiuiii and bore interest at five per 
cent, and four per cent., respectively. While a 
member of the City Council he also served as 
chairman of the judiciary committee. 

Mr. Gilbert is an active and progressive man, 
not only in his profession but in a public way, 
and as a business man he is no less active. He 
is one of tlie directors, and is on the finance 
committee, of the Dime Savings Bank of Cleve- 
land, in which he is also a stockholder. 

In 1862 Mr. Gilbert enlisted in the United 
States service as a "drummer boy." He was 
then sixteen years of age, but iTiimediately after 
entering the service he took the musket, which 
he carried a year and a half. He was in the 
Eighty-sixth, Eighty seventh and One Hundred 
and Seventy-first Regiments of Ohio Infantry. 
In 1804 Mr. Gilbert organized a company for 
the last one year call. When the company was 
almost completed and ready to enter active duty 
in the field Mr. Gilbert received a severe in- 
jury in his foot, and was thus incapacitated for 
further service. However, the company was 
organized and mustered into active service. 

Mr. Gilbert was married, in August of 1867, 
to Miss Anna M., daughter of Joseph and 
Esther A. Allen, of Bristolville, Ohio, and they 
have four children: Mrs. Amos C. Miller, of 
Cliicago; Joseph M., who is nineteen years of 
age and occupies a position in the Dime Sav- 
ings Bank; Norman A., Jr., twelve years of 
age; and Charles A., aged ten years. 



P) I. SPENZER, M. D., of Cleveland, was 
born in South Germany, August 6, 1837. 
His parents were P. I. and Anna K. 
(Mitsch) Spenzer, and both of them were 
natives of Germany. For years the father was 
a shepherd in the employ of Count von Zepelin, 
and died when the subject of this sketch was 
thirteen years of age. Dr. Spenzer was a child 
of less than seven years when his mother died. 



who left a family of whom those living are 
P. I., and Matthias, an elder brother, who is 
now living in Wurtemberg, Germany, and who 
was for many years forester and gamekeeper for 
the son of Count von Zepelin. 

Dr. Spenzer received his early scholastic 
training in Germany, and at the age of sixteen 
years came to the United States. On arriving 
in this country the small sum of $5 constituted 
his whole capital. He was also unable to speak 
the English language, and thus he was placed 
under disadvantages to overcome which energy 
and perseverance were required. Obtaining this 
or that form of employment he gained support, 
and every opjwrtunity in the meantime was im- 
proved for the learning of the English language, 
under the instructions of a schoolteacher into 
whose association he was thrown. During this 
time his home was in New Jersey. He next 
went to Pennsylvania, where he remained until 
1856, when he came to Cleveland, Ohio, and 
embarked in the drug business, in which he re- 
mained for a considerable time. In 1862 he 
enlisted in the United States.army service under 
Colonel James Barnett, who appointed him as 
hospital steward, which position he held for one 
year, at the close of which he was discharged 
on account of failing health. In 1868 he re- 
turned from the army to Cleveland and re- 
entered the drug business, in which he remained 
until 187U, at which date he began the study of 
medicine in the Wooster University, where he 
graduated in 1873, since which date he has con- 
tinued with success in an active practice in the 
city of Cleveland. He has continued the owner 
of a drug-store, which has been and is now 
managed by M. H. Spenzer. 

Dr. Spenzer is a member of the Cleveland 
Medical Society, and has been a physician for 
the Home of the Poor on Perry street, which 
home is under tiie charge of the Little Sisters 
of the Poor. He is a prominent member of the 
Independent Order of Foresters, holding a high 
official position in the State organization. In 
1860 Dr. Spenzer wedded Mary Theresa Malloy, 
a native of Ireland and a d»nghter of Joim and 



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Ellen Malloj, who was born in Dalky, near 
Dublin, Ireland, on the 23d day of April, 1837, 
and came to America in 1854. 

Dr. and Mrs. Spenzer have had nine children, 
of whom six are living, namely: Mary H., who 
has charge of the drng-store of Dr. Spenzer and 
who holds a certificate of pharmacy from the 
State Board; John George Spenzer, M. D., a 
student at the "Western Reserve Medical College 
and the University of Strasbiirg in Germany- 
lie is a graduate of the Western Eeserve Col- 
lege as M. D., and of the University of Stras- 
biirg as Ph. D. Minerva A., wife of John I. 
Peckham, of Cleveland ; Eugene Ariel, a grad- 
uate of pharmacy in the Buffalo College of 
Pharmacy; Bona Ida, who was a pupil in the 
high schools of Cleveland; and Theresa Maude, 
a pupil of the public schools. Mrs. Spenzer is 
a member of the Catholic Church, of Cleveland. 

In politics Dr. Spenzer is a Republican. lie 
is a member of the Cleveland, the Ohio State 
and the American Pharmaceutical Societies. He 
has been president for one terra of the Cleve- 
land Pharmaceutical Association, and has been a 
member of the School of Pharmacy of Cleve- 
land for some six or more years. 

As indicated in the above account of the 
career of Dr. Spenzer, he made his own start in 
this country with but little opportunity, but 
with this little advantage he has improved his 
business and increased bis fund of information, 
gained a thorough knowledge of pharmacy and 
succeeded in the drug business, studied medi- 
cine and graduated in the same, and has for a 
period of over twenty years practiced with 
success. 



1 li taLLIAM J. MEAD, cashier of 
\P^/ Cleveland Electric Railway Comj 
■i 11 Cuyahoga Building, Xo. 621, was 
near New Haven, Huron county, Ohio, January 
8, 1860. His parents were George A. and Mary 
(Martin) Mead. The former was born near 



the 
pany, 
born 



PennTan, New York, came to Ohio in 1846, 
locating in Richland, and was employed for 
some years as foreman of construction on the 
Sandusky division of the Baltimore & Ohio 
Railroad. Later he engaged in farming in 
Huron county, Ohio, in which occupation he 
continued until his death in 1884, at the age of 
sixty-three years. His first wife was Miss Jane 
Hall, the latter dying without issue. Of George 
Mead it may be said he was good-hearted and 
companionable, loved and respected by all who 
admire honesty, ability and integrity in busi- 
ness transactions. His death occurring so near 
the prime of life was sadly lamented by a large 
circle of friends. His father, "William Mead, 
married a Miss Bates; they were residents of 
New York and reared five children. Our sub- 
ject's mother, Mary (Martin) Mead, was a 
daughter of Charles and Christena Martin. The 
latter, by a former husband, Mr. Houser, had 
three children. Mr. Houser was accidentally 
killed by the falling of a tree. This occurred 
during the pioneer days in Richland county, 
Ohio. Our subject's mother was one of five 
children, viz.: Henry, deceased; John; Mary, 
the mother of our subject; Samuel; and George, 
deceased. 

William J. Mead is second in a family of four 
children, viz.: Elmer W., who is engineer in a 
power house in Tiffin, Ohio; "\Yilliam J.; Effie 
J., who resides with the mother at Tiffin, Ohio; 
and Ada C, wife of Algee "Welsh, who resides 
near Bucyrus, Ohio. These four children were 
born near New Haven, in Huron county, Ohio. 

The subject of this sketch was reared on the 
farm. His educational advantages were of the 
country-school character until the age of six- 
teen years, at which time he made a four-mile 
daily trip on foot for two school terms, attend- 
ing the Plymouth high school. While attend- 
ing this school for two terms he made good use 
of opportunity and prepared himself for teach- 
ing. He taught two terms in district schools in 
Marion county, Oliio. Later, in order to better 
equip himself for the business of teaching, he 
spent two terms in Manstield Normal College. 



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The following three years he taught in his home 
county, closing his career as a pedagogue in 
1882.' 

Mr. Mead, while a teacher, as while a pupil 
at school, was an nntiring student. His pen- 
manship showed to good advantage and attracted 
attention, where it did him great good. He had a 
good reputation as a successful teacher, his school 
woi-k being of a high order, and his penmanship 
did not suffer in competition with the best. 

In 1883, Mr. Mead accepted a position as 
bookkeeper for Heyman & Company, millers at 
Monroeville, Ohio, in which capacity he served 
continuously eight years, losing only seven 
days during the entire time. He came to 
Cleveland, Ohio, in 1891, and took a position 
as bookkeeper and cashier for Sheets Brothers, 
on Broadway, and while serving in the latter po- 
sition he was invited by the Broadway & Newbnrg 
Street Kailroad Company to make application for 
a position with them, which he did, and soon re- 
ceived the appointment of bookkeeper, being 
promoted, on the consolidation of the East 
Cleveland, Broadway and Brooklyn lines, to 
the position of cashier of the Cleveland Electric 
Railway Company, which place he still holds. 

While a resident of Monroeville Mr. Mead 
was elected to the office of corporation Clerk. 
He is now Notary Public for Cuyahoga county. 

From the foregoing it will be seen that Mr. 
Mead made his own start, in his own way, and 
that he has succeeded so well is not due to 
blind luck, but to untiring industry, coupled 
with honesty of purpose and good business 
methods. 

In Monroeville, June 7, 1885, lie married 
Miss Cora M. Seely, daughter of Robert and 
Marilla (Searls) Seely, long-time residents and 
representatives of a worthy and exemplary class 
of citizens of that village. Mrs. Cora M. Mead 
was born November 14, 1865, third in a family 
of si.K children, viz.: Charles, who married Miss 
Sadie M. Stearns, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, 
where they reside; Frederick, who married 
Elizabeth Train: he is an undertaker in Mata- 
mora, Ohio: Edith, wife of Rev. II. D. Os- 



borne, who is pastor of the Baptist Cliurch at 
Haskins, Ohio; Laura and Edwin reside at the 
family home with their parents. 

The home of Mr. Mead and wife has been 
blessed in the birth of two children, viz.: Floyd 
Seely, born March 14, 1886; and William Earl, 
born September 18, 1887. Both are natives of 
Monroeville, Ohio. Both parents are members 
of Miles Park Avenue Presbyterian Church. 
Fraternally Mr. Mead is Past Master of Roby 
Lodge, No. 534, F. & A. M., of Monroeville; he 
is a member of Newburg (Ohio) blue lodge, 
No. 379, F. & A. M.; a member also of Huron 
Royal Arch Chapter, No. 7, of Norwalk, Ohio 
and a member of Cleveland Council, No. 36, 
R. & S. M. 

Mr. Mead is a valnable citizen on account of 
his active, public spirit and warm interest in 
the progress and well being of the community. 
He deservedly is awarded the respect and confi- 
dence of his fellow-townsmen. 



El C. LUCE, assistant general passenger 
and ticket agent of the Lake Shore & 
1 Michigan Southern Railway Company, 

began his railroading service November 3, 1854, 
with the Cleveland and Toledo Railroad Com- 
pany, now a part of the Lake Shore system, as 
a clerk in the general ticket department. After 
a year's service he became clerk in the treasury 
department under W. F. Kittredge, remaining 
until 1857, when he was transferred to the audi- 
tor's office under H. C. Luce. From 1858 to 
October 1, 1864, Mr. Luce was general account- 
ant, being made general ticket agent at the later 
date, which position he filled until the Cleve- 
land & Toledo was merged into the Lake Shore 
and Michigan Southern Railway, at which time 
he took the position of assistant general ticket 
agent. In 1874 he was placed in charge of the 
passenger accounts in the auditor's office, re- 
maining until January 1, 1886, when he was 
appointed general ticket agent of the Lake 
Shore and Michigan Southern, and one year 
later assumed the duties of his present office. 



CUTAUOOA COUNTY. 



Ml-. Luce was born in Marion, Massachusetts, 
January 20, 1S36. The house in which he was 
born was tiie birthplace of his father, Capt;;in 
Elisha Luce, and was built by his grandfather. 
Major Iloland Luce, the former event occur- 
ring in 1786. That gentleman was a ship cap- 
tain until middle life, when he retired and gave 
his attention to his vessel interests and mer- 
ciiandising. lie w^as in the army during the 
war of 1812 and died in 1850 in the house of 
his birth. Major Luce was likewise a ship cap- 
tain and obtained the title of Major in the Colo- 
nial army during onr struggle for national in- 
dependence. He married a Miss Clark, who 
bore him ten children. 

Captain Elisha Luce married Lucretia, a 
daughter of Nathan Clark, a direct descendant 
of Thomas Clark, first mate of the historic 
Mayflower. Nathan Clark was a seafaring man 
and a vessel commander. 

E. C. Luce is the fourth child of a family of 
seven, four now living, one of whom besides 
our subject is a railroad man, and with the 
Chicago and Northwestern Railway as car ac- 
countant. He came to Cleveland March 31, 
1854, and from that time until entering rail- 
way service was employed by E. Cowles, a 
jeweler. 

In November, 1860, Mr. Luce married, in 
Bed minster, Somerset county, New Jersey, 
Louise, a daughter of H. G. Compton. Her 
mother was a Miss Arrowsmith. Mr. and Mrs. 
Luce have two daughters. 



EV. CARL BURGH AEDT, the able and 
^ popular pastor of St. Joannes' United 
lii Evangelical Lutheran Church, 83 Mag- 



"R 

11 ¥i Evangelical Lutheran Church, 83 Mag- 
^ net street, Cleveland, Ohio, was born 

near Frankenstein, province of Silesia, Germany, 
April 19, 1847. He is a son of William and 
I )orotha(Grcgor)Biirghardt, who came to Amer- 
ica in 1882 and settled in Miltonsburg, Monroe 
county, Ohio, where they still reside. The 
father was a farmer in his native land, but since 
coining to this country he has led a pratically 



retired life. He served as a soldier in the Ger- 
I man army for the term prescribed by law. He 
is now seventy-six years of age and his wife is 
seventy-three; both have been life-long and de- 
voted members of the church to whose ministry 
their sons have devoted themselves and their 
efforts. They are the parents of four children: 
Rev. William Burghardt, of Queensland, Aus- 
tralia, where he is pastor of a large congrega- 
tion and where he has labored most zealously 
and effectually since 1866; Rev. Carl Burghardt 
is the subject of this review; Dorothea is the wife 
of Henry Friday and resides at Louisville, Mon- 
roe county, Ohio: and Paulina is the wife of 
Rev. William Guhr, who has preached in Aus- 
tralia since 1886, his work being in the mission 
of his church. 

Rev. Carl Burghardt was educated in Ger- 
many, completing his studies in Berlin, where 
he took a thorough college and theological 
course, being in school from 1869 to 1875. In 
the year last noted he came to America and was 
ordained the same year, at Rochester, New 
York. His lirst charge was as pastor at Bolivar, 
Tuscarawas county, Ohio, whei-e he remained 
until 1880. He had under his charge four in- 
dividual congregations. His second charge as 
pastor was at Miltonsburg, Monroe county, 
Ohio, where his parents now reside, and there 
he had charge of two congregations until 1887, 
when he came to Cleveland to assume his pres- 
ent pastorate. He has been succesful in fur- 
thering the cause to which his life is consecrated 
in the upbuilding of his congregation. In 1890, 
under his direction, was erected a convenient 
and spacious church edifice on AVilson avenue, 
corner of Magnet street, the same being built to 
replace the old building, on McBride Street, 
which had proved inadecjuate in its provisions 
for successfully carrying forward the work of 
the society. In his congregation are now rep- 
resented about 170 families, and the Sunday- 
school shows an average enrollment of 350 pu- 
pils. 

The Rev. Mr. Burghardt is a member of the 
Evangelical Synod of Xorth America. 



CUTAHOOA COUNTY. 



He was married soon after his arrival in this 
country (1875), his nuptials being celebrated at 
Fairview, Erie county, Pennsylvania, where he 
was united to Miss Dorothea Krause, who is of 
German parentage. They have liad three chil- 
dren, only one of whom survives. This child, 
Lydia Dorothea Louisa, is a bright and preco- 
cious child of twelve years, graceful and intelli- 
gent and a comfort and solace to her affectionate 
parents. The parents of Mrs. Burgliardt were 
born and reared in Germany, there married and 
reared their children, nine in number. Mrs. 
Burghardt being the oldest, and there died, the 
father at the age of fifty-Kve years and the 
mother at the age of thirty-six. 



[[ ON. CHARLES M. LeBLOXD, attorney 
11 at law, Cleveland, was born in Celina 
41 Mercer county, Ohio, June 28, 1854, eld- 
dest son of Hon. Frank C. and Louisa E. 
(McGinley) Le Blond, natives respectively of 
Knox and Lorain counties, this State, and of 
French and Scotch ancestry. Lion. Frank C. 
Le Blond is one of the leading Democrats of 
Ohio, having represented his county in the 
State Legislature four years, was Speaker of the 
House two years; from 1853 to 1855 he repre- 
sented the Fifth Congressional District of Ohio 
in Congress, and was a leader of the minority, 
and is still one of the prominent members of the 
bar of this State, at the age of seventy-four. 

Hon. Charles M. Le Blond was reared in iiis 
native county and completed iiis school educa- 
tion at Mount Union College, in Stark county, 
Ohio, and at Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the Mich- 
igan State University. He read law under the 
instructions of his father, and also at Ann Ar- 
bor, and was admitted to the bar in 1875, since 
which time he has been actively engaged in his 
chosen profession. For nine years he was as- 
sociated with his father, then for two years with 
Hon. T. J. Godfrey, of Celina, and from 1873 
to 1875 was assistant cashier of the Citizens' 
Bank of Celina. As an attorney he had a suc- 



cessful career in his native city. Entering the 
political arena when a youth, he was elected, in 
188G, to the State Legislature of Ohio, where 
he served four years, being a leader in the House 
on the Democratic side. He served on tiie gen- 
eral committees on Finance, Judiciary, Rail- 
roads and Telegraphs and on the special com- 
mission to investigate H. B. Payne's title to a 
seat in Congress. He was the only Democratic 
attorney in the case, and through his efforts a thor- 
ough report of the matter was furnished, wliich 
was the cause of the senator being retained. Lie 
has also always taken a decidedly active part in 
local politics, and has filled all the positions in 
the various committees in county and State. 

In 1889 he came to Cleveland and formed a 
partnership with J. M. Williams, an attorney, 
under the firm name of Le Blond & Williams. 
Two years afterward, however, this partnership 
was dissolved, since which time Mr. LeBlond has 
practiced alone. He has had a large practice in 
northern, western and southern Ohio, and is cel- 
ebrated as an advocate before juries. 

February 4, 1880, is the date of his marriage 
to Miss Anna M. Brennan of this city, a daugh- 
ter of Luke Breiman, the first contractor of 
Cleveland, and they have three children, namely : 
Luke F., twelve years of age; Charles H., ten, 
and Lottie M., six. 



ST. PAINE, one of the proprietors of the 
\ Forest City Hotel, Cleveland, has been a 
-^ resident of this city since 1873, all the 
while identified with the hotel business. 

He was born in Nelson township, Portage 
county, this State, in May, 1848, a son of William 
B. and Maria (Talbot) Paine, New England people 
engaged in agricultural pursuits. He com- 
pleted his school days at an academy, learned 
the carpenters' trade, and followed it some time. 
In 1871-'73 he was clerk two years for the 
Etna House at Ravenna, this State, when he 
came to Cleveland. Here he began as clerk in 
the Forest City House, which he now owns. 



CU7AE0OA OOUHTT. 



Continuing as clerk here until 1890, he, in 
company with William J. Akers, purchased the 
business of the concern. With the long ex- 
perience he has had, he knows how to conduct 
such an irjstitution, and is accordingly doing 
well, attracting as good a class of customers as 
otlier hotel in the city. 

Mr. Paine was one of the fourteen men in 
1880 wlio went to Chicago and organized the 
Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association, from 
wiiich time to the present he has been one of 
the officers, being now vice-president. In 1890 
he became a member of the National Hotel- 
keepers' Association, of which he is now vice- 
president. He is also a member of the Cleve- 
land Hotelkeepers' Association. 

He was initiated into Freemasonry in 1881, 
in Iris Lodge, and he is now a member of 
Cleveland Chapter, Holy Rood Coinmandery, 
Lake Erie Consistory and Alcoran Temple, tak- 
ing the thirty-second degree of the Scottish rite 
in 18s2; and he also belongs to the Masonic 
Club. In his political principles he is a Re- 
publican, and he is a member of the Chamber 
of Commerce. 

In 1884, in this city, he married Miss Ettie 
Durhamer, and they make their home at the 
hotel. Religiously, they attend Unity church. 
Mr. Paine is one of Cleveland's most progressive 
and enterprising citizens. 



EiDWARD L. HARRIS, Principal of the 
Central High School of Cleveland, was 
1 born at Delavan, Wisconsin, December 

8, 1852, received his elementary education in 
the district school and his secondary in the high 
schools of Delavan and Elkhorn of that State. 
From the latter place he entered Wayland 
Academy, Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, to prepare 
for college, at which he graduated in the spring 
of 1874. In the meantime he had taught two 
seasons in the same district where he had first 
attended school and learned his alphabet, — the 
first season when he was seventeen years of age, 



and the second two years later, when he was re- 
called by the Board of Education. He had also 
spent one year in business, earning money to 
pursue his studies. 

Seeing little hope for assistance in the future, 
except the inspiration and desire for education 
given him by his parents, he completed his pre- 
paratory work three months before his class did, 
and went to the home of his parents, who had 
returned to their former residence at Syracuse, 
New York. He immediately entered the em- 
ploy of a large wholesale and retail house, and 
while traveling he spent every spare moment 
with liis books, and besides tJie pecuniary re- 
ward he thus acquired a large business acquaint- 
ance and a practical business education. He 
underwent the examinations and entered the 
classical course at Syracuse University. While 
at college he worked as a reporter and cor- 
respondent; took a high rank in his class; was 
the literary editor of The Herald, — the college 
paper; presiding officer of the college associa- 
tion; won a position on "Junior Ex.;" elected 
class orator, senior year; and received the ap- 
pointment by the faculty as commencement 
speaker. He was a prominent Delta Kappa 
Epsilon fraternity man, being at one time its 
highest officer, and for two years he was the 
college delegate to the Inter-Collegiate Associa- 
tion. He was requested by the professor in 
Greek to take the examination in tliat subject 
in the Inter-Collegiate contest. He graduated 
in 1878 in two courses, receiving the degrees of 
A. B. and Ph. B. 

While in college he worked summers for the 
Board of Education, taking the school enumer- 
ation, and before gra<l nation was offered a posi- 
tion in the high school. Expecting to enter 
the profession of law, for which he was pre- 
paring, he did not desire to accept an engage- 
ment as a teacher; nevertheless, in the fall of 
1878 he was elected principal of the Port Jer- 
vis (Xew York) Academy, where he remained 
two years, resigning in 1880 to accept a posi- 
tion in the West high school of Cleveland as 
instructor in Creek and Latin: later the liii;her 



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inatliematical work was also assigned him. Mr. 
Harris served liere two years and one month, 
when between the sessions on two consecutive 
days he was une.xpectedly transferred to the 
Central high school at the head of the mathe- 
matical department, to till the vacancy caused 
by the resignation of Professor Coit. After 
live years' service, he was returned to the West 
high school as its principal, succeeding Mr. 
Jolinston, who retired for a time on account of 
ill health. While in this place he was tendered 
the position of assistant superintendent, with 
grammar supervision, which he declined. Two 
years later, in May, 1889, he was again sent to 
the Central, receiving a call signed by the 
superintendent and every member of the Board 
of Education, to succeed the late Principal 
(Jampbell, who had died at his post. 

The condition of things at "Central High" 
has somewhat changed. He found the girls on 
the third floor and the boys on the first, and 
immediately changed their places. The school 
was overcrowded and a requisition was made 
for an addition to accommodate double the 
number, which was granted. The result was 
one of the largest high-school buildings in the 
United Status. In tiie first year there was an 
increase in enrollment of forty-seven per cent. 
At present there are 1,685 pupils, — over 200 in 
the senior and over 600 in the first year. The 
building is crowded and more room is needed. 
The commercial course has been introduced, the 
English and college courses strengthened, a fine 
course in natural history originated, a library 
established, and a well equipped gymnasium in 
view. In both the two popular and indispens- 
able games, foot-ball and base-ball, the Central 
won the pennant of the Inter-School League for 
1893. Graduates of this school are received 
into all colleges without examination, except 
into those colleges which receive none on cer- 
tificate. 

Principal Harris is tireless and unremitting 
in his efforts to strengthen the splendid reputa- 
tion of the Central high school, and his corps of 
teachers co-operate with him as one person 



toward the one great end, perfection. He is a 
meralier of the Northeastern Ohio and the State 
Teachers' Association, a Trustee of the Cleve- 
land Society of University Extension, and for 
two years Chairman of the Board of Examiners 
of Adelbert College of Western Reserve Uni- 
versity. 

He was married December 24, 1878, at Bea- 
ver Dam, Wisconsin, to Miss Eva E. Gould, a 
graduate of 1875, of Downer College. Their 
children are Fred, Roy and Eva Lucile. Mr. 
and Mrs. Harris are memljers of the First Bap- 
tist Church of Cleveland. Mr. Harris is a son 
of David Franklin Harris, who was born in 
Vermont, near Bennington, in 1829, came to 
New York when a boy and grew up near Syra- 
cuse. For twenty-one years he was in Wiscon- 
sin and later was engaged in the real-estate 
business at Syracuse, where he died in Febru- 
ary, 1893. He married Lucretia, a daughter of 
Isaac Rowley, and they had four children, — 
Edward L., Julian T., Ada A. and Frank R., of 
Syracuse. 



l( BRAHAM TEACHOUT, Jr., was born 
1\ in the township of Manchester, Ontario 
1^ county, New York, August 17, 1817. 
His father, Abraham Teachout, Sr., with 
three brothers, — John, James, and William, one 
sister, Lovina, and their parents, Jacob Teach- 
out and wife, — removed from Herkimer county, 
that State, to Ontario county, same State, about 
the seventh year of the present century. The 
family is of Dutch ancestry. Early in tlie six- 
teenth century two brothers, John and Jacob 
Teachout, emigrated from Holland to America, 
and settled in the Mohawk valley, and from 
them have descended all the people bearing their 
name in this country. 

Western New York, at the beginning of the 
century, was a vast wilderness, broken here and 
there by a small settlement. The opportunities 
for acquiring an education were so meager that 
one was regarded fairly prepared for active life 



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if lie could read, write, cipher and spell credit- 
ably; and such were the acquirements of this 
pioneer family. They all became devoted mem- 
bers of the Baptist Church, and James entered 
the ministry in middle life. The father died 
when the children were young, and the widow 
and orphans were obliged to provide for them- 
selves without much of this world's goods to 
start with. They cleared their farm, reclaiming 
eight or ten acres each year, and gathered the 
ashes, of which they made black salts, about the 
only thing that could be sold for money. 

In the fall of 1811, Abraham Teachout, Sr., 
married Clarissa Throop, a daughter of Benja- 
min Throop, Sr., who was a farmer and keeper 
of a country tavern; the family came from Con- 
necticut and settled in New York about the 
same time the Teachout family arrived; they 
were all large of stature, robust and vigorous. 
The father lived to the age of eighty-nine years, 
while his wife, who was a well educated and 
exceedingly intelligent woman, lived to be 
ninety-four years old. Her maiden name was 
Rachel Brown, and her family founded Brown 
University, in Ehode Island. Mr. Throop was 
a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and during 
his absence his wife performed the necessary 
labor on the farm. They had four sons and 
four daughters: Benjamin, Jr., Samuel, Jesse, 
and Azel, Eunice, Martha, Clarissa and Lydia. 
Benjamin went to sea, circumnavigated the 
globe several times, and then retired to Palmyra, 
New York, where he died. Samuel sailed the 
lakes, and in early manhood was swept over- 
board in a storm. He had two sons, Horatio 
and Washington, both of whom were sailors on 
the lakes. Captain Horatio Throop was one of 
the oldest and best known captains that navi- 
gated Lake Ontario, and for years was superin- 
tendent of the Ontario & St. Lawrence Steam- 
boat Company, which position he was holding 
at the time of his death, in 1885. The family 
are held in the highest esteem in Ontario and 
surrounding counties. 

Soon after his marriage, Abraham Teachout 
enlisted in the war of 1812, and served until 



the close of that contest. In the autumn of 
1822 the family removed to Niagara county, 
New York, making the journey with an ox 
team; on the way they passed the hillside where 
the " prophet " Joseph Smith claimed to have 
dug out the plates of the Mormon Bible. At 
that time the family consisted of four sons and 
two daughters: Albert, Charles, Joseph, Abra- 
ham, Jr., Susan and Eunice. The mother died 
in 1824, leaving an infant that died soon after- 
ward. Few can realize the struggle of the 
father to provide for his family in the wild, new 
country, but the children were too young to 
recognize any occasion for anxiety. Mr. Teach- 
out was firm in his convictions, expressed his 
sentiments fearlessly, and vehemently de- 
nounced deception and dishonesty; he was held 
in high respect by all his neighbors. In regard 
to politics, he was a Whig from 1826 to 1830. 
During the excitement caused by the disap- 
pearance of Morgan, he was anti-Mason, that 
issue being the principal one in public estima- 
tion. He was once held a witness for several 
weeks in the celebrated Morgan trial in Orleans 
county. Possessing a fair education, he took 
an active part in local politics, was an orator of 
some merit, and was generally employed as a 
pettifogger in the lawsuits of his neighborhood; 
his regular fee was fifty cents for a half day, 
or seventy-five cents for the entire day. He 
was never a member of any secret society. In 
the fall of 1837, the family removed to Oiiio, 
and settled at Xorth Royalton, Cuyahoga 
county. Mr. Teachout finally died at Liver- 
pool, Medina county, Ohio, at the age of sixty- 
eight years; his remains were interred at 
Royalton. 

Abraham Teachout, Jr., became of age 
August 17, 1838. He soon afterward went to 
Cleveland to seek employment, and traveled up 
and down the docks where nearly all the busi- 
ness was done. The sun was sinking low in the 
west, and his courage had begun to fail him, 
when he met a man named Eggleston whose 
wife was his cousin. Mr. Eggleston was cap- 
tain of a boat on the canal, and oflTered young 



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100 



Teachout a position, which was quickly ac- 
cepted. He began as bowsman, arose to the 
position of steersman, then captain, and finally 
became tiie owner of a boat. At the end of 
three years he sold his boat, and secured a situa- 
tion in the Brst elevator erected in Cleveland, 
which was owned and managed by William 
Mittelberger. 

Forming the acquaintance of Robert Brayton, 
foreman of the Cuyahoga Steam Furnace Com- 
pany, Mr. Teachout entered into partnership 
with him to build a steam sawmill at Royalton. 
At the " raising " the usual whiskey was ex- 
pected. Mr. Teachout's father, a stanch tem- 
perance advocate, had always taught his sons 
the virtue of abstinence as a title to the highest 
respect. After the neighbors had placed the 
sills in position, they called for the "bottle." 
They were informed that tiiis was to be a tem- 
perance raising, when good men, even church 
members, offered to buy the whiskey, fearing 
that the frame could not be raised without it. 
Then came the struggle between conscience and 
custom. The eider Teachout mounted a saw- 
log and delivered an eloquent temperance ad- 
dress, which he concluded by informing the men 
that if they were not willing to do the work 
without liquor tliey coifld retire to their homes. 
Tiiey decided after a consultation to try it, but 
fears were expressed that some one might be 
hurt, as whiskey was supposed in those days to 
make men strong, " to keep off the heat in the 
summer, and the cold out in the winter." The 
frame went up and no one was " hurt." Then 
came an abundance of provisions, which were 
devoured with a relish, and cheers were given 
for the ''cold-water" raising. After several 
games of ball the men went to their homes 
happy and sober, to tell their wives and chil- 
dren how strange a thing had happened at the 
raising of the steam sawmill. 

The structnre was completed, and put in 
operation November 10, 1845. Mr. Teachout 
embarked in mercantile trade at Madison, Lake 
county, which he conducted in connection with 
his milling interests. In 1857 he sold out and 



purchased the mill privilege at Painesville, 
Ohio, where he built the flouring mill now 
owned and operated by Mr. Bigler. In 18G2 
he turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, 
which he followed extensively until the close of 
the Rebellion. In 1869 lie went South and en- 
gaged in the lumber trade and the sale of doors, 
sash and blinds, at Chattanooga, Tennessee; 
there the foundation of his present business in 
Cleveland was laid, although it was not in ac- 
tive operation until 1873. In p^irtuership with 
his son, Albert R., then twenty-one years of 
age, the firm of A. Teachont & Company was 
organized; their patronage extends over several 
States, and their trade amounts to half a million 
dollars annually. Albert R. Teachout is the 
manager of the business here. 

Mrs. Teachout died October 16, 1880; her 
maiden name was Julia Ann Towsley, and her 
-marriage to Mr. Teachout occurred February 
22, 1842. Mr. Teachout's second marriage was 
to Mrs. Laura E. Hathaway of Painesville, the 
Rev. A. B. Green, who officiated at his first mar- 
riage, performing the ceremony. He is now in 
his seventy-seventh year, is still vigorous and 
strong, and goes every day to and from business. 

Mr. Teachout was converted to Christianity 
through the preaching of Alexander Campbell, 
Walter Scott, A. B. Green and the Haydens. 
He was baptized at Royalton in June, 1851, by 
Elder William Hayden, at the annual Disciples' 
meeting, and united with the church at that 
place. In 1859 he removed to Lake county and 
transferred his membership to Painesville, where 
he served as an Elder until 1873, when he and 
his wife and son obtained letters to unite with 
the Franklin Circle Church, in Cleveland. He 
was elected a member of the board of elders 
soon afterward, and still liolds that office. 

He has always taken an active interest in ed- 
ucational affairs. In Madison, he served on 
the Board of Education four years, and tilled the 
same office in Painesville for nine years. He 
had been one of the trustees of Hiram College 
for thirty years, and for six years was president 
of the board; h'^ wa? chairman of the huildincj 



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CUTASdOA OOUNTT. 



committee for the new building, and superin- 
tended the construction of the boys' ball. He 
was intimately acquainted with James A. Gar- 
field, whom beheld in the highest esteem. He 
cast bis first presidential vote for William 
Henry Harrison, and was a Eepublican until 
1883, when he transferred his allegiance to the 
Prohibition party. He has twice been the 
candidate of this party for mayor, once for the 
State Legislature, and once for Congress. He 
has been elected to numerous local offices of 
trust, and has had the settlement of several im- 
portant estates. He has prepared several ad- 
dresses which have been sought for publication, 
and has " dabbled " in poetry, as he himself 
expresses it. His first production in verse was 
entitled " Your Father's Growing Old," and 
was addressed to his son; in this he pays a beauti- 
ful tribute to the devoted wife and mother. 
" This Beautiful World," bringing to mind the 
strange mixture of good and evil in the world, 
" Fast Falls the Eventide," and one poem upon 
the death of President Garfield are among liis 
best efforts. 

We append a copy of Mr. Teachout's poem 
entitled 

THIS BEAUTIFUL WORLD. 



Oh this world, ftrhat a beautiful world, 

In spite of its sadness, its sorrows and cares, 

lis trials and pains, its shames and its stains. 
Its cruel deceits and its snares! 

With all its faults it's a glorious world; 

It's the only one given to man ; 
So let us accept it with thanks as it is, 

And enjoy it as long as we can. 

We'll say to the one who is complaining of life, 

And wishes his days at an end. 
Never yield to despair, but patiently bear 

Such mishaps as man cannot mend. 

For while we are traveling the journey of life, 
We should be humble, contented, resigned, 

Never worry nor fret; take the best we cau get, 
And leave the worst behind. 

We're here to struggle; it's Heaven's decree; 

Each man has amission to fill; 
Misfortunes may fret us, temptation beset us. 

But we are God's children still. 



When sad affiictions meet us, and enmity greets us, 
We should then on ourselves most rely; 

Be brave, for it takes, when the storm on us breaks. 
More courage to live than to die. 

This is a glorious world if we look at it right, 
And we should be thankful we're in it; 

There are blossoms in the grove, there are those we love. 
And success if we struggle to win it. 



So let us determine that happen what may 
We'll stay with the weeds and the flowers. 

The friend and the foes, the joys and the woes, 
Which make up this great world of ours. 

What folly to look on the dark side of life. 
While the world is refulgent with light! 

Come out of the shade, stand up undismayed, 
In the raiment of reason and right. 

There is room for us all on this wide spreading ball; 

So, with charity's banner unfurled. 
Let us join in one cry while old Time passes by. 

Three cheers for this grand and glorious world ! 



Iff ON. AUGUSTUS ZEHEING was born 
jrH August 11, 1846, at West Lebanon, 
II ^ Ohio. He attended the common schools 
^ in Wayne, his native county, and then 

entered Baldwin University at Berea, where he 
graduated in 1868. Before entering this uni- 
versity he taught school, to earn the means for 
defraying his expenses at the university. After 
his graduation he again taught school. 

In 1862 he enlisted in the One Hundred and 
Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and for eigh- 
teen months thereafter he was in active service, 
and for the remainder of the war he was on de- 
tached duty. 

At the close of the war he came to Cleveland 
for the purpose of studying law, and after read- 
ing law for a short time, his finances failing 
him, he found it necessary to return to school 
teaching, and taught or took charge of West 
liichfield Academy for two years. He both 
taught school and worked on a farm in order to 
gain funds with which to educate and prepare 
himself for the profession of law. In 1873 he 
graduated at the Ohio Law College, which was 
then at Cleveland, and was admitted to the bar. 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



Soon after his graduation in the law he took 
charge of and settled up the large estate of a 
man named Wilson. This required his time 
and attention till 1877, when he began what 
has been a snccessful career in the practice of 
law. Subsequently was a candidate for Probate 
Judge, but not by reason of his own solicita- 
tion. As a lawyer Mr. Zehriug has been very 
successful. 

He has always been a Democrat in politics 
and his party placed him upon the ticket, and, 
tliougli he was deieated, he made a very credit- 
able race, lowering considerably the usual Re- 
publican majority. In tlie spring of 1892 he 
received the unsolicited nomination for Director 
of Schools, under the Federal plan of municipal 
government which had been inaugurated in 
Cleveland, but he was again defeated by reason 
of the weakness of his party. 

In 1873 Judge Zehring was married to Miss 
Eunice Walker, daughter of J. S. Walker, of 
Wyoming county. New York. 



dj J. ERWIN, physician and surgeon, 1617 
Cedar avenue, Cleveland, was born in 
^ Trumbull country, Ohio, January 30, 1850, 
a son of Henry Erwin and Eliza J. (Squire) 
Erwin. His parents were born in Youngstown, 
Ohio, the father in 1825, and tlie mother in 
1829: after their marriage they removed to 
Newton Falls, Trumbull county, Ohio, then one 
of the most flourishing places on the Reserve. 

Nicholas Osborn, the great-great-grandfather 
of Dr. Erwin, emigrated from Loudoun county, 
Virginia, in the spring of 1798, and purchased 
1,000 acres of land in Youngstown township, 
800 acres in Cantield township, and 400 acres 
in Boardman township. He gave to any of his 
friends or neighbors alternate quarter sections 
of this land if they would settle there and make 
that their permanent home. 

Christopher Erwin, a lad from the north of 
Ireland, sailed for America in the latter part of 
April, 1756, as a substitute for an Englishman, 



with General Abercrombie's troops, and after 
the close of the French and Indian war settled 
in New Jersey. He afterward moved to Lou- 
doun county, Virginia, from which place he 
emigrated to Youngstown, Ohio, in 1808. 

His son, Jacob Erwin, married Elizabeth 
Osborn, a daughter of Anthony Osborn, son of 
Nicholas Osborn. Jacob Erwin was a soldier 
in the war of 1812, a Lieutenant in Captain 
Cotton's company, Colonel Raines' regiment. 
While his regiment was stationed at Clevehmd 
he acted as Quartermaster. 

Coming from a slave State where he had seen 
the effects of slavery in all its phases, he took 
strong position against it, and one of his first 
acts on coming into a free State was to establish 
an underground railway, which was successfully 



opei 



ated until slavery was abolisln 



He voted 



thefirst Free-soil ticket cast in Mahoning county, 
and died in 1864, after seeing the hopes of his 
life accompished in the abolition of slavery. 
He was generous in his gifts to all benevolent 
purposes. He furnished the timber which his 
son Henry liauled for the first frame Methodist 
Episcopal church in Youngstown. This build- 
ing is now used by Company H, Fifth Infantry, 
Ohio National Guards, as an armory. During 
the late civil war, Henry Erwin was out with 
the "Squirrel Hunters " one week during the 
famous Morgan raid. He served five years 
before the war in an independent cavalry com- 
pany, and in 1861 organized a cavalry company, 
many of whom went to the front, himself at 
the time not being eligble on account of physi- 
cal disability. He served his township at va- 
rious times as Trustee and Assessor, and the town 
as Street Commissioner and Marshal. He com- 
manded the respect of all classes of citizens. 
He and his wife were worthy members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. 

Zopher Squire, great-great-grandfather of 
Dr. Erwin, was an Englishman and a soldier in 
the English and French war of 1756, where he 
received a severe wound, in the knee. His son 
James Squire emigrated to America and settled 
at Elizabethtown, New Jersey, whence he moved 



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to New Castle, Pennsylvania, and he served with 
the American troops during the War of the 
Revolution. His son, John K. Squire, moved in 
1826, to Youngstown, Ohio, where he estab- 
lished a boot and shoe business, which he fol- 
lowed until he retired from business to live on 
his competency. During the late Civil war he 
enlisted in the Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but 
being over age was not allowed to be mustered 
into service. After spending some time at 
Camp Uennison, he returned to his family in 
Youngstown. 

William Morrow, grandfather of Eliza J. 
Squire and great-grandfatlier of Dr. Erwin,was 
born of Irish parentage in the city of Philadel- 
phia. He served as Captain in the war of 1812, 
at the close of his service receiving as a reward 
for meritorious duty a sword with a silver 
scabbard. His family afterward had the scab- 
bard molded into spoons, which were distrib- 
uted as trophies among his children. 

Dr. Erwii) is the second of a family of tiiveo 
children: Pliebe is the wife of James Ken- 
nedy, of Youngstown; and Amanda married L. 
F. Merrill, of Newton Falls. The Doctor re- 
ceived his education in the public schools of 
Newton Falls, and began the study of medicine 
under the direction of Dr. George G. Smith, an 
old army surgeon. He pursued his studies in 
this way for two years. In September, 1868, 
he secured a position as assistant to a dentist 
that he might procure funds for completing his 
medical course. In obedience to a law regulat- 
ing the practice of dentistry in Ohio, he ap- 
peared before a board of examiners appointed 
under said law, in December, 1871, and having 
passed a satisfactory examination received his 
license. He became very proficient in the pro- 
fession, and practiced dentistry until 1883. In 
1881 he attended a course of medical letures, 
at the old Cleveland Medical College, and in 
July, 1883, he established a pharmacy in 
Youngstown. In 1886 he attended another 
course of lectures in the Medical Department 
of the AVestern Reserve University, and in 1887 
he was graduated in the Medical Department of 



the University of Wooster, the president of a 
class of eighteen. In 1888 he was graduated 
at the National Institute of Pharmacy at Chi- 
cago, and in the same year, at Detroit, became 
a member of the American Pharmaceutical As- 
sociation. In 1889 he was elected president of 
his College Alumni Association. 

Disposing of his pharmacy and practice in 
Youngstown, he removed to Cleveland in De- 
cember, 1891. He was commissioned Captain 
and assistant Surgeon of the Fifth Regiment of 
Infantry, Ohio National Guard, in June, 1893. 
He is a member of the Cleveland and of the Cuy- 
ahoga County Medical Societies, and also of the 
Ohio State Medical Association. He has made a 
speciality of ol)stetricsand diseases of women, in 
which he has met with gratifying success. Being 
possessed of a marked inventive genius, while in 
the practice of dentistry he patterned a set of 
extracting instruments known as the J.J. Er- 
win forceps, ard since his connection with the 
medical profession has devised appliances which 
have become popular in the specialty of gynae- 
cology. The Doctor is a man of scholarly at- 
tainments, has been a contributor to current 
dental and medical literature, and has won the 
success of which he is worthy. 

Dr. Erwin has been a member of the Masonic 
fraternity twenty years, and belongs to the 
Knights of Pythias and the I. O. O. F. He 
united with St. John's Episcopal Church, of 
Youngstown, in 1875. 

In 1877, on the loth day of October, Dr. 
Erwin was married to Miss Nellie M. Spencer, 
a daughter of Nelson and Emily Spencer of 
of Newton Falls. They have had three daugh- 
ters, Nellie, Jessie and Edith: the last named 
died at the age of two and a half years. 



I| ACOB E. MUELLER, president and man- 
tc I *§^' ^^ ''''° Neue Presse Publishing Com- 
^^ pa'iy, was born in Hessen-Darrastadt, 
Gernuxny, and came to the ("^nited States in 
1869, since which time he has been a resident 
I of the city of Cleveland. He is a printer by 



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trade and entered upon his first employment in 
tlie city with the printing and publishing house 
of tlie Evangelical Association, where he re- 
mained until 1873, after which he became fore- 
man of the Wacliter am Erie, of which paper 
lie soon after became business manager, and 
held that position up to 1889, when he started 
the first and only one-cent daily German paper 
in Ohio. 

Mr. Mueller is a member of different socie- 
ties; was also Corresponding Secretary of the 
Xorth American Saengerbund during the 
Saengerfest held in this city in 189,3. He has 
been and is a true and active worker in the 
interest of the Germans in America, and is one 
of Cleveland's industrious and worthy citizens. 
In politics he is a Republican. 

He was married in 1879 to Miss Annie 
Maurer, a dauo-hter of Martin Maurer and a 
native of Cleveland, Ohio. Their children are 
Lillie, Annie, Frances and one yet unmarried. 
Mr. Mueller's residence is at 854 Logan avenue, 
where he has a most beautiful and lovely home. 



dlOHN G. JENNINGS, one of the most 
prominent men in the building up of the 
■—- city of Cleveland, was born in New Haven 
county, Connecticut, November 5, 1825. His 
parents. Dr. Isaac and Nancy (Beach) Jennings, 
were natives of the same State. His father, 
after having practiced medicine for several years 
in that State, came to Ohio in 1840, and settled 
in Oberlin, where he resided and practiced his 
profession until 1853, when he came to Cleve- 
land, where he afterward lived retired from the 
activities of professional life. He was a man of 
great learning and original research, and by his 
publications, in books and press articles, prob- 
ably did more than any other man in America 
in medical reform. He might be considered 
the father of modern (anti-drug) medication, 
more even than the more noted Dr. Trail, of 
New York, who drew his doctrine and inspira- 
tion from Dr. Jennings. He was a pioneer in 



discovering the true principles of vital action. 
To the physical welfare of the world, therefore, 
it may be said that Dr. Jennings has contrib- 
uted more than any other man of this century. 
He was also prominent in church relations, 
being a zealous and consistent Deacon in the 
Congregational Church. He died at Oberlin, 
March 14, 1874, at the age of eighty-six years. 
His wife died many years before, January 27, 
1857, at the age of seventy years. She also 
was a devout Christian, in the same church. 
They had several children; among them were: 
Rev. Isaac Jennings, who was born July 24, 
1816, was a Congregational minister in Ben- 
nington, Vermont, for thirty-five years; was 
prominent in his profession, and esteemed both 
for his learning, and his devout religious en- 
thusiasm, and died in 1887. 

Catherine, born August 30, 1823, married 
Rev. Justin W. Parsons, who was a missionary 
to Turkey, and after doing a successful work 
there for a number of years, was murdered by 
natives, probably for the purpose of robbery; 
she is still continuing the work there. Before 
going abroad, she was for many years a well 
known and popular teacher in the schools of 
Cleveland, being one of the first lady teachers 
in the high schools of the city. 

Frederick Beach Jennings, who became a 
promising young man, and died soon after his 
graduation, at the age of twenty-one years. 

The gentleman whose name introduces this 
brief memoir, was educated at Oberlin College, 
but on account of failing health left the insti- 
tution before graduating, came to Cleveland, in 
1850, and embarked in the real-estate business. 
He platted a large tract of farm land adjoining 
the city, known as " Jennings' Allotment." 
To-day it is one of the most beautiful and im- 
portant portions of the city. He has been 
largely interested in Cleveland real estate, and 
has contributed much to the material develop- 
ment of the city, and has always been alive to 
every local interest. He was instrumental in 
securing the opening of Scranton avenue, whicli 
gave ready communication between the South 



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and East Sides. Also he was a zealous worker 
in behalf of the first Seneca street bridge, ob- 
taining subscriptions for its building. In 1866 
he became the general agent for the Mutual 
Life Insurance Company, of New York, for the 
State of Ohio, and held the position until 1877, 
when he retired from the moi-e active duties of 
business life. His management of the insur- 
ance business was marked by phenomenal 



In 1855 he married Miss Caroline Reed 
Conkling, a daughter of Daniel Conkling, of 
Bennington, Vermont, where she was born and 
reared. They have three children, namely: 
John G. and Caroline Hubbell, twins, and 
George Conkling. John G. Jennings, Jr., 
since his graduation at Yale College, has been 
treasurer of the Larason & Sessions Company, 
manufacturers of bolts, nuts, rivets and wrenches, 
Cleveland, and is one of the active business 
men in the city. He married Miss Lillian Lam- 
son, and has one child, Isaac Lamson by 
name. Caroline Hubbell wedded Newton S. 
Calhoun, an attorney at law; and George C, 
after graduating at Yale, returned to Cleveland 
and established the foundry of Johnston & 
Jennings. Both Mr. and Mrs. Jennings, of 
this sketch, are members of the Pilgrim Con- 
gregational Church, of which he was an organ- 
izer and has for many years been Deacon. 



LOUIS C. HOSSFELD, a substantial citi- 
I zen of Middleburg township, Ohio, was 
1 born in Saxe-Weimar, Germany, Febru- 
ary 2, 1S56. .His parents were Nickolaus and 
Kunigunda (Lorey) Ilossfeld. They emigrated 
to America in July, 1872, and settled in Mid- 
dleburg township, where the mother died, March 
21, 1891. The father is a farmer, and still re- 
sides in Middleburg township. They had six 
children, namely: Peter, deceased; Dora, Bar- 
bara, Louis C, John and Anna. 

Louis C. passed the first sixteen years of his 
life in Saxe-Weimar, and came to America in 



March, 1872. He came direct to Cuyahoga 
county and has since been a resident of Mid- 
dleburg township. Farming has been his busi- 
ness, and in that occupation he has achieved 
success. He owns forty-five acres of land. 

In politics Mr. Hossfeld is independent, and 
in religion he is a member of the Lutheran 
Church. 



'Jr^^OBERT WALLACE.— The subject of 
V^^ this review stands as one of the distinct- 
Jj ^ ively representative men of Cleveland, 
^ and a reference to the more salient points 

in his life history can not but prove interesting 
and profitable, since the high measure of .suc- 
cess and honor to which he has attained is the 
direct result of his own efforts and sturdy recti- 
tude of character. He is the architect of his 
own fortune, and, grateful for the success at- 
tained, yet holds ever in mind the fact that only 
earnest devotion, indefatigable industry, and cor- 
rect methods can assure such advancement, 
claiming to himself no undue honor, ])ut merely 
tracing the advances made as in the natural 
course of cause and effect. He was born in 
county Cavan, Ireland, May 17, 1834, the son 
of James and Mary A. (Sanderson) Wallace. 
He was reared on a farm in his native land and 
was educated in the national schools. At the 
age of nineteen years he emigrated to America, 
being the only representative of his family in the 
New World. His first year in tlie United 
States was passed at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 
and Camden, New Jersey, where for one year 
he was engaged in carpet weaving, and then he 
came direct to Cleveland. He then determined 
to learn the machinist's trade, and with this end 
in view secured a position with the Globe Iron 
Works, with whicli concern he retained his 
association for a term of many years, not sev- 
ering his connection therewith until July, 1886. 
He commenced work with the company as an 
apprentice, in due time became a journeyman, 
later a foreman, and finally secured an interest 
in the business. At the time of his withdi-awal 



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be owned a one-fourth interest in the enterprise. 
Within the time of his connection with the 
Globe Iron Works he was for eight seasons act- 
ively identified with navigation, serving in the 
capacity of engineer upon some one of the pas- 
senger propellers on the lakes during the sum- 
mers and devoting his attention to his trade 
during the months when navigation was closed. 

Mr. Wallace has been particularly successful 
from a financial standpoint, having begun in life 
without capital or influential support. Improv- 
ing ever}' opportunity which presented itself, 
and living an industrious, honest and enterpris- 
ing life, he has accomplished much good, not 
only benefitting himself but others wlio have 
come within the range of his influence. It is 
interesting to note that the first individual 
business investment made by our subject was in 
the year 1866, when he and J. F. Pankhurst and 
Arthur Sautell established a small machine shop 
on the corner of Columbus and Center streets, 
in Cleveland, the enterprise being conducted 
under the firm name of Wallace, Pankhurst & 
Company. The enterprise was carried success- 
fully forward for two years, when the firm trans- 
ferred the same to William Bowler, in exchange 
for the latter's interest in the Globe Iron Works, 
in which organization and its operations our 
subject became a prime factor. 

Mr. Wallace was one of the origitiators and 
founders of the Cleveland Shipbuilding Com- 
pany, which was organized January 1, 1887. 
In this corporation Mr. Wallace has been a di- 
rector from the time of its inception, also hold- 
ing the ofllce of vice-president until September, 
1893, when he was advanced to the presidency. 
He is one of the largest stockholders in the Ship 
Owners' Dry Dock Company, of Cleveland, be- 
ing one of the directors of the same. For a 
number of years he was connected with the 
Cleveland Dry Dock Company; he owns an 
interest in several important vessels which 
he has aided in liuilding, and in addition to these 
important and representative business interests 
he is also concerned in numerous other enter- 
prises of minor importance, 



Fraternally Mr. Wallace is a member of the 
F. & A. M., with which he became identified in 
1861. He retains a membership in Halcyon 
Lodge, Thatcher Chapter, Forest City Com- 
mandery and Al Koran Mystic Shrine, being 
prominent in the Masonic circles of the State. 
He has been a member of the Chamber of Com- 
merce since 1892. 

In 1862 was consummated Mr. Wallace's 
marriage to Miss Lydia P. Davis, of Cleveland, 
a descendant of an old Nantucket Quaker fam- 
ily. She died in 1879, leaving five children, of 
whom we offer the following brief record : James 
C. is vice-president of the Cleveland Shipbuild- 
ing Company; Nettie M. is the wife of Fred 
Whittlesey, of Cleveland; Mamie S.; Robert B.; 
and Herbert, who died at the age of nineteen 
years. 

In 1881, Mr. Wallace was united in mar- 
riage to Miss Fannie Lindsay, daughter of the 
late Thomas Lindsay, a well known resident of 
Cleveland, Ohio, for many years. By his sec- 
ond marriage our subject is the father of one 
child, Lindsay. The attractive family home is 
located at No. 345, Franklin avenue, and Mr. 
Wallace also has a handsome summer cottage 
eligibly located on Lake avenue. 



[( LBERT R. TEACHOUT, the junior 
1\ meml>er of the firm of A. Teachout & 
*i Company, was born at Royalton, Ohio, 
July 12, 1852, the son of Abraham 
Teachout, Jr., whose history is given in this 
volume. He received his education at Hiram 
College, and in 1873 entered into partnership 
with his father. They have a large and flour- 
ishing business, of which he is general manager, 
and in connection with the establishment at 
Cleveland they have a branch at Pittsburg, 
Pennsylvania, also another at Columbus, Ohio, 
where they transact a large business annually. 

Mr. Teachout was united in marriage in 1873 
to Miss Sarah A. Parmley, a daughter of David 
Parmley, a resident of Lake county, Ohio. 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



Three children have been born to them, two 
sons and a daughter: Katherine, Albert R., and 
David W. Mr. and Mrs. Teachout are active 
members of the Christian Church, and contrib- 
ute liberally of their time and means to its 
support. Mr. Teachout is one of the directors 
of the Y. M. C. A., and is a Trustee of Frank- 
lin Avenue Church. His wife has been promi- 
nently identiiied with the work of the Woman's 
Christian Temperance Union. They are both 
earnest, progressive and conscientious, and are 
highly esteemed by a wide circle of acquaint- 



ffJl' M. GKOUT, the venerable paymaster of 
Ir^i the New York, Lake Erie & Western 
II t Railroad Company, at Cleveland, has 
^ given the full measure of his active life 

to the service of railroad corporations. In his 
youth and early manhood he prepared himself 
for civil engineering in the most satisfactory 
manner, by going into the field with a survey- 
ing party and dragging a chain, driving stakes, 
runninw the rod level and transit and taking 
topography. When the Great Western Rail- 
road of Canada was being put through, Mr. 
Grout was a member of one of the engineering 
parties engaged in its location. He remained 
with this road until its main line and l)ranches 
were completed, requiring some years. Upon 
the outbreaking of the oil excitement in Lamp- 
ton county, Canada, Mr. Grout went there and 
cast his lot with the company, and was by popu- 
lar election made the company's surveyor. 

In 1802 Mr. Grout became identified with 
the Atlantic & Great Western Railroad, now in 
the Erie system of roads. He came to the 
company as a transit man, but was soon made 
assistant engineer. In 1868 he was put in 
charge as engineer and of maintenance of way, 
serving until 1873, when he was transferred to 
the treasurer's department, as assistant pay- 
master, and in 1877 was promoted to the posi- 
tion of paymaster. 



June 25, 1831, Mr. Grout was born at Grims- 
by, Ontario. There he grew to manhood, and 
was educated in a college in Toronto. He put 
in three years reading law, but decided to en- 
gage in railroad work, and dropped it. 

Mr. Grout's father was the Rev. George R. 
F. Grout, for twenty-three years rector of 
Grimsby. He was born in Quebec, Canada, 
June 29, 1804, and died in May, 1849. His 
father was a civil service officer in Lower Can- 
ada, and came from England about 1770. The 
maiden name of the mother of our subject was 
Eliza Waeker, and she was of Scotch descent. 
Her children are: H. M.; John H., a manu- 
facturer of Grimsby; Rev. George, rector of 
Lyn, Ontario; Adelaide and Alice. Mrs. Grout 
died in 1S84, aged seventy-seven years. 

November 8, 1853, Mr. H. M. Grout married 
Elizabeth Richard.son, who bore him two chil- 
dren: George, a civil engineer in Central 
America, and Eva. 

Mr. Grout is a Freemason of the highest de- 
gree, and is a member of the Cincinnati Con- 
sistory, N. W. Commandery of Meadville, Penn- 
sylvania, and of Ravenna Lodge and Chapter. 
He is also a Knight of Honor and a Knight of 
the Maccabees of the World. 



IjAY L. ATHEY, one of the representative 
A^ I lawyers of Cleveland, is a son of the late 
^^ Lee Elisha Athey of Louisville, Kentucky, 
and was born January 28, 1856, in the town of 
Pieston, Virginia (now AVest Virginia), and 
with his parents went to Louisville, Kentucky, 
in 1860. One year later bis parents removed 
to Shepardsville, that State, where his home 
was made until 1866, when he went to Zanes- 
ville, Ohio, where he graduated at the city high 
school, in 1874. 

For two years thereafter he was engaged in 
bridge-building on the Ualtimore & Ohio Rail- 
road. He then became a schoolteacher in Pres- 
ton county, West Virginia, teaching one year. 
Returning to Zanesville in the spring of 1877, 



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he there began tlie study of law under Southard 
A: Soutliard. A short time thereafter he re- 
sumed bridge-building at Louisville for the 
L. & C. Short Line, by the superintendent of 
whicii road he was later appointed bridge in- 
spector, which position he held for less than a 
year, resigning the same in order to come to 
Cleveland for the piirpose of resuming the 
study of law under Jackson & Pudney. He 
was admitted to the bar in 1879, and in April 
of the same year the law firm of Jackson, Pud- 
!iey & Athey was formed, and thereafter con- 
tinued for less than one year, when Mr. Athey 
made a change, only to return to his former 
partner, Judge Jackson, in the law, two months 
later, with whom he thereafter remained until 
1885, under lirm name of Jackson & Athey, 
when Mr. Jackson left Cleveland for Colorado. 
Previously Mr. Pudney had retired from the 
firm, and now Mr. Athey virtually became the 
successor of the old and successful firm. There- 
after he practiced under other associations, but 
after January, 1893, he was a tnemT)er of the 
law firm of Athey & Hogan, which was recently 
dissolved, and at present Mr. Athey is a mem- 
ber of the law firm of Ilerrick, Athey & Bliss. 

In politics Mr. Athey has always been Demo- 
cratic. As a Democrat he was elected a mem- 
ber of the City Council of Cleveland in the 
spring of 1882, and in 1883 he was elected, as 
he was familiarly called, as the " Kid Presi- 
dent " of the Council, being the youngest man 
who had ever l)een elected to that position, his 
age being at that time twenty-seven years. In 
the spring of 1884 he was re-elected to the 
Council, and that term served as Council mem- 
ber of the Board of Improvements. His first 
election to the Council was fromtheold Twelfth 
ward, his second election from the Twenty- 
fourth ward, and in the spring of 1886 he was 
elected for a third time, this time from the 
Thirty ninth ward. In the spring of 1887 the 
Council elected him City Auditor, to accept 
which office he resigned his position as a mem- 
ber of the Council, and from the office of City 
Auditor he retired upon tlje o'ose of his term 



in 1890, since which date he has been active in 
the practice of his profession. He has done a 
very great deal of successful criminal practice. 
He was a candidate for nomination to Congress 
from the Twenty-first district by the Demo- 
cratic convention in 1892, but was defeated in 
this race. 

May 16, 1892, Mr. Athey married Miss Car- 
rie E. Elliot, of Zanesville, Ohio. His father 
was born on the Potomac, in Maryland. In 
early life he began railroading, and spent many 
years as a conductor. He was conductor of the 
first train the Baltimore & Ohio ran into Graf- 
ton, West Virginia, and held that position till 
1859, then he became a conductor for the 
Louisville & Nashville Railroad. Upon the 
breaking out of the Civil war, he located in 
Louisville, Kentucky, where he subsequently 
died, and was interred in Cave Hill cemetery. 



nT^^ EV. PETER MATTHEW CERVENY, 
V^. rector of St. Casimer's Church of Cleve- 
IJ ^ land, was born in Bohemia, November 
V 15, 1868. His parents are Anthony 

and Catherine (Doubek) Cerveny. Both of the 
parents live in Bohemia, where the father is a 
shoemaker by trade and a merchant of repute. 
The subject of this sketch is the second one in 
a family of five children, namely: Mary, the 
wife of Elmer Merritt, who resides in Chicago; 
Peter Matthew, Anthony; Antoinette and 
Anne. 

In Domazlicze, Bohemia, our subject was edu- 
cated. He passed an examination at maturity 
in the gymnasium, receiving the first degree, 
then entered the seminary at Prague, and at the 
university there studied theology and oriental 
languages, giving special attention to Hebrew, 
Syriac and Arabic. After studing one year he 
received testimonials, and with excellent recom- 
mendations came to America, landing in Decem- 
ber of 1889. Coming direct to Cleveland, he en- 
tered St. Mary's Seminary on Lake street, where 
he completed a theological course, and was or- 



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daiiied priest by Bishop Horstmann, December 
18, 1892. Ke was appointed assistant at St. 
Stanislaus (Polisli) Church, with special in- 
structions. Later he took charge of his present 
work, receiving his appointment as pastor, July 
17, 1893: He has about 230 families under 
his charge. It is a new congregation, being es- 
tablished in 1892. In connection with the 
church is also a school. Since January, 1893, 
there have been in this church thirty-seven 
baptisms, seven deaths and five marriages. The 
school is taught by one teacher. 

Rev. Cerveny is a man of good education, 
good address and gives promise of prominence 
in his life work; speaks Bohemian, Slovak, 
Polish, German and English. The latter he 
speaks quite well. He preaches in the Polish 
language. He is of a genial spirit and of 
pleasing address, and is doing excellent work in 
the church of his choice and the country of his 
adoption. 



rREDERICK E. BARTHELMAN, of 
Rockport hamlet, Ohio, was a son of the 
late John C. Barthelman, who was born 
in Germany, January 27, 1811. His mother 
was Johanna Groli, who was also born in Ger- 
many, January 17, 1822. After their marriage 
they first settled in Parma township, Ohio, 
afterward removing to Rockport township, where 
the father died December 16, 1877. The wife 
and mother survives. They had six children, 
viz.: John, Kate, Frederick E., William (de- 
ceased), George (deceased) and Mary. 

Frederick E., who is the second son and third 
child of the family, was born in Parma town- 
ship, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, October 25, 1851. 
The following spring his parents removed to 
Rockport towiishij), where he grew to manhood 
and has always resided. He received a common- 
school education and remained under the pater- 
nal roof till his marriage, in Rockport township. 
March 20. 1877, to Miss Kate Reitz, who was a 
daughter of George P. Reitz and Mrs. Barbara 



Reitz. She was born in Rockport township, 
August 17, 1853. They had seven children, 
viz.: Peter, Bertha, Anna, Henry, Willie, John 
and Amelia. John died in infancy. Mr. and 
Mrs. Barthelman are members of the German 
Protestant Church. 

Mr. Barthelman has been a school director. 
He is a member of Amazon Lodge, No. 567, 
L (). O. F. He owns a fine farm of sixty-four 
acres. 



DR. G. F. WEBB, E. M., was born in Ash- 
tabula county, Ohio, in 1852. After re- 
- — ceiving a liberal common-school educa- 
tion in Ashtabula county he went to New York 
city, where he completed a thorough literary 
course. Later he studied medicine in Chicago, 
under the direction of several eminent physi- 
cians of that city, meanwhile being engaged in 
hospital work. He graduated at the Homeo- 
pathic College of that city, and to-day he is the 
only physician in Cleveland holding the diplo- 
ma of a medical electrician. This diploma he 
received in 1889. In 1890 he located in the 
city of Cleveland, where as a medical electrician 
he has gained an enviable reputation and accom- 
plished wonderful work, built up a remunera- 
tive practice and established for himself the 
reputation of one thoroughly well prepared for 
his chosen field of labor. He has taken elec- 
tricity as his special study with reference to its 
curative powers applied to mankind. In no 
branch of science has there been a more won- 
derful advance tluui in the manipulation of elec- 
tricity and its application to disease. Some 
almost marvelous cures have been wrought. 
He holds that Science, the modern fairy god- 
mother, in opening up the great field of elec- 
tricity has done more to help mankind than all 
the richest men of the world that ever lived. 

From boyhood Dr. Webb has studied elec- 
tricity. He has invented electrical appliances 
which are endorsed by scores of the medical 
profession, and he has found his greatest sphere 



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of usefulness in the cure of nervous diseases of 
men, women and children. He has stated his 
theory of practice and his belief in remedial 
electro-galvanic body appliances, and has proved 
his theory by living examples transformed from 
invalidism to health. He has made a national 
name by the " Dr. G. F. Webb Improved 
Electro-Galvanic Medical Body Batteries and 
Appliances." He uses no medicine whatso- 
ever, but confines his practice entirely to elec- 
tricity, and he has been very successful. He 
was the first to invent an electro-medical device 
that has been successful in curing deafness. Of 
this appliance he is patentee, and for his patent 
he has refused the handsome sum of $60,000. 
The sale of this appliance during the first two 
years it was on the market was double the above 
named sum. Dr. Webb is the inventor of sev- 
eral electro- medical appliances, and retains full 
control of all his inventions, manufacturing all 
of the same. These mechanisms are such as can 
be used not only in the physician's office, but 
may be used at the home of the patient, who 
may receive his instructions even by mail from 
Dr. Webb. One of his most valuable inven- 
tions is that of an electro-medical body battery, 
which has performed some remarkable cures. 
This invention is for the treatment of impaired 
nerves. 

Dr. Webb's electro- medical appliances are 
used throughout the United States, and have 
found their way to Europe and to other foreign 
countries. At the recent international exliibi- 
tion at Tasmania his electrical devices, in com- 
petition with the best equipments of this coun- 
try and Europe, received the highest premium 
and a gold medal. Having gained fame as an 
inventor of electro-medical apparatus and as a 
medical electrician, Dr. Webb was made an 
honorary memlier of "The Society of Eoyal 
Arts and Sciences of France." His appliances 
in the Columbian Exposition attracted consider- 
able attention. 

He is a writer of ability and has furnished 
some very valuable articles upon the application 
of electricity in the treatment of nervous dis- 



eases. Among these treatises the most impor- 
tant is that under the title of "Electro-Medical 
Theory and Practice," a practical treatise on the 
treatment of diseases with electro-galvanic body 
batteries and appliances. His experience has 
been successful in making electrical treatment 
practical. 

Dr. Webb is scarcely past forty years of age 
and is in the noonday of life, and having 
accomplished such good success already it is but 
reasonable to suppose that much in his line he 
will yet accomplish. His success is another 
living example of that law known as " the sur- 
vival of the fittest." Notwithstanding the fact 
that Dr. Webb has gained all of his fame and 
has received honors after honors, it has made 
but little difference in his daily life with others. 
He is a pleasant and instructive gentleman to 
know, and in his daily intercourse with his 
fellow-men he is homelike, pleasant and court- 
eous, always taking into due consideration the 
rights and privileges of others. 

In 1887 Dr. Webb was united in marriage 
with Miss N. Hill, of Ashtabula county. She 
is a daughter of one of the oldest and best 
known families of that section of the State. 
She comes of old New England stock of re- 
spectability and refinement. Dr. and Mrs. Webb 
have three children, namely: Leroy A., Pearl 
E. and Faith E. The Doctor and his wife are 
leading members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, and both do active and valuable service 
in the interests of the church and its societies. 



CHARLES A. WALKER, of Rockport 
hamlet, is a son of Charles Walker, who 
died in St. Johns, Ontario, Canada. The 
mother was Mary Murphy, who still survives. 

Charles A. Walker was born in New York 
city, June 20, 1847. When he was about seven 
years old his parents removed to the northern 
part of New York State; here and in St. Johns 
the son continued to live till he was about six- 
teen years of age. He then came to Cleveland, 



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Ohio, and was employed in a lumber yard for 
some seventeen years, in February, 1882, com- 
ing to Kockport township, where for three 
years he was engaged in gardening. In the fall 
of 1884: he took up the mercantile business in 
Kockport hamlet. He carries a good stock of 
general merchandise and enjoys a good trade. 
He is also the caterer and confectioner of the 
community. 

He was married in Rockport township, June 
13, 187(j, to Miss Emma A. Jordan, daughter 
of Chauncy and .Julia (Pressley) Jordan, who 
are residents qf Cleveland. They had three 
children, of whom Mrs. Walker was the eldest. 
She was born November 25, 1857, in Rockport 
township, where she was reared. 

Mr. and Mrs. Walker have three children, — 
Charles H., Fred E. and Julia E. 

Mr. Walker takes a part in local affairs. 
Mrs. Walker is a member of the Congregational 
Clnircii. 



EORGE WORTHIXGTON ANDRUS, 

general freight agent of the Lake Shore 
& Michigan Southern Railway at Cleve- 
land, was born at Eagleville, Ashtabula 
county, Ohio, January 22,1842; obtained his 
early education at the common schools, moved 
to Cleveland in 1852. and finished his education 
at the West Cleveland high school. 

He commenced work in the ofiice of the old 
Cleveland & Toledo Railway Company in 1856, 
located at that time on Whisky island. In 
1857 he accepted a position in the Cleveland & 
Pittsburg Railway ofiice, and in 1859 was of- 
fered a position as agent of the Columbia & 
Charlestown Railroad, at Cohimhia, which he 
accepted. 

The war cloud in 1860 made it evident that 
there would be trouble between the North and 
the South, and Mr. Andrus, preferring to be on 
the Union side of the controversy, left Columbia 
and went direct to Chicago, securing employ- 
ment in the office of the Chicago, Burlington & 
Qtiincy Railroad Company. At length the war 



broke out; business came to a stand-still, and 
Mr. Andrus returned to Cleveland and secured 
a position with Addison Hills, general freight 
agent of the Cleveland, Painesville «fe Ashta- 
bula Railway and the Cleveland, Columbus, 
Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railway. At that 
time the following young men were in the office 
employed as clerks, who afterward rose to high 
position in i-ailroad service: 

George H. Vaillant, who in 1881 was ap- 
pointed general freight agent of the Lake Shore 
& Michigan Southern Railway Company, and 
is at present second vice president of the Erie 
Railway Company at New York city. 

J. T. R. McKay, who-was appointed general 
freight agent of the Lake Shore & Michigan 
Southern Railway Company on the retirement 
of Mr. Vaillant. 

Oscar Townsend, who became president of 
the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indian- 
apolis Railway Company in 1870, also general 
manager of the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling 
Railway in 1883. 

O. 13. Skinner, in 1885 traffic manager of the 
Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis 
Railway. 

Thomas Carson, who became general freight 
agent of the Louisville & Nashville Railway. 

Lucien Hills, who was appointed general 
freight agent July 1, 1861, of the Clevelaud, 
Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railway. 

A. B. Hough, at present division freight 
agent of the "Big 4" (Cleveland, Columbus, 
Cincinnati & Indianapolis) Railway at Cleve- 
land. 

Jay Morse, who subsequently left the rail- 
road business and became a millionaire and 
president of the Illinois Steel Company. 

We doubt whether there is another railroad 
office in the country that can show so fine a rec- 
ord of clerks advanced to high positions of re 
sponsibility and trust. 

Mr. Andrus made the first through way-bill 
from Cleveland to New York by the Empire 
line. Oscar Townsend was then agent of the 
line, and at that day no railroad made way-bills 



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beyond tlieir own junction stations. Everything 
was transferred and re-billed, which was a very 
expensive manner of transacting tlie business as 
con)pared with the facilities and through billing 
of the present day. 

After the consolidation of the Cleveland & 
Toledo, the Cleveland, Painesville & Ashtabula 
and the Buffalo & Erie Railways, G. H. Vaillant 
was appointed agent at Cleveland, and Mr. 
Andrus was at that time chief clerk. Mr. 
Vaillant was appointed assistant general freight 
agent of the Lake Shore Eailway in 1873, and 
Mr. Andrus succeeded hini as agent May 26, 
1876, and has held this position to the present 
time. 

May 2, 1864, Mr. Andrus enlisted in Com- 
pany C, One Hundred and Fiftieth Regiment, 
Ohio National Guards, C'jlonel W. II. Hay- 
ward commander. The regiment was ordered to 
Washington, District of Columbia, and occupied 
Forts Bunker Hill, Lincoln, Slocum, Stevens, 
Sleraraer, Totten, Thayer and Saratoga on the 
north of the capitol, and held these forts when 
they were menaced by general Early in July, 
1864. Mr. Andrus was detailed by E. M. 
Stanton, Secretary of War, to report at the ofMce 
of J. B. Frye, provost-marshal general. Shortly 
after his arrival at the war department in 
AVashington, he enlisted in the War Depart- 
ment Rifles, Samuel Dana commander, and was 
appointed Sergeant. When General Early made 
his raid in July, just mentioned, this regiment 
was sent out to hold the right of the line. The 
old Sixth Corps was sent by General Grant to 
protect the capitol, and occupied tlie center, and 
forced General Early and his army down the 
Shenandoah valley. 

Mr. Andrus was honorably discharged and 
mustered out of service at Washington, August 
13, 1864, by Captain J. S. Poland, Second 
United States Infantry, Commissary Muster 
Department at Washington, on December 15, 
1864, received from President Lincoln thanks 
and a certificate of honorable service, dated at 
the executive mansion at Washington, Septem- 
ber 10, 1864. 



At present Mr. Andrus is a member of the 
Cleveland Chamber of Commerce; of Tyrian 
Lodge, No. 370, F. & A. M. ; of Royal Arcanum, 
No. 673; of the National Union; and of Tent 
No. 5, Knights of the Maccabees. 



[1 LCINUS WARD FENTON.— Cease- 

i\ lessly to and fro flies the deft shuttle 
ii which weaves the web of human life, — 
of human destiny, — and into the vast 
mosaic fabric enters the individuality, the 
effort, the accomplishment of each man, be his 
station that most lowly or one of majesty, pomp 
and power. Within the textile folds may be 
traced the line of each individuality, be it one 
that lends the beautiful silver sheen of honest 
worth and honest endeavor, or one that is dark 
and zigzag finds its way through warp and 
woof, marring the composite beauty by its 
darkened threads, ever in evidence of the 
shadowed and nnprolitic life. Into the great 
aggregate each individuality is merged and yet 
the essence of each is never lost, be the angle 
of its influence wide-spreading and grateful, or 
narrow and baneful. In his efforts he who 
essays biography finds much of profit and much 
of alluring fascination when he would follow 
out, even in a cursory way, the tracings of a life 
history, seeking ever to discover the key-note 
of each respective personality. These eflorts in 
their resulting ti-ansmiesion can not fail of value 
in an objective way, for in each case may the 
lesson of life be conned, "line upon line, and 
precept upon precept." 

He to whose life history we now direct at- 
tention occupies the conspicuous position as 
Special Deputy Collector of Customs at the port 
of Cleveland, district of Cuyahoga, and by his 
own efforts has he gained such precedence and 
distinction as entitle him to the honor and re- 
spect of all. He was born April 16, 1839, in 
the township of Bristolville, Trumbull county, 
Ohio, being the second son in a family of nine 
children born to William and Adaline Julia 
Fenton. William Fenton was a farmer, sturdy, 



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self-reliant and of invincible integrity, — such a 
man as would naturally transmit to bis children 
that most valuable heritage indicated in the 
sterling attributes of character which ever domi- 
nated his life. The youth of our subject was 
not one of sybaritic ease and prodigal advan- 
tages, for he passed his days in such service as 
was usually demanded of the older sons of a 
pioneer farmer in the " good old days " before 
the war. He was not denied sucli educational 
advantages as were afforded the average youth 
of that time and place, being enabled to attend 
the district schools through the winter mouths, 
otherwise devoting his time to work upon the 
farm until he had attained his majority. 

At this period the political horizon was fre- 
quently obscured by the gruesome clouds which 
gave premonition of that great fratricidal con- 
flict soon to be pi-ecipitated upon a divided 
country. Intellectually alert and ever interested 
in the affairs and questions which had bearing 
upon the public weal, and with such indifferent 
knowledge of parliamentary law and such ex- 
perience as he had been enabled to gain in the 
debating society of the district school, his aspi- 
rations to become a lawyer were enkindled and 
he proceeded to consult ways and means and to 
formulate plans by which he might follow out 
his cherished scheme. Finally, in 1860, he 
entered the Hiram Eclectic Institute, then at 
the zenith of its power and influence under Pro- 
fessor James A. Garfield, the late martyred 
President of the Union. The year spent at the 
institution named was one of signal benefit to 
Mr. Fenton, and his possession of the elements 
of popularity as a student early became mani- 
fest, eventually gaining to him the lasting 
friendship of Mr. Garfield and other members 
of the faculty, as well as that of his fellows. He 
was known as a superior type of the all-round 
athlete and as a champion player in the college 
game of cricket, which at that time held such 
prestige in all centers of learning as is now ac- 
corded to base-ball and foot-ball. 

"Within the days passed on the farm he had 
become a most ext-elleiit horseman, and natur- 



ally upon the outbreak of the civil war we find 
him enlisted, in October, 1861, as a member of 
Company A, in the Sixth Regiment of Ohio 
Cavalry. He followed the fortunes of this gal- 
lant and valiant regiment from its entry into 
service under General Frement, in 1862, until 
the " round-up" at Appomattox in 1865, serv- 
ing in the command of such general cavalry 
officers as Buford, D. McM. Gregg, Crook and 
Sheridan. 

The same qualities which had gained him 
such unmistakable popularity while in school 
had a marked influence npou his military career, 
for he promptly secured and ever retained the 
esteem and good will of the members of his 
regiment. Upon the organization of his com- 
pany he was appointed Corporal, and soon 
thereafter, much to his surprise and more to 
that of all the orderly sergeants and sergeants 
of the line, he was named as Sergeant-Major of 
the regiment, by promotion from the oftice of 
Corporal. His efficiency as a skilled horseman, 
his peculiar aptitude for military tactics and 
affairs and his fine clerical ability soon gained 
him further recognition and honors, resulting 
in his promotion to the position as Adjutant of 
the regiment. Long before the close of the war 
Mr. Fenton was advanced to a position of still 
greater importance and responsibility, being 
commissioned by Governor Brough as a Cap- 
tain and being thereupon mustered into Com- 
pany D. While serving with his command 
during the memorable campaign ending at 
Appomattox he was detailed as Acting Assist- 
ant Inspector General of Cavalry, serving in 
this capacity upon the staff of Brevet Major- 
General Charles II. Smith, of the Third Brig- 
ade, Second Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of 
the Pgtomac, and also upon the staff of Major- 
General George Crook, commanding the Second 
Division of Sheridan's Cavalry C'orps, Army of 
the Potomac. Captain Fenton was twice 
slightly wounded, and within his four years' 
service he participated in more than eighty 
battles and skirmishes. Such a record of ac- 
couiplishiiifii" ami honuraijle preferim^nt is one 




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that may well lie held as a source of gratifica- 
tion to our subject; is one that should ever re- 
dound to the honor of one who played well his 
part ill that sanguinary struggle which eradi- 
cated the foul blot upon the escutcheon of our 
nation and preserved to us an integral union of 
the vast domain representing the grandest re- 
public known to the annals of history. The 
debt which later generations owe to the gallant 
" boys in blue" should never abate by one jot 
or tittle its weight, but there need be no burden 
entailed, for this is lifted by a lively and per- 
petual recognition and appreciation of the ser- 
vices rendered at so great peril and with so 
perfect self-abnegation. 

After the close of the war Captain Fenton 
located in Cleveland, and this city has ever since 
continued to be his place of residence. A man 
fearless in the expression of his opinions, never 
prostrating himself in sycophancy or for mere 
policy's sake, one whose character has withstood 
the crucial tests, it is but natural that he should 
have attained to popularity and high esteem 
during tiie long years of his residence in the 
Forest City. He served for eight consecutive 
years as a member of the Board of Education, 
in which body he was known as an unswerving 
defender of what he believed to be right, never 
winking at incorrect measures by even so much 
as the negative evidence of silence. Swerved 
by circumstances from his original design of 
preparing himself for the practice of law, his 
life work has been turned into channels of equal 
usefulness. For twenty-one consecutive years 
he had charge of the itnporting desk in the cus- 
tomhouse at Cleveland, and for the past year he 
has held preferment as Special Deputy Col- 
lector of the port. He has proved a very effi- 
cient officer, is a favorite of the Treasury offi- 
cials and is held in high regard i)y the import- 
ers of this collection district. His thorouo-h 
knowledge of customs laws and his familiarity 
with the intricacies of the numerous rulings 
thereon make him an expert authority in this 
line. In \\]^ bearing Captain Fenton is unpre- 
tentious, unassuming and accessible. To all 



manner of men he is ever the same courteons 
gentleman, and in his execution of the onerous 
duties of his office he is ever ready to accord due 
attention and consideration to those who seek 
for information. These facts are practically 
self-evident from even the little insight into his 
character which these lines have afforded. He 
is held in the highest estimation both as an 
official and a citizen, for these honors are never 
denied when justly due. 

The Captain is a member of Memorial Post, 
No. 41, G. A. K., and is also identified with 
the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion. He 
is treasurer of the Euclid Avenue Christian 
Church, of which he has long been a worthy 
member. 

On March 13, 1864, while home on leave of 
absence on account of re-enlistment as a 
" veteran," Captain Fenton was united in 
marriage, at North Bloomfield, Ohio, to Miss 
Elmira K. Ferry. They are the parents of one 
daughter, Alice Garfield Fenton, and the little 
family circle maintain a happy and attractive 
home at 62 Lincoln avenue. 



I|0HN CHAPIN SANDEES, M.D.LL. D. 
K I' — It is with unmistakable satisfaction 
^^ that we now direct attention to the life 
and accomplishments of one who has been for 
many years a resident of the Forest City, who 
stands conspicuously forth by reason of his 
high professional attainments, and as a man of 
innate nobleness of character, — one who lias 
lived an active and useful life, and whose min- 
istrations have been a power for the good of his 
fellow- men. 

The son of Dr. Moses Chapin and Harriet 
Maria Sanders, our subject was born in Peru, 
Huron county, Ohio, July 2, 1825, his parents 
having been among the early settlers in the 
county noted. Dr. Moses C. Sanders was one 
of the pioneer physicians and surgeons of the 
Western Reserve, a man widely known and 
' most hici-hly honored, being an able and distin- 



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guislied member of his profession. For many 
years prior to his demise, he was one of the 
censors of the medical department of the West- 
ern Eeserve College. He was a native of Mil- 
ford, Massachusetts, where he was born May 27, 
1789; he died, in Peru, Ohio, May 18, 1856. 
He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, 
and served for many years as chorister in the 
church of that denomination in Peru. His 
wife, Harriet Maria, nee Thompson, was born 
December 25, 1797, her death occurring Oc- 
tober 20, 1829. She also was a lifelong and 
devoted member of the Presbyterian Church. 

Our subject's preliminary literary studies 
were pursued in the academy at Milan, Ohio, 
and he received his medical training under the 
able direction of his father, who was recognized 
as one of the most distinguished physicians and 
surgeons of Northern Ohio. When sufficiently 
advanced in his professional studies, he entered 
the medical department of the Western Re- 
serve University, where he graduated in 18-48. 
After eighteen months' practice with jiis father 
he became so impressed by his sense of need of 
a broader culture, that he gave up his profession 
and entered the Western Reserve College, at 
Hudson, Ohio, where he passed two years, pur- 
suing a full classical course. He then entered 
Yale College, where he graduated in 1854. He 
then returned to Ohio, and located at Xorwalk, 
where he resumed the practice of medicine, in 
company with Dr. A. N. Reed, his father's 
partner, this association continuing for three and 
one-half years. Dr. Sanders then removed to 
Cleveland, where he became interested in the 
theories aud methods advanced by the Homeo- 
pathic school of practice. Investigation and 
study resulted in bringing to him conviction 
tliat the new interpretation of medical science 
was the more correct and consistent, and he 
forthwith arrayed himself with the " new 
school," and entered upon the practice which 
has accrued so largely to his success and prestige 
in a professional way. 

In 1859 there came a consistent recognition 
of his ability in his election to the chair of ob- 



stetrics and diseases of women and children, 
in the Homeopathic Hospital College of Cleve- 
land. In tlie following year he was granted a 
still more marked preferment, being elected to 
the presidency of the institution, which office 
he filled until 1868. 

As a teacher of obstetrics. Dr. Sanders is a 
recognized authority, standing second to no 
other in the Union, and being regarded as the 
equal of any European instructor. With the 
exception of two years, he has delivered at the 
college, the yearly course of lectures on obstet- 
rics for a period of thirty-four years, and he has 
occupied the ehair of physiology, also that of 
principles of practice. In 1880 he was elected 
to the important office as Dean of the Faculty, 
which position he holds at the present time. 

The Doctor is a member of the State Homeo- 
pathic Medical Society, of which he was for a 
number of years treasurer, and chairman of the 
Bureau of Obstetricy, and for one year presi- 
dent. He is also a member of the American 
Institute of Homeopathy, of which organiza- 
tion he has served, at different intervals, as 
vice-president, president and chairman of the 
bureau of obstetrics, having ])een the incumbent 
in the office last noted for a term of many years. 

In recapitulating the Doctor's college ser- 
vices, we may here record that he has been 
identified with the Homeopathic Hospital Col- 
lege of Cleveland, in various official capacities, 
for thirty-four consecutive years; that for 
thirty-two years he has been professor of ob- 
stetrics; for one year professor of physiology; 
and for one year professor of principles of prac- 
tice. This record is perhaps without a parallel 
in the State. In connection with his professor- 
ship, he also served as president of the college 
for six years, and as dean for seven years, wiiich 
latter incumbency he is still holding with honor 
to hiniself and the institution. Incidentally, it 
is worthy of note that the Homeopathic Hos- 
pital College of Cleveland, now the (Cleveland 
University of Medicine and Surgery, is the 
oldest (with consecutive history) Homeopathic 
college in the world. 



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In 1892 the honorary degree of LL. D. was 
conferred npon Dr. Sanders by the Illinois Col- 
lege at Jacksonville. Though the Doctor has 
nearly reached the three-score years and ten, 
which are pronounced as man's allotment, he is 
enjoying excellent health, is robust and vigorous 
and seems yet in the prime of manhood. He 
has been a close student during his entire mature 
life, and has never flagged mentally or physi- 
cally under the severe test of continuous ap- 
plication and labor. He has ever maintained a 
progressive attitude in his professional work, 
and has kept thoroughly in touch with all ad- 
vances in the medical science, and familiar with 
the most modern and approved methods. By 
virtue of his ability and high position as an 
obstetrician, his services and presence have been 
in great demand in cases of consultation, far and 
near. In the treatment of the diseases of children 
especially, has he gained an enviable reputation, 
and an extensive and representative practice. 

As a citizen, the Doctor follows out the same 
rule as that which he has retained in the line of 
his profession: he has kept pace with the latter- 
day progress, and has maintained a lively and 
active interest in all that tends to conserve the 
public welfare. He has a passionate fondness 
for poetic literature. 

October 25, 1854, Dr. Sanders was united in 
marriage to Miss Albina G. Smith, daughter of 
Ezra and Amy G. Smith, well known residents 
of northern Ohio, both now deceased. Our 
subject and his wife became the parents of six 
children, three of whom are living, namely: Dr. 
J. Kent Sanders, A. JVI., who is a graduate of 
Illinois College, and of the Homeopathic Hos- 
pital College of Cleveland, at which latter he 
graduated in 1881, and in which he now holds 
preferment as professor of the principles and 
practice of surgery and of surgical pathology. 
He has been a practitioner in the city for sev- 
eral years, and is one of the most thoroughly 
informed and most capable of the younger 
surgeons of the State, having studied abroad, in 
the hosi)itals of Paris, Berlin, Vienna and other 
cities. 



In 1886 he was united in marriage to Miss 
Nellie Louise, daughter of Hon. Charles A. 
Otis, of the Otis Steel Works, and formerly 
Mayor of Cleveland. Albina G., daughter of 
our subject, is a graduate of Miss Middle- 
burger's school in Cleveland; and Franklin B., 
a graduate of Adelbert College, class of 1892, 
is now in the employ of the Western Reserve 
Bank of Cleveland. 



FW. DAVIS, a physician and surgeon at 
No. 387 Pearl street, Cleveland, was born 
— in Merrimac county. New Hampshire, 
July 14, 1853, a son of William S. and Maria 
E. (Widmer) Davis. The father was born in 
Boston, September 25, 1825, moved with his 
parents to New Jersey when young, and fol- 
lowed the sea for thirteen years. During the 
late war he enlisted in Company C, Thirteenth 
New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and after 
three years of service was prostrated by a sun- 
stroke, from which he never fully recovered. 
After returning to his command, he was trans- 
ferred to the navy, where he served utitil the 
expiration of his term of enlistment. Dr. Davis 
was at first a carriage manufacturer by occupa- 
tion, and was senior member of the firm of 
Davis & Son. He was one of the founders of the 
Brothers Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, 
and was a member of the I. O. 0. F. and of the 
E, E. Sturtevant Post, G. A. R. His death oc- 
curred in February, 1890. Mrs. Davis, a na- 
tive of Switzerland, resides in Concord, New 
Hampshire, aged sixty-six years. They were 
the parents of six children, all still living. 

F. W. Davis, the only one of the above family 
in the West, came to this city in 1872. He se- 
cured the position of clerk in the office of Su- 
perintendent of the Lake Shore Railroad, and 
while there also read medicine with Dr. G. O. 
Spence and W. H. Kitchen. In 1882 he 
graduated in the medical department of the 
Western Reserve University, and immediately 
the practice of his profession, on Pearl 



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street, Cleveland, and is well and favorably 
known as one of the prominent young physi- 
cians of. the city. He is genial, pleasant and 
courteous, and in every way worthy and es- 
teemed citizen, as well as a practitioner of skill 
and ability. 

In 1876 the Doctor was united in marriage 
with Miss Hannah M. Hubble, a daughter of 
Oliver C. and Harriet Hubble, both now de- 
ceased. The father was born in Newburg, 
Ohio, in 1818, was a farmer in early life, and 
afterward became a teacher of penmanship and 
art. After residing in Chagrin Falls and 
Strongsville, he came to Cleveland in 1862. lo- 
cating on the West Side, where he died May 2, 
1890. Mrs. Hubble was born in England, 
came with her parents in a wagon from Phila- 
delphia to Ohio at the age of sixteen years, was 
married in Chagrin Falls, and her death oc- 
curred in 1888, when she was aged sixty-six 
years. Mr. and Mrs. Hubble were the oldest 
members of the Franklin Avenue Christian 
Church. Our subject and wife have one child, 
Howard H. Mrs. Davis is now a member of 
the Disciple Church. 



E' A. HANDY, chief engineer of the Lake 
Shore & Michigan Southern Kailway 
1 Company, was born in Barnstable, Mas- 
sachusetts, April 4, 1855, educated in the pub- 
lic schools of his native village, and completed 
a course in the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 
nology in 1875. For two years thereafter he 
was engaged in important work in South Boston 
Flats, in the improvement of Boston harbor, as 
assistant engineer and inspector of masonry. 
The next year his alma mater numbered him 
among her faculty as instructor in civil engi- 
neering. Next for two years he was engineer 
in southern Colorado for the Atchison, Topeka 
»fe Santa Fe Railroad Company, on construction 
work; tlien was locating engineer for the Mex- 
ican National Kailway, then in process of con- 
struction, and in a year was made chief engi- 
neer of the northern division of that line. 



In 1888 he accepted a position as engineer 
for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Rail- 
road Company, on the Lake Shore division; and 
in June, 1891, was made chief engineer of the 
road. 

He is a member of the American Society of 
Civil Engineers. His efficiency as an engineer 
is best evidenced by a reference to the import- 
ant trusts he has tilled since his graduation. 

His father, Job W. Handy, was born in Mas- 
sachusetts, became a sea captain, and died in 
1873, at the age of fifty years. He married 
Miss Rebecca, a daughter of John Otis, a de- 
scendant of a brother of the famous James Otis 
of the days of 1776. John Otis married a Miss 
Hinkley, a descendant of Governor Hinkley, of 
Massachusetts. Captain Handy's children are 
seven in number, and all living, natnely: John 
O., a ranchman in Texas; James O., a chemist 
in charge of the Pittsburg testing laboratory; 
E. A., our subject; Leon S.; Ella, wife of E. B. 
Rogers, of Boston; and Annie and May. 

Mr. E. A. Handy was married in Milton, 
Massachusetts, March 26, 1890, to Amy, a 
daughter of John Littletield, of an old New 
England family, descended on her mother's side 
from the Kings and Gannetts. Mr. and Mrs. 
Handy have two children, named John Little- 
field and Edward Otis. 



W\ D. BUSS, city pas£ 
Pennsylvanialines, ' 
Carroll countv, Ohi- 



passenger agent of the 
was born in Oneida, 
Carroll county, Ohio, March 16, 1847, 
grew to maturity there, receiving a liberal 
English education, and when eighteen years of 
age received the appointment as agent for the 
Cleveland & Pittsliurg Railroad Company at 
Oneida. He remained there till March, 1874, 
when he was transferred to Canal Dover, Ohio, 
in the same capacity, serving till October, 1879, 
when he was moved to Cleveland and given 
charge of the Newburg station. In 18S4 he 
was appointed chief clerk to assistant general 
passenger agent C. L. Kiinball, and in 1888 
succeeded C. B. Squire as city passenger agent. 



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His father, A. E. Buss, born in New Hamp- 
shire in 1814, eaine to Ohio in 1839, ioeatiiig 
in Oneida, and fortiied a partnership with 
George Hull, and they established a merchan- 
dising business and remained together till 1872, 
when the death of the former separated them. 

A. E. Buss was a leader in thought and 
action in Carroll county, and although in no 
sense a politician he was put forward twice by 
the Republican party as a candidate for the 
Lower House of the State Legislature and was 
as often elected. 

He married in New Hampshire, Harriet 
Adams, and reared seven children, namely: 
Frank, who died during the Civil war, in which 
he served as a Union soldier; Mary, wife of 
Rev. J. S. Ross of Sharon, Pennsylvania; and 
W. D., — the others being deceased. 

In 1S71 Mr. W. D. Buss was married, in 
Oneida, to Fanny S. Gardner, whose parents 
were from Utica, New York. The children of 
this union are: Charles M., Deputy Clerk of 
the L'^nited States District Court, aged twenty; 
Harriet M.; Charlotte A.; Mark A.; William 
G., Robert A. and Dorothy H. Three little 
ones were taken away in one day by diphtheria, 
in 1891, — Laura M., Catherine and Walter. 

Fraternally Mr. Buss is a Freemason, a Past 
Master of Newburg Lodge, and a member of 
Baker Chapter. He is now serving on the 
School Board of this city, being elected to that 
body in the spring of 1892. 



\1LLIAM HORN, Bishop of the Evan- 
gelical Association, resides at No. 
1225 Slater avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. 
Of his life we make record as follows: 

Bishop William Horn was born in Siegen, 
Westphalia, Prussia, May 7, 1839, son of Jacob 
and Margaretha (Giebeler) Horn, both natives 
of Prussia, and members of the State Church 
of Prussia. His father was a miner by occupa- 
tion, passed his life in Germany, and died in 
that country at the age of fifty years. His 
mother subseq^uently became the wife of Her- 



man Schneider, and in 1855 came to America 
with her two sous, our subject and his half 
brother, Jacob Schneider, the latter being now 
a resident of Omaha, Nebraska. She died in 
1890, at the age of seventy-four years. 

Upon their arrival in this country, Mrs. 
Schneider and her family located in the woods 
of Wisconsin, and in one of the frontier schools 
of that State William bent all his energies to- 
ward mastering the English language. He had 
received a fair education in Germany. One of 
his first occupations here was that of teaching 
country school. The county superintendent 
visited his school, and as a result of that visit, 
and without further e.\amination, gave him a 
certificate of qualification of the highest terms 
as a teacher. At the age of twenty-two he be- 
came a missionary of his church iu AYisconsin, 
and served as such for a period of ten years, at 
the end of which time he was elected editor of 
the Evangelical Magazine, and in 1871 moved 
to Cleveland, Ohio. This position he filled for 
eight years, rendering most efficient and accejit- 
able service. In 1879 he was made editor of 
the Christliche Botschafter, the ofiicial organ of 
the Evangelical Association, and continued at 
its head until 1891, when he was elected Bishop 
of the Church by the General Conference held 
at Indianapolis. Since the death of Rev. Mar- 
tin Lauer in January, 1893, he has, in addition 
to bis official duties, taken the responsibility of 
the German Sunday-school literature of the 
church. 

Bishop Horn was married May 24, 1864, to 
Miss Mary Fishback, daughter of Anthony 
Fishback, of Hartford, Wisconsin. Following 
is a record of their family of seven childi'en: 
Edward, bookkeeper in the Evangelical Pub- 
lishino' House, Cleveland; Ella, a teacher in the 
Ebenezer Orphans' Home, at Flat Rock, Ohio; 
Delia, a teacher in the public schools of Cleve- 
land; Frank, a machinist; Oscar, a student in 
Adelbert College; and Linda and Clara, pupils 
in the Cleveland public schools. 

Bishop Horn is a living illustration of Ger- 
man genius. He has a genial disposition, is a 



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natural humorist, is endowed with a great meas- 
ure of originality, has a retentive memory, and 
all this, together with his eloquence, renders 
him an intellectual and elMcient worker in the 
church. H,e is perfectly familiar with German 
literature and keeps fully abreast with the on- 
ward march of literary science, both in the Ger- 
man and English languages. He has not only 
acquired a great store of useful information con- 
cerning the greatest achievements of the land, 
but he also has the happy faculty of making use 
of his possessions, being able to apply his re- 
sources to the best advantage. His literary 
productions are many. He has written a num- 
ber of books, among which are the " Life of 
Garfield " and the " Life of Bishop John Sey- 
bert;" also translated a numl)er of books, all of 
which are well received by the public. He is 
also a natural poet. The extensive hymnology 
of his church, comprising not only the regular 
Church Hymnal, but also a number of Sunday- 
school song books and singing books of devo- 
tional order, contains a number of his poetical 
productions, some of which are perfect jewels 
and have become treasures of song in the 
church, and will be sung by the Evangelical 
people long after the days of Bishop Horn. 
One of his latest productions is the translation 
of the " Curfew Bells." It was published and 
Ity request republished in the Evangelical 
Magazine, and read with deepest interest and 
great pleasure by the many tliousands of 
readers of the magazine. 

As an editor he wielded a fluent pen and 
great influence throughout the church. His 
editorials were always well received outside the 
church, as well as in the church, and his judg- 
ment upon the foremost questions of the day 
was appreciated. His political views are those 
advocated by the Republican party. 

As a preacher he has been warmly received 
in the church wherever it was his lot to serve. 
His fine physique, his heavy, bushy hair, his 
small, dark piercing eye, all combine to render 
him a commanding figure. He is a fluent 
speaker, his natural gift of poetry frequently 



asserting itself when he becomes warmed up 
with his subject. Indeed, he is one of the most 
eloquent orators in the German language in 
this country. 

As bishop, he has shown fine executive abil- 
ities in the administration of the episcopal 
work in his chui-ch, and is well received. 



UCIUS F. MELLEN, was born July 16, 
1831, in Hampshire county, Massachu- 
1 setts, educated in Northampton, that 
State, and came to Cleveland in 1852. For sev- 
eral years he was engaged in mercantile busi- 
ness, and during that time was elected a mem- 
ber of the Board of Education. During the pe- 
riod of the late Civil war, he was secretary of 
the Xorthern Ohio Soldiers' Aid Society and 
also of the Christian Commission. For several 
years he has been a Deacon of the Plymouth 
Congregational Church, Superintendent of Sun- 
day-schools and an officer of the Young Men's 
Christian Association, etc., being efficient in all 
the religious work he undertakes. 

He was one of the American Commissioners 
to the Paris Exposition of 1867, and secretary 
of the commission, being abroad nearly a year 
in this capacity. He was appointed United 
States Commissioner to the World's Fair at 
Vienna in 1873, but on account of ill health de- 
clined. In 1876, while living in West Spring- 
field, Massachusetts, where he purchased a small 
farm, he was appointed a State Commissioner 
to the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia. 

Although not a politician, Mr. Mellen has al- 
ways been an ardent Republican and a strong 
believer in a protective tariff. 

In 1881 he returned to Clevelan<l and there- 
after for twelve years he was Superintendent of 
the City Infirmary Department, having charge 
of all the out-door relief, and was also Superin- 
tendent of the City Hospital and City Infirm- 
ary, and is also connected with other charitable 
organizations for the relief of the poor. 



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In 1854 he married Caroline S. Simmons, of 
Northampton, Massaclni setts, who died sud- 
denly in January, 1892, at Cleveland. She was 
a devoted, useful, Christian woman. By this 
marriage there were two children: Lewis Ar- 
thur, married and Jiving in Kansas City, Mis- 
souri, who has two children, a son and a daugh- 
ter; and Carrie Agnes, who married Warren K. 
Palmer, of the Cleveland Window Glass Com- 
pany, who has two daughters. 



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ALTEK E. WOODFOED, general 
manager of the Cleveland, Lorain & 
Wheeling Railway Company, Cleve- 
land, Ohio, is a native of the State of New 
York, born in Chautauqua county, in 1857. 
His parents, M. S. and Caroline (Reed) Wood- 
ford, were natives of the State of Connecticut 
and England respectively; they resided many 
years in New York. 

Young Woodford received a thorough educa- 
tion in the Fredonia (New York) Normal 
Scliool, and when he had finished the course 
took a position with the Great Western Rail- 
way Company of Canada as stenographer; at the 
end of one year he secured tlie same position 
with the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee 
Railway Company at an increased salary. When 
another twelvemonths had gone by he went to 
Cliicago to enter the freight department of the 
Michigan Central, where he remained a year 
and a half. During the next three years he 
was chief clerk in the telegraphic department of 
the same road, and then was made chief clerk 
and purchasing agent of the Ft. Wayne & Jack- 
son Railroad. His next position was with the 
Wheeling & Lake Erie as chief clerk, from 
which lie was promoted to the office of assistant 
general manager and purchasing agent for the 
same road ; he was afterward in the course of 
time made general superintendent of the same 
road; after two and a half years he resigned 
the place to accept the position of general man- 
ager of the Cleveland, Loraiu & Wheeling road. 



which duties he assumed in March, 1893. He 
is interested in other commercial enterprises in 
the city, and is the efficient manager of the 
Pittsburg & Wheeling Coal Company. 

He is a man of unusual exscutive ability, 
and has steadily advanced in the estimation of 
his associates since his entry into commercial 
circles. He is genial of disposition and strong 
in his friendships; in business he is prompt 
and painstaking, and as a loyal citizen he has 
no superiors. In politics he is independent, 
voting for men rather than for declarations of 
principles. 

Mr. Woodford was united in marriage, in 
1891, to Miss Isabella Wheeler, a daughter of 
Maro and Susan A. Wheeler, of Toledo, Ohio. 



EDWIN L. THURSTON, a leading patent 
lawyer of Cleveland, was born in Paw- 
. tucket, Rhode Island, October 3, 1837, a 

son of Thomas E. and Annie W. (Falconer) 
Thurston, natives of Rhode Island. 

The paternal grandfather was Thomas Thurs- 
ton, a native of Newport, Rhode Island, the 
old home of the Thurston family, which settled 
here at an early date. Tiie . paternal great- 
grandfather of our subject was also named 
Thomas Thurston, and he was a son of William 
Thurston, whose father's name was also Will- 
iam Thurston, a son of Jonathan, a son of Ed- 
ward, whose father was Edward Thurston, whose 
marriage with Elizabeth Mott in Rhode Island 
occurred in June, 1647, being the third mar- 
riage recorded in the society of Friends in that 
State. He was a "freeman" in 1655, and was 
a prominent citizen in his community. He was 
of English origin. Maternally the subject of 
this sketch is of Scottish origin. His mother, 
Annie W. Falconer, was a daughter of John 
and Margaret Falconer, natives of Scotland. 

Edwin L. Thurston is the only child brought 
up by his parents. His childhood and youth 
were spent at Pawtucket and Providence, at 
which places he attended school. In 1881 Mr. 



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Thurston graduated at Brown University, and 
immediately went to Chicago, where he studied 
law under private preceptors. In 1884 he was 
admitted to the bar, and at Chicago took iiptlie 
practice of his profession. October 3, 1887, 
Mr. Thurston located in Cleveland, and, be- 
coming a law partner with Mr. Leonard Watson, 
practiced with that gentleman for two years, 
and thereafter alone till September, 1892, when 
Mr. Francis J. Wing, his present partner, be- 
came associated with him. Mr. Thurston's 
practice has been mainly that of patent lawyer, 
and his success has placed him among the fore- 
most of this class of attorneys. 

He is a prominent Master Mason, and mem- 
ber of the Civil Engineers' and other clubs. 



GYRUS I'OWEES LELAND, Auditor of 
the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern 
Railroad, is a descendant both paternally 
and maternally from one of the Puritan fathers, 
Henry Leiand, whose birth occurred in England 
in 1625, and who emigrated to Massachusetts in 
1652 and died at Sherburne in 1680. His sou, 
Ilopestill Leiand, born 1655, died at Eolliston, 
Massachusetts, in 1739. Samuel Leiand, the 
ne.xt in line, born in 1711, died at HoUiston, in 
1783. His son, Asa Leiand, born in 1738, 
moved to Chester, Vermont, and died in 1822. 
The next in line was also Asa Leiand, born in 
1770, emigrated to New York, and died at Otto, 
in 1832. His son, Cephas R. Leiand (father of 
C. P.), was born in 1807. His home was Irving, 
Kew York, and by occupation he was a lawyer. 
In 1850 he emigrated to Milwaukee and died a 
month later, leaving a widow and two children 
almost destitute. 

Cephas R. Leiand married Orpha Powers, 
who descended directly from Henry Leiand 
before named, as follows: Ebenezer Leiand, born 
in 1657 and died in 1712; James Leiand, born in 
1687 and died in 1768; Thankful Leiand, born 
in 1724, married Lemuel Powers and died in 
1769. Their daughter Abigail was President 
Millard Fillmore's first wife. 



Lemuel Powers was born in 1756 and died in 
1800, a Baptist minister. The next in line, 
Judge Cyrus Powers, born in 1779, died at 
Kelloggsville, Xew York, in 1841. His daugh- 
ter, Orpha, born in 1810, died in 1870, is the 
mother of the subject of this sketch. Her 
children were: Cyrus P., born July 31, 1836; 
and Amy Jane, born in 1838, deceased wife of 
George W. Perry, an attorney of Superior, Wis- 
consin. She left one child, Louise W. Perry, 
who married C. F. Chapman, a civil engineer of 
Minneapolis, Minnesota. 

At fourteen years of age Cyrus P. Leiand 
secured a position in a drngstore at §1 a week, 
which went to the support of the family. In 
1854 he became an employee of the Milwaukee 
Sentinel office, severing his connection there in 
1855. May 21st of the above year he began his 
railroad career in the office of the Milwaukee & 
Chicago Railroad, as a bookkeeper and general 
utility man in the general office of this railroad. 
From June 11, 1860, to January, 1869, he was 
general accountant of the Michigan Southern & 
Northern Indiana Railway Company, now a 
part of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern 
Railway Company. From July 1, 1861, to Jan- 
uary, 1869, he was also general ticket agent of 
of the same road, and January 1, 1869, he was 
appointed auditor of the Lake Shore & Michigan 
Southern Railway Company. He is president 
of the Association of American Railway Ac- 
counting Officers, a national organization. 

Mr. Leiand has been a factor in the develop- 
ment of one of the greatest railroad systems in 
the country. He has compiled a history of the 
road from the official records, in it.^elf a monu- 
ment to the memory of the worthy auditor. 
Among his literary productions is a paper read 
before the Statistical Association at Chicago at 
the World's Fair on the subject. Value of Freight 
Statistics. During his long service Mr. Leiand 
has compiled and issued thirty-three consecutive 
annual reports of the Michigan Southern, 
Northern Indiana and Lake Shore &, Michigan 
Southern Railways, a record unsurpassed in this 
country and probably in the Wdrld. These re- 




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ports are models in all financial centers of this 
country and Europe, for cleverness, conciseness 
and absolute truthfulness. 

The files and records of the auditor's office 
are full of valnable and interesting data com- 
piled by Mr. Leland, which in reality are no less 
than a cyclopedia of information relating to the 
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Kailway. 

In April, 1859, Mr. Leland married, in Mil- 
waukee, Wisconsin, Helen Louise Hatch. Their 
children are: William, born in 1864, who is in 
his father's office; and Stella, born in 1868. 



*Jf^ SCHUYLEE HUBBARD, M. D.-- 
r^ Prominent among Cuyahoga county's 
11 *^ representative citizens is Dr. R. S. Hub- 
V bard, who is the leading physician of 

Bedford and is the Treasurer elect of the county. 
Dr. Hubbard was born at Guy's Mills, Craw- 
ford county, Pennsylvania, September 29, 1853, 
and is the sou of the Honorable George A. 
Hubbard, of Berea, Ohio. At the age of thir- 
teen years Dr. Hubbard entered Baldwin Uni- 
versity at Berea and continued there three or 
four years. At the age of eighteen he began 
studying medicine, and in 1876 graduated in 
the medical department of Wooster University. 
Tbe following year he commenced practicing at 
Northtield, Summit county, Ohio, and remained 
there until the autumn of 1887, when he re- 
moved to Bedford. 

The Doctor has always been a close student 
in his profession, taking an active interest in 
the progress and advancement of all that per- 
tains to it. He is a member of the Ohio State 
Medical Society, of the Northeastern Ohio 
Medical Society and is one of the Censors of 
the medical department of Wooster University. 
He is ranked among the successful and pro- 
gressive members of the medical fraternity in 
Cuyahoga county. 

For years he has also taken an active part in 
politics. While a citizen of Summit county he 



served as chairman of the Republican county 
committee, and since his residence in Cuyahoga 
county he has been prominent in the affairs of 
his party. But not until 1893 did he ever aspire 
to office. In the summer of that year he be- 
came a candidate fur the nomination, at the 
hands of the Republican party, for County 
Treasurer, and after a vigorous canvass was suc- 
cessful. His election by over 8,000 majority 
at the ensuing election demonstrated the wis- 
dom of his party in choosing him as a candi- 
date. The Doctor will take his office in Sep- 
tember. 1894. 

Dr. Hubbard is a member of the Masonic, 
Royal Arcanum, K. of P., Foresters and Elks 
fraternities. 

On November 15, 1881, he married Miss 
Helen Palmer, who was born at Northfield, 
Ohio, the daughter of William L. and Amelia 
Whitney Palmer. Her father was born at old 
Windsor, Hartford county, Connecticut, and 
came to Ohio in 1832, settling in Summit 
county, where he followed farming until 1892, 
when, upon the death of his wife, he came to 
Bedford, and now resides with his daughter. 
Dr. Hubbard and wife have three children, 
namely: Attrissa, born October 31, 1882; 
Helen, born November 7, 1888; and Hilda, 
May 7, 1891. 

Dr. Hubbard's family have their church 
"home" in the Methodist Episcopal Church of 
Bedford. 



Yy EV. HENRY CHRISTIAN SCHWAN, 

r!^ President of the German Evangelical 
II *5i Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and 
V other States, was born in Horneburg, 

Hanover, Germany, April 5 , 1819. His parents 
were Rev. George Henry Christian and Char- 
lotte Friederike (Wyneken) Schwan, natives also 
of Germany, who passed their entire lives in 
their fatherland. Rev. G. H. C. Schwan was a 
well known minister in the Evangelical Lu- 
theran Church, in which he labored for many 



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years. For fifty years he was a conspicuous 
figure among the ministers of liis eh\irch, and 
died after a long and useful life. 

The gentleman whose name heads this sketch 
is the eldest of his parents' uine children, of 
whom only four are now living, namely: Edwin, 
who participated in the civil war as a private 
in the Confederate army. At the time of the 
outbreak of the war he was in New Orleans, 
and like many others was pressed into the army 
service of the Confederate States, was taken 
prisoner in the Peninsula campaign, and was 
there seen by his brother, Theodore, who was 
then a Union soldier. He came to Cleveland, 
where he died. Theodore enlisted as a private, 
and was promoted for bravery several times, be- 
ing at the close of the war Brevet Major, and 
he is now an Assistant Adjutant General. In 
this capacity he was attached to the United 
States legation and sent to Berlin under Presi- 
dent Cleveland's first administration. He now 
resides in Omaha, Nebraska. Upon his return 
from Berlin he was given the opportunity of 
becoming the military attache of the legation 
in either London or Vienna, botli of which 
honors he declined because of failing health 
occasioned by army service. Matilda and 
Henrietta are married, and are still residents of 
Germany: they are the only ones of the daugh- 
ters living. Wilhelm was a brave soldier in 
the Franco-Prussian war, and was killed upon 
the battlefield of Spiehern when about twenty- 
two years of age. 

The subject of this sketch received his early 
education in Stade, Hanover, Germany, and 
afterward attended the Universities of Gottingen 
and Jena, in both which institutions he pursued 
a theological course, completing the same in 
1842. He was then ordained minister, and in 
1843 went to Brazil, South America, with the 
Krull family. In that country he took charge 
of a small church on a large coffee plantation, 
the members being principally German, Swiss 
and American coffee planters. He remained 
in that country until IS.jO, when he came to the 
United States and spent one year at New Biele- 



feld (now Black-jack), near St. Louis, and since 
then lias been a resident of Cleveland. 

His first charge here was the Zion Church. 
In 1876 he was successful in building for this 
congregation a large and excellent church edi- 
fice, the building previously used as a church 
being abandoned. He was the first Lutheran 
minister in Cleveland to remain a considerable 
time. Rev. Schmidt preceding him but a short 
time. When Mr. Schwan came here there was 
but a very small congregation of Lutherans in 
Cleveland, and the first church has become the 
mother of ten others, which have been estab- 
lished in different parts of the city. He was 
the first pastor in this city to put up a Christ- 
mas tree in his church, — a practice then con- 
demned, but since generally followed by all 
churches. 

His pastorate was interrupted for a time in 
1860, upon his election to the presidency of the 
Middle District of the Synod, and since 1878 
he has had no regular appointment, his work 
being as President of the Synod to visit thirteen 
districts in the Synod, in the United States and 
Canada; but to the work devolved upon him in 
this position he did not give his exclusive time 
and attention till 1881, at which time his labors 
as president of the Synod had so increased that 
he was compelled to abandon his pastorate. 

As general President of this Synod many 
duties devolve upon him, as visiting all the dis- 
tricts, churches, orpiian asylums, hospitals, 
institutions of learning, etc. In Ohio, as well 
as in Cleveland, he is one of the pioneer minis- 
ters in his church. He lived to see the fiftieth 
year of his pastorate in October, 1893, when, in 
the Music Hall in Cleveland, honors wore 
showered upon him before an audience of 5,000. 
Shortly after that celebration he was made 
Doctor of Divinity by the faculty of the Theo- 
logical Seminary of the Norsvegian Synod. 
Although he passed through many trials, he has 
been a connecting link binding the past to the 
present. His career has been a useful one, and 
therefore a successful one. His hardships, both 
early and later, have served only to broaden his 



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mind aud enlarge his views, and better equip 
liiin for the very responsible and important 
work in which he has been engaged. Kipe in 
scholarship, genial in spirit, liberal in his views, 
lie is held in deep affection and great deference. 
While in Brazil he met a native of the coun- 
try who became his wife. Her name is Emma, 
and she was the daughter of Dr. Blum, a phy- 
sician there. Mr. Schwau has had twelve chil- 
dren, four of whom are deceased. The living 
children are: Rev. Paul Schwan, for the past 
seventeen years pastor of St. Paul's Church, 
Evangelical Lutheran, of Cleveland, establishing 
for himself a high character and reputation as a 
minister; L. M., for many years past the vice- 
president of the Lake Erie & Western Railway 
and located in New York, an attorney by pro- 
fession; Ernst Christian, also an attorney, resid- 
ing in Cleveland; Rev. Charles Schwan, a minis- 
ter of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Wis- 
consin; George H., another Cleveland attorney, 
a partner of his brotiier E. C. ; Frederick H., a 
notary public in this city; Joanna, the wife of 
Rev. J. A. Schmidt, of Elyria, Ohio; and 
Emma, the wife of George Gustav Kuechle, a 
prominent jeweler of Milwaukee. 



COLONEL ROYAL TAYLOR.— To have 
attained to the extreme fullness of years, 
represented by four-score and twelve, and 
to have had one's ken broadened to a compre- 
hension of all that has been accomplished within 
the flight of so many days, is of itself sufficient 
to render consonant a detailed consideration of 
such a life in a work of this order, but in the 
case at hand, there are more pertinent, more 
distinguishing elements, — those of usefulness, 
of high honor, of marked intellectuality, of 
broad charity, — which lift high in reverence 
the subjective personality of one who stood as 
one of nature's nobleman, " four square to every 
wind that blows." 

It must ever be held as a matter of regret 
when an aged historical veteran is gathered to 
his fathers, that to later geuei'ations had not 



been given a more intimate knowledge of his 
personality, a more lively comprehension of the 
events and circumstances which formed a com- 
ponent part of his life, that the lips should be 
silenced whose power it was to have told of in- 
cidents that had marked bearing on the thought 
and action of these days long passed, that there 
be denied a familiarity with the ambitions and 
struggles of his youth and with the subsequent 
trials of the more crucial days, — those of his 
maturer years. 

While no shadows darken any period of the 
long, honorable and eventful life of the subject 
of this memoir, the incidents of general public 
interest, which he was wont to relate in social 
intercourse are mainly cherished in the memory 
of his family and later associates, his early con- 
temporaries having long since departed, his 
modest reserve having disinclined him to com- 
mit to writing matter relevant to his personal 
history, though he was often importuned for 
such contributions. For more than half a cen- 
tury Royal Taylor was one of the most enter- 
prising and best known business men of Ohio, 
but to the younger men of the present genera- 
tion, his early history and experiences were but 
dimly known, while his personality was recog- 
nized as that of a venerable gentleman of 
genial spirit, and one of the last of the famous 
pioneers of the Western Reserve, with whose 
development he had been most intimately and 
conspicuously identified. 

The family name of Taylor has long been 
familiar in English history, but from which 
branch or locality sprang the first American 
ancestor, there is no definite means of ascer- 
tainment at the present time. It is sufhcient 
in this connection to state that it is known with 
absolute certainty, from historical data, that the 
great-grandfather of our subject, Samuel Tay- 
lor, in the reign of Charles IL, and the year of 
the burning of London, 1666, came to America 
and settled in Hadley, Massachusetts. There is, 
however, fair presumptive evidence that this 
branch of the family is in direct line of descent 
from the martyr, Rowland Taylor, an English 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



clergjinan who was chaplain to Archbishop 
Cranmer, and who was burned at the stake in 
Hadleigh, couuty Suffolk, England, in 1555. 

Samuel Taylor, son of the above named 
Samuel Taylor, was born at Hadley, in 1713, 
and there lived until 1752, when he removed 
into the mountain forest of Pontoosuck, now 
the beautifid city of Pittsfield. That this per- 
son, the grandfather of our subject, was a man 
of prominence and an eminent factor in the 
pioneer enterprises of that day is evident from 
a reference to the records of the Great and 
General Court of 1753, which shows that he 
was at the head of a syndicate of seven citizens, 
who, by a special act, secured an incorporation 
under the title of the " Proprietors of the Set- 
tling Lots in the Township of Pontoosuck." 
This was the Indian name of the place, and the 
same was retained until 1761, when the town 
was incorporated by the name of Pittstield, in 
honor of the celebrated statesman, William 
Pitt. 

Samuel Taylor, the third of the name, and 
father of our subject, was born in Pittstield in 
1764, and with his father's family removed to 
Middlefield in 1770, and there Koyal Taylor 
was born, September 1, 1800. Here also, in 
1804, his venerable grandfather, the pioneer of 
Pontoosuck, died at the age of ninety-one years. 
Three years later the father, Samuel Taylor 
(third), dt-parted from Middletield, of which he 
had been an early pioneer, and came with his 
family, including his little si.x-year-old sou, 
Rnyal, and set up a new pioneer altar in the 
maple forests of Aun>ra, Portage county, Ohio, 
where he lived six years, and where he died in 
March, 1813. Ohio at tiiat time was a vast 
wilderness, and the Western Keserve had more 
Indians than white men. 

Thus bereft of bis father at the early age of 
twelve years. Royal Taylor, rightly named as the 
inheritor of the pioneer spirit and enterprise of 
a truly royal line of ancestors, — the Amt'rican 
royalty of manhood and citizenship, — the fourth 
of his line, takes up his a.\i^, the eniblom and 
insignia of the pioneer, and valiantly carries on 



the struggle of life in the forests of the Re- 
serve, bearing without protest the heavy burden 
imposed upon his youthful shoulders, and look- 
ing fate manfully in the face. Under such cir- 
cumstances and necessities began the pioneer 
life of the boy, Royal Taylor, whose first labor 
was in the sugar camp of a friendly neighbor, 
and whose sweet reward was his weight (seventy 
pounds) of the palatable maple sugar. He 
worked in the first brick-yard of the town, the 
brick of which were used in the construction of 
the old Presbyterian church of Aurora. For 
his services in this connection, he received 815 
a month, which money he invested in the pur- 
chase of sixty acres of land in Solon, in 1816, 
for §300. Lands having depreciated in the 
market during the ensuing three years, he sold 
his place in 1820 for $200. He chopped wood 
and cleared land, and for several years, in many 
like ways, earned money for the support of his 
mother and her family. Yet all this hardy, 
out-door life not only evidenced a placid and 
cheerful mind, but was a healthful, physical 
disci pi ite, for he grew up a tall and handsome 
young man, with great powers of endurance, — 
a splendid specimen of pioneer manhood, — 
equal to any emergency, and fit for any place in 
civic or public life. Fortunately for him, as for 
many other pioneer youth, good schoolteachers 
followed the emigrating families to the West- 
ern Re'^erve, graduates of the colleges and 
academies of New En^jland. Thus he secured 
a good common-school education by attendance 
during winters; and as he never undertook any- 
thing in a halfhearted or careless manner, he 
ultimately qualified himself for a teacher, and 
pursued that calling for a number of years 
with eminent popularity and success. In the 
meantime he learued the printer's trade, and 
was engaged in type-setting for a time, at New 
Lisbon, Ohio. He continued his studies as op- 
portunity afforded, under the direction of private 
tutors, and finally determined to adopt the legal 
profes.-ion. With this end in view he devoted 
two years to technical study, first in the office 
of Jonathan Sloane, and later in that of Van 



OUFAUOOA GOUNTT. 



R. Htiiiiplirey. Subsequent business enter- 
prises, however, dissuaded him from completing 
his course of legal studies and coming to the bar. 

In 1822 he went to Kentucky as a school 
teacher, and while there pursued the study of 
the higher branches of mathematics and the 
Latin language, likewise finding time to meet 
the advances of tlie wee elf who is supposed to 
regulate affairs of the heart, he became en- 
gaged to a young lady. Miss Rebecca Saunders, 
to whom he was married in 1824. The follow- 
ing year they came to Ohio and lived at different 
intervals in Aurora, Russell and Twinsburg. 
At this last place, in 1836, his wife died, leaving 
him with five young children. In 1837 he 
married, at Twinsburg, Miss Sarah A. Richard- 
sun, daughter of Captain Daniel Richardson, of 
Connecticut, her birthplace having been the 
romantic and liistorical town of Barkhamstead, 
as it was also that of her cousin, John Brown, 
of Ossawotamie fame. She bore to him fonr 
sons and three daughters, was a devoted wife 
and mother, and his true companion during 
nearly thirty years of the most eventful period 
of his life. Her death occurred in 1865. The 
following year he married Mrs. Annetta Hatch, 
of Ravenna, formerly of Vermont, who has but 
recently passed away. 

The decade subsequent to 1825 was a period 
of great commercial enterprise, in the early 
prime of the life and spirit of Mr. Taylor, be- 
ing no less than, in coimection with his brother 
Samuel, and with Harvey Baldwin, of Aurora, 
that of opening up the export trade in the ex- 
tensive cheese product of Northern Ohio with 
the Southern States, through the medium of 
boats and barges on the Ohio and Mississippi 
rivers. This enterprise, while successful by 
reason of their intelligent and discriminating 
management, he resigned after the financial dis- 
turbances of 1837, and assumed charge of sev- 
eral bankrupt mercantile establishments. His 
legal training here stood him in good stead, and 
so marked was his success in settling and adjust- 
ing such matters that his services were in con- 
stant demand, and eventually carried him to 



Chagrin Falls, at the instance of his life-long 
friend, Albon C. Gardner, one of the best 
known and most successful of the early mer- 
chants of northern Ohio. He became engaged 
as factor for the sale of lands held by the heirs 
of General Henry Champion, one of the origi- 
nal purchasers of the 3,000,000 acres of land 
in Ohio known as the Connecticut Western 
Reserve. In 1858 he acted as agent for Yale 
College in adjusting an important litigation 
with the heirs of Henry L. Ellsworth, in which 
capacity he secured to the college land of great 
value, which he subsequently sold for the insti- 
tution. These agencies, together with others 
for private capitalists in the East, placed in his 
care upward of half a million acres of the best 
land in Ohio and other States, and necessitated 
much travel; in the prosecution of the business 
he visited every western State east of the Rocky 
mountains. In fact, it was the princi^jal busi- 
ness, aside from public duties, of his long, 
active and honorable career, he having but a 
short time before his death, in 1892, sent his 
last letter concerning the business, in reply to 
which he received a kindly note of commenda- 
tion for his faithful work. 

Among the numerous civil duties from time 
to time exacted of Mr. Taylor by his townsmen, 
he served as commissioner for Portage county, 
and also as State Commissioner of the Blind 
Asylum. From 1842 to 1868 he resided in 
Cuyahoga county, the better to accommodate his 
business as land agent, and also to act as agent 
for the Cleveland & Mahoning Railway, of 
which he had been an early and efhcient pro- 
moter. In the early divisions of political 
parties, he was a Whig. In 1848 he aided in 
the organization of the Free Soil party, attend- 
ing, as a delegate, the first county convention in 
Cleveland, and being also a delegate to the first 
State convention of the party in Ohio (the first 
held in any State) at Columbus, in June, 1848. 
This earnest and sturdy organization being, in 
1856, merged into the Republican party, he was 
arrayed in support of the latter through peace 
and war to the end of his days. 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



In 1861, over the disintegrated Union was 
spread tiie pall of a fratricidal war, and this 
ever memorable conflict was to our subject a 
strongly marked dividing line between bis ac- 
tive business life and his patriotic devotion and 
military services rendered his State and country 
during, and long subsequent to, that period of 
ordeal and gloom. During the autumn of 1862 
large numbers of sick and wounded Ohio sol- 
diers were discharged from the army, then in 
Kentucky. In their helpless condition they 
proved easy prey to the hordes of self-styled 
claim agents of Louisville, who bought their 
pay vouchers for a mere pittance. These facts 
becoming known to Governor David Tod, he 
deputized Mr. Taylor to go to the scene and in- 
vestigate the matter. His subsequent report 
gave unmistakable evidence that great injustice 
was being done, and the Governor then ap- 
pointed Mr. Taylor military agent, with rank of 
Colonel, on his staff, and instructed him to take 
such vigorous action as he deemed best calcu- 
lated to remedy the evil. Colonel Taylor went 
immediately to Louisville, and with the aid of 
officers of the department secured such order as 
to render the efforts of the nefarious gang abor- 
tional. Thereafter the interests of Ohio soldiers 
were carefully guarded by Colonel Taylor, who 
had opened an office in Louisville, and who 
effectually warded off all unjust and careless 
treatment. The next year he was ordered to 
Nashville, Tennessee, where performed a like 
service until the spring of 1864, when, on orders 
from Governor Brough, he removed his head- 
quarters to Chattanooga, where he remained 
rendering noble service during the eventful At- 
lanta campaign, culminating in Sherman's 
triumphant march to the sea. 

Early in 1865 he was appointed Commissioner 
of the Bureau of Military Claims in Ohio, and 
went to Columbus, where he remained in the dis- 
charge of the incidental duties for two years 
and ten months, after which, at his suggestion, 
the office was discontinued by an act of the 
Legislature, the unsettled business being given 
into the hands of the Adjutant-General of tiie 



State. At the close of this last public service 
incident to the war, he made Cleveland his resi- 
dence. During the time he held this office he 
collected and distributed to the widows and 
orphans of soldiers over $2,000,000, and how 
well and nobly he performed this service, is 
attested by the records of the department, the 
books showing his accounts to have been kept to 
the accuracy of a cent, thus ever to stand as a 
memorial and witness, not only of his personal 
integrity, but also of his marked business and 
execative ability. 

In 1868 Colonel Taylor removed to Ravenna, 
in which familiar place the remainder of his 
days was passed. Here for twenty-four years, 
and until his last illness, he was devoted to his 
books and business. In 1875, being then in his 
seventy-lifth year, he traveled through upper 
and lower Canada, and subsequently went on 
a business trip to England, making a tour of 
that country and Ireland. He was a thorough 
temperance man, and a regular attendant of the 
Presbyterian Church, though not maintainincr 
a membership in the same. The personal ac- 
complishments of Colonel Taylor were far 
superior to those of the average business man 
of his day. He was a constant and careful 
reader, and that intellectual resource and conso- 
lation abided with him even unto extreme age, 
his mental faculties remaining practically un- 
impaired until the last. He had traveled ex- 
tensively, and his faculty of observation was 
phenomenal and never-failing; he never lost his 
lively interest in the affairs of the world, and, 
a true patriarch, his mind held a vast fund of 
knowledge, derived from the study and varied 
experiences of a long and eventful career. At- 
tractive in person, courteous and gentle in his 
bearing, he stood as one of the most noble speci- 
mens of the true gentleman of the old regime, 
honored and beloved by all who came within the 
sphere of his individuality. His manuscript, 
even down to the end of his life, was as plain, 
free and legible as that of the most expert ac- 
countant, and his style of correspondence evinces 
literary taste and a most retentive memory. 



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To tliis honored pioneer, whose name must 
ever be held in veneration, deatli came after an 
illness vrhich had contined liim to his bed for 
seven months. During that time he suffered 
much physical pain, but his mind did not release 
its grasp upon time and place until was drawn 
the last fleeting breath, bringing rest to the 
tired spirit which had calmly waited for the 
hour of dissolution. He died November 20, 
1892, having then but recently completed his 
ninety-second year. The beauty and grandeur, 
the lesson and incentive of such a life can never 
fade, and the page which does no more than 
bear the impress of his name should be touched 
with reverent hand, and with a feeling of grati- 
tude that such a life has been lived. 

The children of Colonel Taylor by his first wife 
were: Squire and Annetta, who died in infancy; 
Samuel S., who died in Illinois; Worthy S., a 
member of an Illinois regiment in the late war, 
was killed in the service; Mary M., a resident 
of Cleveland. The children by his second wife 
were: James Royal, Sarah E. (Einiff), Charles 
Arthur, all deceased; Daniel E. and William 
G., of Cleveland; Annetta S. (Harrington) of 
Chicago; and Ellen E., of Eavenna. 



DANIEL E. 
ored pionei 
pern ins- wl 



L. TAYLOE, son of that bon- 
jneer. Colonel Royal Taylor, con- 
cerning whose life a slight memorial is 
offered in the paragraphs immediately precedincr, 
occupies a position of no little prominence in 
the business circles of Cleveland, conducting 
an extensive and representative real-estate 
agency, with headquarters at No. 9, Public 
Square. For many years he assisted his father, 
whose conspicuous connection with the realty 
interests of the State has been noted, and this 
association enabled our suliject to gain a most 
discriminating knowledge in regard to valuations 
and all other features of the business in which 
he is now activel}' engaged. 

Mr. Taylor is a native of the Buckeye State, 
having been born in Summit county. During 
the late civil war he served for two years as 



military agent for tiie State of Ohio, at Louis- 
ville and Nashville, holding such preferment as 
an aid to his father. He secured an excellent 
education, and was afforded those exceptional 
advantages granted by a home in which culture 
and refinement found abiding place. 

For the past quarter of a century our sub- 
ject has been actively engaged as a real-estate 
broker and dealer, and has retained a clientage 
of most representative order, faithful and con- 
scientious in serving the interests of his princi- 
pals, and recognized as being reliable and 
honorable in all of his business operations. 
Upon his books are represented at all times the 
most desirable investments for those wishing to 
buy or exchange, while into no more trust- 
worthy keeping can any principal place his 
interests in this line. 



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C. SCOFIELD, the well-known iron 
and oil man of Cleveland, was born in 
Horbury, near Wakefield, England, 
October 25, 1821. He spent the earlier years 
of his life in Leeds, being employed there on 
machine work until his twenty-first year, when 
he was seized with a determination to emigrate 
to the United States, where opportunities and 
advantages were far superior to those offered in' 
Great Britain. 

On reaching American soil, he came West to 
Ohio and secured employment on the Chagrin 
river in this county, working for a Mr. Waite 
for one year and receiving $8 per month. His 
next employer was A. W. Duty, a brick manu- 
facturer, in whose yard he worked two years. 
Following this he was for two years turnkey at 
the county jail for Sherifl' Beebe, and on re- 
suming other work established himself in the 
brick business on the West Side. One season's 
work in this gave him an experience of value 
and furnished the foundation for his future 
prosperity. He next undertook the charge of 
the lard, oil and saleratus works of C. A. Dean. 
After three years Messrs. Stanley, Camp and 



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Wick bought the establishment, but Mr. Wick 
soon sold his interest to Mr. Scofield, and an- 
other change was almost immediately made by 
the purchase of Mr. Camp's interest by the re- 
maining partners, who conducted the business 
until 1857. Mr. Scofield then became sole 
owner by purchase, and operated the plant an- 
other five years. In 1861 he added to his busi- 
ness that of refining oil, associating with him 
Messrs. Halle and Fawcett. Their refinery was 
built on the site of the City Forge Works, and 
its capacity was limited to two eight-barrel 
stills. Subsequently this site was sold for other 
purposes and the refinery closed after a suc- 
cessful career. 

This firm built and operated a refinery on Oil 
Creek in Pennsylvania, but disposed of it in 
1875. In 1865 Mr. Scofield became interested 
in the oil refinery of Critchey, Fawcett & Co., 
and about the same time be became a partner 
in an oil commission business in New York 
city, the style of the firm being Hewitt & Sco- 
field. The former was sold out to the Standard 
Oil Company in 1872, and the commission house 
ceased to exist upon the appearance of the South 
Improvement Company. 

Mr. Scofield was interested in the manufac- 
ture of chemicals as vice president of the Cleve- 
land Chemical Co., which concern sold it to 
Mash & Harwood. 

In 1863 the firm of Alexander, Scofield & 
Co., was formed and erected an oil refinery at 
the junction of the N. Y. P. & O. K. R. with 
Liberty street, with a daily capacity of fifty 
barrels, which was increased to 1,000 barrels 
daily before it was sold to the South Improve- 
ment Co. 

Soon after this the present oil firm of Sco- 
field, Shumer & Teagle was organized and be- 
gan refining with a capacity of 100 barrels 
daily. It now produces 20,000 barrels of re- 
fined oil per month. In 1872 Mr. Scofield pur- 
chased an interest in the Otis Iron Co., the 
property of which consisted of a small rolling 
mill and a forge. The output in tonnage ot 
these two concerns has (quadrupled and an im- 



mense nut and bolt works has been added with 
a consuming capacity of 2,000 tons a month. 

Besides these, Mr. Scofield is a large stock- 
holder in the Union National, Commercial Na- 
tional and Western Reserve National Banks of 
Cleveland. 

In business he is not given to jumping at 
conclusions nor to embarking in business 
schemes without carefully studying the nature 
and effect of the proposed steps. When con- 
vinced of the feasibleness of a business plan he 
prosecutes it with tireless energy. The course 
of events within the past few years presented un- 
usual opportunities for a clear-headed business 
man to advance himself, and Mr. Scofield pos- 
sessed the necessary foresight to take advantage 
of them. He had to rely on his own judgment 
and furnish his own capital from the beginning, 
having been left an orphan at fifteen years of 
age. The growth of Cleveland and its impor- 
tance as a commercial center is due to such 
men as William C. Scofield. 

December 1, 1846, Mr. Scofield married Miss 
Ann Barker, a daughter of Robert Barker, who 
came to Cuyahoga county sixty years ago from 
England and was a pioneer farmer of Warrens- 
ville. Mr. Barker died about 1854, aged eighty- 
four years. Mrs. Scofield died August 13, 
1893, leaving the following children: Helen 
E., now Mrs. Frank Rockefeller; Ciiarles W., 
secretary and treasurer of the Lake Erie Iron 
Co., his wife nee Helen Tracy; E. B., who mar- 
ried Adelaide Gray; F. R., who married Min- 
nie Malton; George B., who married Nettie 
Short; Ettie M., wife of Edward E. Dangler; 
and Miss Lizzie E. Scofield. 



DR. W. E. WELLS, physician and surgeon, 
I 451 Pearl street, Cleveland, Ohio, was 
— ' born in Medina county, this State, June 
15, 1861, son of Elizur D. and Mary (Chidsey) 
Wells, both also natives of Ohio. 

Jared Wells, the Doctor's grandfather, emi- 
grated from Connecticut to Ohio at an early 




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CUTAHOGA COUNTT. 



day, making the Journey hither by teams and 
being forty-one days en rente. He passed 
through Cleveland when land on tlie lake front 
could be purchased for $3 per acre. He first 
located in Bath, Summit county, Ohio, where he 
purchased a farm, and lived twenty years, after 
which he sold his farm and selected a location 
between Brunswick and Medina, where he bought 
a farm and lived for many years. Finally he 
sold his land and removed to Brunswick, where 
he subsequently died at the home of his son, 
Elizur D. His wife, Louisa Wells, also died in 
Brunswick. They had eleven children, of whom 
eix are now living. Elizur D. was born in 1839, 
was reared to farm life, and has been engaged in 
agricultural pursuits the most of his life. Ee- 
cently he has rented his farm, and is now living 
at Medina. His wife died at the age of forty- 
four years. She was a member of tlie Congre- 
gational Church, to which he also belongs. Dr. 
Wells is the oldest of their family of three, the 
other two being Carl and Alberta. ^ Carl mar- 
ried Miss May Holden, and is engaged in farm- 
ing in Medina county, and Alberta lives with her 
father. 

Dr. Wells received his early education in the 
district schools. Later he attended a select school 
at Hinckley and Medina, and afterwards was a 
student five years at Baldwin University, at 
Berea, Ohio. Then he entered the Cleveland 
University of Medicine and Surgery, formerly 
the Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital College, 
where he graduated March 25, 1885, after three 
years of study in that institution. Upon com- 
pleting his medical course, he entered upon the 
practice of his profession in Cleveland, where 
he has since remained. He has made a specialty 
of surgery, and for the past four years has oc- 
cupied one of the chairs of surgery in the Cleve- 
land University of Medicine and Surgery. He 
is also lecturer in the Training School for Nurses 
at the Huron Street Hospital, and is a member 
of the Hahnemann Society, State Society, and 
Round Table Club. 

Dr. Wells was married June 18, 1884, to 
Miss Ella Van Norman, adopted daughter of 



Dr. H. B. Van Norman, of Cleveland. They 
have an only child, Mae. Mrs. Wells is a mem- 
ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Her 
own father, Bev. J. K. Mendenhall, is a member 
of the Erie Conference of the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church, and her mother, whose maiden 
name was Pollie Ferris, died when Mrs. Wells 
was a babe. In the home of her adopted parents 
she had every comfort and advantage, and she 
continued to reside with the Doctor and Mrs. 
Van Norman until the time of her marriage to 
Dr. Wells. 

While Dr. Wells gives little attention to politi- 
cal aff'airs, his views are in harmony with tlie prin- 
ciples advocated by the Republican party. He 
is in the prime of a vigorous young manhood, 
is thoroughly posted in everything that pertains 
to his profession, and is as popular as he is 
well known. 



LEONARD HERSHEY, attorney at law, 
I and one of the most favorably known 
1 citizens of Cuyahoga county, was born at 

Richfield, Summit county, Ohio, June 8, 1853. 
When he was but two weeks of age his mother 
died and he was taken into the home of his 
grandmother, Eliza Leonard, who resided on a 
farm near Bedford, and by her brought up, and 
remained on the farm until he was thirty years 
of age. He gained a fair common-school edu- 
cation, attending the Bedford high school, and 
later the schools at Mount Union and Richfield. 
He then taught school for ten winters, and in 
1885 entered the law oflice of Everett, Dellen- 
baugh & Weed, where he continued study of 
law till 1888, and in June of that year he was 
admitted to the bar. Associating himself with 
the above law firm, Mr. Hershey took up the 
practice of his profession. He has risen very 
rapidly in his vocation and has gained a large 
and remunerative clientage. While he has al- 
ways had a law oflice in the city of Cleveland, 
he has resided at Bedford, to which village he 
removed in 1885, prior to which date he re- 
sided upon the farm on which he was brought up. 



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In 1880 Mr. Hershey married Miss Martlia 
J. Orchard, dangiiter of Samuel Orchard, a 
prominent farmer and citizen of Bedford town- 
ship, where Mrs. Hershey was born and reared. 
Mr. and Mrs. Hershey have one child, Floyd W. 
Hersiiey, born February 17, 1881. They have 
a beautiful and attractive home at Bedford, 
where they enjoy high social relations. 

Bedford is a beautiful suburban town, and 
Mr. Hershey has always taken great pride and 
interest in the growth and development of this 
village, as well as being alive to the interests 
of Cleveland and Cuyahoga county. For years 
he has been a zealous member of the Bedford 
Board of Education. He served for a time as 
Clerk of the town of Bedford, and two terms as 
Mayor, in which capacity he executed the laws 
well and creditably and inaugurated many com- 
mendable measures conducive to the interests 
and growth of the town. He is largely in- 
terested in Bedford real estate, and in com- 
pany with James A. Anderson and others he 
has contributed much to the advancement of 
the value and consequence of Bedford property, 
and has been instrumental in inducing parties 
to purchase the same and to establish for them- 
selves homes in this beautiful and healthful su- 
burban town. Too much praise cannot be said 
of Mr. Hershey's spirit of enterprise and the 
interest he has taken in Bedford. He has al- 
ways been a stanch friend of church and edu- 
cation. In fact, Mr. Hershey is a useful and 
progressive citizen, is honored, respected and 
esteemed. 



^K. QUINCY J. WINSOK, physician, 89 
Euclid avenue, was born in Cortland 
"^ county. New York, in 1863, the only 
child of Ebenezer and Charlotte (Salisbury) 
Winsor, natives of Xew York State. He was 
educated in the State Normal School, came to 
Cleveland in 1882, read medicine under Dr. 
J. H. Salisbury, the originator of the medical 
system called the " Salisbury treatment," and 
now residing in New York city. Dr. Winsor 



attended the medical department of the West- 
ern Reserve University, and graduated in the 
class of 1884. He at once opened an office for 
the practice of his chosen profession. While 
under his preceptor he was his assistant. He 
makes a specialty of the " Salisbury treatment," 
in which he has an extensive reputation for skill, 
having performed many wonderful cures. He 
is publishing a series of pamphlets which con- 
tain an extraordinary condensation of the most 
important health principles, which every one 
should observe for his own good. He justly 
enjoys a high place in the regard of all who 
know him. 

August 21, 1893, he was married to Miss 
Martha Olmsted, an artist of distinction in this 
city, where they have made their home. 



RS. HELEN OLMSTED, one of the 
leading artists of Cleveland, is a native 
^ of the same city, born February 1, 
1848. Her father, Jonathan Bishop, 
was a native of Connecticut, and her mother, 
whose name before marriage was Martha E. 
Smith, was born in Gardiner, Maine. They 
were early settlers of the Forest City, coming 
here in 1846, the year after their marriage. Mr. 
Bishop's patriotism led him to enlist in the last 
war, under the first call of the president, and 
served faithfully and enthusiastically for three 
months, when he was discharged on account of 
disability; but he continued to fill a position in 
the commissary department, as assistant to Dr. 
Newberry, until near the close of the war. Plis 
health was so greatly impaired by military life 
that after his return from the army he was 
never engaged in active business. His death, 
hastened by exposures in army life, occurred in 
January, 1872, at the age of fifty-eight years. 
His wife is still living, an honored resident of 
Cleveland, residing with her daughter and only 
child, the subject of this sketch. She is now 
sixty-three years of age, and has long been a 
member of the Episcopalian Church. 



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Mrs. Olmsted was educated in the Cleveland 
high school, but began the study of art in her 
youth, as a pupil, for a number of years, of 
Miss Catherine C. Hopley, now widely known 
in England as an artist and scientist. Her 
works are considered standard authority both in 
England and in tliis country. At the early age 
of eight years the subject of this sketch took a 
first premium for pencil drawing at the State 
fair at Cleveland. At the New Orleans Expo- 
sition of 1885, she was given a large depart- 
ment for the display of her decorative work and 
painting, received several premiums, and was 
urgently requested to open a studio there. She 
was actively engaged at the Ohio Centennial, 
which was held at Columbus in 1888, where 
she was superintendent of the Woman's Build- 
ing, and had entire charge of the art depart- 
ment, which was very extensive. The building 
was under the supervision of the commissioner, 
Mrs. Delia Lathrop Williams, who had the re- 
sponsibility of all collections. In her absence 
Mrs. Olmsted tilled her place, performing the 
duties of office with fidelity. Mrs. Olmsted re- 
ceived many premiums from the Woman's Art 
Department, and was also well represented in 
the General Art Gallery. 

Immediately after the Centennial exhibition 
Mrs. Olmsted went abroad, in order to con- 
tinue the study of her favorite vocation. She 
spent a year across the sea, mostly in Paris 
and London; but since her return, impaired 
healtii has seriously interfered with her calling, 
and for the same reason she prepared no 
specimens for exhibition at the World's Fair 
at Chicago. 

For several years she had a studio in the 
Nottingham building on Euclid avenue, which 
was finely furnished with decorative draperies, 
which had been on exhibition at New Orleans, 
and with other household decorations in addi- 
ti(in to her own paintings. A number of her 
crayon portraits are owned and highly esteemed 
by prominent citizens of this city. She also 
possesses a very valuable collection of copies of 
both old and modern masters made during her 



European trip. Her art work hereafter will 
be confined to her studio, at her own residence. 

Her daughter Martha, now Mrs. Dr. Q. J. 
Winsor, was before her marriage studio asso- 
ciate with her mother. She was assistant at 
the Ohio Centennial at Columbus, where she 
received several premiums. They were, first 
premium for still-life in water-color; first pre- 
mium for finest collection of water-colors; first 
premium for charcoal work from life, and 
others. She then continued her art studies in 
the winter of 1888-'89, in Paris, under the di- 
rection of M. Edouard Krug and the famous M. 
Albert Maignan. At the Columbian exposition 
she was represented by three water colors, two 
of which were life-size head studies; these were 
in the Cleveland room of the Ohio State build- 
ing. She has devoted herself exclusively to 
portrait work in water color, making a specialty 
of portraits of young people. Her work in- 
cludes also that charming branch of the por- 
trait-painters' art, miniature painting. 

Mrs. Olmsted's other daughter, Miss Milli- 
cent, IS pursuing a different line of art work, 
namely, that of writing. She has been engaged 
in literary work ever since she graduated at 
Miss Mittelberger's school in 1890. 

The subject of this sketch was married Jan- 
uary 8, 1865, to Henry S. Olmsted, of Albany, 
New York. 



ILLIAM W. ANDKEWS, son of the 
late Judge Sherlock J. Andrews, is a 
=1 native of Cleveland. In 1859 he 
graduated at Western Eeserve College, and in 
1861, at the Cleveland Law School, having 
been guided in his legal studies by his dis- 
tinguished father. For four years next after 
his admission to the bar, Mr. Andrews was 
associated with Lewis W. Ford, and afterward 
with Judge G. M. Barber, and still later he 
was senior member of the firm of Andrews & 
Kaiser. All of these firms were successful 
and took high rank in the profession. Mr. 



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Andi-ews i3 now practicing alone, acting es- 
pecially as legal adviser of corporations and 
estates, and also as trustee for the latter, owing 
to his reputation for integrity and ability. 

Soon after leaving college he was selected by 
both the Republican and Democratic parties 
for the Board of Education, and was finally 
elected by the former. He has, however, never 
been an office-seeker or active in public affairs, 
and is known to have declined flattering oppor- 
tunities for political advancement. Quiet but 
thorough in business, and domestic in his 
tastes, he has avoided the strife of politics, con- 
tent, apparently, with his honorable position as 
a lawyer and citizen. 



P. DEMUTH, Assistant Postmaster of 
Clev^eland and a veteran of the mail ser- 
vice, was born in Tuscarawas county, 
Ohio, September 9, 1843, completed a brief 
career as a pupil of the primary schools at 
twelve years of age, and began the realities of 
life when he entered on his apprenticeship with 
a jeweler in New Philadelphia, this State. He 
became an efficient workman in due time and 
was still engaged in the business when the war 
came on. 

The first year of enlistment of troops found 
young Demuth ready to do duty in defense of 
" Old Glory." He enlisted in Company I, of 
the Thirtieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry as a 
private soldier. The first order to this com- 
mand took them into West Virginia, where 
they first met the enemy at Sutton's Heights. 
Passing on through the State they were made a 
part of the Eastern army near Fayetteville. 
With second Bull Run another series of en- 
gagements began, including South Mountain, 
Frederick City, and concluding at Antietam in 
September, 1862. After this last engagement 
Mr. Demuth's command returned to West 
Virginia with the intention of going into winter 
quarters. When a part of the huts were ready for 
occupancy orders were received to join General 



Sherman in his reduction of Vicksl)urg. The 
army reached the scene of operations by water 
and was landed at Milliken's Bend near the 
city, and were engaged daily in mortal combat 
till the final capitulation of the Confederate 
stronghold. Jackson, Mississippi, was the next to 
feel the force of Federal argument, and was easily 
captured. After this engagement Mr. Demuth 
was promoted to be Commissary Sergeant. The 
army then took boats at Vicksburg for Mem- 
phis and made forced marches across the coun- 
try to Chattanooga, crossed the river at night 
and made an assault on Missionary Ridge, fol- 
lowed the enemy to Knoxville and aided in the 
relief of Burnside's array. Mr. Demuth be- 
longed to the Fifteenth Corps while on the At- 
lanta campaign, which was a flanking corps all 
the way to Atlanta. He remained with the 
army on its march to the sea and his division 
(the second). Fifteenth Corps, assaulted and cap- 
tured Ford McAllister and secured Savannah to 
the Federal forces. Mr. Demuth was given a 
Lieutenant's commission on the close of this 
campaign. He remained with his command, 
attending the review at Washington, and was 
then ordered to Little Rock, Arkansas, and fin- 
ally mustered out in August, 1865. 

Returning to New Philadelphia, he engaged 
in the jewelry business till 1868, when his eyes 
failed and he sought other employment. The 
same year he entered the railway service be- 
tween his home town and Bayard, remaining on 
this run three years, and was then given the 
run between Lorain and Uhrichsville. One 
month later he was again transferred to the 
Lake Shore, running between Buffalo and Chi- 
cago. In 187-i he was made chief clerk of the 
division of railway mail service and retained it 
till 1883, when he was appointed superintendent 
of mails for the Cleveland postoffice, serving as 
such until May 1, 1891, when he was appointed 
assistant Postmaster. 

Referring to the genealogy of the Demuths, 
we find that Daniel Demuth, our subject's 
grandfather, emigrated from Pennsylvania to 
Tuscarawas county, being among her first set- 



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tiers and becoming the founder of the family in 
the Buckeye State. He was tbe father of four 
sons, and died about 1848, above eighty 
years of age. One of those four sons was 
Joseph, our subject's father, who was nine 
years old when his father came to Ohio. He 
became a cabinet worker and was a good, hon- 
est tradesman during the greater part of his 
life. He was an earnest ad%'ocate of the poli- 
cies of the Whig party and later of the Repub- 
lican. He served his county four terms as its 
Treasurer, and died about 1867. He was twice 
married, the second time to Charlotte Simmers, 
whose ancestors were originally Moravians. 
Seven children were born by this union, four 
sons and three daughters. There were two 
children by his first marriage. 

In 1872 Mr. Demuth married Melissa Kelly, 
and they have two children: Fritz E., in the 
post ofHce; and Ola G. In December, 1888, 
Mrs. Demuth died, and three years later, Mr. 
Demnth married Mrs. M. H. Rickey, a daugh- 
ter of Judge R. F. Payne. 

Mr. Demutli is a member of the G. A. R. 
and of the Royal and Loyal Arcanums. 



Dll. J. T. CARTER, a pliysician and 
surgeon uf Cleveland, having an office 
— - in the Kendall building, was born in 
Bureau county, Illinois, June 24, 1862, a son of 
Samuel and Anna (Park) Carter, natives re- 
spectively of Twinsbnrg, Ohio, and Illinois. 



Hi 



•andfather, Thaddeus A. Carter, came 



with a colony from Bristol, Connecticut, in 
1818, locating at Twinsburg, Summit county, 
where he accumulated large tracts of land. He 
had five sons and two daughters, of whom tiiree 
sons and two daughters are living, and Samuel, 
the father of our subject, was the tiiird son in 
order of birth. He has two brothers, H. W. 
and R. B. Carter, wiio are eminent physicians 
of the Western Reserve. Another uncle of our 
subject is also a physician, — Dr. Upson, of To- 
peka, Kansas. The Carter family are of Eng- 
lish extraction. 



Samuel Carter learned the blacksmith and 
wagonmaker's trade in his youth, but afterward 
became a contractor and builder. He met his 
death in this city, having been caught in a 
shaft and belt, and died after a few hours of in- 
tense suffering, in November, 1872, at the age 
of forty years. Pie was an officer in the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church for many years. At 
his death he left three children: J. T., our sub- 
ject; Mary, wife of Leslie Rich, of Tempe, 
Arizona; and Lillie, at home. The mother 
afterward married M. T. McDonald, and now 
resides in Kansas, aged sixty years. 

J. T. Carter, the subject of this sketch, at- 
tended the public schools of Cleveland until 
fourteen years of age. He next entered the 
Western Reserve Academy, a part of the Adel- 
bert College, and also attended the latter insti- 
tution. By doing double work he prepared 
himself for college in two years instead of four. 
After graduating at the Homeopathic Hospital 
College of Cleveland, in the class of 1889, Dr. 
Carter began the practice of his profession in 
this city, and has ever since met with flattering 
success. He served one year in the Huron 
Street Hospital as resident surgeon, but re- 
signed his position there to accept a chair in 
the faculty of the Cleveland Medical College. 
He is still a member of the faculty of that in- 
stitution. Dr. Carter writes for medical jour- 
nals, is a member of the County, City and State 
Medical Societies, also a member of the Ameri- 
can Institute of Homeopathy, and is Lecturer 
to the Training School for Nurses of Cleveland. 

He was married in December, 1891, to Miss 
Alice Hanchette, a daughter of Erastus Han- 
chette and a member of an old family of the 
Western Reserve and New England stock. She 
was a successful teacher of Cleveland for eight 
years before her marriage. Her great-grand- 
father served in the Revolutionary war. Mr. 
and Mrs. Erastus Hanchette still reside in this 
city. They are the parents of four children: 
Lewis, who resides in Chicago; Edward, of this 
cily; Alice, wife of our subject; and Jessie, 
who has been a successful teacher in the public 



CrrAHOGA COUNTY. 



school for the past live yeais. Mr. aud Mrs. 
Carter are members of the Calvary Presbyterian 
Church. In political matters the Doctor affili- 
ates with the Republican party. He is an apt 
student, keenly alive to the latest and most im- 
proved methods, and believes in keeping pace, 
professionally and otherwise, with latter-day 
progress. 



A^ A. IXGERSOLL, secretary and treasurer 
I J, of the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad 
\^ Company for more than a quarter of a 
century, was born in Lorain county, 
Ohio, March 30. 1827. His birth occurred on 
a farm, his father, Marshall Ingersoll, being a 
tiller of the soil, and his youthful education 
was of the pioneer country-school variety. At 
seventeen he began the battle of life independ- 
ently, serving a clerkship with a merchant in 
Elyria, Ohio. In 1^53 he engaged in a mer- 
cantile venture at Grafton, Ohio, which he con- 
ducted till his decision was made to become a 
resident of Cleveland. 

October 1, 1856, Mr. Ingersoll embarked on 
his long and uninterrupted career of railroad 
work, becoming at that time way-bill registrar, 
and succeeding in a few years to the auditor- 
ship of freight accounts. This work he per- 
formed so satisfactorily that he was made 
general bookkeeper of the company, filling that 
position with the same standard of excellence 
which marked his service in all prior capacities 
and retiring only to accept a higher position 
with the company, that of secretary and treas- 
urer, entering on his new duties January 1, 
1866. 

Marshall Ingersoll was born in Berkshire 
county, Massachusetts, January 29, 1802. His 
father. Major "SVilliam Ingersoll, emigrated to 
Ohio in 1816, settled in Lorain county and 
there died, in 1836, at seventy-five years of age. 
His wife was Mercy Crocker, who bore him 
eleven children, Marshall being the ninth. 
The latter spent his active life in Lorain county, 



but died in Cleveland, September 5, 1874. 
His children by marriage to Sarah Ann Taylor, 
a daughter of Jesse Taylor of Lorain county, 
formerly from Pittstield, Massachusetts, were: 

j G. A.: Lucy M., widow of "SV. F. Hurlbut. of 
Elyria, Ohio; and Frank A., a commercial 
traveler of New York city. 

November 1, 1853, the subject of this sketch 
married, in Lorain county, Lois Y., a daughter 
of William Race, a farmer. Mr. Race was born 
in Berkshire county, Massachusetts, and came 
to Ohio in 1830. He married Vienna Joiner, 
and became the father of eight children. Mr. 
and Mrs. Ingersoll are the parents of Seymour 
R., a taxidermist and fruit-farmer of Ballston 
Spa, New York; Winifred, wife of Ralph L. 
Fuller, of Cleveland; and Ina I., now Mrs. 
Wallace B. Goodwin, of the machinery supply 
house of Jones it Company of Cleveland. Mrs. 
IngersolTs death. July 29, ISSl, resulted from 
an injury received by the running away of a 
team. Mr. IngersolFs second marriage oc- 
curred August 2, 1883, the lady being Joanna 
M. Minor, daughter of Edwin Fuller of Cleve- 
land, a canal man and a real estate dealer. 

! Mr. Ingersoll is financially interested in 
several enterprises of this city, among them 
being the Union Steel Screw Works and the 
Walker Manufacturing Company, both well 
known and strong institutions. He has de- 
voted almost an average lifetime to the service 
of one corporation, and has merited the long 
lease on the office of secretary and treasurer 
which he is now enjoying. 



ILLIAM A. BABCOCK. president of 
the Bishop and Babcock Company, 
5) manufacturers of air pumps, brass 
goods, tacks and nails, with office and shops at 
the corner of Kirtland and Hamilton streets, 
Cleveland, and vice-president of the Standard 
Tool Company, manufacturers of twist drills, 
with shops located on Central avenue and Cleve- 
land & Pittsburg Railroad, was born in South 



CVTAHOGA COrSTT. 



Coventry. Tolland county, Connecticnt, March 
IS. 1843. was reared on the farm at South Cov- 
entry, receiving tbe usual schooling, and at the 
age of eighteen years was apprenticed to Will- 
iam Mason, in Taunton, Massachnsetts, to learn 
the machiniets' trade; and while thus engaged 
the great war came on and the shops were 
closed; and he went to .Sj)ringfield, that State, 
and was employed in the armory shops. In 
1862 he enlisted in a company made up of tool- 
makers for the war, but within three days' time 
and before the company was detailed it was de- 
cided by the Government authorities that the 
men would be of more value to the progr^s of 
the war if they should remain at home engaged 
in the manufacture of firearms, etc.; accord- 
ingly they were set to work at their old trade 
again. About the middle of the year 1S63 Mr. 
Babeock went to Xorwich. Connecticut, and en- 
tered the employ of the Norwich Arms Com- 
pany, remaining there till the close of the war. 
in June. 1S65. Xext he was jointly employed 
by the Morse Twist-Drill Company, of New Bed- 
ford, Massachusetts. A. G. Coes & Company, 
Worcester. Massachusetts, and fl. A. Bogers «Sl 
Company, of Xew York, as traveling salesman, 
in which position he spent the followiug fourteen 
years, selling machinery railway supplies and 
machinists' tools. In 1S79 he came to Cleve- 
land and engaged in his present business where 
he is now at the head of the concern and of a 
large business. His gentlemanly manner and 
honest dealing gives public satisfaction and in- 
sures success to his company. His residence is 
2010 (old number 1715 1 Euclid avenue. 

He is a member of Holy Bood Commandery. 
K. T. In his political principles he is a Demo- 
crat. His father, William Babeock. was also 
born, reared, lived and died in South Coventry, 
his death occurring in 1S70, when he was aged 
sixty-five years. He was a farmer and hatter, 
having a hat factory on his farm, in which he 
made hats exclusively for the Southern planters' 
trade. His wife. Esther E., was a daughter of 
Timothy and Tirzah (^Badger) Loom is, and she 
survived him many years, dying in December, 



1891, on the old homestead, which now is the 
property of our subject, Mr. William A. Bab- 
eock. and his sister, Mrs. Prince. They reared 
three children, namely: Ellen, wife of J. \. B. 
Prince, of Brooklyn, New York; Mary E., 
wife of William H. Yeomans, of Columbia, 
Connecticnt; and William A., whose name in- 
troduces this sketch. The nephew of the latter, 
Howard W. Yeomans is now employed in The 
Bishop & Babeock Company's office. 

According to Hinmau's historical record, and 
Weavers' history of Ancient Windham, Connect- 
icnt, our subject is a descendant of James Bab- 
eock, born in Essex. England, in 1580. James 
was a Puritan minister in Wivanhoe, England, 
and was of Saxon origin. He was the brother of 
Eichard Babeock, who occupied the family 
mansion. His coat-of-arms was a shield with 
several cock's-heads upon it with the motto, 
Deus spes mea I'God is my hopel. The early 
family were seated in I^sex county, Ensland, 
at the time of the Xorman conquest. Sir Will- 
iam Seager. in his visit to the county of Essex 
in 1612, states that '• Sir Eichard Badcock was 
the nineteenth in descent from the first holder 
of the family mansion there," — which is said 
by relatives to have been standing in 1850. 
Ephraim. the grandfather of William A., al- 
though but fifteen years of age, was in the Eev- 
olntionary army fro n March 5 until Decem- 
ber 31, 1778. and from Jannary 10 to Febru- 
ary 16. 177S. He was made a pensioner in 
1S18. 

His mother, Esther Elizabeth Loomis, de- 
scended from John Loomis, who was b3m about 
1570 and died between April 14 and May 29. 
1619. His original will, still on file in the court 
for the counties of Essex and Hertford, England, 
was formally proven by the executar, his sjn 
Joseph, the 21st of* June. 1619. His five chil- 
dren emigrated t-j New England before the year 
1640. Joseph Loomis sailed from London, 
April 11, 1638, on the ship Susan and Ellen, as 
appears by the customhouse books and by other 
d'jcamentary proofs, and arrived in Boston, 
July 17, 1638. Mr. Babeock has three volumes 



CUYAEOGA COUNTY. 



of the genealogy of the Loomis family, con- 
taining over 28,000 names of the descendants, 
pnhlislied by Elias Loomis, LL. 1)., a professor 
at Yale College and the popular author of col- 
lege text-books. It is an exhaustive and de- 
tailed proof of his being a descendant of John 
Loomis, whose first son, Joseph, was born in 
1590. The town records of Windsor, Connect- 
icut (volume 1, February 2, 1640) show that 
Joseph acquired several large tracts of land both 
on the Farmington and the Connecticut rivers, 
partly from the town and partly by purchase. 

His mother Esther also descended from Giles 
Badger, who came from England and settled in 
Nevvl)ury, now Newburyport, Massachusetts, 
about 1635, as appears by Weaver's history of 
Windham and by a book in the Case Library 
(B 57, 300) entitled " Memoirs of- the Kev. 
James Badger." The latter was the nephew of 
Mr. Babcock's great grandfather. He was a 
soldier in the Revolutionary war, then studied 
to become a minister, was appointed as a mis- 
sionary, by the Connecticut Home Missionary 
Society, to preach to the settlers and Indians on 
the Western Reserve. In August, 1801, he 
preached in Cleveland, when there were only 
two families in the place. In Newburg, now a 
part of Cleveland, there were five families. 

The ancestry of the subject of this sketch, 
as systematically as we can give it without dia- 
gram, is, so far as known, as follows: 

William Babcook, the father of W. A. Bab- 
cock (our subject) was born in South Coventry, 
Connecticut, July 12, 1804, and died March 16, 
1870. June 19, 1839, he married Esther Eliz- 
abeth Loomis, who was born in Andover, Con- 
necticut, February 1, 1818, and died in South 
Coventry, December 12, 1890. 

William Baljcock's father, Ephraim Babcock, 
was born September 3, 1763, was a soldier in 
the Revolutionary war, and died February 26, 
1828. His wife Thirza was born in February, 
1766, and died October 13, 1827. 

Elisha Babcock of Coventry, born July 19, 
1746, married Elizabeth Preston, and was the 
father of Ephraim. 



Simeon Babcock, of Coventry, father of Eli- 
sha, married Al)igail Hudson, October 5, 1736. 
He died November 30, 1751. 

Simeons' father, Jonathan Babcock, was born 
in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1651, and died 
January 5, 1731. His wife Mary died January 
28, 1719. Jonathan's father, James Babcock, 
Jr., died in 1690; his father, James Babcock, 
was born in Essex, England, in 1580. 

The mother of the subject of this sketch, al- 
ready mentioned, was the daughter of Timothy 
Loomis, was born in Lebanon, Connecticut, 
May 14, 1786, and died in Andover, that State, 
May 17 1860. October 2, 1808, he married 
Tirzah Badger, who died in South Coventry, 
same State, May 14, 1863. 

Timotliy's father, Dan Loomis, was born in 
Lebanon, Connecticut, Jannai'y 22, 175S, was a 
soldier in the Revolutionary war, anddiedin Cov- 
entry August 22, 1841. He married Sarah Field. 

Tirzah Badger Lootnis' father was Enoch Bad- 
ger, Jr., who married Mary Lamphear, February 
11, 1773. 

Enoch Badger, Jr.'s father was Enoch Bad- 
ger, who settled in Coventry before 1748. He 
died September 4, 1793, aged seventy-nine. 
His father, Nathaniel Badger, settled in Nor- 
wich, Connecticut; he married Mary Hunt, 
March 27, 1693. He died at Coventry, Feb- 
ruary 7, 1752; and his father, John Badger, 
was born June 30, 1643, and married Rebecca 
Brown, October 5, 1691. He was the son of 
Giles Badger, who came from England and set- 
tled in Newbury, now Newburyport, Massa- 
chusetts, about 1635, as already mentioned. 
He married Elizabeth Greenleaf, daughter of 
Edmond. He died July 10, 1647. 

Dan Loomis' father, Timothy Loomis, was born 
in East Windsor, Connecticut, August 24, 1718, 
and died June 20, 1785. He married Anna 
Taylor, who died March 7, 1799. Timothy 
Loomis' father, John Loomis, an ensign, was 
born in Hatfield, Massachusetts, January 1, 
1681, and died in Lebanon, Connecticut, in 1755. 
October 30, 1706, he married Martha Osborn, 
who was born April 10, 1687. 




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OUYAHOOA COUNTY. 



Thomas Loomis, the father of the last raen- 
tioued, was born in Windsor, Connecticut, De- 
cember 3, 1653, and died Angust 12, 1688. 
March 31, 1680, he married Sarah White (a 
daughter of Daniel White), who was born in 
Hatfield, Massachusetts, October 15, 1662. 

Thomas Loomis' father, John Loomis, was a 
deacon wlio came from England in 1622, and 
died September 1, 1688. February 3, 1648, he 
married Elizabeth Scott, a daughter of Thomas 
Scott, of Hartford, Connecticut. 

Joseph Loomis, father of John, was born in 
Braintree, Essex county, England, in 1590, and 
died November 25, 1658: his wife died August 
23, 1652. John Loomis, father of Joseph, was 
born probably about 1570, and died between 
April 14 and May 29, 1619. 

September 21, 1876, the subject of this sketch 
married Miss Gertrude A. Bunker, who was 
born in Brooklyn, New York, November 13, 
1842, a daughter of Thomas Gorham Bunker, 
who was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, Jan- 
uary 8, 1793, and died in Brooklyn, October 9, 
1852. May 24, 1819, the latter married Sally 
Amelia Raymond, who was born in Norwalk, 
Connecticut, January 4, 1801, and died in Brook- 
lyn, November 26, 1883. 

Richard Banker, Jr., father of T. G., was a 
native of Nantucket, and married Lois Cart- 
wright, a native of the same place. Riciiard 
Bunker, father of last, was a native of that 
place, and married Eunice Mitchell, also a na- 
tive of the same place. Richard's parents, 
Thomas and Anna (Swain) Bunker, were also 
natives of Nantucket, as were also Thomas' 
parents, Benjamin and Deborah (Haddock) 
Bunker. Benjamin's parents were William and 
Mary (Macy) Bunker; and William's father, 
George Bunker, married Jane Godfrey, who 
after his death married for her second husband 
Richard Swain, who moved to Nantucket prior 
to 1660. George's father, William, was a 
Huguenot from England. 

The maternal grandmother of the present 
Mrs. Babcock was Sukey (Brown) Raymond, 
who was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, July 4, 



1769, and died in Brooklyn, New York, in April, 
1865. Her father, Jedediah Brown, was born 
September 10, 1743, in Norwalk, and Novem- 
ber 13, 1768, in that city, married Mary Lock- 
wood, a native of the same place. 



EORGE ARMSTRONG GARRETSON. 
' — Among the representative citizens of 
Cleveland is Mr. George A. Garretson, 
who, as president of the National Bank 
of Commerce, occupies a prominent place among 
the leading bankers and financiers of the city. 

He is a native of Columbiana county, Ohio, was 
born on the 30th day of January, 1844. His 
ancestors on the paternal side came to America 
from Holland about the year 1700. They be- 
came Quakers and for many years were promin- 
ent members of that society. His maternal an- 
cestors came to this country from Scotland 
during the seventeenth century and settled in 
Pennsylvania. Seven of them served with credit 
through the Revolutionary war, and several par- 
ticipated in the wars with England in 1812 and 
Mexico in 1846. 

Hiram Garretson, father of our subject, was 
born in 1817 in York county, Pennsylvania, and 
was the son of George and Anne (Griffith) 
Garretson, who in 1820 left Pennsylvania and 
came to Ohio, settling at New Lisbon, Colum- 
biana county. He was given a good common- 
school education, after which lie entered his 
father's store as a clerk. When about nineteen 
years of age he took charge of a trading boat on 
the Ohio river and made several trips between 
Pittsburg and New Orleans, following which he 
returned to New Lisbon and engaged in busi- 
ness, continuing until the winter of 1851. The 
next spring he removed to Cleveland and associ- 
ated himself with Leonard and Robert Hanna 
in the wholesale grocery business, under the 
firm name of Hanna, Garretson & Company. 
After a successful career the firm was dissolved, 
in 1862, and Mr. Garretson immediately estab- 
lished the firm of H. Garretson & Comany, for 



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the transaction, mainly, of Laive Superior com- 
mission and forwarding business, the firm build- 
ing a fine line of steamers for the trade. At 
the same time Mr. Garretson secured the agency 
for all the Boston and Xew England raining 
companies located on Lake Superior, purchasing 
their supplies and having charge of all trans- 
portation between Boston and the mines. In 
1866 ill health compelled him to relinquish this 
large and important business, and he turned his 
attention to banking. 

In company with J. H. Wade, Amasa Stone, 
George B. Ely, Stillman Witt and others, he 
projected and organized the Cleveland Banking 
Company, which went into business under his 
presidency and management on February 1, 
1868. Two years later this institution was 
merged into the Second National Bank of Cleve- 
land, of which Mr. Garretson was prevailed 
upon to become cashier. In the spring of 1873 
his health again failed him, compelling his 
temporary retirement from active business, and 
he went to Europe under appointment by 
President Grant as United States Commissioner 
to the Vienna Exposition. The American de- 
partment of this exposition was in a bad con- 
dition and was reflecting discredit upon the 
Government, and the then commissioner was 
removed and Mr. Garretson appointed to fill 
the vacancy. He brought order out of confusion, 
and so highly esteemed were his services that 
the emperor of Austria decorated him with the 
imperial order of Francis Joseph. 

Upon his return from Europe he was elected 
president of the Second National Bank. He was 
a director in the Citizens' Savings & Loan 
Association, and held large interests in several 
other important enterprises of the city. 

For his first wife Mr. Garretson married 
Margaret King Armstrong, the daughter of 
General.! ohn and Isabella (McKaig) Armstrong, 
who removed from Pennsylvania to Columbiana 
county, Ohio, iu 1804. She liad three children, 
and died May 16, 1852. The subject of this sketch 
is the only one of the children living. Septem- 
ber 8, 1856, Mr. Hiram Garretson, for bis 



second wife married Mrs. Ellen M. Abbott, nee 
Howe, of Springfield, Massachusetts, and by 
this marriage there were three children, the 
only one now living being Mrs. Ellen G. Wade, 
wife of J. H. Wade. Mr. Garretson's death 
occurred in Cleveland on May 7, 1876. 

The subject of this sketch was reared in 
Cleveland, and was given the benefit of excep- 
tional educational advantages. After attending 
the public schools of the city for two years he 
entered a first-class private boarding school at 
Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, New York, where he 
pursued his studies until the breaking out of 
the late Civil war. Returning to Cleveland, he 
answered his country's call for volunteers. On 
the 26th day of May, 1862, when but eighteen 
years of age, he enlisted as a private in Com- 
pany E, Eighty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 
was mustered in at Camp Chase at Columbus, 
was soon sent to the field, served in Maryland 
and West Virginia, and on the 20th day of 
September of the same year was mustered out. 
A number of Ohio regiments were then being 
organized for three years' service and the 
young soldier was promised, and made ar- 
rangements to accept, a commission as Second 
Lieutenant in one of them, but as about that 
time a vacancy occurred in the United States 
Military Academy at West Point, and he was 
tendered a cadetship by the Honorable A. G. 
Riddle, M. C, which he accepted. He entered 
West Point on the 20th day of June, 1863, and 
graduated on the 17th day of June, 1867, and 
upon the same day of his graduation was ap- 
pointed Second Lieutenant of the Fourth United 
States Artillery. He served with that regiment 
at different posts during the years 1867-'68, 
and in 1869 was appointed Signal Officer on the 
staff of Major General John Pope, commanding 
the department of the Lakes at Detroit, Michi- 
gan. In 1869, the Government began prej^ara- 
tions for reducing the army to a peace basis, and 
inactivity and slow promotion being the result 
Mr. Garretson resigned from the service on the 
1st day of January, 1870, with the permission 
of General W. T. Sherman, Commander-in- 



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Chief, and with the full understanding that in 
case of need at any time his services would be 
tendered to the Government. 

After resigning from the regular army Mr. 
Garretson engaged in mercantile business in 
Cleveland and continued in that line until May, 
1875, when he entered the Second National 
Eank of Cleveland, of which his father was then 
president. In February, 1879, he was appointed 
assistant cashier of the bank, and a year from 
that date was made cashier. In 1883 the 
charter of the Second National Baidv expired by 
limitation, and the National Bank of Commerce 
was organized, with practically the same stock- 
holders as its predecessor, and Mr. Garretson 
was appointed cashier of the new bank. Upon 
the death of Mr. Joseph Perkins, president of 
said bank, in 1885, Mr. J. H. Wade was chosen 
president and Mr. Garretson vice president, and 
following Mr. Wade's death Mr. Garretson was 
elected president, which position he holds at the 
present time, being one of the youngest bank 
presidents in Cleveland, and that too, of one of 
the city's leading banks. 

Having received a military education Mr. 
Garretson naturally felt an interest in the State 
militia, but owing to business reasons was com- 
pelled to decline any appointment until 1877, 
when at the time of threatened riots in the city, 
he assisted Colonel W. II. Harris, late of the 
United States Army and a graduate of West 
Point, in organizing the First Cleveland Troop 
of Cavalry, of which Colonel Harris was captain 
and Mr. Garretson First Lieutenant. He re- 
tained his commission in the above organization 
until 1884, when, upon the resignation of Col- 
onel Harris, he was elected to succeed him in 
command of the company. In 1887 the troop 
joined the Ohio National Guard, Mr. Garretson 
remaining in command until 1892, when busi- 
ness interests compelled him to resign and give 
up military matters, notwithstanding tempting 
offers of high rank iu the State service had been 
repeatedly made to him. On January 12, 1880, 
Mr. Garretson was appointed Colonel and Aid- 
de-cainp on the staff of Governor Charles Foster, 



and upon the re-election of the Governor in 
1882 was recommissioned for two years, and 
served until the expiration of his term on Jan- 
nary 14, 1884. 

Mr. Garretson is a member of the order of 
the Loyal Legion of the United States. He is 
a trustee of the Lakeside Hospital, and takes a 
strono- interest in other charitable and benevo- 
lent institutions of the city. He has always been 
a Kepublican in politics, but has never had 
political aspirations. 

He has traveled extensively in the United 
States, and has made two extended tours in 
Europe and the East, visiting all the important 
points of interest in those countries. 

Mr. Garretson was married on the 21st day 
of September, 1870, to Miss Anna Scowden, 
daughter of the late Theodore R. Scowden. Her 
death occurred in August, 1886, and on the 5th 
day of December, 1888, he was married to Miss 
Emma Eipka Ely, daughter of the late Honor- 
able George II. Ely, one of Cleveland's promin- 
ent and deservedly honored citizens. Two chil- 
dren have been born by this marriage, — 
Margaret Ely and George Ely. 



Ti V. DAWES, secretary and treasurer of 
i^ |l the Garfield Savings Bank Company, has 
^a^ been a citizen and business man of Cleve- 
land since September, 1887. He began busi- 
ness with the Cozad, Belz & Bates Abstract 
Company, and continued in its service until his 
election as secretary and treasurer of the Gar- 
field Savings Bank Company, July 1, 1892. 
This bank was at that time a new institution, it 
having been established with a capital stock of 
$50,000, all paid in. It now has deposits aggre- 
gating $100,000 and a surplus of .^2,000. 

Mr. Dawes was born in Cummington, Massa- 
chusetts, May 30, 1870, and his boyhood and 
youth were spent on his father's farm. His 
primary education was received in the district 
schools, and his final school work was done in 
the Cummington High School, where he grad- 



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uated at the age of seventeen. He then, in 
1887, came to Cleveland and, as above stated, 
lias been a resident here ever since. 

The Dawes family were among the earliest 
settlers of New England. Senator Dawes, of 
Massachusetts, belongs to one branch of the 
family. Charles W. Dawes, our subject's father, 
was engaged in agricultural pursuits all his life 
with the exception of the time he spent in the 
service of his country during the Civil w'ar, his 
service being chiefly in the South. He married 
a daughter of P. Bates, who was also a de- 
scendant of New England pioneers, and they 
became the parents of three children, J. Y. 
being their second born and the only one of the 
family now living outside the borders of the old 
Bay State. 

J. Y. Dawes was married in Cleveland, June 
3, 1891, to Nellie H., daughter of Byron Fay, 
of the firm of Wood & Company, merchants of 
Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Dawes have one child, 
Byron F., aged two years. 



T' S. LINDSEY, paymaster of the Lake 
Shore & Michigan Southern Kailway 
Company, and for forty years a faithful 
servant of the company, was born in 
Hampshire county, Massachusetts, July 9, 
1822. He secured a liberal education at the 
village schools and became quite apt at busi- 
ness, having an opportunity to gain experience 
from his father's vocations, he being a country 
merchant. Postmaster and Magistrate. He 
also attended "Wilbraham Academy and a simi- 
lar institution at Amherst, Massachusetts. 
When twenty years old he left the paternal 
roof and began railroad work on the Boston it 
Albany as clerk for the agent at West Brook- 
field, Massachusetts, displaying rare talent for 
one of limited experience, in making out re- 
ports, etc., without assistance, much to the sur- 
prise and pleasure of his superiors. 

The California gold excitement took posses- 
sion of him and in 1849 he sailed around Cape 



Horn to the El Dorado of the West, and was 
absent between two and three years prospect- 
ing and mining theyelloiv metal. 

In 1851 he returned East and again sought 
railroad work, engaging with the Boston ife Al- 
bany and the Worcester & Nashua at Worces- 
ter, and leaving their road to enter the service 
of the Lake Shore, which he did October 20, 
1853, being stationed in Cleveland as ticket 
agent of the Sandusky division. His first change 
of position placed him in the treasurer's office, 
where he remained one year. He was then 
made paymaster of the Toledo division, and 
three years later was requested to assume 
charge of the freight office of the road at Cleve- 
land, remaining five years. He was appointed 
assistant superintendent of the Cleveland & 
Toledo Railroad in 1863, and filled the position 
till 1867, when he succeeded to the superin- 
tendeucy, serving until January 1, 1870, when 
he was appointed paymaster of the consolidated 
lines, — the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern. 

In the twenty-three years and a half which 
Mr. Lindsey has served as paymaster he has 
paid out of his car to employees more than 
880,000,000, and has covered a distance of 225,- 
000 miles, an unparalleled record in this or any 
other country. 

Mr. Lindsey has been honored by the Lake 
Shore & Michigan Southern by the change in 
the name of a town on its line from Washing- 
ton to Lindsey. 

This branch of the Lindscys is early Colonial 
with reference to its time of founding in Amer- 
ica. The history of its establishment is quite 
unusual and romantic, and is as follows: 

A Scotchman named Lindsey and his sons in 
command of an English war ship put into a 
New England harbor at Salem, Massachusetts, 
for repairs, and while so lying in wait one of 
the sons made the acquaintance of and married 
the daughter of the captain of the port. When 
the repairs were made and the vessel ready for 
sea, the young husband sailed with his crew ex- 
pecting to reach England and make proper ar- 
rangements for taking up his residence in 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



Massachusetts. But while sailiug in the Bay 
of Biscay they were attacked by a French fleet 
and all were reported lost by the blowing up of 
the vessel. A son was born to the widow in 
America and from this son springs the Lindsey 
family. One of his descendants, Habakknk 
Lindsey, our subject's great-grandfather, lived 
and died in Salem, near North Danvers, Mas- 
sachusetts. He married Mary Green, October 
6, 1741, and reared three children, one of whom 
was Habakkuk, our subject's grandfather. He 
was a minute man during tlie war of the Revo- 
lution and participated in the battles of Lexing- 
ton and Stillwater. He married Joanna, a 
daughter of Gideon Gowings, at Linfield, and 
was a fanner. He moved to New Salem in 
1790, where he died January 12, 1835. His 
son, Stacy Jjindsey, was our subject's father. 
He was born in North Danvers in 1786, May 
12, and married, in Sterling, Massachusetts, in 
1816, Haley Wilder. Their children are: Au- 
gusta H., married Josiah Miller; Catherine J., 
wife of L. G. Mason; Theodore S., married first 
Rebecca Dane at West Brookfield; she died in 
Cleveland in 1879. They had the following 
children: Theodore D., born March, 1857, 
now a dentist; Nellie F., born December 12, 
18G0, married first C. W. Johnson, deceased, 
her second marriage occurring in 1893 to E. S. 
Teichman. Mr. Lindsey's second marriage oc- 
curred February 22, 1888, to Mrs. Ida Rigg, a 
daughter of James Stoddard of Norwich, Con- 
necticut. The other members of Stacy Lind- 
sey's family were: F. W., assistant paymaster; 
Harriet F., married Rev. G. H. Newhall; 
George W.; and Mary E., wife of O. G. Holt, 
at Willington, Connecticut. 



TjOHN M. ERASER, M. D., a leading phy- 
^, I sician of Cleveland, was born in Colum- 
's^ biana county, Ohio, January 15, 1852. 
His parents were John and Margaret Fraser. 
The father was a native of Pittsburg, Pennsyl- 
vania, coming with his parents to Ohio shortly 
after his birth. John Eraser was a thrifty 



farmer and a public-spirited citizen, and was 
for many years associated with those who were 
active in the best interests of the county. He 
did his full share to promote the welfare of his 
community, to which he came as a pioneer. He 
died in 1873, aged sixty-seven. He and his 
wife were members of the Scotch Presbyterian 
Church. Mrs. John Fraser was born in 1816 
and died in 1890. She was a devout Christian 
of sweet and noble character, and a most ex- 
emplary wife and mother. 

Our subject is the seventh son and ninth 
child in a family of fourteen children, of whom 
only ten are now living. William C, an elder 
brother, enlisted in 1862, in Company C, 
Seventy-eighth Regiment, and marched with 
General Sherman from Atlanta to the sea, was 
a builder of the pontoon bridges, and served 
three years, his service terminating at alx)ut the 
time the war closed. He never was wounded 
or taken prisoner and stood the service well. 
He is now a contractor and builder at Wells- 
ville, Ohio. William Fraser has an enviable 
reputation as a brave, earnest and patriotic sol- 
dier as well as a good citizen, such as gives 
character to a community. 

Dr. Fraser was educated in Washington, Penn- 
sylvania, receiving the degree of A. M. He read 
medicine under Dr. Norman P. Sackrider, of 
Cleveland, Ohio, and attended the Western 
Reserve Medical College, where he graduated 
in March, 1881. He began his practice on 
Woodland avenue in Cleveland, remaining there 
until August, 1893, when he removed to his 
present location on Erie street. He was 
demonstrator of anatonay in Wooster Medical 
College for four years, and has been physician 
in charge of St. Mary's Orphan Asylum on 
Harmon street for the past three years. He had 
three years of experience in teaching in Colum- 
biana county. 

He is a member of the Cuyahoga County and 
State Medical Associations. He is a Repub- 
lican in politics. He is well-read in his profes- 
sion and stands well as a progressive physician 
and surgeon, as well as enterprising citizen. 



UUTAHOOA GOUNTT. 



He was married December 27, 1882, to Miss 
Mary G. Hardie, daughter of George and Isa- 
bell Hardie. The Hardies were of Scotch 
descent, but the father of Mrs. Fraser descended 
from the French Huguenots. Dr. and Mrs. 
Fraser have two children: Fanny Edith and 
Ruth Huntly. Both parents are members of 
the United Presbyterian Church. 



Iff GRACE B. CORNER, secretary and 
fri treasurer of tlie Citizens' Savings & Loan 
II ^ Association of Cleveland, Ohio, was born 
"^ in McConnellsville, Ohio, June 26, 1846. 

Since 1857 he has lived in Cleveland. His 
education was received in public, private, and 
commercial schools. At the age of fifteen he 
began his business career, his first occupation 
being that of newsboy. At different times later 
on, he visited his uncle in Massachusetts, where 
he learned something of farming. When he 
returned to Cleveland after bis first absence he 
engaged in gardening, and made money enough 
in one season to carry him through Eastman 
Commercial College. Then he went to Colum- 
bus, Ohio, where for two years he was employed 
in a dry-goods establishment, following which 
lie was in the employ of the Buckeye Insurance 
Company, of (Jleveland, two years. In 1870 he 
became connected with the Citizens' Savings & 
Loan Association. From time to time he has 
been promoted, and has filled every position 
from the lowest up to the one he now occupies, 
the duties of which he assumed January 1, 
1894. He has been a director of the association 
since January, 1889. 

Mr. Corner's other official positions are as 
follows: He is treasurer of the Cleveland Bethel 
Union; treasurer of the Bethel Associated 
Charities; treasurer of the Kalamazoo, Alle- 
gan & Grand Rapids Railroad Company; 
registrar of the Cleveland Rolling-mill Com- 
pany; and trustee for numerous funds. He is a 
member of the Chamber uf Conniieroe and of 
St. Paul's Church. 



Mr. Corner is a son of William M. Corner 
and Mary Trow Bassett. The latter was born 
in Massachusetts, December 18, 1818. She 
was educated at Mount Ilolyoke Seminary under 
the noted Mary Lyon, and for many years taught 
a private school in this city,i)efore which she 
was principal of Worthington (Ohio) Seminary 
and Howard University at Washington, District 
of Columbia. She was the mother of two chil- 
dren, the other being Charles Corner of New 
York city. The last years of her life were 
spent in the South, and her death occurred at 
Savannah, Georgia, December 10, 1893. 

November 24, 1884, Mr. Corner married 
Amelia C. Ranney, eldest daughter of Henry C. 
Ranney, of this city. They have two sons. 



d(OHN A. ZANGERLE, one of the many 
! members of the Cleveland bar, and a 
member of the law firm of Thieme & Zan- 
gerle, of Nos. 618, 619 and 620 Society for 
Savings Building, was born at Hancock, Michi- 
gan, April 12, 1865. His parents were Adam 
and Marie (Ritter) Zangerle, both natives of 
Hesse Darmstadt, Germany. Adam Zangerle 
was a mason and contractor at Hancock, Michi- 
gan, and in 1866 removed to Cleveland and en- 
gaged in the wholesale liquor business on On- 
tario street, in which he is at present engaged. 
The gentleman whose name heads this brief 
outline was reared in Cleveland and was edu- 
cated in the public schools. In passing through 
the course of the high school he stood fair in 
rank and graduated president of his class. After 
leaving school he engaged in mercantile life in 
the wholesale drug house of Benton, Myers & 
Company, where he spent two years. He next 
engaged in the music-printing business and 
continued in it about two years. AVhile engaged 
in that line he desired to prepare himself for 
the legal profession, and in order to secure 
necessary money he taught night school for four 
years, during which period he was studying law 
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OUTABOOA COUNTY. 



1891, he was admitted to tlie bar and immedi- 
ately went into the office of Mr. Thieme, and a 
year later formed a partnership with him. 

He early conceived the idea that politics 
would be a fruitful mode of advertising and 
bringing himself before the people, and in 
April, 1891, he was elected as a Democrat 
from a heavy Kepublican district, as a member 
of the Board of Education, entering as the 
youngest member of the board. Since that 
time he has been quite active and has been en- 
gaged more or less in politics; is at present 
Chairman of the Democratic Central Commit- 
tee of the county, having been chosen to that 
place in 1893. He has been chairman of vari- 
ous political organizations and committees. He 
is also a member of numerous social and ath- 
letic organizations, — Cleveland Grays, Cleve- 
land Gesangverein, Socialer Turn Verein, Lake- 
side Cycling Clul), and other social and athletic 
organizations. 



LM. SOUTHERN, a representative citizen 
I of Cleveland and one of the most eminent 
1 builders, iirst became a resident here as 

early as 18B9, brought here by his parents when 
a young child. He was born in Ithaca, New 
York, in 1837, a son of William and Anna 
(Pixley) Southern, natives respectively of Mary- 
land and Connecticut. His father was of Ger- 
man ancestry, and his mother of New England. 
On their first arrival in Ohio they located in 
Rockport for a short time, and then came to 
Cleveland. The father was a farmer, and also a 
dealer in staves, shipping to England. He fol- 
lowed this business extensively for many years 
and died in 1871, at Eockport, Ohio, at the age 
of seventy-one years. His wife survived until 
1876, when she died al the age of sixty-nine 
yearti. Of their nine children who grew to 
maturity, six are living. A record of all is as 
follows: Julia, widow of Peter Bowers, a resi- 
dent of Rockport; "William, who died of in- 
juries received in the war, in which he had 
served throughout its entire period, in light ar- 



tillery; Lemuel M., whose name heads this 
sketch; Christopher, a fruit-grower of Rock- 
port; Mary, who married a man named Ander- 
son and is now deceased; Joseph, a gardener 
and orchardist of Kockport; Elvira, now Mrs. 
John Ingram, of Cleveland; Julius, a mer- 
chant and fruit-raiser of Cleveland; and Susie, 
now the wife of Peter Clampitt, of East 
Cleveland. 

Mr. L. M. Southern, our subject, was reared 
and educated in Cleveland. A part of his edu- 
cation he received in a log school-house on the 
West Side. While his schooling was limited, 
he has always had the talent of close observa- 
tion, which has enabled him to obtain in the 
school of practical life the most important ele- 
ments of a useful education, having been one 
of the best and most active business men of tiie 
city. When but eight years of age he began 
to provide for himself, and up to the present 
time he has never received a dollar excepting 
what he has earned. Indeed, he really earned 
his first money when but five years of age, — a 
six-pence. His employment, especially in 
earlier life, has been various, — making hay, ped- 
dling fruit, cutting wood, etc., and he has 
passed through all the hardships generally in- 
dent to pioneer life, and experiencing also many 
of its pleasures, as, for food he often had veni- 
son, wild turkey, wild honey, etc., and for free- 
dom all that the unorganized West afforded at 
that day. He has visited the red man in his 
tent, has hunted deer and turkey in what is now 
the very center of this great city, and his home 
was, of course, the familiar old-fashioned log 
cabin. 

When but thirteen years of age he exhibited 
the spirit of trade and business. Having 
saved up |12.50 by working for only ten and 
twelve and a half cents a day, he invested it in 
a ten days' option on four acres of land, and 
within four days afterward he sold three and a 
half acres of it for what the entire lot cost him. 
On the remaining half acre he built a house and 
cleared §275 on the whole deal. Between four- 
teen and fifteen years of age he began to learn 



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the builders' trade, working at first for two 
years for two shillings per day and board. 
After completing his apprenticeship he followed 
his trade some twenty years longer, erecting 
many buildings in Cleveland, — '-from the bot- 
tom of the cellar to the top of the chimney." 
And he was a fine mechanic. During the 
above period he also dealt in real estate. He 
was the first to " allot " land in Cleveland, the 
first to make improvements on allotments, the 
first to conceive the idea of grading the streets 
and curbing atid paving them, of laying side- 
walks, putting in a water and sewer system, 
etc. He was the first man north of the Ohio 
river to introduce the practice of paving streets 
witli brick; was the first to pave a residence 
street in this city outside of Case avenue. He 
also opened and led in the real-estate business 
here, reviving it on three distinct occasions 
from a stagnant condition. He was the first to 
inaugurate a heavy real-estate business in 
Cleveland. He bought the largest allotment 
ever purchased in this city or county, paying 
for it §335,000, whicli plat he soon disposed of 
for over 8500,000. He gave a check for $10,- 
000 down, and in five months paid the balance 
out of the sale of the property. This was in 
the fall of 1879. Between 1S67 and 1873 Mr. 
Southern accumulated $175,000, but the finan- 
cial stress setting in during the latter year find- 
ing him loaded with real estate, resulted in his 
loss of every dollar of the accumulation. Dur- 
ing that painful period of monetary stringency 
he lay quiet, awaiting opportunity', excepting 
that he improved his time somewliat in anotlier 
direction, by prospecting for minerals in Colo- 
rado, in which he located several valuable 
mines, some of the best in the State, but, being 
unable for want of funds to develop them, his 
bonds finally ran out. Since that time the 
mines have increased in value, — away up into 
the millions, — ^and he has never realized a dollar 
from them. For two of the poorest of those 
mines Senator Jones paid $200,000. The result 
shows the superior judgment of Mr. Southern 
in locatinsr mines'. 



One of his heaviest real-estate deals was his 
purchase of a lot on Euclid avenue, for $100,- 
000, and in just three days he sold the same for 
$107,500! He has drawn a single personal 
check for $156,000. During the year 1880 he 
did a business of over a million dollars. He 
has handled more property than any other man 
in the county, and his name appears upon more 
deeds than that of any other man in this county. 
He has made upward of fifty allotments, — over 
3,000 acres altogether, — in this city. He platted 
the Wade Park allotment of fifty acres, where 
he spent upward of $150,000 in improvements. 
In order to consummate one transaction he 
promised his New York customer immediate 
transportation as soon as the business was set- 
tled, if he missed the train, — which proved to 
be the case, when Mr. Southern hired a special 
train and sent his client on his way rejoicing. 
He has been a close attendant to his business, 
only occasionally making trips from the city, 
and they were short. Being a fine mechanic, 
he has originated and executed many improve- 
ments in building. He originated the double- 
cased pipe and double wrapping with asbestos 
paper. Of the thousands of houses he has 
built in Cleveland he has taken a personal in- 
terest in each one to make them as convenient 
and comfortable as possible. 

In his political views Mr. Southern is a lie- 
publican, with a high sense of the "moral" in 
government. He is kind, considerate and 
patient; has never foreclosed a mortgage, 
although he has taken thousands. He is lil)eral 
to a fault. He has donated liberally to the 
building of every church in the city. Practi- 
cally he emphasizes the maxim that what one 
does he should do well. Being pleasantly dis- 
posed, he enjoys life and the friendship of thou- 
sands of fellow-citizens, and is an affable 
gentleman. 

December 20, 1861, is the date of his mar- 
riage to Miss Libbie Gale, who was born in 
East Cleveland, a daughter of Martin Gale, who 
came from Plattsburg, New York. Mr. and 
Mrs. Southern have two children: William M., 



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engaged in real estate and married to Miss 
Stanley; and Kittle M-, now the wife of Walter 
King, an optician. The family are Methodists 
in their religious connections, and they reside 
in an elegant mansion on Lamont street, at the 
east end of the city, which location has been 
their liome for thirty-five years. 



THOMAS JOPLING.— The late Tliomas 
Jopling was one of Cleveland's successful 
and deservedly honored citizens: by his 
death the city lost one of the ablest finan- 
ciers, a leading manufacturer, and a man who 
in addition to splendid business talent, was dis- 
tinguished for his unswerving integrity and 
genial kindliness. He was closely identified 
with several important industrial and financial 
institutions, Ijeing at the time of his death one 
of the managing directors and financial man- 
ager of the Otis Steel Company, wliich is one of 
the largest concerns of the kind in the country 
and of which he had been the leading spirit for 
many years. 

Mr. Jopling was born in Northumberland 
county, England, on the 10th of January, 1841, 
of poor but well connected parentage. Upon 
the untimely death of his fatlier through an ac- 
cident, seven young children were left without 
provision for their rearing and education, but 
were adopted by relatives. Fortunately for 
Mr. Jopling, he was taken in charge by his 
mother's brother, Mr. Thomas Halliday, a man 
of unusually fine character, without children of 
his own, and successfully engaged in the man- 
agement of extensive coal and iron concerns. 
He gave the fatherless lad a good, plain En- 
glish education and then took him into his own 
office to commence his business training. After 
a couple of years, Mr. Halliday obtained for 
his young nephew another position, where he 
would have opportunities of acquiring more 
varied experience; it was in the office of the 
Sheepbridge Iron Works, then managed by the 
late William Fowler, M. P., a brother of Sir 



John Fowler, the eminent English civil engi- 
neer who built the London underground rail- 
way. The young man remained in the oflSce of 
the Sheepljridge Iron Works upward of four 
years, and in that time laid the foundation for 
the splendid business career which followed. 

In 1864 he was married to Miss Mary Clay- 
ton, a daughter of John Clayton, a well known 
colliery proprietor and a highly respected citi- 
zen of the ancient town of Chesterfield. In the 
same year Mr. Jopling gave up his position 
under Mr. Fowler and came to the United States 
as a country of larger opportunities than his 
native land. He had a fancy for farming, and 
purchased a small farm near Enon Valley, in 
Pennsylvania. However, as he was without 
practical knowledge of agriculture it required 
but a brief experience to demonstrate to his 
satisfaction that farming was not his vocation, 
and he determined to return to his old employ- 
ment at the first suitable opportunity. It was 
fortunate for himself, family and the city of 
Cleveland that he so determined, as otherwise 
the talents of a brilliant financier and a man of 
extraordinary business capacity must have been 
lost to the world. He obtained a position in 
the office of the late Freeman Butts, a coal op- 
erator in Pennsylvania, once a I'esident of tiiis 
city. Later on Mr. Jopling formed a partner- 
ship with William A. Rabinson, also of Cleve- 
land, and opened a coal mine near Palestine, 
Ohio. 

AVhile thus engaged he met and became ac- 
quainted with C. A. Otis, founder and propri- 
etor of the Otis Iron Works of Cleveland. Mr. 
Otis is above all things a judge of men, and, 
quickly noticing Mr. Jopliug's fine business 
capacity, he made him a proposition to come to 
Cleveland and take charge of his office. Mr. 
Otis's offer was accepted and Mr. Jopling came 
to the city, — a step that was never regretted by 
either gentleman. Mr. Jopling had charge of 
the office of the Iron Works until tliey were 
sold, and then became a partner with Mr. Otis 
in the erection of the new Otis Steel and Iron 
(Company's) AVorks, which went into operation 



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about 1874, with Mr. Jopling as financial man- 
ager. Later he was instrumental in success- 
fully negotiating and completing the sale of 
this large concern to an English syndicate. He 
retained an interest in the works, and was made 
one of the managing directors of the new com- 
pany, — a position he held at the time of his 
death. 

Mr. Jopling was one of the founders, and 
president, of the American Wire Works, an- 
othei- of Cleveland's large and important manu- 
factories. He was vice president of the East 
End Savings Bank, and a director of the Citi- 
zens' Savings and Loan Association. He was 
largely interested in the Mutual and Orient 
lines of lake boats, also in the Cleveland street 
railways and various other enterprises in this 
and other cities. His wonderfully clear and di- 
rect business insight, his sound and experi- 
enced judgment, as well as his well known dis- 
position to render aid and lend his influence to 
all worthy purposes, caused him to be freely 
called upon for advice and assistance, and also 
became the means by which he acquired various 
interests in many corporations and companies. 
At all times he was prompt in aiding and 
abetting all movements looking toward the 
building up of his adopted city, and increasing 
her industrial and commercial importance. 

Mr. Jopling possessed an eminently sympa- 
thetic and charitable nature. Never was appeal 
made in vain to him by the poor and needy, or 
the discouraged and distressed. He gave liber- 
ally to charitable and benevolent institutions of 
all denominations, making no distinction in 
creeds; yet so unostentatious was his charity 
that many of his donations were unknown even 
to his family until after his death! He was 
brought up in the church, but after leaving 
England did not formally belong to any con- 
gregation. He followed the teachings of his 
youth, and his life was that of a Christian, 
though not a church member. He was inter- 
ested in public affairs to the extent of being a 
good citizen, but took no active part in politics. 
He was one of the most genial of men, with a 



happy disposition, full of life and capacity for 
enjoyment. He liked good company, and was 
fond of entertaining his friends. He was a 
member of the Union, Roadside and Country 
Clubs; but it was in his own home and sur- 
rounded by his family that he found his 
greatest pleasure. He was a devoted husband 
and a loving and indulgent father, joining his 
children when young in their childish games 
with all the zest of a boy, and finding his best 
recreation with them when grown up. He was 
one of those men who possess the power in a 
singular degree of endearing themselves to their 
associates, old or young. It may be truly said 
of him that " whatsoever he did was done with 
his whole heart," were it playing a game with 
a child, spending a sociable evening with 
friends, entertaining strangers, performing 
business engagements and work of all degrees 
of importance, giving timely advice and help. 
No matter what he did, it was done witii a free 
heart, a clear head and a strong hand. 

His vacations he usually spent in travelling 
with his family in Europe, not following the 
beaten tracks but journeying leisurely from 
place to place, and resting in chosen spots as 
fancy or inclination prompted. Mr. Jopling's 
three children are: two sons, namely, Reginald 
F; Jopling and Thomas Halliday Jopling; and 
a daughter, Florence M., married to Mr. Fran- 
cisco Escobar, a Spanish South American. 

Mr. Jopling died at his residence on Willson 
avenue, on the 18th day of February, 1894, of 
heart failure, at the comparatively early age of 
fifty-three, and is buried in Lake View ceme- 
tery. 



EV. J. C. HORNBERGER, editor of the 
LivingEpistle and of the English Sunday- 
school literature of the Evangelical As- 
sociation, No. 265 Woodland avenue, 
Cleveland, Ohio, was born in Lancaster county, 
Pennsylvania, September 3, 1845. 

His parents were John and Sarah (Killian) 
Hornberger, natives of Bennsylvania; and his 



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grandfatlier was Jacob Hornberger, who served 
as a teamster in the war of the Revolution. 
John Hornberger and his wife were members 
of the Lutheran Clnircli, and were people whose 
honorable and upright lives won for them the 
respect and esteem of all. Both have long since 
passed away, he in 1863, at the age of fifty-live 
years, and she in 1862, also at the age of fifty- 
live. They were the parents of ten children, 
five of whom are still living. J. C. was the 
eighth born. The oldest son, Zacharia, was a 
minister in the Evangelical Association, and 
died in 1893, at the age of sixty years. The 
third son, Sebastian, a veteran of the Civil war, 
died in Cincinnati, Ohio, in July, 1893, at the 
age of fifty-eight years. All of the family now 
living, with the exception of our subject, are 
residents of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. 

J. C. Hornberger was educated in the public 
schools and in the seminary of a neighboring 
town. After teaching four terms in the public 
schools, he began preaching. That was in 
1865. For two years he was on a circuit, after 
which he was a stationed preacher for thirteen 
years, filling successively the following appoint- 
ments: Mahanoy City, Pine Grove, Berrysburg, 
Harrisburg and Lebanon. Then he was elected 
Presiding Elder and served nearly eight years, 
until he was elected to his present position by 
the General Conference of the Evangelical 
Association, held at Buffalo in 1887. He was 
re-elected in 1891, his term to expire in 1895. 
Mr. Hornberger was a member of the General 
Conferences of 1875, 1879, 1883, 1887, and 1891, 
being the youngest member of that body in 
1875. He served as English secretary of the 
General Conference of 1875 and 1879, and the 
last named year was elected Fraternal Delegate 
to the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. 
Mr. Hornberger was married, September 17, 
1867, to Miss Christie Etzweiler, daughter of 
George and Mary Etzweiler, of Millersburg, 
Pennsylvania. He and his wife have four chil- 
dren living, viz.: Mary Mabel, an accomplished 
young lady, who occupies the position of stenog- 
rapher in the publishing house with which her 



father is connected; Edith Eebecca, a medical 
student in the Homeopathic Hospital College, 
Cleveland; Sarah Killian, in the Cleveland high 
school; and Robert Zacharias, employed as 
book-binder in the publishing house. All the 
family are members of the same church. 

The personal appearance of Mr. Hornberger 
is that of a gentleman of fine physique, medium 
size, and somewhat inclined to corpulency. He 
is one of those men whose outside appear- 
ances indicate a genial mind and kindly dis- 
position. The dark eyes, shining forth under 
heavy eyebrows, the well-formed and massive 
head, and broad chin, indicate the firmness of 
his character. This has been a characteristic in 
his ministerial life, as a pastor of large con- 
gregations as well as Presiding Elder of dis- 
tricts, and other ofiicial capacities in which he 
has served the church. In all these different 
positions he administered the duties of his office 
to the satisfaction of both his superiors in the 
church and those who were under his super- 
vision. He is a close observer, and his keen 
eye soon detected any irregularity that may have 
existed on his district. 

"While yet serving as Presiding Elder he was 
the editor of a Homiletic Monthly, which was 
received by the ministers of his church, as well 
as by the ministers of other denominations, with 
much appreciation, and was regarded as a work 
of high order. This fact evidently was a rec- 
ommendation to the General Conference of his 
church, which in 1887 elected him editor of the 
Living Epistle and English Sunday-school litera- 
ture of the Evangelical Association. As an 
editor he has shown his ability by the able pro- 
ductions of his pen and careful selection from 
his exchanges, and thus he uses his pen and 
shears with equal success. Possibly one reason 
why his labors are so acceptable, is because he 
has kept himself in close touch with the wants 
and needs of his readers, not as a caterer who 
simply desires to gratify, but as a spiritual ad- 
viser who knows the needs of his people and 
cultivates in them a desire for still better things. 
Another reason which may be assigned is the 



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fact that the productions of his fluent pen are 
his convictions and therefore carry with thera 
moral and spiritual force that leave their im- 
prints wherever they are read. 

The church made a wise selection when it in- 
trusted to him the genera! management of the 
Living Epistle and Sunday-scliool literature, 
which has shown a marked improvement in 
every respect during the period of his editor- 
ship. 

As a speaker, Mr. Hornberger is eloquent, 
and has the happy faculty of never tiring a 
congretration. 



NDREW FREESE, formerly a teacher 

and later the Superintendent of the 

^ Cleveland public schools, and residing at 

241 Sawtell avenue, was born in Bangor, 
Maine, in 1816. His parents, Gordon and 
Hannah (Allen) Freese, were married in Deer- 
field, New Hampshire, their native State. The 
father was an excellent farmer, and his farm was 
admitted to be the best one in the township. He 
was a very energetic and industrious man, teach- 
ing by his example that it was a sin to be idle. 
Politically he was an ardent admirer of Andrew 
Jackson and his principles. He died in 1802, 
at the age of eighty-two years. His wife died 
as early as 1826, at the age of forty-years. She 
was a lady of ardent temperament, most gener- 
ous impulses and a very pious member of the 
Free-will Baptist Church. Of their eleven 
cliildren, ten grew to maturity, four sons and 
six daughters, and oiir subject is the only of the 
family now living, but he has a half sister, Mrs. 
Mary Ilam, a widow living in Bangor. Gordon 
Freese, Jr., brother of the Superintendent, was 
a schoolteaclier in Brooksville, Kentucky, for 
nearly twenty years, wiiere he died in 1872. 

Mr. Freese, the sul>ject of this sketch, was 
educated in Maine, attending college about three 
years altogether, but irregularly. He came to 
Cleveland in 1840, engaging at once in teach- 
ing, at the Prospect Street School. The first 



settlers of this place were from Connecticut, 
and, according to tradition, as soon as three 
familes had established themselves here, which 
was about the beginning of this century, they 
started a school for their five children. The 
earliest school mentioned in any record was 
kept by a Mr. Chapman in 1814; but it was 
not until 1836 — the year of the organization 
under the city charter — that any system of pub- 
lic instruction was adopted. In the Prospect 
Street School, in the latter part of the year 1840, 
the number of pupils was 275; teachers — in 
Senior department, boys, Andrew Freese: girls, 
Sophia Converse; in the Primary, boys, Emma 
Whitney; girls, Sarah M. Thayer. 

In the spring of 1846 the mayor of the city, 
George Hoadley, in his inaugural address rec- 
ommended that a high school for boys be 
established, and that the committee on schools 
be authorized to hire suitable rooms and fit them 
up for the temporary accommodation of such a 
school. Rooms were accordingly procured in 
tlie basement of a church located on Prospect 
Street where the Homoeopathic Medical College 
now stands, and Mr. Freese was elected as prin- 
cipal. The school was commenced July 13, 
1846, with thirty-four pupils. 

The best service Mr. Freese ever rendered the 
city was his labors in organizing and setting in 
operation this high school. To prepare for this 
new work, he was allowed" time to visit Boston, 
where his cousin. Prof. Philbrick, was an emi- 
nent teacher, and other New England cities, in 
order to ascertain the latest and best methods 
of teaching, and profit by the advice of the 
most advanced educators. Conversing with the 
eminent Horace Mann, the latter exhorted him 
in this laconic manner: "Orient yourself, young 
man; Orient yourself; then, to quote David 
Crockett, go ahead." 

In 1854 the office of Superintendent of In- 
struction was created, and to it Mr. Freese was 
at once elected; and he brought to that position 
all the wealth of observation garnered thus far 
in a laborious life, and in due time he had 
evolved beauty from chaos. Utility was the 



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ground-work of his successful career as man- 
ager of public schools. As he was strong in 
developing the intellectual faculties of his pu- 
pils, so he was apt and swift in educating the 
teachers nnder him in their work of teachitig. 

He had the superintendency of the city schools 
for ten years, was also County School Examiner 
for nineteen years; and altogether he was en- 
gaged in school work in Cleveland twenty-four 
years. His whole life has been devoted to 
school work. He has visited all the principal 
schools from Bangor, Maine, to San Francisco, 
California. He has visited more schools in this 
country, probably, than any other man living. 
In speaking of Mr. Freese, one of the editors 
of the Cleveland Herald says: " His scholars 
may now be found in almost every State in the 
Union, eminent in all departments. They are 
met with as governors, jui-ists, mechanicians 
and artists." Indeed, it has been remarked that 
were Professor Freese to start for a tour of the 
globe he could be handed around the world 
by his old pupils, scattered everywhere from 
Cleveland to Hong Kong! 

When principal of the high school he re- 
ceived as compensation $500 for forty-four 
weeks' service, and as Superintendent $1,300 a 
year; but a few years ago his salary as teacher 
was $2,500 a year. In 1847 the Western Ee- 
serve University conferred upon him the degree 
of A. M. He has written considerably upon 
educational topics. In politics he is a Repub- 
lican. 

He was married June 17, 1847, to Miss Eliz- 
alieth Merrill, a teacher in Cleveland, one of 
his assistants in the high school. She was born 
in Haverhill, Xew Hampshire, in 1825, gradu- 
ated at the Brooklyn Academy, an institution 
near Cleveland. Sheliadaline literary culture, 
excelled in mathematics, was a proficient in 
rhetoric, and prominent in Chautauqua circles. 
Her " talks" were always interesting, and she 
was much beloved for her amiable and Christian 
character. She died December 3, 1893, leaving 
but one child, Elmina, now the wife of James 
G. Hobbie, an attorney-at-law. The only child 



in the latter family is Andrew Freese Hobbie a 
promising son. Mrs. Hobbie is a good worker 
in school and church affairs. Her husband, 
thougli educated at Amherst College, cannot 
beat her in reading Greek, having read it with 
her grandfather, Rev. Moses Merrill, famous 
in his day as a Greek scholar and an eloquent 
Methodist preaclier. 



DR. A. F. BALDINGER was born in 
Ravenna, Ohio, in 1865. His father was 
born in Switzerland. Coming to this 

country when a small boy, he was soon thrown 
upon his own resources by the death of both of 
his parents. Ho, like most self-made men, 
developed into a strong, upright man. The 
son has inherited mental and moral strength. 
The father was too honest to make money, there- 
fore the son had the making of his own way in 
life. He was ambitious to be educated. His 
father could not pay school bills for him, so he 
worked and studied until he had saved enough 
to go to Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio, and later 
the Baldwin University, Berea, Ohio, where he 
also commenced to read medicine under the 
preceptorship of Dr. A. M. Erwin. 

Dr. Baldinger came to Cleveland in 1886, 
was a student under Dr. G. J. Jones two years, 
and in the spring of 1889 graduated at the 
Homffiopathic Hospital College. At that time 
he passed a competitive examination and re- 
ceived the appointment to the Good Samaritan 
Dispensary for one year. He then opened an 
office in the Scofield Block, where he remained 
three years. In 1891 he moved to 86 Huron 
street, his present address. 

During these years of general practice Dr. 
Baldinger was a close student, developing into a 
specialist and doing much independent think- 
ing, so that when called to lecture before the 
students of the Homceopathic Hospital College 
he gave some very interesting illustrated lec- 
tures on histology, pathology and bacteriology. 
During the present year he has been promoted 
to a professorship. 



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He i6 indefatigable in making researcli, keep- 
ing abreast of the times, and convincing those 
who listen to him that the successful physician 
must always be a student. He has the happy 
faculty of winning tbe confidence of both old 
and young, thus making him one of the leading 
practitioners of the city. His pleasing address, 
courteous manners and scholarly tastes must 
place him in the first rank. 

Dr. Baldinger was married to Miss Carrie 
Haber, of Cleveland, in 1892. 



'Jf^) EV. ROBEET MOTT, pastor of the First 
V^^ German United Evangelical Church, cor- 
II ¥i ner of Erie street and Central avenue, 
V Cleveland, Ohio, was born in Baden, 

Germany, April 13, 1841. 

He is a son of Jacob and Catherine (Muen- 
zer) Mott, natives of Germany. Jacob Mott 
served as quartermaster in the Revolution in 
Baden in 1848. He was one of the Revolution- 
ists, and when the country was subdued he fled 
to Switzerland, and later on to America, land- 
ing here in 1852. He settled on a farm in Erie 
county, Pennsylvania, where he met with pros- 
perity and where he still resides. He and his 
wife were members of the Catholic Church be- 
fore they came to America, l)ut after coming 
here united with the Evangelical Association. 
Mrs. Mott was born in 1815 and died in 1883. 
Mr. Mott is now in his eighty-fourth year. 
Their family of four children are as follows: 
Daniel, a blacksmith, who resides near his father; 
Robert, the subject of this sketch; Josephine, 
wife of Allen Sturgeon, a farmer of Erie county, 
Pennsylvania; and Emma, wife of Albert F. 
Dobler, owner of the famous " Dobler Farm" 
in Erie county. This farm is second to none in 
western Pennsylvania. 

Robert Mott was educated in Germany, a 
Catholic, and had the advantages accorded to 
those destined for the priesthood. He com- 
pleted his studies in Germany and came to 
America in 1859, settling in Erie county, Penn- 



sylvania. Subsequently he studied the English 
language in an academical school there. He 
was received into the Pittsburg Conference of 
the Evangelical Association in 1861, and began 
his ministry in Cleveland, Ohio, remaining here 
one year. Then he preached in Pittsburg and 
Allegheny nine years; in Warren, Pennsylvania, 
four j'ears. Returning to Cleveland, he became 
assistant editor of The Christliche Botschafter, 
which position he filled four years; and for the 
past ten years he has been assistant editor of 
the German Sunday-school literature of the 
Evangelical Association. He has had charge 
of an independent Ev^angelical Church for over 
five years. 

Some years ago one of his charges was in the 
coal regions of Pennsylvania, and while there 
he received a notice to leave town within twenty- 
four hours, the notice containing a skull and 
crossbones. This was in the Molly-McGuire 
times of that locality. Be it said he did not 
leave. The papers, the mayor of the city and 
the best element of the locality were on his 
side; yet those were days that tried men's souls. 

In 1882 Mr. Mott returned to Europe and 
spent three months' vacation there. While on 
his way back, August 8, 1882, the vessel in 
which he sailed — the Moselle — was shipwrecked 
off Lizard Point, at Land's End, and went to 
the bottom. The passengers and crew were all 
saved by the efficient service of the life-saving 
station. The vessel struck a rock in the fog at 
8 o'clock in the morning, they were taken back 
to Falmouth by a coast vessel at 5 o'clock in 
the evening, and from there were sent back to 
Southampton, where two weeks later they sailed 
again for America. 

Mr. Mott was married in October, 1864, to 
Miss E. E. Gensheimer, daughter of Joseph and 
Mollie Gensheimer, of Erie county, Pennsylva- 
nia. They have two daughters, Josephine and 
Lottie. Miss Josephine is a popular and suc- 
cessful teacher in Cleveland, and is a writer of 
some note. During her recent absence in 
Europe she frequently wrote for the papers 
published by the Evangelical Church at Cleve- 



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land. Miss Lottie is attending the Cleveland 
high school. The family are all members of 
Evangelical Chnrch. 

Although the silver threads are lining his 
shockj hair, and he has passed his fiftieth mile- 
stone, Mr. Mott still enjoys the strength and 
vigor of youth. He is of imposing physique 
and possesses a great amount of natural magnet- 
ism. He has the faculty of always seeing the 
bright side of things and enjoying the happy 
side of life. 

As a writer he wields a fluent pen, and lias 
made a success of his editorial work. He is a 
close observer, and his editorials on the ques- 
tions of the day are keen and sharp, interspersed 
with commendation or sarcasm, either of which 
he applies in such a graceful manner that even 
those who are hit recognize it as a genial tap of 
friendship. 

As a preacher he has been successful in build- 
ing up congregations, building churches and 
paying for them as he built them, which reflects 
great credit on him as a financial manager. 



D. CHAMPLIK, A. B., M. D., phy- 
sician and specialist, located at No. 455 
41 Clark avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, holds 
rank with the leading members of his 
profession in this city. 

Dr. Champlin was born at Grand Gulf, Mis- 
sissippi, November 19, 1853, seventh in a fam- 
ily of ten children, of whom he and his sister 
Grace are the only ones now living. His par- 
ents, Joseph W. and Harriet M. Champlin, 
natives of New York State, removed from there 
to Mississippi in 1838, and for many years his 
father was engaged in the mercantile business 
in Grand Gulf, Mississippi, having the largest 
store in the country and doing an annual busi- 
ness of $500,000, up to the time of the war, 
1861. They came to Cleveland in 1889, and 
have since made their home in this city. 

The subject of our sketch received a high- 
school education at New Orleans, taking the 



degree of A. B., and his medical education in 
Cleveland. He graduated in the old Cleveland 
Homeopathic Hospital in the class of 1882. 
Previous to his graduation he practiced in Co- 
lumbus, Ohio. Afterward he located in Cleve- 
land, and here his professional efforts have been 
attended with success, his specialty being ner- 
vous diseases. He was lecturer on hygiene in 
the Cleveland Medical College for one year, one 
year on microscopy, and one year on nervous 
diseases. Having resigned the chair of Ner- 
vous Diseases in the Cleveland Medical College, 
he was tendered the same chair in the Cleveland 
University of Medicine and Surgery and made 
professor of Nervous Diseases, which chair he 
now fills. 

Dr. Champlin was married in 1881, to Miss 
Helen L. Kent, M. D., daughter of Arad Kent, 
of Akron, Ohio, one of its most prominent citi- 
zens, who was Sheriff two terms and Mayor two 
terms. They have an adopted daughter, Jessie 
by name. The Doctor's parents belong to the 
Episcopal Church in the South, while he and 
his wife are members of the Pilgrim Congrega- 
tional Church of Cleveland. 

He is independent in his political views, and, 
indeed, gives little attention to political issues, 
his whole time and attention being absorbed in 
his profession. That his abilities have been 
recognized and appreciated is demonstrated by 
his long connection with the college of which he 
is a graduate. He and liis estimable wife hold 
a high place in the esteem of tlieir many friends 
in this city, they being alike popular in church 
and social circles. 



B. SPRIGGS, the general freight agent 
of the New York, Chicago & St. Louis 



r 

\^ Railroad Company, was born in Rocking- 
ham, England, in November, 1834. His 
parents were Avery Burdett and Dinah Spriggs, 
who had two children, both being sons. 

The subject of this sketch, after receiving a 
liberal education, was early in life called into 



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railroad service. The outline of his career is 
an interesting one, showing a steady rise from 
the lowest to the highest position in the freight 
department. At the age of eighteen he entered 
the service of the London & Noi-thwestern Rail- 
way as junior clerk in the freight department 
in Rockingham. After a year's service in that 
position he was made corresponding clerk at 
Stafford Station. Two years of this work was 
suflicient to show his employers that he had the 
right stuff in him, and he was made correspond- 
ing clerk and chief accountant at Wolverhamp- 
ton. In 1858 he was further promoted to the 
chief clerkship of the district goods manager's 
office, remaining in that position until 1862, 
when he accepted, by direct invitation from the 
management in Canada, the position of freight 
agent at Hamilton, Ontario, on the Great West- 
ern Railway of Canada. From 1862 untill870 
his career was a series of steadily ascending 
steps, being promoted from the position of 
freight agent at Hamilton to that of through 
freight agent, and finally general freight agent, 
leaving the service on a change of management. 
From 1871 to 1877 he was assistant general 
freight agent of the Baltimore & Ohio system, 
and developed the business of the Chicago divis- 
ion of that road from its opening in 1874. But 
in 1877, on the retiring of the management 
whose regime he had left in 1870, Mr. Spriggs 
returned to the Great Western Railway as gen- 
eral traffic manager, with headquarters at Ham- 
ilton, Ontario. In the summer of 1882, the 
Great Western and Grand Trunk being then 
about to amalgamate, the executive officers of 
the Nickel Plate began casting about for a man 
who could develop and successfully manage the 
freight department of the new road so that the 
rival Vanderbilt lines might be fully cognizant 
of the Nickel Plate's existence, Mr. Spriggs 
was the man chosen for this great work, and in 
August, 1882, he accepted the position, which 
he has satisfactorily held, up to date. 

Quiet, genial, good-humored, never in a hurry 
or flustered, he nevertheless manages to capture 
a full share of business, despite the heavy handi- 



cap placed upon the Nickel Plate by the older 
lines. In the Central Traffic Association, Mr. 
Spriggs is a leading spirit, being on the follow- 
ing standing committees of the freight commit- 
tee: Rules and regulations; live stock; pack- 
ing-houpe products; grain and grain products; 
oil; paving brick; fire-brick clay and moulding 
sand; lime; relations with western roads; rela- 
tions with trunk lines; East-bound percentage 
basis; and lake and rail differentials, being 
chairman of the last named committe. At the 
last meeting of the executive board of the Lack- 
awanna fast freight line Mr. Spriggs was elected 
its chairman for the tenth consecutive year. In 
his official capacity he travels a great deal, aver- 
aging about 25,000 miles a year, and in a recent 
year traveled as much as 32,000 miles. 

Mr. Spriggs is not only one of the most 
thoroughly informed men in the country on 
railway matters, but also possesses literary abil- 
ity of a high order. He is a delightful enter- 
tainer, both with material hospitality and a 
never failing supply of ready wit and humor, 
and has an accumulated fund of information, 
gained by years of extensive travel, varied read- 
ing and keen observation. He is a firm believer 
in and advocate of civil service in railway ad- 
ministration, and many men holding advanced 
positions to-day thank Mr. Spriggs for a friendly 
lift on the road to success. 



'ipTl) E. SKEEL, M. D., a practicing physi- 
Y^^ cian with an office on Pearl, street, this 
11 »i city, was born February 9, 18(59, in the 
v city of New York. His father, F. 

A. Skeel, of this city, is a builder by trade. 

When Dr. Skeel was in his youth his parents 
removed to the city of Cleveland, and in the 
schools of this city Dr. Skeel received his liter- 
ary education, and he completed his scholastic 
training here in 1S85. He immediately took 
up the study of medicine, at Ann Arbor, Mich- 
igan, where he graduated in 1890. At college, 
he gave special attention to obstetrics, and in 




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bis practice he has been deservingly successful 
as an obstetrician, and as a general practitioner 
he holds a very appropriate rank in his profes- 
sion. 

He was married July 12, 1893, to Alva Boep- 
ple, of this city. He is a member of the Cuy- 
alioga County, Ohio State, and Cleveland Med- 
ical Societies, and has contributed articles to 
medical journals. 



ON. AMOS TOWNSEND.— The Hon- 



orable Amos Townsend, ex-Member of 



H 

11 4j Congress from the Cleveland District, 
^ occupies a prominent place among that 

city's representative business men and citizens. 

He was born near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in 
1831. His ancestors were in the main farmers 
by vocation, and those on his mother's side were 
distinguished in the American Revolution. 
Aaron Townsend, his father, was born in Penn- 
sylvania, and his ancestors were Quakers who 
settled at Germantown, Pennsylvania, when 
they first came to America, during the time of 
William Penn. 

Mr. Amos Townsend was given a liberal edu- 
cation, and at the age of fifteen years, after leav- 
ing school, began life for himself by taking a 
position as clerk in a store at Brownsville, in 
his native State. Here he remained during four 
years, and then came to Mansfield, Ohio, where 
he formed a partnership with N. B. Hogg, and 
under the firm name of A. Townsend & Com- 
pany engaged in general merchandising. 

During the trouble in Kansas, Congress ap- 
pointed a committee to investigate and make 
report on the condition of affairs in that Terri- 
tory, and the Hon. John Sherman secured 
the appointment of Mr. Townsend as Marshal 
of the Committee, and with the same he visited 
Kansas. The position was fraught with delicate 
duties and responsibilities, but he performed 
them in such a manner as to merit the approval 
of the contending factions. 

In 1858 Mr. Townsend removed to Cleveland 
and took a position as salesman in the wholesale 



grocery house of Gordon, McMillan & Company, 
where he remained until 1862, when he be- 
came a member of the firm of Edward, Iddings 
& Company, which was engaged in the same 
business. The following year the death of Mr. 
Iddings occurred, and the firm became that of 
Edwards, Townsend & Company. This firm 
underwent changes in its personnel a few years 
later, and in 1887 the name of it became that of 
William Edwards & Company, Mr. Townsend 
retaining his interest in it, and is at present one 
of the senior members. The firm of William 
Edwards & Company is one of the largest whole- 
sale grocery houses in the West, its history hav- 
ing been one of uniform progress and succ3ss. 
Mr. Townsend's other business interests are va- 
ried and important. He is a member of the 
board of directors of the Mercantile Bank and 
the Citizens' Savings and Loan Association, two 
of Cleveland's well known financial institutions. 
Mr. Townsend's political career began in the 
spring of IStio, when he was elected on the Re- 
publican ticket to a seat in the City Council of 
Cleveland, a position to which he was re elected 
five consecutive terms, making a service of ten 
years continuously, seven of which he was Pres- 
ident of that body. He was a member of the 
Ohio Constitiitional Convention in 1873, whei-e 
he served with credit, and in October, 1876, he 
was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth 
Congress from the Cleveland District, which at 
that time included all of Cuyahoga county, giv- 
ing him a constituency of a quarter of a million 
of people. During that session of Congress he 
was a member of several important committees, 
and introduced a number of bills which became 
laws largely through his efforts. His services 
as a member of Congress were indorsed in 1878 
and 1880 by re-election by largely increased 
majorities. In the Forty-fifth Congress, as a 
member of the committee on Post Offices and 
Post Roads, he introduced a bill regulating the 
postal railway mail service, fixing the salaries 
and defining the duties of clerks, and also intro- 
duced another and similar bill in relation to the 
letter carriers, both of which became laws, a'ld 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



their provisions are substantially the law on those 
subjects at the present time. Daring his terms 
he served as a member of the committee on 
Commerce, and also as chairman of the com- 
mittee on Railroads and Canals. 

In behalf of appropriations for his district he 
was most tireless and uniformly successful. He 
secured continuous liberal appropriations for the 
Cleveland breakwater and harbor, and for the 
enlargement and improvement of the Govern- 
ment buildings at Cleveland, and for the im- 
pi'oveinent of the public service of this district. 
In the Forty-sixth Congress a very able report 
adverse to the bridging of the Detroit river was 
made by Mr. Townsend, which was a most im- 
portant document, and which defeated the meas- 
ure, and to him is navigation greatly indebted 
for the present freedom of that great water 
highway from obstruction. He presented a 
bill from the committee on Commerce on the 
Life-Saving Service, which was passed, and also 
introduced two bills on Inter-State Commerce, 
and one on Merchant Marine. He introduced and 
secured the passage of the ''Steamboat Bill," a 
measure modifying the general law governing 
the bridging of the Ohio river, and presented an 
adverse report on the building of the Hennepin 
canal, also contributing largely to the defeat of 
that proposed measure. He was a warm friend 
of the Union Veterans, and many of them are 
now enjoying pensions which he labored zeal- 
ously to secure, many of which were special acts 
of Congress. 

Mr. Townsend was known in Congress as a 
"working member." Early and late he was to 
be found at his desk on the floor or in the com- 
mittee room, and his capacity for work was fre- 
quently a suljject of remark among the mem- 
bers. His reports and speeches were prepared 
with much care and labor, and were always in- 
telligent and to the point, exhibiting a thorough 
knowledge of the subject in hand. They were 
uniformly received with high favor by the ablest 
members, and were given wide circulation. 

In the fall of 1882 Mr. Townsend was ur- 
gently solicited to stand for re-nomination and 



re-election, and although success was almost if 
not quite a foregone conclusion, he declined, 
setting forth his reasons for so doing in an able 
public letter. 

Mr. Townsend is a polished, scholarly gentle- 
man, of good personal appearance, and easy of 
approach. He is possessed of strong convictions, 
clear foresight and keen and unerring judgment, 
and is a thorough business man. He is warm- 
hearted and generous, a fine conversationalist, 
and a most pleasant and agreeable companion. 
He has a wide circle of friends and business 
acquaintances, and is highly esteemed both as a 
man and citizen. As a member of Cleveland's 
Park Commission, a position he holds at the 
present time, he has given ample evidence of 
his progressiveness in the matter of improving 
and beautifying the Forest City and perpetuat- 
ing her claim to being one of the most beautiful 
cities in the Union. He is a member of the 
Union Club, and of Webb Chapter and Oriental 
Commandery of the Masonic order. 



DR. GEORGE F. LEICK, the jovial 
I Health Officer of the (Jity of Cleveland, 
— ' was born in this city, March 9, 1856. 
His primary and preparatory education was ob- 
tained in the grammar and high schools. At 
sixteen years of age he went abroad to Switzer- 
land and entered the Polytechnic School at 
Zurich, and when properly prepared entered the 
University of Zurich, completing his four-years 
course and graduating in 1877. Upon return 
to Cleveland the Doctor engaged in business 
with the American Wood Preserving Company, 
being superintendent and treasurer of the com- 
pany. After two years he severed his couec- 
tion with this concern and executed a pre-ar- 
ranged plan by entering the Western Reserve 
Medical College, where hegraduated in 1885, and 
he afterward took a post-graduate course in New 
York city, being connected with the hospital 
service of the surgical department of the Ger- 
man Dispensary, and attending lectures at dif- 



CUTAHOOA COUNTY. 



ferent colleges. His first experience as a prac- 
ticing physician was in New York city, where 
lie opened an office and remained a year and 
a half. 

Upon his return to Cleveland he opened an 
office in this city, and has since been actively 
engaged in tlie practice of his profession. He 
is a member of the County, Cleveland and Ohio 
State Medical Societies. 

For three years Dr. Leick was demonstrator 
of anatomy and lecturer on chemistry in the 
Western Reserve Medical College. For seven 
years he was visiting surgeon for St. Alexis' 
Flospital, and the past year he has been a mem- 
ber of the staff as consulting surgeon. 

Dr. Leick has for many years been an active 
worker in behalf of the Democracy in Cuya- 
hoga county, serving on the city and county ex- 
ecutive committees. He was appointed to his 
present office by Director of Police Poilner in 
the spring of 1893, entering upon the duties of 
his office in May. He was one of the incorpo- 
rators of the German American Bank and was 
a director, is president of the Cremation Society 
of Cleveland, president of the United German 
Societies, and is a life member of Corps Tigur- 
inia, of Zurich, Switzerland. 

Dr. Leick is a son of George and Christine 
(Hege) Leick, born in the Palatinate, Germany, 
in 1827 and 1833, respectively. The father 
came to Cleveland in 1849, being a political 
refugee, and died December 21, 1884- He had 
two sons, — Dr. Leick (still unmarried) and 
William S. 



RCHIBALD McLAREN, who is at this 
date Deputy Collector of Internal Reve- 
nue, and who is president of the Stand- 
ard Wire & Iron Company, has been a 
resident of the city of Cleveland since 1880. 
Scotland is his native land. He was born there 
in 1845, s son of James and Janet McLaren. 
He lived in Scotland until thirteen years of 
age, and was educated at Oxford University, 



England. At the age of twenty years he came 
to this country and soon thereafter became aa 
employe of the Atlantic & Great Western and 
later of tlie New York, Pennsylvania &, Ohio 
Railroad, with which latter company he re- 
mained as an employe for a period of twenty- 
three years. He was then appointed to the 
position of Deputy Internal Revenue Collector. 
He has always been an active member of the 
Republican party and for ten years he was 
treasurer of the county central committee. 

He was married in Pennsylvania to Miss 
Jennie E. Sergeant, by whom he has a family of 
four children living, viz.: Wallace, Guy, Archie 
and Charles. 

Mr. McLaren is a member of the Masonic 
fraternity, and is Past Grand Regent of. the 
Royal Arcanum, of Ohio. He was Supreme 
Representative of the order of Knights of 
Honor, and for nine years he served as Royal 
Treasurer of the order of Scottish Clans of 
America and Canada, and is still Treasurer. 
He is very prominently identified with all the 
Scottish societies. 



'\ UGUST BECKER, manager of the Ger- 
l\ man Publishing House of the Reformed 
^ Church of the United States, was born 
in Germany, February 13, 1841, a son of 
A. and Amelia Becker. The father dying in 
Germany, the mother came to this country with 
her only son, Mr. Becker of this sketch. Of 
his two sisters one remains in Germany, and 
the other, Amelia, was the wife of Rev. Kluge, 
who was sent as a missionary to Wisconsin in 
1856, and at that time they and Mr. Becker, 
our subject, came to America, settling at New- 
ton, Wisconsin. Mrs. Becker died in 1861, 
aged fifty-six years. 

Mr. August Becker, whose name introduces 
this brief memoir, completed his .school life in 
a seminary of the Reformed Church near 
Franklin, Sheboygan county, Wisconsin, taught 
school three or four years, and in 1871, in 



GUYAHOOA COUNTT. 



Milwaukee, lie was ordained a minister. His 
first charge was at "Waukegan, Illinois, eight 
years; next, at New Berlin, Waukesha county, 
Wisconsin, two years; Waukegan, Illinois, 
again for two years; and then, in 1882, he 
came to Cleveland and took his present posi- 
tion. The office in 1882 was at 991 Scranton 
avenue, and in 1890 it was removed to its 
present locality, 1134-1138 Pearl street; but 
the publishing concern is of long standing. The 
publisliing house has thirty-two persons on its 
pay-roll, and publishes several papers, besides 
doing all classes of job work. 

Mr. Becker's life has been a busy and event- 
ful one. He has done great good in the church 
of his choice, in the various positions he has 
been called to fill. For many years he has been 
able to give the establishment of which he is 
manager his personal attention, and he has ever 
proved himself to be the right man in the right 
place, in every way a worthy citizen, — such as 
gives character to any business in which he 
might engage. 

Mr. Becker was married in 1866, to Miss 
Augusta Ballhorn, a daughter of John Ball- 
horn, of Wisconsin, and they have one child, 
Henry, who is at present a physician of Charity 
Hospital, Cleveland. He graduated in the 
medical department of the Western Reserve 
University. Mrs. Becker and her son Henry 
also are members of the Reformed Church of 
the United States. 



][fOX. DAVID A. DANGLER. — A man 
who, most conspicuously identified with 

il the industrial life of the Forest City, 
enjoying a marked esteem and popular- 
ity, has been honored with such high prefer- 
ments as stand in evidence of his ability and 
unblemished character, must certainly be 
designated as a representative citizen of Cleve- 
land, and as such be accorded due attention in 
a comparative way in a volume whose province 
is defined as touching the biographical history 
of Cuyahoga county. David A. Dangler, presi- 



dent of the Dangler Stove & Manufacturing 
Company, is a native of the old Keystone State, 
having been born in Lebanon county, Pennsy- 
lvania, December, 1826, the son and one of the 
seven children of Samuel and Sarah Dangler, 
honored and esteemed residents of their com- 
munity, where they passed long and useful lives. 
The former was of German, the latter of Welsh, 
extraction. The father participated actively in 
the war of 1812. 

When quite young our subject came with his 
parents to Stark county, Ohio, and upon the 
parental farmstead he passed his boyhood days, 
learning those lessons of sturdy integrity and 
self-reliance which have been such significant 
factors in insuring his success in life. He 
received a good common-school education, and 
at the age of fifteen years, entered the general 
country store of Isaac Harter, at Canton, Ohio, 
where he served as a clerk for some time. In 
1842, he located at Massillon, Ohio, and in 
1853 came to Cleveland, where he entered into 
partnership with John Tennis, in the hardware 
business. At the outbreak of the late war of 
the Rebellion he became identified with the 
Quartermaster's Department, in which he served 
until the end of that memorable struggle. 

In 1864 he was elected to the Cleveland City 
Council by the Republicans of the Fourth Ward, 
and in 1865 he was elected as a representative 
in the lower house of the State Legislature. 
This position he filled with much ability and 
to the satisfaction of his constituents, as is 
manifest from the fact that upon the expiration 
of his terra in the house he was elected to the 
State Senate, becoming one of the leaders and 
most prominent members of that body and 
accomplishing much for the good of the people 
of the State. Since leaving the Senate Mr. 
Dangler has ever maintained a lively interest in 
political issues, and has contributed much aid to 
his party, lending his influence to the ads-ance- 
ment of public measures and improvements. 

As a business man he occupies a distinguished 
position among the many able men identified 
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CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



along commercial and industrial lines. He has 
been connected with several veiy iinjtortant 
local enterprises whose field of operations has 
far transcended the local limitations. Among 
these may be mentioned the Dangler Vapor 
Stove & Manufacturing Company, of which he 
is president; the Standard Carbon Company and 
the Domestic Manufacturing Company, of both 
of which latter concerns he was chosen presi- 
dent. He held for the past seven years the 
presidency of the Vapor Stove Association, and 
at the present time is president of the Elwood 
Steel Company and of the First National Bank 
of Elwood. That these important associations 
have placed heavy responsibilities upon tlie 
hands of our subject is prima facie, but such is 
the breadth of his intellectuality, his execu- 
tive ability and his comprehensive grasp upon 
multitudinous details that he has been enabled 
to avert the flagging of any enterprise which 
has been conducted under his direction or with 
which he has been concerned. 

Among the manifold industries of the Forest 
City there is perhaps not one that has had more 
pertinent bearing as contributing to the comfort 
and convenience of the public at large, and not 
one that has been more ably and successfully 
conducted than that of the Dangler Stove & 
Manufacturing Company, whose famous Dangler 
vapor and gas stoves and ranges have practically 
superseded all other designs in public favor and 
utilization, as combining in a maximum degree 
the elements of safety, economy, cleanliness, 
efficiency and incidental comfort to the busy 
housewife. The enormous development of the 
lousiness of the company stands as the most 
effective voucher for the superiority of the prod- 
ucts of its factories. The enterprise was estab- 
lished in 1880, by the Dangler Vapor Stove & 
Refining Company, and in 188G the important 
interests involved were brought under the most 
efi'ective control and direction by the organiza- 
tion and incorporation of the present company, 
with a paid up capital stock of $100,000. 

Subsequently, in order to keep pace with the 
constantly increasing demands placed upon 



them by the rapid extension of the business, the 
company increased their manufacturing facilities 
and erected, in 1890, a plant which is one of 
the largest and most thoroughly equipped of the 
sort in the world. The exigencies of the busi- 
ness necessitate the constant retaining of a corps 
of 300 skilled operatives. The executive direc- 
tion of the magnificent enterprise is in the 
hands of our subject and his two sons, as as- 
sociated in a corporation, with the first named 
as president. 

Hon. David A. Dangler enjoys a distinctive 
popularity in the social circles of the city with 
whose interests he has so long been identified. 
In his fraternal relations we note that he is a 
member of the Masonic order and also of the 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 

Mr. Dangler was married in 1847 to Miss 
Judith Clark, daughter of James H. Clark, a 
prominent resident of Massillon. They have 
two sons and one daughter. Charles J. is vice- 
president of the Dangler Stove & Manufactur- 
ing Company; and the second son, D. Edward, 
is secretary and treasurer of the same corpora- 
tion. 



EV. HENRY MATTILL, junior agent 
of the Publishing House of the Evan- 
gelical Association, Nos. 265 to 275 
Woodland avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, was 
born in Ripley county, Indiana, March 2, 1849. 
His parents are Andrew and Barbara (Planalp) 
Mattill, natives respectively of Palatine on the 
Rhine and of Switzerland, the father born in 
1818, and the mother in 1825. They were 
married in Indiana in 1846. Andrew Mattill 
came to this country in 1829, with his parents, 
their first location being in New York city. 
Subsequently they removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, 
where for several years he woi-ked at the trade 
of cooper. Their next move was to Ripley 
county, Indiana, and their settlement was on a 
pioneer farm, their nearest post office being Cin- 
cinnati. That was in 1838. He had the first 



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CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



contract for bridge timber awarded to him by 
the railroad company which built the railroad 
from Cincinnati to Indianapolis — now a part 
of the Big Four system. He also sold cord 
wood, at seventy-five cents per cord, to the same 
company. From Eipley county, Indiana, Mr. 
Mattill and his family removed, in 1858, to 
Iowa, and from there in 1866 to Denver, Mis- 
souri, where he and his wife are still living. 
He has been engaged in farming all this time, 
with the exception of four years spent in the 
milling business. ' That was immediately after 
his removal to Missouri. They have had seven 
children, only two of whom are now living. 
The others, excepting Peter, the youngest, who 
died at the age of twenty years, all passed away 
in early life. Those living are our subject and 
Andrew, the latter being a resident of Falls 
City, Nebraska, and married to Lizzie Hess, of 
Denver, Missouri. 

Henry Mattill received his early education in 
the public schools and has all his life been an 
earnest student. When a young man he taught 
school in Kansas, and later was professor of Ger- 
man literature in Lewis College, Glasgow, Mis- 
souri, three years, during which time he brought 
the department up to a place where it more than 
paid expenses. Prof. H. C. Pritchett, of St. 
Louis, Missouri and H. Tillman, Chief Engi- 
neer of the Great Northern Kailroad, were 
among his pupils. Mr. Mattill was in the min- 
istry at the time, and was elected Presiding 
Elder in his Conference, — Kansas Conference of 
the Evangelical Association, — which necessi- 
tated his resignation in the college. He was 
Presiding Elder from 1875 to 1887, when he 
was elected by the General Conference of the 
Evangelical Association to his present position, 
which he has filled with great acceptability ever 
since, he having been re-elected in 1891. He 
did pioneer work for four years on the frontier 
settlements in Kansas, and is familiar with 
every phase of border life, his work frequently 
taking him among Indian camps and where 
cowboys were the chief inhabitants. For four 
years, he was a trustee of the Northwestern Col- 



lege and Biblical Institute at Naperville, Illi- 
nois. During this time, the school passed 
through a severe crisis, in which its existence 
was actually in danger. By an amendment to 
the incorporated laws of the State of Illinois for 
educational institutions, the school was not 
only passed on a safe basis but in excellent 
condition. This legislation proved as beneficial 
to other educational institutes of the State 
which were supported by a large constituency 
and depending on the State of Illinois. In these 
matters, Mr. Mattill was not only deeply inter- 
ested, but took an active part, and by his posi- 
tive and decided position and influence added 
much in bringing about hapjjy results. 

Mr. Mattill was married, June 18, 1874, to 
Miss Emma Fryhofer, daughter of Jacob and 
Susannah Fryhofer, of Eandolj)h, Kansas. 
Her parents were among the original twelve 
German Methodists of Indiana, and her father 
is still living at Randolph, having attained his 
eighty-eighth year. Her mother long since 
passed away. They had eight children, namely: 
Jacob, deceased; John; Susan, wife of Theodore 
Hanning; Mary, wife of Elrich Schoeder; Kev. 
Wesley, a minister of the Central German Con- 
ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church; 
Henry, who died of typhoid fever while in the 
Union army; William, an ex-member of the 
Kansas Legislature; and Mrs. Mattill. Mr. 
and Mrs. Mattill have an only child, Henry A., 
a pupil in the Cleveland Public Schools. Mrs. 
Mattill is a graduate of the Agricultural Col- 
lege at Manhattan, Kansas, and has been a 
teacher in the public schools for several years. 

Of Mr. Mattill, we further state that he is 
one of the self-made men. He is a little above 
medium height, with broad shoulders and full 
chest showing unusual vitality and powers of 
endurance. He has a large and finely shaped 
head, indicating an endowment of mental power 
and energy above that which falls to the com- 
mon lot of mortals. His face bears the impress 
of a wide-awake mind and of a firm resolution 
in the carrying out of a purpose, mixed with a 
disposition of kindness and benes'olence. 



GUTAHOGA COUNTY. 



Mr. Mattill is an able preacher. His ser- 
mons show careful preparation, and are delivered 
with a great deal of feeling, energy and pur- 
pose. He has the faculty of securing the atten- 
tion and sympathy of a congregation in the be- 
ginning of a discourse, and of holding it to the 
end. Whenever the people hear him preach 
they are anxious to hear hira again. 

His administrative aliilities are of a high 
order. This he has shown in his work in the 
positions of pastor and Presiding Elder, as a 
member of the Board of Trustees of the North- 
western College during the trying times of the 
history of that institution, as a member of im- 
portant committees of General Conference, and 
as one of the agents of the Publishing House 
with which he has been connected since 1887. 

The last few years of the life of Rev. Martin 
Lauer, senior publisher, the greater part of the 
work of overseeing and managing the affairs of 
the Publishing House devolved upon Mr. Mat- 
till, on account of the frequent illness of his 
colleague. He showed himself equal to the 
occasion, managing affairs with tact and energy. 

One of the results of the connection of 
Mr. Mattill with the Evangelical Publishing 
House is the introduction of new and improved 
machinery, enabling the house to do better 
work as well as to secure enlarged profits upon 
the work done. His knowledge of machinery 
and his skill at invention are especially seen in 
the very practical and highly satisfactory gath- 
ering machine now in use in the book bindery, 
of which he is the inventor. 



FM. SPENCER, vice president of the 
Cleveland National Bank, and one of the 
best known financiers of the Forest City, 
is a worthy representative of that cele- 
brated Spencer family numbered among the 
Pilgrim Fathers aboard the Mayflower, and 
whose landing at Plymouth Rock was the 
initial stroke in the establishment of American 
settlements and civilization. A history of the 



offspring of this family would present an array 
of progressive business men representing vari- 
ous callings and challenging all America to 
produce its superior. 

The genealogy of this family will l^egin with 
Phineas Spencer, a sou of the " Empire State," 
born near Albany in 1773. His civil life was 
spent in agricultural pursuits. He emigrated 
to Washington county. New York, about the 
year 1800, and when England made war on us 
for the second time he was commissioned a 
Captain in the army and served through the 
struggle. Phineas Spencer married Elsie I'arns- 
worth, a descendant of the Holland Dutch, and 
they had four sons and eight daughters. 

Lyman M. Spencer, the oldest son, and father 
of P. M., was born in Washington county, in 
1805, was commissioned a Captain of volun- 
teers for service rendered in the Mexican war, 
emigrated to Ohio in 1868, locating in Portage 
county, and died at Ravenna, in March, 1873. 
He married Phebe, a daughter of James and 
Phebe (Jenkins) Kingsley. Her grandmother 
was a Luther, a direct descendant of the great 
religious reformer, Martin Luther. Mrs. Spen- 
cer's death occurred at Ravenna on August 12, 
1886. Lyman M. Spencer and wife had the 
following children: The late A. K. Spencer, 
Mrs. J. C. Prentice of Ravenna, C. F. Spencer 
and Mrs. C. E. Poe of this city. 

P. M. Spencer was born on a farm in Fort 
Ann, AVashington county, New York, March 1, 
1844. He secured a fair intellectual training 
from the district schools, and from an academy, 
excelling as a student. The breaking out of 
the Civil war gave him an opportunity to be- 
come not only a student of events, but also an 
actual participant in them. August 11, 1862, 
he enlisted, at Fort Ann, in Company D, One 
Hundred and Twenty-third New York Infan- 
try, as a private. He was sworn in on Septem- 
ber 4th, and was ordered to Washington, Dis- 
trict of Columbia, where another order soon 
placed him with his regiment in front of the 
Confederates at South Mountain and Antietam, 
which was followed by the bloody battles of 



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Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettys- 
burg. Mr. Spencer contracted a fever while 
in the service and after a long siege in the hos- 
pital was taken home on leave of absence. ]^ot 
becoming able to rejoin his regiment and endure 
the hardships incident to heavy campaigning, 
he was mustered out of service in Xuvember, 
1863, by a special order of E. M. Stanton, then 
Secretary of War. 

Mr. Spencer came to Cleveland as soon as his 
health was restored and entered the First Na- 
tional Bank as otEce boy. He rose rapidly by 
promotion through the various minor positions, 
becoming assistant cashier of the institution, 
which position he filled most acceptably for 
ten years. At this time Mr. Spencer con- 
ceived the idea of organizing a new bank, and 
he was instrumental in bringing into existence 
the Cleveland National Bank, which was char- 
tered on May 20, 1883, and opened its doors 
for business on the 28th of that month. He 
was made a member of the board of directors of 
the new institution, and was by the board ap- 
pointed to the responsible position of cashier 
and active manager, resigning his position with 
the First National to accept the same. In May, 
1892, he resigned the position as cashier and 
was elected vice president of the bank; and the 
success of this bank is due in a large measure 
to his marked financial ability, keen foresight 
and unerring judgment. His dealings with 
the bank's customers have always been unchal- 
lenged for fairness and squareness, and have 
created for the institution an enviable reputa- 
tion as a solid and safe banking house. His 
rapid advancement from the position of cashier 
to that of vice president was a just recognition 
by the directory of his superior fitness for the 
guidance of this progressive and popular con- 
cern. Among tlie financiers of Cleveland he 
long ago secured recognition as a man of fine 
ability, possessing those progressive ideas and 
that enterprising spirit that were doing much 
for the banking interests of Cleveland. 

For five terms Mr. Spencer was a member of 
the City Council of Cleveland, having been 



elected in 1877 and again in 1882, serving on 
most important committees and rendering val- 
uable service to the city. In politics he is a 
Republican, and was Chairman of the Republi- 
can Congressional Committee and also of the 
City Central Committee, for a number of years. 

January 30, 1873, he married Harriet E., a 
daughter of James Pannell, who came to Cleve- 
land from Herkimer county, New York, in 
1831. In early life Mr. Pannell was a con- 
tractor and builder, but in later life a banker, 
and at his death vice president of the Cleveland 
National Bank of Cleveland. His wife was 
Miss Amelia Newell of Pittsfield, Massachu- 
setts. Mr. Pannell died in December, 1888, 
and his wife in August, 1890. Mr. and Mrs. 
Spencer are the parents of one child, Clara 
Louis, aged seventeen. 

Mr. Spencer is an affable, agreeable gentle- 
man, contributing to all worthy objects and en- 
terprises, true to his friends, and a pillar of 
strength in sustaining the credit and reputa- 
tion of his city. Fraternally, Mr. Spencer is a 
thirty-second-degree Mason, and a member of 
the Army and Navy Post, G. A. R. He is 
also a trustee of the Homeopathic Medical Col- 
lege. 



JOSEPH F. HOBSON, M. D., who occu- 
pies a position of unmistakable prominence 
among the disciples of Esculapius in the 
city of Cleveland, has his headquarters at No. 
429 Prospect street. He was born in Belmont 
county, Ohio, August 30, 1861, a son of 
Stephen and Margaret (Bailey) Hobson, both of 
whom were natives of the Buckeye State. The 
father was a well known merchant in Flushing, 
Belmont county, for more than three decades, 
and was honored and esteemed by all as a most 
able business man and excellent citizen. He 
was favorably known throughout Belmont and 
contiguous counties and was prominently con- 
cerned in all measures that looked to the con- 
servation of the best interests of the community 



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and the furtlierauce of its legitimate progress. 
Hin life was one of activity and usefulness, 
while his nature was one swayed by noble im- 
pulses. He wae a member of the Society of 
Friends, a man of quick sympathies, broad in- 
telligence and notable intellectuality. He 
completed liis education at Mount Pleasant 
Academy, in Jefferson county, Ohio. He died 
in 1887, attlieageof fifty-seven years; his wife, 
who survives liim, is also a zealous and devoted 
member of the Society of Friends. 

The subject of this review is the third in a 
family of six children, of whom four are living, 
all residing in their native town save him to 
whom attention is here directed. Dr. Hobson 
received his literary training at the Friends' 
school, at Barnesvilie, Ohio, and then, having 
determined to make the practice of medicine 
his life work, he commenced a course of read- 
ing under the preceptorship of Dr. J. Hobson, 
a talented practitioner at Flushing. He finished 
his medical studies in the medical department 
of tlie Western lleserve University, at Cleve- 
land, graduating in 1886. He served for a 
term and a half as house physician in Lakeside 
Hospital, proving a very efficient officer and 
incidentally gaining most valuable experience, 
lie tlien opened an office on Erie street, in 
(Cleveland, and there remained from 1887 until 
1891, when he removed to his present and more 
convenient quarters. He carries on a general 
practice of medicine and surgery and has a 
representative patronage. He is Professor of 
Casualty and Minor Surgery in the medical de- 
partment of the Wooster University, Cleveland, 
Ohio, is surgeon to the outdoor department of 
the same institution, is surgeon for tiie Penn- 
sylvania Eailroad Company, and chief surgeon 
of the Valley Division of the Baltimore & Ohio 
Railroad Company. In addition to these hon- 
orable preferments, all of wliich stand in evi- 
dence of his professional ability, the Doctor is 
also visiting physician and surgeon of the 
Cleveland City Hospital. He is medical ex- 
aminer for those well known insurance com- 
panies, the National Union of Oliio and the 



State Mutual of Massachusetts. He is a mem- 
ber of the city, county and State medical so- 
cieties, of tlie American Medical Association 
and of the National Association of Railroad 
Surgeons. 

November 9, 1892, Dr. Hobson was united in 
marriage to Miss Ann Schlather, daughter of 
Leonard Schlather, one of the old and honored 
citizens of Cleveland. In his political procliv- 
ities the Doctor strongly advocates the princi- 
ples advanced by the Republican party, and he 
has maintained an active interest in the cause. 

He is a man of comprehen-sive general in- 
formation, a close student in the line of his 
profession and has won an enviable reputation 
as a careful, conscientious and painstaking 
physician. He is ever in pace with the advances 
made in the science of medicine and may con- 
gruously be designated as a fin-du-dede type 
in the line of his profession, one in whom con- 
fidence may implicitly be reposed. 



EDWIN 13. HALE.— The late Edwin B. 
Hale, who for nearly forty years was 
I closely identified with the banking in- 
terests of Cleveland, was one of the city's ablest 
financiers and most prominent and deservedly 
honored citizens. 

Mr. Hale sprang from an old and honored 
English family, his ancestors having held num- 
erous positions of trust and responsibilty in En- 
gland as far back as the thirteenth century. 
One of the best known members of the family 
was Sir Matthew Hale, who was known in his- 
tory as the "just and upright judge," and the 
official records of Great Britain show that the 
Hales came in for a large share of both military 
and civic honors. Members of tlie family were 
among the early settlers of New England, 
Samuel Hale (Hales) settling in Hartford, Con- 
necticut, in 1C35; and they there displayed 
the same energy that distinguished the family 
in the mother country. They were prominent 
in the skirmishes with the savages in the French 



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and Indian wars, and especially so in the war 
of the Revolution, Connecticut furnishing to 
tlie American army no less than sixteen brave 
soldiers by the name of Hale, all heads of fam- 
ilies and all from the same section. 

The father of Mr. Hale was Philo Hale, who 
was a man of remarkable energy and enter- 
prise, and was the first to engage in and estab- 
lish the business of ship-building on the Con- 
necticut river, which he carried on successfully 
until the outbreak of the war with England in 
1812. This war ruined his business and in- 
volved him in serious loss. He afterward trav- 
eled e.xtensively abroad, but later returned to 
his native country and became a prominent 
pioneer citizen of central Illinois, where he re- 
paired his broken fortunes, and where he died 
in 1848. 

Edwin V>. Hale was born on the 8th day of 
February, 1819, in the city of Brooklyn, New 
York, but his parents, during his infancj', re- 
moved to Glastonbury, Connecticut, where he 
was reared and given the advantage of the best 
schools. He had a leaning toward classical 
studies, and it was intended that he should 
enter Yale College. The death of his mother, 
two brothers and a sister, however, broke up 
the home and prevented the carrying out of 
this plan. He came to Ohio, and in 1837 
entered Kenyon College, at Gambler, where he 
gave his entire attention to his studies and 
graduated with the honors of his class in 1841, 
having won the personal friendship of every 
member of the faculty and the kind regard of his 
fellow students. He then determined to follow 
the life of a scholar, to which his literary tastes 
strongly inclined him; and there can be no 
doubt but that in that field honor awaited him 
had he entered it. But at the request of his 
father he entered the legal profession, associat- 
ing himself with the firm of Goddard & Con- 
verse, of Zanesviile, and in 1843 was admitted 
to the bar. Several years following his ad- 
mission to the bar he resided in Illinois, where 
his business required his presence, and up to 
the time of his death his landed interests in 



that State demanded a share of his attention. 

In 1852 Mr. Hale became a citizen of Cleve- 
land, and began his career by engaging in the 
private banking business, associating with him- 
self Stephen Sturges, and doing business under 
the firm name of Sturges & Hale. Shortly 
afterward he bought out the interests of Mr. 
Sturges, and for a time continued the business 
alone. A few years later Mr. W. H. Barriss, 
who had entered the office in 1859, was taken in 
as a partner, and the firm name was changed to 
that of E. B. Hale & Company, Messrs. Hale 
and Barriss constituting the same until 1879, 
when Mr. Hale's eldest son, Willis B., after hav- 
ing been with the firm nine years, was admitted 
as an equal partner, the firm name remaining 
unchanged. This partnership remained un- 
changed until the successor of E. B. Hale & 
Company^the Marine Bank Company — was 
organized, in the spring of 1891, Mr. E. B. 
Hale becoming president, iCr. Barriss cashier, 
and Mr. W. B. Hale assistant cashier of the 
new company. 

The banking house of E. B. Hale & Com- 
pany had the reputation, and justly so, of doing 
the largest business of all private banking con- 
cerns in the State, keeping their own accounts 
in London, Paris and Dublin, and drawing 
drafts on all points in the world, as well as 
issuing letters of credit payable at any point of 
the globe. The institution has successfully 
passed through every panic since its establish- 
ment, never refusing to pay certificates of 
deposit or demand checks on sight. Very 
shortly after the reorganization of the bank 
Mr. Hale died, suddenly, at his desk, on the 
9th day of July, 1891, without warning and 
witli no member of his family present except 
his son Willis B. Mr. Barriss succeeded to the 
presidency of the bank after Mr. Hale's death, 
and Willis B. Hale became cashier, — positions 
they hold at the present time. Mr. Barriss, 
as has been stated, entered the office of Mr. 
Hale in March, 1859, and has been intimately 
connected with the business continuously from 
that time to this. 



CUTAHOOA COUNTY. 



Mr. Barriss is also interested in the large con- 
cern of The Martin Barriss Company, of Cleve- 
land, which is a corporation dealing in hard 
and foreign woods. He is also a director and 
treasurer of the Cuyahoga Building and Loan 
Association, and has charge of various trust 
funds of large estates. He is a member of the 
Chamber of Commerce, and is recognized as 
one of the city's leading representative men. 
He is 11 man of fine literary taste, and owns one 
of the few choice libraries and collections of 
valuable manuscripts in the city. 

Mr. Willis B. Hale was born in Decatur, 
Illinois, on the 17th of June, 1847. He was 
prepared for college at Phillips Academy, An- 
dover, Massachusetts, and entered Union Col- 
lege, Schenectady, New York, in 18G6, graduat- 
ing in the class of 1870, and delivering the vale- 
dictory address of the Philomathian Society of 
that institution. He at once entered the house of 
E. L>. Hale & Company, where he has remained 
to the present, giving most of his time and at- 
tention to the interest of the business. He is 
also interested in other important enterprises, 
and is a director in some of them. He is a 
member of the Chamber of Commerce. 

In 1846 Mr. E. B. Hale was married to the 
daughter of S. N". Hoyt, Esq., of Chardon, 
Ohio, and to this union three sons and five 
daughters were born, all of whom, with the ex- 
ception of the youngest daughter, with their 
mother, survive. The children are Willis B., 
Edwin, Cleveland C, Mrs. Ellen Bolton, Mrs. 
Florence Russell, Mrs. Alice M. Cowles, Edith 
and Caroline, the last mentioned deceased. 

In 1879, in company with Judge Stephenson 
Burke, Mr. Hale made an extended trip abroad, 
forming personal acquaintance with the heads 
of various banking institutions with which his 
house held business relations. 

Mr. Hale was a man of strong character and 
marked ability. He was quiet and unassuming 
by nature, yet was firm in his convictions and 
of strong and decided tastes. In his business 
habits he was shrewd, cautious and conserva- 
tive and always conscientious. He was never 



exacting or oppressive in his demands, and 
never willing to take advantage or profit by the 
misfortunes of another. He was quick to ap- 
preciate the legitimate, financial necessities of 
his surroundings and prompt to act. For nearly 
forty years he was a leading and prominent 
member of Cleveland's banking fraternity, and 
during all that time was an important factor in 
financial circles. The banking house of which 
he was for so many years the head always en- 
joyed the highest credit and commanded the 
entire confidence of other financial institutions, 
both at home and abroad. He was always ready 
to aid in every proper way to the extent of his 
ability the development of the commercial and 
industrial interests of Cleveland, and did a great 
deal in his way toward making the city what 
she is to-day. As a citizen he was progressive, 
and broad and liberal in his views, and was 
to be found on the right side of all move- 
ments having for their object the building up 
of his adopted city and her institutions. While 
his charity was unostentatious it was generous, 
and he ever had a warm heart and helping hand 
for the poor and needy, and a kind and encour- 
aging word for the despondent and unfortunate. 
He was a liberal contributor to the charitable 
and benevolent institutions, and was a liberal 
supporter of the church, although not a mem- 
ber of any congregation. He had in his char- 
acter many elements of strength, and one could 
not associate with him without recognizing the 
sagacious intelligence, kindly charity and the 
many evidences of human sympathy which 
marked his life among men. His deep domes- 
tic devotion was one of his strongest character- 
istics. He was devotedly attached to his wife 
and children, and it was in the home circle 
where he found his greatest pleasures. He de- 
lighted to be surrounded by congenial friends, 
and derived great pleasure in dispensing hospi- 
tality and discharging the duties of host. 
Every banker and business man who knew Mr. 
Hale bears willing testimony to his sterling in- 
tegrity of character, his eminent ability as a 
financier, and to the uniform courtesy and kind- 



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ness which marked his relation to his business 
associates and was so conspicuous in his social 
and domestic life, and all of his acquaintances 
stand ready to testify to his worth as a man, a 
citizen and a friend. 



ENRY CLARK BRAINARD, M. S., 
M. D., was born in Randolph, Portage 
county, Ohio, June 28, 1845, the only 
son of Joseph C. and Elizabeth (Clark) 
Brainard, and graduated at Mount Union Col- 
lege, Oiiio, in 1867, with the honors of his 
class. During the war of the rebellion he was 
a member of the National Guards, with the 
rank of Lieutenant, being the youngest com- 
missioned officer in his regiment. 

In 1861) he graduated in the medical depart- 
ment of the University of Michigan, and in the 
same year was married to Emma G. Coe, only 
daughter of Deacon James P. Coe, of Randolph, 
Ohio. He immediately settled in Cleveland, 
wliere he has been continuously in the practice 
of medicine to this time, and has acquired a 
very large practice. In 1881 he was appointed 
pliysician to tiie Cleveland Protestant Orphan 
Asylum, one of the largest and finest asylums 
in the country, which position he still retains. 
In politics lie has been more attached to prin- 
ciples than party, and has never been a " party 
politician," but always a pronounced temperance 
advocate and generally a Republican. 

In 1882 he was elected a member of the 
Cleveland Public Library Board and took an 
active interest in the development of the 
library. lie was re-elected for eight consecu- 
tive terms, and was honored with the presidency 
of the board for five continuous years. He was 
one of the organizers of The Arcade Savings 
l>ank Company in 1890, and has been president 
of that bank since its organization. Religiously, 
he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church: has been a trustee for twenty-five 
years and a Sunday-school superintendent for 
ten years. 



One son, Frank C, and two daughters, Edith 
and Edna, complete the family circle. 

Dr. Brainard all his life has been a close 
student and a hard worker, possessing a splen- 
did physical constitution and indomitable en- 
ergy, has been prominent in many progressive 
movements, and in all his relations has dis- 
played that integrity of character which wins 
and holds the confidence of all who know him. 



SAMUEL FRIEDMAN, Superintendent 
of the Sir Moses Montefiore Kesher 
Home for the Aged and Infirm Israelites, 
located on the corner of Woodland and Wilson 
avenues, was born in Hungary, October 18, 
1845. His father, B. Friedman, resides in the 
city of New York. Samuel received his com- 
mercial education in Buda Pesth, Hungary, 
and was afterward engaged in the lumber busi- 
ness and other occupations in his native place. 
He came to America in 1872, and for the fol- 
lowing seventeen years was engaged in busi- 
ness in New York. Then, in 1889, he secured 
his present position in this city, as successor to 
his brother. Dr. Adolph Friedman. The latter 
became superintendent of the institution in 
1885, remaining there until his death four 
years later, at the age of thirty-eight years. He 
received his literary education in Europe and 
graduated as physician and surgeon in the 
medical department of the Western Reserve 
University of Cleveland, in the class of 1888. 
Dr. Friedman was a man of good promise; was 
never troubled with sickness until his last, 
which continued from Sunday until Thursday. 
His widow, nee Fannie Webber, resides in 
Cleveland. They had four children: Helen, 
Isadore, Walter and Oscar. 

The Home for Aged and Infirm Israelites 
contains thirty-four sleeping rooms, one sick 
ward, one reading and smoking room, one re- 
ception room, a chapel, kitchen, dining room, 
all the necessary store houses, etc. It is built 
of brick, fire-proof, heated by steam, and con- 



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tains all the modern improvements. The home 
is supported principally by volnntary contribu- 
tions. The executive officers are: president, 
Adoljjh Freund, of Detroit, Michigan; vice- 
president, Samuel Grabfelder, of Louisville, 
Kentucky; treasurer, Jacob Mandlebaun; chair- 
man of local board, Mjer Weil; secretary, M. 
A. Marx, of Cleveland; superintendent, S. 
Friedman; physician, N. Weidenthalent. This 
is one of tlie few institutions of the kind in the 
"State, and a visit through the different depart- 
ments is a convincing proof that the home is 
in good hands, and that the superintendent and 
matron are the right persons in the right place. 
Mrs. Friedman, the matron, is a cultured lady, 
of pleasing presence, and is the ideal mother of 
more than a score who are very much her senior 
in age. 

Mr. Friedman, the subject of this sketch, was 
married in 1872, to Miss Ernestine Webber, a 
sister of Fanny AVebber and a daughter of 
Jacob Webber, natives of Hungary. The 
father still resides at his native place. Mr. 
Friedman is a member of the I. O. B. B., the 
American Legion of Honor, the First Hunga- 
rian Society of New York, and has passed all 
the chairs in the L O. O. F. 



SAMUEL J. BAKER, County Surveyor 
of Cuyahoga county, Ohio, was born in 
Dorchester, Massachusetts, and was 
brought to Cleveland by his parents when only 
three years of age. After receiving an educa- 
tion in the grammar and higli schools of the 
city, he entered the city civil engineer's othce, 
at the age of sixteen years, under Charles H. 
Strong, and served successively as chainman, 
rod man and level-man in various kinds of field 
engineering work, and then for several years as 
transit-man and assistant with Charles A. Wal- 
ter, the assistant city engineer in charge of 
surveys, being engaged on all kinds of surveys 
for the city, including that for the Superior 
street viaduct, and gaining knowledge and ex- 



perience in all kinds of city engineering work. 
On the death of Mr. Walter in 1881, he was 
placed in charge of his work, and made fourth 
assistant city engineer, by the city engineer, 
B. F. Morse. 

He continued to act as engineer, having 
special charge of surveys; from that time to May 
20, 1893, when he was retired by Jolin H. 
Farley, the newly appointed Democratic direc- 
tor of public works, in order to make room for 
one of the latter's political supporters. This 
was done after he had served twelve years at 
the head of the survey department of the city, 
under Engineers B. F. Morse, C. G. Force, W. 
P. Eice, and Director of Public Works R. R. 
Herrick, his salary having been raised three 
times during this period. He was made third 
assistant engineer by Director Herrick, but no 
particular change was made in the nature of his 
duties. 

Wliile filling the above positions, he in per- 
son made the surveys for the Kingsbury run 
viaduct, and Central viaduct routes, and pre- 
pared all the deeds, resolutions, ordinances and 
descriptions necessary for the purchase or ap- 
propriation of the land for the same, costing 
over $200,000, and also made the survey and 
prepared similar papers for the opening, by ap- 
propriation, of Walworth street, in the valley 
of Walworth run, from Scran ton avenue to 
Gordon avenue, a distance of about two and a 
half miles, which cost over |100,000. He also 
made or directed all other surveys by his de- 
partment, such as those for defining old streets 
and opening new ones; for dock lines; to define 
city property, etc. He examined and reported 
to the chief engineer upon all the plats and 
maps subdividing lands, and laying out new 
streets within the city, that have gone on record 
during the past twelve years, — some 325 in all. 
In this work he corrected many errors and 
doubtless saved much litigation, that would 
otherwise devolve upon future generations. 

In 1880 he was one of the founders of the 
Civil Engineers' Club of Cleveland. In 1885 
he was elected treasurer of the club, and was 



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re-elected four times, serving five years. He 
also served one year as corresponding secretary 
and one year as a director. In August, 1884, 
be prepared and read before tbe club a paper 
entitled "The Original Surveys of Cleveland," 
which was published in the Journal of the As- 
sociation of Engineering Societies for that 
month, with accompanying maps. This paper 
has since been frequently in demand by sur- 
veyors and others interested in the early his- 
tory and survey of the city. 

Soon after leaving the city's employ, Mr. 
Baker entered the race for the nomination for 
County Surveyor on the Republican ticket, and 
in September, 1893, received the nomination, 
defeating five other candidates, and having a 
plurality of the popular vote, and a final dele- 
gate vote in the convention of 269 out of a 
total of 386 cast. In November following he 
was elected County Surveyor by a majority 
of nearly 9,000 over his Democratic opponent. 
He took possession of his office on January 1, 
1894, and has already executed a large amount 
of work for the citizens of the city and county. 
With a complete force of expert assistants and 
an equipment of the latest and most improved 
instruments, he is prepared to make all kinds of 
surveys and do a large class of engineering 
work. The brief mention of his official career 
and public work outlined above demonstrates 
his competency for his present position and for 
the kind of work he advertises to do. With all 
the superior advantages possible, therefore, he 
is prepared to locate uncertain or disputed prop- 
erty lines, to survey and lay out subdivisions, 
street lines, lots, farms, roads, drives and 
private grounds, to prepare maps, descriptions 
and deeds, and do all the engineering work re- 
quired for grading, curbing, paving, sewering, 
etc., of new streets, with plans and estimates of 
cost. 

Mr. Baker is unmarried, and is now residing 
on Prospect street. His parents are dead, his 
father, the late Robert Baker, who was for many 
years the Secretary of the City Infirmary Board, 
having died in January, 1891, and his mother 



six months later. His only immediate relative 
living is his sister, Mrs. George II. Foote, of 
this city. He is a member of the Ohio Society 
of Surveyors and Civil Engineers, and also a 
member of the Cleveland Athletic Club. In 
politics he is a Republican, and has been so 
since his first vote. Though never a politician, 
he takes an active interest in the success of his 
party, and is a member of both the Tippecanoe 
and Cuyahoga Republican Clubs. 



'JrJjEV. AUGUST GERARDIN, pastor of 
1^^ the Annunciation Catholic Church of 
11 ^ Cleveland (French), was born in France, 
^ May 4, 1844, a son of J. E. and Theresa 

(Toussaint) Gerardin, both parents being na- 
tives of France. The father was a life-long 
teacher, and taught for the greater portion of 
his life in Riche. Here he taught for thirty 
years and here he died. He taught in the county 
of Meurthe, France, and as a teacher he was 
distinguished. He died in 1863, at the age of 
sixty-four years. His wife's death preceded his 
one year, she dying at the age of sixty-two 
years. Both of these parents were lifelong and 
faithful members of the Catholic Church, and 
the excellency of their precepts were telling 
upon the character of their son, whose name 
introduces this brief sketch. 

Rev. Gerardin is the youngest of seven chil- 
dren, of whom three still live. In 1864 our 
subject came to America and direct to Cleve- 
land, where he completed his theological studies 
at St. Mary's Seminary under the tutelage of 
Rev. Saleune, now at Long Branch, New York, 
and Dr. James Stremler, superior. His pre- 
liminary education was obtained in France at 
Pont-a-Mousson. He was ordained priest in 
Cleveland, December 16, 1867, by Bishop 
Rappe. 

Rev. Gerardin's first work as a pastor was at 
Upper Sandusky. He was next sent to Galion, 
Ohio, where lie became ])astor in 1868 and 
served until 1877. During the period he was 



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at Gallon, Ohio, he built what is now known as 
the St. Patrick's church of Galion, a large, 
commodious building, and also completed a 
building and inaugurated what is now a large 
school. From Galion Eev. Gerardin came to 
Cleveland in 1877. The parish in Cleveland 
was inaugurated in 1868 by Father A. Sanvadet, 
and is known as the Annunciation, of which 
Rev. Gerardin became the second rector. At 
the time he became director there were 125 
families in his congregation, and the number of 
families has been increased two-fold. His 
church is in a healthy condition and is growing. 
Kev. Gerardin has been very successful in 
church work, his success being due to his dili- 
gence, his watchful care and his ability as an 
organizer. He is highly esteemed and beloved. 



'Jr^j EV. WILLIAM YOST, treasurer of the 
1^^ Missionary Society of the Evangelical 
II ^ Association, Cleveland, Ohio, dates his 
V birth in Womelsdorf, Berks county, 

Pennsylvania, December 25, 1830. 

His parents, John and Margaret (Lauer) 
Yost, were natives of Germany. John Yost 
was a cooper and farmer by occupation; lived 
to the advanced age of ninety-two years, and 
died in Berks county, Pennsylvania, in 1887. 
His wife died in 1850, at the age of fifty years. 
Both were members of the Evangelical Associa- 
tion. They came to America in 1823 and set- 
tled in Pennsylvania, where they spent the rest 
of their lives, honored and respected by all who 
knew them. William was the fourth born in 
their family of six children, four of whom are 
living. One son, Fred, went out to California 
in 1848, and is now a well-to-do citizen of 
Stockton. 

William Yost was educated in Dickinson 
College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania; but on account 
of failing health was compelled to leave the 
college before he completed his course. He 
was then employed for a short time as book- 
keeper in Reading. At the age of twenty-two 



he entered the ministry of the Evangelical As- 
sociation, and for eleven years was a circuit 
preacher, spending two years at each appoint- 
ment, all the time the regulations of the church 
would allow. For the past thirty years he has 
been one of the officials of the church. He was 
elected corresponding secretary of the Mission- 
ary Society of the Evangelical Association in 
1863, which position he held for sixteen years. 
Then for eight years he was one of the man- 
agers of the Publishing House of the Associa- 
tion. He was elected to his present position in 
1887. For four years, in addition to his other 
duties, he served as one of the editors of the 
Missionary Messenger, and at present is also 
general statistical secretary of the Evangelical 
Association. 

Mr. Yost was married, March 9, 1855, to 
Miss Maria II. Gish, daughter of Abraham and 
Elizabeth Gish, of Northampton county, Penn- 
sylvania. They have five children, namely: 
Ella, Howard, Emma, William B., and Bessie. 
Ella is the wife of Robert O. Preyer, a lumber 
dealer of Elizabeth City, North Carolina. They 
have four children, Anna, Willie, Allen and 
Helen. Howard, bookkeeper for the Society 
for Savings, resides in Cleveland. He married 
Miss Kate Wyant, of this city, and they have 
three children, Malcomb, Ransom and Harold. 
Emma is the wife of Dr. M. J. Blien, of San 
Antonio, Texas, and their children are Marion 
and Howard. William B. married Miss Flor- 
ence Yost, of Twinsburg, Ohio. He is a trav- 
eling salesman for a wholesale hardware com- 
pany of Cleveland. Bessie, the youngest, is at- 
tending the Cleveland high school. The family 
are all members of the Evangelical Association. 

Rev. Yost is favored with a goodly portion of 
sound practical sense, which is enlivened with a 
very ready and almost inexhaustible amount of 
mother wit. His temperament being rather 
lively, the result is that he is nearly always in 
good humor and is a kind and pleasant codj- 
panion. His perceptive powers are acute and 
always on the alert. His slender form is well 
proportioned and is wiry and tough, and, being 



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quick and supple in his actions, he is able to do 
a great deal of work with comparatively little 
exertion. 

In the discharge of his official duties he is 
punctual and reliable. In finances he is "quite 
at home" and hence makes a first-class treasurer 
of the Missionary Society and the Orphans' 
Home of the Evangelical Association. Indeed, 
in every position to which he has been called, 
he has discharged his duty with the strictest 
fidelity. 

As a preacher of the gospel, Mr. Yost has 
met with eminent success. He studies his texts 
well, presents the truths contained therein 
earnestly, gracefully and effectively. While he 
served as preaclier on circuits and stations he 
was everywhere successful in leading souls to 
Christ and building up the church. Besides 
the various oflBcial positions which he has filled, 
he has been a member of a number of General 
Conferences, and assisted materially in shaping 
legislation for the church by that body. 

Mr. Yost is without doubt one of the most 
useful men in his church, an honor to its min- 
istry, and as a member of the church leading a 
blameless and exemplary Christian life. 



M. MOZIER, superintendent of trans- 
portation of the New York, Pennsyl- 
vania & Ohio and the Chicago & Erie 
Railroad Companies, comprising all their 
lines west of Salamanca, New York, was born 
in Morrow county, Ohio, May 31, 1843. 

Like most men who are guiding spirits in the 
destinies of prosperous corporations, he was 
once a country lad, being a son of L. D. Mozier, 
a farmer who settled in Mori-ow county, where 
Edison now is, in 1835. Mr. Mozier's best 
educational advantages were the high schools of 
Mount Gilead, Ohio. He became a telegraph 
operator at Delaware, Ohio, for the "Big Four"' 
Railroad Company, served as operator and ticket 
agent at Crestline, Ohio, for the same company, 
and at this juncture he decided to undertake a 
merchandising venture in the same city, but one 



year's experience found him again ready to re- 
sume railroading. He was made operator for 
the Pennsylvania Company at Rochester, Penn- 
sylvania, and soon after was transferred to the 
Panhandle as train dispatcher, and was made 
chief dispatcher and manager of telegraph, re 
maining with the company ten years. He then 
returned to the "Big Four" Company as chief 
train dispatcher and soon afterward was pro- 
moted to train master of the Indianapolis &l St. 
Louis Division, completing seven years' service 
with them. 

Mr. Mozier came to the New York, Pennsyl- 
vania & Ohio in 1888, as superintendent of the 
Third and Fourth Divisions, with headquarters 
at Gallon, Ohio. January 1, 1891, he was pro- 
moted to his present office, where he has since 
served with the exception of seven months, 
during the reorganization of the Chicago k, 
Erie Railroad, when he was detailed to act as 
its superintendent. 

Besides being active in the operating depart- 
ment of the several roads with which he has 
been connected, Mr. Mozier has been very much 
interested in the subject of switches and signals, 
for the improvement of which he has invented 
and patented devices that are absolutely safe, 
and which are being quite generally adopted on 
trial. For the manufacture of these devices a 
plant is in operation at Gallon, of which Mr. 
Mozier is president, the institution being known 
as the "Mozier Safety Signal Com[iany." They 
turn out the "Mozier Three-Position Sema- 
phore" and the "Mozier Safety Signal," for use 
in connection with the " Mozier Block System," 
or as train order signals. 

Mr. Mozier's father was born in Vermont, 
came into Morrow county, Ohio, when a youth, 
and died there in 1885, aged eighty-four years. 
In early life he was a prominent school-teacher, 
but devoted his later years to the farm. He 
married Abbie Louisa Harrison, of the same 
stock as the two presidents Harrison. Joseph 
Harrison, the father of Mrs. Mozier, married 
Miss Crane in New Jersey, settled in Morrow 
county early in its history, and was a merchant. 




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An uncle of our subject, Joseph Mozier, is 
the famous American sculptor. He studied in 
Italy and remained there, being one of the tirst 
of our artists to achieve a reputation in foreign 
countries. On his visit to England he was 
crowned by the Queen as a token of her appro- 
bation of his work. His masterpiece was one 
of the rare marbles on exhibition at the World's 
Fair. 

L. D. Mozier was tlie father of seven chil- 
dren, viz : Joseph W.; William H.; I). C, a 
deceased banker of Mount Gilead, Ohio; A. M.; 
G. W., of Kansas City, Missouri; Mary L., 
wife of G. A. Dodge, of Valparaiso, Indiana; 
and Charles R., of Edison. 

A. M. Mozier married in 1865, at Crestline, 
Ohio, Miss Marianne, a daughter of William 
II. Borie, from near Cumberland, Maryland. 
The ciiildren of this union are Marion Lee, train 
dispatcher at Huntington, Indiana, on Chicago 
& Erie Railroad, and Edna Louise. 



EiLBERT IRVING BALDWIN.— The 
late E. I. Baldwin, who died on the 27th 
1 day of January, 1894, was one of Cleve- 
land's most prominent business men and de- 
servedly honored citizens. As the founder and 
head of the well-known dry-goods house of E. 
I. Baldwin, Hatch & Company, he was for over 
forty years identified with the commercial in- 
terests of the city, and during that period he built 
up one of the largest mercantile houses in the 
State of Ohio, and establi.-hed a most enviable 
reputation both as a merchant and as a man and 
citizen. 

Mr. Baldwin was a native of Connecticut, 
having been born in New Haven on the 13th 
day of May, 1829. He spent his early life in 
his native city, and received excellent educa- 
tional advantages. At the age of nineteen years, 
health being none too robust, he decided upon 
a more active life and began his mercantile 
career by entering the establishment of Sandford 
«& Allen, a leading dry-goods house of New 



Haven. In order that he might learn the busi- 
ness thoroughly and gain practical experience, 
he took a subordinate clerkship and passed 
through all the grades to the position of con- 
fidential clerk. From New^ Haven he went to 
New York city, and entered the house of the 
old firm of Tracy, Irwin & Company, and tiiere 
remained until the year 1853, when he removed 
to Cleveland. 

When Mr. Baldwin came to Cleveland he 
found the field well occupied, there being a very 
large number of dry-goods houses in the city, 
most of them doing business on the old fash- 
ioned credit system, and failures of course com- 
mon. The outlook was not favorable: the store 
he had engaged was said to be on the " wrong 
side" of the street; older merchants prophesied 
a speedy failure; and competition was strong, 
going so far in its efforts to injure the young 
merphant by circulating false reports concerning 
his credit. In October, 1853, Mr. Baldwin 
opened business under the firm name of E. I. 
Baldwin & Company, in the new block on the 
corner of Superior and Seneca streets, and con- 
trary to predictions succeeded from the very be- 



ginnini 



He commenced with a stock valued 



at $16,000, and at the end of the tirst year the 
sales amounted to over §§4:3,000. This was an 
encouraging result. The history of the firm 
from that time to the present has been one of 
continued success and progress, every year wit- 
nessing a marked increase over the former. 
From the beginning the firm possessed the en- 
tire confidence of the largest and best merchants 
in the East, and having conducted their business 
in a strictly honorable manner and selling only 
good articles, and at reasonable profits, and al- 
lowing no misrepresentations, has retained 
customers from year to year, in many instances 
keeping their trade for a period of twenty 
years. 

The first direct importation of foreign dry 
goods to a Western city was made in 1857, by 
E. 1. Baldwin & Company, and "to this firm is 
largely due the introduction of modern and im- 
proved methods of conducting business, which 



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are now very generally adopted by all good 
mercliaiits. Tlie rapid growth and expansion 
of their retail business some years since decided 
them to abandon tiie general jobbing trade and 
devote more attention to the distribution of 
goods among consumers, a stroke of policy 
which proved eminently snccessful. Perhaps 
no business requires greater talent to prosecute 
with profit than the management of a large em- 
porium of dry goods. Natural ability, self-re- 
liance, good judgment and quick perception are 
necessary, and must be supplemented by close 
application and unswerving integrity. All 
these qualifications were possessed to an emin- 
ent degree by Mr. Baldwin, combined with a 
kind and courteous nature and charitable dis- 
position, which made him not only a successful 
business man but also endeared him to all with 
whom he came in contact, both in the store and 
in the outside world. The career of Mr. Baldwin 
demonstrates that an establishment for the sale 
of merchandise can be so conducted as to prove 
a pecuniary beuetit to a city and means of ele- 
vating the tastes of a community, besides giv- 
ing permanent and useful employment to laj-ge 
numbers of persons, who are surrounded by 
good influences and instructed to regard honesty 
as not only the " best policy" but as abolutely 
essential to the holding of any position in the 
house. 

During the tirst tliree years of the existence 
of the firm, Mr. Silas I. Baldwin, father of E. 
I., was associated with it in a financial way, and 
upon his retirement Mr. Henry K. Hatch, 
brother-in-law to the head of the firm, was ad- 
mitted to a partnership. In 1863 Mr. W. S. 
Tyler, an employee, was given an interest in 
the business, and in late years Messrs. W. S. 
Jenkins, G. T. Schryrer, P. Deimer and A. E. 
Hatch were taken into tlie firm, and in 1887 the 
firm was changed to E. I. Baldwin, Hatch & 
Company. To meet the demands of their trade 
the firm in 1863 purchased a piece of land on 
Superior street, whereon stood at that time part 
of the city buildings, and erected the elegant 
store now occupied by them, which at that early 



day was ore of the finest in the city, and to-day 
compares favoral)ly with the leading business 
houses, notwithstanding the great progress of 
late years in architecture and building. 

Mr. Baldwin never enjoyed vigorous health, 
but until within a few years of his death was 
able to carry his full share of the burden of the 
large business of his firm, and had a thorough 
knowledge of its details. Of a naturally retir- 
ing disposition, and with a distaste for publi- 
city, Mr. Baldwin would never permit himself 
to be drawn into political matters, contenting 
himself with his business, his family, friends 
and acquaintances. He found much pleasure 
in books and in travel in his own and foreign 
countrie.=, having returned from an extended 
visit to Europe only about two weeks before his 
death. He was an Elder and Trustee of the 
Second Presbyterian Church, and was ever ready 
to lend his aid and influence to the promotion 
of every useful and philanthropic enterprise, and 
benevolent institutions were ever welcome to 
his hearty and liberal charity. Mr. Baldwin 
was a warm friend and supporter of Oberlin 
College, and erected at that institution Baldwin 
Cottage, at a cost of §30,000, and at his death 
left the cottage a bequest of §25,000. 

Mr. Baldwin was married in 1855, to Miss 
Mary Jeannutte Sterling, daughter of Oliver 
L. Sterling, of Lima, Livingston county, New 
York. 

DK. H. C. EYMAN.— Among the leading 
J physicians in the treatment of nervous 
— diseases in the State of Ohio, and par- 
ticularly those in which insanity is involved, is 
Dr. H. C. Eyman, the efficient superintendent 
of the Cleveland State Hospital, at Ncwburg. 

This gentleman was born in Fairfield county, 
Ohio, September 13, 1856, the son of a farmer 
in fair circumstances, having been in earlier life 
a school-teacher. The subject of this sketch 
completed the prescribed course at Fairfield 
Academy, taught school for a time, and then 
began to prepare himself for his life calling, 
that of medicine. Entering the Columbus 



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Medical OuUege in 1877, he graduated tiiere 
three years later, and since then has made neu- 
rology and diseases of the brain and nervous 
system his great specialty. His first location 
for practice was in Tarlton, Pickaway county, 
Ohio, where failing health at length forced him 
out of practice, and within two years after 
locating there he entered the drug business in 
Lancaster, this State. He became assistant 
physician at the Athens Asylnm in 1884, and 
in July, 1887, was appointed assistant superin- 
tendent of the asylum at Toledo, aiding in the 
opening of that institution. His ability in the 
treatment of the unfortunate inmates there be 
came so well known that when the Newburg 
Asylum needed a new man at its head Dr. Ey- 
man was selected; and so well titted is he for 
tills important work that, although he is a 
Democrat in politics, and officials in those 
places fluctuate with each new State administra- 
tion, he has been retained by the present Gov- 
ernor. 

To Dr. Eyman belongs the credit of banish- 
ing from the hospitals of the State the last of 
the devices for mechanical restraint. Two years 
ago, when he was promoted from the position 
of assistant superintendent at the Toledo Asy- 
lum to his present place, of the 700 patients his 
predecessor had to deal with, forty on an average 
were secluded every day, and an average of 
twenty-si.x were daily subjected to mechanical 
restraint, principally by the use of the mufl' or 
the straight-jacket; and besides this nineteen 
cribs were in constant use. It is said that if 
even a well man were fastened in a crib two 
days he would be on the verge of insanity if 
indeed not wholly demented ; yet it was assumed 
that such a contrivance iiad souje value in treat- 
ing those who are mentally diseased! Since the 
abolishment of all these barbarous devices Dr. 
Eyman manages a larger number of patients, 
and more satisfactorily and far more humanely, 
than were before treated. 

The Doctor is also professor of mental and 
nervous diseases in Wooster College. He was 
chosen to the lecturership in this institution in 



1891, and to the chair above mentioned in 1892. 
He is a member of the American Medico- 
Psychological Association, before which he read 
a paper in 1892 entitled "The Effects of Ignor- 
ance and Superstition on the Treatment of Men- 
tal Obliquities." He is a member of the Board 
of Trustees of the new Massillon Asylum. 

The founder of the Eyman family in Ohio 
was the Doctor's grandfather, Henry Eyman, 
wlio, a farmer, settled in Fairfield county, Ohio, 
in 1800. Henry Eyman, the first, settled in 
Virginia over 200 years ago, and his grand- 
children aided in the contest for American in- 
dependence. Each succeeding lineal descend- 
ant from Henry the original to Hetiry the Ohio 
pioneer had only one son. The latter had two 
sons, viz.: H. B., the Doctor's father, and 
W. S. H. B. Eyman taught school several 
terms before he finally settled down on the 
farm. He spent the last ten years of his life 
in ISTew Salem, Ohio, serving the city as Mayor. 
He died July 5, 1893, aged seventy-four years. 
He married Mary A., daughter of Christian 
Baker, — who was a prominent Democrat and in 
1850 a member of the State Legislature,— and 
a niece of Daniel Keller, another prominent 
politician and legislator. Mr. Baker was a 
large land-owner and wealthy farmer who came 
from near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, about 
1800. He had been a soldier in the war of 
1812, attaining some rank, and died in 1875, 
aged eighty-four years. For his wife he mar- 
ried Magdalena Ruffner, of Fairfield county, 
and their children were six in number, one of 
whom was Emanuel, a member of the Legisla- 
ture in 1876 and once the Democratic candidate 
for Secretary of State. Mr. H. B. Eyman had 
eight children, namely: D. S., of Fairfield 
county; Samantha, now Mrs. Aaron C. Hender- 
son; Maggie, wife of T. J. Spitler, a wealthy 
farmer of Fairfield county; C. B. ; Frank P., a 
railroad man on the Chicago & Northwestern 
line; Dr. H. C, our subject; Louis E., a drug- 
gist of Lancaster, Ohio; and H. E., train dis- 
patcher on the Northern Pacific Railroad at 
Stephens, Minnesota. 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



Dr. Eyman was married September 12, 1880, 
in Fairtield county, to Miss Lestia, a daiigiiter 
of Warren Dern, a stock dealer of New Salem, 
Ohio, and a native of Pennsylvania. Dr. and 
Mrs. Eyman have an only child, Etliel, born 
August 23, 1881. 



GD. ELLIS, M. D., a plijslcian and sur- 
geon at No. 433 Pearl street, Cleveland, 
was born in Christian county, Kentucky, 
August 6, 1860, a son of William and Anna, 
(Harrison) Ellis, natives respectively of Mary- 
land and Kentucky. In early life the father 
was engaged at the tailor's trade, later, at the 
breaking out of the late war, opened a general 
su])ply store at Hopkinsville, Kentucky, which 
he continued until 1878, and in that year be- 
came owner and manager of the Hopkinsville 
Flouring Mills. The latter was destroyed by 
lire in the fall of 1882. Mr. Ellis then became 
the first manufacturer of artidcial ice in that 
part of the State, which business is still con- 
ducted by his son, F. L. Ellis. During the late 
war, he was a stanch Union man. He has served 
as Councilman of Hopkinsville eight terms, and 
is in every way a most worthy and highly es- 
teemed citizen. He is now eighty-three years 
of age. Mrs. Ellis died in 1885, at the age of 
sixty-four years. 

C. D. Ellis, M. D., the youngest in a family 
of four children, all now living, attended the 
public schools of Hopkinsville, completed the 
studies in the Hopkinsville high school, and 
graduated in the class of 1883. Alter spend- 
ing eighteen months in the practice of medicine 
at Emporia, Kansas, Dr. Ellis came to Cleve- 
land in 1885. In addition to his general prac- 
tice, he is professor of Osteology and Minor 
Surgery in the Cleveland University of Medi- 
cine and Surgery, also Visiting Physician and 
Secretary of the Advisory Board in the Homeo- 
pathic Hospital, a lecturer in the Training 
School for Nurses, and President of the Hahne- 



mann Society. Surgical clinic is held by the 
Doctor every Friday afternoon at the college 
throughout tiie year. 

He was married in 1883, to Miss Ettie Ga- 
boon, a daughter of Thomas and Lizzie Caboon, 
who reside at 374 Franklin avenue, Cleveland. 
His father has been Councilman of this city. 
Mrs. Ellis died in 1888, at the age of twenty- 
seven years, having been a consistent member 
of the Presbyterian Church. In 1890 the Doc- 
tor was united in marriage with Miss May B., 
a daughter of Capt. George and Mary Warner, 
of this city. Mrs. Ellis is a member of the St. 
John's Episcopal Church. In his social rela- 
tions, the Doctor is a member of the Royal 
Arcanum, the Golden Chafn, tiie Homeopathic 
Round Table Club, and was formerly Treasurer 
of the State Homeopathic Medical Society, of 
which he is now a member. In political mat- 
ters, he is identified with the Republican party. 



DR. STANLEY L. THORPE, a physician 
I and surgeon of Cleveland, was born in 
— Sandusky, Ohio, February 28, 1851, a 
son of Dr. Frederick S. and Mary (Kilbourne) 
Thorpe, natives of Granville, this State. The 
father followed the practice of medicine in 
Granville and Sandusky for many years, was a 
man of wide and favorable reputation as a phy- 
sician of the allopathic school, was acquainted 
with the trials and hardships of Ohio pioneer 
medical practice, and was a most wortliy and 
esteemed citizen, as well as a skillful practition- 
er. He was a Republican in political matters, 
and during the latter years of his life held the 
Government position of chief clerk in the cen- 
sus office at Washington, District of Columbia. 
His death occurred in 1862, at the age of forty- 
five years. Dr. Thorpe was a beautiful singer, 
and thus rendered the churches in Sandusky and 
Washington valuable service. Mrs. Thorpe died 
in 1872, at the age of forty-nine years. 

Stanley L., the youngest of three children, 
and the only one now living, received his edu- 



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cation in Sandusky, Cleveland, and in the Se- 
ville Academy. After practicing dentistry for 
a few years, he began reading medicine with 
Dr. H. F. Biggar, and graduated at tlie Homeo- 
pathic Hospital College in Cleveland in 1882. 
He also took a course in the New York Poat- 
Graduate School. Since that time Dr. Thorpe 
has been engaged in the practice of medicine in 
this city, and of late years has made a specialty 
of throat and lung diseases. He has served as 
Physician in the Homeopathic Dispensary one 
year. He is a member of the Ohio State 
Homeopathic Medical Society, of the Round 
Table Club of Cleveland, of the Masonic order, 
is Examining Physician for the Sons of St. 
George, and was a Physician for the National 
Union. Politically, he votes with the Repub- 
lican party. 

Dr. Thorpe was married in 1873, to Miss 
Laviua, a daughter of the late Isaac Gulp. Mr. 
Gulp was a prominent merchant of Medina for 
many years, and died at the age of seventy-five 
years. Dr. and Mrs. Thorpe had six children, 
four of whom still survive. Mrs. Thorpe at- 
tended the Seville high school, and afterward 
pathic Hospital College of this city, in the class 
read medicine and graduated at the Hoineo- 
of 1883. She followed her chosen occupation 
for a number of years, but owing to delicate 
health has retired from active practice. Dr. and 
Mrs. Thorpe are members of the Woodland 
Avenue Congregational Church. 



f(J|ENRY S. BLOSSOM, one of Cleveland's 
Ir^i prosperous business men, was born in 
11 4i Willoughby, Lake county, Ohio, Febrn- 
' ary 2, 1852, a sou of Henry C. Blossom, 

who was a native of Chardon, Ohio, born in 
1822; and the latter was a son of Orrin Blos- 
som, of English ancestry. 

Mr. Henry C. Blossom at the age of sixteen 
years began as a clerk in a general store in 
Painesville, this State, where he remained live 
years. Coming to Cleveland in 1843, he be- 



came a clerk in the hardware store of W. Bing- 
ham, which was located near the present site of 
the magnificent retail department of the W. 
Bingham Company's stores. He soon became 
! a partner in the business, which grew enor- 
mously under his successful management. lu 
this trade he remained until his death, which 
occurred in August, 1883. He was one of the 
leading prosperous business men of Cleveland, 
always taking an active interest in charitable 
institutions and movements. Politically he was 
a Republican. 

His mother, whose maiden name was Emma 
Louisa Nash, was a daughter of Rev. Alvan 
Nash, for many years a Presbyterian minister, 
famous in the Western Reserve and founder of 
the young ladies' seminary at Willoughby, 
Ohio. He graduated at Williams (Massachu- 
setts) College, and came to Ohio in pioneer 
times. Mrs. Emma Louisa Blossom's mother, 
whose maiden name was Abiah Sheldon, was a 
native of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. 

Mr. Blossom, whose name introduces this 
memoir, graduated at the high school in Cleve- 
land and completed his school education at 
Brooklyn (New York) Polytechnic Institute, 
in 1870. In the autumn of this year he en- 
tered the employ of W. Bingham & Company, 
and was admitted as a partner in 1875; in 
1888 a stock company was formed to be known 
as the W. Bingham Company, and Mr. Blos- 
som was elected secretary, which position he 
still occupies. Since he has had this place busi- 
ness has grown from small proportions to one 
of the largest establishments of its kind in the 
United States, carrying on both a wholesale 
and a retail business. The location of the es- 
tablishment is on Water and Superior streets. 

In 1877 Mr. Blossom was married to Miss 
Leila Stocking, a daughter of Zalmon S. Stock- 
ing, and they have had five children, viz.: 
Dudley Stuart, Carl Woodruff, Henry Sheldon, 
Pelhani Hooker and John Theodore. Henry 
S. died at the age of two and a half years. Mrs. 
Blossom died in April, 1892, and in June, 
1893, Mr. Blossom married Eva Gillam Pin- 



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son, of Atlanta, Georgia, a daugliter of the 
noted physician, Dr. Lewis M. Gillam of Geor- 
gia. 

Mr. Blossom is one of the directors of the 
Ciiamber of Commerce of Cleveland, in politics 
he is a Republican and in religion a member of 
the Episcopalian Church. 



W 



jILLIAM R. COATES, Deputy County 
1l\ff ^^^'"^ ^^ Cuyahoga county, was born 
-I '^ in Royalton, this county, November 
17, iSol, a son of John and Lucy (Weld) 
Coates. Soon after his birth his parents moved 
from their log-cabin home to Brecksville, where 
he was reared and received his education, which 
he continued at Oberlin College. At the age 
of seventeen he began teaching district school 
in the township of Brecksville, and continued 
for several years in cunnection with the man- 
agement of a farm. Subsequently he taught i 
high school at Independence, Ohio. Also he 
was a member of the Board of Education for 
seven years, and was influential in establish- 
ing the graded school of Brecksville — the first 
in the county outside of a village or city. He 
was also instrumental in establishing township 
superintendency, his township being the first in 
the county to adopt it. During the twelve 
years he was in the teachers' profession he did 
much institute work in this county, holding 
various offices and being twice its president. 

In 1884 he received the appointment of 
Deputy County Clerk, under Dr. Henry W. 
Kitchen, and continued there until after his 
election to the Sixty-seventh General Assembly. 
For member of this body he received his nomi- 
nation unexpectedly, — indeed it was a great 
surprise to him. At that time he was secre- 
tary of the Republican Central Committee, in 
which oflice he had gained a wide acquaintance 
as well as popularity, — a popularity probably 
much greater than he was aware of. In the 
election he ran considerably ahead of his ticket. 
While in the Legislature he was chosen secre- 



tary of the Cuyahoga county joint delegation, 
and was a member of the standing committees 
on Schools, Fees and Salaries, Temperance and 
Enrollment; and in all his relations here he 
did efficient work in the interests of the public. 
Since his term in the Legislature expired he 
has continuously filled the office of Deputy 
County Clerk. He has been very efficient in 
his labors for the political welfare of his county. 
State and nation. He is a member and Clerk 
of the Board of Education in Brooklyn village. 
Was active in his advocacy of the annexation of 
that suburb to the city of Cleveland, and was 
on April 2d elected Mayor by a large majority 
over a popular competitor. 

He was married in Brecksville, this county, 
in 1872, to Miss Lettie White, daughter of 
Julius and Harriet (Stone) White, and they 
have two children, — Herbert J. and Mary 
Weld, — and are members of the Congregational 
Church. The residence is on Greenwood ave- 
nue in Brooklyn village. 



llOTHAM POTTER, president of the Buck- 
A^ I eye Electric Company, Cleveland, Ohio, is 
^f^ one of the most prominent and enterpris- 
ing of the younger men of the city. Some 
mention of his life is therefore appropriate in 
this work, and is as follows: 

Jotham Potter is of Welsh descent. His an- 
cestors settled in Connecticut in the .seventeenth 
century. Later, his forefathers removed to the 
neighborhood of Morristown, New Jersey, where 
the family has held the same property for eight 
generations, and furnished several distinguished 
officers of the American army in the war for 
independence, and the war of 1812. 

Mr. Potter is a native of the State of Ohio, 
and a son of the Rev. Dr. L. D. Potter, of Glen- 
dale, near Cincinnati, a man widely known in 
educational circles throughout the country. 
Our subject graduated with honors from Prince- 
ton College in 1877, and later received the de- 
gree of M. A. from the same institution. He 



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had a strong taste for the natural sciences, and 
was selected by competitive examination as a 
member of tlie scieutitic expedition sent out by 
the Princeton Museum in 1877. For seteral 
years he was master in the noted Lawrenceville 
school, and subsequently read law, but prior to 
admission to the bar determined to engage in 
commercial affairs. 

He became identified with Cleveland and its in- 
dustries in the fall of 1881, when he made an en- 
gagement with the Brush Electric Company, to 
take charge of his business in Japan, China and 
other Oriental countries. After several months 
of practical preparation in the Cleveland fac- 
tories and in Mr. Brush's laboratory, he sailed 
from San Francisco for Japan in April, 1882, 
having been married in December, 1881, to Miss 
Helen Cary, eldest daughter of the late John E. 
Cary, of Cleveland. Although several English 
and French manufacturers had endeavored to 
get a footho'd in the Orient, Mr. Potter was, in 
fact, the pioneer of the electrical industry in 
that part of the world. He made his residence 
in Yokoliama, Japan, and within a year had 
built up a large and lucrative business. He 
made extensive contracts with the Japanese 
Government for lighting docks, arsenals, war- 
shipa, etc., and established the first central sta- 
tion electric lighting plants in .Japan and China. 

Mr. Potter's operations in oriental countries 
resulted in handsome profits to himself and his 
company, and as a result of the marked ability 
for affairs which he displayed, he was, in 1884, 
recalled to Cleveland to take the offices of treas- 
urer and director of The Brusii Electrical Com- 
pany, returning via India, Egypt and Europe, 
and thus completing the circuit of the globe. 
He was an incorporator of the Swan Lamp 
Manufacturing Company, and of the Short 
Electric Railway Company, both of Cleveland, 
and became vice president of the former and 
president of the latter. Until 1893 he took a 
prominent part in the management of the af- 
fairs of these and their subordinate companies, 
and especially administered their finances, be- 
coming prominently and favorably known in 



financial circles in Cleveland and New York. 
After the formation of the Electrical Trust in 
New York, he sold, in 1893, his interests in 
the various enterprises with which he had been 
prominently identified and retired from their 
management. At the close of the same year, 
however, he became president and a large stock- 
liolder of The Buckeye Electric Company, one 
of Cleveland's prosperous manufacturing con- 
cerns. He is also interested as a stockholder 
in Cleveland banking institutions and various 
manufacturing companies, being a director in 
several. 

Mr. and Mrs. Potter are members of the Eu- 
clid Avenue Presbyterian Church. They have 
two children, Mildred Day and Sheldon Cary. 

Mr. Potter is a Republican in politics. He 
is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Com- 
merce, the Union and Country clubs, the Amer- 
ican Academy for the Advancement of Science, 
the University Club of New York, and President 
of the Cleveland Alumni Association of Prince- 
ton University. 



PjROF. J. ADAM RIMBACH, President 
of the Vorschule of Cleveland, Ohio, was 
born in Elyria. Ohio, October 6, 1871. 
His parents were Heinrich and Elizabeth 
(Brandau) Rimbach, natives of Hessen, Ger- 
many. The father was a cabinet maker by 
trade and located in Elyria in 1852, having 
come to the United States in 1851. He lived 
and died at Elyria after settling there. He died 
in 1878 at the age of fifty-four years. His wife 
died in 1881, at the age of forty-eight years. 
They were members of the Reformed Church 
while they lived in Germany, but on coming to 
Elyria they joined the Lutheran Church. They 
had a family of nine children, three of whom 
died in early life. Three brothers, Henry, Er- 
nest and George are residents of Elyria. John 
resides in Chicago. Anna, the wife of C. F. 
Freitag, resides in Elyria. 



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Professor Riiul)ac;li was educated in Concordia 
Collej^e, Fort Wayne, Indiana, wliere he gradu- 
ated in the claas of 1890. He then attended 
the Concordia Tlieological Seminary of St. Louis, 
Missouri, where lie completed a course in June 
of 1893. In Septemher following he came to 
Cleveland, where he was ordained in the Evan- 
gelical Lutheran Church and assumed charge of 
Vorschule, which had been established a year 
previously, and is really in its infancy; how- 
ever, it gives promise of success. Tiie object 
of the school is to prepare students for entering 
tlie various colleges of the synod of Missouri, 
Ohio and other States. Professor Rimbach is 
assisted by Rev. O. Kolbe, who was formerly 
a pastor of the Newburg Evangelical Luther- 
an Church. In this school the pupils pursue 
all the preparatory studies, including Latin, 
English and German. Professor Rimbach has 
added to his duties English missionary work in 
Cleveland. He is a member of "The German 
Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, 
and other States.'' 

Professor Rimbach is a gentleman of pleasing 
address and easy manners. He is a thorough 
student and has much aptness for his chosen 
profession. He has established a school in 
Cleveland which will prove one of importance 
to his church, and already there are evidences 
that the school will be of gratifying success. 



d I AMES S. STEVE^'S, one of Cleveland's 
; prominent and successful business men, is 
a native of Cambridgesliire, England, 
where he was born in the year 1843, the son and 
only child of Alfred R. and Mary A. Stevens. 
His parents emigrated to America in 1850 and 
located in Cleveland, where their son received 
his educational training in the public schools. 
The father died in 1880 at an advanced age, 
but the mother still survives, being a resident 
of the Forest City, where the major portion of 
her life has been passed. Alfred Stevens was a 



contractor and builder, and a skilled operative 
in the line of his profession, which he followed 
for many years in Cleveland. 

Our subject devoted himself for some time 
to tile line of work in which his father was en- 
gaged, becoming familiar with the details of the 
same under the effective direction of the latter. 
He later served an apprenticeship at the print- 
er's trade, in the oliice of the Plaiudealer, but 
subsequently his attention was again directed to 
mechanical pursuits, for which he manifested a 
marked aptitude and distinctive genius. For a 
time he was engaged in manufacturing, and 
while thus employed he gave evidence of his 
inventive genius, by the designing of special 
machinery for the manufacturing of cable 
lightning rods, with which products the estab- 
lishment supplied stock to George A. Baker, 
wlio was at that time one of the most success- 
ful and most widely known lightning rod 
manufacturers and dealers in the Union. Mr. 
Stevens was identified with manufacturing in- 
terests in the city of Cleveland for a period of 
four years, after which he went West. After a 
period of two or three years' unsettled location 
in that section of the country, he finally made 
a permanent location in Missouri, where he re- 
mained for three years, within which time he 
conceived the idea which eventuated in the 
inventing and patenting of the "Stevens Dish- 
washer," upon which unique and valuable de- 
vice he received letters patent July 20, 1886. 
This mackine he has since materially improved 
until it now stands at the point of maximum 
excellence as accomplishing the work for which 
it Wiis designed. 

Cognizant of Cleveland's position as a manu- 
facturing and trade center, and realizing tiie 
advantages to be gained by a location here, he 
returned to the city in 1887, and at once effected 
the organization of a stock company for the 
manufacturing of this dishwashing machine, 
which was soon thereafter placed upon the 
market, meeting with a ready demand, and 
eventually proving so popular as to extend the 
business of the company into the most diverse 




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GUYAMUQA COUJ^TY. 



sections of the Union, and even into foreign 
eonntriee. Mr. Stevens is president of the com- 
pany, vpliose business affairs he has brought into ■ 
a most prosperous and substantial condition. 
In addition to this conspicuous enterprise, 
Mr. Stevens has also devoted much attention to 
the upbuilding of the city, no one man proba- 
bly having done more to bring about the sub- 
stantial improvement of East Cleveland. Upon 
his own responsibility he has secured land in 
that section of the city, has platted and subdi- 
vided the same and carried vigorously forward 
the work of erecting dwellitig houses of the 
better class, the cost of the same ranging in 
price from $2,000 to $20,000. Witliin the past 
six years he has individually erected an annual 
average of thirty-six houses in East Cleveland. 
Having perfected all improvements npon the 
various pieces of property, be places tiiem on 
the market, his efforts in the line redounding 
greatly to the benefit of the city. In this im- 
portant enterprise, Mr. Stevens constantly 
retains in his employ somewhat less than 100 
skilled mechanics. 

Aside from the conspicuous interests already 
noted, he has other important business relations, 
being a stockholder in each, the East End and 
Woodland Banks, the Union Building & Loan" 
Association, and the Permanent Building & 
Loan Association. Tiiese several interests are 
pointed out as being indicatory of the fact that 
Mr. Stevens is an active, successful and pro- 
gressive business man. 

In the year 1866 he was united in marriage 
to Miss Mary Champ, who died, leaving one 
child, Alfred J., who is now connected with the 
Cleveland Grease & Oil Company. In 1872 
our subject consummated his second marriage, 
being then united to Miss Ellen V. Anderson. 
They have had five children, two of whom, 
George and Helen, are deceased. The three 
living are Bertram J., Ernest L. and Dorothy. 
They are members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. 

Our subject is a man of unassuming nature, 
devoted to his family, averse to public or po- 



litical notoriety, and yet, withal, is a genial, 
social spirit, whose friends are in number as his 
acquaintances. He is a lover of field sports, 
being acknowledged as one of the best wing and 
field shots in the city of Cleveland. 

The attractive homestead of the family is 
located on Amesbnry avenue, and Mr. Stevens 
has also a tine country seat, at Willoughby, the 
same being a farm of 120 acres. Here the 
family are wont to pass a portion of each 



rj|ENKY REYNOLDS HATCH.— Few, 
fpl, if any, of Cleveland's representative men 
Ji 4- and honored citizens occupy a more 
^ prominent position than does Mr. Henry 

R. Hatch, head of the large dry-goods house of 
H. R. Hatch &. Company, successors to the well 
known firm of E. I. Baldwin, Hatch & Com- 
pany. 

Mr. Hatch was born in the year 1880, at 
Grand Isle, Vermont. His father was Abijah 
Hatch, a native of Highgate, Vermont, and his 
mother was Abigail Lyon, who was born at 
Charlotte, Vermont, and was the daughter of 
the Rev. Asa Lyon, who represented one of the 
Vermont districts in Congress for two years. 

Mr. Hatch was reared upon his father's farm 
until he reached his fifteenth year, at which age 
he entered the store of John Brown, at North 
Hero, Vermont, he having had from childhood 
a desire for a mercantile life. But upon being 
installed in this his first position he found it not 
altogether a desirable one, and so returned to the 
farm, where he remained two years, all the time 
on the lookout for another mercantile position, 
and then secured a situation in the store of C. 
F. Staniford at Burlington, Vermont, promising 
his father, however, to return and assist him 
during the busy seasons on the farm as a com- 
pensation for time, as he was still under age. 
The embryo merchant remained with Mr. 
Staniford one year, receiving as compensation 
for his services $40 and his board. Next he 



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was employed by S. L. Herrick, a dry-goods 
luercliaiit of the same city, at a salary of $125 
and board, and making Lis home with his em- 
ployer. 

After spending about eighteen months with 
Mr. Herrick, and although perfectly satisfied 
with his work and surroundings, and having 
every reason io believe that he was entirely 
satisfactory to his employer, as he was ofifered 
an interest in the business, — Mr. Hatch de- 
termined to come West, being imbued with the 
idea that here he would find greater opportun- 
ities for working out his future. Accordingly 
he purchased a ticket for St. Paul, Minneapolis, 
and on the 32d day of March, 1853, he started 
on his long journey. Upon his arrival at Cleve- 
land, en route, and having an acquaintance liv- 
ing in this city, whom he met, he was persuaded 
to remain over a day or two, and during his 
stay his friend's employer — Mr. Sackrider of 
the firm of Palmer & Sackrider, — accosted the 
young traveler with: " I believe you are seeking 
business, Mr. Hatch. Allow me to introduce 
you to a young man who is just embarking in 
business. Mr. E. I. Baldwin." After a brief 
conversation between the two young men, dur- 
ing which ideas were exchanged, and a mutual 
admiration formed, Mr. Hatch entered into an 
agreement by which he was to render his serv- 
ices to the firm of E. I. B ddwin & Company, at 
a salary of $500 a year, and his journey farther 
west was terminated then and there. Within 
three months Mr. Hatch was made head clerk 
of this thriving house, and at the end of two 
years and seven months was offered and ac- 
cepted an interest in the business. The amount 
of business transacted by the firm at that time 
(1856) was about $275,000 a year. The follow- 
ing year was the first of the noted financial panic 
throughout the country, and Mr. Hatch found, 
in company with his partner, a heavy weight 
upon his young shoulders, but he stood firm and 
passed through successfully. 

About 1860 the city of Cleveland began to 
secure a number of manufacturing concerns, and 
soon after tiiat, the war breaking out, business 



began to revive, and the financial prospects of 
the young merchant began to brighten. As 
early as 1866 the firm of E. I. Baldwin & Com- 
pany saw that the future would bring a great 
rtduction in values, and at once began to reduce 
the stock in their wholesale department, which by 
hard pushing was brought down to almost 
nothing. The judgment and foresight of the 
firm was amply demonstrated in a compar- 
atively short time afterward, and redounded to 
to their credit and ronnd standing both at iiome 
and abroad. 

In 1867 Mr. Baldwin, the head of the firm, 
on account of failing health was compelled to 
go abroad, and this threw the burden of tiie 
entire business upon Mr. Hatch. In 1856 Mr. 
S. I. Baldwin, father of Mr. E. 1., who was in- 
terested in the firm financially, withdrew from 
the same, and then E. I. Baldwin and Mr. 
Hatch constituted the firm of E. I. Baldwin & 
Company until during the '70s, when Messrs. 
W. S. Tyler and G. C. F. Hayne entered it, 
and the firm name was later changed to E. I. 
Baldwin, Hatch & Company. The above gentle- 
men subsequently withdrew from the business 
on account of failing health. The business 
continued to grow meanwhile, until it reached 
the magnitude of almost a million dollars an- 
nually, and other partners were admitted. For 
several years prior to his death the health of 
Mr. Baldwin was such that he was unable to 
give much of his time and attention to the busi- 
ness in general, and the details, of the same 
were left to Mr. Hatch and the junior partners. 
Upon the death of Mr. Baldwin, Mr. Hatch as- 
sumed all the responsibilities of the firm of E. 
I. Baldwin, Hatch & Company -taking Mr. 
Baldwin's interest and retaining all the junior 
partners with the exception of N. S. Jenkins, 
who was compelled to retire on account of fail- 
ing health. 

It is Mr. Hatch's aim and purpose in assiim- 
ing the business to conduct it upon the same 
high plan which brought such worthy success 
to the old firm, and to increase and extend it 
as the ntieds of the growing city of Cleveland 



OUTAGOUA COUNTY. 



require. Mr. Hatch has not conlined his at- 
tention altogether to tlie business of his firm, 
but has been and is at present connected with 
several well-known and successful institutions 
of the city. He was a corporate member and 
for several years one of the finance committee 
of the old Savings Society; was one of theorig- 
ginal stockholders and directors of the Cleve- 
land National Bank; one of the the original 
members and one of the fiuance committee of 
the Savings and Trust Company, and is Vice 
President and Trustee of Lake View Cemetery 
Association. He is also an active member of 
the Chamber of Commerce. 

Mr. Hatch is and has been for several years 
an Elder of the Euclid Avenue Presbyterian 
Church. He is Vice President of the Humane 
Society, and in tliis direction has rendered valu- 
able and lasting service to humanity. In 1890 
he purchased ground and on the same erected a 
permanent building for waifs at a total cost of 
$20,000, which is a memorial to his deceased 
wife and is known as The Lyda Baldwin In- 
fants' Rest. He was one of the original mem- 
bers of the Associated Charities of the Bethel, 
and continued to hold the membership therein 
tor many years, and was active in securing the 
building for that institution. He is also a 
Trustee of the Young Women's Ciiristian As- 
sociation. He is of a sympathetic and chari- 
table nature, and his donations to charity have 
ever been generous alike to organized institu- 
tions and to individuals. As a citizen he is 
progressive, wide and liberal in liis views, and 
is always to be found on the sound and conser- 
vative side of all public movements, lending his 
aid and influence to all worthy enterprises hav- 
ing for their object the welfare and building 
up of his adopted city and losing no opportun- 
ity of advancing and increasing her commercial, 
industrial and social importance. 

Mr. Hatch has spent two years and six 
months in Europe traveling with his family, 
during which time he visited all the points of 
interest upon the continent and the British isles 
and the Mediterranean countries, his travels ex- 



tending out of the ordinary bounds of tourists, 
particularly of business men, he visiting parts 
of Russia, Norway, Sweden, Egypt, Palestine 
and Greece. 

In October, 1857, Mr. Hatch was married to 
Miss Lyda Baldwin, of New Haven, Connecti- 
cut, who was a sister to the late E. I. Baldwin, 
and was a most estimable woman, and much be- 
loved by all who knew her. Her death occurred 
in May, 1886. Six children were born to tliis 
union, four dying in infancy. The living chil- 
dren are Alice G., wife of Charles L. Peck, of 
Cleveland, and Miss Anna L. 

In November, 1888, Mr. Hatch was married 
to Mary Cummings Brown, of Newark, New 
Jersey, and to their union one daughter has 
been born, Esther. 



[1 T. HILLS, attorney at law, Cleveland.— 
l\ Like most Americans, Mr. Hills is un- 
^ able to trace his ancestry through many 
enerations to some remote and distin- 
guished personage. He is a descendant in the 
fifth generation from one Charles Hills, who, 
coming from England, settled in New York 
city during the latter part of the seventeenth 
century. The family remained in New York 
State until our subject's great-grandfather, also 
bearing the name. Charles removed to Ohio, 
settling in the southwestern part of the West- 
ern Reserve, in the year 1820, with a portion 
of his family, including Thomas, grandfather 
of A. T. Charles Hills married Elizabeth Frost, 
who had come with her parents from Holland 
about 1760. Charles and Elizabeth Hills had 
nine children, of whom Thomas, the fourth, 
was born in the year 1794. He was married in 
1822, to Susannah Aumend, whose father, Adam 
Aumend, had come from Holland, and whose 
mother, nee Christina Albright, was a native of 
Wittenberg, Germany. These parents were 
married in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and later 
resided in Huntingdon, same State until 1820. 
Christina was a descendant of the family from 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



whom the religious sect of Albrights took its 
name. Adam and Christina Anmend removed 
to Ohio, settling in 1820, in the northern part 
of liichland county, Susannah being then twen- 
ty-eight years old and the eldest child. Thomas 
Hills resided upon a farm in the vicinity of 
Plymouth, Richland county, which he entered 
from the Government in 1826 and cleared of 
its dense forest. Of their six children, George 
Albright Hills, the second born, was the father 
of A. T., whose name introduces this sketch. 

After attaining his majority Mr. George Hills 
remained with his parents, caririg for them in 
their declining years, and succeeded to the 
homestead, which he still owns and occupies at 
the age of sixty-eight years. January 5, 1854, 
Mr. George Hills married Sarah A. Jones, of 
Scotch and Welsh descent, her ancestors having 
come to this country during the Colonial period 
and actively engaged in the Revolutionary war. 
George and Sarah Hills had seven children, 
namely: Adin Thomas, our subject; Florence 
Elizabeth, Watson James, Artie Susannah, Mary 
Frances, Carrie Bell and Andrew Jackson, all 
of whom — both parents and children — are still 
living excepting Andrew, who died in 1890, at 
the age of twenty-two years; Florence and Cai-- 
rie are unmarried and reside with their pai-ents 
on the farm; Artie married James Gibson and 
lives in Salt Lake City; Mary is likewise un- 
married and resides with Artie; Watson James 
is married and is a resident of Laramie, Wyo- 
ming, where he is practicing law and speculat- 
ing in laud. 

Mr. A. T. Hills, the eldest of the family, was 
bjrn on the old homestead, October 20, 1854, 
and, like his brothers and sisters, was brought 
upon the farm, where he remained until of age. 
He completed his school days at the high school 
of the village of Plymouth, Ohio, during the 
winters when he was twenty and twenty-one 
years old, and thereafter taught a district school 
in the neigborliood for one term of six months. 
Determining to attend college he began prepar- 
ation by studying Latin and Greek, under tiie 
instruction of Rev. Howard S. Stough, now 



professor of languages at Midland College. 
He entered Wittenberg College at Springfield, 
Ohio, in 1876, and graduated in 1880, having 
completed a full classical course. 

In the following August he commenced the 
study of law in the office of Dirlam & Leyman 
at Mansfield, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar 
in May, 1882. In August he came to Cleve- 
land and began the practice of ids chosen pro- 
fession, opening an office at 219 Superior street, 
w'here he remained until the spring of 1884, 
when he formed a partnership with M. B. Gary 
and N. A. Gilbert, under the firm name of 
Gary, Gilbert &, Hills, located at 243 Superior 
street. In 1885 Mr. Gary retired from the 
firm, since which time the firm name has been 
Gilbert ife Hills. Mr. Hills has pursued a gen- 
eral practice, and has had charge of a number 
of important cases. He has met with success 
as an attorney, and has secured a Mmi place at 
the bar, being regarded one of the leading 
young members. He was one of the first at- 
torneys in the celebrated Reason Glass will 
furgery case at Ashland, Ohio. He wrote a 
small treatise, '• On Commercial Law,'" for use 
in schools and business colleges, which was pub- 
lished in 1898. 

Mr. Hills was married in June, 1886, to Miss 
Sarah C. Tucker, daughter of J. A. Tucker, M. 
D., a physician practicing at Plymouth, this 
State, and they have three children, — Homer, 
Myra and Harold. Mr. Hills is a member of 
the Second Presbyterian Church. 



^j^jEV. PHILIP STEMPEL, formerly pas- 
1^^ tor of the Protestant Evangelical Church 
JJ ^ at West Side, Cleveland, Ohio, was born 
V at Lambsheim, Germany, July 2, 1824. 

His parents, David and Frederica (Staehler) 
Stempel, died in the old country; they had three 
sons and two daughters, of whom' the subject 
of this eketcli was the youngest and the only 
one who came to America. 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



Mr. Stempel was educated at Kaiserslantern, 
Germany, and came to America in 1849, set- 
tling at Brighton, Cuyahoga county, where he 
was a teacher and a pastor at the same time for 
four years. Desiring a broader field of work 
he removed to Cle^-eland, in 1853, where he 
was pastor of a congregation which met in a 
small frame building on Kentucky street. The 
corner-stone of the first house of worship be- 
longing to this society was laid November 28, 
1853, and the corner-stone of their next 
building was laid September 18, 1859; and 
the corner-stone of the present church edi- 
fice, where Kev. William Angelberger is 
pastor, was laid July 28, 1866. Mr. Stempel 
built and served in these three churches 
an aggregate of twenty-two years. He was a 
very successful minister, industrious in the 
cause of his Master. 

In 1875 he accepted a call to Hamilton, 
Ohio, where he served until some time in the 
spring of 1889, when, owing to ill health, 
he determined to spend the remainder of his 
lite among the scenes of his first labors. Dur- 
ing his ministry he baptized 5,301 persons, 
bm-ied 5,242, married 4,402, confirmed 2,770 
children, and administered communion to 11,- 
992 people. As a citizen he won the esteem of 
all who knew him. He was a man of large 
ability and an earnest Christian worker. In 
the Conference of the German Protestant 
Evangelical Church he was a prominent figure. 
Previous to his sickness, he had taken the 
deepest interest in everything which was de- 
signed for the advancement of the public good, 
especially in church channels. 

He was married October 25, 1853, to Miss 
Elizabeth Gerlach, daughter of Henry and 
Catherine Gerlach, natives of Germany, and at 
that time residents of Cleveland. lu the family 
were four daughters, namely: Katie, wile of 
George Rupp of Hamilton. Ohio, whose living 
children are Nettie E.. George S. and Waldo J.; 
Jennie, a graduate of Hope Seminary, Indiana, 
and is a teacher in the public schools of Cleve- 
land; Anna, who married Prof. Jesse Blick- 



ensderfer, resides at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 
having two children, — Jesse and Raymond; 
Elise, now Mrs. W. Dringfelder, residing at 
Hamilton, Ohio, and has two children, — Louise 
and Willie. All the family are members of 
the church of their noble parents. 



., EV. WILLIAM ANGELBERGER, pas- 
i/ tor of the United German Evangelical 
*^ Church, corner of Bridge and Ken- 
tucky streets, Cleveland, Ohio, was born 
in Welschneurtuth, Baden, Germany, October 
20, 1844. His birthplace is located only a 
short distance from Karlsruhe, the capital of 
Baden, which was originally a French colony of 
Protestant people who had been expelled from 
France at the time the edict of Nantes was re- 
pealed, in 1685. His parents, honored resi- 
dents of that place, were Johann and Magdalena 
(Durand) Angelberger, both of whom are now 
deceased. Our subject received his education 
partly in his UMtive home, partly at Basel, 
Switzerland. Jacob Angelberger, grandfather 
of the subject of this review, was for many 
years Rathschreiber, or clerk of the town board 
in the colony noted. His maternal grand- 
father, John Durand, was a school teacher of 
that place for a long term of years, and after- 
ward held the position as principal of the 
school in one of the neighboring towns, Eggen- 
stein. A number of his pupils are residents of 
Cleveland at the present time. 

The father of our subject was a fresco 
painter, an artist in his line and a man honored 
and esteemed by all. He died in 1871 at the 
age of fifty-five years, and three years later his 
wife died, aged fifty-six years. William Angel- 
berger is the second in a family of five children, 
namely: Minnie, director of a kindergarten at 
her native village; our subject; Henry, who 
came to this country in 1872 and died in Wis- 
consin, at the age of forty-one j'ears; Carl, who 
is a contractor in Cleveland; and Fred, who is 
Mayor of his native town of Welschneureuth. It 



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is worthy of incidental note tliat the father held 
a distinctive preferment in this village, having 
been a member of the Church Council, which 
was a position of much responsibility, whose 
tenure was a significant voucher for the ability 
of the official and for the confidence in whicli he 
was held in the community. 

Rev. "William Angelberger received his 
theological education at Basel, Switzerland, and 
was ordained to the ministry of the Lutheran 
Church at Weier, Alsacp, by Inspector Buec-li- 
senschuetz, who was inspector of the diocese of 
Lueghselstein. In 1870 our subject came to 
America, having been sent hither by the mis- 
sionary society of Basel. He located in the 
nothern part of Illinois, wlience lie later re- 
moved to southern Wisconsin, thence to the 
State of New York, and finally, in 1880, to 
Cleveland, where he accepted charge of his 
present congregation, working arduously and 
faithfully. His church was organized in 1853 
by Rev. Philip Steinpel, who remained in pas- 
toral charge until about the year 1876, when he 
accepted a call from Hamilton, Ohio. After 
his removal the church fell into unfortunate 
desuetude. When the present pastor assumed 
charge four years afterward, he had thus a 
heavy burden to bear, a herculean task to ac- 
complish, in rehabilitating the church and in- 
fusing new vigor into the work. In accom- 
plishing the desired ends he was altogether suc- 
cessful, bringing about the upbuilding of a good, 
strong and progressive church organization. 
Ihe church is the second oldest of its denomi- 
nation in the city of Cleveland, and its member- 
sliip represents about 350 families. 

The admirable success of the popular pastor 
of the church has been due to untiring energy 
and well directed effort, with the enlistment of 
tl)e hearty support of a kind and liberal-hearted 
people. On coming to America Rev. Angel- 
berger united with the Evangelical Synod of 
North America, to which he now belongs, being 
of the Ohio district. 

He was married in 1871 to Miss Lena 
Engel, daughter of George and Maggie Engel, 



who came from Alsace, Germany. Rev. and 
Mrs. Angelljerger are the parents of three in- 
teresting children: Minnie, Lillie and Lenchen. 
Two children, Willie and Carl, are deceased. 

The subject of this review is in nature and 
temperament much of an optimist, cheerful in 
disposition, courteous and scholarly and popu- 
lar with all who know him. He has traveled 
extensively, has seen much of the world and is 
broad and progrissive in his views, standing as 
a most worthy representative of the church of 
his choice. 



'JJ^jEV. EBENEZER BCSHNELL, D. D., 
Y^^ a Presbyterian minister of Cleveland, 
IJ ^ was born at Granville, Ohio, November 
^ 18, 1822, now the only child living of 

Thomas H. and Charlotte (Bailey) Bushuell. 
The senior Bushneil was a civil engineer and 
surveyor, following his vocation until his death 
in 1838, at the age of forty- nine years. He 
was noted for his painstaking accuracy, in which 
he had great ambition, and this talent and dis- 
position he had inherited from his father, a 
graduate of Yale College. He was a prominent 
man both in his profession and society. 

The gentleman whose name heads this sketch 
has been a minister of the gospel ever since 
1850. As a pastor he had one place twenty- 
five years, namely, Fremont, this State; and he 
was pastor at Burton, Geauga county, Ohio, 
seven years; at present he is preaching only 
occasionally, having left the pastorate in 1882, 
on account of failing health. He graduated in 
1846, at Western Reserve College, afterward 
named Adelbert College, of which he is now 
secretary and treasurer, when that institution 
was at Hudson. To defray his expenses at 
college he learned the carpenter's trade, taugiit 
vocal music, etc. Toward the last of his school 
life he was principal of the preparatory school 
and then tutor in the college. On the organi- 
zation of Western Reserve University in 1881, 
he became a Trustee and Secretary and Treas- 



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iirer of that cluster of institutions, having 
been a Trustee of Western Keserve College 
since 1861. He is a member of the Phi Beta 
Kappa and the Delta Kappa Epsilon societies. 
In his political principles he is a liepublican. 
He had an uncle in tlie war of 1812, and a 
brother in the great war of 1861, and he him- 
self assisted in the raising of soldiers for the 
last war, and during the last year of this strug- 
gle he was in the service of the Christian com- 
mission in the Army of the Potomac. 

In 1850 he married Miss Julia E. Baldwin, a 
daughter of Sylvester Baldwin, of Hudson, 
and tliey had four cliildren, namely: Eliza, 
wife of William A. Byal, of Findlay, Ohio; 
George B. of Cleveland; Albert, a clerk in the 
general Post Office Department at Washington; 
and T- H., a lawyer of Hurley, Wisconsin. 
Mrs. Bushnell died in September, 1856. and in 
1858 Mr. Bushnell married Miss Cornelia 
Woodrufl", of Mansfield, this State, and a daugh- 
ter of Rev. Simeon AVoodruff, and by this 
marriage there are three children, — Annie, 
Charlotte and Edward. Mrs. Bushnell has been 
very prominent in the church missionary 
societies. 

Mr. Bnshnell's remote ancestry were English, 
and one of his forefathers was prominent in the 
early history of Norwich, Connecticut, and 
another invented a torpedo for the destruction 
of war vessels. 



EV. G. HEINMILLER, editor of the 
Christliche Botschafter, the German 
official organ of the Evangelical Associa- 
tion, was born in Albany, New York, 
October 15, 1853. 

His parents, Henry and Helena (Reich) Hein- 
miller, natives of Germany, were married in 
Hesse, and came to the United States in 1852, 
settling in Albany, New York, from whence 
they subsequently removed to Howard county, 
Iowa. Their removal to Iowa was in 1869. 
Henry Ileinmiller was a recruit in the German 



army, but was in no wars. After locating in 
Albany he worked at the trade of cabinetmaker, 
and upon going to Iowa he settled down to the 
quiet life of a farmer. He is still living, now 
in his seventy-fourth year, he having been born 
in 1820. His good wife passed away in 1892, 
at the age of sixty-eight years. Hers was a 
lovely Christian character and she was a devoted 
member of the Evangelical Association. Mr. 
Heinmiller has for many years been a member 
of this church. He is now retired from active 
life. They had a family of ten children, all of 
whom are living except two. The oldest, Jacob, 
who was a journalist in Albany, New York, died 
at the age of thirty-eight years; and the young- 
est, Emma, died at the age of fourteen. 

After attending the public schools in Albany, 
New York, and in Iowa, the subject of our 
sketch entered the Northwestern College at 
Naperville, Illinois. He also taught school one 
term, and while attending and teaching school 
he began the work of the ministry. In 1878 
he went as a missionary to Europe, and was at 
Dresden, Strassburg, and Reutlingen, having 
his home longest at the last named place. 
He was engaged as teacher in the seminary 
of his church for a period of six years, this 
institution being a missionary seminary in 
Wurttemberg. 

In 1891 Mr. Heinmilier was elected to his 
present position for a term of four years, by the 
General Conference of his Church, and was 
recalled from tlie old country. Altogether 
he spent thirteen years in Europe, six years 
as teacher and seven years as an itinerant 
minister. In the mean time, in 1883, he 
returned to America as a delegate to the Gen- 
eral Conference at Allentown. He was also a 
delegate to the General Conference of 1891, at 
Indianapolis. 

Rev. Heinmiller is au imposing figure, of a 
stately physique and fine cut features, which, in 
connection with his genial disposition, brings 
him in favor with all who cultivate his acquaint- 
ance. He is a deep thinker, and has always 
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Study of abstruse problems, and thus has gath- 
ered a rich treasury of kuowledge in many 
branches of science. He is particularly well 
versed in the diversified phases of dogmatics, 
and is perfectly conversant with ancient and 
modern literature and thought. He has served 
the church in various relations, such as Presid- 
ing Elder, editor of European publications, 
teacher, etc., and at this writing is editor of the 
Christliche Botschafter, the oldest, largest and 
most widely circulated religious weekly publica- 
tion in America. 

His sermons are logical, full of thought, de- 
livered in elegant language and a forcible style, 
and carry with them the force of convicticm. 
As a writer, he wields a fluent pen, and has the 
happy faculty of saying much in few words, 
always to the point and just what he means. In 
his private intercourse, he is rather backward 
and modest, which explains the reason why he 
had to be brought foith and pushed to a front 
position in his church. A man of deep piety 
and profound sincerity in all his relations with 
his lellowmen, he has before him the prospects 
of a grand future which waits to crown with 
success every character of merit. 



EORGE G. MULHERN, superintendent 
I of the Cleveland City Railway Company, 
is a most familiar figure in the ranks of 
Cleveland business men. He c-anie to 
this city thirty- two years ago from Cornwall, 
Ontario, almost a beardle.-s youth, and secured 
work as a day laborer on the street railroad, be- 
ing then built on Ontario street. His next job 
was as a lumber piler for Mr. Sturtevant, then a 
large dealer on the river. A grocery clerk- 
ship next offered itself to Mr. Mulhern, aud at 
this business he remained until 1863, when he 
became a street-car conductor on the West Side, 
and in 1S67 was promoted to the position of 
superintendent of the line. In 1870 Mr. Mul- 
hern was elected superintendent of the Rocky 



River steam railroad, and when it was sold out 
to the New York, Pennsylvania, & Ohio, eight 
years later, he returned to the West Side line 
in the same capacity. 

Mr. Mulhern is a thorough railroad man. 
Many and wonderful changes have been wrought 
in rapid transit for Cleveland under his pro- 
gressive regime. He has developed a great 
system of roads from a few small lines cover- 
ing what are now down -town streets. He is a 
man whom experience educated. The common 
schools put him in possession of a frail form, 
and work and experience braced it up and tilled 
in the necessary material to produce a practical 
and competent man. 

In 1889 Mr. Mulhern was elected unani- 
mously a member of the Board of Education, 
to till a vacancy. In politics he supports his 
friends for office, but on que^tions of State and 
national importance he is Democratic. 

In September, 1869, George C. Mulhern 
married Mattie, a daughter of W. B. Smith, 
from Linden, New York, who for sixty years 
was a resident of Cleveland, and in later life 
engaged in the undertaker's business. Two 
daughters are the only children of Mr. and 
Mrs. Mulhern: Mabel, a graduate of the Cleve- 
land high school; and Maud. 



EDWARD A. MERRITT, auditor and 
assistant treasurer of the Cleveland Stone 
1 Company, is a native of Marquette, 

Michigan, where he was born February 12, 
1862. He is a son of Daniel II. and Harriet L. 
Merritt. Both parents are residents of Mar- 
quette, Michigan, where they have resided since 
1857. For a period of about tive years the 
father resided in Cleveland. He was in the 
employ of the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Rail- 
way Company. He followed the railroad busi- 
ness until 1875, since which date he has been 
interested in the iron business in the Lake 
Superior district 



CUTAUOOA COUNTY. 



The subject of this sketch was reared in 
Michigan and educated in the higli schools at 
Marquette. He attended Racine College, Racine, 
Wisconsin, for a period of five years, and grad- 
uated at the preparatory school in July, 1879. 
In October of that year he came to Cleveland 
and took a course in the business college of 
Bryant & Stratton. He then returned to Mar- 
quette, Michigan, and in 1880 engaged in busi- 
ness with his father, with wiioin he was associ- 
ated until July, 1888, when he came to Cleve- 
land and engaged with tiie Cleveland Stone 
Company as auditor and assistant treasurer, also 
taking stock in the business, and since the above 
date Mr. Merritt has given his entire attention 
to the interests of this company. He was elected 
a director of the company in January, 1889, and 
still holds the same position. Mr. Merritt is a 
thorough and practical business man, and is 
well adapted for the position he now holds. 

December 15, 1886, Mr. Merritt married 
Matilda, the daughter of John Huntington, of 
Cleveland. 



[[ J ON". A. M. BURNS, of Cleveland, is a 
fpl son of the late Rev. Andrew Burns, of 
11 4i Chagrin Falls, Cuyahoga county. He 
^ was born February 27, 1840, in Richland 

county, Ohio. He attended the common and 
academic schools in the vicinity of his home, 
and, after several terms of school-teaching, be- 
gan the study of law at Mansfield, Ohio, in the 
office of his uncle, the late Hon. Barnabas 
Burns, and Judge Moses R. Dickey, now of 
Cleveland. He was admitted to the bar April 
8, 1861, at Columbus, Ohio. 

The Civil war being then at hand he enlisted 
as a private in the Fifteenth Regiment Ohio 
Infantry Volunteers, April 17, 1861, and served 
in the campaign of that year in the operations 
in Cheat River valley, and the battles of Phil- 
lipi and Ricii Mountain, which resulted in 
driving the enemy out of that portion of Vii-- 
ginia; assisted in recruiting and reoi'ganizing 



the regiment for three years' service in August 
and September; was appointed First Lieutenant 
and marched into Kentucky in October, 1861; 
served for a time on the staff of Brigadier Gen- 
eral A. McD. McCook as aid de-camp; com- 
manded his company in the battle of Shiloh, 
Tennessee, being twice slightly wounded, and 
was promoted as Captain April 30, 1862, for 
gallant and meritorious services in the battle of 
Shiloh; and took part in the siege of Corinth, 
Mississippi, being almost daily under fire until 
its capture. May 29, 1862. 




On June 8 he started on the long march to 
Chattanooga, Nashville and Louisville, where 
the army arrived in time to save from the 
enemy the rich military stores in that city, and 
to head oft' the threatened invasion of Indiana 
and Ohio; thence to Lawrenceburg, October 6; 
Dog Walk, October 7; and Perrysville, Ken- 
tucky, October 8, — on each of these days being 
eng.(ged in battle with the Confederate corps of 
General E. Kirby Smith. The march, now a 
pursuit, continued to Cumberland Gap, and 
ended November 7, 1862, in front of Murfrees- 
borough, Tennessee; and here the battle of 



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Stone River was fought, beginning on Decem- 
ber 31, 1862, and ending January 3, 1863, in 
complete defeat of the enemy in one of the 
fiercest battles of the war. Mr. Burns rendered 
such services, in rallying and reforming the 
broken organizations and resisting the sweep- 
ing charge of the enemy on the first day of the 
battle, as to elicit the commendation of General 
Sheridan on the field in presence of the troops. 
The hardships and exposures of this campaign 
and battle prostrated him in a long and danger- 
ous illness, causing his resignation and honor- 
able discharge on March 23, 1863. 

The interval to May, 1864, he spent, so far as 
health permitted, in the recruiting service and 
in assisting to organize and drill the One Hun- 
dred and Sixty-third Regiment Ohio Infantry 
Volunteers, with which he marched to Wash- 
ington, District of Columbia. Here he served 
on staff duty as Assistant Adjutant General and 
Inspector in the Twenty-second Army Corps 
until, being ordered to the front with his regi- 
ment, ho arrived at Deep Bottom Bridge, Vir- 
ginia, about June 14, 1864, and took position 
in front of Petersburg at Fort Walthall, on the 
Appomattox river; was again detailed on staff 
duty as Assistant Adjutant General and Chief 
of Staff of the First Brigade, Third Division, 
Tenth Army Corps, Brigadier General Gilman 
Marston commanding. He rendered meritori- 
ous services in the campaign of that year in 
front of Petersburg, Virginia, being engaged 
in many of the battles and skirmishes in that 
vicinity, and was tendered an appointment as 
Assistant Adjutant General of United States 
Volunteers with rank as Major, but declined, 
and was honorably discharged from the service 
about October 1, 1864. At the close of the 
w-ar he was tendered and declined the commis- 
sion as Brevet Brigadier General of the United 
States Volunteers, " for faithful and efficient 
services during the war."' 

After his return from the army he located at 
Mansfield, Ohio, and there began the practice 
of law. He was elected City Solicitor for Mans- 
field in 1865, and again in 1867. In politics 



Major Burns has always been an ardent Repub- 
lican, and as such was elected to the State 
Senate in 1873, and again in 1875, from the 
Twenty-seventh and Twenty-ninth joint Sena- 
torial Districts of Ohio. His legislative career 
extended from 1873 to 1877, and during this 
period he was also a member of the Republican 
State Central Committee, of which committee 
he served for a time as chairman, and in 1876 
was elected one of the Republican Presidential 
electors for Ohio. While a member of the 
Senate of Ohio, he was distinguished as a legis- 
lator. He is the author of what is known as 
the "Burns municipal law" of Ohio, which 
law concerns municipal indebtedness, and has 
in its results given evidence of his wisdom and 
legal ability. In his annual message of 1879, 
Mayor William C. Rose spoke in reference to 
this law, sajiug, "The Burns law is an excel- 
lent auxiliary to effect the reduction of the 
municipal debt." A few years later Mayor 
R. R. Herrick referred to this law as having 
"saved the city of Cleveland from bankruptcy." 
Among the several bills which Major Burns in- 
troduced in the General Assembly, and which 
were passed and are still statutes of the State, 
reference is made to the law respecting bequests 
in wills to artificial persons, which has been 
effective in preventing disinheritance of natural 
heirs, in favor of artificial persons by unduly 
influenced testators. 

In 1877 Major Burns as agent for the United 
States Treasury went to England, taking with 
him $18,500,000 of four-per-cent. United States 
bonds, which were exchanged at the Rothschilds 
Bank in London, for seven-and-three-tenths-per- 
cent. bonds. Thereafter he served eight years, 
until the inauguration of President Cleveland, 
as special agent of the United States Treasury, 
Department of Customs, having charge of the 
district including the five great lakes, the Ohio, 
Mississippi and Missouri rivers, with head- 
quarters at Cleveland. He also had charge of 
the administration of the United States naviga- 
tion laws, embracing the above mentioned ter- 
ritory. 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



On the day of the first inauguration of Presi- 
dent Cleveland, Major Burns resigned this 
Government office, "believing that Republicans 
should not hold oflice under Democratic admin- 
istrations, nor vice versa; that such holding is 
undignified and not conducive to the highest 
public good." He resumed the practice of law, 
and in 1889 was appointed first assistant City 
Solicitor for the city of Cleveland, and in this 
capacity he conducted with distinguished ability 
many very important cases on behalf of the city. 
On January 5, 1891, he was appointed City So- 
licitor and served as such until April 21, 1891. 
Retiring from this oflice Major Burns again 
engaged in the private practice of law, in 
which he stands amongst the most successful 
practitioners of the Cleveland bar. 



EV. MATTHEW A. SCANLON. — 
Prominent among the able clergy of the 
Roman Catholic Church in Cleveland 
stands the subject of this brief review. 
He is a man whose life work iias been a power 
for good, and in view of what he is as a man 
and of what he has accomplished it is particu- 
larly consistent that he find representation in 
the volume which has to do with the worthy 
residents of the city which has been and is the 
scene of his effective labors. 

Father Scanion, who is rector of St. Edward's 
Roman Catholic Church, located on Woodland 
avenue, was born in Huntingdon county, Penn- 
sylvania, January 13, 1830, the eldest in a fam- 
ily of three children, one of whom was killed in 
the battle of Williamsburg, May 10, 1862. 
While he was still in infancy his parents re- 
moved to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and there 
the early years of his life were passed. Here 
he secured his preliminary education. He at- 
tended several select schools while he was a boy 
and finally entered a printing office to learn the 
details of the " art preservative." While thus 
employed he embraced every opportunity af- 



forded him for prosecuting his studies. ' He at- 
tended evening schools, secured special instruc- 
tion in the classics and began the study of 
German and French. He pursued his collegiate 
studies at St. Vincent's Abbey, near Beatty's 
Station, Pennsylvania, and at Cleveland com- 
pleted his theological course. While thus at 
work he also devoted a portion of his time to 
teaching, and a number of his former pupils 
are still residents of the city, and occupy posi- 
tions of honor and trust. It may be noted that 
he came to Cleveland in 1856, and after remain- 
ing here for a period of three months he began 
teaching in the cathedral school, continuing to 
be thus employed for six months, after which he 
returned to his theological studies at St. Mary's 
Seminary, on Lake street. He was ordained to 
the priesthood by Bishop Rappe, June 26, 1859, 
in the Cathedral of Cleveland. 

Father Scanlon's first work as a priest was 
perfornsed at Akron, Ohio, where he remained 
for a period of fifteen years, his labors being 
prolific in goodly results and the permanent ad- 
vancement of the holy cause which he had es- 
poused. He then assumed a charge at Niles, 
Ohio, going there in 1873 and there continuing 
his labors until 1880, within which time he 
brought about the erection of the school build- 
ing of the parish. In 1880 Father Scanion 
returned to Cleveland and at once set about the 
work of building the present St. Edward's 
church and the rectory. Over this parish he 
has since remained in charge, a power for good 
and loved and appreciated by liberal and worthy 
parishioners. He has brought about many 
valuable improvements, and in no way has the 
work of the parish been allowed to flag. His 
devotion and earnest zeal will live long in affec- 
tionate memory, for the results are of more than 
mere fleeting and transitory order. 

There are represented in the parish of St. 
Edward's 350 families. The record of the last 
year (1892) shows the number of baptisms in 
the parish to have been 128; marriages, twenty- 
eight; and deaths, ninety-six. The church 
building, which is 125 x 65 feet in dimensions, 



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is provided with all the necessary accessories, 
ami is architecturally of classic design. The 
parocliial school shows an enrollment of 400 
pupils, and six teachers, Sisters of Humility of 
Mary, are i-etained. There are five departments 
in the school, and the work accomplished therein 
reflects much credit upon Father Scanlon and 
upon the very capable instructors. 

In the exercise of his priestly functions and 
as a man among men Father Scanlon is held in 
bigli esteem for Lis many excellent qualities of 
mind and heart, and it is clearly demanded that 
honor be paid him in reverting to the work of 
the church militant in Cleveland. 



'j^ EV. PETER ETTTER, manager of the 
l^y' German Baptist Publication Society, was 
II 1^ born in Bavaria, Germany, March 28, 
^ 1837, a son of George and Mary Ann 

(Gindling) Kitter. His father, born in 1860, and 
a member of the Catholic Church, died in 1865, 
in the fatherland, his wife surviving until ninety- 
two, remaining also in the old country all her 
life. Of their twelve children only three are now 
living. George, our subject's brother, is a book- 
keeper in Frankfurton-the-Main; and Marga- 
ret, his sister, is the wife of Jacob Heilmann 
and resides in Kochester, New York. 

Mr. Peter Ritter, whose name begins this 
memoir, is the youngest of the children men- 
tioned. After receiving tiie usual public-sciiool 
training in his native land he came to America, 
alone, at the age of seventeen years, stopped in 
New York a few months, worked on a farm a 
few years more, and then attended the theologi- 
cal seminary at Eochester, from 1864 to 1867. 
His first pastoral charge was the German Bap- 
tist Church at Folsomedale, New York, three 
and a half years, then a similar congregation in 
Cincinnati, Ohio, live years, next the one at 
Eochester, New York, from 1875 to 1892, en- 
joying eminent success in the city of his alma 
mater, his church more than doubling its mem- 
bership and dividing into two self-supporting 
congregations. 



He came to Cleveland in 1892, being elected 
to his present position by the General Confer- 
ence of the German Baptist Churches. At 
present this publishing house employs twenty- 
two hands, and sometimes more than this num- 
ber. The office is at 959 Payne avenue, where 
the house publishes The Sendbote and the Ju- 
gend Herald, and does all kinds of job work in 
the printing line. The building is tliree stories 
high and furnished with all the modern equip- 
ments required. In regard to national issues 
Mr. Eitter has always been a Eepublican and a 
" protectionist." 

In 1857 he married Miss M. Maurer, in Mor- 
ganville, New York; she died in September, 

1891, at the age of dfty-six years, a member of 
the German Baptist Church. November 1, 

1892, Mr. Eitter married Miss Clara Maef of 
Eochester, New York, and also a member of 
the same church. She is a graduate of 
the Ladies' Seminary at Le Eoy, New York, 
and later in France, in languages and literature: 
was afterward, in France, governess for a time 
in the household of a nobleman. She has had 
much experience, and is proflcient in music and 
well advanced in general scholarship. By the 
last marriage there is one child, Paul by name, 
— the joy and pride of the household. 



J 



HOMAS EOBINSON, attorney at law, 
Cleveland, is a native of New York city, 
where he was brought up and educated. 
At an early age he began the study of 
medicine, and graduated at the New York 
Medical College. After practicing medicine 
about six years, in New York city, he com- 
menced the study of law, and graduated in the 
law department of Columbia College, New 
York, and immediately thereafter began the 
practice of his life's profession. Following this 
in New York until 1872, he went to St. Paul, 
Minnesota, where he was soon afterward elected 
to the bench of the municipal court, which lie 
resigned after a time, as he had determined to 



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change his residence. Since 1883 he has been 
an honored resident of Cleveland. He finds 
that his knowledge of medicine is of great use 
to him in his legal practice. He has been act- 
ing police Judge on two different occasions, and 
has already become one of the leading attorneys 
of the city. His office is room 23, No. 91, 
Public Square. 

Being a gentleman of esthetic appreciations 
and of high artistic talent, he started a move- 
ment for the incorporation of tlie Cleveland Art 
Club, drew up the articles of incorporation, and 
became one of the incorporators. Of this club 
he has been president three years, being the first 
to occupy the executive chair after its incor- 
poration: he is now vice-president. He has 
given much time to art, sketching and painting 
in both water and oil colors. Much of his 
knowledge in this line he obtained from the 
great Harper's Weekly caricaturist, Thomas 
Nast. Enthusiasm in the art grows with his 
age. He has been president several terms of 
the Avonian Shakespeare Club, an organization 
composed of critical lovers of the poet. Both 
himself and wife are members of the Emanuel 
Church, Protestant Episcopal, of this city. 

He was married in Xew York city, to Miss 
Ella J. Price, of that city, and they have one 
child, named Alice. Mrs. Robinson is promi- 
nently connected with the day nurseries and 
kindergartens, and has been for several years 
upon the board of management. 



If C. WALLACE, vice-president and man- 
k> I ager of the Cleveland Shipbuilding Corn- 
's^ pany, is a native of the city of Cleveland, 
where he was born in 1865. His father, Robert 
Wallace, is the subject of a sketch which ap- 
pears elsewhere within these pages. 

In the city of Cleveland the subject of this 
sketch received a fair education. Following the 
career of his father he very early in life took 
up the trade of machinist, spending three years 
at tills work, and then was placed in the draw- 



ing room of the Globe Iron Works, where he 
remained another three years. He next took 
charge of the drafting room for the Cleveland 
Shipbuilding Company, was promoted to the 
position of assistant manager for this company, 
and subsequently to his present position of vice- 
president and manager. Mr. Wallace is an 
active and progressive young business man and 
gives promise of a very successful business 
career. 

He is a member of the A. F. & A. M., be- 
longing to the Thatcher Chapter. 

In 1886 Mr. Wallace was married to Miss 
Elizabeth LaMarche. His home has fjeen 
blessed by the birth of two children, namely, 
James L. and Lydia L. 



THOMAS BRADLEY & SON.— The late 
Thomas Bradley, Sr., of Chagrin Falls, 
Ohio, engaged in the grocery trade in 
this town thirty-three years ago. He 
came to Cuyahoga county in 1856, where he 
afterward resided until his death. He was 
born in Birchington, England. He married 
Sophia Young and had six children, five of 
whom are now living, viz.: Frank, II. T., Alice, 
Helen and Thomas, Jr.; the other child, Minnie, 
died in her ninth year. The father died April 
12, 1892, at the age of seventy years. He was 
a successful business man, and accumulated a 
good property. Politically he was a Republican. 
The mother is still living, at Chagrin Falls, at 
the age of seventy. 

H. T. Bradley, senior member of the present 
firm, was born at London, England, April '.), 
1856. He was a babe when his parents came 
over the sea to this country and settled in 
Chagrin Falls. Here he was reared, receiving 
his education in the public schools of the town. 
At the age of fifteen he went into the store to 
assist his father, has grown up in the tra^le and 
has become a successful business man. The 
Bradley Block, built in 1893, is commodious 



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and of fiue appearance, a credit to the town. 
The firm deal in staple and fancy groceries, 
queensware and flour and provisions. 

Mr. Bradley was married in 1880, to Cora 
Isaac, a daughter of James Isaac, and a native 
of Chagrin Falls, where she was reared and edu- 
cated. Mr. and Mrs. Bradley have three chil- 
dren — ^Maud, Bertha and Grace. 

Mr. Bradley serves as Township Treasurer. 
In political faith he is a Republican. He is a 
member of the I. O. O. F., Lodge No. 290, 
and of Encampment No. 113. He is also a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

Thomas Bradley, Jr., junior member of the 
firm, was born in Chagrin Falls, October 26, 
1870, and was reared and educated here. Like 
his brother, he went into the store when a boy 
and grew up in the trade. He is a well in- 
formed business man, pleasant and affable to all. 



(r\ F. FRAZER, proprietor of the pioneer 
drug store of Chagrin Falls, has been in 
the drug trade here for thirty years. He 
was born at Russell, Geauga county, Ohio, 
March 23, 1846, is a son of Alexander Frazer, 
now of Chagrin Falls, who is a native of Scot- 
land, where he was reared and educated. At 
the age of twenty-one he came to the United 
States and was in New York city at the time of 
the cholera epidemic in 1832. Later he went 
to Oneida county. New York, where he was 
married to Susan Gates, a native of the county. 
She died in 1882, leaving six children, viz.: Jane 
M. Merrill, of Paines villa, Ohio; Charlotte L. 
Ellis, of Montour, Iowa; Ollie A. Burgess, of 
Tipton, Iowa; Calviu G., of Chagrin Falls; John 
W., of Bradford, Pennsylvania; and O. F. The 
father is still living, at eighty-two years of age. 
O. F. Frazer was reared and educated at Cha- 
grin Fails. All his life he has been a student, and 
lie graduated in 1883, on the completion of a 
five years' Chautauqua course. He has been very 
active and successful in business, and besides 



his tine residence he owns valuable business 
property in the town. He was one of the most 
active in bringing the first railroad to Chagrin 
Falls, and in insuring its success. He has 
served on the School Board and in the town 
Council. 

He was married in 1869, in Genesee county, 
Michigan, to Mary J. Burton, a lady of intelli- 
gence and good family, who was born in Orleans 
county. New York, a daughter of R. N. Burton. 
Her mother's maiden name was Olive Foot. 
Both parents were natives of New York. They 
had ten children, six sons and four daughters. 
Tiiree of the sons were soldiers in the late war 
— Eugene, Frank and Lester. 

Mr. and Mrs. Frazer have three children — 
Lilian E., Donna Clara and Harley A. They 
are all well educated. Three children are de- 
ceased: Eva H. C, aged fourteen years; Wade 
M., aged three years; and Ora Evadne, a babe. 

Mr. Frazer is a member of the ]\Iethodi8t 
Episcopal Church, of which he is Trustee, has 
been active in the Sabbath-school work, and is a 
member of the I. O. O. F. He is a well in- 
formed man, and is public-spirited, taking an 
interest in all enterprises that have to do with 
the building up of education and religion in the 
town. 



BR. LeROY, M. D., physician and sur- 
geon of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, located here 
in 1885, where he has since been engaged 
in the practice of his profession. He was born 
at Sugar Grove, Fairfield county, Ohio, in Oc- 
tober, 1859. His father was C. A. LeRoy, born 
near Paris, France, of an old French family 
who traced their ancestry back to one of noble 
lineage, who had been prominent in the politi- 
cal affairs and wars of France. 

Our subject's father was reared and educated 
in France, and emigrated at the age of twenty- 
two to America. He married, in New York 
city. Miss Ellen Reynolds, a native of Ireland, 
and came to Ohio early in the '30s. They had 
twelve children, of whom Dr. LeRoy was the 



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sixth. He received his primary education at 
the public schools of Zanesville, Ohio. From 
the age of eleven years he earned his own liv- 
ing, at various kinds of work. Inheriting from 
his parents a love of art, for some time he was 
engaged in art work. 

Doctor LeRoy was in his 'teens when he com- 
menced to study medicine in Rushville, Illinois. 
When at Cortland, Ohio, he began to read medi- 
cine under Doctors Atcliinson, Mayliew & Tliom- 
son, prominent and successful physicians of that 
place, and finally graduated at the Western 
Reserve Medical College, in the class of 1885, 
with credit and honor, and located in Chagrin 
Falls, where he has since resided, one of the pro- 
gressive and public-spirited men of the town. 

The Doctor was married in December, 1883, 
at Cortland, Ohio, to Miss Myra Coats, of Cort- 
land, daughter of Gilbert and Sarah (Lake) 
Coats. Both parents are now deceased. Dr. 
and Mrs. LeRoy have had three children: Verne, 
B. R., Jr., and Frank C. 

Doctor LeRoy is a member of Golden Gate 
Lodge, No. 245, Chagrin Falls, and of Chapter 
No. 152, is also a member of the I. 0.0. F. and 
of the Knights of Pythias, Lodge No. 146. He 
and his wife are members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. 



CHARLES JACKSON, one of the leading 
citizens of Cuyahoga county, forms the 
subject of this biography. He is a man 
of natural ability and sterling integrity, and be- 
longs to one of the pioneer families of the 
county. 

Mr. Jackson dates his birth in Murrick, York- 
shire, England, March 5, 1829, and is a son of 
Row and Jane (Lonsdale) Jackson. They came 
to this country in 1835, and settled in Orange 
township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, with which 
place the family has ever since been identified, 
althougli the parents have long since passed 
away. Further mention of the family will be 
found in the sketch of C. L. Jackson, in this 
volume. 



Charles was six years old at the time he came 
with his parents to Ohio, and here on his 
father's frontier farm he was reared and edu- 
cated, his education, however, being somewhat 
limited, as school facilities were not of the best 
in this vicinity then. Early in life he was 
taught that honesty and industry are the chief 
characteristics of a successful career, and to his 
early training he attributes much of the success 
he has attained. Mr. Jackson has resided on 
his present farm since 1856, which comprises 
174 acres, and the whole premises, from the 
buildings, the well-cultivated fields and the fine 
stock, to the smallest detail of his farming opera- 
tions, indicate thrift and prosperity. His, in- 
deed, is a model farm. 

Of his private life be it recorded that Mr. 
Jackson was married at Medina, Ohio, Decem- 
ber 15, 1855, to Ann Calvert, a native of 
Medina county, Ohio. Her mother was twice 
married, — first to a Mr. Cotingiiam, by whom 
she had three children, — Margaret, Christopher 
and Elizabeth. By her marriage to Thomas 
Calvert she had four children, — Ann, Jane, 
Mary and Thomas. Mr. and Mrs. Calvert came 
with their family to America in 1830. He died 
at the age of forty-eight and she lived to be 
sixty. Mr. Calvert was a local preacher in the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. and Mrs. 
Jackson have four children: Frank D., Alice, 
Walter C. and Nelly A. Alice is the wife of 
Elias Stoneman,of Chagrin Falls township, this 
county. 

Mr. Jackson has long been an active worker 
in the ranks of the Republican party. He has 
filled various positions of prominence and trust, 
the duties of every one of which he has per- 
formed with the strictest fidelity. He served 
as Constable one year, seven years as Assessor, 
eighteen years as Justice of the Peace, three 
terms as County Commissioner, and eight years 
Township Clerk; was administrator for many 
estates, and is now member of the Board of 
Education, and has been identified with the 
same more or less for many years. For twenty- 
five years he has been a member of the Masonic 



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fraternity, having his membership in Golden 
Gate Lodge, No 245, at Chagrin Falls. Person- 
ally he is a man of tine physique, is frank and 
jovial witli bis fellow-men, and is as popular as 
he is well known. 



E DECKER, a leading photographer of the 
city of Cleveland, with bis gallery at No. 
I 143 Euclid avenue, has resided in this 

city since 1857. He engaged almost immedi- 
ately in this calling upon coming here, and from 
that day to this his time and energy have been 
given to this line of business. He is through- 
out a proficient in his business, and confines his 
work to photographic and portraiture produc- 
tions. 

He was born in the State of New York, de- 
scending from worthy parentage. Upon investi- 
gation of his ancestral history we are enabled 
to go back as far as the year 1669, to the birth 
of one Jacob Decker, of Holland. The subject 
of this sketch is a representative of the eighth 
generation descending from this progenitor. At 
a very early day those who first represented the 
family in the United States came to this coun- 
try, and lived in New York and New Jersey, 
where they have figured conspicuously in the 
various vocations of life, and their descendants 
have been many, and have scattered to many 
portions of the country. The paternal great- 
grandfather of Mr. E. Decker was Keuben 
Decker, who served as a soldier in the Eevolu- 
tion. He had a son, the grandfather of our 
subject, who was a captain of militia, and en- 
listed, and is known to have started to the seat 
of war in 1812, but for some cause unknown to 
the writer he was detained and we have no 
knowledge of his service in that war. 

The subject of this sketch is a son of David 
S. and Hannah (Van Aken) Decker, both of 
whom are deceased, having died in New York, 
where they lived many years. His youth was 
spent upon a farm, attending the district schools 
and gaining a fair common-school education. 
He was a close .student at school and early de- 



veloped a fondness for books; and being of ex- 
ceptional native ability he was, by means of 
close application to his studies, enabled to grasp 
a comprehensive knowledge of the subjects 
studied, and in subsequent life he gained, 
through the avenues of books, papers and busi- 
ness experience, a wide and extended knowledge 
of subjects of general interest. 

At the age of thirteen years he accepted a 
position as clerk in a mercantile establishment. 
Seven years was spent as a clerk, then he em- 
barked in business for himself. Four years was 
spent in merchandising. 

Very early he developed artistic talent, and 
becoming interested in photography took up 
the art upon the close of his four years' ex- 
perience as a merchant. Until 1859 he re- 
mained in the employ of others, when becoming 
proficient in photography he embarked in the 
business for himself. From the above named 
year he has continuously remained in this busi- 
ness. He is one of the oldest in the profession 
in the city of Cleveland, and no other photog- 
rapher, perhaps, has done a greater volume of 
business and executed better work. 

He is a prominent member of the A. F. & 
A. M. He was made a Mason in his native 
State on Christmas eve, 1854, the Kondout 
Lodge conferring upon him the degree. Subse- 
quently to his coming to Cleveland he demitted 
to Iris Lodge of this city, No. 229, and also be- 
came a member of Webb Chapter, No. 14, and 
of Cleveland Council, No. 36. He was an or- 
ganizer of the Masonic Club of this city. He 
is a member of the National Piiotographic As- 
sociation, of which he is a director, and he was 
its president in 1887. 

Politically, Mr. Decker has always been a 
stanch Republican. From the old Fourth ward 
he served as a member of the City Council from 
the year 1878 to 1882. Thus we see that in 
more than one way Mr. Decker sustains promi- 
nent relations. In his profession as a photog- 
rapher he has been conspicuous and also in a 
fraternal way, and besides he has served his 
people in important positions of trust. 



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In February of 1857 Mr. Decker married 
Miss Julia English. Her father was Alexander 
English, a Scotchman of attainment. Mr. and 
Mrs. Decker have one surviving child, whose 
name is Grace E. The family worsiiip at the 
Second Presbyterian Church of this city. 



flOHlSr L. JOHNSON, a retired merchant 
J^ I of South Brooklyn, Ohio, is a man who 
^^ by dint of his own energy and good man- 
agement rose to a position of wealth and in- 
fluence, and is to-day ranked with the promi- 
nent men of the town. A brief sketch of his 
life is follows: 

John L. Johnson was born in Dutchess county. 
New York, February 20, 1825. His father, 
John Johnson, a native of Germany, came to 
America when he was about thirteen years old 
and settled in New York State, from whence in 
1836 he came to Ohio and took up his abode on 
a farm in Parma township, Cuyahoga county. 
He cleared and improved 100 acres of land 
there, and on that farm spent the rest of his 
life. At the time of his death he was ninety 
years of age. He was a member of the Free- 
will Baptist Church, and his political views 
were those of the Democratic party. Previous 
to his coming to Ohio he had married Margaret 
Lewis, a native of North Wales, but who was 
reared in Dutchess county, New York. She 
passed away some years ago. They were the 
parents of nine children, three daughters and 
six sons, all of whom grew up and married and 
reared families. 

The subject of our sketch was the third boru 
in this family, and was eleven years old when 
he came to Cuyahoga county. Being reared on 
the frontier, his educational advantages were, of 
course, limited; but his log-schoolhouse educa- 
tion has been supplemented by a useful store of 
valuable information gained in the practical 
school of experience. "When he was only fourteen 
years old he started out in life on his own 
account, his only capital being his willing 
hands and his determination to succeed. At 



first he worked by the month on farms, re- 
ceiving $7 per month. Then he went to Cin- 
cinnati and ran a huckster wagon, and later a 
canal boat. Finally, coming back to Parma 
township, he turned his attention to work at 
the cooper's trade. 

April 13, 1847, he married Angenette Acker, 
a sister of Mrs. Charles Gates and daughter of 
Nathan and Sarah (Kyser) Acker, who were of 
German descent and early settlers of Parma 
township. Mrs. Johnson was born in Livings- 
ton, New York, May 13, 1829, and was quite 
small when they moved here. 

In 1850 Mr. Johnson was one of the gold- 
seekers who crossed the plains to California, 
making the trip with pack-horses and walking 
1,200 miles of the distance. For two years he 
was engaged in mining in the various camps of 
the Golden State, and in 1852 returned East by 
way of Panama, landing at New York city and 
going from there to Philadelphia, where he had 
his gold dust converted into currency. He then 
joined his wife in South Brooklyn. In the 
meantime she had supported herself by her 
needle, working at the tailor's trade, and thus 
proved herself equal to the emergency, as did 
many other brave women during those days. 
In 1859 he went to Pike's Peak, and spent the 
summer there. In 1861 Mr. Johnson was en- 
gaged in farming. That year he turned his 
attention to the mercantile business in South 
Brooklyn, and for a period of twenty-four years 
successfully conducted a general merchandise 
store. Prosperity attended his efforts in almost 
everything he took hold of. To him much is 
due for the part he has taken in improving 
South Brooklyn. He owns in Cuyahoga county 
215 acres, in four farms. He built and owns 
the Johnson House, a credit both to him and to 
the town. He also built his own elegant resi- 
dence, and the one adjoining it for his son. 
This son, David M., is his only child. 

Politically, Mr. Johnson is a Democrat. He 
has served as Township Trustee, and has also 
filled other local offices. Fraternally, he is a 
member of Glenn Lodge, No. 263, I. O. O. F. 



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In speaking of his California experience, 
Mr. Johnson remarks that in 1875 he made a 
second trip to the Pacific coast, this time behind 
the iron horse, the Journey being accomplished 
in six days, while he was months in crossing the 
plains and mountains tlie first time. 



rE. NOW, superintendent of telegraph 
and purchasing agent for the Cleveland, 
^ Lorain & Wheeling Railway Company, is 
one of those men whose genius and energy in 
various departments of railroad work have won 
tliem a place in the councils of the officials of 
the road. 

He was left an orphan in infancy, and while 
living with an uncle near Whipple, Ohio, he 
was in the habit of visiting the little station 
house of the Cleveland & Marietta Eailway at 
Whipple, and of picking up M-aste paper and 
carrying it home to use in his practice of pen- 
mansliip. On one occasion a piece of this paper 
contained the Morse telegraphic aipliabet com- 
plete, and lie set about whittling out a wooden 
key with which to practice liis self-imposed les- 
sons of learning that alphabet. He mastered 
the system without an instructor and at length 
surprised the agent of the station by calling him 
will) the company key one day in a mysterious 
manner. He was then invited by tlie agent, M. 
L. Palmer, to remain about the station and at- 
tend the instrument, which he did, with greater 
proficiency than did Mr. Palmer himself. In 
the course of time Mr. Now succeeded Mr. 
Palmer as agent at Whipple, and on leaving 
tliat point was transferred to Canal Dover as 
operator and agent's clerk. A later transfer 
took him to Massiilon, in the same capacity, 
and still later, in 1880, he came to Cleveland, 
as operator and private secretary to General 
Manager Oscar Townsend. He remained in 
that service till 1882, when he joined the West- 
ern Union Telegraph Company. In the office 
of his old employer matters were not in a satis- 



factory condition, and after one year's absence 
he was invited to resume his former duties, 
which invitation he accepted. 

January 1, 1886, a special notice was issued 
from the office of the general manager naming 
Mr. Now as superintendent of telegraph. This 
placed him in cliarge of all agents and telegraph 
operators. June 1, 1893, he received a new 
l)onor and greater responsibility by being ap- 
pointed purchasing agent for the company, the 
appointment authorizing him to contract for all 
supplies excepting stationery; the authority to 
purchase that was also given in a later notice. 
In reference to this matter the Cleveland 
Leader said: 

" In addition to Mr. Now's duties as superin- 
tendent of telegraph of the Cleveland, Lorain 
& Wheeling Railway, he has been appointed 
purchasing agent, a well merited promotion; 
and while he is yet a young man he is almost a 
veteran in service, having been continuously in 
the harness for twenty years, the last twelve of 
which have been spent in the office of the gen- 
eral manager. LTnder the former management 
Mr. Now had charge of responsible work unus- 
ual to superintendents of telegraph, and he held 
the higher position in the operation of the road 
than his title would lead one to expect. His 
good qualities are evidently appreciated by his 
company." 

The Massiilon American said: "Official notice 
has been issued, from the office of the general 
manager of the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling 
Railway Company, of the appointment of Mr. 
F. E. Now to the position of superintendent of 
telegraph, with headquarters at Cleveland. He 
will, under the direction of the proper officers 
of the Western Union Telegraph Company, 
have charge of all business of that company 
over his lines, and of all the Cleveland, Lorain 
& Wheeling telegraph offices, operators, sup- 
plies and repairs. It is only a few years since 
Fred handled the key at the company's office in 
this city and assisted the agent with his grace- 
ful pen and executive ability in conducting the 
ger and freight business. His proficiency 



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and nianly qualities were noticed and appre- 
ciated, and this last is only another step on the 
ladder of assured future prominence in his 
chosen sphere." 

Mr. Now was born in Marietta, Ohio, July 
4, 1859, received a meager school training, and 
was only thirteen years old when he began his 
railroad career. His ancestors were German. 

Mr. Now is a member of the Masonic frater- 
nity, belonging to Iris Lodge, Webb Chapter 
and Holy Rood Commandery, and also to 
Al-Koran Temple. He is unmarried. 



El D WARD D. HAYES, Secretary of the 
Department of Charities and Correction 
1 of the city of Cleveland, was born in this 

city, October 11, 1854. 

His father, Timothy Hayes, was born in 
county Limerick, Ireland, in 1831, came to 
America and established himself at Troy, New 
York, where he was employed for a time in the 
Troy arsenal. In 1849 a notion to move West 
took possession of him and he came to Cleve- 
land and was engaged in the grocery business 
for a time, and following this he was in the 
employ of the Western Union Telegraph Com- 
pany until the outbreak of the war, when he 
responded for service and was assigned to duty 
in the repair and construction line in tlie tele- 
graph department. He was Captain of a com- 
pany of men for this service and remained in it 
till the close of hostilities. His was a most 
dangerous work, having to invade the enemy's 
country as a Federal soldier without protection, 
frequently, from the Federal army. He was 
twice captured, once by General Morgan. 

For many years since the war Mr. Hayes has 
been an officer of some Cuyahoga County 
Court as a Deputy, and was Superintendent of 
Construction for the Western Union Telegraph 
Company, building lines between Cleveland and 
Toledo. 

He married, in this city, Mary Ann O'Neil, 
who was born in Herkimer county, New York, 



and now living at fifty-nine years, being four 
years her husband's junior. Their children are 
fourteen in number, Edward D. being the sec- 
ond, and nine are living. 

Edward D. Hayes secured a grammar-grade 
education at the city schools, and at seventeen 
became an employe of Talbot Winslow & Com- 
pany. On leaving this company he began learn- 
ing graining and hardwood finishing, complet- 
ing the trade and following it ten years. E. M. 
McGillin & Company souglit his services next, 
with whom he remained ten years as shipping 
clerk and salesman. He acceepted a position 
with Gallagher, Kennedy & Company in 1891, 
and remained till iiis acceptance of the secre- 
taryship above mentioned. 

Mr. Hayes is a member of Washington Com- 
mandery of the Knights of St. John, and for the 
past eleven years its Secretary; he is also Secre- 
tary of the Cathedral Branch of the C. M. B. A. ; 
and is president of the Knights of St. John 
Life Insurance Association. He has frequently 
represented his lodge at national and other con- 
ventions of the order. 

Mr. Hayes was married, November 22, 1882, 
in Cleveland, to Miss Anna, a daughter of Will- 
iam Gorman, of Hudson, Ohio. The result of 
this union is William, an only child. 



Kr\ A. BUTLER, Superintendent of the 
r?^ Cleveland Work-house and House of 
II ^ Refuge and Correction, was born in 
V Lansingburg, New York, January 21, 

1855. After attending public school there, at 
the age of fifteen years he moved with his par- 
ents to Columbus, Ohio, where he learned the 
trade of his father and grandfather, making 
brushes, and also took charge of brush contract 
at the Ohio pennitentiary. Subsequently he 
connected himself with the Cincinnati House of 
Refuge, where he introduced to the prisoners 
the art of brush making; and in 1877 he came 
to Cleveland as foreman of the Work-house 
brush factory until 1891. In May, that year, 



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he went to Jefferson ville, Indiana, where he was 
Superintendent of the State prison; and in the 
summer of 1893 he returned to Cleveland, where 
lie now holds the position named at the begin- 
ning of this sketch. 



^AREHAM J. WARNER, deceased, a 
gentleman who was for many years 
most prominently identified with 
Cleveland's growth and development, and 
who was widely known and universally re- 
spected, was born in Burlington, Vermont, 
January 25, 1808. He was a son of Justus 
Warner, born in Hardwick, Massachusetts, in 
1774, who was a cabinet-maker by trade, emi- 
grated to Burlington, Vermont, but died in his 
native place, in 1866. Justus Warner was a 
son of Wareham Warner, of Hardwick, Massa- 
chusetts, after whom our honored subject was 
named. Justus Warner was twice married, for 
his first wife wedding Lovey Lane, and they had 
two children: Franklin, deceased; and Emily, 
now Mrs. Curtiss, of Hazelgreen, Wisconsin, 
the only surviving child. For his second wife 
he married Polly Sperry, and they have had 
four children, viz.: the late Mrs. Jane GifBn, 
of this city; the late Mary A. Warner, of Paines- 
ville, who left a donation of $5,000 toward a 
line-art gallery in Cleveland ; the late John F. 
Warner, of the old firm of Warner & Handy, 
one of the first commission houses in the city 
and the man who sent the first vessel, the John 
F. Warner, from Cleveland to England, and the 
man who brought the first canal-boat load of 
coal into the city, on which occasion it is stated 
he wheeled a barrow load up Superior street in 
celebration of the event; and the fourth and last 
child was Wareham J. Warner, our worthy 
subject. 

The last named obtained sufficient knowledge 
of books to enable him to engage in the business 
of teaching, which he did on one or two occa- 
sions as a livelihood during the long New Eng- 
land winter months. He was apprenticed to 



learn the mason's trade an( 
years, becoming an efficient i 



served his three 
d reliable work- 
man. Becoming possessed of a desire to see the 
West, he started hither and in 1830 got as far 
as Black Rock near Buffalo, New York, where 
he was appointed superintendent of a glass 
works; and while there he met Elisha Sterling, 
who prevailed on him to come to Cleveland and 
erect a building for him. He consented, and in 

1831 came hither, and as a result the Cleveland 
and Sterling Block, where the National Bank 
Building now stands, came into existence. In 

1832 he married Miss Jane A. Morse, born 
January 18, 1812, a daughter of Benoni Morse, 
of Burlington. They returned to Cleveland, 
Mr. Warner became a permanent resident here, 
and his career as a builder began in earnest. 
From then until 1866, when he retired, Mr. 
Warner pursued his vocation uninterruptedly 
and with marked success. Much of his work 
still stands, and at this late date many of his 
buildings are among the important ones of the 
city. The custom house, erected in 1856; the 
First Presbyterian Church, in 1853; the Case 
Block, in 1866; the Payne Block, in 1854; the 
Oviatt Block, in 1835; the American House, in 
1836; the Kennard House, the Old Stone Church, 
the Lyman and Perkins Block, and the resi- 
dences of Younglove, Shelly, Hickox, Perkina 
and Payne, on Euclid avenue, all attest to his 
skill as a mechanic and a master builder. 

He could submit estimates with accuracy on 
excavations, woodwork, finishing, painting, glaz- 
ing, etc., as well as on mason work, and could 
execute the plans for all these departments 
without the assistance of a boss workman, if 
necessary. During the twenty-five years of his 
operations he was a member of the firm of 
Warner & Eld ridge, Warner & Witheral and 
Warner & Hurd, the last firm being the most 
prominent, and will be the best remembered of 
them all. 

Mr. Warner came to Cleveland with very 
little means. His contracts yielded him good 
profits and his capital grew into large figures 
rapidly, so that at his death his estate was esti- 



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mated at §150,000. He found time to devote 
to matters not connected with his private inter- 
ests. He was for many years a member of 
the Discount Board for the Society for Savings. 
He was an officer in the volunteer fire depart- 
ment of Cleveland when water in buckets was 
passed down a line of men to the burning build- 
ing and empty buckets came back by the same 
means. He was one of the first members of the 
Cleveland Grays, now a prominent military or- 
ganization. Politically he was an ardent Whig 
and later a radical Republican. He was elected 
once Street Commissioner of the city, was two 
terms Infirmary Director, by popular vote, and 
in 1841 was elected to the Common Council from 
the Second ward, when Thomas Bolton was 
president of the council. 

By nature Mr. Warner was a sympathetic and 
and charitable man. He was generous with his 
means toward all worthy objects. During the 
severe winter of 1858, when the financial condi- 
tion of the country forced the laboring man to 
apply for public aid, he was active in organizing 
a relief society and in establishing a " Poor 
Store," where supplies were dealt out after the 
manner of 1893-'94. He was one of the founders 
of St. Paul's Episcopal church, erected in 1845, 
at the corner of Seneca and St. Clair streets, and 
was for many years a church Warden. 

It was Mr. Warner's good fortune during his 
eventful life to meet and shake hands with many 
prominent men, among whom was General Lafay- 
ette, whom he assisted in laying the corner stone 
of the Vermont University at Burlington, during 
his visit to this country in 1824-'25, which 
ceremony Mr. Warner again participated in 
nearly fifty years afterward; and he was also 
personally acquainted with Daniel Webster, 
Henry Clay, Charles Sumner, Abraham Lin- 
coln, General Grant and especially his own fel- 
low townsman, the lamented President Garfield. 

Mr. Warner was a powerful, robust, blunt, 
outspoken man. He had opinions on matters 
of public moment and expressed them without 
fear or favor when occasion demanded. His 
integrity was of such undoubted character as to 



justify financiers in advancing him large sums 
with which to complete contracts without the 
formality of security or personal indorsement. 
His nature was exceedingly domestic. His 
greatest personal loss was occasioned by the 
death of his wife, August 6, 1882, who had been 
an invalid for seven years. She was a devout 
Christian, and had been an active church 
worker; was the mother of ten children, only 
three of whom survive, namely: Mrs. Lydia 
Elvira Eees, who was born in 1834, and Febru- 
ary 7, 1855, married J. H. Rees, and became 
the mother of three children; Ella, the wife of 
Charles P. Scoville, son of Oliver and Adaline 
(Clark) Scoville: their two children are Olive 
and Kate; William F. Rees, born March 22, 
1858, was educated in Cleveland's public schools 
and in Brooks' military, and afterward read law 
with M. B. Keith, but never applied for admis- 
sion. In 1880 he went West to Colorado, and 
was engaged in the cattle business at River 
Bend, being associated with Captain ■!. E.Wet- 
zel, secretary of the Colorado Cattle Grower's 
Association. He returned to Cleveland in July, 
1881, and entered the Society for Savings as a 
book-keeper, and is now a teller of the institution. 
He married, in 1883, in this city. Miss Abbie 
Champney, a daughter of Mrs. Julia Champ- 
ney. His two children are Julia E. and Mil- 
dred D. Mr. Rees has been for a number of 
years actively and prominently identified with 
the Cleveland Grays, and has served in every 
official capacity except as Captain. He was one 
of the organizers of the Philliarmonic Orchestra 
and of the Cleveland Mandolin Club. Frater- 
nally he affiliates with the Royal Arcanum. 

Mrs. Rees' third child was James W., who 
died February 15, 1890, aged twenty-four years. 
Others sons of Mr. Warner are Theodore M. and 
Fred S., whose sketches are given elsewhere; and 
Dr. E. S. and Charles H., both deceased. 

Wareham J. Warner married for his second 
wife, December 20, 1882, Mrs. L. Mott, who 
still survives. He spent most of the following 
year traveling in the East, visiting his old home 
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home was called on to be preeent andactas pall- 
bearer at the oTtsequies of an old friend and pio- 
neer banker, Mr. Hartness. He did so and con- 
tracted a cold, from the eifects of which he died, 
December 1, 1883, after a brief illness. He was 
laid to rest in Lake View cemetery. 



CHARLES GATES, a retired miller of 
Brooklyn township, Cuyahoga county, 
Ohio, is a son of one of the early pioneers 
of the Western Reserve, and is probably as well 
posted on the history of tliis township as any 
other man now living. A few years ago, in a 
series of articles written for The Cuyahogan, he 
pictured most vividly the life of the brave pio- 
neers of this vicinity, drawing from his own rich 
fund of reminiscences and from tradition, show- 
ing the various phases of frontier life, the whole 
series being threaded with a vein of humor and 
being most interesting throughout. 

Mr. Gates' long residence in this township 
and the prominent part lie has taken in bring- 
ing about its present development entitle him 
to prominent mention among its leading citi- 
zens. A brief sketch of his life is as follows: 

Charles Gates was born in Brooklyn town- 
ship, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, February 23, 
1825, son of Jeremiah and Phebe (Deming) 
Gates, the former a native of Connecticut, and 
the latter of Delhi, New York, of Holland de- 
scent. Jeremiah Gates moved to Cuyahoga 
county, Ohio, as early as 1816. Here he spent 
the rest of his life, and died in the seventy-sixth 
year of his age. His good wife lived to be 
eighty-six. By trade he was a millwright. He 
built many of the sawmills in the county, and 
for more than thirty years was engaged in the 
milling business. In his articles in The Cuya- 
hogan, above referred to, Charles Gates makes 
reference to his father's mills as follows: 

"The sixth mill was built by father, Simeon 
Wallace and company on the AVallace farm, and 
was known as 'Mud Mill.' What gave it its 
name, has gone from me, but there is one little 
incident I shall never forget. It was my duty 



to carry father's dinner each day while working 
in the mill; but one day I played truant by 
suffering myself to be coaxed away by an older 
boy, going to the Cuyahoga river hunting wild 
ducks and not returning till about 2 P. M. My 
pants were thoroughly dusted by mother. I 
thought then, and still am of the same opinion, 
that I made the quickest time on record to the 
old Mud Mill.'" 

"Father erected a saw and grist mill on the 
farm I now occupy in the year 1836 or 1837, on 
a small brook entering ' Big Creek,' and known 
as a 'Thunder Shower Mill,' running when it 
rained and resting in fair weather, doing its 
share of sawing and grinding, as many old set- 
tlers can testify to." 

Jeremiah Gates was a man of sterling quali- 
ties. Indeed, few men in Brooklyn township 
were held in higher esteem than he. For more 
than forty years he was a faithful member of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he 
held various official positions. Politically, he 
was first a Whig, and was afterward identified 
with the Republican party. For a number of 
years he filled the office of Justice of the Peace. 
He and his wife were the parents of four chil- 
dren, three sons and one daughter: John, who 
died at the age of seven years; Matilda, wife of 
the Rev. I. W. Fish (who was the first white 
child born in this township), died in 1849; 
Reuben, of Parma township, this county; and 
Charles, whose name heads this article. 

Charles Gates was reared at his native place 
and remained under the parental roof until he 
reached his majority, his education being ob- 
tained in one of the typical log schoolhouses of 
the period. In June, 1847, he married Miss 
Mary A. Acker, a native of Livingston county, 
Xew York, who came to Cuyahoga county. 
Ohio, when she was two years old. Her par- 
ents, Nathan and Sarah (Kyser) Acker, were 
both natives of New York and were of German 
descent. Mr. and Mrs. Gates have three chil- 
dren, two sons and one daughter, namely: La- 
fayette, Howard C. and Mary I., wife of H. H. 
Bratton. 




^^^^ ^&j:^ 



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Brought up in his father's mill, our subject's 
first business, when he launched out in life for 
himself, was to build a steam sawmill in Brook- 
lyn township. This mill he ran for over twenty 
years. During that period he shipped large 
quantities of lumber to various points and did a 
successful business. For several years he car- 
ried on farming, owning and operating a hun- 
dred acres of land. Disposing of that tract, he 
purchased the Brainard farm, a portion of which 
he has since sold. Mr. Gates and his brother 
Rubin, in 1876 or '77 built the Star Elevator in 
Cleveland, at the cost of $29,000, and operated 
it for sixteen months. It had a capacity of 
100,000 bushels. His son H. C. built a tine 
elevator in Brooklyn, at a cost of $9,000. He 
also erected his commodious and elegant resi- 
dence, which is supplied with gas and water and 
all modern comforts and conveniences. 

Like his worthy father, Mr. Gates has long 
been connected with the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, having united with it when he was 
sixteen years of age and having since remained 
a consistent Christian, filling various Church of- 
fices and also serving as Sunday-school super- 
intendent. "When he became a voter he first 
identified himself with the Free-soil party. 
Afterward he joined the Republican ranks, and 
with the best elements of that organization he 
has since affiliated. Of the temperance cause he 
is a stanch friend. Indeed, all measures and 
movements which have for their object the ad- 
vancement of the best interests of the commu- 
nity are sure to find in him an ardent sympa- 
thizer and supporter. 

Such is an epitome of the life of one of 
Cuyahoga county's venerable citizens. 



EDWARD C. PARMELEE.— Oneof the 
most familiar figures on the streets of 
1 Cleveland is Edward C. Parmelee, gen- 
eral agent of the Humane Society. He was 
born in Claremont, New Hampshire, September 
28, 1826. Claremont was also the native home 



of his mother, whose father, — Rice, being a 
farmer and an emigrant from Connecticut, 
in search of more advantageous location wan- 
dered into the vicinity of this little New 
Hampshire liamlet and met and married his 
wife. After the birth of their daughter and 
only child, Mr. Rice, while rolling and burning 
log heaps as they did in those pioneer days, by 
accident fell into one and was burned to death 
in the presence of his wife! The young widow 
married some time afterward a Mr. Atkins, 
bearing him eight children. Seven of these were 
sons, each of whom was remarkable for his size, 
being more than six feet tall, and muscular ac- 
cordingly. Oneof the daughters married Ware 
Tappan, whose son. Mason W. Tappan, was 
New Hampshire's Attorney General, and was a 
member of the New Hampshire House of Rep- 
resentatives for several years. 

Recurring to the Parmelees, in tracing up 
their lineage we discover them to have been 
once and originally an order of the German 
nobility. As early as about the middle of the 
fifteenth century a German baron was attacked 
with a religious fervor which drove him to such 
enthusiastic demonstrations as to make it im- 
perative that he take up his residence in Eng- 
land. He spent the remainder of his life there, 
in the town of Guilford, and was the first Par- 
melee in England. It is certain that a descend- 
ant of this Parmeleee emigrated to America 
during Colonial days and settled in Connecti- 
cut, naming the town New Guilford. Here our 
subject's grandfather, Dan Parmelee, was born, 
from here he entered the Colonial army and 
fought her battles till independence was es- 
tablished, and here he died. His son "William 
is the character mentioned herein as having 
left Connecticut and married the Claremont 
maiden. In 1828 "William Parmelee was in- 
duced to come West with his family, locating 
for a brief period in Cleveland, going later to 
Summit county, and resided in Twinsburg till 
his death, which occurred in 1833. 

In this village the subject of this notice was 
educated under Rev. Samuel Bissell, a Yale 



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graduate, vet living, in charge of the Twins- 
burg Institute. At eighteen years of age Mr. 
Parmelee returned to his native State, learned 
carriage trimming, and was employed at it till 
his return to Summit county in 1850. He soon 
embarked in merchandising at Solon, and was 
for many years one of the foremost merchants 
of the village. In 1879 Mr. Parmelee disposed 
of his mercantile business at Solou, came to 
Cleveland and engaged in the real-estate busi- 
ness. In 1881, upon the resignation of Samuel 
Job, Superintendent of the Bethel Associated 
Charities, Mr. Parmelee was found to be the most 
suitable man for the place, and was accordingly 
appointed. He proved a most eiiicient and pop- 
ular official and for six years controlled the dis- 
tinies of the institution. On the death of D. L. 
Wightman, agent of the Humane Society, Mr. 
Parmelee was at once made his successor, as the 
only available man amply qualified for such 
peculiar and important work. He has institu- 
ted some needed reforms as to the conduct and 
keeping of the records of the institution under 
ills charge, — the identity and history of every 
charge until its final disposition by the institu- 
tion. While a citizen of Summit county Mr. 
Parmelee served the public as their magistrate 
for a time, and while at Solon was its Post- 
master during the war. He was appointed by 
the court a member of the relief commission of 
Cuyahoga county, resigning August 1, 1892. 
The other children of William Parmelee are: 
Lucia, Mary, Fannie, Joel, Samuel, Sarah, 
Daniel, Harriet and Emily, a twin of our sub- 
ject. Emily married Judge Belding of Denver, 
Colorado, in whose name the town site of 
Omaha, Nebraska, was purchased, and who was 
subsequently Mayor of the city. He went to 
Denver early and was Mayor of that city, a 
member of the Legislature of the State and in- 
troduced and had adopted the Ohio code. 

In 1854 Mr. Parmelee married, in Cuyahoga 
county, Mary, a daughter of Squire Hathaway, 
a prominent farmer who settled here in 1816. 
The children of this union are: Emily C, As- 
sistant Superintendent of the Cleveland Asso- 



ciated Charities; and Carroll Hathawa_v, now a 
prominent attorney and citizen of Buffalo, 
Wyoming. He graduated at Grand River In- 
stitute, with the degree of Bachelor of Science, 
at Hiram College with the degree of A. B., took 
a B. L. course at Ann Arbor, and received the 
honorary degree of M. A. from Hiram College 
in recognition of his superior attainments. He 
is now Register of the United States Land Of- 
fice at Buffalo, Wyoming, and was the candi- 
date of the Republican party for Supreme 
Judge of his State in 1892. He ranks high 
as an attorney and a scholar, and is one of the 
rising stars of the new country. 



OF. McCLENTIC, of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, 
has been in trade here for twenty-eight 
years, and is the proprietor of the largest 
and most extensive dry-goods house of the place; 
it is the pioneer store of the town. The McCleii- 
tic Block, of which he is the owner, is one of 
the best business blocks in the town, built in 
1882. The ground floor is divided into two 
general apartments, one for dry goods and fancy 
goods and the other for boots and shoes. The 
large upper story is used for clothing, carpets 
and clocks. He carries a stock of §25,000 
worth of goods, of the best grades. 

Mr. McClentic came to Chagrin Falls when a 
young man, started in trade and did a good busi- 
ness for three years, when he lost everything by 
fire. He started again, from the foundation, 
but by perseverance, good business ability and 
fair and honorable dealings he secured the con- 
fidence of the people, and has built up a large 
trade. A number of his patrons have done 
business with him for twenty-eight years. 

Mr. McClentic was born in Portage county, 
Ohio, May 14, 1835, a son of William and 
Huldah (Case) McClentic. His father was a 
native of Massachusetts, one of the early settlers 
of Portage county, and died at the age of eighty- 
two years. His mother died in 1855, at the age 
of fifty-five years. They had nine children: 



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Lucius, deceased; Martin; Abigail, deceased; 
William, John, O. F., Albert L., Franklin and 
Charles. Franklin was a soldier in the late war. 
O. F. was reared on a farm and received his 
education in the common schools. He was 
married in 1883, at Chagrin Falls, to Miss Jane 
Bellows, daughter of William Bellows, of that 
place. Mr. McClentic is a stockholder in the 
Chagrin Falls Banking Company, and vice 
president of the Chagrin Falls Manufacturing 
Company. He is one of the public-spirited 
men of the town, and a man of pleasing 
frank and cordial with all. 



^ J. McKINNIE, Director of Charities 
and Correction for the city of Cleve- 
land, was born in Austintown, Mahon- 
ing county, Ohio, July 8, 1831. It is believed 
that the original home of this family was Ire- 
land, that they afterward became citizens of 
Scotland, and during the period of colonization 
and settlement of America a branch of the fam- 
ily found its way to this country and settled at 
the forks of the Youghiogheny river above 
Pittsburg. It was from this point that one of 
them, our subject's grandfather, John McKin- 
nie, was commissioned Captain in the Colonial 
army and fought the battles of the Eevolution, 
returning only after the surrender of Cornwallis' 
army at Yorktown. This Revolutionary patriot 
died about 1807. He left Pennsylvania in 
1804, and moved to Youngstown, Ohio, where 
his son, Alexander, then about five years old, 
grew to manhood, and resided for fifty years. 
During the administrations of Presidents Pierce 
and Buchanan, Alexander McKinnie was 
Youngstown's Postmaster, but when not offi- 
cially engaged he followed the business of hotel- 
keeping. He married Nancy Dickinson, whose 
father was a native of New Jersey. Just prior to 
and for a brief period succeeding, the birth of Mr. 
McKinnie, his father kept a hotel at Austin- 
town; the last years of his life were spent in 



retirement. He died in Pittsburg, at the age of 
eighty-nine years. His children now living are 
three sons: Henry and J. T. McKinnie, propri- 
etors of the Hotel Anderson at Pittsburg; and 
the subject of this sketch. 

W. J. McKinnie's school days were very 
brief. He left home at the age of twelve years, 
and was never again known as a student. It 
was in December, 1843, that he went to Kins- 
man, Trumbull county, and began an appren- 
ticeship at the tinners' trade. At fifteen years 
of age he had completed his term as an appren- 
tice and was ready to do efficient work. He 
secured employment in Warren, and later in 
Youngstown, where at the age of sixteen he 
struck against a reduction in wages, and de- 
serted his trade. In casting about for a location 
he secured employment in a country dry-goods 
store, and was so employed for a year. He next 
accepted a position in a warehouse at Beaver, 
Pennsylvania; subsequently he was employed 
as a steamboat clerk on the Ohio and Mississippi 
rivers till the spring of 1854, when he became 
a clerk and bookkeeper in the office of the Phoe- 
nix Furnace at Youngstown, Ohio, owned by 
Lemuel Crawford. One year later he came to 
Cleveland in tlie employ of Crawford & Price, 
coal dealers. He remained with them and with 
Lemuel Crawford till 1865, when his connection 
was severed for the purpose of forming a part- 
nership with C. H. & W. C. Andrews and W. 
J. Hitchcock, to engage in the coal business, 
the firm being known as Andrews, Hitchcock & 
Company. This firm is still in existence. 

Politically Mr. McKinnie is a Democrat, and 
his service to his party has been loyal and active, 
in recognition of which service President Cleve- 
land appointed him in September, 1885, Col- 
lector of Customs for the district of Cuyahoga, 
and in this capacity he served most efficiently 
until relieved in 1889 by the Republican ad- 
ministration. 

In making up his cabinet Mayor Blee se- 
lected Mr. McKinnie as his Director of Chari- 
ties and Correction, and he entered on his duties 
April 17, 1893. 



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June 7, 1854, Mr. McKinnie married, in 
Youngstown, Elizabeth G. Haney, a daugliter 
of Joseph Ct. Haney, a manufactiirer and shoe 
dealer. The children of this union arc: Harry 
J., witli Andrews, Hitchcock & Company; Sa- 
rah A., wife of William H. VanAntwerp, of 
Albany, New York; I>iancy A., wife of H. E. 
Green, of Cleveland; Alexander, in the Public 
Works Department of this city; and Miss 
Mary H. 

Mr. McKinnie is one of the directors of the 
New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Eailroad, 
president of the Montour Railroad Company, 
and a director of the Imperial Coal Company. 
Fraternally he is a Royal Arch Mason. 



fl( LFRED TRAVERS ANDERSON, 
l/_l\ Postmaster for Cleveland, is a native of 
1/ *i Iowa county, Wisconsin, being born at 
"v^ East Arena, on April 18, 1851. Mr- 

Anderson's parents were George and Emma 
(Rendeell) Anderson, the father born in Ayres, 
Fifeshire, Scotland, February 20, 1819, and the 
mother born in Bridgeport, England. George 
Anderson was the son of a linen manufacturer 
and was taught the trade. When yet a young 
man he accepted employment with a prominent 
firm at Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, who were 
linen manufacturers, and with this concern he 
remained several years, and in 1847 returned to 
England, and one year later came to the United 
States. His first employment in this country 
was in a thread factory at Lansingburg, New 
York, but ere long he went to Wisconsin, to 
which State his father-in-law had preceded him 
and engaged in farming. His stay in this State 
was short, for he was soon induced to become 
manager of the thread factory at Lansingburg, 
in which he had been employed before going to 
Wisconsin. This position he held till 1865, in 
which year he became superintendent of a flax 
and linseed oil mill at Preston, near Gault, 
Canada. Three years later he accepted the po- 
sition of overseer of a shoe factory, at Valley 



Falls, New York. Mansfield, Ohio, became his 
residence in 1870, and in 1873 he removed to 
Cleveland. 

Along with him his son, the subject of this 
sketch, came to Ohio. The son was given the 
advantages of a fair English education in the 
village of Lansingburg and an academy at Rock- 
wood, Canada. At Lansingburg he learned the 
tinner's trade, which he followed when the fam- 
ily resided at Mansfield. For a time he had 
charge of a tin-shop at Oberlin, Ohio, but in 
1876 he came to Cleveland, which city has since 
continued his home. 

Upon coming to Cleveland, Mr. Anderson ac- 
cepted employment with Mr. H. B. Hunt, a 
manufacturer of tin and japanned ware. He 
proved a very valuable employee of Mr. Hunt, 
whose trade and business so increased as to place 
him among the leading and wealthier manufac- 
turers in his line. Mr. Anderson was soon 
placed in charge of the ornamental department, 
where he continued up to 1882, when he em- 
barked in a similar business for himself. His 
business enterprise was conducted with success, 
being discontinued at the time Mr. Anderson 
became Recorder for Cuyahoga county. 

In 1884 the citizens of his ward elected him 
to the Board of Education, on which board he 
rendered valuable service up to 1886. In 18S5 
the citizens of Cuyahoga county laid claim upon 
his services by electing him Recorder of the 
county, his term of office beginning in 1886. 
He was re-elected in the fall of 1888 by a large 
plurality. Thus again was given evidence that 
in his ability to till a position of high trust and 
responsibility the people reposed much confi- 
dence. He made an efficient Recorder and 
served in this office five years and three months, 
and when he still had nine months more of his 
second term to serve President Harrison com- 
missioned him Postmaster of Cleveland, in 
March, 1891. Entering upon his duties as 
Postmaster, Mr. Anderson again gave evidence 
of judgment and executive ability in the admin- 
istration of this large office. Many measures of 
reform in the local mail service were inaugn- 



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rated and proved of happy results. In 1889 
Mr. Anderson was re-elected as an exponent of 
the tin manufacturers to represent thein at the 
Paris exposition, and in this capacity he ren- 
dered such services as distinguished him not 
only as a representative of the tin industry but 
also as a representative of the best and most val- 
uable type of the American citizen. Mr. An- 
derson is a prominent Mason, and also a member 
of the Western Reserve Historical Society. He 
is a broad-minded, progressive gentleman, and 
is warm and generous hearted. He has been a 
man of great usefulness and credit to Cleveland. 
In 1874 Mr. Anderson married Miss Hattie 
E. McGibeny, daughter of John McGibeny, of 
Mount Vernon, Oliio, and they have had four 
children, of whom three are liviuff. 



D: 



S. WOLFENSTEIN", Superintendent 
of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum at Cleve- 
land, was born in Moravia, Austria, in 
1841. He attended the public schools of his 
native town, also the gymnasium or high school 
at Eruenn, and afterward studied law and phil- 
ology at the University of Vienna. Mr. Wolf- 
enstein was ordained a minister, and in 1864 
began preaching in Insterburg, East Prussia. 
In 1870 he came to the United States; for the 
following eight years was pastor of a church in 
St. Louis, and since 1878 has served as superin- 
tendent of the Jewish Orphan Asylum of Cleve- 
land. His selection for the superintendency 
has proved a wise one, and his relation through 
all these years speaks well for the confidence 
reposed in him by the authorities of that noble 
institution. The asylum is located on "Wood- 
land avenue, and is, perhaps, one of the best in- 
stitutions of the kind in the United States. The 
building is of brick and stone, fire- proof, three 
stories high besides the basement, contains over 
100 rooms, and was erected at a cost of over 
$200,000. Ten teachers are employed, and at 
present the attendance consists of 470 pupils, 
their ages varying from five to fifteen years. 



Their course embraces the higher studies, and 
their training is both practical and theoretical. 
A kindergarten is also connected with the 
school. The pupils are taught trades or oc- 
cupations for which they seem best fitted. 
The grounds, consisting of ten acres, are beauti- 
ful and well kept, and are the pride of the city. 

Samuel Wolfenstein was married June 20, 
1865, in Breslau, Prussia, to Miss Bertha, a 
daughter of I. Brieger, also a native of that 
country. She died July 23, 1885, at the age of 
forty-one years. They had six children: Julius, 
a physician; Martha, at home; Leo, attending 
the Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore, pre- 
paring himself for a teacher in ancient classical 
languages; Laura, a graduate of the Cleveland 
high school; Joseph, w^jo died during the pres- 
ent year, at the age of seventeen years, was pre- 
paring himself for the profession of civil en- 
gineer: and Minnie, attending school. 

Dr. Wolfenstein is a genial, courteous and 
scholarly gentleman, and has great aptness for 



dl WOLFEJ^STEIJf, a physician and sur- 
' geon of Cleveland, giving special attention 
-^ to the diseases of the ear, nose and throat, 
was born in Prussia, Germany, in 1866, a son 
son of Samuel and Bertha Wolfenstein. His 
mother died in 1885, at the age of forty-one 
years, and his father is now superintendent of 
the Jewish Orphan Asylum of Cleveland, and is 
fifty-two years of age. (A sketcli of him is 
given elsewhere.) 

J. Wolfenstein, the first-born in the above 
family, and the subject of this sketch, received 
his education in tlie public sclnols of St. Louis 
and Cleveland, and in' 1886 graduated in the 
medical department of the Western Reserve 
University; he then served as an assistant in the 
Charity Hospital, of this city, nine months; and 
spent the following two years in Vienna, Aus- 
tria, where he studied the diseases of the ear, 
nose and throat under the leading physicians. 



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Returning to Cleveland in 1888, he has since 
followed the practice of his profession. He is 
seci-etari' of tlie Cnyahoga Medical Society, also 
a member of the Cleveland Society of the 
Medical Sciences, and of the Ohio State Medical 
Society. Dr. Wolfenstein is well read and 
tiioroiighly posted in his profession, and has re- 
ceived the best advantages to be gained nnder 
the best instructors of the old country. He is 
in every way a worthy and respected citizen, 
carrying the confidence of those who know him 
as a citizen and in his profession. 



LEVI F. BAUDER, an attorney of Cleve- 
I land, is a son of Levi and Eliza (Phillips) 
1 Bauder. The father came to Cleveland 

in 1835, coming from St. Johnsonsville, Mo- 
hawk valley, New York. He descended from 
among the first German emigrants of Queen 
Anne's reign. His early ancestors in this 
country, it is believed, settled in New York in 
tlie year 1714. Later their descendants partic- 
ipated in the Revolutionary war, under General 
Herkimer, and the paternal grandfather of our 
subject was a soldier in the war of 1812. 

Levi F. Bauder was born in the city of Cleve- 
land, January 28, 1840, educated in the public 
schools of Cleveland, graduating at the Central 
high school in 1858, attended a military school 
at Port Royal, Virginia, and subsequently at- 
tended Oberlin College, after which he taught 
school for one year. Upon the breaking out of 
the Civil war, Mr. Bauder enlisted, in April, 
1861, in the Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 
in which he served for three years and four 
months, making a war record as an excellent 
soldier. He was first a private Corporal, then 
duty Sergeant, First Sergeant and division 
Ordnance Sergeant, having been present at the 
engagements at Cross Lanes, Blue's Gap, "Win- 
chester, Strasbnrg, Cedar Mountain, Pope's 
Retreat, Manassas, Chantilly, Antietam, Cban- 
cellorsville, Gettysburg. "VVauhatchie, Lookout 
Mountain and Resaca. At the battle of Chan- 



cellorsville Mr. Bauder rendered valuable ser- 
vices by promptly furnishing ammunition to 
forces engaged in that position of the field, and 
thus enabling them to repnlse the enemy, vir- 
tually saving the day. At Cedar Mountain Mr. 
Bander did a brave and brilliant act in rescuing 
the colors of a Connecticut regiment, which, 
however, were stolen from him, and at the battle 
of Manassas he accomplished one of the most 
daring and yet innocent feats of the war. At 
this battle, in a moment of confusion, his divi- 
sion was separated from its command and lost. 
Sergeant Bander in an effort to join his com- 
mand took a certain course, bnt where it should 
lead him he hardly knew. He and his fellow 
soldiers, with their blue coats covered with 
dust, somewhat resembled in appearance the 
enemy with their coats of gray. This enabled 
them to pass through Longstreet's command 
with eighteen wagons and forty soldiers without 
being observed until they had almost reached 
their own command, when their identity was 
discovered by the enemy, who fired upon them, 
without effect, for their own command sent out 
a detachment which made safe their escape. 
This passing through the lines of the enemy 
was not intended, for they bad fallen in among 
the enemy not knowing really whither they 
were going. However, the feat was an unprec- 
edented one and nothing like it afterward oc- 
curred. 

Mr. Bauder is a charter member of Memorial 
Post, G. A. R. ; is Past Colonel of Merwin 
Clark command, U. V. U. ; Colonel on the staff 
of the Commander-in-Chief of Union Veterans' 
Union; Secretary of Cuyahoga County Soldiers' 
and Sailors' Monument Association; member of 
the Masonic and other orders; ex-President of 
the Seventh Regiment Association ; ex-President 
of the County Auditors' Association, and was 
President of the Day on decoration exercises in 
1889. For five years he was member of the 
Public Library Board. 

Upon his return from war he was united in 
marriage, September 14, 1864, with Miss Eliza- 
beth Page, daughter of the late General C. W. 



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Page, ex-Mayor of l^orwalk. Upon the con- 
summation of his marriage he settled down in 
Cleveland, and became chief clerk in the for- 
warding department of the Cleveland & Pitts- 
burg Railroad, in which capacity he served 
seven years. He was then bookkeeper for the 
Jackson Iron Company for five years. In 1879 
he was elected County Auditor, in which office 
he served two terms, being re-elected in 1880. 
He was then associated for several years with 
E. Day & Company in the iron-storage business. 
In 1886 he was elected Justice of the Peace, to 
which ofiice he was re-elected in 1889. Mean- 
while he studied law and passed a successful 
examination at Columbus in 1890, carrying the 
honors of a class of sixty-three. Now being ad- 
mitted to the bar, he located in Cleveland, and 
has since been actively engaged in a general 
practice of the law. Mr. Bauder is a friend of 
education, is especially fond of literature and 
history, now being a trustee of the Western Re- 
serve Historical Society. He has contributed 
to literature several well- received articles. 



CHARLES F. LEACH, Secretary of the 
Board of Education of the City of Cleve- 
land, is a native of the Empire State, 
being born in Utica, June 19, 1862. He was 
educated at the Westfield (New York) Academy, 
and in February, 1880, came to Cleveland. 
Here he read law in the office of Nefi & Neff, 
and in 1884 was admitted to the bar. 

Mr. Leach opened an office in this city at 
once and remained in practice until April, 1889, 
when he accepted the appointment of First As- 
sistant City Clerk. In the spring of 1892 he 
was tendered and accepted his present respon- 
sible position. He originated a plan for a sink- 
ing fund to pay the large indebtedness of the 
Board of Education, and succeeded in having a 
bill passed creating a sinking fund commission, 
and he is now Secretary of that commission. 
His services in formulating a new and compre- 
hensive system for the management of the busi- 



ness of the schools have received the public ac- 
knowledgment of the school director and have 
added much to his reputation. 

Mr. Leach is a representative Repiiblican, 
and he has attained some distinction as an or- 
ganizer; and he is known throughout the State 
as an eloquent political speaker. He is a son 
of William C. Leach, a manufacturer of Penn- 
sylvania, but now retired. Charles F. Leach 
married, in Cleveland, Lelia L., a daughter of 
T. C. Burton, of South Haven, Michigan, 
Their children are: William F., Roscoe C, and 
Amaryllis L. 



THEODORE M. BATES, son of the late 
Isaac Bates, of Cummington, Massachu- 
setts, was born in that town, March 19, 
1858. When only four years of age his 
father died, and with his widowed mother he 
lived in his native town, where he attended the 
common schools till he was thirteen years of 
age. In 1871 his mother became the wife of 
Mr. Lewis Ford, of Cleveland, to which city he 
at that time came. He resided with his step- 
father in what was then East Cleveland, where 
he attended the high school. He spent one 
year surveying with Mr. J. L. Cozad, and the 
next two years were spent in the office of the 
city civil engineer of Cleveland, who at that 
time was C. H. Strong. After 1875 he attended 
college at the University of Michigan, at Ann 
Arbor, completing his literary education. Dur- 
ing his vacations he read law under the in- 
struction of Judges Pennewell and Lamson. 
He entered the law department of the University 
of Michigan, and graduated in 1879, receiving 
the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Subsequently 
he was admitted to the Michigan bar, and also 
the Ohio bar, and located in Cleveland, where 
he was employed with the firm of Odell & Cozad, 
abstracters of titles, with whom he remained till 
1883, when the firm was dissolved. He became 
at that time a partner in the new firm of Mil- 
lard, Belz and Company which was then formed 



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and later became Cozad, Belz, Bates & Company; 
this was incorporated in 1891, with a capital 
stock of 1100,000, under the name of the 
Cozad, Belz & Bates Abstract Company, for 
which company Mr. Bates became manager and 
attorney. The iirm is now of considerable im- 
portance and does a large and lucrative business. 
Mr. Bates was elected to the City Council in 
1890, re-elected in 1S91, and was for one year 
Vice President of the council. In 1890 Mr. 
Bates received an unsolicited appointment 
through Hon. T. E. Burton, member of Con- 
gress, as superintendent of Ohio for statistics of 
division of farms, homes, and mortgages, for the 
eleventh census, in which position he was em- 
ployed six months, having under his direction 
over forty men engaged in taking the above 
statistics in the different counties of the State. 
In April, 1892, he was appointed member of 
the Board of Equalization and Assessment of 
Cleveland, of which board he was president for 
the ensuing year, and he was re-appointed to 
the same office in April, 1893, for a term of 
three years, and is acting in said capacity at the 
present date, giving his entire time and atten- 
tion to the duties of said office. 

In 1882 Mr. Bates married Miss Olive Cozad, 
daughter of his partner, Mr. J. L. Cozad, and 
they have bad five children, of whom three boys 
and one girl survive. These children are Clif- 
ford, Stanlee, Eussell and Kosamond.' 



S. KERimiSH, an active and success- 
ful member of the Cleveland bar, was 
born in "VVarrensville, Cuyahoga county, 
Ohio, October 30, 1831. Mr. Kerniish was edu- 
cated at the Twinsburgh Institute, Western Re- 
serve College and Yale College, at which latter 
institution he graduated in 1855. 

Predilection led him to the study of law, 
which he pursued in the office of Ranney, 
Backus &, Noble at Cleveland, and was admitted 
to the bar in 1859, since which date he has 
practiced law in this city with abundant success 
and a constantly growing reputation. In the 



practice of law he has been associated in part- 
nership with some of the ablest members of the 
Cleveland bar. He has been identified with 
various Cleveland public and benevolent organ- 
izations, and indeed he is not only a represent- 
ative lawyer of merit and respectability but is 
also esteemed and respected as a citizen. 

He is a ripe scholar, being a constant student, 
and as a speaker he is of force and eloqiieuce, 
and hence is a strong advocate at the bar. 



ffj ARYEY D. GOULDER.— Among the 
fpH prominent attorneys, not only of the city 
Jl 41 of Cleveland, but of the United States, 
' Harvey D. Gonlder sustains high rank. 

He was born in Cleveland, March 1, 1853, as a 
son of Christoplier B. and Barbara (Freeland) 
Goulder. 

Mr. Goulder's early education was obtained 
in the public schools of this city. In 1869, 
when only sixteen years of age, he graduated at 
the Central High School of the city. His 
father was a lake captain and young Gonlder 
even before completing his education became a 
lake sailor. Summer seasons were spent in sail- 
ing, and during the winter seasons he applied 
himself to study. He entered the law office of 
Tyler & Dennis and took up the study of law. 
Later he served for two years as entry clerk for 
Alcott, Horton & Company, dry-goods dealers, 
then, after sailing for a short time on the lakes 
as mate of a vessel, he entered the law office of 
the late John E. Cary, a leading administrator 
lawyer, who was for a number of years a mem- 
ber of the well-known firm of Willey & Cary. 
In May of 1875 Mr. Goulder was admitted to 
the bar and at once entered upon his profes- 
sional career, in which he has been deservedly 
successful. For a time he and Alexander Had- 
den were associated together, but for many 
years was alone. In the spring of 1893, how- 
ever, he admitted Samuel H. Hadding as part- 
ner, formerly of the law department of the 
"Big Four" Railroad. 




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Mr. Goulder has gained considerable promi- 
nence in his profession, and is esteemed as a 
lawyer of learning and an advocate of power 
and eloquence. In the practice of his profes- 
sion Mr. Goulder has made a specialty of mari- 
time and insurance law, and in these branches 
he has long since been acknowledged as a lead- 
er of the Cleveland bar, and the peer of any 
other in the United States. In nearly all the 
most important maritime cases arising upon the 
lakes his services are sought by litigants. It 
must be understood, however, that his mari- 
time practice is in the main confined to cases 
arising out of questions concerning lake navi- 
gation. At present Mr. Goulder is general 
counselor for the Great Lake Carriers, and in 
this position he has considerable and important 
practice for the Association of Cleveland Ves- 
sel Owners. Not only is he prominent in his 
profession but also has he taken conspicuous 
part in public affairs. He is a member of the 
Cleveland Board of Counsel, and for the last 
several years has been one of the vice presidents 
of the Cleveland Board of Trade. 

Not only is he a man of great intellectual 
power, but of excellent physical development. 
He is a line specimen of manhood, and has 
borne in mind the principle that to have a sound 
mind one must have a well developed physique. 

November 11, 1878, Mr. Goulder married 
Miss Mary F. Rankin, daughter of J. E. Ean- 
kiu, D. D., who was then pastor of the First 
Congregational Church, of Washington, Dis- 
trict of Columbia. 



RTHITR A. STEA.RNS, attorney at law 
though one of the younger members of 
tlie Cleveland bar, sustains a good repu- 
tation as a lawyer. He was born in Cuya- 
hoga county, Ohio, July 18, 1858, received 
his early schooling in the public scliools 
and attended Buchtel College at Akron, Ohio, 
at which institution he graduated in 1879. He 
then attended Harvard Law School, where he 



graduated in 1881, receiving the degree of LL.B. 
He was admitted to the bar in 1881 at Cleve- 
land, Ohio, where he has continued ever since 
in a remunerative practice. 

Mr. Stearns has been a trustee of the Buchtel 
College for a period of over ten years; was 
financial agent for this institution during the 
years 1887 and 1888, has always manifested 
great interest in and rendered much assistance 
to his alma mater. 

Mr. Stearns was married, in 1888, to Miss 
Lilian G. Piatt, of Giendale, Ohio. 



ffffON. SAMUEL ELADSIT WILLI AM- 
|r4 SON, attorney at law, was born in Cle ve- 
il 41 land, Ohio, April 19, 1844, received his 
"^ early education in the public schools of 

Cleveland and afterward attended the Western 
Reserve College, at which institution he was 
graduated in 1864. He then attended the Har- 
vard Law School for one year and was then ad- 
mitted to the bar, in September, 1866. He be- 
gan the study of law in the office of his father, 
with whom he commenced the practice of his 
profession in February, 1867. 

In the practice of law, Mr. Williamson was 
associated with his father for about two years. 
After 1869 he was associated with T. K. Bol- 
ton, the law firm being Williamson & Bolton, 
and was discontinued in 1874, after which date 
Mr. Williamson was associated with Judge J. E. 
Ingersoll, which association ended in 1880. In 
November of this year Mr. Williamson was 
elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, 
and served two years, resigning in September, 
1882, to accept a position with the New York, 
Chicago & St. Louis Railroad, as its attorney. 
In this capacity he has continued to serve this 
company, and in addition to his practice of law 
in the interests of this corporation he has done 
important corporation practice for other com- 
panies. As a lawyer. Judge Williamson sus- 
tains an appropriate rank in his profession. 



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In 1878 Judge Williamson was united in 
marriage with Miss Mary P. Marsh, of New 
Haven, Connecticut, a sister of Professor Marsh, 
of Yale College. Judge Williamson has two 
daughters by this marriage. In 1881 Mrs. 
Williamson died, and in 1884 Judge William- 
son married, for a second wife. Miss Harriet 
W. Brown, daughter of Rev. S. R. Brown, D. D., 
of East Windsor, Connecticut, and by this mar- 
riatre there is a son. 



F. WHEAL, assistant superintendent of 
the Cleveland City Railway Company, 
and a gentleman, perhaps, without a rival 
as a builder of street railways, was by nativity a 
subject of the English crown, being born in 
Glonceslershire, old England, September 16, 
1843. He was a farmer's son and was equipped 
with a liberal education and a business experi- 
ence sufficient to enable him to compete suc- 
cessfully with his American cousin in the strug- 
gle for physical existence. In 1S67 he left 
England and came direct to Cleveland. He be- 
came interested in the construction of street 
railways almost immediately as foreman for 
Hathaway & Robinson, a prominent contracting 
firm of this city, who put in lines of railway in 
Toronto, St. Catherine's, Belleville, Kingston, 
London and St. Thomas, in Canada, Fargo, 
North Dakota, St. Paul and Minneapolis, Min- 
res ota, and, in the South, in New Orleans, Louisi 
ana, in the West, at St. Louis and Kansas City, 
Missouri, and Topeka, Kansas, and probably a 
dozen towns over Ohio, not including Cleveland. 
In this city they built the Payne avenue and 
Superior street lines, the St. Clair street and the 
Broadway and Newburg lines. 

Upon his locating permanently in Cleveland, 
Mr. Wheal was made assistant superintendent 
of the Payne avenue and Superior street lines, 
at first and for many years propelled by horse 
power, when it required 300 head of horses to 
operate them successfully. Mr. Wheal is a 



plain '-business" man, — keeps business and 
pleasure apart from each other and enjoys both 
equally well. 

Mr. Wheal is a son of Charles Wheal, who 
has one other son, now a farmer in England. 
The subject of this sketch married, in Racine, 
Wisconsin, Mrs. Mary Owen, and has three 
daughters, — Helen, Fannie and Frederica. 

Mr. Wheal is a member of the Red Cross So- 
ciety and a leading and valuable member of the 
Cleveland Gun Club. He was for seven years 
the champion of Ohio with the shotgun and won 
three prizes in succession in shots at Niagara 
Falls, Cleveland and Chicago, beating 149 men 
in one day in Cleveland. During their last shot 
Mr. Wheal won the first prize of the Cleveland 
Gun Club. Quail and pigeon shooting is Mr. 
Wheal's favorite sport. He has a record of 
having killed 1,123 quail in less than twenty- 
six days' actual work. In trap shooting his 
record is sixty-nine pigeons without a miss, — 
96 out of a possible 100. 



IfOEL WALTER TYLER, general attorney 
K I for the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling 
^^ Railroad Company, was born in Portage 
county, Ohio, and he has ever since resided in 
this State. In his early boyhood days he evinced 
a decided love for study and general reading, 
this characteristic being stimulated by his com- 
ing under the influence and tuition of a gentle- 
man who was a good scholar, thoroughly versed 
in literature, and had a charming faculty of 
imparting his knowledge to others. He took a 
very kindly interest in the young student, and 
embraced every opportunity to instruct him 
while in attendance at the school he then 
taught, and while attending an academy which 
opened in the neighborhood. Through these 
special advantages, and by untiring application, 
this boy, at the age of ten years, became greatly 
advanced in elementary education. H& could 
work out the problems iu the arithmetics then 



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in common use, viz.: Daboll, Adams' new 
edition; and then there was Pike's arithmetic, 
a little antiquated, but full of intricate ques- 
tions, which were handed this boy by his in- 
structor to test his capacity for working out 
puzzles in arithmetic. 

Young Tyler was well versed in English 
grammar and geography. His friend above 
mentioned was a physician, and at about the age 
of ten kept him in his office and taught him 
physics, anatomy, physiology and chemistry. 
It was the wish of the boy's mother that he 
should fit himself for the medical profession. 
This he declined to do, although very fond of 
the study, but disliked the doctor's professional 
practice. In the meantime he commenced the 
study of Latin with a clergyman. He had 
thus been under private tuition and academical 
instruction until about the age of fourteen. 
At about this time he attracted the attention of 
a gentleman who resided near him, a surveyor, 
who had a great love for science, but at that 
time was termed a "free-thinker." He took 
the Boston Investigator, and had many infidel 
works, such as Tom Paine's Age of Reason, 
Volney's Ruins and other like works. This 
scientist engaged young Tyler, then in his fif- 
teenth year, to take the district school where he 
(the scientist) resided. The home of the boy 
while teaching was at the house of this gentle- 
man, who put into his hands many scientific as 
well as skeptical works. He especially in- 
structed him in the geography of the heavens. 
He could go out any clear evening and point 
out many constellations. Through these ob- 
ject lessons the boy received valuable instruc- 
tion. Notwithstanding young Tyler was so 
being surcharged with skeptical lore, he became 
convinced that the teachings of Christ should 
be followed, and claims to be a Christian to 
this day, although not in accord with denomi- 
national creeds. 

After completing the term of school for 
which he had been engaged, he immediately 
went to Hudson, then the home of the Western 
Reserve College, and entered a preparatory 



school for college, — first intending to take the 
whole classical course; but from studying nights 
his eyes failed him for a time. After recover- 
ing his sight he commenced studying in the 
scientific department of the Western Reserve 
College, and attended the scientific lectures of 
Professors Loomis and St. John delivered to the 
senior class of the college. He was confined in 
a dark room for about six months, but by the 
aid of an aperture in the darkened window a, 
person whom he engaged for the purpose was 
enabled to read his lessons to him, and in this 
way he committed rules and definitions in the 
Latin grammar and in mathematics. 

Geometry was his favorite branch of mathe- 
matics, and even after opening an office for the 
practice of law he kept geometrical diagrams 
hanging in his office, and often of a morning 
would go through the demonstration of some 
theorem therewith connected, and continued to 
give private instructions in mathematics. About 
this time, not being driven by clients, in con- 
nection with one of his pupils, he employed a 
native Frenchman to instruct them in the 
French language. Through this one, and some 
other instructors, he acquired some knowledge 
of this language. 

One of his pupils was Charles Wilber, after- 
ward State Geologist of Illinois. While Pro- 
fessor Wilber was delivering a course of lectures 
in Cleveland, Ohio, several winters ago, he got 
up a surprise party to Mr. Tyler, several of his 
old students coming to his house unexpectedly 
to him, but known to his wife, who served 
refreshments, and a very enjoyable time was 
the i-esult. 

When about eighteen Tyler commenced the 
study of law in Hudson with Esquii'e Wheadon, 
and continued studying with him over two 
years. Part of the time he was obliged to pur- 
sue his studies at night, while teaching days in 
the same place. Having so studied the re- 
quisite time required by law in Ohio for ad- 
mission to examination, Mr. Wheadon handed 
him a certificate entitling him to examination 
for practice, but at the same time advising him 



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to enter an office where there was more general 
practice than lie had, Wheadon's specialty being 
equity and chancery practice, in which he was 
very proficient. 

Following this advice Mr. Tyler obtained ad- 
mission into the ofBce of Tilden & Rannej,' then 
in active practice in Ravenna, Portage county, 
Ohio, and studied with thera one year and a 
half, making his whole term of law study three 
years and one-half, and then he was admitted 
by the Supreme Court of Ohio to practice as an 
attorney and counsellor at law, and solicitor in 
chancery, in all courts of record of the State of 
Ohio. It may be here premised that he has 
since been admitted to practice in all the Fed- 
eral Courts, including the Supreme Court of 
the United States. 

After visiting the " west," as it was then 
called, that is, traveling over Illinois and Wis- 
consin, and looking around Ohio, Mr. Tyler 
finally concluded to locate in Garrettsville, Ohio; 
several lawyers who had started there had made 
a success, and this encouraged him to make a 
trial at Garrettsville. He practiced law in 
Trumbull, Portage and Summit counties, while 
having his oflice in Garrettsville; that is to say, 
he had a few cases in each of these counties. 

In the year 1851 Mr. Tyler removed to Kent, 
Ohio, then named Franklin Mills. Having 
taken considerable interest in politics, a con- 
vention for the nomination of State Senator, 
while being held at that place, through a com- 
mittee, offered him the nomination for the posi- 
tion of State Senator, Portage and Summit be- 
ing the two counties to be represented; it was 
allotted to Portage as being entitled to the can- 
didate. At first Mr. Tyler thought he would 
accept the offer, being flattered by what he then 
considered a high compliment. 

He was then making by economy a comfort- 
able living by his profession, and taking this 
matter for a few hours in consideration as to 
accepting this offer of candidacy, an anecdote 
came into his mind that he had recently heard, 
of the man who had been very poor, but finally 
started peddling, whereupon he improved his 



raiment and "fleshed up;" but, on being com- 
plimented for his improved appearance by an 
intimate friend, the peddler begged this friend 
to forbear such compliments, for while he ad- 
mitted he was living so well, it was h — 1 on his 
family! so Mr. Tyler declined going to Colum- 
bus on borrowed capital, to get good clothes, 
and feeding on luxuries while his wife and boys 
were poorly provided for. 

About the time he removed to Kent con- 
siderable interest in banking, manufacturing, 
railroading and other corporations was mani- 
fested. Mr. Tyler took a deep interest in sev- 
eral of these, and made corporation law a special 
study, drawing up articles of organization for 
independent banks, etc. 

About 1853 came an era in the history of 
this country for the projecting and building of 
railroads. A certain company was organized, 
named The Franklin & Warren Railroad Com- 
pany. All railroad company charters were by 
special enactment subject to the general law of 
1848, and this special charter was passed March 
10, 1851: it gave very extensive privileges. A 
company under it was authorized to construct a 
railroad to the east line of the State of Ohio, 
and extending in a westerly direction and south- 
westerly direction to connect with any other 
railroad within this State which the directors of 
the company might deem advisable, and also 
authorized to connect with any other railroad 
company, or consolidate its capital stock with 
such company, upon such terms as might be 
agreed upon with such company, authorizing 
the company thus chartered to connect with 
any railroad either within or without the State. 
The company having been organized and 
surveys made, by order of the court, its name 
was changed to the Atlantic & Great Western 
Railway Company. This was the Ohio portion, 
and afterward two other companies were organ- 
ized, one in Pennsylvania and one in New 
York, extending the line to connect with the 
Erie Railway at Salamanca, New York. What 
we wish, however, particularly to call attention 
to, is the fact that the subject of this sketch 



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drew a mortgage deed or deed of trust of the 
Atlantic & Great Western Kailway Company to 
trustees, Azariah C. Flagg, of New York, being 
the principal trustee. This mortgage was given 
to secure the payment of $4,000,000 in bonds 
of different denominations; and while there had 
been other mortgages of railroads in Ohio, some 
of them very elaborate and lengthy, this mort- 
gage, which was drawn by the subject of this 
sketch, is said to be mainly adopted as the late 
form by most other companies, — of course with 
changes in conformity to the laws of the State 
of Ohio; and he has drawn several mortgages 
or trust deeds containing clauses of most de- 
cided importance applicable to this State, one of 
which protects the mortgaged property from 
being levied upon and sold for the payment of 
debts before the mortgage is due or any of its 
interest coupons. 

In 1853 Mr. Tyler commenced to act as the 
accountant, solicitor and attorney for this rail- 
road company. Finally the offices were re- 
moved to Mansfield, Ohio, and then he removed 
there, still in charge of the business of the 
company. There he remained until 1858, when 
work was suspended upon the road, and the 
organization was not fully kept up. 

He then removed to Warren, Ohio. Having 
been formerly intimately acquainted with Judge 
Mathew Birchard, late one of the Judges of the 
Supreme Court of Ohio, he entered into part- 
nership with him; but, political excitement at 
that time running high, he soon got into poli- 
tics, and being a Republican was called upon to 
deliver public addresses, and did make many 
speeches in favor of the Republican party. Up 
to and during the canvass and election of Lin- 
coln he spoke almost continually at some place 
in this State, in different counties; and in 1860 
he was nominated for Probate Judge of Trumbull 
county, — an office that then paid better than 
any other in the county, and it was designed to 
confer upon him a compliment for his efforts 
for the Republican party. He was elected that 
fall, the Republican party being in every way 
successful. 



In the spring of that year he entered upon 
the duties of his office, but at this time the war 
broke out. Sumter was taken. The country 
was in great excitement and many of the law- 
yers of Trumbull county enlisted, but, having 
been elected to his office, although he was 
offered a Captaincy of a company in Trumbull 
county, he thought it his duty to continue in 
his office, inasmuch as some one must fill it, 
and the people of Trumbull county had selected 
him, and the office being a good paying office be 
thought best to continue in it. In his speeches 
which he made for the enlisting of soldiers he 
said that " the office which he held was subject 
to be turned over to any wounded soldier and 
lawyer who was competent to fill it;" and to 
show his wish to be true to his promise he 
faithfully carried it out, for notwithstanding he 
was nominated unanimously, and elected by an 
increased majority over all other candidates the 
second term, after he had held the office about 
one year only, a soldier and a lawyer, and sup- 
posed to be a good man, came home severely 
wounded. Brough was then Governor. Mr. 
Tyler immediately went to Columbus with his 
resignation, and a recommendation of the ap- 
pointment of Mr. Yeomans, who was the 
wounded soldier. Meeting Brough at the Neil 
House he offered him these papers for examina- 
tion. It might be said here that Mr. Tyler had 
had considerable acquaintance with Governor 
Brough while he was connected with the Belle- 
fontaine & Indiana Railroad, having met him at 
arious points where the two roads, i. e., the 
Atlantic & Great Western Railroad and the 
Bellefontaine & Indiana Railroad, were neai-ly 
competitors. Now Brough showed his " brough- 
ness," for, on presenting this resignation and 
this recommendation, he exclaimed that a 
resignation was in one hand and an appointment 
in the other, — the force of which the subject of 
this sketch appreciated better afterward than at 
the time. Being anxious to carry out his pledge 
to the people of Trumbull county, he did not 
appreciate the situation, and thereupon perhaps 
got a little offensive himself, in telling the 



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Governor that lie (the Governor) would not only 
accept the resignation but would make the ap- 
pointment; thereupon the Governor smiled and 
passed out of sight. The next day Mr. Tyler 
called upon the Auditor of the State, with whom 
he was well acquainted, and told him what a 
mistake he had made, and how sorry he was for 
it; thereupon the Auditor said to him, " You 
hand in your resignation and also the recom- 
mendation of the ajipointmeut of your suc- 
cessor, and I will guarantee you that the resig- 
nation will be accepted, and the appointment 
made as you recommend; you no doubt pleased 
Governor Brough," and this prediction was 
fulfilled: Yeoraans was appointed and installed 
in the office. 

Soon after this the construction of the Atlan- 
tic & Great Western Eailway started up again, 
and Mr. Tyler was called upon to act as its 
general attorney. He then came to Cleveland, 
in 1865, and was appointed the general attorney 
of the entire lines from Salamanca through 
Ohio to Dayton. Feeling as though it was 
rather too heavy a load for him to carry alone, 
although very ambitious, he thought of Judge 
R. P. Ranney as assistant. During the time 
that he was student in the office of John Rau- 
ney at Ravenna, Ohio, he frequently met Hon- 
orable Rufus P. Ranney at the office of his 
brother there, and had frequently met him 
while he was acting as one of the Judges of the 
Supreme Court at Columbus; and he knew, as 
many knew, that Judge Ranney was unex- 
pectedly to himself elected judge, having run 
for the office contrary to his own wishes. Mr. 
Tyler sought an interview with Judge Ranney, 
and told him of his appointment as general 
attorney on the lines of road extending from 
Salamanca to Dayton, and solicited the judge to 
go in with him and act as counsel for the road, 
with the understanding that he was not to try 
cases in the Common Pleas Courts, nor other- 
wise unless of decided importance. Judge 
Ranney's reply was that he '• would consider 
the matter, and that the Supreme Court was 
going to take a recess at a certain time," — 



which was along in February, 1865. However 
that may be, Judge Ranney came home in Feb- 
ruary or March, 1865, aud immediately sent in 
his resignation as one of the judges of the Su- 
preme Court, entered into a partnership, or 
associated himself with Mr. Tyler, and they re- 
mained in connection with the business of that 
company until the final hearing on sale was 
had, somewhere in 1869, when Judge Ranney 
took the side with the bondholders of the first- 
mortgage bonds, and the subject of this sketch 
was the attorney of the stockholders, and also 
of the subsequent mortgagees. After the road 
was sold he was also the attorney of the receiver 
that was appointed. Various matters connected 
with this receivership, although extremely in- 
teresting perhaps to the country, and might be 
in this case, could be related here; yet, not to 
prolong the sketch, it may be stated that Mr. 
Tyler was the attorney of Robert B. Potter, of 
New York, who was appointed receiver, after- 
ward the attorney of Gould & O'Dougherty, 
receivers, until there was a disagreement be- 
tween McHenry & Gould; aud then Mr. Tyler 
thought that he was in duty bound to act for 
Mr. McHenry, which he did. Several very in- 
teresting passages might be related with regard 
to that matter, which would be interesting more 
particularly to tlie special friends of the subject 
of this sketch. 

At a meeting of a very large number of the 
stockholders of the company at Kent, Ohio, 
July 12, 1864, the following statement was 
made and adopted by them, which we quote here: 

" From the organization of the company, in 
1851, until 1858, Mr. Tyler acted in the official 
capacity of secretary and legal adviser, and dur- 
ing that whole period no steps were taken, in- 
volving an important legal question, without 
his counsel and approval; and, notwithstanding 
the severe ordeal through which the company 
was compelled to pass, involving a thorough 
legal investigation into its organization and all 
its acts, it has ever been able to vindicate itself, 
and has not lost a dollar by reason of thus fol- 
lowing the legal opinions of Mr. Tyler." 



CUTAIIOOA COUNTY. 



About the time the Atlantic & Great West- 
ern Railway was sold and the new organization 
took place, the railroad company for which Mr. 
Tyler is at present the general counsel was or- 
ganized. Several of the persons formerly in- 
terested in the Atlantic & Great "Western Rail- 
way, having taken an interest in this new 
company, requested Mr. Tyler to act as its 
general counsel and attorney, which he concluded 
to do, and has been the general counsel and at- 
torney of the company ever since. 

The subject of this sketch has been a stanch 
Republican all his life, and has been a friend of 
several of the most distinguished persons of that 
party, — among them Senator John Sherman 
and James A. Garfield. He was an Elector 
during the campaign of 1880, and as such he of 
course voted for James A. Garfield for Presi- 
dent of the United States. 

Mr. Tyler's love of literature caused him to 
seek through Horace Greeley, with whom he 
was well acquainted, an interview with Wash- 
ington Irving. The works of Washington 
Irving had become extremely familiar to him, 
— so much so that he conld repeat verbatim 
long passages taken from some of his books, as 
Salamagundi and Knickerbocker and others. 
This love of Irving's and other literary works 
was stimulated by his boyhood instructor, to 
whom reference has been heretofore made. 

Taking Mr. Greeley's letter to Mr. Irving, 
he found him in a rather melancholy condition: 
he had not been writing for several weeks, the 
work he had in hand then being the last volume 
of the Life of George Washington. This letter 
being handed to Mr. Irving, he kindly received 
its bearer and conversation commenced. The 
introductory letter assuring him that its bearer 
was familiar with his writings made Mr. Tyler 
feel ambitious to verify that fact, and he com- 
menced repeating from the early works of Irving 
certain full passages; thereupon Mr. Irving be- 
came very merry, and said, '' Your instructor 
must have stimulated you into a great love of 
history," — and went on to talk freely. One 
remark is particularly worthy of mention: Mr. 



Irving said that, " having been abroad for sev- 
eral years in different countries of Europe, when 
I walk along Broadway it reminds me of a 
boiling cauldron, in which the nationalities of 
the earth are being boiled together in one mass, 
and a new people, a new class of humanity is 
the result, — the ' Great American People,' — 
which in my judgment will ultimately excel all 
other peoples upon the earth." It seems that 
Irving made minutes of certain things that 
occurred (which he did in this case), and por- 
tions of this conversation have been published 
in his life and letters. This interview is one of 
the events of which the subject of this sketch 
is decidedly proud. 

Pierre Irving, a nephew of Washington 
Irving, rode from Irvington to New York with 
Mr. Tyler, and he said on the way that " the 
interview was very opportune, for his uncle's 
spirits had been in that way revived, and he 
seemed to feel better than he had for several 
weeks; and he said, 'I am going to work." 
Mr. Pierre Irving further said, " You came 
there as a private citizen, as an admirer of Mr. 
Irving's works, and showed him most decidedly 
that you were acquainted with them, and loved 
Irving for his works; and it seemed to do him 
good. Many had come to him with their books 
to have them dedicated to him, or have him 
write his name in them, and he became dis- 
gusted with that class of visitors." 

Mr. Tyler is still actively engaged in attend- 
ing to the business of his profession. His 
duties as general counsel of the Cleveland, 
Lorain & Wheeling Railroad Company demand 
his special attention, but in connection with his 
son, William B. Tyler, he is engaged in general 
practice of the law. 

The subject of this sketch was first married 
to Miss Nancy V. Horr, who died within a few 
years after their marriage. By her he had one 
son, since deceased. His second marriage was 
to Miss Sarah A. McKinney, with whom he 
lived many years. By her he had two sons: 
Charles W. Tyler, now residing in New York 
city, by profession a journalist; and William 



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B. Tyler, now practicing law with him in 
Cleveland, Ohio. He has again married, this 
time the widow of Mr. James B. Parish, de- 
ceased, she having been a scholar of his when a 
young girl, and her name Miss Emer I. Waite, 
and for whom he had entertained kindly regards, 
especially as she and his former wife were inti- 
mate friends. 



TjOSHUA B. GLENN, a prominent real- 
^^-Ji estate dealer of Cleveland, was horn in 

^ Ashland county, Ohio, February 16, 1833, 
a son of Joshua Glenn. The latter was born in 
Havre de Grace, Maryland, in 1794. His 
grandfather, Norman Glenn, was a native of 
the north of Ireland, but of Scotch descent. He 
braved the trials and dangers of a life in Colo- 
nial America to enjoy religious and other liber- 
ties. He was probably an officer in the Colonial 
armv during the Revolutionary war, and after- 
ward an officer in a civil capacity. His son, 
John Glenn, married a Miss Streater, and they 
had live children. The family subsequently lo- 
cated in Wooster and Jeromesville, Ohio, where 
they were engaged in agricultural pursuits. 
John Glenn died in Ashland county, this State, 
in 1852, at the age of eighty-four years. His 
son, Joshua Glenn, the father of Joshua B., was 
a soldier in the war of 1812, with England, un- 
der General Winfield Scott, and was stationed 
principally at Baltimore. After his discharge 
he came to Ohio in search of a western home, 
pitching his tent in Ashland county in 1814. 
He settled in the dense forest, out of which he 
grubbed a farm, and his nearest neighbor was 
then two miles distant. Mr. Glenn married 
Sarah Beatty, a native of Maryland, and they 
had the following children: Robert, deceased; 
John, who died from a disease contracted in the 
army; William, in Ashland county; James, 
who also died from the effects of army service; 
Elizabeth J., wife of Dr. Cowen, of Ashland 
county; Mary, deceased at the age of twenty 



years; Joshua B., whose name introduces this 
notice; and Nicholas, a farmer of Jeromesville, 
Ohio. 

J. B. Glenn, the subject of this sketch, re- 
mained on the home farm until twenty-one years 
of age. He was then employed as clerk by 
Robert McMahon, of Jeromesville, one year, 
and dui-ing the following year was engaged in 
the same occupation for the dry-goods firm of 
D. H. King & Company, of "Wooster, Ohio. 
September 2, 1858, he came to Cleveland, 
where he was engaged in the commission busi- 
ness for a time, afterward conducted a retail 
establishment on Ontario street, and ne.xt en- 
tered the jobbing foreign and domestic fruit trade. 
Mr. Glenn left that business in charge of a 
competent person and enlisted for service iti the 
late war, in 1863. He became a member of 
Company F, One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry, and served on picket duty 
at Washington, District of Columbia, until the 
expiration of his term of enlistment. Mr. 
Glenn then resumed his business. In 1870 he 
took his family to New York city, for the pur- 
pose of giving his atfiicted wife the advantage 
of the best medical skill, and remained there 
three years. After returning to this city he en- 
gaged in the real-estate business, during which 
time he represented the old Si.xth ward, from 
1881 to 1883, in the City Council. In 1884 he 
entered a real-estate business in company with 
Colonel Wilco.'i, continuing with that gentle- 
man two years. In 1886, having conceived 
a plan to settle Northern immigrants on South- 
ern soil, Mr. Glenn located at West Point, Mis- 
sissippi, where he established a large colony, 
and conducted a profitable business until the 
Presidential election in the fall of 1888. The 
old rebel spirit and Southern animosities toward 
Northern men became so aroused as to seriously 
interfere with the progress of the colony. In 
1891 Mr. Glenn and many others left that coun- 
try for their Northern homes. In July, 1891, 
he was appointed Steward for the Cleveland In- 
firmary, and served in that position until May 
1, 1893. 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



Mr. Glenn was married at Wooster, Ohio, in 
1855, to Miss Lydia Saybolt, a daughter of 
Abram Saybolt, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 
They had six children, viz.: Dayton W., born in 
1857, was employed as enrolling clerk, afterward 
as Sergeant-at-Arms of the Ohio Senate, and is 
now a traveling salesman ; John S., a printer by 
profession ; Nettie Maud, a teacher in the Cleve- 
land schools; Emma B., wife of A. L. Dunklin, 
of St. Charles, Missouri; Edith B., now Mrs. 
Morrow, of this city; and Lyman J., a railroad 
postal clerk. The wife and mother died June 
21, 18S3. In November, 1885, Mr. Glenn was 
united in marriage with Lanra B., adaughter of 
Isaac Arbuckle, a native of Pennsylvania, but 
subsequently located near New Lisbon, Ohio. 
He had the following children: Mrs. Itha 
Smith, of Denver, Colorado; William F., of 
Wood county, Ohio; Josephine Smith, a resident 
of New Lisbon; Elmer L., of Beaver county, 
Pennsylvania; Mrs. Mary Gihnore, of Colum- 
biana county; Elizabeth McBaine, of Beaver 
county, Pennsylvania; Mrs. Mina Beach, of this 
city; and Mrs. Glenn. 



DANIEL KELLET was a pioneer of Cleve- 
land, to which place he emigrated from 
New York in 1814, and the Kelley fam- 
ily therefore has long since been of considerable 
prominence in this city. 

Joseph Kelley, a ship-builder, was the parent 
tree of the family in America. His nativity is 
not known, but it is very probable that he was 
of Welsh origin, and the year of his birth 1690. 
He was an early settler of Norwich, Connecti- 
cut, where be was a citizen in 1716. About 
1723 he married Lydia Calkins, who was a de- 
scendant of Hugh Calkins, one of a body of 
emigrants from Monmouthshire on the borders 
of Wales, who came to New England in 1640, 
with their minister, Bev. Mr. Biuman. Joseph 
and Lydia Kelley had a son, Daniel, born in 
1724, at Norwich, Connecticut, and died in 
Vermont, aged nearly ninety years. In 1751 
he married Abigail Keynolds, a daughter of 



Joseph and Lydia Reynolds. She bore him 
several children, of whom only Daniel and Abi- 
gail ever married. 

Daniel Kelley, the second, was born at Nor- 
wich, Connecticut, November 27, 1755, and in 
1787 married Jemima Stow, born at Middle- 
town, Connecticut, December 28, 1763, of Eng- 
lish lineage, and died at Cleveland, September 
13 (?), 1815. They removed to Lowville, New 
York, in 1798. He was a pioneer and founder 
of that city, whore he figured conspicuously in 
public life. In the fall of 1814 he and his wife 
removed to Cleveland, whither several of their 
sons had preceded them. In Cleveland he 
served as Postmaster and County Treasurer, and 
died August 7, 1831. The children of Daniel 
and Jemima Kelley were all born at Middletown, 
Connecticut, as follows: Datus, born April 24, 
1788; Alfred, born November 7, 1789; Irad, 
born October 24, 1791; Joseph Reynolds, born 
March 29, 1794; Thomas Moore, born March 
17, 1797; and Daniel, born October 21, 1802. 
Datus Kelley married, in 1811, Sara Dean, 
and they had the following children: Addison, 
Julius, Daniel, Samuel, Emeline, Caroline, Eliza- 
beth, Alfred Stow and William Datus. About 
1810, together with others of the family, Datus 
Kelley came to Cleveland and purchased a farm 
about one mile west of Rocky river. In 1833 
he and his brother Irad visited Cunningham's 
(now Kelley's) island, by solicitation of Mr. 
Allen, agent for the owners, with a view of 
purchasing the island. August 20, 1833, the 
two brothers made the first purchase of lands, 
1,444.92 acres, comprising the eastern half 
of the island, the price being $1.50 per acre. 
Other purchases were made until the brothers 
became owners of the entire island, — 3,000 acres. 
In 1836 Datus Kelley removed his family to 
the island, on which he resided till his death, 
which occurred January 24, 1866. He was a 
patriarch in this community, upon which he 
and his descendants have exercised a lasting in- 
fluence. He effected the development of the 
material resources of the island by clearing its 
surface of the valuable cedar forests which 



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covered it and cultivating the grape and peach. 
He established communication with the main 
land, opened limestone quarries, built a hotel 
and donated a public hall to the township, and 
did other deeds of public spirit, thus making 
more appropriate the name of the island than 
such would be simply because of ownership. 
He was a warm friend of education and gave 
generous assistance to the founding of schools. 
His moral influence was manifest in its effect 
upon the settlers forming the community, to 
whom lands were sold. 

To his noble and useful life that of his good, 
motherly and charitable wife was a blessing. 
She was deservingly and familiarly known by 
the title of " Aunt " among the people. She 
was born at Martinsburg, New York, as a 
daughter of Samuel Dean. The Dean family 
were pioneers of Cuyahoga county, and many of 
the family now live in Rockport township. Mrs. 
Kelley's death preceded that of her husband, 
she dying March 21, 1864. 

Alfred Kelley, a son of Daniel and Jemima 
(Stow) Kelley, was born at or near Middletown, 
Connecticut, November 7, 1787. In the winter 
of 1798-'99 his parents removed to Lowville, 
New York, where Alfred attended the common 
school, and completed an academical education 
at Fairfield Academy. In 1807 he took up the 
study of law in the office of Judge Jonas Piatt, 
under whose directions he continued his studies 
till the spring of 1810, when he came to Cleve- 
land, which place at that time was a hamlet of 
only three framed and six log houses. He 
came to Cleveland in company with his uncle, 
Judge Joshua Stow, and Jared P. Kirtland, the 
latter then being a young medical student. 

Alfred Kelley was admitted to the Ohio bar 
in 1810, and, becoming Prosecuting Attorney, 
held that office until 1822. He was an advocate 
of extraordinary force and cogency, and a very 
large and lucrative practice he relinquished to 
take charge of the construction of the Ohio 
Canal, of which he had long been an earnest 
projector. In 1814, along with Hon. William 
A. Harper, he was elected to represent Ashta- 



bula, Geauga and Cuyahoga counties in the 
State Legislature, in the House of which body 
he was then the youngest yet most prominent 
and influential member. 

To the Legislature he was re-elected in 1815 
and 1816, and thereafter served several terms, 
serving both in the House and Senate. As a 
legislator he was of marked ability, was always 
an advocate of advanced ideas in jurisprudence, 
in finance, in internal improvement, etc., and 
was one of the early advocates of the building 
of canals, and upon the adoption of this policy 
he was, in 1822, appointed a commissioner to 
carry it into effect. To him was intrusted the 
superintendency of the construction of the 
Ohio Canal, connecting Lake Erie with the 
Ohio river. Of this project he has been ap- 
propriately called the father. Whether or not 
the idea of this canal originated with him, its 
completion and success were due to his energy, 
perseverance and ability. In October, 1840, he 
removed to Columbus, this State, where he re- 
sided during the remainder of his life. 

August 25, 1817, Mary Seymour Welles, 
oldest daughter of Major Melancthon W. 
Welles, of Martinsburg, New York, became 
his wife, and they had the following children: 
Maria, Jane, Charlotte, Edward, Adelaide, 
Henry, Helen, Frank, Annie, Alfred and 
Katherine Kelley. 

In 1S40 Mr. Kelley was appointed one of the 
canal fund commissioners, having charge of the 
funds necessary to prosecute the various canal 
enterprises in wliich Ohio was then engaged. 
While in the Legislature, in 1816, Mr. Kelley 
drew the State Bank statute, which nearly a 
half century later served as the model of our 
present national banking law. He labored 
zealously and judiciously to give the State a 
just and equitable tax system. He introduced 
the first bill to abolish imprisonment for debt 
ever brouglit before an Ohio general assembly, 
in 1818, and in the grave crisis of 1841 he 
saved the State from the indelible disgrace of . 
repudiation by pledging his own personal for- 
tune to secure the money with which the obli- 



GUTAEOOA COUNTY. 



gations of Ohio conld be met. He was not 
only a lawyer of marked ability, but a legislator 
of unimpeachable purpose, generous to a fault 
with his own, but scrupulously exact in caring 
for the property of otiiers; disinterestedly pa- 
triotic, the good of the State was his chief con- 
cern, and he believed that a public trust should 
never be a means to personal wealth or aggrand- 
izement. Ohio has furnished to the nation 
financiers of world-wide reputation. Alfred 
was the pioneer of all, the peer of any. 

By several railroad companies lie was chosen 
to direct and superintend the construction of 
their roads. He was tlie first president of the 
Columbus & Xenia Railroad (1845); was presi- 
dent of the Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati 
Eailroad (1847), and of the Cleveland, Paines- 
ville & Ashtabula Railroad (1857). 

His entire life was full of efforts to develop 
the State, to advance the education and morals 
of its people, and to secure the "rights of life, 
liberty and property." He died at Columbus, 
Ohio, December 2, 1859. 

Irad Kelley became a citizen of Cleveland, 
Ohio, in 1810, in which year he began his long 
and successful business career in this city. For 
many years he was identified with the progress 
of Cleveland, where he was universally known 
as a shrewd and honorable, if somewhat eccen- 
tric, character. He was associated with his 
brother, Datus Kelley, in the purchase of 
Kelley's island, but figured less conspicuously 
because of his residence at a distance. August 
5, 1819, he married Harriet Pease. He died 
in New York on his way to South America, 
January 21, 1875, being at that time the last 
survivor but one of this family of pioneer 
brothers. The following were tlie children of 
Irad and Harriet Kelley: Gustavus, George, 
Mary, Edwin, Charles, Franklin, Martha Louisa, 
Norman, Laura Harriet and "William Henry 
Harrison Kelley. 

Josepii Reynolds Kelley also came to Cleve- 
land in 1810, coming with his brothers, Alfred 
and Irad. He was also a successful business 
man for several years in Cleveland, where lie 



died August 23, 1823. In 1814 ho married 
Betsey Gould, who had by him but one child, 
Horace Kelley, who died not many years ago 
in Cleveland, and who bequeathed nearly the 
whole of his large fortune to the founding of an 
art gallery and art scliool in Cleveland. 

Thomas Moore Kelley came to Cleveland in 
the fall of 1814, along with his parents, Daniel 
and Jemima Kelley. He became a prominent 
business man of Cleveland, where at one time 
he occupied the bench, where he gained the title 
of Judge Kelley, as his father was also known. 
He was at one time president of the Merchants' 
(now Mercantile) National Bank, and also served 
as a representative in the Ohio Legislature. He 
married Miss Lucy Latham, of Vermont. 

Alfred Stow Kelley, a son of Datus and Sara 
(Dean) Kelley, was born in Eockport, Ohio, 
December 23, 1826. May 21, 1857, he married 
Hannah Farr, who was born at Rockport, Ohio, 
August 9, 1837. She died at Detroit, Michi- 
gan, February 4, 1889. Alfred Stow Kelley 
resided at Kelley's island till the death of his 
wife, since when he has resided in the city of 
Cleveland. The only child of Alfred Stow 
Kelley and Hannah Farr Kelley is Hermon 
Alfred Kelley, an attorney at law at Cleveland. 

Herman A. Kelley, one of the representative 
lawyers of Cleveland, is a son of Alfred S. 
Kelley, already mentioned, and a descendant of 
Daniel Kelley, sketched at the beginning of this 
record. He was born on Kelley's island, May 
15, 1859. Nearly the whole of his life has 
been spent in Ohio, his native State. He grad- 
uated at Buchtel College, at Akron, Ohio, in 
1879, taking the degree of B. S., and in 1880 
the degree of A. B. was conferred upon him by 
the same institution. Predilection led him to 
the profession of law, and his legal education 
has been more thorough than that of the aver- 
age young man entering that profession. He 
attended Harvard Law School in this country, 
and Gottingen University in Germany. Having 
completed his conrse in the law, and being ad- 
mitted to the bar in Ohio, March 7, 1883, and 
also to the bar of Michigan, he located at De- 



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troit, where he practiced for about eight months. 
In December, 1883, he located in Cleveland, 
and has since continued in the active practice 
of his profession in this city. In September, 
1885, Mr. Keliey formed a partnership with 
Arthur A. Stearns, under the firm name of 
Stearns & Kelley, which firm existed until 
1891, after which date till 1893 Mr. Kelley was 
first assistant Corporation Counsel for Cleve- 
land. In 1893 he formed a partnership with 
Messrs. Hoyt & Dnstin, under the present firm 
name of Hoyt, Dustin & Kelley. 



djOIIN C. SHIMMION, one of the oldest 
men in tlie employ of the Cleveland & 
Pittsburg Railroad Company, and for 
more than thirty-four years a most faithful and 
painstaking servant, was born in Cuyahoga 
county, Ohio, March 4, 1840. His father, John 
Shimmion, a Manxman, settled in this county, 
in the woods, in 1836. He set about chopping 
out a farm, the identical farm on which he now 
resides, where he has spent nearly sixty years. 
His first wife, nee Ann Teare, was only sixteen 
years of age when they left their native isle, and, 
according to the laws oj" Ohio at the time, Mr. 
Shimmion paid school tax on her until she be- 
came of age, a fact which seems to us now rather 
as a joke, or old-fashioned, to say the least. 
Mrs. Shimmion died in 1853, leavincr the fol- 
lowing children: William, for thirty years 
employed by the "Big Four "Eailroad Company; 
John C; Hugh T.; Henry, deceased; Belle, 
wife of Henry Scott, of this city; and George, 
deceased. By a second marriage, to Hannah 
Joyce, Mr. Shimmion was the father of George 
P., deceased; Kate, who married Henry Morse; 
and Sarah. 

Mr. Shimmion has been an active, useful and 
reasonably prosperous man, taught his sons the 
lessons of industry and the principles of good 
citizenship, and is now retired in the enjoyment 
of the fruits of honest labor and with the con- 
sciousness of having performed his work well. 



John C. Shimmion, at fifteen years of age, 
was placed with an uncle to learn carpentering, 
and about the time he should have had it well 
learned he decided to try railroading, and in 
1859 began firing on the Cleveland & Pittsbui-g 
Railroad. This he continued, together with 
learning how to repair engines, — an acquire- 
ment which was needed then, as every engineer 
was expected to put his own engine in order 
after each trip,— until 1861, when he was given 
a freight run. The next year he was put on a 
passenger engine and the first twenty years 
pulled a train between Pittsburg and Wheeling, 
and Bellaire, covering during the last year, 
1872, a distance of 52,000 miles. At this rate 
he would travel more than a million and a half 
miles in thirty years, — a sixtieth part of the 
distance from here to the sun, and six times the 
distance to the moon! A plan was once in 
vogue with the Cleveland & Pittsburg Company 
to pay premiums to engineers who show the 
most economical mileage figure for a year's run, 
being based on the cost of each mile covered. A 
letter dated February 26, 1867, from Superin- 
tendent Devereaux, and inclosing the $100 
premium awarded to Mr. Shimmion, stated that 
he covered that year, 32,879 miles, at a cost 
per mile of 6.12 cents, and specially commend- 
ing him for his care of his engine and ibr avoid- 
ing the killing of stock. In April, 1872, 
Superintendent John Thomas inclosed a check 
for $100 as premium, and expressed the appre- 
ciation of the officers of the company for Mr. 
Shimmion's care and fidelity in attaining his 
excellent results. The next year Superintend- 
ent Thomas had occasion to inclose another 
check for the annual premium, result of running 
his miles at 14.16 cents each. And many other 
letters came to Mr. Shimmion from the com- 
pany of a commendatory character, and inclos- 
ing substantial tokens, as expressions of their 
pleasure in his services. During all these years 
Mr. Shimmion has not caused the injury of a 
passenger or an employee, and no property of 
the company has been destroyed while in his 
charge. 



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September 28, 1870, Mr. Shiinmion married, 
in Bellaire, Oliio, Elizabeth McLaughlin, a 
daughter of John McLaughlin, a carpenter of 
Holland-Dutch ancestry, born in New Lisbon, 
Ohio, in 1805. He married Mary Richey, who 
bore him seven children, Andrew, Sarah, Helen, 
Mary, "William, James and Elizabeth, and he 
died in 1861. ■ 

Mr. and Mrs. Shiinmion have seven children: 
Charles J., salesman for Benton, Myers & Com- 
pany; Anna M., Blanche, Claud W., Helen, 
John G. and Raymond. 

Mr. Shimmion is a Knight Templar of 
Steubenville Commandery and a member of the 
Royal Arcanum. 



MORRIS, contracting agent for the 
King Bridge Company, was born in Me- 
dina county, Ohio, January 8, 1856, and 
is the youngest child of George and Rebecca 
Morris. He has two sisters living, — Mrs. James 
Newton, of Medina, Ohio, and Mrs. A. M. 
Jewett, of Halstead, Kansas. Mr. George 
Morris, a native of New Jersey, was brought to 
Ohio as early as 1830, when he was but four 
years of age, by his father, also named George, 
who settled in Morrow county, where he re- 
mained a resident until his death. George 
Morris, the junior, was married in Medina 
county, this State, to Rebecca Waltman, and 
they had four children, of whom the three 
above mentioned survive. Here he farmed suc- 
cessfully until his death, which occurred in 
1873; here, also, upon his father's farm, young 
Morris spent the early years of his life. It is a 
conspicuous fact that most of the reliable talent 
of the world qualified for duties of heavy re- 
sponsibility is the product of rural life, and Mr. 
Morris graduated at this school at the age of 
eighteen. Destiny had marked a broader sphere 
for him, — one in which he could better serve 
his fellow men, and at the same time afford him 
opportunity to bring into play the talent which 



lay slumbering while he tilled his father's soil. 
When opportnnity came for him to engage in 
some other business, he left the farm and en- 
tered the employ of the company already men- 
tioned. Those who knew young Morris said 
this of him: " Whatever lie did he did well, 
putting his whole heart and mind into his 
work, whatever it might be." Every one knows 
that this is the road to success. 

Mr. Morris is one of the prominent bridge 
men of the country, and sustains a reputation 
in the bridge business which older men might 
envy. His works over the country stand' as 
monuments of his success. The graceful struc- 
ture which spans the Ohio river between Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio, and Newport, Kentucky, is the 
product of his busy brain, as are also other im- 



po 



•taut structures, too numerous to mention. 



He is a director in the Central Railway and 
Bridge Company, owning the bridge over the 
Ohio at Cincinnati, and is also a member of the 
Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. 

Mr. Morris is too busy to devote much time 
to social life, but is a genial, pleasant young 
man, and a member of the Union Club. He is 
also the promoter and organizer of a corpo 
ration owning Chippewa lake and adjacent 
property for club purposes and a summer 
resort. 

In 1879 he was married to Miss Mattie 
Sharkey, of Lexington, Mississippi, and a niece 
of ex-Governor Sharkey, of reconstruction fame. 
Mr. and Mrs. Morris have three children: 
Henry Clay, born in 1880; Vallie, born in 
1885; and Valentine, born February 14, 1894. 
Valentine has been a family name in Mr. 
Morris' family for hundreds of years, and there 
is quite an interesting tradition connected with 
it. On St. Valentine's Day, some time in the 
seventeenth century, the Duke of Waltman was 
hunting in his woods in Germany, and found a 
little child. Having no children of his own, he 
adopted it, and named it Valentine. This Val- 
entine Waltman is one of the ancestors of the 
present Valentine Morris, and when his own 
little son was born on St. Valentine's Day he 



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felt that bis boy was entitled to tbe name which 
has l)een in every branch of the family for so 
many years. 

Mr. Morris' mother is still living with her 
daughter in Ilalstead, Kansas, and is a hale and 
hearty old lady, having passed her three-score 
years and ten. 



fr J ON. IIAERY SOETER, a prominent 
pH farmer and early settler of Mayfield 
II ii township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and 
V an ex-member of the Ohio Legislature, 

dates his birth in New York, April 4, 1820. 

Mr. Sorter's father, Elijah Sorter, a native of 
New Jersey, went to New York when he was 
about sixteen years old, and in 1831 removed 
with his family to Ohio and located in Mayiield 
township, Cuyahoga county. Here he pur- 
chased a tract of land from the Mormons, and 
on this place he spent the rest of his life and 
died, being eighty-eight years old at the time of 
his death. His father, Henry Sorter, a native 
of Germany, had died in New York. Elijah 
Sorter married Margaret Middaugh, a native of 
New Jersey, and they M-ere the parents of eleven 
children, the subject of our sketch being the 
fifth child and third son. 

Harry Sorter was eleven years old at the 
time his parents removed to this county. He 
had attended school some in New York, and 
after they settled here his education was com- 
pleted in one of the district schools which was 
kept in a log schoolhouse. He remained on 
the farm with his father until he reached his 
majority, most of his youthful days being spent 
in the " clearing." In speaking of his early 
life, Mr. Sorter says that in 1832, when he was 
only twelve years old, he drove an ox team, 
taking a load of Mormons to Cleveland, it being 
the first time he had ever been in that city. Mr. 
Sorter has been engaged in general farming all 
his life, being now the owner of 185 acres of 



He was first married in 1844 to Miss Amanda 
M. Dickey, a native of Allegany county. New 
York, who died a short time afterward, leaving 
him and a little daughter. Mary A. This daugh- 
ter grew up to be a useful and influential 
woman. Before her marriage she was for some 
time employed as teacher in the Cleveland 
schools, and while there was instrumental in 
organizing a mission school. She and her 
husband, A. D. McHenry, went as missionaries 
to heathen lands in India, and spent eight years 
in that noble work. Mrs. McHenry is deceased. 
For his second wife Mr. Sorter married Alvira 
Elsworth, a native of Ohio, who bore him one 
daughter, Melissa, who is now the wife of O. 
A. Dean, of East Cleveland. His second wife 
having died, Mr. Sorter was married in 1859 to 
Betsey Avery, a native of Ohio, and a resident 
of Cuyahoga county since her seventh year. 
They have two daughters: Hattie A., wife of 
Seth Parker, of Mayfield township, this county; 
and Sallie J., wife of Frank W. Lockamer, also 
of Mayfield township. 

Mr. Sorter is a stanch Republican, and has 
served in various otiicial positions. For six 
years he was Township Treasurer. He has 
served as Trustee a number of times. In 1875 
he was elected a Representative to the Sixty- 
second Assembly, and served one term. Since 
1854 he has been a member of the F. & A. M. 
at Chagrin Falls. He is a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, in which for 
about twenty years he has served as Steward. 

Such is a brief sketch of one of the venerable 
citizens of Cuyhoga county. 



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A. THORP, a well known farmer of 
11/ 1// ^fiytield township, Cuyhoga county, 
¥i -1 Ohio, was born in Warrenville, this 

State, January 15, 1832, a descendant of one of 

the earliest pioneer families of northern Ohio. 

Before giving a sketch of his life, we turn liack 

for a glimpse of his ancestry. 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



"Warren A. Thorp, his father, was born in 
Cleveland, Ohio, April 12, 1802, son of Joel 
Thorp, and grandson of Yale Thorp. Yale 
Thorp built Yale College in Connecticut, and 
left arrangements whereby his posterity could 
be educated there free of charge. The Thorps 
are of English descent. Joel Tiiorp was born 
in North Haven, Connecticut, and it was dur- 
ing the latter part of the eighteenth century 
that he came out of the Western Reserve and 
located at Cleveland, Cleveland at that time 
))eing composed of six log cabins. He was a 
millwright by trade, and built several mills in 
this county. He took claim to a tract of 
Government land, was engaged in clearing it 
when the "War of 1812 came on and lie enlisted 
his service in that cause. He was a member of 
a company of sharpshooters, of which he was 
appointed commander shortly before his death. 
He was killed while on duty between Buffalo 
and Black Rock. "Warren A. Thorp cleared up 
a tract of wild land and developed a farm, and 
for tliree years before his marriage he kept 
bachelor's hall on this place. He was married 
in 1825, in Orange township, this county, to 
Hannah Buruside, a native of Pennsylvania, 
born in 1809, she being of German descent. 
He lived to be eighty-six years of age, and she 
was past seventy-five when she died. They were 
the parents of seven children, three daughters 
and four sons, all of whom married and reared 
families, and all except one daughter are still 
living. 

"W. A. Thorp was the fourth born and second 
son in this family. He grew up on his father's 
farm, where he remained until 1852. That 
year, at the age of twenty, he made the journey 
to California, going from New York city by 
way of Panama, and in due time landing at 
San Francisco. For three years he remained in 
the Golden State, engaged in mining, at the 
end of which time he returned to Ohio, again 
making the journey by water. He then re- 
mained at the old homestead until 1859. That 
year lie was married to Laura "Warner, who died 
a short time afterward, leaving an infant daugh- 



ter. This daughter, Nettie, is now the wife of 
E. Brunk, of Nevada. April 16, 1863, Mr. 
Thorp married Syntha A. Barber, a native of 
Euclid township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and 
a daughter of Jefferson and Syntha (Sherman) 
Barber. Her parents had seven children, two 
sons and five daughters, she being the second 
born. Mr. Thorp and his present wife have 
five children: "Warren A., Lewis J., Hattie J.. 
Frank "W. and Effie M. Hattie J. is the wife 
of A. Bennett. 

After his marriage Mr. Thurp located on a 
farm in "Wan-ens ville township, this county; 
but his experience in California had given him 
a taste for "Western life, and, not being satified 
with his success in Ohio, he in 1860 crossed 
the plains to the Pacific coast, making the 
journey with horses and wagons. However, 
after two more years spent in California, we 
again find him back in Ohio settled on the 
same farm he had left. In 1863 he came to 
Mayfield township, where he has since lived. 
He owns 245 acres of fine land, all well im- 
proved and devoted to general farming. 

In religious, political and educational matters 
Mr. Thorp has ever taken an active interest. 
He is a member of the Board of Education, 
served a number of years as Township Trustee, 
and has also tilled various other local offices. 
In 1893 he was the candidate of the Democratic 
party for Representative from his district, but 
was defeated by his Republican opponent. He 
has long been an active member of the Method- 
ist Episcopal Church. 



YRON H. WILLSON, a resident of 
"Wilson's Mills, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, 
was born at the place where he now 
lives, August 30, 1837. Of Mr. "Will- 
son's life and ancestry we make I'ecord as 
follows: 

General Frederick "Willson, the father of 
Myron H., was born in Ontario county. New 
York, in the town of Phelps, January 4, 1807, 
and was there reared to farm life. In 1830 lie 



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came to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and located in 
Mayfield township, where he took claim to a 
tract of Government land and where he built a 
mill. This place has since been known as 
Wilson's Mills. After he erected the mill he 
entered into a partnership with David McDow- 
ell, and together they ran the mill for seven 
years. In 1837 the partnership was dissolved. 
General Willson taking the mill and a part of 
the land. He continued to run the mill up to 
the time of his death. In 1840 it was de- 
stroyed by fire, but was immediately rebuilt 
and on January 7th of the following year was 
again in operation. General Willson was a 
man of considerable prominence, being especi- 
ally distinguished as a military man. He was 
for some time officially connected with a regi- 
ment of light artillery in the ]^ew York Militia. 
After coining to Ohio he was elected Major of 
the Second Brigade, Ninth Division, Ohio 
Militia. This was in 1834. Afterward he was 
promoted from time to time until in 1838 he 
rose to the rank of Brigadier- General, and re- 
signed after a service of four years. In his po- 
litical atKliatioiis he was a stanch Democrat, 
and for si.\ years served as a Justice of the 
Peace. For sixty years he was a member of 
the Masonic fraternity. He had taken the va- 
rious degrees of the order and had risen to the 
rank of Sir Knight. 

General Willson was married September 6, 
183G, to Miss Eliza Henderson, a native of 
Orange township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio. As 
the years rolled by sons and daughters were 
born to them, nine in all, a record of whom is 
as follows: Myron H., whose name heads this 
article; Ellen, who died at the age of three 
years; George A., a member of the Cleveland 
Grays, First Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was 
killed at the battle of Eesaca, at the age of 
twenty-two years; James P., who served during 
the war in the First Ohio Battery, died three 
montlis after his return home from the army; 
Mary C, wife of David Gilmore, of Mayfield 
township, this county; Ilattie E., deceased wife 
of James Law; Nellie, who died in infancy; 



Ella, wife of A. Keesler, of Mayfield township; 
and Charlie, who died at the age of twenty-one 
years. General Willson's father, George Will- 
son, was a native of Netv York and a son of 
Henry Willson. Henry Willson was born in 
Ireland and was a soldier in the Revolution- 
ary war. 

Of the Henderson family, we further state that 
Ira Henderson, the maternal grandfather of our 
subject, was born in Massachusetts, July 10, 
1782; and that early in life he settled in New 
York, from whence, in 1833, he came to Cuya- 
hoga county, Ohio, first locating in Orange 
township and the following year removing to 
Cleveland. He remained in Cleveland, how- 
ever, only a short time, when he returned to 
Orange township, and there spent the rest of 
his life and died, his death occurring May 12, 
1850. He was engaged in farming. His wife, 
whose maiden name was Elizabeth Hopp, and 
who was a native of New York, died in Orange 
township, April 24, 1844. They were the par- 
ents of five children, of whom Mrs. Willson 
was the youngest. Mrs. Willson's birth occurred 
in Columbia county, New York, November 25, 
1816. Grandmother Willson's maiden name 
was Ester Collins. She was a native of Ver- 
mont, lived to an advanced age and possessed a 
remarkable memory which she retained to the 
last. 

Passing on to the life of Myrou H. Willson, 
we record that he is the oldest child in his 
father's family, and that in his youth he received 
an academic and business education, completing 
his business course in 1858. He had been 
reared in his father's mill, and in 1862 we find 
him in Oakland, Michigan, where for two years 
he was in the milling business. Then he settled 
near Lowell, Kent county, Michigan, and for 
two years carried on farming. At the end of 
that time he returned to Cuyahoga county, 
Ohio, bought the old mill at Willson's Mills, 
and here he has been engaged in milling for the 
past twenty-four years. He is also engaged in 
farming to some extent, owning ninety acres 
of laud. 



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Mr. Willson was married in Michigan, Feb- 
ruary 29, 18G4, to Agnes Losee, a native of 
New York, who had gone to Michigan in her 
childhood. Previous to her marriage she was 
for several years engaged in teaching. Mr. and 
Mrs. Willson are the parents of seven children, 
namely: Lida H., born Jnne 16, 1865, is the 
wife of Elmer Brott; Florence, born October 
30, 1866, died August 28, 1876; AUie W., 
born August 15, 1868, is the wife of Sidney 
Robins; Mary E., born June 11, 1870, is an 
artist; Nellie E., born August 19, 1872, is at 
home; Frankie A. and Frederick J., twins, born 
December 18, 1876, the former having died 
February 26, 1877. 

Mr. Willson affiliates with the Republican 
party, is a member of the Masonic fraternity, 
and for twenty-six years has been identified 
with the Methodist Episcopal Church. He has 
been a Truetee in the Church for several years. 
He is a man of many sterling qualities and has 
the respect of all who know him. 



[[ J [ T. SANDFORD, treasurer of the Cleve- 
Ir^i land, Lorain & Wheeling Railroad Com- 
II 4i pany, began his railroad service as a 
^ clerk in the freight auditor's department 

of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad at 
Chicago in 1884. In 1887 he went to St. Paul 
and joined the force of the Chicago, St. Paul 
& Kansas City Railroad, in the auditor's office. 
He concluded his service with this company in 
1888 and became connected with the Northern 
Pacific Railroad Company, in their general 
freight ofiice. In 1892 he received a call from 
the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad to 
l)ecoraeassistant paymaster, with headquarters at 
Cincinnati, Ohio, where he remained until May, 
1893, at which time he was elected treasurer of 
the Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling Railroad 
Company. 

Mr. Sandford was born in New York city. 
May 28, 1863. He was reared in that city and 
was educated in private schools. In 1881 he 



began business in Wall street with the firm of 
Shoemaker & Dillon, bankers and brokers, and 
when the firm went out of business in 1884 
Mr. Sandford came west and engaged in rail- 
road work at Chicago. A glance at his paternal 
ancestry reveals the following facts: 

His father, James Sandford, was a New York 
attorney. During the war he enlisted and was 
commissioned Captain in a regiment of New 
York troops, and died of typhoid fever at New 
Orleans, Louisiana, while in service, in 1864. 
James Sandford's father, was Judge Lewis H. 
Sandford, Vice Chancellor of New York, and 
the author of Sandford's Chancery Reports. 
The Judge's father, and the great-grandfather 
of our subject, was a physician. He was born 
in Shropshire, England, and came to the United 
States about 1790, settling in Skaneateles, New 
York. Judge Sandford's only son was James 
Sandford before mentioned. One of his two 
daughters married John J. Cisco, of New York 
city. Mr. Sandford's mother, whose maiden 
name was Laura Taylor, was a daughter of 
Heury J. Taylor, a New York merchant. After 
Mr. Sandford's death she became the wife of 
Robert L. Livingston, who died in 1892, leav- 
ing one child, Laura, now Mrs. A. P. Cumming 
of New York city. The Taylors were from 
Connecticut, and for many generations were 
principally farmers. 

H. T. Sandford was married in St. Paul, 
Minnesota, May 12, 1888, to Miss Pease, 
daughter of ex-Senator Pease, formerly of 
Mississippi but now of Dakota. Mr. and Mrs. 
Sandford have two children, Robert L. and 
Taylor. 



l\ILLIAM M. GOBEILLE, a pattern 
manufacturer of Cleveland, was born 
March 12, 1859, in Dutchess county, 
New York. Until sixteen years of age he at- 
tended school during the winter session only, 
in the country district where his father resided. 
In 1875 he entered the Albany high school, 
and during his course as a student took prizes 



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for excellence in mathematics and spelling, and 
graduated in the iirst classical division in June, 
1879. In October of the same year he came to 
Cleveland and learned pattern-making. 

In February, 1881, Mr. Gobeille formed a 
partnership with his brother, J. L., under the 
firm name of Gobeille and Brother, and opened 
a pattern establishment. In 1889 the business 
was sold to a stock company, William M. Go- 
beille retiring from the concern. One year 
later he opened an independent place of busi- 
ness and is now conducting it successfully. 

In September, 1887, Mr. Gobeille married 
Miss Nettie B., a daughter of Hugh LeFevre, of 
the Mercantile Bank, and their children are: 
Addle May, deceased; Joseph Willis and Wm. 
Hugh. 

Politically Mr. Gobeille is a Kepublican, and 
religiously an earnest member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Olinrcl). He was one of the first 
members of the Epworth League, and during 
the first three years of its existence was Vice 
President and Secretary, and was elected Presi- 
dent of the Cleveland League. 



\TLLIAM P. STACK, passenger con- 
ductor, came to the United States in 
1856, locating in Syracuse, New York, 
where he was engaged in various occupations 
for a time. He found employment in the fa- 
mous Syracuse Salt Works, and just before his 
departure for Ohio drove team near Oneida lake 
two years. In 1863 he came to Cleveland, and 
October 29th of that year began his railroad ca- 
reer. Two years afterward he secured the po- 
sition of brakeman, in 1872 was promoted as 
freight conductor, and since 1888 has been 
engaged in the passenger service. During his 
many years of railroad life he has never been 
absent from duty more than one week. 

In July, 18G7, Mr. Stack was united in mar- 
riage with Miss Annie, a daughter of M. Kelley. 
Tliey have had two children, liotli now de- 
ceased, and one died in infancy. Mary departed 



this life in December, 1887, and at the age of 
eighteen years and nine months. She would 
have soon completed her education at the Ursu- 
line Convent of Cleveland. Her earthly chair 
is vacant, but she has merely passed over the 
river, and is waiting beyond. 



If AMES F. EICHMOND, conductor on the 
K I New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Kail- 
^*^ road, was born at Columbia,Cuyahoga coun- 
ty, June 10, 1861, a son of L. A. Richmond, who 
was born in the Itichmond settlement of Cuya- 
hoga county, about 1824. That settlement is 
one of the oldest in the county, having been 
started early in the present century, presumably 
by Levi Richmond, the grandfather of James 
F. He made his settlement in the dense for- 
est, beginning immediately to clear a farm. 
His children and grandchildren have continued 
the work, and have made the name a synonym 
for honorable conduct and honest dealing. L. 
A. Richmond was a conductor, and tweuty-six 
years of his life was spent as an employe of the 
Lake Shore Company. During the last ten 
years of that time he was depot master at To- 
ledo, Ohio. Mr. Richmond spent four and a 
half years in the Federal army, was a gallant 
soldier, and laid down his arms only when there 
were no more enemies to vanquish. He was 
accidentally killed in 1876. The mother of 
James F. was a daughter of J. R. Ruple, who 
also resided in the Richmond settlement. Mr. 
and Mrs. Richmond had three children: W. E., 
an engineer on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. 
Paul Railroad, and a resident of Minneapolis, 
Minnesota; Lizzie, wife of P. C. Christiers, a 
tobacco dealer of Cleveland; and James, whose 
name heads this notice. 

J. F. Richmond moved with his father to the 
Forest City, where he passed his childhood 
days, and prepared himself for the stern duties 
of life. He aftci-ward became a stationary en- 
giiieei', but, not caring to follow that occnjja- 



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tion, secured the position of brakeman on the 
New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad. 
Soon afterward he was promoted conductor. 
Mr. Richmond also deinonstrates unnsual talent 
as an artist. He has yielded to an innate desire 
to paint objects and scenes which impress him 
most, and has developed several pictures which 
would do justice to a pupil of several years' 
training under a master. 

In August, 1885, he was united in marriage 
with Mary Eakin, a native of Mechaiiicsville, 
Pennsylvania, and a daughter of D. M. Eakin, 
who was a farmer by occupation. Mr. and 
Mrs. Richmond have three children: Nellie, 
Victor and James. In his social relations, Mr. 
Richmond is a member of the O. R. C , the 
American Mechanics, and is a Master Mason, 
being a member of Halcyon Lodge. 



JACOB FLICK, one of the prominent citi- 
zens of Bedford, Ohio, was born in Ven- 
ango county, Pennsylvania, at Franklin, 
January 23, 1818. His father was Jacob Flick, 
Sr., born in Virginia, a son of Daniel Flick, 
who was a native of Pennsylvania. Jacob Flick, 
Sr., married Miss Ellen Losey, who was born, 
reared and educated in New Jersey. The Flick 
family came in 1826 to Canfield, Mahoning 
county, Ohio, and later the parents moved to 
White county, Illinois, where the father died, 
at ninety years of age, and the mother at eighty- 
two. They reared eleven children, five of whom 
are now living, two sons and three daughters. 

Mr. Jacob Flick, whose name heads this 
sketch, grew up at Canfield, Ohio, learned from 
his father the trades of shoemakingand carpen- 
try, and in 1835 came to Cuyahoga county and 
ran a sawmill for some years. Later he settled 
on a farm near Bedford. As a business man 
he has been successful, and in 1881 he located 
in the village and retired from active life. He 
has a fine home and is surrounded by every 
comfort. 



Mr. Flick has been married three times. His 
first marriage was at Newburg, Ohio, to Mary 
Louisa Marks, a lady of intelligence and good 
family, born at Newburg. Her father was 
Nerimah Marks, who came from Connecticut in 
1822. By this marriage Mr. Flick has si.x 
children, viz.: Honorable W. H. H., of Mar- 
tinsburg, West Virginia, a Prosecuting- Attor- 
ney and ex-member of the Legislature, was ap- 
pointed by President Arthur as United States 
District Attorney; Clara R., wife of Honorable 
V. A. Taylor, of Bedford; N. Flick, an attor- 
ney of Cleveland; Z. T., of Bedford, Ohio; 
John A., of Ravenna, Ohio, a prominent manu- 
facturer and ex-attorney; Cyrus P., an attorney 
of Wheeling, West Virginia. Mrs. Louisa 
Marks Flick died in 1886. Mr. Flick's second 
marriage was to Mrs. Amelia A. Streeter, widow 
of Dr. Streeter, of Bedford: she died in 1888. 
His third marriage was in 1889, when he 
wedded Mrs. Georgia S. Smith, widow of Will- 
iam Smith. Her first husband was John T. 
Mcllhenny, an able editor of Gettysburg, 
Pennsylvania, proprietor and editor of the 
Gettysburg Star. Mrs. Flick's maiden name 
was Georgie S. McCreary. She was born in 
1838, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, as a daugh- 
ter of David and Anna R. (Flohr) McCreary. 
Mrs. Flick, by her first husband, has two sons, 
— David Mcllhenny, of Cleveland, and Hugh 
Mcllhenny, of Ravenna, Ohio. Mr. Jlick gave 
to his children the advantages of good schools, 
and they are all well educated. 

Mr. Flick has served as Treasurer of the 
School Board. He is a Republican in politics, 
and a member of the Disciple Church, in which 
he has held the ofiice of Elder for forty years. 
Mrs. Flick is a Presbyterian. 



JAMES B. COX was born at Goshen, Co- 
lumbiana county, Ohio, December 17, 
1819. He is a son of Thomas Cox, a pio- 
neer of the above county, who was born in New 
Jersey, a son of William Cox. The mother of 
James B. was Mary Brown, also a native of 



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New Jersey, and a daughter of Kichard Brown, 
a native of the same State. In 1833 Mr. Cox's 
family settled in Cuyahoga county, about two 
miles south of Bedford. At this time the sub- 
ject of this sketch was a lad of fourteen years. 
He is the only surviving member of a family of 
seven sons and si.x daughters. The following 
are the names of these children: John, Eliza- 
beth, Kichard, Mary, Ann, William, Deliia, 
Hannah, Thomas, Sylvan us, Phebe, James B. 
and Martin. The mother of these children died 
October 21, 1847, and November 18, 1852, the 
father died. He was a farmer, cooper and shoe- 
maker. In politics he was a Whig, and in 
church faith a Methodist. 

James B. Co.x, the immediate subject of this 
sketch, attended the old log schoolhouse and 
gained the rudiments of a common-school edu- 
cation. He has done much work in the clear- 
ing away of the forests and the development of 
farm lands, having helped to clear five farms. 
In early life he went to Washington county, 
Wisconsin, thirty miles north of Milwaukee, 
and there he cleared a farm upon whicli he 
lived for ten years. He tlien sold out and re- 
turned to Bedford and located on a farm near 
by. In 1882 he removed to Bedford, where he 
owns three good houses. 

Mr. Cox was married, in 1841, to Miss Adelia 
W. Wells, the first white child born at Solon, 
Cuyahoga county. Her parents were Oliver 
and Abigail Wells, early settlers of Cuyahoga 
county. Mr. and Mrs. Cox have five children, 
viz.: Elnora Gertrude, who was a successful 
teacher for thirty-eight terms: she is the de- 
ceased wife of Edgar Tenant, having died April 
15, 1884, at Grand Rapids, Wisconsin; Mary, 
the second of tliese children, is the wife of N. N. 
Norton, of Michigan; Allison A., a citizen of 
Michigan; Frank J., a traveling man, of Chi- 
cago; and Emma Adelia, the wife of D. W. 
Jones, of Newburg. 

Mrs. Cox, the mother of these children, 
passed away in death September 22, 1882, a 
worthy member of the Disciple Church, a faitii- 
ful wife and a devoted mother. 



In politics Mr. Cox is a Republican. Upon 
the breaking out of the Civil war he offered his 
services as a soldier, but was rejected because of 
his advanced age. He is an active member of 
the Disciple Church and tiiree of his five chil- 
dren have been successful teachers, which is in- 
dicative of the fact that he has appreciated the 
importance of educating his own and others' 
children. One of his daughters, Emma A., 
was a very successful music teacher. 

Mr. Cox is a representative and respected 
citizen, esteemed by a wide acquaintance as a 
man of high integrity. 



JOHN F. LAHIFF, passenger conductor 
on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago 
&, St. Louis Railroad, was born in Win- 
sted, Connecticut, June 1, 1851, a son of 
John Lahifi", also a native of that State. He 
followed agricultural pursuits in Connecticut 
until 1855, and then located at LaGrange, Ohio, 
where he died in 1856, at the age of forty-eight 
years. The nationality of the Lahiff family is 
Irish, but they liave probably resided in this 
country since the Colonial period. The mother 
of the subject of this sketch, 7iee Catherine 
Lahey, was of Irish extraction. Mr. and Mrs. 
John Lahiff had three children: John F., Jo- 
sephine and Thomas. 

Joiin F., the subject of this sketcli, remained 
on the farm until fourteen years of age, and 
then found it necessary to work for his own 
support. He accepted almost any legitimate 
employment he could find, but received nothing 
permanent until 1872, when he was given the 
position of brakeraan on the railroad. He 
worked on the road almost a decade before be- 
ing promoted to his present position. Mr. 
Lahiff has ever been constant and faithful, and 
takes a deep interest in the welfare of his fellow- 
citizens, among whom he is deservedly popular, 
as is evidenced by his election to the oflice of 
Chief Conductor of the O. R. C. He was also 



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chairman of the General Grievance Committee 
for the Big Four System four years, and he is a 
member of the K. of P., Lal^e Shore Lodge, 
No. 6. 

Mr. Lahiff was married in this city, in 1878, 
to Miss Helen, a daughter of Morris Eitchie, a 
blacksmith of Berea, Ohio. 



SN. PENNELL, a worthy representative 
of a prominent family of Mahoning 
county, Ohio, and a popular passenger 
conductor on the Erie Kailroad, was born in 
Anstintown, that county, December 26, 1850. 
His father, J. J. Pennell, was the owner of the 
farm on which West Austintown is located, and 
on which the Pennell coal bank was opened by 
Andrews brothers, of Youngstown. He emi- 
grated to Mahoning county in 1827, from 
Greenville, Pennsylvania, where he was born in 
1818. On coming to this State he was a boy 
with limited means, and his early history would 
developalongand energetic struggle for suprem- 
acy over poverty. His characteristic ambition 
made him successful, and he lived to enjoy a 
competency sufficient as a reward of honest toil. 
He died in March, 1886. The paternal grand- 
father of our subject, Robert Pennell, was born 
in Ireland and emigrated to free and promising 
America about the beginning of the eighteenth 
century and established himself in Pennsylva- 
nia, presumably near or at Greenville. Mr. J. J. 
Pennell married, in Trumbull county, Ohio, 
Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Hood, of 
Ohltown, and their children were six in num- 
ber, namely: Louisa, wife of Thomas Gallon, of 
Cleveland; James, a farmer of West Austin- 
town, Ohio; William, of the same township; 
S. N., our subject; Thomas J., agent of the 
Michigan Central Railroad Company at Warren, 
Michigan; and Nannie, who married Eli Ebert, 
an Austintown farmer. 

Mr. S. N. Pennell secured a country-school 
training during the winter months of his youth- 



ful service as a farmer. He left the uneventful, 
uninteresting life on the farm in 1870 and began 
railroading on the Niles & New Lisbon branch 
of the New York, Pennsj'lvania & Ohio Rail- 
road, as a brakeman. After some months' 
service he was transferred to the Youngstown 
yards in the same capacity, securing in time the 
appointment as train baggeraaster, where he re- 
mained four years. He received a deserved 
promotion in 1881, being made a freight con 
ductor, and continued in this relation live years, 
or till 1886, since which time he has been in 
the passenger service, moving his family to 
Cleveland in May, 1888. 

Mr. Pennell was married in Caufield, Ohio, 
October 3, 1871, to Miss Annie, daughter of 
William Brooks, deceased, once a Caniield 
jeweler. He was born in Pennsylvania, and 
came to Ohio in 1824. He married Miss 
Rachel, daughter of Cornelius Tomson, of Aus- 
tintown. 

Mr. Brooks died at the age of forty-si.x years. 
Mr. and Mrs. Pennell have two children : Flora, 
born in 1874; and George, in 1880. 

Mr. Pennell is a member of the O. R. C. ; of 
Bigelow Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and of the K. 
of P. 



C. KEESLER, who is engaged in general 

farming and stock-raising in Mayfield 

township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, was 

b orn in the house in which he now lives 

December 13, 1857. 

His father, C. Keesler, was born in Seneca 
county. New York, March 30, 1811, and in 1816 
came with his father, Peter Keesler, to Cuya- 
hoga county, Ohio. Peter Keesler was born on 
the Mohawk river, in New York, and was of 
German descent. The mother of our subject, 
nee Wealtha A. Eggleston, was born at Marcel- 
lus, Onondaga county, New York, April 17, 
1816. Her father, Richard Eggleston, a native 
of Connecticut, had gone with his parents to 



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New York when lie was thirteen years of age. 
The parents of A. C. Keesler were married in 
Mayfield township, this county, March 25, 1841, 
and after their marriage began housekeeping in 
a little log house on the farm on which she still 
lives. They devoted their energies to the im- 
provement of this place, and as the years passed 
by developed a tine home and farm. He died 
here March 31, 1864. In all the local affairs of 
the community he took an active part. For 
several years he served as School Director of 
his district. Politically he was a Democrat. 
They had a family of nine children, three of 
whom died in infancy. The othei's are as fol- 
lows: Hiram C, of Mayfield; Peter O., de- 
ceased; Andrew J., Mayfield; William M., 
Idaho; Omer P., Cleveland; and A. C, the 
subject of our sketch. The names of the de- 
ceased are Hellen J., Martha C. and Ann O. 

A. C. Keesler was married January 26, 1887, 
to Ella E. Willson, youngest daughter of Gen- 
eral Frederick F. and Eliza (Henderson) Will- 
son. She was born in the township in which 
she now lives, January 14, 1859. They have 
an only child, Hellen E. 

Politically, Mr. Keesler is a Democrat. 



L. FOUTS.— One of the oldest railroad 
V^ll men in point of experience in Cleve- 
land is M. L. Fonts, general agent of 
the passenger department of the New 
York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad Company. 
He was born in this city April 4, 1837, was 
graduated at its high school at the age of eight- 
een, and at Bryant, Stratton & Folsom's Com- 
mercial College the ne.\t year, thus laying the 
foundation for that career of success which has 
followed him through life and which will be a 
monument to his invincible ambition and cease- 
less industry when he is retired to private life. 
IMr. Fonts' first permanent employment on 
taking life's stern realities was a clerkship in the 
freight office of the Cleveland i^ Mahonin» 



Railroad Company in 1858. He was soon made 
cashier of the local freight office, and when he 
had completed a term of service in that capacity 
went upon the road as passenger conductor of 
the Cleveland & Mahoning Railroad, remaining 
in the train service one year. In 1862 he was 
made joint depot and ticket agent of the Atlan- 
tic & Great Western, the Cleveland, Columbus, 
Cincinnati & Indianapolis and Lake Shore Rail- 
roads, the office then being located on Scranton 
avenue at the junction of all the tracks. In 
that position, with the addition of the ticket 
agency of the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio, 
Mr. Fonts remained twenty-eight years, or until 
October, 1890, when he was promoted to the 
general agency of the passenger department, 
where he is rendering invaluable service as a 
manipulator of passenger traffic and as a suc- 
cessful competitor for new business. 

Mr. Fouts is a son of Jacob Fonts, who came 
to Cleveland in 1827 from Philadelphia, Penn- 
sylvania, where he went for the purpose of 
completing an apprenticeship in mechanical 
engineering and architecture. He came to 
Cleveland a master builder, and in his day 
erected many good buildings in this city. He 
made that his life work, and was a resident here 
until his death in 1871, at the age of sixty-four 
years. His birth occurred in Jefferson county, 
Ohio. His father, Henry Fouts, a farmer, emi- 
grated from Baltimore, Maryland, in 1820 and 
setttled in JeflFerson county. Tradition teaches 
that this was one of Baltimore's early families, 
certainly ante-Revolutionary, but no record e.x- 
ists that any of them ever served in the war for 
independence. 

While in Philadelphia Jacob Fouts met Har- 
riet E. Cieckner, whom he married. She was 
born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and was a 
daughter of William Cieckner. The children 
of this union now living are: Mrs. M. A.Bacon, 
of Cleveland; M. L. Fouts; Henry C, in New 
York city; William A., a carpenter of Cleve- 
land; Frank, in Brooklyn, New York; and 
Mrs. Hattie E. Ketchnm, of New York city. 
June 17, 1862, M. L. Fouts married, in 



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Cleveland, Anra M., a daughter of Sandford La- 
throp, who settled in Ashtabula county, Ohio, 
from Vermont in 1820, and in 1848 came to 
Cleveland. He was a merchant by occupation, 
and died in 1850, aged fifty years. 

One child has been born in the family of Mr. 
and Mrs. Fouts, George E., February 28, 1864. 
He graduated at the Cleveland high school at 
eighteen, spent two years in Adelbert College, 
e.xpecting to choose some profession, but recon- 
sidered his decision and followed in the footsteps 
of his father. He became a clerk in the Erie 
ticket office in 1883, and I'emained so until 
October, 1890, when he succeeded his father as 
joint agent of the " Big Four," Lake Shore & 
Michigan Southern and New York, Pennsylva- 
nia & Ohio railroads, having charge of both of- 
fices. September 14, 1893, he married Agnes 
Lutje, an orphan lady of Cleveland, six years 
her husband's Junior. 

M. L. Fouts was a member of the City Pass- 
enger Agents' Association, and for some years 
was treasurer of the Mahoning Mutual Benefit 
Association. 



ni SAHEL SAAVYEE,' familiarly known as 
jO\ " Asy " Sawyer, is one of the most 
J »\ prominent figui-es among the operatives 
' of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern 

Eailroad. October 17, 1863, is the date of his 
first coming into the service of the company, 
which was as locomotive fireman, his first 
engineers being Allen Cook and Austin Gur- 
ner. February 1, 1867, he was promoted from 
the engine of Henry Goff. Then he did yard 
service about two years, and next went upon 
the road in the freight service. In 1891 he 
was assigned to duty in the passenger service, 
where he has ever since remained. 

Mr. Sawyer is a native of the old Bay State, 
born in Northfield, November 19, 1843, a soti 
of Asahel Sawyer, Sr., a farmer, who was born 
in the same locality in 1795, was a political 
leader in his county, and was frequently chosen 



to serve the public in official capacities, which 
he did most creditably. His death occurred in 
1881. The founder of this family in New Eng- 
land was Ebenezer Sawyer, an English immi- 
grant who found his way hither probably during 
Colonial times, or about the Revolutionary 
period. The maiden name of the mother of 
our subject was Hannah Stratton, and she was 
a represeutative of an old New England house- 
hold, her tenth and last child being Asahel, the 
subject of this notice. The other children were: 
Harris, of Montague, Massachusetts; Elvira, 
who married a Mr. Morgan, now deceased; 
Lucy, wife of Elisha Stratton, of Northfield; 
Martha W., now Mrs. Alexander, of Springfield, 
Massachusetts; Albert, a retired machinist of 
Fitchburg; Ellen, the wife of Edwin Stratton, 
of Greenfield, Massachusetts; and the remain- 
ing three are deceased. 

The opening of hostilities between the North 
and the South and the calling for troops by 
President Lincoln, found Mr. Sawyer ready to 
do a loyal citizen's part in putting down seces- 
sion and its corollary, rebellion. He enlisted in 
Company F, Fifty-second Massachusetts In- 
fantry, which was mustered in at Greenfield, 
that State, and at once boarded transports at 
New York city for the South. Disembarking 
at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the inen remained 
stationed there during their entire time of en- 
listment. Mr. Sawyer was a participant in the 
bloody fight at Port Hudson, on the Mississippi 
river, and in many other scrimmages on the 
several campaigns about central Louisiana. He 
was mustered out on the scene of his first mus- 
ter, perfected his arrangements and at once 
came to Ohio. 

He is a member of tlie B. of L. E., and has 
been quite prominent in the deliberations of 
that body: for a number of years he was Chief 
of the local division, and for sixteen years 
served as secretary of the Brotherhood In- 
surance. His division has been honored by his 
being a delegate to their national convention, 
which was held at San Francisco in 1883, where 
he represented a great portion of our north- 



CUTAHOOA COUNTY. 



western country. His journey there and back 
was a source of much menial and physical 
profit. 

September, 1865, is the date of his marriage 
to Miss Delia E., a daughter of Dwight and 
Asenath Morgan, of Gill, Massachusetts. They 
have had but one child, Leroy E., born in 1880 
and died in 1886. 



T( C. jS'^EWMAN, of Cleveland, Ohio, is a 
K I finishing contractor and manufacturer of 
V^ finishings in this city, and is a biisiness 
man of an excellent reputation ; and his success 
in business has been due to his untiring energy, 
his enterprise and push in business, together 
with manifest integrity and fair dealing with 
those with whom he comes in business contact. 
"When ten years of age he accepted employment 
with Mr. W. S. White, a builder of Cleveland, 
for the purpose of learning the trade of builder. 
"With Mr. White he remained for a period of 
ten years, during which he was very active in 
his work, and by a close application of his time 
he not only succeeded in thoroughly mastering 
his trade in all its phases but also succeeded in 
gaining a favorable acquaintance in the city, 
and also by frugality and commendable economy 
he was enabled to lay up capital enough to 
begin on a small scale business for himself. 

In 1883 he opened an establishment on 
Hickox street, and from that time to this date 
Mr. Newman has enjoyed a constantly in- 
creasing and successful business. He has taken 
some of the most important contracts for finish- 
ing work done in Cleveland, and has manufac- 
tured a very great deal of finishing material. 
He furnishes employment to a considerable 
number of men, and his business is such as 
renders him a well-known man among the con- 
tractors, builders and carpenters of the city. 
He is a prominent member of the Employing 
Carpenters' Association, and sustains other im- 
portant relations in the social and business 
world. 



Both he and his wife, nee Alice Beck, mar- 
ried in 1880, are communicants of the P'irst 
Baptist Church of Cleveland, and they are 
numbered among the leading families of the 
city. 

Mr. Newman was born in Cleveland in 1859, 
a son of James Newman, who was born in 
England and came to Cleveland about 1851. 
He was an engineer by trade, and on coming to 
Cleveland accepted a position as an engineer. 



ir GRACE E. SANBORN, the genial 
1 cashier of the State National Bank of 
41 Cleveland, became identified with the 
banking interests of this city August 29, 
1872, when he accepted a position as collector 
for the Ohio National Bank. After acceptable 
service in this capacity for a time he was given 
a set of books, which he kept until he was ap- 
pointed teller in 1887. In 1890 he became as- 
sistant cashier, and January 1, 1893, cashier. 

Mr. Sanborn was born in this city, June 29, 
1854, graduated at the old central high school 
on Euclid avenue in 1872, and entered the bank 
immediately after that event. His father, 
William Sanborn, was a native of the old Bay 
State, born in Salem, in 1819, and came to 
Cleveland in 1842, where he was for many years 
engaged in the grocery business, at the number 
where the W. B. Southworth Co. is now located. 
His last years were spent in retirement, having 
ill health, and he died April 26, 1887. Hia 
wife, a Massachusetts lady whose name before 
marriage was Hannah S. Prime, was highly es- 
teemed for her religions and charitable work in 
Cleveland. She was a member of the Church 
of the Unity, and was one of the founders of 
the Dorcas Society, of which she was vice presi- 
dent for a long time. Upon her death, wliich 
occurred August 18, 1893, the society passed 
most appropriate and feeling resolutions con- 
cerning their loss. 




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Mr. and Mrs. Sanborn's children were: Mrs. 
Robert B. Wilkinson, who died December 30, 
1889; F. W.; and H. R. 

The subject of this sketch was married in 
this city, March 29, 1882, to Miss Rose M. 
Home, a daughter of James and Elizabeth 
Plorne, natives of England. The children by 
tins marriage are: Grace A., aged ten years; 
and Ralph W., six. 

Mr. Sanborn is a member of the order of 
Royal Arcanum, Knights of Maccabees and 
Knights of Pythias, to the last mentioned of 
which he has devoted the most of his attention. 
He joined it in May, 1877, and has successively 
filled the various offices within the gift of the 
lodge (Criterion, No. 68), being tlieir delegate 
on several occasions to the Grand Lodge. He 
is also a member of the Cleveland Chamber of 
Commerce. 



GN. SORTER, a retired farmer and one 
of the venerable pioneers of northern 
Ohio, now living at Maytield, dates his 
birth in Ovid township, Cayuga (now Seneca) 
county, New York, April 10, 1812. 

Elijah Sorter, the father of C. N., a native of 
Somerset county, New Jersey, went from that 
State to Seneca county, New York, when he 
was about nineteen years of age, and there for 
some years was engaged in farming. Subse- 
quently he started a distillery, which he ran for 
several years. In 1831 he came to Cuyahoga 
county, Ohio, and here he bought land from the 
Mormons, paying $4 per acre for the same. 
On this farm he and his family settled, and on 
it he spent the residue of his life, dying at the 
advanced age of eighty-eight years. Having 
briefly referred to the lather of our subject, we 
turn back for a glimpse at his grandparents. 
His grandfather, Henry Sorter, better known as 
"Uncle Hank," was of Dutch descent, and was 
a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Grand- 



mother Sorter was also of Dutch descent. In 
her early life she was on one occasion captured 
by the Indians. At another time one of the 
other members of the family was captured by 
the red men, but the release of this one was 
purchased by twenty- two pounds of tobacco. 
Grandmother Sorter lived to an advanced age. 
Indeed, the Sorter family have been noted for 
longevity. The mother of Mr. C. N. Sorter 
also reached the ripe old age of eighty-eight 
years. Her maiden name was Margaret Mid- 
daugh, and she, too, was a native of Sussex 
county, New Jersey, her ancestors being English 
and Dutch. 

C. N. Sorter was the first born in a family of 
ten children, and was nineteen years of age 
when he came with his parents to Cuyahoga 
county, Ohio. Early in life he was inured to 
hard work. He remained on the farm, assist- 
ing his father, until he was twenty-two years 
old, and then started out to make his own way 
in the world. His whole life has been charac- 
terized by honest industry. In 1836 we find 
him at work in Cleveland. He helped to make 
the brick that were used in the construction of 
the old "American" in that city. For many 
years he was engaged in general farming in 
Mayfield township, up to 1888, since which 
time he has been retired and has lived in May- 
field. At one time he owned 210 acres of land, 
but afterward disposed of a portion of it and 
now retains 125 acres. This land he has rented. 
In his political relations Mr. Sorter has been 
identified with the Republican party ever since 
its organization. He has filled most of the 
township offices; was Justice of the Peace and 
Township Treasurer for eleven years, and for a 
number of years Trustee. He has long been a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at 
Mayfield. When the Methodists built their 
house of worship at Mayfield he was a member 
of its building committee, and ever since the 
church was organized here he has been one of 
its Trustees. He has also been a member of 
the Old Settlers' Association of Cleveland since 
it was organized. 



CUTAUOGA COUNTY. 



Mr. Sorter was first married in 1838, to Miss 
Almira Worrallo, wlio died some years later, 
leaving three children, namely: Pearson, who 
was killed at the battle of Franklin, Tennessee, 
while in the service of the Union; Dr. Henry 
Sorter, of Goshen, Indiana; and Wilber, a 
prominent citizen of Mayfield township, this 
county. October 18, 1855, Mr. Sorter married 
Wealthy Warner. She also died aiid left three 
children, a record of whom is as follows: Ella, 
wife of Alfred AVillis, died February 21, 1883, 
leaving two sous, Clare and Harry; Anna D., 
at home; and Charles, deceased. 

Such is an epitome of the life of one of May- 
field's honored men. 



SW. KNAPP, who is ranked with the 
old settlers of Mayfield township, Cuya- 
hoga county, Ohio, dates his birth in the 
town of Bristol, Ontario county. New York 
August 22, 1826. 

The Knapps are of Holland descent. Eben- 
ezer Knapp, the grandfather of our subject, 
was boru in New York State in 1772. He was 
a soldier in the War of 1812, and during that 
war his wife made coats for the soldiers. It is 
said of her that she made one hundred coats in 
one hundred days, receiving $1 a piece for 
them. Russell D. Knapp, a son of Ebenezer, 
and the father of S. W. Knapp, was born 
twenty-five miles east of Albany, New York, 
the date of his birth being January 28, 1803. 
He died in Macomb county, Michigan, at the 
age of fifty-three years. By trade he was a 
wheelwright. The mother of our subject was 
before her marriage ^Miss Freelove Livermore. 
Siie was born in Vermont in 1807, went to 
New York when she was four years old with 
her father, Benjamin Livermore, and in 1825 
was married to Mr. Knapp. After their mar- 
riage they located in Richmond, New York. 
They became the parents of nine children, all 
of whom grew up to occupy honorable and use- 
ful positions in life. A record of these chil- 



dren is as follows: Selach W., the oldest, is the 
subject of this article; Emo Jane, deceased; 
Freelove, deceased; Ebenezer, a resident of 
Woodstock, Illinois; Harry, Fowlerville, Michi- 
gan; Mary Ann, Ionia, Michigan; Dorr R., 
Fowlerville, Michigan; William B., Oak Grove, 
Michigan; and Grata C, Fowlerville, Michigan. 

S. W. Knapp spent the first eighteen years 
of his life at his native place, and there 
learned the trade of wood turner. November 
5, 184:4, he landed in Cleveland, Ohio, on that 
same day came to Gates' Mills in Mayfield 
township, and here he has since resided. Until 
1850 he worked for a Mr. Humphrey, who was 
engaged in the manufacture of rakes. Then he 
engaged in the wagon business on his own ac- 
count, which he continued for twenty years. 
Subsequently he resumed the manufacture of 
rakes, and continued the same for eighteen years 
longer. At this writing he is engaged in the 
manufacture of overshot water wheels. 

Mr. Knapp was married, September 18, 1849, 
to Maria Gates, who was born near where they 
now reside, the date of her birth being Decem- 
ber 31, 1829. Her parents were Halsey and 
Lucy Aim (Bralley) Gates. Her father was 
born in East Hampton, Connecticut, January 
1, 1799, and came to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, 
in 1826. He built the mills here known as 
Gates' Mills, and ran the same for many years. 
He bought his land of the Connecticut Land 
Company in its wild state, and was one of the 
very first settlers. He helped to survey the 
first road from Gates' Mills to Cleveland, estab- 
lished the first mail route between those places, 
and carried it one year at his own expense. 
He built the first Methodist church at Gates' 
Mills, and always gave liberally to all religious 
and charitable institutions, and also rememijered 
the poor. He died October 31, 1865. His father 
Nathanel Gates, was a native of Connecticut 
and a descendant of Puritan ancestors. Mrs. 
Knapp's mother was born in Delaware county. 
New York. She died December 10, 1875. In 
their family of ten children, eight reached ma- 
turity, Mrs. Knapp being the second child and 



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the oldest daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Knapp have 
Iiad a family of children as follows: Ilattie E., 
born December 2, 1850, is the wife of Charles 
Hoege; George W., born May 1, 1852, was 
killed June 8, 1872; Russell D., born May, 9, 
1854; Halsey G., born March 5, 1857; James 
E., born September 12, 1858; Charles W., 
born April 9, 1860, died August 8, 1862; Will- 
iam H., born December 1, 1862; Selie W., born 
November 28, 1864; Emma L.. born April 10, 
1867, is the wife of Thomas Phillips; and Cora 
A., born July 1, 1869, is the wife of Ernest H. 
Hunscher. 

All these years Mr. Knapp has occupied a 
prominent place in the town in which he has 
lived. He has served as a Justice of the Peace 
for nine years and Postmaster for thirteen 
years. For thirty-seven years he has been 
identified with the Masonic fraternity, now 
having his membership with the lodge at Cha- 
grin Falls. 



rEEDEKICK A. WYMAN holds the re- 
sponsible position of auditor of passenger 
— receipts of the Lake Shore & Michigan 
Southern Railway Company. He was born 
in Syracuse, New York, August 20, 1851. 
His father, John F. Wyman, was for many years 
a prominent business man and was one of the 
founders, and a long time editor, of the Syra- 
cuse Standard. His mother was a daughter of 
Judge Sylvanus Tousley, of Manlius, Onondaga 
county, New York. 

From the early age of eight Mr. Wyman has 
lived in Cleveland, and was long a pupil in the 
old Kockwell school. In the summer of -1869 
he secured a clerkship in the wholesale grocery 
store of Gordon & McMillen; after remaining 
in their employ two years he was engaged as 
book-keeper for Vincent, Sturm & Co., who con- 
ducted on Water street in this city one of the 
largest furniture stores in the West. From this 
employment he entered the service of the Lake 



Shore & Michigan Southern Kail way as a clerk 
in the ofMce of Auditor Leland. By faithful 
attention to business and a peculiar aptitude for 
the duties of his work, he rose by successive 
promotions until, in November, 1888, he was 
appointed to his present position. He is a 
member of the Association of American Rail- 
way Accounting Officers. 

Mr. Wyman is the youngest of live brotliers, 
three of whom survive. He was married, in 
June, 1876, to Clara B., daughter of David and 
Elizabeth Patton. Their only child, Lawrence 
A., was born January 27, 1883. 



P. HODGES, a passenger conductor on 
the Valley Railroad, came to Cleveland 
in his boyhood from Rochester, New 
York, in 1855: he was born in that city in 1853. 
He obtained his education in the public schools 
of Cleveland, Fremont and University Heights, 
and at Humiston Institute, now defunct. May 
1, 1867, he began on the railroad as a messenger 
boy in the telegraph office of the Atlantic & 
Great Western Railroad in Cleveland. When 
thus employed he learned telegraphy, and when 
able to take a key he was given a position at 
Youngstown, Ohio. Becoming dissatisfied with 
this work, he secured a transfer to Cleveland as 
yard clerk under Yardmaster M. D. Francisco; 
next he was employed in the freight office of 
the same company; next he found himself in 
Cincinnati, and some months later he secured a 
job as fireman on the Ohio & Mississippi Rail- 
road between Cincinnati and Seymour, Indiana. 
The next year he returned to Cleveland and be- 
came a fireman on the Cleveland, Lorain & 
Wheeling Kailroad, and in 1874 went to work 
on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern road, 
as a yard clerk; again was he a yard brakemaii 
and yard conductor, and finally yard master, in 
the Collinwood yard. In 1883 he went to East 
St. Louis, Illinois, where he was employed as 
yard master on the Indianapolis & St. Louis, 
for a year; then in November, 1884, he came 



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to Cleveland and engaged with the Yalley Com- 
pany a* vrtitl master at Akrou, Ohio; in 1887 
lie WHS given a passenger train as conductor, 
where he has since served most acceptably. 

Onr subject is a son of Perry Ilodges, de- 
ceased, who was a locomotive engineer, born 
near Rochester, New York, and before coming 
to Cleveland was an employee of tlie New York 
Central Railroad, and here he was an engineer 
on the Cleveland «fc Pittsbnrg line. He was 
killed March 31, 1858, at Mingo Junction, by 
accident, when he was thirty-tive years of age. 
For his wife he had married Caroline Harring- 
ton, who is still living, at the age of fifty-nine 
year!=, and mnrried to Joseph Miller. She is 
the mother of two children: C. P. Hoilges and 
Luella Miller: the latter inai-ried W.J. Hannou 
of Missoula, Montana. Mr. C. P. Hodges mar- 
rieil first in 1873, Miss Emma Long, who died 
ill March, next year; and May 30, 1878, Mr. 
Ilodges married Miss Harriet A. Di-ake, a 
daughter of James N. Drake, a farmer of North- 
fiiUi. Summit county, where he early settled 
from New York State. He married Emeline 
Cranny, and died in 1889, aged sixty-seven 
years. His children were: Mrs. Hodges, and 
"W. O. Drake, of Hugh avenue, Cleveland. Mr. 
and Mrs. Hodges have two children: OUie, 
born in February, 1879: and Charles O., No- 
vember 1, 1882." 

Mr. Hodges is a prominent member of the 
Order of Railway Conductors, of which he was 
Chief Conductor for live years. He is now en- 
tering upon his third year as Secretary and 
Treasurer. He is also a member of Thatcher 
Chapter and the Forest City Commandry of 
the Masonic order. 



ENRV W. RUSSELL, who is engaged 
in farming in Maytield township, Cuya- 
hoga county, Ohio, is a native of this 
place, born September 9, 1840. 
Lyman Russell, his father, came from Massa- 
chusetts, of which State he was a native, and 
was one of the very earliest settlers of north- 



eastern Oliio, he having located at Mentor about 
1804. From there he came to Cuyahoga county 
in 1838, and settled on the farm on which the 
subject of our sketch now lives. Here Lyman 
Russell passed the residue of his life and died, 
his death occurring when he was eighty-one 
years of age. His father, Abel Russell, was a 
native of Massachusetts, was of English de- 
scent, and was a soldier in the War of 1812. 
The mother of Henry W. Russell was before 
her marriage Miss Fidelia Taggart. Her birth- 
plac« was Blandford, Massachusetts. She died 
in October, 1893, on the sixty-third anniversary 
of her wedding. 

The subject of our sketch was the third son 
and third born in a family of five sons and one 
daughter. In his native township he was 
reared and educated, and for some time was en- 
gaged in teaching school in this township and 
in other parts of the county. In 1862 he en- 
listed in Company D, One Hundred and Third 
Ohio Yolunteer Infantry, as a private, and was 
in the service until the close of the war, when 
he was honorably discharged. The war over. 
Mr. Russell returned to his home in Maytield 
township, his health greatly impjiired, and as 
soon as he had sufficiently recovered he engaged 
in farming, which occupation has since claimed 
his attention. 

He was married, October 20, 1869, to Miss 
Ida Pinney, who was born in this township 
September 5, 1844. Her father, Amherst 
Pinney, a native of Ohio, located on his present 
farm in Cuyahoga county in 1842. All the 
buildings and improvements on his farm have 
been placed there by him. Mrs. Russell's 
mother, nee Jcnnetta Skinner, also a native of 
Ohio, died in 1801. Mrs. Russell is the oldest 
of their five children, four daughters and one 
son. Mr. Russell and his wife have two chil- 
dren, a son and daughter: Merton H., who is 
now in Buffalo, New York, and May F., at 
home. 

After his marriage Mr. Russell located in 
Mentor, where he spent four years, and from 
there in 1874 came to his present farm. Here 



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he owns fifty acres of choice land and carries 
on general farming. In local affairs he has ever 
taken an active and commendable interest. lie 
served as Township Clerk eiglit years, as a 
member of the School Board four terras, and as 
Township Assessor three terms, and in 1893 
was elected a Justice of the Peace. He votes 
with the Republican party. For twenty-three 
years he has been a faithful member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Chui'ch, and during twenty 
successive years of that time served as Sunday- 
school Superintendent. 



JOHN WILHELM, chief clerk for the 
general baggage agent of the Lake Shore 
& Michigan Southern Railroad and a 
member of the City Council from the Ninth 
District of Cleveland, was born on the river 
Rhine, in Germany, in the year 1859. When 
ten years of age he came to the United States 
with an aunt, his parents being then dead. Two 
or more of his first years in Cleveland Mr. Wil- 
iielm spent in school, learning our language and 
making other preparation necessary to entering 
bnsiness. His first employer was J. P. Hoff, 
an uncle, a leading grocer of Cleveland, with 
whom he remained five years, going thence to 
Adams & Goodwillie, wholesale clothiers. With 
this firm Mr. Wilhelm had a position so long as 
it existed. His interest in the welfare of the 
concern and his ambition to give the best ser- 
vice at his disposal to his new employers at 
once became evident to them, and an unusual 
attachment sprang up between them; and when 
the firm began reducing its working force pre- 
paratory to discontinuing business, Mr. Wil- 
helm was the last to go. Before he did leave 
them his present position was secured for him 
by the kindness of the firm. In his present 
position Mr. Wilhelm is now completing his 
twelfth year, — a fact which speaks more con- 
vincingly than eloquence as to his ability and 
efficiency. 



Mr. Wiliielm identified himself with the 
Democratic party on arriving at mature age, 
and has been known for some years as a molder 
of sentiment in his ward. In 1891 he was 
nominated by his party to make the race for 
Councilman from the new Ninth District under 
the "Federal" plan. In this he was successful 
and was again elected in 1893, the second time 
receiving a majority of 456 votes. His official 
duties are performed fearlessly and from a con- 
viction of right. The interests of his constitu- 
ents are learned and served by voice and vote, 
and no man can challenge him as possessing an 
embarrassing record. 

November 8, 1881, Mr. Wilhelm married, in 
Rockford, Maggie M. Baetz. Their children 
numbered four, but Edward G. alone is living. 

Mr. Wilhelm for some years past has mani- 
fested a great interest in the fraternal order, 
the Knights of St. John. Of this order he is 
serving his second term as Supreme President, 
being re-elected unanimously at Pittsburg in 
1893. At their meeting in Chicago he was 
elected to a membership on the Supreme Board, 
and was re-elected in Cincinnati. He has served 
St. George Commandry as Captain since its or- 
ganization by him, and was at different times, 
for a half dozen years, its President. He has 
also been General Secretary of the First Bat- 
talion Life Insurance Association of the Knights 
of St. John of Cleveland for several terms, and 
he is also Financial Secretary of theC. M. B. A. 



C. BALDWIN, a locomotive engineer 
on the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio 
Railroad, was born in Solon, Cuyahoga 
county, Ohio, January 25, 1862, a son 
of H. Baldwin, who was born in Aurora, this 
State, in 1825. He has been a life-long farmer, 
and now resides at Newburg, Ohio. His father, 
Eliakim Baldwin, was a native of New Hamp- 
shire, but became a resident of Ohio in early 
day. The mother of Mr. Baldwin, nee Mahala 
McClintock, was a daughter of Samuel McClin- 



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tock, a native of New Hampshire who became a 
pioneer of Ohio. 

A. C. Baldwin, the youngest in order of Inrth 
of three children, received such educational ad- 
vantages as were extended to children of par- 
ents in moderate circumstances. At the age of 
fourteen years he located in Cleveland, where 
he was employed as clerk in the store of George 
Smith, on St. Olair street, two years; clerked 
for A. M. lyler, of Geneva, Ashtabula county, 
the same length of time; and in 1880 returned 
to Cleveland. Mr. Baldwin then began firing 
on a locomotive on the Erie Railroad, his first 
engineers being R. M. Shane and D. W. Fleet. 
After five years spent at that occupation, he was 
promoted to the position of engineer. In his 
social relations, Mr. Baldwin is a member of the 
B. of L. E., of the Grievance Committee for the 
Erie Road, of the Knights of Pythias, and of 
the Riverside Council, Royal Arcauum. 

October 17, 1880, in Saybrook, Ashtabula 
county, Ohio, he was united in marriage with 
Etta v., only child of William and Sylvina 
(Russell) Andrews. Mr. Andrews, a farmer by 
occupation, was at one time a resident of Erie, 
Pennsylvania. He died on January 22, 1891, 
at the age of sixty years. Mr. and Mrs. Bald- 
win have two children living — Eva Ethel, born 
February 4, 1884; and Harrold, born September 
18, 1890; and one deceased, Gracie, born Sep- 
tember 8, 1881, and died January 2, 1883. 



i D. HERRINGTON, yard master for 
yj,' the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern 
^ Railroad Company, and one of their 
trusted employees, is a child of the road, for 
the reason that on it he took his first lesson in 
railroading and with it he has remained ever 
since. He entered the company's service in 
1871 as switch tender at Rockport, which posi- 
tion he filled, together with acting as agent, 
until promoted yard conductor. In due time 
he was transferred to Whisky Island as assist- 
ant night yard master, returning to Rockport 



in 1888 as day yard master and remaining till 
June 14, 1893, when he was transferred to his 
present location. 

Mr. Herrington is a member of a pioneer 
Cuyahoga county family. His paternal gi'and- 
father, David B. Herrington, came to Cleveland 
in 1822, settled in the region of Rockport and 
spent his life in agricultural pursuits. He mar- 
ried Almay Cord, who bore him seven children, 
only four of whom are now living. L. B., 
Junior, father of our subject, was the first born. 
He is now a Rockport farmer, aged sixty-nine. 
The mother of W. D. Herrington, nee Harriet 
L. Thorp, is the daughter of Warren Thorp, 
who was born in Cleveland when there were 
not more than three log huts in the place. Mr. 
Thorp was from New England, probably Ver- 
mont. L. B. Herrington is the father of five 
children: Clara J., widow of George Hardy, at 
Laporte; Ellis, at Dover, Ohio; W. D.; Alphens 
J.; and HannaA., deceased. October 23, 1874, W. 
D. Herrington was married, in Parma, Ohio, to 
Maria J., a daughter of Thomas Biddulph, of 
English birth. He married Hanna Dutton, and 
they became the parents of eleven children, 
three of whom are deceased. The living are: 
Tillie, who married William Langrell; Ella, wife 
of Hyram Goodale; Lina, wife of Levi Meacham, 
County Clerk; Belle, who married Joseph 
Sarver; and Mary, widow of Thomas Ileffron; 
and Mrs. Herrington; and Thomas Biddulph 
married Rebecca Nnman; Joseph is single. 
Camilla B., aged three years, is the only child 
of Mr. and Mrs. Herrington. 

Mr. Herrington is a thirty-second-degree 
Mason, belonging to Lake Erie Consistory, 
Forest City Commandery, Thatcher Chapter and 
Brooklyn (blue) Lodge. 



H. CRALL, passenger conductor on the 
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis 
Railroad, was born in Richland county, 
Ohio, March 22, 1839, a son of George Crall, 
who was born and reared in Dauphin county, 
Pennsylvania. In 1832 he came to Richland 



CUTAHOOA COUNTY. 



county, Ohio, where he improved a farm, and 
remained there until his death, in February, 
1888, at the age of eighty years. lie married 
Maria Woods, and they had seven children, viz.: 
C. W., deceased, was a graduate of a Cleveland 
Homeopathic College; John J., who died in the 
spring of 1863; C. H., the subject of this sketch; 
Sarah, wife of James Pittinger, of Shiloh, Ohio; 
Susannah and Mary, both deceased in 1864; 
and Frank S., freight conductor on the Big 
Four Eoad. John Crall, grandfather of C. H., 
was born in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, and 
his death occurred in Richland county, Ohio, 
in 1847, when he was aged eighty-one years. 
He married Sarah Fackler, and they had eight 
children, — John, Simon, George, Jacob, Mary, 
Elizabeth, Sarah and Susannah. The great- 
grandfather of John Crall was born in Alsace, 
France, and was the founder of the family in 
this country. The name was originally spelled 
Krall. 

C. H. Crall, the subject of this sketch, was 
reared and educated in his native place. During 
the late war, and at President Lincoln's call for 
volunteers, he enlisted in the First Ohio Light 
Artillery, and was mustered into service at 
Cleveland. His command was attached to the 
Army of the Cumberland, and their first en- 
gagement was at the famous Pittsburg Land- 
ing, followed by Stone River, and soon after- 
ward by the hard-fought battle of Nashville. 
During that engagement Mr. Crall was re- 
ported killed. When the relief corps went on 
the field to bury the dead, among the unfor- 
tunates was found a soldier with a part of his 
head shot away, and who was pronounced by 
those well acquainted with the subject of this 
notice to be C. H. Crall. His headboard was 
marked with that name, and when disinterred 
to be placed in the national cemetery at Mur- 
freesborough, was again given his name. Mrs.. 
Crall was informed of the death of her hus- 
band, and received the sympathy which was 
always extended to a dead comrade's family. 
Mr. Crall had two ribs broken by a shell at the 
battle of Stone River, was taken prisoner, 



hauled through the South in a box car for two 
weeks, finally arriving at Richmond, Virginia, 
and placed in Libby prison. He was exchanged 
a few months afterward, returned to his com- 
mand at N'ashville, Tennessee, and served to the 
close of the war. 

After following fanning and milling in Lo- 
rain county, Ohio, for a time, Mr. Crall re- 
ceived the position of brakeman on the rail- 
road. He filled that position five years, was 
promoted as freight conductor in 1872, and 
twelve years afterward entered the passenger 
service. While serving as freight conductor, 
six tramps attempted to capture his train, but 
failed to persuade the brave crew to surl^ender, 
even after Conductor Crall received a severe 
gunshot wound in the abdomen, where the bul- 
let is still embedded. 

Mr. Crall was married in May, 1859, in Rich- 
land county, Ohio, to Ellen Kemp Lambert, a 
daughter of George Lambert, who came to 
Richland county in 1836 from Frederick county, 
Maryland, his birth-place. He now resides at 
Shelby, this State, aged eighty-eight years. He 
married Charlotte R., a daughter of Daniel 
Kemp, a native of Maryland. Mr. and Mrs. 
Lamliert had seven children, viz.: Elizabeth, 
Ellen K., Caroline N"., Laura C, Mary, Juliette 
and William. Mr. and Mrs. Crall have one 
child, Ida M., wife of Oscar McNalley, having 
two children, — Harry and Ethel. In his social 
relations Mr. Crall is a member of the G. A. R. 
Post. 



EORGE E. PROUDFOOT was born in 
^f Cleveland, Ohio, March 4, 1859. His 
father was James R. Proudfoot, a painter, 
who came to this city in 1845. He was 
born in Dumfries, Scotland, in 1830, and was 
consequently fifteen years of age on his arrival 
in Cleveland. He married Marie Cannel! and 
died in November, 1877. Tiie children of this 
union were three sons, — Robert, George E. and 
James. 



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George E. Proudfoot attended the city free 
schools till eighteen years of age, when he be- 
gan learning his father's trade. He followed it 
long enough to become an efficient workman, 
but quitting it at this juncture to begin rail- 
roading. He was a fireman five years, first 
under engineer Charles Dodge. On receiving 
his promotion Mr. Proudfoot ran on the road 
until 1890, when he came into the yard, where 
be has since remained. As an employee of this 
company, Mr. Proudfoot is prompt, painstaking 
and industrious. His interest in the company's 
welfare amounts to a personal due, which is 
recognized and acknowledged in turn by a grate- 
ful company. 

June 1, 1882, Mr. Proudfoot married, in 
"Wellsville, Ohio, Ida, a daughter of J. T. Pros- 
ser, who came from Hancock county, Virginia, 
in 1847. He was born in Virginia and inarried 
a Miss Pickering, of Knoxvilje, Ohio. Of their 
four children, Mrs. Proudfoot is the youngest. 

Three children are in the family of Mr. 
George E. Proudfoot, namely: Ray Starrett, 
aged ten ; Marie Emma and Lucy H. 



R. BENNETT, one of the prominent 
young farmers of Mayfield township, 
Cuyahoga county, was born here March 
3, 1870, the eldest son of George A. and 
Barbara A. (Berg) Bennett, and was reared and 
educated in this county. He was married Oc- 
tober 22, 1890, to Miss Hattie J. Thorp, who 
was born near May field, Ohio, July 18, 1869, 
third child in the family of Warren A. and 
Cynthia A. (Barber) Thorp. 

Reared on a farm, Mr. Bennett has chosen 
agriculture as his occupation, which he follows 
on his wife's forty acres of choice land, well 
improved with fine residence, good barn and 
other buildings. The residence, a commodious 
one, comprising eighteen rooms, was built in 
1893, at a cost of §4,000. It is provided with 
all the modern improvements and conveniences, 



and, indeed, is one of the finest houses in the 
township. The barn was built in 1891, at a 
cost of 81,500. 

Mr. Bennett's political views are in harmony 
with the principles advocated by the Republi- 
can party. 



fL. BETTS, a well known operative in 
the passenger service of the Valley Rail- 
1 road Company, was born in "Wisconsin, 

September 22, 1857, and in his infancy he was 
taken by his parents in their removal to Iowa, 
where they located in Fayette county. In that 
locality he grew up to the age of youth, in farm 
labor, both at home and among the neighbors. 
At the age of twenty years he began work as a 
railroad hand for the Davenport »fe North- 
western Company, now merged into the Chi- 
cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. Was a section 
foreman for almost a year, and then was brake- 
man or\ the same road, running out of Daven- 
port. One year later he was employed in Min- 
nesota in the construction of a narrow-gauge 
road, with headquarters at Caledonia. In the 
spring of 187 he found greater remuneration 
in the Minnesota harvest field; but at the close 
of the season he came to Ohio. In looking 
about in Cleveland for employment he finally 
accepted a situation as driver on the Detroit & 
Fulton street-car lines. Visiting relatives the 
next spring in Geauga county, he was persuaded 
to remain with them during the summer, in 
their employ. In the autumn lie returned to 
the city and secured employment as a Cleveland 
& Pittsburg brakeraan; but a few months later 
it was necessary for him to seek another job, 
and this time the Cleveland Nat & Bolt Works 
aflbrded him the means of sustaining life for 
half a year. 

In the spring of 1881 he began work for the 
Valley Company as yard brakeman. In less 
than two years he was promoted as conductor, 
and in 1885 entered the passenger service, 
which he has since followed, with but a few 
mdntlis' interruption. 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



Mr. Betts is a son of S. T. Betts, an old 
Cleveland & Pittsburg engineer, who discon- 
tinued railroading in 1856 and went to the 
wilds of Wisconsin, where he took up a claim 
of land, about 1860. Enlisting in the war, he 
was attached to the Army of the Tennessee, and 
contracted rheumatism of a violent and persist- 
ent kind, from which he died, in 1883, at the 
age of fifty-seven years. He was buried at 
Battle Creek, Ida county, Iowa. For his first 
wife he married Miss Helen Hathaway, a native 
of Ohio and of American parentage, who was 
the mother of the subject of this sketch, and 
died in 1866. Subsequently Mr. S. T. Betts 
married Miss Scott, who was born in England 
and is still living. Their children were: E. L., 
and Mina, the wife of Charles Brower. By the 
second marriage Mr. Betts reared: Clara, wife 
of Frank Margesoii; Mary, who married John 
Van Houton; Lizzie; and Perry — all in Ida 
county, Iowa. 

Mr. Betts, the subject of this sketch, was 
married in Cleveland, May 17, 1882, to Miss 
Nora C. Keane, a Pennsylvanian of Scotch- 
Irish parentage. Her father returned to north 
Ireland for the sake of his health, leaving here 
his two eldest children, — Roger, of Philadel- 
phia, and Nora C, now Mrs. Betts. The other 
children, seven in number, are coming to this 
country, one after another. Mr. and Mrs. 
Betts' children are: Blanche, aged ten years; 
and Edmond L., Ji., aged five. 

Mr. Betts is a Red Cross K. of P. and a 
member of the O. R. C. 



SAMUEL C. BLAKE, a son of the late 
John M. Blake, of Cuyahoga county, 
- — - was born at Euclid, this county, Decem- 
ber 29, 1856. He received a common-school, 
academic and collegiate education, spending 
two years at Oberlin College. For several 
years thereafter he taught school, and in the 
year 1881 entered the law department of the 
Michigan University, at Ann Arbor, graduat- 
ing in 1883, with the degree of Bachelor of 



Laws. In October, the same year, he was ad- 
mitted to the Ohio bar, and locating at Cleve- 
land at once entered upon his professional ca- 
reer. He has been associated with J. A. Smith 
in the practice of his profession since 1886. 

As a lawyer Mr. Blake is esteemed, and is 
regarded by his professional brethren as a 
representative man in their profession. As a 
citizen he is no less respected and honored. 
Fraternally he is a member of the Masonic order. 

June 26, 1889, Mr. Blake married Mary A. 
Camp, daughter of the late Henry Camp, of 
Euclid township, this county. The home of 
Mr. and Mrs. Blake has been blessed by the 
birth of a daughter, Anna by name. 



fHUGO. — Among the many engineers in 
Cleveland scarcely half a dozen are older 
in the service or as competent to manage 
the throttle as the gentleman whose name 
introduces this sketch, his railroad career com- 
mencing as early as 1852, when he was em- 
ployed as a laborer in placing spikes in the 
construction of the track. "When the road be- 
gan regular traflic he became a switch-tender. 
Some time afterward he was employed as fire- 
man under Engineer George Westfall on the 
Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati Railroad, and 
during his service on that line his engine, the 
" Nashville," drew some notable personages 
through the coniitry, as the " Swedish Night- 
ingale," Jenny Lind, and party, then on their 
famous tour of the United States under the 
management of the noted P. T. Barnum; also 
the body of the assassinated President Lincoln, 
the remains of Henry Clay toward the old 
domain in Kentucky, etc., etc. These events 
remind Mr. Hugo that a period of nearly three 
generations have been covered or connected by 
his services as a railroad man, and he may 
truly be termed a " veteran." 

Mr. Hugo was born in county Wicklow, Ire- 
land, the home of the Sheridans, March 19, 
1834. His father, Patrick Hugo, a laborer, 



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came to the Uuited States in 1851 and died in 
Cleveland in 1880, aged seventy-nine years. 
He married a Miss Gallagher, and had six chil- 
dren, tliree of whom are living. Mr. Ilugo, 
our suhject, was hrought up to hard labor to aid 
in support of the family, thns devoting his first 
wages at the early age of twelve years, and he 
has since earned as many dollars for the " Big 
Four" as any other man. He has always been in 
the service of either the Lake Shore or Big Four 
railrcad. Besides his regular stipend he has 
received complimentary recognition as a faithful 
and competent engineer. He and his fons are 
identified with tlie B. of L. E. 

He was married in June, 1861, to Miss Marr, 
and their children are: Patrick, an engineer on 
the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis 
Eailroad (the "Big Four"); Kate, the wife of 
William Burns; James, a "Big Four" en- 
gineer; Peter, a fireman on the same line; 
Mamie, Julia and Harry. 



THOMAS QUINLAN, a well known and 
efficient conductor on the Cleveland, Cin- 
cinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad, 
was born in county Clare, Ireland, June 
29, 1847, a son of Thomas and Hannah (King) 
Quinlan. They had five children, only two of 
whom are now living: John, general yard- 
master for the " Big Fmir " Railroad Company 
at Cleveland; and Thomas, our subject. In 
1851 the family came to Cleveland, Ohio, where 
young Thomas received a meager education. 
When quite young he shipped aboard the 
United States monitor, Kickapoo, which was to 
assist in blockading Mobile bay. After serving 
fifteen months, he left that vessel at New Or- 
leans in 1864, and then visited all prominent 
seaport cities in this and other countries. In 
1871 Mr. Quinlan returned to Cleveland and 
engaged in railroad work, first as brakeman on 
a freight train. Five years afterward he was 
promoted to the position of conductor, and 
since 1884 has been engaged in the passenger 
service. 



Mr. Quinlan was married in this city, in 1878, 
to Mary Ellen Lyons, a native of Dearborn, 
Michigan, and a daughter of John Lyons. She 
died January 14, 1892, leaving three children: 
John, born December 1, 1879; Frances, born 
in January, 1883; and Allen, April 12, 1889. 



THOMAS CARLISLE, the senior engineer 
of the Cleveland <fe Pittsburg Railroad 
Company, was born in this city, in March, 
1840. His parents were working people, 
and he was found performing his part in vari- 
ous capacities from his early youth. Railroad- 
ing attracted his attention as being a business 
offering greater possibilities for the same amount 
of labor, and Mr. Carlisle concluded to engage 
in it. Accordingly at seventeen he secured a 
berth as road fireman for the Cleveland & Pitts- 
burg Company, his engineers being Sterns and 
Williamson. In two years he became an en- 
gineer, employed for a time in and about the 
Pittsburg yards. Since 1862 he has been a 
passenger engineer and for more than three 
years was on the River road; the remainder of 
the time has been put in between Cleveland, 
Wellsville and Pittsburg. Mr. Carlisle was 
three years road foreman of engineers, being 
appointed in 1883. 

Few men have covered an equal distance in 
the running of engines. He has more than 
2,000,000 of miles to his credit, has served 
thirty-six years without interruption save when 
recovering from an injury, and has a large pro- 
portion of annual and monthly premiums paid 
by the Cleveland and Pittsburg Company for the 
most ecomical use of material in covering 
a given number of miles. Each of these checks 
for premiums was accompanied by a congratu- 
latory letter from the superintendent, express- 
ing his pleasure in behalf of the management 
for the reJults obtained, and the manifest inter- 
est in the company's welfare. 

Thomas Carlisle is a son of John Carlisle, 
born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, married Agnes 
Chalmers, and came to Cleveland in pioneei- 



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times. For thirty-five years he was in the em- 
ploy of the Cleveland & Pittsburg Company, 
but is now retired. Five children were born 
in the family of Mr. and Mrs. Carlisle: Thomas, 
Jennie (deceased), Mrs. Nettie Bedford, Mrs. 
Annie Stewart, and Herbert Carlisle, a ma- 
chinist. 

Thomas Carlisle is a Mason, belonging to 
Lodge No. 180, of Wellsville. He is unmar- 
ried and enjoys a popularity unsurpassed among 
his brother associates. 



FJRANIv HELLER, yard-master of the 
Cleveland & Pittsburg Pailroad Company 
-- at Cleveland, was born at Alliance, Ohio, 
September 30, 1857. His father, Henry Heller, 
was born in the province of Frankfort, Ger- 
many, and came to New Lisbon, Ohio, in 1849. 
He is a cabinet-maker by trade, and until 1885, 
with the exception of a brief period at Alliance, 
resided in New Lisbon: he is now a resident of 
Cleveland. He volunteered his services during 
the war, enlisting in Company K, One Hundred 
and Fourth Ohio Infantry, and saw much of the 
hardest fighting of the war. He was attached 
to the Tennessee Army, participated in the 
campaign against Atlanta, Georgia, followed 
Hood back to Franklin, Tennessee, and helped 
to demolish completely his army at Nasliville. 
He was discharged at Columbus, Ohio, in 1865, 
after serving three full years and being in 
nineteen battles. Mr. Heller married, in New 
Lisbon, Ohio, Mary Flugan, born in Germany 
and now living, at sixty years of age, sixteen 
years her husband's junior. 

The subject of this brief notice left school at 
twelve years of age, and, concluding he could 
do more and better for himself than was being 
done at home, hired out rs a waiter boy on a 
gravel train. He worked as brakcman, wiper 
and fireman, beginning braking in 1871 on the 
Niles & New Lisbon Eailroad. The next year 
he came to Cleveland and began working in the 
yard as brakeman. In 1873 he was made con- 
ductor, and in September, 1884, yardmaster. 



In 1879, September 30, Mr. Heller married, 
in Cleveland, Miss Angle P. Osborn, a daugh- 
ter of Lucas Osborn, an old resident of this 
city and a Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad 
engineer, who married Elizabeth Dodge, of 
Oberlin, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Heller are the 
parents of Lucy, Frank, Willis and Abbie. 



CL. JACKSON is one of the well-knowi 
pioneers of Orange township. A resume 
of his life is as follows: He was born in 
Marrick, near Richmond, Yorkshire, England, 
July 11, 1823, a son of Row and Jane (Lonsdale) 
Jackson, both natives of Yorkshire. In 1835 
Row Jackson and his family emigrated from 
England to America, sailing from Liverpool, 
and landing at New York city after a voyage of 
five weeks and one day. The names of their 
children who were born in England were as fol- 
lows: George, James, Michael, C. L., Jane, 
Joseph, Charles, Lonsdale and Row; and those 
born in this country, John, Elizabeth and 
Rachel, and one that died in infancy. Upon 
his arrival in Ohio, Mr. Jackson selected Cuya- 
hoga county as a place of location and accord- 
ingly settled in Orange township, where he 
purchased two small farms, each having a log 
cabin, barn and orchard. He died here in 1859, 
at the age of seventy years. His good wife 
passed away at the ago of sixty-six. Mr. and 
Mrs. Jackson were people of sterling integrity 
and were well known and much respected. They 
belonged to the Church of England. 

C. L. Jackson was just entering his 'teens at 
the time he landed in America. Until he was 
twenty-one he assisted his father on their fron- 
tier farm. He came to his present location in 
1863, and as the result of his years of toil and 
good management he is now the owner of 248 
acres of choice land, one of the finest farms in 
the township. His modern two-story residence, 
with its beautiful and attractive lawn, his ten- 
ant house, his commodious barn, his well-culti- 
vated fields and broad pastures, his fat cattle 
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success lie has attained and place liiin in the 
front rank among the leading fanners of the 
county. 

Mr. Jackson was married at Sharon, Medina 
county, Ohio, November 19, 1851, to Hannah 
Bell, who was born in Yorkshire, England, 
September 19, 1830, and in 1833 was brought 
by her parents, John and Mary (Coats) Bell, to 
this country, their settlement being in the dense 
forest in Sharon township, Medina county, Ohio. 
Her father died on the old farm there, at the 
age of fifty-nine years; her mother, at the age 
of sixty-three. They were Protestant Method- 
ists. They had nine children, two of whom 
died in infancy, the others being as follows: 
John, Elizabeth, Ann, Sarah, Hannah, Metcalf, 
Mary Jane. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson have had 
eight children, viz.: John K., at home; Mary 
J., wife of Charles Stoneman, of this township; 
Prof. W. W., of the "West Cleveland schools; 
Charles "W., of Orange, Ohio; Perry A., at 
home; Anna B., wife of John Stoneman, of 
Phillips county, Kansas; Alva, of Phillips 
county, Kansas; and Callie M., at home. Their 
grandchildren number ten. 

Politically, Mr. Jackson is a Democrat. He 
was a Trustee of the township three terms, and 
has held other minor offices. Mrs. Jackson is a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 



D. FLEET, engineer on the New York, 
Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad, was 
born near Jersey City, New Jersey, 
June 4, 1850, a sou of Joseph Fleet. The 
latter's father, William Fleet, was born in 
Khode Island, and emigrated to New Jersey 
about 1825. Joseph Fleet was a farmer in 
early life, but afterward became a stock dealer 
of considerable note. He began the business 
with small capital, but, as profits accumulated, 
extended his trade into the Western States. Mr. 
Fleet married a daughter of Henry Warner, 
who was born near Washington, Peniisylvania. 
They have had three children,— W. D.,our sub- 



ject; John, employed on the Jersey Central 
Railroad; and Mary, at home. Mr. Fleet is 
now sixty-nine years of age. 

William D. received a limited education in 
the district schools of his native State. In 
1871, in response to a desire to see more of the 
country, he came to Cleveland, Ohio, where he 
met a former resident of Jersey City, an official 
of the Erie Railroad Company. Under promise 
of permanent employment, Mr. Fleet was in- 
duced to remain in this city, securing the posi- 
tion of locomotive fireman, under engineer 
Patrick Kelley. He was soon promoted to the 
position of engineer, and, in addition to that 
occupation, also takes Paymaster Grout over 
the Mahoning Division and its branches of the 
Erie Road almost every month. Mr. Fleet is a 
member of the B. of L. E., and has rendered 
service on the general adjustment committee 
for the Erie Company employees; and he is a 
member of Riverside Council, Royal Arcanum. 

September 18, 1873, in this city, he married 
Sarah Jane Forbes, and they have had two chil- 
dren,— Mellie Luella, who died March 10, 1877, 
at the age of three months; and William James, 
born June 18, 1878. 



IV T W. OVERMYER was born in San- 
VS\ dnsky county, Ohio, May 23, 1852. He 
I H is a farmer's son, his father being P. A. 
V Overmyer, a Pennsylvanian by birth, but 

for fifty-eight years a resident of Sandusky 
county. During the Civil war he was in the 
100-day service. He is now retired, at seventy- 
one, and a resident of Fremont, this State. His 
father and the grandparent of our subject was 
Jacob M. Overmyer, born in Pennsylvania. 
He married a Miss Anderson and reared twelve 
children. By the marriage of P. A. Overmyer 
to Margaret Wagner, the following children 
were born: Mariette, wife of David Auxter, of 
Oak Harbor, Ohio; N. W.; Jacob M.; Isadore, 
in Chicago, Illinois; Abraham, in Fremont; 
and Abbie, wife of John Kalb, of Toledo. 
Mrs. Overmyer died in 1867. For his second 




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wife Mr. Overmyer married Elizabeth Reed. 
Their children are: Lillie, wife of Harry Blancli- 
ard, of Cleveland; Susie, Ferdinand and Wini- 
fred. 

At nineteen Mr. N". "W. Overniyer began life 
independently as a day laborer on the section at 
Lindsey, Ohio. He built culverts, worked on a 
gravel train, became freight brakeraan, and in 
the fall of 1873 came to the Cleveland yard, 
M'here he set brakes, was yard conductor, and 
finally in 1888 was made yard-master. 

July 12, 1877, Mr. Overmyer married Lizzie 
Woodworth, born in Wood county, Ohio, in 
1861. Their children are: Lillian May, who 
died October 3, 1893, aged sixteen; William N.; 
Florance, deceased; P. H. and Bessie. 



l( LEXANDER M. GORDON, a well 
A\ known citizen of Bedford, Ohio, and an 
^ extensive map and atlas publisher, was 
born at Methel, Fifeshire, Scotland, on 
January 29, 1842. His father was James 
Gordon, who was a native of Aberdeen, Scot- 
land, where he was born January 1, 1818, and 
was the son of Alexander and Allen (Minty) 
Gordon. The mother of Alexander M. was 
Betsey White before marriage, and was born in 
Kirkland, Fifeshire, Scotland, November 12, 
1818, tiie daughter of Robert and Margaret 
(Shaw) White. 

In 1842 James Gordon emigrated to America 
and located in Cleveland, where he engaged in 
work at his trade of stone cutting and masonry, 
he having learned the trade from his father. 
His first work in this country was on the dams 
at Chagrin Falls and at Bedford. In 1844 his 
wife and our subject joined him in America. 
They were six weeks on the voyage across the 
ocean, and a hard one it was for them, as the 
subject of this sketch, then but two years of age, 
was sick most of the time, passing through 
sieges of the whoopingcough and chicken-pox. 
They landed in New York on the 4th day of 
July, that year. From New York they pro- 
ceeded on their journey, going up the Hudson 



river to Albany, thence to Buffalo by the Erie 
canal, and then to Cleveland by the lake, con- 
suming seven more weeks, making in all thir- 
teen weeks that they were on their journey from 
Scotland to Cleveland, a trip that can now be 
accomplished in less than ten days. Arriving 
here they went to the home of John Coburn, a 
Scotch neighbor, where they remained until the 
following spring, and they went to Bedford, 
where they afterward resided, the father fol- 
lowing his trade, carrying on contracting in 
Cuyahoga and surrounding counties. The par- 
ents reared six children, as follows: Mary, who 
died in infancy; Alexander M. ; Ellen B., wife 
of John Cole, of Ames, Iowa, and mother of 
nine children; Lizzie, wife of Edson Salesbnry, 
of Randall, Ohio, and mother of four children; 
Robert D., of Bedford, who married Lucy F. 
Morrison and has three children; W. O., of 
Bedford, a sketch of who appears elsewhere in 
this work; Louis James, of Bedford, who mar- 
ried Kittie Laughton and has three children ; L. 
J. of Bedford, who succeeded his father in 
business and is an extensive contractor. The 
father of our subject was an ardent worker in 
the temperance cause in later life, and was a 
man well known and esteemed by his fellow 
citizens and neighbors. His death occurred on 
the 4th of December, 1883. His wife was a 
member of the Presbyterian Church in Scotland, 
but after she came to Bedford united with the 
Disciple Church, in which she was an active 
worker. Her death occurred on the 20th of 
November, 1894. 

The boyhood of A. M. Gordou was spent in 
assisting his father at work and attending school, 
until the breaking out of the Civil war. On the 
18th of December, 1861, he enlisted in a com- 
pany in the Forty-fifth Regiment of Ohio Vol- 
unteers, which was later consolidated with the 
Sixty-seventh and was known as "Company G, 
Sixty-seventh Ohio Volunteers." With his 
regiment he served through the campaigns of 
West Virginia and was at Cumberland, Mary- 
land, and Winciiester, Virginia, in General 
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CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



of the Sheiiaiidoali valley they went to the 
Penisula under McCiellan, and following Mc- 
Clellan's retreat tliej were sent to Suffolk, Vir- 
ginia. From Virginia they went to the Caro- 
linas and took part in the siege of Charleston, 
South Carolina. They were next transferred to 
the Tenth Army Corps under General Q. A. 
Gilmore. They captured Morris island in 1863 
and made an assault on Fort Wagner on the 
night of July 18th, when Mr. Gordon received a 
wound in the muscle of the right arm, which 
disabled him for active duty until the following 
September, when he returned to his regiment in 
time to take part in the second assault on Fort 
Wagner. They remained at the siege of Charles- 
ton until operations closed, and then went to 
Hilton Head, where the regiment re-enlisted 
for three years, or until the war was over. He 
then returned home on a veteran furlough. In 
April following he returned to Camp Distribu- 
tion, near Washington, and from there went to 
York town. On the 4th of May they started for 
Richmond, Virginia, and landing at Bermiida 
Hundred on the 6th of May the regiment was 
included in what was known as the Army of the 
James, and for two hundred days they were 
under fire. He was slightly wounded at Wier 
Bottom Church, and on October 13, 1864, at 
Chapin's Farm, Virginia, he was wounded in 
the left shoulder, the bullet lodging under the 
shoulder blade, where it still remains. He was 
sent to the hospital at Fort Monroe, but was 
transferred from there to Cleveland, at which 
place he was discharged from the United States 
general hospital on July 18, 1865. 

After the war Mr. Gordon began canvassing 
for books, following which he was an agent for 
George A. Bicker for the sale of lightning-rods. 
In 1873 he engaged in the map business in 
Cleveland, for Titus & Company. In 1884 he 
formed a co-partnership with B. N. Griffing 
and engaged in the publishing business, which 
partnership continued until 1892, when Mr. 
Griffing retired from the business, and then for 
two years he was in business with Mr. Lake. 
The firm is now Gordon, Lathrop & Company. 



He is also engaged in the real-estate business in 
Bedford. 

Mr. Gordon is a member of the F. & A. M., 
Bedford Lodge, No. 375, of Summit Chapter, 
No. 74, and of Holy Rood Commandery, No. 
32, Knights Templar; is at present Junior Vice 
of Royal Dunham Post, No. 177, G. A. R., is 
Master of Work in Golden Rod Lodge, No. 467, 
Knights of Pythias, and Captain of Golden Rod 
Division, No. 113, Uniform Rank, Knights of 
Pythias. 

Mr. Gordon is a self-made man and deserves 
well the success he has made of his life. Before 
he had secured more than an ordinary amount 
of schooling, and had had an opportunity of 
mastering a trade, he answered the call of his 
adopted country for troops to put down the re- 
bellion, and for four years he was at the front. 
After the war he began witliout means, and, ac- 
cepting the best that was offered him, took up 
book canvassing. From that he passed on to 
the publishing business, succeeding at each un- 
dertaking, through determination and the exer- 
cise of industry and perseverance. Through all 
his business life he has followed closely the 
teachings of his good old parents, and honesty 
and integrity have ever been characteristics of 
his life. As a citizen he enjoys the respect and 
esteem of those who know him, as he is ever 
ready to lend aid and assistance to all worthy 
public enterprises, and has given freely of his 
time to further the development and growth of 
his city and county. 



iP^ EORGE CARMONT, a New York, Penn- 
I If sylvania ct Ohio yard master at Cleve- 
^^ land, is a native of the Forest City, being 
^ born here October 12, 1859. His father, 
Samuel Carmont, was a sailor, born on the Isle 
of Man in 1820. He began salt-sea voyages 
from London, England, and sailed the ocean 
until some time in the '406, when he came with 
his wife, nee Catherine Murray, to Cleveland, 
and sailed the lakes some years before entering 
the employ of the Atlantic & Great Western Rail- 



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way Company, remaining on its pay roll fifteen 
years. He died in 1885, at sixty-five years of 
age. His children were: Ella, wife of M. 
Martin, of Cleveland; Joseph Carmont, of 
Meadville, Pennsylvania; William, on the Phila- 
delphia Record; George and Sarah. 

George Carmont attended the Kentucky Street 
school until foiarteen years of age, when he 
secured work in a nut and bolt factory. He 
concluded to try sailing after awhile and went 
aboard the steam barge Anna Smith as second 
cook, occupying various positions, — wheelman, 
afore-the-mast, etc. He tired of navigation and 
in 1879 began railroading; was brakeman for the 
New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Company 
three and a half years, before he was made yard 
conductor, and this position was succeeded after 
six and a half years' service by a promotion to 
yard master. He is a member of the O. R. C. 
and K. of P. 

In 1888 Mr. Carmont married Belle Shoe- 
maker, of Cardington, Ohio, a daughter of 
Albert Shoemaker, originally of Pennsylvania. 



J^ILLIAM M. FORBES, a trusted em- 
ploye of the Erie Railway Company, 
was born in McCoy's, Ohio, February 
19, 1851. His father, "William J. Forbes, 
moved to Bellaire, this State, where the son was 
reared, receiving the rudiments of an English 
education. At the age of fourteen years the 
latter became train boy on the Cleveland & 
Pittsburg Railroad, in which position lie con- 
tinued four years. He then entered service on 
the Atlantic & Great Western Railroad as a 
brakeman on a freight train, from which posi- 
tion he has risen by successive steps to the place 
he now occupies; and he is now completing his 
first quarter of a century of railroad service 
with the Erie Company. 

William J. Forbes was born near Pittsburg, 
Pennsylvania, in 1822, and became a wood- 
turner by trade. He served in the Forty-third 



Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the war, par- 
ticipating in many hard-fought battles and in 
the heavy campaigning of the Army of the 
Tennessee. His later life was devoted to rail- 
roading, — first on the Cleveland & Pittsburg 
line, and lastly on the Atlantic & Great West- 
ern Railway. He died in 1885. His wife, 
whose name before marriage was Keziah Mc- 
Carty, was born in Pennsylvania, and died in 
Cleveland in 1882, aged fifty-five years. Their 
children are: John, at\ engineer on the Valley 
road; William M., whose name heads this 
sketch; Melvin L., an engineer on the New 
York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad; and 
Sarah J., wife of William D. Fleet, of Cleve- 
land. 

William M. Forbes was married in Solon, 
this State, April 22, 1873, to Addie O., daugh- 
ter of Henry Baldwin, who is now a resident of 
Newburg, Ohio. Mr. Baldwin was born at 
Aurora, Ohio, seventy-one years ago, and has 
devoted his life to farming. He married Ma- 
hala McClintock, born in New York State in 
1824, and one year younger than himself. 
Their children are three in number, as follows: 
H. M., of Geneva, Ohio; Mrs. Forbes, and 
A. C. Baldwin, an engineer of the New York, 
Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad. The children 
of Mr. and Mrs. Forbes are: Harry B., born 
July 2, 1876, and is a machinist by trade; Clay 
W., born April 12, 1879; and May, born April 
18, 1881. 

Mr. Forbes is a brother in the 0. R. C. and 
E. A. U. 



CHARLES RUDOLPH, freight conductor, 
was born in Hirschberg an der Saale, Ger- 
many, April 13, 1845. In 1852 his 
father, Charles Rudolph, Sr., emigrated with 
his family to America, taking a sailing vessel at 
Bremen, and for 101 days were struggling 
through uncontrollable adverse circumstances, 
in which provisions became so exhausted as to 
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landed at Quebec, Canada. From there the 
father took his family to Buffalo, New York, 
remaining till 1854, ^¥hen Cleveland finally re- 
ceived them. Mr. Kudolph was a tailor by 
trade, but never followed it to the exclusion of 
other work. He died in 1885, aged seventy- 
one years. lie married Christina Franke, who 
died January 18, 1866. They had the follow- 
ing children: Charles; Carrie, now Mrs. Adam 
Krug; Louisa, wife of Fred Miller, a mechanic; 
Annie, who died April 18, 1885, at the age of 
twenty-seven years; and Clara, who married 
Edward Forscher, of Cleveland. 

Charles Rudolph, Jr., attended school one year 
in Germany, and after coming to the United 
States was a pupil in the English schools of 
Buffalo and Cleveland. His first employment 
on leaving school at fourteen was in a splint 
broom factory; next we find him in the ofiice of 
the Waechter am Erie, a German newspaper 
published in this city, where he remained long 
enough to become a practical printer. 

At this juncture the war came on and Mr. 
Rudolph enlisted in the Twentieth Ohio Volun- 
teer Artillery, whose ofiicers are well known 
men of Cleveland. This battery was made a 
part of the Army of the Cumberland and en- 
countered the enemy first at Liberty Gap, Ten- 
nessee. Several smaller engagemerits followed 
before the campaign terminated at Chicka- 
mauga. 

At Dalton Mr. Rudolph was captured, but in 
three days paroled, guarded through the Rebel 
Hues and compelled to make Chattanooga on 
foot, there rejoining his battery. When he left 
Chattanooga it was to return to Cleveland to be 
mustered out, having served not quite three 
years. 

Mr. Rudolph then turned his attention to 
cigar-making, and continued it until 1867, when 
he entered the service of the Cleveland & Pitts- 
burg Railroad Company as freight brakeman. 
In 1871 he was made a freight conductor, and 
has since remained in that capacity. 

In 1874 Mr. Rudolph married, in Kent, Ohio, 
Jo'sephine Sears, whose father, Edward Sears, 



was a mill man of Randolph, Portage county. 
Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph are the parents of two 
daughters, Ada Daisy and Josephine Elizabeth. 
Mr. Rudolph is a Knight of Pythias and a 
member of Memorial Post, G. A. R. 



rE. SQUIRE, yard-master of the Valley 
Railroad, began his railroad career with 
the Atlantic & Great Western Company, 
now a part of the New York, Pennsylvania & 
Ohio system, as yard switchman, serving two 
years. He began braking then on the Lake 
Shore & Michigan Southern in 1870, where he 
was soon promoted to be foreman, remaining 
with the company eight years, the last year as 
a conductor. He transferred his services next 
to the Chicago, Alton & St. Louis Railroad 
Company, and was stationed at Alton, Illinois, 
as yard-master for nearly five years, going next 
to Booth, Missouri, for the same company, in 
the same capacity. He returned to Cleveland- 
in 1883 and was in the employ of the "Big 
Four" as yard conductor. Four years later, 
when he left them, he took the Nickel Plate 
and retired from that company's yard to a run 
on the road, and on the completion of his year 
came to the Valley Company in 1890 as brake- 
man, being soon made night yard-master, and 
in 1892 became day man. 

Mr. Squire was born in Salem, Ohio, June 
29, 1853. He is a son of C. R. Squire, some 
years ago an inventor of some prominence, 
giving his attention to improving and patenting 
appliances for sewing-machines. He was a 
blacksmith and a tanner in early life. During 
the war ho was chief clerk for Gordon McMil- 
lan, a large wholesale house of Cleveland, and 
at one time was in the employ of the "Big 
Four" Railroad Company at Salem, Ohio, as 
station agent. He was born in Vermont and 
came West in 1827, at eleven years of age, with 
his father, Jesse Squire, a circuit preacher, who 
settled near Norwalk. Mr. C. R. Squire mar- 



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ried Miss Lorinda E. Derning, of Browuson, 
Ohio. Her children were: C. A., F. E. and 
W. A. Squire, all raih-oad men. 

Frank E. received a liljeral education at Bald- 
win University, at Berea, Ohio, and attended a 
military academy at White Plains, New York, 
for two years. On taking up life's realities he 
engaged to work for the West Side Street Rail- 
road Company, laying track on Pearl street. 
Ilis next work was mining coal at Fnlton, Ohio, 
after which lie began railroading. 

On Christmas day, 1874, Mr. Squire married 
Miss M. D. Lewis, of Eockport, a daughter of 
F. G. Lewis. Of the five children by this mar- 
riage, four are living, — Leora A., Edith May, 
Luella Maud and Frank Leroy. 

Mr. Squire is a member of the Uniform Rank, 
Knights of Pythias, and is Secretary of the 
Switchmen's Mutual Aid Association. 



II. GARLOCK, the leading lanndry- 
man of the city of Cleveland, was born 
near Rochester, New York, August 13, 
1842, a son of Elisha Garlock, a native of the 
same State, born in Herkimer county, in 1810. 
He was a farmer's son and chose his father's 
occupation for a livelihood for himself, giving 
his attention to no other branch of business, and 
his success warranted his retiring on reaching 
the shady side of life. For his wife he married 
Lucy Wilkinson, and they have the following 
children: James S., a lawyer at Rochester; Dr. 
F. R., a prominent physician of Racine, Wis- 
consin, and surgeon for the Chicago, Milwaukee 
& St. Paul Railroad; Elizabeth, wife of J. B. 
Miller, a retired farmer of Parma, New York; 
Sarah, wife of William Burritt, a New York 
farmer; S. G., engaged in the electrical business 
in St. Louis, Missouri; C. M., a physician in 
Rochester; and Martin, operating in the Oil 
Fields of Pennsylvania. 

W. H. Garlock completed a course in Fallej 
Seminary, Fulton, New York. Immediately 
succeedincr this he engaged in teachino; district 



school near Rochester, following it up seven 
winters. He married then Miss Adell Ingell, 
a daughter of William Ingell, of Fulton, New 
York, but now a retired resident of Anamosa, 
Iowa. 

Mr. Garlock engaged in the " gents' furnish- 
ing " business at Fulton for a period of one 
year; then was six years at Scranton, Pennsyl- 
vania, in the same business, in partnership with 
J. C. Highriter, but enjoyed no exceptional 
prosperity. At this time Mr. Garlock decided 
to go West, and accordingly disposed of his 
business interests in Scranton and located in 
Dayton, Ohio, embarking in the same business 
alone, believing that it could be conducted prof- 
itably without the assistance of a partner, and 
his expectations in this plan were realized, and 
for six years this business enjoyed a prosperity 
hitherto unknown to its proprietor. Deciding 
to change his business and establish a steam 
steam laundry, Mr. Garlock came to Cleveland, 
in 1882, and opened out on Sheriff street. His 
business was of course light at first, not mate- 
rially exceeding $10,000 the first twelvemonth. 
The annual business in ten years reached 
$100,000, and the force employed reached ninety 
persons. In this venture Mr. Garlock's ex- 
pectations were again realized. At the meeting 
of the National Laundrymen's Association in 
1892, Mr. Garlock was chosen its president to 
serve one year. This is the only official capacity 
in which he ever served. 

Politically Mr. Garlock is a Republican and 
fraternally a Chapter Mason. 



F. ROACH, a passenger conductor, was 
born in Erie, Pennsylvania, July 4, 1842, 
a son of James William and Mary Eliza- 
beth (Simpson) Roach. His father was born in 
Pennsylvania, and was killed while driving a 
stage over the mountains in 1844, leaving two 
children: James William, who started for Chi- 
cago about forty years ago, and has never been 
heard from since; and B. F., our subject. The 



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mother is now Mrs. Calvin S. Spooner, of Black 
river, Lorain county. B. F. Eoach accompanied 
his mother on the journey from Erie, Pennsyl- 
vania, to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1852, and soon 
after began work for himself. He was first em- 
ployed as cabin boy on Lake Erie, and was after- 
ward engaged in fishing on the lakes till 1861. 
He was next employed by Mr. Johnson, and 
then resumed the occupation of fishing on the 
lake. In the latter part of 1861 he began work 
on the railroad, first on the Bee line and after- 
ward on the " Big Four " Kailroad. Mr. Koach 
made his first run as a regular conductor in 1864, 
and May 21, 1879, as shown by a certificate 
from Superintendent Robert Blee, was made a 
passenger conductor. 

!Mr. Roach was married at the age of twenty 
years, to Miss Catherine, a daughter of William 
Dewyer, of Sandusky, Ohio; she died Ifovember 
30, 1875, leaving four children: William, who 
was killed in Chicago while in the employ of 
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company; Mary, the 
next in order of birth ; Nellie, wife of William 
C. Offutt; and Anna, now Mrs. John A. Leim- 
kuelher, of this city. In 18S0 Mr. Roach was 
united in marriage with Mrs. Nellie McDonald, 
nee Dewyer, who was not a relative of his first 
wife. They had one child, Daisy, born May 4, 
1882. Mrs. Roach departed this life in the 
spring of 1883. 

B. F. Roach is a Democrat in politics. 



1 11 tiLLIAM M. BARNES, passenger con- 
X/jv// ductor on the Lake Shore & Michigan 
^ = Southern Railroad, was born in Cleve- 
land, in May, 1845. At fourteen years of age 
our subject was employed by the Lake Erie 
Rolling Mill Company, and became a merchant- 
iron roller \Jy the time he had completed his 
three years' service. From this he enlisted in 
the Union army, Company E, Eighty-fourth 
Ohio Volunteer Infantry, three months men, 
under the venerable Colonel Pickands. He 



was stationed at Cumberland, Maryland, and 
did picket duty until the expiration of his 
service. He was mustered out, and re-enlisted, 
this time in Company A, Captain Paddock, 
"Cleveland Grays," One Hundred and Fiftieth 
Regiment. Again his service was confined to 
duty within the barracks at Fort Lincoln, Wash- 
ington, until his discharge was due. 

In 1862, on completing his brief public-school 
career, he decided to engage in railroading for 
the time being, and accordingly sought a posi- 
tion on the Cleveland & Toledo road, and was 
taken on as a yard brakeman, under Yard-master 
Colwell, long since retired to the farm in this 
county. In this capacity and as yard conductor 
and assistant yard-master, Mr. Barnes served 
until 1866, when he severed his connections 
with the company, and proceeded to St. Louis, 
Missouri, where he took the position of general 
yard-master for the Missouri Pacific Railroad. 
This position he filled one year, when he went 
to the Iron Mountain road, and was for a brief 
period baggageman, and later conductor of a 
mixed train, changing again the next year to 
the Union Pacific Railroad Company. He took 
charge of the construction train there, and re- 
mained with it until the completion of the road 
into the Rocky Mountains, and conseqiiently 
was one of the first conductors over the road to 
Laramie, Wyoming. At Cheyenne, the historic 
mountain city, he was for three years yard- 
master of the Union Pacific yards. 

In 1873 he returned to Cleveland, and entered 
the employ of his former company, the Lake 
Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad, where he 
has since remained. After leaving the Union 
Pacific Company at Cheyenne, he became a 
pioneer conductor on the Chicago, Burlington 
<k Quincy Railroad, and when it was completed 
to Fort Kearney he left and made Cleveland 
his home. 

Mr. Barnes' father, William M. Barnes, came 
to Cleveland from Etjgland, and was here en- 
gaged in contracting, designing and building, 
but died comparatively young, about 1850. 
He married, in this city, a Mrs. Giles, and they 



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had two cliildren, William M. and David D., 
the latter engaged in the oil business in Collin- 
wood. 

Mr. Barnes married, in Norwalk, Ohio, No- 
vember 15, 1868, Miss Ilattie E. Winton, of 
North Amherst, Lorain county, Ohio. They 
have had six children: Minnie E., Edward L., 
Birdie, Bessie, Hazel and Helen. Mr. Barnes 
is a member of the Order of Railway Con- 
ductors. 



T| E. SMITH, passenger conductor on the 
i^ J Valley Railroad, was born in Xenia, Ohio, 
^^ March, 1853, and at the age of fifteen years 
applied himself to the study of telegraphy at 
Milan, Indiana, and in 1869 was able to do 
acceptable work. Then for three years he was 
operator for the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad 
Company at Milan. Next he was employed as 
clerk in the roadmaster's office at Meadville, 
Pennsylvania, for the Atlantic & Great Western 
Railroad Company, and in the course of two 
months he was sent to Cleveland in charge of a 
construction train, to do dock-repairing about 
the old river bed, requiring a few months. July 
6, 1874, he went regularly upon the road as a 
brakeman, and in 1876 was made a freight con- 
ductor, which position he filled until 1886, when 
he entered the service of the Valley Road, in 
November. He is a member of the O. R. C, 
a Master Mason, being a member of Ellsworth 
Lodge, and also a member of Riverside Coun- 
cil, Royal Arcanum. 

Mr. Smith's father, Adam Smith, was an old 
railroad man, who was track superintendent for 
the Cincinnati, Wilmington & Zanesville Rail- 
road, now the Cincinnati & Muskingum Valley, 
and was afterward a roadmaater on the Ohio & 
Mississippi Railroad. He died in 1892, at the 
age of seventy-two years. He was born in the 
north of Ireland, and came to Ohio in 1845, 
locating in Greene county, where he married 
Sarah Galigher, of Irish birth, and now a widow 
of Seymour, Indiana. Their children were: 
Anna, of Seymour, Indiana; James E., of Cleve- 



land; Adam, of Colorado City, Colorado, and 
employed on the Colorado Midland Railroad; 
William J., an engineer on the Cincinnati 
Southern Railroad; Mrs. Sarah E. Proctor, of 
Dillsborough, Indiana; Kate, wife of John 
Myers, a conductor on the Ohio & Mississippi 
Railroad, of Seymour, Indiana; Mrs. William 
Cox, whose husband is a conductor on the same 
road and residing at the same place; and Joseph, 
another railroad man of the same city. 

Mr. Smith, whose name heads this sketch, 
married, in Cleveland, in 1878, Miss Sarah E. 
Moore, who was born in Wilmington, Delaware, 
a daughter of Louis A. Moore, who was a cooper 
by occupation. Mr. and Mrs. Moore came to 
Cleveland in 1869. 

The children of Mr. J. E. Smith are: Iris M., 
James C, Charles Adam and Edward B. 



If J. FORBES, an engineer of the Valley 
>> II Railroad Company, was born in Little 
^^' Washington, Pennsylvania, August 9, 
1849, a son of W. J. Forbes, whose history ap- 
pears in the sketch of William M. Forbes, in 
this volume. In 1850 the family moved to 
McCoy's Station, Ohio, and there and at Belle- 
aire our subject secured a limited education. 
His first work as a contributor to self support 
was as newsboy on the Cleveland & Pittsburg 
Railroad, running between Pittsburg and Belle- 
aire and served in that capacity four years. He 
then came to Cleveland, where he secured the 
position of fireman on the Atlantic & Great 
Western Railroad, afterward the New York, 
Pennsylvania & Ohio Railway, under engineer 
"William Dykes, one of the pioneer railroad men 
of this locality. In 1873 Mr. Forbes was pro- 
moted as engineer. He afterward worked for 
the Connotton Valley Company six years, being 
stationed at Canton, Ohio, but in 1888 returned 
to Cleveland, and has since been one of that 
road's best men. In his social relations, Mr. 
Forbes is a member of the B. of L. E., also of 
Centennial Lodge, No. 213, K. of H. 



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He married in this city, October 1, 1874, to 
Ella Wolf, who was born in Allentown, Penn- 
sylvania, October 1, 1856. Her father, Jacob 
Wolf, canie from that city to Cleveland, where 
he still resides, and is aged seventy-four years. 
His wife, nee Julia Willdoner, was the mother 
of tive children: David, of Louisville, Ken- 
tucky; Caroline, wife of John Wilson, of Ma- 
rion, Ohio; Kate, now Mrs. William Callow, of 
Cleveland; Ella, wife of Mr. J. J. Forbes; and 
Harry J. Wolf. Mr. and Mrs. Forbes' children 
are: Julia K., aged sixteen years; Arthur D., 
fourteen years; Ethel G., twelve years; and 
Viola L., five years. 



APTAIN HENRY J. JOHNSON was 
born in 1834. His father. Captain Jona- 
than Johnson, came from New York 
State when a young man, settling in Cleveland, 
and lived on Water street opposite the home of 
his brother Levi, and here was hora the subject 
of this sketch. Several years later the father 
removed to Ashtabula, Ohio, and there at the 
age of sixteen years Henry began his career as 
a sailor. He sailed under Sol. Kummage, his 
cousin, on the schooner Wings of the Morning, 
for three years, during which time his father 
met with misfortune, losing his property and 
thus being under the necessity of launching out 
in some other field of adventure. The latter 
removed to Cleveland, where he died in 1856, 
leaving a widow and two daughters for his son 
Henry to support. To this duty Henry applied 
himself with commendable willingness, and in 
1857 it was fortunate for him that he became 
captain of the T. P. Handy, owned by H. J. 
Winslow, in whose employ Captain Johnson re- 
mained ten years, during which time he became 
interested in several vessels with his employer, 
and in 1869 he came to land and retired from 
service. 

In 1874 he with others built the V. Swain at 
a cost of 670,000. Since that time he and 
others have built a number of steamers, among 



the last of which are the Horace A. Tuttle, 
Henry J. Johnson and Geo. Presley. In over 
twenty vessels has Captain Johnson been in- 
terested. 

He began the life of a sailor shipping before 
the mast, and rapidly rose to the position of 
master. He has, by tact, energy and good busi- 
ness management become a man of large means 
and influence. Tlie first vessel in which Cap- 
tain Johnson was ever interested was known as 
the William Case, which he manned for three 
years, but at the present time he has no interest 
in any vessel other than the H. J. Johnson, the 
Swain, the steamer Business, and the schooners 
Helvetia and Minnehaha, in all of which he has 
controlling interest. 

Besides being interested in vessels Captain 
Johnson has invested in real estate to a consid- 
erable extent, taking considerable pride in Cleve- 
land property. He has built a number of resi- 
dences, tenement blocks, etc. His interests are 
divided between lake vessels and real estate. 

In 1870 he was married to Miss Anna, 
daughter of Alexander Campbell, of the West 
Side. The following are the children of Mr. 
and Mrs. Johnson: Henriette, wife of Clarence 
Cobbs, shipbroker of Cleveland; El well, a sailor; 
Russell; Anna; Winfield; Everett and Leslie, 
twins; and Alexander. 

The family are of the Congregational church 
faith. In politics Captain Johnson has always 
remained a Republican, but in public affairs 
he has taken no active part. 



ENRY BOTTEN, chief of the West 
Side pumping station, and an old resi- 
^ dent of Cleveland, was born in London, 
England, May 21, 1836, and the same 
year was brought to tliiscity by his father, Will- 
iam Botten, who was engaged in gardening here, 
and died in 1843, aged forty-four years. His 
widow, nee Charlotte Price, afterward married 
William Farrar. William Botten's children 
were Henry and Charles W., both now of Cleve- 
land. 



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Henry Botten, whose uame introduces this 
brief slcetch, was only sparingly educated, being 
forced at an early age to contribute to the 
family income. His first employer was Philo 
Scovill, for whom he worked seven years; then 
in succession he was employed as follows: At 
the Cuyahoga Works as an apprentice at 
machinery work for three years ; engineer at the 
Northern Ohio Lunatic Asylum two years; 
Big Four railroad shops at Gallon, Ohio, about 
four years; Cuyahoga shops again for half a 
year; then in the shops of the Cleveland, Co- 
lumbus & Cincinnati Railroad; next six months 
in the shops New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio 
Railroad, at that time called the Mahoning 
shops; then he was employed in the Cleveland 
& Pittsburg shops, where he had charge of a 
gang of machinists, in 1866; in the fall of that 
year he and his brother Charles purchased a 
brewery in Newburg (now South Cleveland), 
which they ran nearly two years, and sold out; 
next the subject of this sketch began work for 
the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company, where for 
seventeen years he had charge of machinery and 
boilers in the plate and sheet department. In 
1885 he entered the employ of the city as assist- 
ant engineer, and in 1888 became chief of the 
West Side station. 

In August, 1861, Mr. Botten married Mary 
Ann Qnayle, daughter of John Quayle, a Manx- 
man, and the children by this marriage are: 
Edward C, city editor of the Leader; William, 
a tinner; Harry H., a dentist; Alice M., Lucy 
Quayle and Richard Price. 



THOMAS DUFFIN, railroad engineer, 
was born in county Wexford, Ireland, in 
1840. Upon coming to this city in 1867 
he proceeded to apply himself to shoe- 
making, a trade which he had put himself in 
possession of in the mother country. But life 
was monotonous, uneventful and not specially 
profitable on the bench, and he decided to en- 
gage in railroading. He was employed by tie 



Cleveland & Pittsburg Company as yard brake- 
man, and two years later was made yard con- 
ductor. The same year he was in the employ 
of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Com- 
pany, a brief period. He returned to this com- 
pany as general utility man and in a short time 
began firing. In ten years he was promoted to 
be engineer, since which time he has been a 
knight of the throttle and is one of the faithful 
and reliable men in the employ of the company. 
He was Second Engineer of the Brotherhood of 
Locomotive Engineers, and was First President 
of Branch Fifteen of the C. M. B. A. and 
Grand Secretary of the order of the I. A. Legion 
two years. He is also a member of the Knights 
of St. John. He visited his native land in 1889 
and made something of a tour of the island, 
sight-seeing. 

Mr. Dutfin is a son of Richard Dutfin, who 
was in the employ of the English Government 
as Superintendent of Drainage. His wife, 
whose name before marriage was Miss Potts, 
has borne him eight children, four of whom are 
in this country, namely; James, William, 
Thomas and Bessie. Mr. Thomas Duflin was 
married the day he left Ireland for America, 
January 10, 1867, to Mary Whalen. Their 
children are: Richard, firing for his father; 
Mary Ellen, deceased; Mary Ellen (second); 
John, deceased; John Thomas; Margaret and 
Teresa, twins; and Bessie. 



IjOHN JOYCE, a gentleman who has spent 
K I nearly an average lifetime in the service 
^^ of the "Big Four" Railroad Company 
and more than half of this time as night man in 
whatever position he happened to be seryiug, is 
at pi'esent yard master and next in line by pro- 
motion to the position of general yard master. 
At twelve years old he quit school and went to 
work on the road, as per agreement with the 
company at his fathers' death, to give the boys 
work as soon as they could do creditable service. 
Entering in 1865 for the " Big Four" Railroad 
Company as flagman and brakeman, he came up 



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through the positionsof yard condnctorand yard- 
master for the Lake Sliore tfc Michigan Southern 
Railroad Company, lieing in their employ ten 
years. He entered the service of the " Big 
Four" in the lower rank and advanced by 
meritorious service to assistant general yard 
master, receiving the last named appointment 
in 1889. 

During all these years of continuous service 
Mr. Joyce has met with only one accident of 
any degree of seriousness, and this accident re- 
sulted in the loss of one linger. He was born 
in 1850 and is prematurely gray on account of 
his excessive night service. 

Mr. Joyce came by second nature into rail- 
roading, his father, "Pat" Joyce, being a 
railroad brakeman and an employee of the "Big 
Four" Railroad Company at the time of his 
accidental death in 1851. He was born in Ire- 
land and came to Cleveland. He married Cath- 
erine Gibbons, who bore him Henry, an em- 
ployee of the "Big Four " Company ; and John, 
our subject. 

Mr. John Joyce married in Cleveland, in 
1872, Mary Ann Gibbons, of Irish parentage. 
Their children are Margaret, Ellen and Henry, 
the latter a nephew of Mr. Joyce, but reared by 
him, and enjoying the same privileges as are 
extended to his own children. 



LEOPOLD BENEDICT, one of the ear- 
I liest Hebrew settlers in Cleveland, ar- 
1 riving here July 3, 1850, was born in 

Carlsbad, Bohemia, December 27, 1828, the 
son of Abraham and Fannie (Loewenstein) Ben- 
edict, who came here direct from Europe and 
made tiieir home with their son, Mr. Leopold 
Benedict, until their death. The father died in 
1867, at the age of eighty-four years, and the 
mother in 1876, aged seventy years. They had 
three eons, namely : Leopold, whose name heads 
this sketch; Henry, deceased, who died in 
Rochester, New York, in 1893, leaving a son 
and a daughter (the son, Abraham, is a promi- 
nent attorney in that city); and Frederick, an 



optician of Cleveland. Mr. Benedict's father and 
also his grandfather Benedict were also opti- 
cians by trade. 

Mr. Benedict, subject the of this sketch, was 
reared in his native'country, trained to optical 
work by his father and in the Ophthalmic College 
at Vienna, where he graduated in 1848. At the 
age of nine years he entered his father's factory, 
where he was employed between school hours 
until he entered college, and learned to maufac- 
ture all kinds of lenses. 

When twenty-two years of age he came to 
America, locating at Hartford, Connecticut, 
where he accepted a position as foreman in the 
spectacle factory of Spencer & Company. Eigh- 
teen months later he stopped a short time in 
New York city, working as a litter in optical 
goods for Buckley & Sons, and then came on to 
Cleveland. Here he established the optical 
business of Benedict Brothers, which firm ex- 
isted until 1888, when, on account of illness of 
one of the brothers, they dissolved; and our 
subject, becoming well advanced in years, did 
not care to continue in the business. He has a 
wide and pleasant acquaintance throughout the 
State, having been the traveling agent for the 
firm throughout its long career. He claims the 
distinction of being the first optician in the 
State. He has given his entire life to his pro- 
fession. In religion he is a member of the 
Anshe Chesed congregation, Hebrew, and he is 
also a member of Cleveland City Lodge, No. 
15, F. & A. M. 

August 20, 1852, in Hartford, Connecticut, 
he married Miss Minnie Freudenthal, a native 
of Baden, Germany, who was brought when a 
child by her parents to this country. She died 
in 1866, at the age of thirty years. By that 
marriage there were six cliildren, namely: Min- 
nie, wife of Fred Benedict of this city; Morris, 
a resident of Detroit, Michigan, patentee of the 
"All Right" coal-oil stove, which he is now en- 
gaged in manufacturing, and by profession he 
is an optician; Emma, who married Mr. F. 
Sweet, who is engaged in the drug and paint 
trade in Detroit; Josephine, wife of Mr. Lee 



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Rothscliild, one of tlie heaviest cattle-shippers 
of Omaha, Nebraska; Cora, deceased, wife of 
David Meyer of Lincohi, Nebraska; Emanuel, 
a resident of Detroit, and traveling agent for 
his brother in the stove business. For his 
present wife Mr. Benedict married, in 1866, 
Sarah Baker, a native of Bavaria, Germany, 
and by this marriage there have been five 
children, viz.: Isaac, Abraham, Edward and 
Robert, constituting the firm of Benedict Broth- 
ers, frescoe artists; and Elenor, at home. Abra- 
ham married a daughter of David Levi, and 
Edward married Miss Emerick. 



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ILLIAM O. DeMARS, one of the en- 
terprising and successful business men 
of Cleveland, was born in Detroit, 
Michigan, October 27, 1843, a son of Antwin 
and Eose (Nolette) DeMars, natives of Paris, 
France. They came to Montreal, Canada, in 
1819, but five years afterward located in Detroit, 
Michigan, where they were among the early 
pioneers. They settled on twelve acres of tim- 
ber land, where Mr. DeMars followed gardening 
the remainder of his life. His death occurred 
in 1877, and his wife departed this life one year 
later. Their family consisted of nine children: 
Anthony, deceased at the age of three years; 
Fred, who died on board the ship while return- 
ing from France, where he had been looking 
after his business interests; Henry, a resident 
of Europe; William O., our subject; Lonie, of 
Minneapolis, Minnesota; Joseph, also a resi- 
dent of Minneapolis; Adeline, wife of John 
Mercer, of that city; Emily, wife of Fred 
Selle, of Akron, Ohio; and Mary, deceased, 
was the wife of William Rich, of St. Paul, 
Minnesota. 

William O. was reared amid the scenes of 
pioneer life in Michigan, and was early initiated 
into the art of handling the ax, having cut and 
marketed many cords of wood in his boyhood 
days. He received only limited educational ad- 



vantages, but, being a close observer, has fitted 
himself for any business that might devolve 
upon him. At the early age of fourteen years 
his father apprenticed him to a Mr. McLyons, 
to learn the blacksmith's trade, for which he 
was to receive $26 per year. Not being satis- 
fied with a hard day's work, his employer 
heaped upon his young shoulders many outside 
duties, which became so burdensome to young 
DeMars that after eighteen months' service he 
decided to flee from bondage. He spent the 
following year in the employ of Charles Par- 
sons, wagon-maker and blacksmith of Pontiac, 
Michigan; was engaged with Sage & Ebbie, of 
Flint, that State, one year; and in 1861 entered 
the employ of Charles Woll, carriage manufac- 
turer, of New York city, where he remained 
two years and nine months. At the latter place 
Mr. DeMars began at the bottom round of the 
ladder, but moved upward until he entered the 
finest department of the establishment. While 
there he received an ofier to take charge of the 
large carriage and wagon shop of Thomas Con- 
nelly, of Dubuque, Iowa. On beholding young 
William, who was a mere boy in appearance 
and age, being only twenty years old at that 
time, Mr. Connelly was much disappointed, but 
after talking with young DeMars decided to 
place him in charge, which proved decidedly 
satisfactory. After spending two years with 
that gentleman he entered the employ of Jacob 
Hoffman, of Cleveland, one year afterward 
began work in the Cleveland Carriage Works, 
remaining there three years, and during that 
time was also engaged in speculating in real 
estate. 

In 1867, in company with three others, Mr. 
DeMars established the New York Coach 
Works, but two years afterward purchased the 
interest of two of the partners, thus becoming 
three-fourths owner of the establishment. The 
business developed into the largest carriage 
manufacturing works in the city, employing at 
that time as high as sixty men. In 1873 Mr. 
DeMars purci)ased the remainder of the stock. 
In the following year he ojicned the first carriage 



CUTAHOOA COUNTY. 



repository in the city, shortly afterward opened 
another in San Jose, California, but through 
misplaced confidence in the party in charge of 
his Western branch he was soon obliged to 
close ont his biisiness. During the following 
five years Mr. DeMars was engaged in the oil 
business. In 1885 he secured the position of 
engineer for the Variety Iron Company, en- 
gaged in erecting quartz mills throughout the 
various mining regions of the Western and 
Southwestern States and Territories, serving in 
tliat capacity five years. After returning to 
Cleveland, he was engaged with the engineer 
corps in erecting the first street cable railway 
system in this city. In 1890 he purchased a 
wagon and repair shop, and three years after- 
ward bought property at 1945 to 1949 Euclid 
avenue, where he erected a shop and carriage 
repository. 

Mr. DeMars was married in this city, in 1866, 
to Miss Maria Rock, a daughter of Andrew and 
Margaret (Chivalier) Hock, of French ancestry, 
and residents of Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. 
DeMars have four children: William A., born 
in 1866; Teressa, in 1868; Oliver P., in 1870; 
and Gertrude Helen, in 1885. Teressa is the 
wife of Harry A. Hayward, of Chicago, and 
they have one child, William A., born January 
3, 1892. In his social relations Mr. DeMars is 
a member of the K. of P., and politically is 
identified with the Republican party. 



^ILLIAM STONEMAN, Esq., is one of 
the prominent and highly respected old 
settlers of Orange township, Cuyahoga 
county, Ohio. Indeed, there is not a larger or 
better known family in the township than the 
Stonemans. 

William Stoneraan was born in Devonshire, 
England, January 5, 1821, son of John and Ann 
(Newcomb) Stoneman, both natives of Devon- 
shire. It was in 1836 that John Stoneman and 
his family emigrated to this country and settled 
on a farm in Orange township, Cuyahoga 



county, Ohio. On this farm the parents spent 
the rest of their lives and died, the father pass- 
ing away at the age of seventy-seven, and the 
mother at eighty-nine. They were devoted 
Christians, were members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, and their lives were charac- 
terized by honesty and industry. To know them 
was to honor and esteem them for their many 
steiling qi;alities. In their family were nine 
children, seven sons and two daughters, viz.: 
Mary, the oldest child," who died in 1846; 
Phillip, who died in this township, leaving a 
widow and six children; William, whose name 
heads this sketch; Ann Fry, who died in Iowa, 
leaving six children; Joseph, of Chagrin Falls; 
Thomas, of Orange township; John, who died, 
leaving a widow and seven children; Jabez, of 
Cleveland; and Jacob, of old Virginia. 

William Stoneman was a sturdy lad of fifteen 
years when he landed in America. Previous to 
his coming here he had been educated chiefly 
at home, but afterward he attended school some 
at Cleveland. He remained on the farm with 
his father until 1847, when he located on the 
place he now owns and occupies. This farm 
comprises 250 acres of choice land, all well im- 
proved, among the improvements being two 
good frame houses, three barns, well-kept 
fences, an excellent orchard, etc. In connec- 
tion with his farming, Mr. Stoneman gives con- 
siderable attention to the stock business, keep- 
ing horses, cattle and sheep. 

He was married October 26, 1843, to Nancy 
Bowell, who was born near Warren, Trumbull 
county, Ohio, daughter of Zadoc and Ann 
(Hill) Bowel), early pioneers of Trumbull county. 
Both were natives of Pennsylvania, her father 
born in Fayette county, her mother in Greene 
county. They came from Trumbull to this 
county, and for several years lived in Solon and 
Warrenville. The mother departed this life at 
the age of seventy-eight years, the father at 
ninety-two. They had a family of nine children, 
viz.: Angeline, Thomas, Margaret, Naomi, 
Nancy, Reece, Rachel, Priscella and Elizabeth. 
Mr. and Mrs. Bowell were Baptists. As the 




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years rolled by sons and daughters were born to 
Mr. and Mrs. Stoneraan, ten in all, a record of 
whom is as follows: Martha, wife of Andrew 
Beard, of Laclede, Kansas, has three children ; 
Mary Whitlom, who died, leaving three sons; 
Henry, who died at the age of thirty-seven 
years; Sallie; Charles is married and has two 
children; Anna, wife of W. Sheldon, Pocaraoke, 
Maryland; Augusta, wife of W. Parsons, of 
Warreuville, Ohio; John, of Warren, Kansas, 
is married and has three children; Walter, who 
lives near the old home place; Eleanor, wife of 
Ed Lockemer, of Orange, is married and has 
two children. 

The family are Methodists. 

Politically, Mr. Stoneman is a Eepublican, 
and for twenty years has been a Justice of the 
Peace. He has also held most of the offices in 
the township, — Trustee, Treasurer, Clerk, and 
school offices. He commenced by being Con- 
stable of the township. He was a Whig in 
1840, and one of the first Free Soilers of the 
township, and has taken active part in political 
matters. 



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J^ALTEE W. BOBBINS, one of the 
venerable citizens of Solon, now living 
retired, forms the subject of this arti- 
cle. Mr. Eobbins was born in Rock Hill, Con- 
necticut, November 29, 1817. His father, 
Captain Jason Robbins, a sea captain for thirty 
years, was a native of Connecticut, and was 
twice married. By his first wife he had four 
children, one of whom. Captain Archibald Rob- 
bins, was shipwrecked, and was on the African 
desert for nineteen months before he was able 
to get away. The maiden name of our subject's 
mother was Eleanor Williams. She was the 
second wife of Captain Robbins, and was the 
mother of eight children, two sons and six 
daughters: Honor, Sophia, Jane, Mariah, Eliza, 
Walter W., Jason, Jr., and Corlenia. It was in 
1820 that the Robbins family came to Ohio and 



settled at Solon. That was when this place was 
on the frontier and every thing here was new 
and wild. Both the Captain and his wife lived 
to a good old age, her death occurring when she 
was seventy-seven, and his at the age of ninety. 
He was a member of the Disciple Church and 
in politics was a Republican. 

Walter W. Robbins was a child when his 
parents emigrated to the Western Reserve, and 
at Solon he was reared, his education being re- 
ceived in one of the primitive log schoolhouses. 
After he grew up he purchased the old home- 
stead, subsequently added to it by additional 
purchases, and finally became the owner of 317 
acres, well improved and under a high state of 
cultivation, among the improvements being 
good buildings, fences, etc. In 1883 he sold 
his farm and moved to Solon, where he has since 
been retired from active life. Here he owns a 
handsome residence, and is surrounded with all 
the comforts that one could wish for. The 
country being almost perfectly wild when he 
commenced life here, he has done his share in 
clearing ground, killing wild beasts, etc. One 
time he cut down a tree on which were three 
bears ! 

Mr. Robbins was married when he was twenty- 
five to Miss Sally Ann Reeves, a native of New 
York State and a daughter of William Reeves, 
one of the old settlers of Solon township. They 
became the parents of four children, three of 
whom are living, viz.: Adella, wife of E. C. 
Blackman, of Solon ; Cora, wife of N. C. Bos- 
worth, of Cleveland; and Grace, wife of Mc- 
Clelin Hurd, of Cleveland. The third child, 
Ellen, died at the age of eleven years. Mrs. 
Robbins departed this life October 15, 1888, 
and Mr. Robbins was subsequently married to 
Mrs. Harriette E. Chamberlain, of Twinsburg, 
Ohio. She was born in Addison county, Ver- 
mont, daughter of Ira and Hannah (Cramptou) 
Ward, both natives of the Green Mountain 
State. By her former marriage Mrs. Robbins 
has four children, namely: O. E., W. W., and 
Cora J. Grisvvold, all of Twinsburg, Ohio; and 
Helen Nichols, of Cleveland, Ohio. 



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Politically, Mr. Robbius has long been iden- 
tiiJed with the Kepublican party, and for years 
he ser\-ed as Township Trustee. He is a mem- 
ber of the Disciple Church, and has been a 
worker in the same, in official relations, etc., for 
many years. 



GC. HASKINS, locomotive engineer, was 
born in Middlesex county, Massachusetts, 
in February, 1845, left the Bay State 
alone at the youthful age of fifteen, west-bound, 
and stopped in Owego, New York, where he 
entered the employ of a shoe dealer, becoming 
a salesman and remaining in such service eight 
years. He then made another move westward, 
this time stopping in Springfield, Illinois, 
where he began his railroad career, witli the 
Great Western of Illinois, in the capacity of 
fireman, becoming an engineer after two and a 
half years of service. During much of his ser- 
vice he was engaged in transporting Federal 
troops to the South along his division and re- 
turning with Rebel prisoners for Camp Butler 
and Springfield. In April, I860, he came to 
Cleveland, and for one year was in the employ 
of the Statidard Oil Company, but in the year 
1866 returned to railroading, with the Cleve- 
land & Pittsburg Railroad Company, remaining 
till July, 1870, when he came to the Lake 
Shore ik Michigan Southern Company, and in 
December of the same year was given an 
engine. 

Mr. Haskins' father, John F. Haskins, was a 
stone-cutter by trade, whose ancestors were 
originally French. He married Lucinda Jen- 
nings, of English birth. Their children were: 
C. C; Harriet, now Mrs. Wakefield; Mrs. 
Mary A. Burton, of Shrewsbury, Massachu- 
setts; and John F., of Cleveland. 

C. C. Haskins married, at Owego, New York, 
January 9, 1861, Miss Roweua Sawyer, whose 
father, Nathan Sawyer, was born in New 
Hampshire. He married Huldah Baker anil 
reared five children. Three sous were born in 



the family of Mr. and Mrs. Haskins: George F., 
who died in Springfield, Illinois; Charles Fred, 
with the Standard Oil Company; and George 
Guy, in the employ of the Lake Shore Company. 
Mr. Haskins is a Master Mason, and was for 
nine years Chief of the Collinwood Division of 
the Brotherhood of Locomotive engineers. 



rW. FEY, chief clerk of the local freight 
department of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, 
— Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company 
at Cleveland, was born in this city April 24, 
1844. His father, John F. Fey, established the 
family name in Cleveland. He came here from 
Hessen-Darrastadt, Germany, where he was 
born, and became a citizen of the Forest City in 
1832. Many of his first years here he spent in 
the employ of Ohio railroads, but lastly was en- 
gaged in the coal business. He died in 1882, at 
seventy-three years of age. His wife, whom he 
married in this city, was Miss Louisa Herring, 
born in Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1816, and 
died in Cleveland at the age of sixty-three. Her 
lather, Andrew Herring, became a settler near 
Liverpool, Ohio, in 1831, and was a tiller of the 
soil. 

The first three children of John F. Fey died 
in infancy. The others in order of birth were: 
Louisa; Fred W.; Amelia, wife of C. F. Thom- 
son; Theophilus, an insurance man; and W. E. 
Fey, bookkeeper for A. H. Stone & Company. 

Fred AV. Fey attended the public schools of 
Cleveland until he was seventeen years of age, 
when in response to a desire to become a railroad 
man he sougiit and secured a position with the 
Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati Railroad 
Company as slipper on the receiving desk, and 
later on the city receiving desk. 

His service was interrupted about this time 
by enlistment in the Federal army, being as- 
signed to Company G, Twenty-ninth Ohio Vol- 
unteer Infantry. This company was raised for 
the 100-day service, and was stationed in Fort 



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Lincoln, Washington, District of Columbia, 
until discharged. In the spring of ISBi Mr. 
Fey re-enlisted, for three years, in the One Hun- 
dred and Sixty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 
and this regiment did duty in tlie Shenandoah 
valley, where Mr. Fey was forage master of his 
division, and no doubt studiously set about ar- 
ranging and executing plans for discovering and 
bringing into view much bacon, corn meal and 
flour from blind cellars, hollow trees, and from 
under brush piles in the dense forest. On ar- 
riving at Alexandria, Mr. Fey was appointed Pro- 
vost Marshal's clerk, and so remained until 
mustered out at Columbus in December, 1865. 

He retnrned to Cleveland and resumed his 
duties at his old desk, his place having been 
held open for him. In 1865 he was made as- 
sistant bill clerk, and in 1881 he became chief 
bill clerk. In 1889 he was made rate clerk, 
serving till September, 1893, when he succeeded 
to his present position. 

March 6, 1866, Mr. Fey married Henrietta, 
a daughter of D. G. H. Thomson, of Fremont, 
Ohio. Six daughters are the result of this 
union, viz.: Millie, Anna, Emma, Julia, Flor- 
ence and Ida. The first four are high school 
graduates; Julia is a teacher in the city schools; 
Anna is assistant cashier of Burrows Brothers; 
and Emma is bookkeeper for G. H. Lytle. 

The family are members of the English Lu- 
theran Church. 



'j'r^) OYAL TAYLOE, one of the prominent 
1^^ and highly respected citizens of Solon, 
11 »!i Cuyahoga county, Ohio, was born in 
^ Aurora, Portage county, this State, Oc- 

tober 5, 1820. 

His father. Worthy Taylor, was a native of 
Blandford, Massachusetts, and was a soldier in 
the war of 1812, while Samuel Taylor, our sub- 
ject's grandfatlier, was a Revolutionary soldier. 
The latter was of English and Scotch extraction. 
It was in 1806 that the Taylors came to Ohio 
and settled in Aurora, they being among the 



pioneers of that part of the Western Reserve 
and occupying a leading place among the eaily 
settlers. Colonel Royal Taylor, an uncle of 
our subject, was an officer in the late Civil war. 
Samuel Taylor was a drover and cheese dealer, 
and for many years did an extensive business in 
this line. . His son Worthy was also engaged in 
the cheese business for many years, shipping by 
flatboat to the Ohio river and Southern market. 
The mother of Royal Taylor was before her mar- 
riage Miss Harriet Kent. She was a native of 
Massachusetts, but for many years a resident of 
Geauga Lake. Worthy Taylor and his wile had 
eight children, two sons and six daughters, 
namely: Harriet, wife of L. S. Bull, of Solon; 
Royal; Emerett Burroughs, deceased; Wealthy 
Eggleston, of Aurora; Arabelle, wife of Charles 
Burroughs,of Aurora; Eliza Parker, of Ravenna; 
Homer, of Aurora; and two, a son and daughter, 
who died in childhood. The mother of this 
family died at the age of fifty-two years, while 
the father lived to be ninety, his death occurring 
in 1887. He was a Republican in politics, was 
for thirty years a Justice of the Peace, and was 
a devoted member of the Disciple Church for 
forty years. 

Royal Taylor was reared and educated in his 
native town. In 1843 he came to Solon, set- 
tled on a tract of wooded land, and as the years 
rolled by cleared and improved a fine farm of 
233 acres. For thirty years he was engaged in 
the dairy and stock business. Since then, for 
the past twenty years, he has devoted some time 
and attention to the real-estate business, in 
which he has been very successful. He has a 
comfortable home in Solou, and is surrounded 
by all that goes to make life happy. 

Mr. Taylor has been thrice married — first, in 
1845, at Aurora, Ohio, to Miss Sarah Smith. 
Some time after her deatli he wedded Lucy 
Wallis, a native of New York and a daughter 
of John Wallis. Tiiey had two sons, J. E. and 
G. W. The former is manager for the Har- 
bough Oil Co., of Cleveland, and the latter is 
chief clerk of the Richmond & Danville Rail- 
road Co., at Washington, District of Columbia. 



CUTAHOOA COUNTY. 



The mother of tliese children died in 1890. 
February 14, 1893, Mr. Taylor married Mrs. 
E. G. Morse, of North Solon. She was born in 
Oil City, Pennsylvania, daughter of John W. 
and Lavina (Carroll) Hickman, and, like Mr. 
Taylor, had been tnarried twice before. By her 
first husband, Lemuel S. Clark, she had two 
children, Edith L. Clark and O. S. Clark. 

Mr. Taylor is a Kepnblican, has served as 
Township Trustee, has been delegate to various 
conventions, and has always taken a commend- 
able interest in public affairs. He has been a 
member of the Disciple Church for over forty 
years, and held various offices in the same, and 
liberal in contributing to the same. 



'ILLIAM CHPJSTIE, the pioneer and 
ff veteran general superintendent of the 
¥1 Cleveland Gaslight & Coke Company, 
was born in Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland, 
September 6, 1826. He obtained a passably 
good education for a laboring man's son, learned 
blacksmithing, and at twenty-two years of age 
came to free and progressive America, casting 
his lot at first in New York city. The first 
four years he was employed at the Astor House 
and the Broadway Theater, at both which places 
he was a manipulator of their gas supply. In 
1852 he was induced to go to Auburn, New 
York, and there aided in constructing the city 
gas-works, and was superintendent of the same 
at the time of severing his connection with it 
in 1856. He came to Cleveland that year, in 
company with Thomas Hoadley, and both en- 
tered the employ of the Cleveland Gaslight & 
Coke Company, Mr. Christie being machinery 
foreman. He next did duty as a blacksmith for 
a number of years, and in 1860 was made su- 
perintendent of the works, which position he 
lias ever since held, having in some measure a 
hand in the development of the present im- 
mense 'plant from a very insignificant institu- 
tion. No part remains as a reminder of pio- 
neer days. 



Mr. Christie's father, William Christie, was 
a brewer by occupation. He married Jennet 
Taylor, and they had eight children. A brother 
of our subject, Henry, came to this country in 
1842 and started for California during the gold 
excitement and was lost. A sister, now Mrs. 
Campbell, is still living in Scotland. 

In 1853 Mr. Christie married, in Auburn, 
New York, Miss Ellen Moss, and their children 
number seven, namely: William, superintend- 
ent of the gas-works in Corning, New York; 
Frederick, deceased; Frank, a machinist for the 
Cleveland Gaslight & Coke Company; Louia, 
John and Harry are deceased ; and Charles, su- 
perintendent of the Cleveland Gas Works. 
Mrs. Christie is aged sixty-two years, and at this 
writing is enjoying a tour of the Sandwich 
Islands. She is a lady of extended traveling ex- 
perience, having visited European countries and 
viewed the decaying ruins of the wonders of 
mediaeval and modern times. 



GHAKLES H. CHEISTIE.— If General 
Superintendent William Christie and 
Engineer Hyde are the oldest men in 
point of service now connected with the Cleve- 
land Gaslight & Coke Company, the gentleman 
whose name heads this sketch must be the next, 
as he used to be a constant attendant on the 
works in the latter part of the '60s, when he 
wore "knee pants" and was a source of much 
amusement about the premises. "Charley" is 
not very old yet, being born January 30, 1865; 
was in school periodically until near eighteen 
years of age, when he was hired regularly and 
placed on the pay roll as a pipe-fitter and man of 
general work. At the age of twenty-one he 
was made assistant superintendent of Works 
No. 1, and held the position until 1888, when 
succeeded to the superintendency. In 1891 he 
was transferred to the new works on Wilson 
avenue, and has charge of a force of 125 men. 
Mr. Christie is the sixth in order of birth of 
the children of William Christie, general super- 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



intendent of the Gas "Works. June 16, 1892, 
he married Miss Martha Herold of Akron, this 
State, who spent much of the years 1893-'94 
recuperating her health in the Rocky moun- 
tains, Honolnhi and other points. Mr. Christie 
belongs to the Cleveland Yacht Club. 



EW. CANNELL.— The acquisition of the 
territory of the Connecticut Western 
' Reserve by the State of Ohio and its ap- 
parent adaptability to agriculture and commer- 
cial pursuits led to its rapid settlement and de- 
velopment, beginning with the present century. 
The existence of this vast unsettled domain, so 
promising to the home-seeker and so easy of 
access, became known throughout all Christen- 
dom, wliose nations contributed of their best 
fiber and purest blood to the settlement and de- 
velopment of a great State. 

Among the sturdy sons of toil to seek a home 
in this new country and to cast his lot with the 
sparse settlements in Cuyahoga county, was 
Patrick Cannell, a Manxman, fresh from his 
native isle, and accompanied by his four grown 
children. He possessed but small means, and 
with this he purchased a fifty-acre tract of heavy 
timber land, and although seventy years of age, 
set about hewing out a home with almost as 
much energy and hope as a man of half his 
years. 

He brought with him the doctrine of John 
Wesley, and was a prime mover in the estab- 
lishment of early Methodism in Newburg. He 
was the first Sunday-school superintendent in 
the township, and was, in short, a leader in all 
matters calculated to benefit society and to con- 
tribute to the education of the young. He died 
fifteen years after making his settlement, at the 
age of eighty-five, with the knowledge of hav- 
ing done his whole duty to God and man. The 
lady who became the wife of this venerable pio- 
neer was a Miss Margaret Quayle, and their 
four children were: John, the father of the sub- 



ject of this sketch, born in 1800; Thomas; 
Jane, who married William B. Corlett; and 
Margaret, the wife of William P. Corlett. John 
Cannell married Jane Qniggin, who is still liv- 
ing, at ninety-three, in full possession of all her 
powers, and gladdening the home of her aging 
children. He was twenty-seven years old when 
he gave up the life of a seaman and fisherman 
in Europe and accompanied his father to the 
United States, becoming a permanent settler in 
Newburg. He inhei-ited his father's notions of 
the requirements of good citizenship and was 
consequently scrupulously honest, remarkably 
industrious, sympathetic and charitable. He 
was an active worker and officer in the Method- 
ist Church and one of the founders of the first 
Methodist Church of Newburg. He iiever 
shirked a duty, public or private, and was fre- 
quently called on to fill various township ofiices. 
He was fairly thrifty but never desired to ac- 
cumulate great wealth, and died in comfortable 
circumstances. The later years of his life he 
was an invalid, and his death, in 1869, was an 
irreparable loss to his family, his friends and to 
his community. 

Eleven children were born in the family of 
John and Jane Cannell, viz.: John, who died in 
1842, a mechanic; Thomas E., a shoemaker, 
who died in 1888; his twin brother William 
died in infancy; Jane J., who married S. A. 
June, and died in 1888; Elizabeth, the deceased 
wife of W. H. Kelley: she died in 1877; Emily 
A., who married first James Watson, and sec- 
ondly George June, and died in 1891; Charles, 
in the oil business in Titusville, Pennsylvania; 
Louisa E., who married first Andrew Stone, and 
secondly James Jenkins, and is a resident of 
Cleveland; Henry A., who died in the army in 
1864, an Iowa soldier; and Eli W., whose 
name heads this sketch. 

The last mentioned was born February 6, 
1844. He grew up on the farm and obtained 
an elementary education from such schools as 
were afforded the country youth before the war. 
He became the mainstay at home quite early in 
his 'teens, because of his father's illness, and 



CV7AH0GA COUNTY. 



conducted the operations of the old homestead, 
which he now owns, continuously from then 
till 1885, when he gave it up to devote his at- 
tention to his growing mercantile interests. 

He always puts his best energies into his 
business of whatever character, and in conse- 
quence is an interesting competitor. He built 
up and is conducting the leading business in 
feed, grain, timothy and clover seed, lime and 
plaster, in Newburg, and is an active spirit in 
other enterprises in that city, among them 
being the South Cleveland Banking Company, 
of which he is a director, and the Provident 
Building and Loan Company, of which he is 
vice-president. 

Mr. Cannell married in Newburg, November 
22, 1871, Miss M. E. Corlett, a daughter of 
Daniel Corlett, a history of whose family ap- 
pears in full in the sketch of C. Corlett, on 
other pages of this volume. The children of 
Mr. and Mrs. Cannell are Charles: E., born in 
1872; Eli Scott, born in 1874; and Eva J., 
born in 1879. 

Mr. Cannell is a prominent member of the 
I. O. O. F., of Newburg, having filled all the 
chairs of the local lodge, and served as repre- 
sentative to the State Grand Lodge. 



JAMES E. TERRY, general freight and 
passenger agent of the Cleveland, Lorain 
& Wheeling Railway Company, first en- 
gaged in business in the railroad line at Jasper, 
Michigan, in the spring of 1872, as a local 
freight and ticket agent for the Canada Southern 
Railway Company, and after five years' service 
there he was transferred to Monroe, Michigan, 
in the service of the same company. In 1880 
he resigned to become freight and ticket agent 
at Jackson, Michigan, for the Fort Wayne, 
Jackson & Saginaw Railway Company; in Jan- 
nary, 1883, he went to ^Lirietta, Ohio, in the 
position of freight and ticket agent for the 
Cleveland & Marietta Railway Conijiany, and in 



June, 1883, was made general agent; January, 
1885, assistant general freight agent and later 
assistant general freight and passenger agent of 
same company, with headquarters at Cambridge, 
Ohio. In November, 1886, he accepted the 
position of general agent of the Wheeling & 
Lake Erie Railway at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, 
having charge of the Pittsburg and Mahoning 
valley territory. He remained at this point 
until the opening of the Wheeling & Lake 
Erie Railway into Wheeling and Stenbenville, 
when he was transferred to the latter city, and 
there remained until March 7, 1893, when he 
resigned this position as general agent of the 
Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway to accept the 
position of general freight and passenger agent 
of the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling Railway 
Company, which position he now fills. 

Mr. Terry was born in Erie county, Pennsyl- 
vania, February 13, 1840, brought up on the 
farm and secured such an education as he could 
in the country school. August 11, 1862, he 
enlisted for the cause of the Union and of good 
government, joining Company D, One Hun- 
dred and First Ohio Volunteer Infantry; was 
mustered in at Monroeville and saw service in 
the army of the Cumberland, participating in 
the battle of Perryville, Kentucky, and in the 
Stone River engagement, where he was wounded, 
and while being transferred to Louisville ho:^j)i- 
tal was captured by Mosby's cavalry at Harpeth 
Shoals, Tennessee; was paroled and sent on to 
Louisville, Kentucky, and afterward to Colum- 
bus, Ohio. After being exchanged he was then 
placed on detached service until mustered out 
at the close of the war, having been in service 
two years and eleven months. 

In August, 1865, he located in Fairfield, 
Michigan, and spent the next seven years in 
agricultural pursuits, and this brings us up to 
the time he commenced railroading, as already 
stated. 

This gentleman is a son of Norris Terry, 
who was born in the State of New York and 
was engaged in farming as a life business. He 
married Miss Sally Farrington, daughter of 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



David Farrington, a New York farmer, and 
they had six children, four of whom are living, 
namely: Mrs. Mary T. Cherry, of Minnesota; 
L. L. Terry, of Nashville, Tennessee; George 
K., of Fremont, Ohio; and J. E., the subject 
of this sketch. In the fall of 1863 he moved 
from Ohio to Michigan, and died January 21, 
1880, at the age of seventy-three. 

Mr. Terry was married in Huron county, 
Ohio, September 5, 1861, to Mary T. Maynard, 
a daughter of David T. Maynard, and their 
children are: W. A., commercial agent of the 
"Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway at Pittsburg; 
L. B., general agent of the Northwestern Gas 
Company at Fostoria, Ohio; C. L., stenographer 
in the office of the general freight and passenger 
agent of the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling 
Eailway Company. Mr. Terry has been a mem- 
ber of the Masonic order ever since 1863. 



dl P. GAGER, general agent of the Ameri- 
can Express Company at Cleveland, was 
^ ' born in Warren, Ohio, February 9, 1853, 
a son of L. F. and Harriet (Douglass) Gager, 
natives of Connecticut, who moved to Hartford, 
Trumbull county, Ohio, when their son was 
about four years of age, and after residing there 
until 1861 moved to Salem, this State. The 
father died December 23, 1890, in Conneaut, at 
the age of seventy-four years, and the mother 
in 1893, at the same age. For the last sixteen 
years of her life she was a resident of Cleve- 
land, excepting eighteen months at Conneaut. 
Of their children the following nine are living: 
Mrs. E. H. Eggleston, of White Haven, New 
York; Mrs. E. C. Hagar, residing at Joliet, 
Illinois; Mrs. C. B. Warren, of Cleveland; 
Miss Clara Gager, also of this city; L. F., Jr., 
of Salem, Ohio; J. D., residing at East Orwell, 
Ohio; J. P.; E. H., a resident of Madison; and 
C. A., an optician of Cleveland. 

In 1869 Mr. J. P. Gager, of this sketch, en- 
tered the employ jointly of the Missouri, Kan- 
sas & Texas Railroad and the Wells-Fargo Ex- 



press Companies, following up the advance of 
construction of that railroad through the Indian 
Territory. In 1871 he returned to Salem, 
where he was associated with his father in busi- 
ness a year. Then he was employed by the 
Adams Exjjress Company at Salem for two 
years, and ever since then by the American Ex- 
press Company, tirst at Mansfield, Ohio, as clerk, 
then chief bill-maker in their Cleveland office 
three years, the next two years as route agent 
between Cleveland and Buffalo and between 
Cleveland, Pittsburg and elsewhere, and then 
cashier at Cleveland for six years, and finally 
was promoted to his present position as general 
agent at Cleveland. Since he began for the 
Adams Company he has given his entire time 
to express business, and of course made himself 
quite thorough in the knowledge of the busi- 
ness many years ago, and his long continuance 
therein and many promotions are evidence of 
his reliability. 

He is a member of the Euclid Avenue Coun- 
cil, R. A. M.; of Forest City Tent, K. O. T. M.; 
of Cuyahoga Council of the National Union; 
of the Expressmen's Aid Society; a member of 
Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, and in poli- 
tics he is a Republican. 

December 6, 1874, at Salem, he was married 
to Miss Rose Walker, and they have two chil- 
dren, — Beatrice S. and Rae W. 



TjAMES BELL, a farmer of Orange town- 
K I ship, Cuyahoga county, was born in 
^ Becket, Massachusetts, February 21, 1821, 
a son of John C. and Anna (Stewart) Bell, na- 
tives also of that State. In 1825 the family 
emio-rated to Geauga county, Ohio, but in 
1839 the father sold his farm there and came to 
Chagrin Falls, where he died in May, 1842. 
His wife survived until early in 1870. 

James Bell, one of the youngest of his par- 
ents' eight children, four sons and four daugh- 
ters, came with the family to Chagrin Falls at 
the age of eighteen years. ' After his marriage 



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he resided for a short time in Orange township, 
was then engaged in blacksmitliiiig and farming 
at Troy, Geauga county, and in 1^>55 located on 
his present farm of 100 acres in Orange town- 
ship. 

January 6, 1842, in Portage county, this 
State, Mr. Bell was united in marriage with 
Miss Matilda H. Curtis, who was born in Eu- 
clid township, this county, July 31, 1823, a 
daughter of Kicbard and Clarissa (Dille) Curtis, 
natives respectively of Hartford, Connecticut, 
and Pennsylvania. The parents died in this 
State, the father in Portage county, and the 
mother in Lake county. They had seven chil- 
dren, five sons and two daughters, of whom 
Mrs. Bell was one of the younger members. 
Our subject and wife have also had seven chil- 
dren, namely: Franklin W., who married Evelyn 
Gaylord, and is engaged in business in Cleve- 
land; Kosetta A., wife of H. I. Monningstar, 
also of that city; Milton A., of Cleveland, mar- 
ried Hattie Foster; Ellen M., wife of Sanford 
Eddy; James R., a dentist of Cleveland, mar- 
ried Amelia Andrews; Havilah M., of Chagrin 
Falls, married Mary Rodgers; and George C, 
married Molly Haag, and is engaged in business 
in Cleveland. Mr. Bell has been an active 
worker in the Republican party since its organ- 
ization, and both he and his wife are members 
of the Free-will Baptist Church. 



TTP^RACY W. SCOTT, one of the prominent 

I citizens of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, was born 

II at Chester, Geauga county, Ohio, August 
V 8, 1831. His great-grandfather, David 

Scott, was born and reared in Massachusetts, 
and served as an officer in the Revolutionary 
war, afterward being sent to the Legislature of 
his State. He was a scholar, a man of ability 
and renown, and a prominent member of the 
Masonic order. His death occurred when he 
was ninety-two years of age, at Meadville, Penn 
sylvania, where he is burled. 



His son, John Scott, the grandfather of our 
subject, was born in Massachusetts and came to 
Chester, Ohio, in 1817, as one of the first set- 
tlers of the town. He married Betsey Weller, 
also a native of Massachusetts, and of German 
and Holland Dutch ancestry. John Scott and 
his wife had eight children, viz.: Samantha, 
Ansel, Elijah W., Susan, Lydia, Reuben, Har- 
mony and Mary L. Bouton, of Wheaton, Du 
Page county, Illinois. The grandfather died at 
eighty-two years of age, and the mother August 
14, 1824. 

Ansel Scott was reared and educated at Ches- 
ter, and at twenty-two years of age married, in 
Mentor, Lake county, Ohio, Esther Brace, a 
lady of good family. She was born in Massa- 
chusetts, of Dutch ancestry. Mr. and Mrs. 
Ansel Scott had five children, viz.: Tracy W., 
Milan V., deceased (of this town), P. P., of 
Chester, Ohio; Perry C, deceased; and Noble 
"W., a successful physician of Huntington, In- 
diana. 

Tiie father died at Chagrin Falls, at the age 
of seventy-two years. Politically he was a Re- 
publican, formerly an old-line Whig, and in re- 
ligion a member of the Disciple Church. The 
mother died April 7, 1888, at eighty years of 
age. They were honest Christian people, be- 
loved by all who knew them. 

Tracy W. Scott was reared and educated at 
Chester, and at the age of nineteen was clerk- 
ing in a store, and later engaged in business for 
himself. In 1873, in company with his brother, 
he entered upon the business of banking, and 
dealt extensively in stocks in Chagrin Falls. 
Upon the death of his brother in 1884 he re- 
tired from the banking business, as well as all 
other active pursuits, except the care of his real 
estate and moneyed interests. ' ■ 

Mr. Scott was married October 25, 1866, at 
Chester, Ohio, to Martha Milliard, a woman of 
intelligence and good family, born at Russell, 
this State, and educated at Hiram, Ohio; was a 
daughter of Cyrus and Sally (Serdan) Milliard. 
Her father is living in Chagrin Falls; the mother 
died in 1N72, at Chester. Mr. and Mrs. Scott 



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have two daughters: Loa E., a graduate of 
Hiram in 1892, aud now teaching in Hiram 
College; and Marcia, a student at Hiram Col- 
lege. 

Mr. Scott was formerly a Kepublican, but is 
now a Prohibitionist. He was nominated as a 
candidate for the Legislature on the Prohibition 
ticket in 1893. He is a member of the Dis- 
ciple Church, and of the Golden Gate Lodge 
and Chagrin Falls Chapter of the Masonic 
order. He has been active in the cause of edu- 
cation, of temperance and of religion. 



[( USTIN CHUECH, of Chagrin Falls, 
1\ Ohio, is one of the well-known early 
^ settlers of the township, where he was 
born September 19, 1838, a son of Henry 
and C. (Sanderson) Church. Henry Church, 
Sr., was born March 5, 1805, in Amherst, Mas- 
sachusetts, and reared in that State. His father 
was Joseph Church, also a native of Massachu- 
setts, and the mother was Betsey (Kellogg) 
Church, born in Massachusetts. The Churches 
were represented in the Revolutionary war and 
also in the war of 1812. Henry Church, Sr., 
!riarried Jerusha Bigelow, and they had one 
daughter, Jerusha Pepper, of Massachusetts. 
Henry Church and his family came to Chagrin 
Falls, Ohio, in 1834. Five of the children of 
this family lived to grow up, viz.: Jauie E., of 
Red Lands, California; Henry, of Chagrin Falls; 
Austin and Royal, in business together in their 
native town; and Clara T. Hunt, of Red Lands, 
California. Two are deceased. The father was 
a Republican in politics, and served as Justice 
of the Peace for some time. He followed the 
vocation of a blacksmith. He was a good 
mechanic, an honored and respected citizen of 
Chagrin Falls, and died in November, 1878, at 
seventy-four years of age, and the wife and 
mother August 23, 1878, at sixty-six. 

Austin Church learned the trade of black- 
smithing from his father when he was a boy, 
but is now a general mechanic. In 1864 he 

\ 



enlisted in the One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry and served till the close of 
tiie war. 

He was married at thirty-tive, to Maria Wat 
terman, who was born at Dunkirk, New York, 
a successful and popular teacher. She was a 
daughter of John and Melinda (Randall) Wat- 
terman, of New York. Mr. and Mrs. Church 
have two children, — Kate M. and John A. 

Mr. Church, a Republican in politics, has 
served on the School Board for eight years, and 
is now and has been Trustee of the township 
for seventeen years and Clerk five years. He 
has been a member of the I. O. O. F., Lodge 
No. 290. He is also a member of the G. A. R., 
N. L. Norriff Post, No. 40. Mrs. Church is a 
member of the Methodist Church, and also of 
the Relief Corps, serving as president of the 
latter society. 

The family are honored and respected by all 
who know them. 



JAMES AV. HARPER, one of the promi- 
nent citizens of Solon township, was born 
in Orange township, Ohio, February 22, 
1848, as a son of James and Sarah Harper, both 
of whom were born near Belfast, Ireland. James 
Harper was a well known early settler of Orange 
township. There were eight children in the 
family, towr sons and four daughters; six of the 
family are now living, viz.: Elizabeth Herri- 
man; Hector, of Orange township; Margaret 
Perkins; Robert, of Bedford; William, de- 
ceased; James W.; Sarah Pike, of North So- 
lon ; and Mary Jane, who died at three years of 
age. Their mother died at sixty-four years of 
age, and the father at sixty-tive. The father 
was a stone mason by trade, politically a Repub- 
lican, and a memberof the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. 

James W. was the si-xth child of the family. 
He was reared in Orange township, receiving 
his education from the district and select or 
high schools. He learned the trade of mason 



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under the instructions of his father, and followed 
it for several years. He also learned the car- 
penter's trade, and practiced that for a time. In 
1861 Mr. Harper engaged in the manufacture of 
cheese in Solon township near where he now 
lives. For nine years he made cheese from the 
milk of 400 cows, continuously. He lives now 
on a good farm of seventy acres, well improved 
and furnished with a spacious barn and all other 
appliances necessary for first class farming, 
making a specialty of the dairy business. 

He was married at twenty-three, to Maggie 
Doak, of Cleveland; Mrs. Harper is a daughter 
of Francis and Margaret Doak, both natives of 
northern Ireland, now living in Cleveland. Mr. 
and Mrs. Harper are the parents of five children, 
vix.: Lotta E., Carrie A., Maggie May, Everett 
and Virgil P. 

Mr. Harper is a Democrat, being one of the 
wheel-horses of the party in his township. He 
has been Assessor for five or six years, and is a 
member of the School Board. He belongs to 
the Masonic order, Bedford Lodge, No. 375. 



d JACOB STROHM, Postmaster of Solon, 
Ohio, received his appointment in October, 
1893. He has lived at Solon since 1868. 
He was born at Maytown, Pennsylvania, 1824, 
a son of Michel and Barbara Strohm. The par- 
ents are both natives of Pennsylvania, the 
father of Berks county, and were both of Ger- 
man ancestry. They had nine children, two 
sons and seven daughters, and lived in Penn- 
sylvania until their death. Jacob was reared 
and educated in Pennsylvania. During the war 
he enlisted in the Second Ohio Cavalry; his 
regiment was for some time in active operations 
in Western Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas, and 
after twenty- two months of service he was hon- 
orably discharged. He was in the railroad ser- 
vice for nearly thirty years, first as clerk and 
station agent. He came to Solon in 1868 and 
was in the railroad service here for twenty- 
five years and over. 



Mr. Strohm was married in Summit county, 
Ohio, to Elvira Curtis, a lady of intelligence 
and good family, born at Farmington, Trumbull 
county, Ohio, daughter of Zenis Curtis. They 
have had two children: Mattie, wife of Sam. 
Ferguson, of Sevilleburg, Ohio, and George H., 
of Lima, also in this State. 

Politically Mr. Strohm is a Democrat. He 
is a member of the Masonic order. Golden Gate 
Lodge, also of the Webb Chapter, and of the 
Oriental Commandery. He is a Scottish-rite 
Mason of the thirty- second degree. Mr. Strohm 
is also a member of tiie I. O. O. F., Lodge No. 
190, and of Encampment No. 113, both of Cha- 
grin Falls. 



fQ) OBERT THOMPSON is a well-known 
r^' citizen of Solon, Ohio, where he was 
11 1^ born June 17, 1844, a son of Christopher 
^ and Elizabeth (Forest) Thompson. The 

father was a native of Yorkshire, England, and 
the mother of Durham, England. They left 
England about 1839 and came to the United 
States, spending one year in New York; then 
coming to Solon they settled in the woods in a 
log cabin. Here the parents made their home 
and reared their children, having a family of 
live, namely: John, on the home farm; Robert, 
our subject; Elizabeth Whitlock, of Orange, 
Ohio; Rebecca Birdsall, of Summit county, 
Ohio; and William, of Solon. The mother died 
at sixty-fonr and the father at seventy years of 
age. In politics he was a Democrat. 

Robert was reared on the farm at hard work, 
receiving but a limited education, but he was 
taught honestry and industry. He enlisted in 
the late war, in 1864, as one of the One Hun- 
dred and Fiftieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 
Company H, served 100 days near Washington, 
and was honorably discharged. 

He lived in Solon township nntil 1874, then 
went to Streetsboro, Portage county, Ohio, for 
five years; thence he removed to Geanga 
county, where he remained four years, coming 



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to Solon in 1882, and buying his present home. 
He has 102 acres, well improved, and furnished 
with all that is needful for thrifty, successful 
fanning. lie is also largely interested in dai- 
rying. 

Mr. Thompson was married in 1871 to Cla- 
rissa Hall, and they had one daughter, Artie, 
now the wife of George Pike, of Newbnrg. Mrs. 
Thompson died April 11, 1882, and Mr. Thomp- 
son married for his present wife, in 1884, Miss 
Ida Britton, of Solon, daughter of William 
Britton. There are two daughters by the sec- 
ond marriage, Eda and Helen. One son. For- 
est, died at the age of twenty months. 

Mr. Thompson is a Democrat, a home worker 
ill the party. He has served as Township Trus- 



for five or 



SIX year; 



He is an intelligent, 



public-spirited citizen, taking an interest in ed- 
ucation and the public welfare. 



DGKIESE, of I 
general cont 
been identifie 



the firm of D. & G. Gricse, 
itractors of Cleveland, has 
ified with the building inter- 
ests of this city as an independent builder since 
1884. In ])reparation for his work Mr. Griese 
made himself thoroughly acquainted with the 
details of mason and carpenter work, learning 
both trades, and also informing himself in the 
principles of architecture to the extent of being 
able to supervise the construction of work on 
any plans. 

C. II. Griese, his father, was one of Cleve- 
land's early builders, locating here in 1851 and 
erecting many good buildings still standing in 
the city. He was well equipped for his respon- 
sible work, having studied and mastered his 
trade in Germany. 

Among the first work done by the Griese 
Brothers was the erection of two school build- 
ings in Cleveland. Since then their work has 
extended to all classes of buildings, in and out 
of Cleveland, their reputation extending as far 
west as .Tunetion City, Kansas, where they con- 



structed Fort Riley, a piece of Government 
work. In an easterly direction Mr. Griese's 
work has reached New York city and points 
west to Cleveland. The firm has a reputation 
for promptness and fairness in all their work, 
and receive a fair share of the work of their 
home city. 

Mr. Griese is a member of the Masons' Asso- 
ciation and Builders' Exchange. 



dlAMES POTTER, a well-known citizen of 
' Solon township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, 
— was a son of one of the pioneers of the 
township, Thomas Potter, who was a native of 
Ireland, and married in Ireland. In 1836 he 
settled in Solon township on a farm. His log 
house stood in a little clearing of two or three 
acres, and all about him was a dense wilderness. 
Game was plenty and wild animals numerous 
and often met with, but Thomas Potter and his 
brave and faithful wife were not to be easily 
discouraged by hardships and trials. They 
came from that brave, hardy race, the Scotch- 
Irish, noted for their intelligence, bravery and 
honesty. They had nine children, viz.: Eliza, 
Robert, Jane, Thomas, W. J., Andrew, James 
Henry, and Angeline G., an adopted child. 
Thomas served in the Civil war, and was Quar- 
termaster in the army of General Sherman in 
the " March to the Sea." His wife died at the 
acre of sixty-seven, and he at eighty-one years 
of age. He was a stone mason and farmer, an 
expert mechanic, and helped in the erection of 
some of the best buildings in the city of Cleve- 
land, among which was the Weddell House. 
For years he worked for William Hutchins, 
doing his stone work in the county. Voting 
for Fremont in 1856, he joined the Republican 
party. 

James was reared iu his native place, edu- 
cated in the district schools, and received a 
certificate for teaching at eighteen years of age. 
He settled on his present homestead in 1866, 



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where lie has 100 acres, with a good house and 
spacious bari), and keeps a good dairy, which 
he can do to advantage, the farm being excep- 
tionally well watered. 

Mr. Potter was married at the age of twenty- 
three to Lydia E. Russell, daughter of Ellsworth 
Russell, one of the first settlers of Solon town- 
ship. Mr. and Mrs. Potter are the parents of 
two children, — Nealie E. and Leon E. 

In politics he is a Republican, and a member 
of the I. O. O. F. Lodge, Xo. 290, and of En- 
campment No. 113, of Chagrin Falls; has been 
an Odd Fellow for twenty-two years, and is one 
of the good, substantial citizens of Solon. Mrs. 
Potter is a member of the Disciple Church. 



/^'' M. REIT), superintendent of bridge con- 
I T/ struction for the Lake Shore & Michigan 
^^^ Southern Railway, has been in the em- 
ploy of this corporation since May, 1872. 
A young man of twenty years he began the 
study of bridge construction with J. Park Paul, 
at Elk Creek, Pa., and worked under his direc- 
tion from June, 1852, until April, 1855, when 
he secured a position with Thatcher, Burt A: 
Company, contractors and bridge bnilders at 
Cleveland J he was made superintendent of con- 
struction for this firm, and the first work he did 
was putting in a bridge for the Cleveland, 
Painesville & Ashtabula Railroad Company. 
The superior excellence of his work did not go 
unobserved, and in May, 1872, the Lake Shore 
Company offered him the position of superin- 
tendent of i)ridge construction; he accepted the 
offer wiiich is one of no little responsibility, 
the entire system comprising fifteen hundred 
miles of track. Ilis relationship with the rail- 
road company has been a most harmonius one, 
his ability and integrity being duly recognized 
and appreciated. 

^[r. Ileid is a native of the Empire State, 
born in Ontario county, at Canandaigua, March 
9, 1832. His father, Robert Reid, was born 
January 25, 1794, and died August 3, 1833. 



He married Sarah C. Culbertson, who was born 
in Paterson, New Jersey, November 22, 1799; 
she died in Cleveland, Ohio, August 19, 1878. 
John Reid, the paternal grandfather of G. M. 
Reid, was born near Edinburgh, Scotland, Jan- 
uary 29, 1755. In 1778, accompanied by his 
brother Alexander, he crossed the sea to Amer- 
ica, and soon after landing in this country he 
settled at Canandaigua, New York; his brother 
went to the South where he continued to reside. 
He was a cooper by trade, but devoted much of 
his time to agriculture. He was united in mar- 
riage May 22, 1780 to Irene Parish, a native of 
Scotland, born October 27, 1761. His death 
occurred January 18, 1833; the wife died May 
7, 1824. They were the parents of a family of 
eleven children. The maternal ancestors of our 
subject were of Irish and Scotch descent, tlie 
maternal grandfather, John Culbertson, being a 
native of the North of Ireland. Mr. Rfid is 
an only child; he attended the district school in 
Monroe township, but upon the removal of the 
family to Conneaut in 1841, he entered the 
academy there, completing the course of study 
in 1852. His first experience with the com- 
mercial world was as mate of the schooner Sac- 
ramento, but at the end of three and a half 
years he decided to quit the water. It was then 
that his career as a bridge-builder began with 
J. Park Paul, as previously mentioned in this 
biography. 

Mr. Reid removed to Cleveland, Ohio, in 
1800, and three years later, December 30, he 
was married to Sarah E. Corey, the Rev. Dr. 
Goodrich officiating. Mrs. Reid is the daugh- 
ter of Charles S. and Aldura (Webster) Corey; 
the father was born in the Province of New 
Brunswick, March 31, 1815; the mother was 
born at Ballston Spa, New York, in 1808, and 
died in Cleveland, Ohio, April 17, 1881. They 
reared a family of four children, all of whom 
are living: Charles, of Cleveland; William, of 
Toledo; Ursula, wife of Ezekial Keep, of the 
State of Washington; and Mrs. Reid. Mr. and 
Mrs. Reid are the parents of four children: 
Robert is an engineer in charge of the bridge 




d.^ 



6^^^ t<^ 



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work in one division of the Lake Shore & 
Michigan Southern Kaih-oad; Charles C, an 
electrical engineer of Cleveland; Delia A., wife 
of George A. Richmond, of Pittsburgh; and 
Jessie B. The sons are both graduates of the 
Case School, ^[r. Ileid is a member of Iris 
Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of the Knights of Honor, 
and is also a Forester. He belongs to the Civil 
Engineers' Club of Cleveland, and is treasurer 
of the International Association of Railway 
Superintendents of Bridges and Building. He 
is a worthy member of the Scovil Avenue Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church, and is chairman of the 
finance committee. 



El DWARD LEWIS.— Fifty-two years ago, 
in 1841, a rosy-cheeked young man of 
1 sturdy frame and self-reliant and am- 
bitious spirit set out from historic Malmsbury, 
in Wiltshire, England, to seek his fortune in 
America. His name was Edward Lewis, son of 
a worthy market gardener whose family of 
eleven children typified in a small way the con- 
dition of the United Kingdom — too many 
people to the square acre! Young Lewis felt 
within himself aspirations and powers that 
needed room for development. So, alone but 
confident, he left the classic precincts of the little 
English town whose pavements had more than 
once been vocal with the tread of royalty, and 
whose abbey walls to this day bear the marks of 
Crotnweirs cannon balls, and sought the greater 
freedom and opportunities afforded in the 
United States. After a six weeks' stormy pas- 
sage he landed in New York, but tarried not in 
the metropelis, having determined to seek a lo- 
cation in some younger town inland. By chance 
rather than design he stopped in Cleveland, for 
it was the dead of winter when he arrived, the 
stage lines went no farther and navigation was 
at an end for the season. Having made up his 
mind to remain here, he sought employment, 
and soon found it in the iron ami hardware 
f^tore of W. A. Otis, on Merwin street, where 



the establishment of R. T. Lyon now stands. 
Being a sturdy lad he was paid the munificent 
salary of one dollar a day and " found" himself. 
To-day ho is the owner of a large amount of 
manufacturing property and real estate, a sub- 
stantial proof of what a young man with no 
capital but with industrious hands, an honest 
heart and a clear head can accomplish in this 
country. 

When Mr. Lewis came to Cleveland, this city 
was a town of about 4,000 inhabitants. The 
estimated population in 1838 was 7,000, but 
the depression following the panic of 1837 re- 
duced it nearly one-half. The shipping business 
had suffered a great set-back, the silk-growing 
industry, which was domiciled on the Lake 
Shore, and in the neighborhood of the site now 
occupied by the Outhwaile school, had collapsed, 
and various other interests were in a very debili- 
tated condition for the time being. In 1842, 
as Mr. Lewis remembers, there was a cornfield 
where he now worships in the First Methodist 
Episcopal Church, and political meetings were 
held in a grove where the public lil)rary build- 
ing now stands. The territory east of Erie 
street was generally described as '• Perry's pas- 
tures"; Euclid avenue was an abominably bad 
country road, not nearly as desirable as Wood- 
land avenue, which was improved from conven- 
ient gravel beds. In that year or thereabouts, 
T. P. Handy, the late M. C. Yonnglove, and 
one or two other citizens were suspected of lunacy 
for buying homestead lots of five acres, each at 
$300 an acre, just above Huntington street on 
Euclid avenue, now worth that much per foot 
front. Even the down-town site of the Euclid 
avenue opera house was enclosed with a rail fence 
when Mr. Lewis came to town. He has seen the 
town of 4,000 grow to a mighty city of over 
300,000 inhabitants. 

The sterling qualities of the young man were 
quickly recognized by Dr. Otis, and he was ad- 
vanced to positions of trust. Dr. Otis furnished 
capital for a small rolling mill at Newcastle, 
Pennsylvania, to make the iron and nails sold in 
1 this market, and injhese^enterprises Mr. Lewis 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



acquired valuable knowledge of the iron-making 
business. Wiien the firm of Ford tfc Otis 
(Charles Otis"), afterward the Otis Iron Company, 
was formed, Mr. Lewis took a one third interest 
in it. Though a great undertaking for those 
days, the mills and furnaces of the company 
were small affairs compared with the iron plants 
of later times. They started with two furnaces 
and two hammers, employing about fifteen 
men. A year later two more hammers were put 
in; and in 1859 an 18-inch and an 8-inch mill 
were added to the plant. Eight or nine tons a 
day were considered a big product. But the iron 
business was uncertain and discouraging at that 
time. The mills were entirely idle during 
twenty-one of the forty-eight months that 
Buchanan occupied the President's chair. The 
war and the Morrill tariff put life into it. 

In 1872 Mr. Otis retired from the firm and 
the Lake Erie Iron Company succeeded to the 
business, Mr. W. C. Scotield and Mr. Lewis 
purchasing the interest of Mr. Otis and E. B. 
Thomas. In this great establishment, which 
includes mills, furnaces, forges and one of the 
most extensive bolt and nut works in the conn- 
try, Mr. Lewis is the largest individual stock- 
holder. When in full operation it gives em- 
ployment to nearly 1,000 men. From 1861 to 
1893 it never stopped work e.xcept for necessary 
repairs. It is not turning a wheel now, owing 
to the triumph of "tariff reform " at the elec- 
tions last fall. 

Before the war, Mr. Lewis was one of tlie 
most active conductors of the "underground 
railway" in this city. The fugitive slaves were 
usually shipped across the lake on Canadian 
lumber vessels, and he relates many stirring in- 
cidents of those troublous times in which he 
played a leading part. The slavery question 
entered prominently into church discussions 
until after emancipation, and Mr. Lewis affili- 
ated with the Wesleyan Methodists on that ac- 
count, the Methodist Episcopal Church being 
divided on the issue. In 1872, however, he 
joined the First Methodist Episcopal Church 
and has been one of its main pillars ever since. 



Mr. Lewis was born in 1819, seventy-four years 
ago, but years seem to have little effect upon 
his vigorous frame and none whatever upon his 
capacity for business. Few of the young men 
of this city perform the amount of work that 
he does regularly, or devote as many hours 
daily to business duties. In 1845 he was mar- 
ried to Mrs. Harriet Lowrie, who died two 
years ago. Of the five children born to them 
only one survives, Mrs. C. H. Weed. Mr. 
Lewis lives at 615 Euclid avenue, in a home 
suited to his means but as unostentatiously as 
when he worked on Merwin street for a dollar 
a day. 

Such is the plain but instructive story of the 
life of one of Cleveland's captains of industry, 
who for more than half a century has been an 
active figure in the development of her growth 
and power. Of all the men in business on 
Superior street when he made his first business 
venture only four remain — T. P. Handy, Will- 
iam Bingham, C. C. Carleton and John Corlett; 
while R. T. Lyon alone remains of those who 
were in business below Superior Street Hill. 
During these fifty-two years Mr. Lewis has ac- 
quired a reputation for business foresight and 
ability, for progressive energy and sterling in- 
tegrity, which crown his whitening locks with 
wreaths of honor more enduring and more to be 
desired than the fleeting fame which rewards 
the achievements of public life. And the 
beauty of it all is that he hardly suspects the 
value and example of his life to the community. 



GOULD, a veteran engineer of the Lake 
|\ Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad 
'^ Company, has unquestionably covered 
more miles of different territory than any other 
one man in this country. He entered the rail- 
road service in February, 1866, as fireman on 
the Cleveland, Painesville & Ashtabula Rail- 
road. In a short time he was running an en- 
gine, and in 1868 he went into the Northwest 
and ran an engine on the Chicago &, North- 



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Western, ninniiig out of Winona, Minnesota. 
He helped lay the rails on the Eiver Division of 
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Kailroad 
from LaCrosse to Eed Wing. He ran three 
months on the Union Pacific Railroad between 
Sidney and Cheyenne, Wyoming. He put in 
four months on the Northern Pacific Railroad, 
hauling iron for its construction from Suke 
Center to Erainard, and while engaged on the 
Sault Ste. Marie Eailroad five years ago he 
made a record of 594 miles in sixty-eight 
hours, without being oflp duty, a record unheard 
of before. He also ran on the Pittsbnrg & 
Lake Erie, Minnesota Southern, Michigan Cen- 
tral and Minneapolis & Pacific. He has been 
in all the States and Territories. 

Mr. Gould was born in Ashland county, 
Ohio, January 27, 1850. His father, M. E. 
Gould, yet living, was a farmer all his active 
life. He came into Ohio in 1823, at the age of 
eleven years, and located in Sullivan, Ashland 
county. About 1845 he made a tour of in- 
spection of several of our Western States, — 
Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri and Indi- 
ana, — but fonnd no place so promising as Ohio, 
and returned and improved a home in Ashland 
county. This family of Goulds was originally 
from Vermont, our subject's grandfather, who 
was a Eevolutionary soldier, being born there. 
He came West, as before stated, and is buried 
in Sullivan. M. E. Gould married Miss Char- 
lotte AVilliams, a pioneer of Ohio. There were 
six children born of this union: S. Gould, M. 
E. Gould, Mrs. M. Durham, of Ashland county; 
Mrs. H. A. Parks, of Oberlin, Ohio, and two 
others. 

Mr. S. Gould received a limited education 
from the district schools of Ashland county and 
in 1863 enlisted in the Second Ohio Cavalry, 
being mustered in at Wooster, this State. His 
command was ordered into the Southwest, to 
Newtonia, Missouri, and during the campaign 
that followed he participated in twenty-six dif- 
ferent battles, some of them the noted ones. 
A battery called the Twenty-fifth Ohio was 
made up from the Second Ohio at Fort Scott, 



Kansas, and Mr. Gould was attached to that for 
the remainder of his service. He was mus- 
tered out at Little Eock, Arkansas, December 
10, 1865, and arrived at home January 1, 1866, 
this being his first visit home since his clandes- 
tine departure for enlistment. By request of 
his mother, and on account of his extreme 
youth. President Lincoln sent Mr. Gould his 
discharge, bnt he refused to accept it or go 
home till all weut. 

May 25, 1875, Mr. Gould married, in Ashta- 
bula, Ohio, Elizabeth, a daughter of John Cox, 
of that county, and they had one child, Gaylord 
Gould, now aged thirteen years. 

Mr. Gould is a Master Mason, an Odd Fellow 
and a member of tlie Entrineers' Brotherhood. 



^ILLIAM AETHUE BEAFND, 

bnilder and maker of carriages, wagons 
and vehicles of all kinds at Oliagrin 
Falls, Ohio, was born in Devonshire, England, 
April 3, 1830. His father was William Braund, 
a native of Devonshire, and the son of William 
Braund, Sr. (anative of Scotland) and Elizabeth 
(Ayers) Brannd, born in England. The paternal 
grandfather of our subject was a carpenter by 
trade, and taught this trade to his son, William, 
who married Elizabeth Southcomb, a native of 
Devonshire. William Braund, Jr., lived to be 
eighty-nine years of age and died in the field at 
work, in Devonshire, England. His wife died 
at sixty years of age. They reared four children : 
William Arthur, Theresa, Samuel and Anne, 
deceased. The parents were members of the 
Church of England. 

In his fourteenth year William Arthur was 
apprenticed to learn the trade of blacksmith, 
and served seven years, and all he received the 
first five years was his board, and the last two, 
eighteen pence per week. He became an expert 
mechanic and worked as a journeyman for two 
years. He then sailed for America. He came 
to Chagrin Falls in 1852 and found work with 
Charles Chase, for one month, then rented a 
forge in the shop and went to work shoeing 



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horses. He was an expert slioer, and succeeded 
so well that in a short time lie bouglit the shop 
of Mr. Chase. After continuing iu this business 
two years, he sold out and worked in an ax 
factory for some time, again buying the shop, 
after a time, wiiicii he finally sold and went 
into the hardware business. This was sold out 
in about fifteen months, and the shop was 
bought wliere he is now doing business with 
iiis sons. It is one of the pioneer shops of the 
town. Tlie sons, like tiieir fatlier, are expert 
mechanics, and they have a large trade, and do 
a good business. 

Mr. Brannd was married in Chagrin Falls, 
in 1852, to Fanny Whitlock, daughter of 
Richard and Sarah (Stoneman) Whitlock, both 
of whom are deceased. By this marriage he 
had seven children, three of whom are living, 
viz.: Arthur, born February 18, 1859, married 
Alice Willson, February 28, 1886: she was a 
daughter of Charles Willson: they have three 
children — Linda, Viola and Lyle; Rhoda, wife 
of Oush Barber of Chester, Ohio; they had one 
son, Arthur; Charley, of the firm, single. The 
mother died April 14, 1885. Mn. Braund was 
again married, in 1886, to Mrs. May Willson, 
nee Hurn, widow of Charles Willson, and a 
native of England; and they have one child, 
Frank. Mr. Braund is a Democrat in politics, 
and a Baptist in religious belief. lie is a 
member of the I. <). O. F., Lodge No. 290. He 
is a good business man, and a good citizen, 
honored and respected by all. 



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|1LLIAM IIUTCHINGS is one of the 
jirominent citizens of Chagrin Falls, 
Ohio. Like many others of the 
successful citizens of Cuyahoga county, he is a 
native of England, born in Devonshire in 
November, 1816, a son of John and Elizabetii 
(Stoneman) Hutchings, botli natives of Devon- 
shire, where they spent their lives. 

In England Mr. Hutchings learned the trade 
of stone mason, lie was married at the age of 
twenty-two to Mary Down, born in Devunsliire, 



where she was reared. In 1845 Mr. Hutchings 
sailed from Plymouth, England, for Quebec. 
He was six weeks on the sea and two weeks 
more on the river and ship canal. From Quebec 
he went to Buffalo, and thence to Cleveland, 
and from Cle%'elanil to Orange township, where 
he had an uncle, of the name of John Stoneman. 
In a few days he came to Chagrin Falls and 
obtained work of Dr. J. A. Vincent, at $10 per 
month. The next season he dug wells and 
cellars, and the next worked on bridges. His 
work was done in so substantial a manner and 
gave such good satisfaction that it increased 
upon his hands. He took large conti'acts from 
the county commissioners for many years and 
built hundreds of bridges for the county. He 
also built many schoolhyuses, churches and 
business blocks in Chagrin Falls, Newburg and 
other places. Most of the brick houses in 
Chagrin Falls were built by him, and he 
conducted a large brick-yard and carried on an 
extensive business in brick. He helped many 
of his countrymen to emigrate to America, 
found work for them here, and for years he 
employed a large force of men. He was one of 
the most active in bringing the railroad to 
Chagrin Falls, and to him is due much credit 
for his zealous work and pecuniary aid in this 
enterprise. He has been in the hardware busi- 
ness for years, and the firm of Stoneman & 
Hutchings is one of the most solid in the town. 
They have a brick store 30x100 feet. Mr. 
Hutchings is largely interested in real estate 
both in his own town and other townships. 
Besides the building in which is carried on the 
l)usiness of his firm, he owns three other valu- 
able business houses in the town, two of which 
are owned by Stoneman & Hutchings, and four 
good dwellings. The Dr. Vincent Homestead, 
a fine house with grounds of fifty acres, where 
he first obtained work forty-eight years ago, has 
come into his possession. He owns 250 acres in 
Bainliridge and sinaller tracts in towns in the 
vicinity of Chagrin Falls. 

Mrs. Hutchings died January 4, 1893, aged 
fifty-l'our years. She was an active and consist- 



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ent Christian, a worker in the Congregational 
Chiircli, of wliich she was a member. Mr. 
Hutchings was again married January 4, 1894, 
to Mrs. Mary Hardwell, a native of Devonshire, 
England, but who was a resident of Toronto for 
about 40 years; her maiden name was Unkin. 
She is a member of the Baptist Church. Mr. 
Hutcliings is a member of the Congregational 
ciiurch, and contributes liberally to its sup- 
port. He was most liberal in the erection of 
the churcli building. He serves as a Trustee ot 
the church and is most liberal in the cause of 
education, of religion and of charity. 

Mr. Hutchings is well preserved for a man of 
seventy-seven, strong in physique, intelligent, 
frank and cordial with all. He is honored and 
respected by all who know him. 



EORGE F. MILLER is general agent for 
the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Com- 
pany of San Francisco, California, with 
an office at Cleveland. In this position 
he has charge of the States of Ohio, Virginia 
and West Virginia, and has held the same 
charge since 1891, succeeding in that year 
Jolin R. Calvey, who opened this field in the 
interest of said insurance company, which is 
comparatively in the beginning of the intro- 
duction of its business in this field. In fact, 
the company has been in operation only since 
1884. In 1885 Mr. Miller became a solicitor 
under Mr. Calvey, and for meritorious services 
Mr. Miller was placed in his present position as 
general agent. When he took the management 
the total collections of this company in this field 
amounted to about $23,000, which sum he has 
raised to upward of 175,000, with his business 
increasing each year. The company which lie 
represents is a solid and safe institution, and its 
management is equally good, the directors being 
liable for the debts of the corporation. 

Mr. Miller is a native of Canton, Ohio, born 
July 20, 1857, a son of Joseph H. and Catharine 
E. (Eckert) Miller. His father died in 1870, 
while the mother is still living. 



Mr. Miller was reared in Canton, where he 
made his home until he was twelve years of age, 
at which age he became self-supporting and was 
on his own resources. He accepted employment 
with the C. Aultman Company, of Canton, in 
whose shops he learned the trade of machinist, 
and after learning his trade he worked at the 
same until he engaged in the insurance business. 

Mr. Miller is a self-made man in respect both 
to mental discipline and financial success. From 
an early age he has improved every opportunity 
for doing well, and his success in life has been 
due to energy, pluck and determination, as well 
as to close application of his time and attention 
to whatsoever business engages him. By wide 
business experience, together with the aid of 
books, newspapers and social relations, he has 
become a well-informed man upon subjects of 
general interest. Fraternally he is a member 
of the order of the Knights of Pythias, of 
American Mechanics, the Maccabees, and other 
Masonic beneficiary orders. 

He was married in 1880, in the city of Can- 
ton, to Miss Saidie E. Baldwin, daughter of 
Judge Baldwin, of that city. Mr. and Mrs. 
Miller have one child, a son, Faber Baldwin 
Miller, aged eleven years. They are members 
of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of 
Canton. Politically, Mr. Miller is an adherent 
of the llepublican party. 



EORGE SC(^TT, manager of the retail 
store of William Taylor, Son & Co., for 
the past five years, first came to Cleve- 
land in 1882, entering the employ of 
Taylor & Kilpatrick, in the dress-goods depart- 
ment of their store, and has continued at that 
place, with all the changes of management, etc., 
till the present time. Being a thorough busi- 
ness man, he has well earned the position wliicii 
he occupies, and doubtless more responsible 
places await him. 

He is a native of Cupar, Fifeshire, Scotland, 
born in April, 1803, a son of Alexander and 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



Jessie (Harley) Scott, and was reared and edu- 
cated iu his native country. Just before be 
was thirteen years of age he entered a mercan- 
tile establishment in Markinch, Fifesliire, where 
lie served an apprenticeship of five years. At 
tlie a<;e of eighteen he emigrated to America, 
and for the first year was employed in the store 
of Adam Meldrum tt Anderson at Buffalo, and 
then came to ('leveland. lie has greatly dis- 
tinguished himself in business for a man so 
young as he. He now has charge of 150 clerks 
and four floors of the building. 

As to religion, he is a member of the Presby- 
terian Church and of the Young Men's Chris- 
tian Association. 

He was married April 80, 1889, to Miss Mar- 
garet E. Gillies, of New York, and they have 
one child, Alexander G. 



JOSEPH STONEMAN, of the firm of 
Stoneman & Hutchings, hardware dealers 
of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, was born at Dev- 
onshire, England, December 11, 1825, a son of 
John and Anne (Newcomb) Stoneman, both na- 
tives of Devonshire. The family came to 
Cuyahoga county and settled in Orauge town- 
ship, when our subject was a boy of eleven years. 
They were among tlie early settlers of the town- 
ship. Here the father lived, engaged in farm- 
ing, until his death, July 21, 1S68, at seventy- 
eight years of age. The mother lived to be 
eighty-nine years of age, dying April 2, 1885. 
They reared a family of nine children, seven 
sons and two daughters, viz.: Mary, Anne, and 
Philip, all deceased; AVilliam,of Orange towii- 
sliip; Joseph, subject of this notice; Thomas, 
of Orange township; John, who died on the 
old farm; J. S., of Cleveland; and Jacob, of 
James lliver, Virginia. The father cultivated 
a good farm of 125 acres. He was an indus- 
trious, honest citizen, and both he and his wife 
were resjiected and honored by all who knew 
tliem. Their cliildrpu grew up to be successful 
men and good women, for they were reared to 



follow in the footsteps of the parents. The 
father was a believer in religion, having been 
brought up as a Methodist. In politics he was 
an old-line "V\liig and later a Pepublican. 

Joseph Stoneman grew up on the old farm 
and was early taught the rudiments of industry 
and honesty, a sure foundation of future suc- 
cess. His education was received in the early 
public schools of the township. He was mar- 
ried at twenty-eight, at Kussell, Geauga coun- 
ty, Ohio, to Grace Whitloek, of Russell, daugh- 
ter of English parents. For some twelve years 
after his marriage Mr. Stoneman was engaged 
iu farming. He then sold his farming interest 
and engaged in business in Chagrin Falls in 
1865, becoming a dealier in shelf and heavy 
hardware, carriage trimmings, paints, oils, etc. 
By his industry, honesty and good business 
ability, he has achieved success in his business 
and has accumulated a good property. 

Mr. and Mrs. Stonemen have a family of nine 
children, viz.: Iluldah J.; Sophia, wife of A. 
H.Williams, of Chagrin Falls; Olive A.; Josie, 
wife of G. A. McAlpine, of Eichmond, Vir- 
ginia; John W.; Richard W.; Irvin, G.;Sada, 
at home; and Grace, also at home. 

Mr. Stoneman is an attendant of the Congre- 
gational C'hurch, and is one of the solid men of 
the town, honored and respected by all who know 



JAMES H. SHUTE, one of the substantial 
men of Chagrin Falls, was born at Buck- 
land Brewer, near Bideford, in Devon- 
shire, England, in 1817, a son of Richard and 
Grace (Dunn) Shute, also natives of Buckland 
Brewer. The father died at sea, on the way to 
this country. The mother came to her son 
Williams in Orange, and here resided till her 
heath. There were in the family eight chil- 
dren, four sons and four daughters. 

James was reared and educated in England, 
at fourteen was a])prenticed to learn the trade 
of shoemakirii;-, and in a short time became a 



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goot] workman, and engaged in business for 
himself. Later he had three apprentices at work 
for him and two journeymen. He did a good, 
profitable business for several years, but on ac- 
count of poor health he sold out Iiis business 
and emigrated to this country, settling in Cleve- 
land for a time, and then went to work for a 
Mr. Wall, then engaged in business at Orange 
and Warrensville, and finally came to Chagrin 
Falls, and purchased a farm of about 130 acres. 
lie bought some lots here, many years ago, and 
improved them. He has a large interest in the 
real estate of his town, brick blocks for busi- 
ness and residence purposes, and other property, 
besides his own line residence. 

Mr. Shnte was married, in England, to Mary 
Honeywell, also a native of that country. Eight 
children have been born in this family, four of 
whom are now living, viz.: Lucy, wife of Mile 
Hathaway, Fanny, the wife of Mr. Ellsworthy; 
Clara, wife of Thomas Ilos3, of Cleveland; and 
Albert, a successful stock and business man of 
Topeka, Kansas: the last mentioned has six 
children. Mrs. Shute died about 1877. She 
was a good Christian w-ife and mother, a mem- 
ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. 
Sliute was again married, in 1879, to Elizabeth 
Henderson, and by this union there is one child, 
Arthur, a boy of fourteen years. 

Mr. Shute was for years a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, and is a believer 
in the teachings of the Bible. In politics he is 
a Republican: is a self-made man, successful in 
his business and a good citizen. 



n 



VV/Tf ^- i'ANDER is a representative of a 
family which came to Cuyahoga county 
at a very early period in its settlement. 
His parents were William and Eliza 
Ann (Litch) Lander. His father was born in 
Onondaga county, New York, at the town of 
Marcellus, and to commemorate the place of 
his birth he gave to his sou and subject of this 



sketch the same euphonious name, Marcellus. 
William Lander was born in the year 1815 and 
died in Cuyahoga county in 1891. He was a 
son of William Lander, a native of Salem, 
Massachusetts, whence he emigrated to New 
York and thence to Ohio. In 1832 he settled 
in Orange township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, 
becoming one of the very first to settle in that 
township, where he afterward lived and died. 
He was of German extraction. The mother of 
M. A. Lander was born in Orange township 
and there spent her whole life, dying in 1887, 
at the age of sixty-nine years. She was a daugh- 
ter of Caleb and Mercy Ann (Dean) Litch, who 
were natives of Connecticut, whence they came 
to Ohio in 1816, settling in Orange township, 
being, perhaps, among the first half-dozen fami- 
lies to settle there. They lived there many 
years, and many happy and useful years were 
allotted to them, being called away in death 
after reaching respected old age. They had 
twelve children, — eleven daughters and one son, 
of whom Eliza Ann was the youngest. She 
bore her husband five children, of whom the 
subject of this sketch is the oldest, and to whose 
own career we offer no apology for turning, for 
of M. A. Lander it may justly be said that he 
is a representative and esteemed citizen. 

He was brought up on a farm and given only 
a common-school education. He was born on 
the old homestead of his father in Orange 
township, on the 27th of December, 1842, and 
he was therefore in his nineteenth year when 
the Civil war came on. October 11, 1861, Mr. 
Lander enlisted for the war as a private in the 
Ninth Independent Battery, Ohio Light Artil- 
lery. He remained in the army service until 
the close of the war; rose to the rank of Quarter- 
master Sergeant, and as such was mustered out 
of the service July 25, 1865, at Camp Cleve- 
land. 

Mr. M. A. Lander is a member of Forest 
City Post, G. A. R., and the Cuyahoga County 
Soldiers' and Sailors' Union ; also of the Masonic 
order, being a Knight Templar and Scottish rite 
Mason. He is Past Master of Golden Gate 



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Lodge at C'liagriii Falls, Ohio; liuluiigs to Cleve- 
land Council, No. 20, National Union, and to 
the Tippecanoe Republican Club. 

Upon tiie close of the war, Mr. Lander, bis 
father and uncle associated themselves together 
and built wliat was then the largest ciieese and 
batter factory of the county. Later Mr. Lan- 
der became sole proprietor of the factory, which 
he operated for about fourteen years, when, 
selling the factory, he removed to Cleveland, in 
the fall of 1882, and since that time has served 
as a deputy in the County Treasurei"'s office. In 
politics he lias always been a stanch Re])nblican. 

In 1875 Mr. Lander and Miss Eva V. Al)ell 
were united in marriage, and they have three 
children, namely: George W., Mary Edith and 
Alice Marilla. 



DM. ALVOPtl), the Coll in wood yard- 
I master of the Lake Shore & Michigan 
Southern Railroad Company, is an Ohioan 

by birth, being born in Lake county, April 15, 
1844. 

He left the farm at nineteen to begin work 
for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Rail- 
road Company, then the Cleveland, Painesville & 
Ashtabula Railroad Company. It was Sep- 
tember 15th that he was made watchman, and in 
addition did duty as number taker till May, 
1864, when he quit the road to go into the 
army. He enlisted in Company C, One Hun- 
dred and Fiftieth Regiment, Captain Lew De 
Forest, Colonel Ilayward, and was stationed at 
Washington, District of Columbia, in Fort 
Bunker Hill, until discharged in Sej)tember, 
1864, being a three-months man. 

He decided to go West and secure for him- 
self a home where land was cheap, and accord- 
ingly went to Hardin county, Iowa, where he 
purchased a farm, and returning to Ohio took 
the family out to the new home. The new 
country was sickly, malaria prevailing, and Mr. 
Alvord was one of its victims for several months; 
so he retiinied Eu-st and renewed his relations 



with the Lake Shore A: Micdiigan Southern Rail- 
road Company in his old position, October 1, 
1866. He was promoted in line, reaching the 
position of yard master in November, 1875, 
where he has since been a faithful and industri- 
ous servant. 

I). J. Alvord, his father, was brought to Lake 
county, Ohio, from Seneca county, New York, 
by Obadiah Alvord, his father, who died in Lake 
county. For his wife lie married Mary Ann 
Turner, who was born in New York, and is now 
living, at the age of seventy-two. Their chil- 
dren are: Jane S., wife of C. J. Karner; D. M., 
whose name heads this sketch; Wealthy, who 
married A. Gray; and Hattie, wife of George 
Fritz. D. J. Alvord was for many years a travel- 
ing salesman for Myers & Uhl, of Cleveland, but 
is now a resident of Hardin county, Iowa, aged 
seventy-six years. 

D. M. Alvord married in Cleveland, No- 
vember 16, 1873, Sarah M., daughter of Donvin 
Wilcox, of Geneva, Ashtabula county, Ohio. 
Their children are: Georgie, David and Flor- 
ence. 

Mr. Alvord is a member of Thatcher Lodge, 
No. 439, A. F. & A. M., of Nottingham; also- 
of Division 20, of O. R. C, and was its first 
Secretary and Treasurer. He is also a member 
of the order of Tontin. 



SL. McCUTCHIN, an efficient conductor 
\ for the Valley Railroad Company, was 
-_ born in Indiana county, Pennsylvania, 
October 29, 1860, educated in the common 
branches in ungraded schools, and in choosing 
a business for life took up photography. When 
able to do efficient work he established himself 
at Scottdale, Pennsylvania. An afi'ection of the 
lungs, however, at length compelled him to 
abandon this art, and he engaged in railroading, 
first for the Baltimore & Ohio Company, as 
brakeman on the Connellsville division. In 
less than a year he was promoted to the position 
of conductor. In 1S85 be went to the P 



ittsbur 



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& Western Railroad Company and ran out of 
Allegheny City for five years, — two years as a 
passenger conductor. In January, 1890, another 
change in business was made: this time he en- 
tered the grocery trade in Pittsburg. Soon, 
however, seeing that his experience had defin- 
itely taught him that a position on a railroad 
line was better for him, he returned to that, in 
May, 1890. The next year he returned to farm- 
ing, a business he had learned in his youth from 
his father; but in March, 1892, he returned again 
to tile railroad, taking the position named at the 
head of this sketch, and which he still holds, 
giving entire satisfaction. He is a member of 
the Order of Kaihvay Conductors. 

Of his paternal ancestors tlie most i-emote 
who is known was his grandfather, William 
McCutchin, who was born in the Keystone State 
in 1802, and died in 1891. By occupation he 
was a surveyor, aiid it is presumed that he did 
much work in establishing pioneer corners in 
his vicinity, in Westmoreland and neigliboring 
counties, in that State. He married a Miss 
Irwin, and they had one daughter and two sons, 
namely: Margaret, who married Samuel Boll- 
man, and had three children: Samuel, the fatlier 
of S. L. (subject of this sketch); and Wesley. 
Samuel was taught surveying by his father, and 
was engaged in that business and in general 
civil engineering for many years. He was born 
March 26, 1828, and died April 29, 1892. Dur- 
ing the last war he was a member of Company 
B of the Eleventh Pennsylvania Reserve Corps, 
Army of the Potomac, enlisting June 1, 1861. 
He had many rough experiences and in many 
campaigns, and was mustered out of service in 
October, 1863. For his wife he married Lovina 
J. McConnell, who was born in Westmoreland 
county, and is still living, at the age of seventy- 
one years. She was a daughter of Daniel Mc- 
Connell, of Scotch ancestry, who married Hannah 
McBride: their children were ten in number, of 
whom six are living. Samuel McCutchin's 
cliildren are: Margaret, the wife of Harrison 
Mansfield, of Latrobe, Pennsylvania: Lizzie, 
who married Daniel Thompson, of Gentryville, 



Indiana; Mattie, now Mrs. Thomas R. McKce, 
of Indiana county, Pennsylvania; William I., 
of Bnrlingame, Kansas; S. L., whose name 
introduces this sketch; Letitia, deceased; and 
Cordelia J. Ernest is deceased. 

Mr. McCutchin, of this sketch, was married 
in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, to Martha 
A. Dner, a daughter of David Duer, of West- 
moreland county, same State, and of an ancient 
family of Pennsylvania. By occupation he was 
a sawyer. He married Rachel McMunn, and 
had seven children, namely: Anna M., wife of 
James Hamilton; Margaret, now Mrs. William 
Green; Mrs. McCutchin was the next in order 
of birth ; Lizzie, who became the wife of Joseph 
Trout; Melton A.; Zora; and William A., de- 
ceased. All of these excepting Mrs. McCutchin 
are residents of Allegheny and Westmoreland 
counties, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Mc- 
Cutchin have only one child, Zora, an adopted 
daughter, now aged eight years. 



A. SHEFFIELD, proprietor of marble 
and granite works, at Chagrin Falls, 
ii Ohio, established himself here in the 
trade in 1876. The best of granite and 
uiarble is carried in stock and the best of work 
is turned out of the shop. The proprietor is a 
practical workman and has had a business expe- 
rience of twenty-five years in the marble 
business. 

II. A. Sheffield was born in Winnebago 
county, Wisconsin, May 2, 1850. Ilis parents 
were Linus and Polly (Manuel) Sheffield. Linus 
Sheffield was born in Chester, Geauga county, 
Ohio. His father settled in Chester in 1815. 
Linus and Polly Sheffield had two children, — - 
A. A., of Cleveland, and II. A., subject of this 
notice. The latter was reared and educated in 
Chester, Ohio, and first engaged in his trade at 
Chicago, Illinois, where he remained for some 
time. In 1876 he located at Chagrin Falls, 
where he has since done a trood business. 



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Mr. Sheffield was married in 1S73, at Bar- 
rington, Cook county, Illinois, near Chicago, to 
Miss Florence Blair, daughter of C. T. Blair, 
wlio is at present residing in Chagrin Falls. 
Mr. and Mrs. Sheffield have two children, — 
Guy L. and Mand A'. 

Our subject is a Prohibitionist. He has been 
a strong temperance man for years, and is a 
member of the I. O. G. T., serving as an officer 
in his lodge. He is a member of the Grand 
J.odge, in which he has held the office of Grand 
Councilor. He has been chosen to represent 
tlie lodge of this town, the Cascade Lodge, at 
State conventions. He is also a member of the 
Knights of Pythias, and of the I. O. O. F., 
Golden Gate Lodge, No. 252, and of Chagrin 
Falls Chapter, No. 113. Mr. Siieffield is much 
interested in music, having spent considerable 
time as an instructor in vocal music, and a 
leader of choirs, in which work he has been 
successful. He has also been active as a mem- 
ber of tlie band of Chagrin Falls. He is one 
of the well known and popular men of the town. 



J 



jOHN G. POOLE, local freight agent of 
the Cleveland, Canton & Southern Rail- 
road Company, reported for his first rail- 
road service in October, 1871, only a few weeks 
after liis arrival from England, the place of his 
birth. He entered the employ of the Lake 
Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company 
as warehouse-man at Cleveland, was promoted 
after a brief service to the position of caller and 
later to that of city collector, being the first to 
occupy that position with the Lake Shore Com- 
pany. He next became a clerk in the oil shed, 
succeeding next to a clerkship in the freight 
office, tracing up lost freight, was promoted then 
to be freight adjuster for the Lake Shore & 
Michigan Southern and finally to the cashier's 
office as prepaid cashier assistant to A. G. 
Krabill, concluding in this capacity eighteen 
years of service with the Lake Shore & Alichigan 



Southern Company, and coming to tlie Cleve- 
land, Canton & Southern Railroad as local 
freight agent in August, 1889. 

Mr. Poole was born in Somersetshire, Eng- 
land, August 22, 1849. He is a son of 
Joseph Poole, a well-to-do farmer, who married 
Sarah Nicholas and reared seven children, viz.: 
Eliza, in Australia; Joel and Charles, in Eng- 
land; John G., in America; Fannie, in Eng- 
land; Edward, in South America; and Margaret, 
in England. 

John G. Poole received a liberal education 
from village and private schools and remained 
on the farm with his father till he was eighteen 
years old, when he spent two years with Hewitt 
& Company in London. He left there expect- 
ing to go to Australia, but on spending a few 
months at home before starting a friend in- 
duced him to come to America. He landed in 
Cleveland in September and began work for the 
Lake Shore & Michigan Soutliern Company the 
next month. 

Mr. Poole was married in Cleveland, by Rev. 
Brown, rector of the Trinity Churcli, to Eliza- 
beth G., a daughter of John Aplin, of the old 
firm of Gorham & Aplin. Their only child is 
Gertrude Irene. 

j\Ir. Poole was Secretary of Riverside Lodge, 
Royal Arcanum, two years, and First Guard of 
Cleveland Tent, K. O. T. M., of which he was 
Record Keeper fo\ir years; a member of Ells- 
worth Lodge, No. 505, F. & A. M., and of tlie 
Cleveland Athletic Club. 



USTAVUS A. HYDE, the veteran civil 
engineer of the Cleveland Gaslight i^' 
[I Coke Company, was born at Framing- 
ham, Massachusetts. January 15, 1826, 
and after obtaining a moderate education, se- 
cured a position with the Boston Water AVorks 
in the engineering department, and remained 
there from 1845 to 1849, while constructing the 
acijueduct from Cochituate to Boston, thereby 



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obtaining much knowledge of the great indus- 
trial art, civil engineering; and this caused him 
to decide to continue in that art as a calling for 
life. 

On leaving the Boston Water Works he en- 
gaged in land surveying and made a survey and 
map of his native town. Next he came West, to 
"grow up with the country," arriving at Cleve- 
land in April, 1850. He first was connected 
with the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad, having 
charge of the pile-driving along the lake front. 
In November of the same year he entered the 
civil engineer department of the Toledo, Norwalk 
& Cleveland Kailroad Company, acting as transit 
man, and during the construction of that portion 
of the road was made resident engineer, stationed 
at Fremont and Norwalk, Ohio. He remained 
in this capacity and in charge of the bridge con- 
struction at Toledo until January 1, 1855. 

At this time he returned to Cleveland for the 
purpose of obtaining the position of City Civil 
Engineer. At the spring election of that year 
Mr. Hyde's name was before the voters for that 
position. The ticket was of the new political 
faith. Republican, and was successful, and Mr. 
Hyde became City Civil Engineer. He was in 
charge of the department for two years, and the 
only public improvements worthy of mention 
that were made during this term were the pav- 
ing of East River street, the building of the 
Main street bridge, and the improvement of the 
public square by fencing and the building of the 
fountain structure. He concluded his term of 
service for tlie city in 1857, and was employed 
thereafter on special work, making plans and es- 
timates for a proposed sewer from Erownell and 
Garden streets to the lake, and also made plans 
for and laid out the Fremont (Ohio) cemetery. 

February 1, 1859, he entered the employ of 
the Cleveland Gaslight & Coke Company as en- 
gineer and superintendent of manufacture and 



distribution of 



gas. 



The 



ition of superin 



tendent he held for the iirst ten years, but the 
position of engineer he has held to the present 
time. lie planned and supervised the rebuild- 
ing of Works No. 1 on Fi-ont street, and planned 



and supervised the building of Works No. 2 
near the foot of Wilson avenue. Besides his 
work on the Cleveland plants he has designed 
and made plans for improvements on the gas- 
works at Sandusky, Fremont, Akron, Warren, 
Oberlin, State Asylum for the Insane at Cleve- 
land, and the Columbus Asylum, — all in Ohio, — 
and at Pontiac, Michigan, and Titusville, Penn- 
sylvania. 

His record as a volunteer observer of the 
weather is an important and extraordinary one. 
In 1842 Professor J. P. Espy, of Washington, 
District of Columbia, entered upon an investi- 
gation of storms, partially supported by the 
United States Government, and called for vol- 
unteer observers. Mr. Hyde responded, and 
February 1, 1843, began taking observations on 
the weather at Framingham, Massachusetts, and 
continued the record until he moved to Ohio. 
On establishing himself permanently in Cleve- 
land in 1855, he again began taking observations 
and has continued them to the present, having 
the oldest record in northern Ohio. 

Mr. Hyde is a son of Henry H. Hyde, who 
was born in Newton, Massachusetts, and spent 
his life in Framingham, that State. He was a 
tanner and currier by trade, and died in 1878, 
aged eighty-two years. He married Keziah 
Rice and had six children, the three daughters 
being still residents of the Bay State. The tra- 
dition as to the origin of the family in tliis 
country is that Jonathan Hyde emigrated from 
England to Massachusetts in 1640. 

In Fremont, Ohio, November 6, 1852, the 
subject of this sketch married Mrs. E. R. Will- 
iams, daughter of Peter Fusselinan, a Fremont 
merchant. Of the five children by this union 
three are living. The names of all are: Edward 
Allison, who died in 1855, at the age of one 
year and live months; Gustavns A., Jr., who 
died in 1891, at the age of thirty-four years; he 
was engineer and superintendent of the East 
Saginaw (Michigan) Gas-works; Henry H., at 
present the engineer and superintendent of the 
same; Florence A., now the wife of Dr. M. 
Levkowicz, of Sau Francisco, California; anil 



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Eugene A., secretary and superintendent of the 
gas and electric light works of Ravenna, Ohio. 
Each of the last three sons had two years' expe- 
rience with the Cleveland Gaslight & Coke 
Company. 

Mr. Hyde, whose name heads this sketch, is 
a member of the Civil Engineers' Club of 
Cleveland, of the American Gaslight Associa- 
tion, the Western Gaslight Association and the 
Oliio Gaslight Association. He has prepared 
papers and read them before each of tliese bodies. 
He is an active member of tiie First Baptist 
Church of Cleveland, of whieli he has for years 
been Treasurer and Deacon. 



SAMUEL II. MATHER, LL. D., whose 
name introduces this biographical sketch, 
resided in Cleveland from 1835 to the 
time of his death, January 13, 1S94, always 
recognized as one of the most public-spirited 
citizens of the city. 

Mr. Mather came to Ohio from New England. 
He was born in Washington, New Hampshire, 
on the 20th day of March, 1813, as the younger 
of two sons (^the only children) of Ozias and 
Harriet (Brainard) Mather. The older brother, 
the late Henry B. Mather, was for many years 
associated with the Hon. Amos A. Lawrence in 
business at Boston, Massachusetts, where he 
died a few years ago. The father, Ozias Mather, 
was a physician by profession, and was educated 
at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of 
the city of New York. He was born and brought 
up at East Haddam, Connecticut, where his 
father, Dr. Augustus Mather, lived and prac- 
ticed medicine many years. He was a direct 
descenilant of Rev. Richard Mather, an English- 
man, who came to this country as early as 1635, 
settling as a pastor of the church at Dorchester, 
now a part of Boston, Massachusetts. The 
celebrated Increase Mather and Cotton Matlu^r 
were descendants of Richard ^Mather. In the 
year X810, Dr. Ozias Mather removed to Lomp- 



ster. New Hampshire, where he married Harriet 
Brainard, a daughter of Jabez Brainard. Subse- 
quently he removed to Washington, New 
Hampshire, where the subject of this personal 
sketch was born. 

Samuel II. Mather was given good educational 
advantages, graduating in 1884 at Dartmouth 
College, New Hampshire; and soon thereafter 
he took up the study of law at Geneva, New 
York, where he remained for a period of about 
fifteen months. In December, 1835, Mr. Mather 
became a citizen of Cleveland. The following 
December he was admitted to tlie bar at Colum- 
bus, Ohio, and in 1843 he was admitted to the 
United States District Court. 

Mr. Mather opened a law ofHce in Cleveland 
in 1837, and for a period of fifteen years there- 
after he was actively engaged in the practice of 
law. He gave up his profession in 1852, to de- 
vote his entire time to the business interests of 
the Society for Savings in Cleveland, in the 
founding of which he was a prime mover. As 
a lawyer he was successful, but to a different life 
work he was called rather early in life, and his 
career must be reviewed as a banker rather than 
as a lawyer. The first suggestion of a society 
for savings in Cleveland came from Charles J. 
Woolson, in a private conversation with Mr. 
Mather, in the office of the latter, in the sum- 
mer of 1848. These gentlemen were from 
New Hampshire, and when they met. New 
England, its people and institutions were fre- 
quent topics of conversation. On this occasion 
Mr. Woolson, speaking of the success and the 
benefits of the New England savings banks, 
said: "Why not have a savings bank in Cleve- 
land? I believe one could be established liere 
that would be a success and a great benefit to 
the community. Now, you think of this, and 
see some of your business men. I believe they 
will take interest in it, and be ready to aid in 
the organization." 

Following this suggestion, Mr. Mather con- 
sulted a number of f)roininent business men. It 



let with tl 



ippro 



offered their services 



, ami they at once 
forwarding the enter- 




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prise. At their request, Mr. Mather, by tlie 
aid of lion. F. T. IJackiis, Senator, and Hon. 
Leverett Johnson, lic^preseiitative from Cuya- 
hoga county, procured, witliout o[)pOBition, tlie 
j)a86ageof an act of tlie Legislature of Ohio, Marcli 
22, 1849, incorporating " Tlie Society for Sav- 
ings in the City of Cleveland." The name was 
suggested by the one in the city of Hartford, 
Connecticut. It is strictly a society for sav- 
ings, being "a benevolent inntitution, without 
capital, managed by trustees witliout salary, in the 
interest of depositors only, to whom profits are 
paid, or for whose benefit they are accumulated 
and reserved." The society is cooperative, in 
the broadest sense. The names of most of the 
early promoters of the enterprise appear in the 
act of incorporation, which was passed March 
22, 1849, the day upon which the society began 
its legal existence, and in the following August 
entered upon the career of usefulness and pros- 
perity it has since maintained. 

The society was organized June 18, 1849, by 
the election of new corporate members and its 
first board of officers. From the day of its or- 
ganization Mr. Mather was officially connected 
with the institution. He was elected its first 
secretary; but from the fact that his law office 
was in the same room as was the bank, and be- 
cause of his peculiar interest in its welfare, he 
had the work of the treasurer also to look after, 
and in 1852 he was elected treasurer, combin- 
ing the two offices in one, and from that 
time onward Mr. Mather gave his entire time 
and energy to the interest of the society. 
In January, 1884, Samuel "Williamson, pres- 
ident of the society, died, and Mr. Mather 
was then elected president to succeed Mr. Will- 
iamson, and this position he held until Jan- 
nary 13, 1894, when death snatched him away. 

The Society for Savings has had a remarkably 
successful career, and much of its success has 
been due to the business aliility of Mr. Mather, 
and the work he did in the upbuilding of 
this, one of the greatest institutions of its kind 
in the United States, placed him among emi- 
nent bankers and tinanciers. 



Outside of the arena of business and bank- 
ing, Mr. Mather was a useful citizen. He was 
always a stanch friend of education and the 
church. In the years 1840, '41, '54, '55 and 
'56 he was a member of the Board of Educa- 
tion and the County Board of School Examin- 
ers. He was one of the original members of 
the Second Presbyterian Church of Cleveland, 
organized in 1844, and from that day to his 
death he was an Elder in that church. "The 
death of Mr. Mather," says the Cleveland 
Leader, " removes a man than whom there was 
not one more prominent in business in Ohio. 
His name was the synonym for business in- 
tegrity and absolute, unquestioned trustworthi- 
ness. His ability as the manager of the great 
savings institution of which he was the head 
was known throughout the country in business 
circles, and the thousands who have deposited 
their earnings there felt that in him their inter- 
ests had a guardian that warranted implicit con- 
fidence. His death leaves a gap that will never 
be filled, though partly for the reason that the 
time will probably never come when exertions 
such as he put forth in the past for the Society 
for savings will ever be required for a similar 
institution in this city." 

May 9, 1842, he was married, at Albany, New 
York, to Miss Emily W. Gregory, daughter of 
Dr. U. M. Gregory of that city. Mr. and Mrs. 
Mather had two children, namely: Frederick 
G., journalist of Albany, New York; and Mrs. 
Ellen A. Mather, widow of the late Prof. R. H. 
Mather, of Amherst College, Massachusetts. 



JfOlITs" WALKEli, who for more than a 
I quarter of a century has conducted so suc- 
— cessfuUy the inner workings of the Cleve- 
land liolling Mills as superintendent, was born 
near Denney, Sterlingshire, Scotland, Novemlter 
15, 1828. At the age of sixteen years he en- 
gaged with the Messrs. Beard, of Gartsherrie, 
Lanarkshire, as an apprentice in iron-working 
and machinerv. and rfcmaine<l with then; six 



CU YAHOO A COUNTY. 



years. Next he was employed by the Caledoni- 
an Railroad Company, at Greenock, Scotland, 
as a blacksmith and forger; next in tlie locomo- 
tive works at Berkinhead, England, remaining 
four years. 

In 1856 he left his native Scotland and be- 
came a citizen of Canada West, where he was in 
the employ of the Great Western Railroad 
Company as a forger of wheels, etc., and he con- 
tinued his business there and at Montreal until 
his removal to Ruffalo, New York, in 1862, for 
the purpose of forging the iron for the United 
States gunboats then being built there; but 
within a year he returned to Canada and plied 
his favorite vocation at Montreal until 1868, 
when he was invited to assume charge of the 
Cleveland Rolling Mills as superintendent. The 
promotions referred to sufficiently indicate the 
competency of Mr. Walker in his line of work. 
He is now completing a long and eventful life; 
he has witnessed the greatest improvement in 
the manufacture of iron and in the machinery 
used that will probably ever be made in future, 
and has been an active participant in the achieve- 
ment of these results. Born full of energy, 
during all these years of continuous and un- 
ceasing application he has endured wiih that 
energy undiminished. Fraternally, he has been 
a Freemason for forty-four years, now affiliating 
with the members of Fidelity Council, Royal 
Arcanum, and will particijjate in the benefits of 
Vulcan Council of the Natioiuxl Union. 

lie is a son of Matthew Walker, a mill man 
who was engaged in the iron-smelting and blast 
furnace business during his entire active life. 
lie died in Scotland, in 1867, aged sixty-three 
years. lie married Margret Henderson and 
they had eight sons and one daughter. Four of 
these are yet living, namely: John and Robert, 
with the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company; 
William, engaged in glass-works in Scotland; 
and Ellen, wife of Neal Garshore, a mechanic 
at the Etna Rolling Mill, at Cleveland. 

Mr. Walker, our subject, at the age of twenty- 
one years, in Scotland, married Miss Mary Rob- 
ertson Rankin, and they have now four children 



living: Elizabeth, the wife of James Marshall, 
who is a mechanic in the Cleveland Rolling 
Mills; Mary, wife of John St. Clair, a resident 
of Alpena, Michigan; Helen Young, unmarried; 
and John, a mechanic in the above mentioned 
roller mills. 



JLLIAM LARKWORTHY, a well- 
known citizen of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, 
was born in Devonshire, England, Jan- 
uary 6, 1853, a son of John and Elizabeth 
(Fowler) Lark worthy, both natives of England. 
The family came to Chagrin Falls in 1856. 
There were six children, viz.: Susanna, wife of 
J. J. Davis, a well-known business man of Cha- 
grin Falls; William, subject of this notice; 
John, and Isaac; Mary Norah is deceased. 

William was reared and educated in Chagrin 
Falls, and at fourteen found employment with 
E. Wheelock & Company for one year. He was 
in the paper mills here for five or six years. In 
1876 he bought a grocery stock and carried on 
this business for iive years. He then enlarged 
his stock so as to include provisions, crockery, 
gents' furnishing goods, etc. He was engaged 
in this trade until 1893, when he dispo-ed of his 
entire stock of goods, and is now a dealer in 
gents' furnishing goods, boots and shoes, hard- 
ware, etc. 

Mr. Larkworthy was married October 31, 
1872, to Miss Martha Phinney, a lady of intel- 
ligence and good family, a daughter of IJ. and 
Sophia (Phinney) Phinney, both natives of New 
England. Mr. and Mrs. Larkworthy have three 
children, viz.: (xcrtrude, a graduate of Chagrin 
Falls high school; Walter, also a graduate of 
the high school, now attending college at Peo- 
ria, Illinois, and is now seventeen years of age; 
and Vilas, at home. Thuir third child, Virgil, 
died when two years old. 

Mrs. Larkworthy is a member of the Disciple 
Church, as are also the two elder children. Mr. 
Larkworthy is a Democrat in politics, and 
served as Trustee of the township. He was a 



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member of the I. O. O. F., Lodge No. 290, and 
a charter member of the Knights of Pythias, 
Lodge No. iSl. 

Mr. Larkworthy is in the prime of life, intel- 
ligent, frank and cordial, a popular citizen of 
Chagrin Falls. 



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\ILLIAM D. DEIPPS, deceased, once 
the Mayor of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and 
for a number of years prominently 
identified with this city, was born in Coates- 
ville, Pennsylvania, February 11,1852, and was 
a graduate of North Hampton College, Massa- 
chusetts. From 1873 until 1875 he was con- 
nected with the Gilmore & Hewes Lumber 
Company, and for six years afterward was the 
expert accountant of the American Sewing Ma- 
chine Company, during these years traveling 
over various portions of the United States. In 
1884 he removed to Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and 
formed a copartnership with Mr. Charles Baker, 
in the hardware business, under the firm name 
of Baker & Dripps; but at the expiration of 
thirteen months Mr. Dripps assumed full con- 
trol of the establishment, and conducted the 
business in his own name np to the time of his 
death, which event occurred May 12, 1893. He 
established a large and increasing business, 
making hosts of friends by his gentlemanly 
manner, straightforward business principles, and 
fair and upright dealings. He was always fore- 
most, though modest and unassuming, in any 
move toward the improvement of the town. He 
served one term as its Mayor. With the Ma- 
sonic fraternity he was prominently identified, 
being a member of the Golden Gate Lodge, F. 
& A. M. 

Mr. Dripps was married February 27, 1877, 
to Emma Walter, in Elmira, New York. She 
was born in Watkins, that State. September 1, 
1853. Her father, Richard E. Walter, a native 
of New York, was for many years auditor of the 
N. C. & Valley Railroad. He was a prominent 
Mason, had a wide ac(|uaintaiice, and was hon- 



ored by all who knew him. Her mother, nee 
Martha E. Coe, was also a native of New York. 
Mrs. Dripps was the eighth born in their fam- 
ily of nine children, and she and one sister are 
the only ones of that large family who are now 
living. She is a graduate of Elmira College, is 
a lady of much culture and refinement, and 
since her husband's death has developed a won- 
derful business ability. She has full charge of 
the hardware store, is also doing a large coal 
business, and has recently completed the erection 
of a fine residence on Washington street in Cha- 
grin Falls. She has three children. Belle R., 
and Howard and Hellen, twins. 



SAHEL BRAINARD, now retired, is 
one of the prominent farmers and early 
settlers of Brooklyn township, Cuyahoga 
county. 

Seth Brainard, his father, a native of Con- 
necticut, came to Cuyahoga C'junty, Ohio, as 
early as 1814, and located in Brooklyn town- 
ship. He had traded a small tract of land in 
Connecticut for a large tract in this township, 
and came out here to take possession of the 
same, his whole capital being invested in this 
land. He at once set about the work of build- 
ing a log cabin, cut down the trees himself, and 
ere long had a comfortable little home in the 
clearing. From time to time he kept adding to 
his original tract until he became the owner of 
about 200 acres. On this farm he remained 
the rest of his life. His death occurred at the 
age of eighty-five years. His life was one of 
great activity and usefulness. He served as a 
private in the war of 1812. His experience in 
the war and his natural characteristics well fitted 
him for the life of a hardy pioneer, and in the 
little frontier settlement he was regarded as one 
of its most influential men, taking the lead in 
all movements that tended to advance its inter- 
ests. He was one of the first members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church in this commu- 
nity, and fur a number of years served as Stew- 



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ard and Class Leader. His father, Joel 
Brainard, was of Irish descent, was born, it is 
s»i)posed, in Connecticut, and lived and died 
there. The mother of Asahel Brainard was 
Delilah Brainard, and she, too, was a native of 
Connecticut. She died in her eighty-fourth 
year. Her father, Ozias Brainard, a native of 
Connecticut and a descendant of Irish ancestry, 
served during the latter part of the Revolution- 
ary war. Seth and Delilah Brainard were the 
parents of nine children, seven of whom reached 
adult years, and six of this number are now 
living. 

Asahel Brainard, the third born in the above 
named family, dates his birth in Brooklyn town- 
ship, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, January 7, 1815. 
Born on the frontier, his educational advantages 
were, of course, limited. A portion of his early 
youth was spent in the little log schoolhouse 
near his home; but these log schoolhouses, with 
their puncheon floors, slab seats, open fireplaces 
and stick chimneys, have been so often described 
that it is unnecessary to speak further of them 
here. The most of young Brainard's time, 
however, was spent in assisting his father on 
the farm, and he remained at the home place 
until he was twenty-five years of age. lie was 
then married to Matilda Foster, a native of Con- 
necticut, whose happy married life was termin- 
ated five years later by her death. For his 
second wife Mr. Brainard married Electa Avery, 
a native of Massachusetts. She had two chil- 
dreti: Arysta, who died at the age of three years; 
and Electa M., the wife of E. II. Foster. Mrs. 
Brainard died May 1, 1850, and Mr. Brainard 
was married, in 1851, to Naomi King, who was 
born in Massachusetts, April 13, 1825. Their 
only child, Nora, died at the age of two years. 

After their first marriage Mr. Brainard lo- 
cated on a farm in Brooklyn township, and in 
this township he has since lived, with the ex- 
ception of a year and a half spent in Parma 
township, this county. lie has witnessed all 
the development of this part of the country, 
has seen the pioneers' cabins give place to more 
pretentious homes, has seen the forests swept 



away, and has noted the growth of the various 
towns and cities that have sprung up here and 
there. At one time he owned 150 acres of land 
here. Some time ago, however, he disposed of 
his farm for a handsome sum, and is now living 
off the interest of his money. He has been a 
Republican since this party was organized. 
When he was nineteen years old he joined the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, with which he has 
since remained in loving fellowship. For a 
number of years he has served as Steward of the 
Church, and has all his life contributed liber- 
ally to its support. 



RTIIUR II. WILLIAMS.— The estab- 
lishment of A. II. Williams, dealer in 
^ staple and fancy groceries, queensware, 
and flour and feed, is one of the leading 
and popular business houses of Chagrin Falls. It 
occupies the old stand of the father of the pres- 
ent proprietor, Alford Williams, who did busi- 
ness here for thirty-seven years, first in a frame 
building and afterward in the present brick 
building, which was built in 1870. In 1888 
the son bought the stock of his father, and has 
since done a large and profitable business. 

The father, Alford Williams, was a native of 
New York State, a son of John Williams, who 
lived to be about eighty-four years of age. Al- 
ford learned the trade of a cooper, which he fol- 
lowed for some years. He was engaged for 
some time in making flour barrels at Chagrin 
Falls before going into trade. He was married 
in February, 1844:, to Louisa Green, daughter of 
Lovell Green. They had three children: Arris 
H., a soldier of the late war, a member of the 
Sixty^first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, who was 
killed at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, but a boy 
of eighteen; Arthur H., our subject; and Clara 
A., wife of H. M. Gates, of Bedford, Ohio. Al- 
ford Williams is a Republican in political faith. 
He has served in the Tuwti Council and as Town 
Treasurer. 



GUTAHOQA COUNTY. 



Arthur H. Williams was born July 31, 1853, 
at Chagrin Falls, reared and educated in his na- 
tive place, and also attended school at Hillsdale, 
Michigan, and was engaged for some time as a 
conductor on the Chagrin Falls & Solon Rail- 
road. Mr. Williams was married January 17, 
1879, to Sophie S. Stoneman, a woman of in- 
telligence and good family, born, reared and 
educated in Chagrin Falls. Her father is Jo- 
seph Stoneman of this place. Mr. and Mrs. 
Williams have two sons: Forest A., bora August 
6, 1886; and Clarence A., born December 15, 
1893. 

Mr. Williams is a Republican and is a mem- 
ber of the Knights of Pythias, Lodge No. 487: 
of the I. O. O. F., Lodge No. 290; of Chagrin 
Falls Encampment, No. 113; of the I. O. G. T. 
Lodge No. 72; and of the Home Guards, No. 
36. He is a young man of intelligence, strong 
physique, and frank, jovial maimer. 



CAPTAIN H. B. YORK, builder and 
contractor of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, was 
born at Burlington, Vermont, December 
5, 1833, a son of D. H. York and a native of 
Connecticut, and son of^AmoS York, born of 
Scottish ancestry. Our subject's mother was 
Laura Barnes Y'ork, born near St. Albans, Ver- 
mont, daughter of Stephen Barnes, a soldier in 
the war of 1812. 

The subject of this sketch was a babe when 
the family came to Bedford, Cuyahoga county, 
Ohio. Ten years later the family removed to 
Geauga county, to the township of Munson, 
where they remained till 1866, the father then 
moved to Tuscola county, Michigan, where he 
died at the age of seventy-two. The mother 
lived to be seventy-five years of age. They 
reared five children, four of whom are now liv- 
ing, viz.: H. B., N. E., M. D., Mrs. S. M. 
Spencer, of Ionia, Michigan. N. E. and M. D. 
reside in Tuscola county, Michigan. The father 
was a mechanic, a bricklayer l)y trade. Politic- 
ally he was a Republican, and in religion a 
member of the Disciple Church. 



H. B. York spent his early boyhood in Bed- 
ford, Ohio, and after the family removed to 
Munson attended the schools of that place, and 
also Chester Seminary. He taught three or 
four terms and then returned to Bedford. 

Mr. York enlisted for service as a private in 
the Civil war, in the Ninth Battery, Light Ar- 
tillery, and served three years and ten months, 
lie was promoted first to be Second Lieutenant, 
later to the rank of Captain of the Battery, De- 
cember 12, 1862. The battery took an active 
part in the battle of Cumberland Gap, and later 
was under General Schofield's command. Twen- 
tieth Army Corps, First Division. Later, under 
General II. W. Slocum, Captain Y''ork was pro- 
moted to the rank of Chief of Artillery. He 
passed a thorough examination before a military 
officer and passed rank as Major of Heavy Ar- 
tillery. At Triune, Tennessee, June 11, 1863, 
Major York was severely injured. On account 
of this injury he receives a pension. 

After the war he located in Tuscola county, 
Michigan, where he remained for four years. 
He then returned to Ohio, and after spending 
one year in Munson, came to Chagrin Falls, 
where he has since made his home, except some 
time spent in Cleveland at his business. He is 
a man of intelligence and good principles. 

Mr. Y''ork has been married three times, — 
first in Chardon, Ohio, July 1, 1853, to Ann E. 
Sherman, a daughter of Jacob and Mary Sher- 
man. By that marriage there were three sons, 
two of whom are living: R. E., of East Sagi- 
naw, Michigan, who has one son. Noble E.; and 
Clarence H., of Chicago, Illinois. Ed. E., the 
first born, died at Willoughby, Ohio, at the age 
of twenty-three. Mrs. York died in 1862, and 
for his second wife Mr. York married Huldah 
Sherman, sister of his first. Mrs. Huldah York 
had two children: P. II., of Ciiicago, who has a 
son, William; and Mary E., wife of M. J. Hub- 
bell, of Chagrin Falls; they have one daughter, 
Mildred E. Mrs. Huldah Y^ork died August 1, 
1884. Mr. York's present wife was Mrs. Jane 
B. Ilolcomb, nee Snedeker, widow of Thomas 
J. Ilolcomb, a soldier of the late war, a member 



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of Company B, Light Artillery, serving three 
years. She was a daughter of C. M. and Amelia 
(Leach) Snedeker, both of whom are deceased. 
Mr. York is identitied with the Kepublicaii 
party. He is a member of the N. L. Xorris 
Post, G. A. R., iand has been Commander and 
Adjutant of the post. He is also a member of 
the I. O. O. F. Lodge, Xo. 290, and of Encamp- 
ment No. 113. In his religious relations he is 
a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
in which he serves as au officer. 



JOHN ROWE, proprietor of the Rowe 
Wagon and Carriage shops, of Chagrin 
^ Falls, Ohio, the pioneer establishment of 
its kind in the place, was a son of Richard 
Rowe, who started the business in Chagrin 
Falls in the year 1847, and was thereafter con- 
nected with it till his death in 1891, at seventy- 
two years of age. He was born in Lansing, 
England, where he was reared and educated and 
learned tlie trade of a carriage maker. He came 
with his father to Orange township, four miles 
north of Chagrin Falls. He married a Miss 
Banford, a native of Ireland. She died when 
her son, our subject, was a boy of five years. 
She left three children, — two daughters besides 
the son, — namely: Mary Sprinkle, of Owosso, 
Michigan; and Rachel Rowe, of Cleveland. 
The father married the second time and had 
four children, as follows: Henry and Charles, 
both of Detroit, Michigan; Eva Pelton, of Con- 
neaut, Ohio, and Amy Collar, of Allegheny 
City, Pennsylvania. The father was a respected 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

Mr. John Rowe, born August 12, 1843, was 
reared and educated in Chagrin Falls. At ten 
years of age he was found in his father's shop 
making for himself a hand-sleigh and boy's 
cart. During the war he enlisted, June 16, 
1861, in the Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 
Company D. He was first under fire at Cross 
Lanes, Virginia; afterward at Winchester, Vir- 
ginia, Chickamauga, Harper's Ferry, and in the 



Peninsula campaign, under General McClellan. 
He was honorably discharged after nineteen 
months' hard service. Later he returned to the 
front and held a Government position in wagon 
works at Nashville, Tennessee. 

Mr. Rowe does a fine business, manufactur- 
ing all kinds of fine carriages, wagons and other 
vehicles, of the best workmanship. He employs 
from six to twelve men during the busy season. 
He has a good frontage on the street of ninety- 
eight feet. He has had au experience of twenty 
years as auctioneer, and cries sales for many 
miles around the town. 

Mr. Rowe was married in 1866, to Laura 
Hodges, a native of Troy, Ohio. They have 
one child, Willie, twenty-five years of age, 
traveling salesman for the National Lead AV^orks 
of New York city. He is a member of the 
G. A. R., Norris Post, No. 4:0, and is one of the 
well and favorably known men of Chagrin Falls. 



TlOHN S. BULLARD, of Chagrin Falls, 
K I Ohio, is one of the well-known, honored 
^^ and respected citizens of the town. He 
is one of its early settlers and a pioneer busi- 
ness man of the place. lie was born at Hinck- 
ley, Medina county, Ohio, April 11, 1823, a 
son of Curtiss Bullard, who was one of the first 
settlers of Hinckley township, of which he was 
a prominent citizen, serving as Postmaster of 
the township as early as 1832 or '33. He was 
a native of New York State, born in Litchfield, 
September 15, 1797, is a son of Seth Bullard, 
who was born in Massachusetts of an old Puri- 
tan family of that State. Asa Bullard, editor 
and proprietor of tJie Well Spring, Boston, 
and Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, were cousins 
of Cnrtiss Bullard. 

The father of the subject of this sketch was 
married in New York State to Sarah Easton, 
born at Lee, JIassachusetts, as the daughter of 
an old Jlassachusetts family. Curtiss Bullard 
and his family came to Chagrin Falls in 1842. 
The father was an expert mechanic and engaged 



CUTAHOOA COUNTY. 



in tlie inaimfacture of wheel beads for some 
time. Later he enlarged the plant and manu- 
factured butter molds, rolling-pins, potato- 
mashers and other wooden ware. He died at 
tiie age of seventy- six. He was a general 
business man. Politically he was first a Jack- 
son man and later a Kepublican. Mr. Curtiss 
Bullard was an intelligent, well-informed man, 
served as the first Mayor of Chagrin Falls, and 
also as County Commissioner of Medina county. 
He was an active working member of the Con- 
grecrational Church, which he liberally sup- 
ported. His wife died at seventy-four, a worthy, 
consistent Christian woman, loved by all. They 
reared seven children, viz.: James P., who died 
in Chagrin Falls in 1843; John S., our subject; 
Susan, deceased; Newton, deceased; Orson, de- 
ceased; Adell, deceased in Kansas; and Sarah, 
wife of A. H. Rogers, of Chagrin Falls. 

John S. was reared and educated in Medina 
county, Ohio. He was nineteen years of age 
when he came to Chagrin Falls and went to 
work in the shop with his father, with whom he 
went into partnership in the business at twenty- 
four. He obtained a valuable patent on a 
butter mold, which brought them in a good 
profit for some years. George March is an ac- 
tive partner of the firm. They do an extensive 
business and employ from eight to fifteen men. 

Mr. Bullard is one of the stockholders and 
directors of the Chagrin Falls Banking Com- 
pany, and also a stockholder of the Chagrin 
Falls Manufacturing Company. When the 
railroad to Chagrin Falls was projected, Mr. 
Ballard took an active interest in its construc- 
tion: was one of seven who chartered and owned 
the road; was director from its organization, 
and served as vice-president for a time prior 
to its being sold. 

He was married, in 1853, at Troy, Geauga 
county, Ohio, to Lucy Chapman, a lady of in- 
telligence and good family. She was born in 
Troy, a daughter of Luther and Anna (Sawyer) 
Chapman, the father of Massachusetts and the 
mother of Rushville, New York. Both parents 
died in Geauga county. Mr. and Mrs. Bullard 



have had three children, all of whom are de- 
ceased, namely: Nelly, who died at fifteen 
months; Fred, at eight years; and Curtiss, at 
eight years. 

Mr. Bullard owns a fine house, built in 1877, 
at a cost of ^5,000. He and his wife are mem- 
bers of the Congregational Church. Politically 
Mr. Bullard is a Republican. In 1856 he voted 
for J. C. Fremont. He has served in the City 
Council and also on the School Board. He is 
one of the most public-spirited citizens of the 
town and has been active in all its educational, 
religious and other good enterprises. 



IfOHN C. WEIDEMAN,one of Cleveland's 
it I most prominent business men and citizens, 
^^ is president of the Weideman Company, 
one of the largest commercial houses of the city, 
president of the Forest City Savings Bank, 
president of the Ohio Abstract Company, and 
is connected as a director or stockholder with 
numerous other prominent enterprises of the 
city. 

Mr. Weideman was born in Wurtemberg, 
Germany, in 1829, and came with his parents 
to the United States in 1833. The family 
located first in Philadelphia, but in 1836 re- 
moved to Medina county, Ohio, where the boy- 
hood days of our subject were passed. When 
but fourteen years of age he left home and 
came to Cleveland, where for some time he 
found employment at divers things in diffei-ent 
places. From 1848 to 1850 he was in New 
York State, but in the latter year returned to 
Cleveland, and in 1861 made his first business 
beginning as a member of the liquor firm of 
Weideman Company. In the fall of 1863 he 
disposed of his interest in this company, but 
the following year re-entered the same business 
with Mr. II. Tiedemann, the style of the firm 
being Weideman & Tiedemann. About 1868 
Mr. O. G. Kent became a member of this firm, 
which became Weideman, Tiedemann A: Kent. 



CUTAHOGA COUNTY. 



In 1871 Mr. Tiedemann retired from the firm 
and the same was reorganized with Mr. C. T. 
Hasbrouck as a member, the firm now becoming 
Weideman, Kent & Company. In 18S5 a stock 
company was formed under tiie name of tlie 
Weideman Company, with Mr. Weideman as 
president; Mr. Christian Narten, vice-presi- 
dent; Mr. E. J. Siller, treasurer; Mr. Henry 
W. Weideman (son of John C, our subject), 
secretary, and all of the above named gentlemen, 
with Mr. George W. Barnes, as directors. The 
company' was capitalized at half a million dol- 
lars, and is one of the most extensive wholesale 
liquor and grocery iiouses in the State of Ohio. 
When tiie Forest City Savings Bank was organ- 
ized in the fall of 1890, Mr. Weideman was 
chosen president of the same, and he has been 
a director in both the Union National Bank and 
Savings & Trust Company since the organiza- 
tion of these institutions. He also became 
president of the Ohio Abstract Company upon 
its organization. lie is also identified with 
other enterprises of the city. 

Mr. Weideman has been twice married. His 
first marriage occurred in 1853, when he was 
united in marriage with Laura Muntz, of Liver- 
pool, Ohio, who bore him three children and 
died in 1877, at the age of forty-two years. 
Only one of these children, his son Henry W. 
Weideman, is living. The second marriage 
was consummated in 1879, his wife being 
Louisa Dieboldt, of Cleveland. One daughter, 
now fourteen ^'ears of age, has been born by 
♦his second marriage. Mr. Wiedeman is a 
member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, 
and is a Thirty-second- degree Mason. 

While the boyhood days of Mr. Weideman 
were passed amid surroundings and under cir- 
cumstances which narrowly limited his oppor- 
tunities for securing a good education, he has 
luit neglected the cultivation of his mind, bnt 
on the contrary has improved it by reading and 
travel, and being possessed of more than ordi- 
nary faculties he has actjuired a fund of in- 
formation on general sulijects far in advance of 
many men who had the advantage of good 



schools and colleges. He is genial and affable, 
easy of approach, and kind and courteous to all 
who have occasion to seek him, either in the 
counting-room or in a social way. For several 
years he has not given his time entirely to busi- 
ness, but has spent a considerable portion of it 
in travel, having visited Europe four different 
times and traveled over a great part of our own 
country. 

Mr. Wiedeman is a self-made man, if there 
is one in Cleveland. He began at the bottom, 
and year by year has mounted the ladder of 
success until he now stands about on the top- 
most rung; and this success has been brought 
about only through his business ability, indus- 
try and integrity. To-day he is regarded as 
one of Cleveland's most prominent and success- 
ful business men, and as one of the leading 
citizens; and by all is he respected and admired 
for his sterling worth as a factor in the com- 
mercial and financial affairs of the city, and as 



It iff W. KINGSLEY, Superintendent of the 
|\^| Cleveland Water Works, was born in 
11 ^ Chautauqua county, New York, May 
"v 18, 1846. His father, Albert Kingsley, 

was born in the same State, but in Washington 
county, in 180-1. He became a millwright and 
lumber manufacturer in New York and in later 
life in Pennsylvania, to which State he emi- 
grated in 1853 and located in Warren county. 
He married, in the Keystone State, Miss Anna 
Mead, by whom four children were born, three 
of whom are now living, — Louisa E., Emmett 
T. and M. W. His mother, Anna Mead, was 
born in 1813, in Warren county, Pennsylvania, 
and was the youngest of a family of eight, all 
of whom lived to a good age. 

AHiert Kingsley's father was James Kings- 
ley, who married Phebe Lenkins and reared a 
family of thirteen children. The grandmother 
of these chililren on the mother's side was one 



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Mrs. Luther, wlio it is believed is a lineal de- 
scendant of the great religious enthusiast and 
father of the Reformation. 

M. W. Kingsley was given the advantage of 
a high-school and academic training, — the latter 
at Kingsville, Ohio, and the former in Ripley, 
New York. lie became interested in civil 
engineering and prepared himself for that busi- 
ness in surveying under John Spencer, of West- 
field, New York. His first practical work was 
at Erie, Pennsylvania, nnder G. W. F. Sherwin, 
City Engineer, where he was rodman of the 
city corps of engiiieers, and later on chief of a 
party. Mr. Kingsley's next position was with 
the Canada Southern Railroad Company, in 
charge of a construction party. On completing 
a two-years' service with this company he came 
to Cleveland (1873) and took the position of 
assistant engineer in the construction of the 
first water-works lake tunnel. Since then he 
has been in the constant employ of the Water 
Department, in the construction of tunnels, 
reservoirs, ami pipe extension. In the spring 
of 1892 he was made Superintendent of the 
Water Works Department of the city, succeed- 
ing Superintendent AVhitelaw. 

Fraternally Mr. Kingsley is a Royal Arch 
Mason, a member of the Civil Engineers' Club 
of Cleveland, and of the American Society of 
Engineers. 

In 1879 Mr. Kingsley married, in Cleveland, 
Cornelia, a daughter of George F. French, and 
they have one child, Albert F. Kingsley. 



FETER THOMAS LYNCH, Harbor Mas- 
ter of Cleveland, was born in Ireland, 
1844. When a lad nine years old he set 
out in company with some relatives for 
the United States, but on reaching Liverjjool 
became separated from his friends and was lost, 
and was picked up by Captain Lowry of the 
ship Julia G. Tyler of Baltimore, who took him 
on board and used him as well as his own boy, 
who also was on the same vessel. On leaving 



Captain Lowry some time after this in the port 
of New Orleans, he went on the ship Wm. M. 
Rogers, of Bath, Captain Thompson, on which 
he stayed one year. He was going then under 
the name of Thomas Flynn, using his middle 
name with that of his stepfather. By this 
name he was generally known till after the war 
of the Rebellion. For more than a dozen years 
Mr. Lynch sailed almost every sea and visited 
all the principal harbors, both in European and 
American waters, meeting with experiences 
thrilling in the extreme. He has sailed in all 
the different lines running to Europe from Bos- 
ton, New York, Philadelphia and New Orleans, 
and served in the Navy the last of the war in 
the West Gulf Squadron, from the fall of 18C4 
till the latter part of July, 1865. 

One cruise is of special interest and is re- 
called by Mr. Lynch as vividly and witli as much 
interest as if it occurred only last year. It was 
while aboard the famous slaver the Wanderer, 
fitted out in the port of Savannah. The mission 
of this yacht was to engage in the unlawful 
business of trading in slaves. But this fact 
was kept from the crew until well out at sea. Tiie 
captain, who planned the expedition and ex- 
pected to direct the craft and furnish the means, 
was defeated in his purpose by a faitidess friend, 
a captain who had been taken into the scheme. 
Just prior to the time set for starting this 
officious captain came to the boat, assumed its 
command, set sail and left the originator of the 
schenie on shore. The yacht sailed aimlessly 
about for some days, while it was being decided 
where a supply of provisions was to be pro- 
cured. Suddenly a boat hove in sight and was 
hailed and forage enough obtained to carry the 
crew over for some days. The Wanderer then 
directed her course toward the African coast, 
keeping on the sharp lookout both for men-of 
war patroling the waters and for cargoes of ne- 
groes, which tiie captain intended to appropriate 
by theft. After touching at a few points, con- 
cealing their identity everywhere, they were 
suspected of being on a questionable errand and 
were chased out of port and escaped ca])ture. 



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Still after more provisions another sliip was 
stopped by firing a shot across her bow, but on 
account of the wind and sea the two vessels 
could not come nearer than hailing distance of 
one another. A small boat was lowered from 
the Wanderer and manned by the captain and 
three men, including young Lynch. Making its 
way to the visitor it secured the supplies and 
was endeavoring to put back again to the Wan- 
derer when she repeatedly shifted her position, 
keeping just out of reach of the life-boat. Sud- 
denly the yacht spread sail and away she went, 
leaving the captain to his peril and the mercy 
of the ocean. The mate had mutinied and took 
advantage of tlie captain's sitiition to assume 
command. The deserted men were picked up 
and taken to an African port and from there to 
Liverpool, where the captain was arrested for 
firing across the bow of a ship and stopping her 
on the high seas in friendly waters. 

Mr. Lynch left salt water and came, to the 
lakes in 1865, and sailed them before the mast 
as mate and captain, with one or two inter- 
ru})tions, continuously till 1884. He made 
Cleveland his home in 1868. He was five years 
president of the Seamen's Union of this city, 
and two years Harbor Master prior to 1879. In 
1893 he was appointed by Director Farley to 
his present position. 

Mr. Lynch was twice inarrieil. His first 
wife bore him three children: Frank J., Mary 
E. and Catherine A. Mrs. Lynch died in 1882, 
and Mr. Lynch was married again in 1885. His 
second wife has borne him one child, T. V. 
Powderly. 



'jr\ ICII AIID WOETS, a small-fruit farmer 
w^^. and a retired carriage and wagon maker, 
II ¥i Maytield, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, is a 
v native of Yarmoutli, England, born Jan- 

uary 23, 1826. Before giving a sketch of his 
life we will refer briefiy to his parentage. 

Richard Worts, Sr., his fatiier, was also a 



of Enifland, and was 



iller by trade. 



He came to America in 1836, first located in 
Lake county, Ohio, and a short time afterward 
removed to Mayfield township, this county. 
He followed the milling business some after 
coming to this township, but during the latter 
years of his life was engaged in farming, and 
passed away at the age of eighty-one years. 
His father, Austin Worts, was a farmer in the 
old country, and lived and died there. The 
mother of our subject was before her marriage 
Miss Louisa A. Plumer, and she, too, was a 
native of England. She, with her four chil- 
dren, came to America a short time after her 
husband, and on their farm in this township 
she passed the residue of her life. Her death 
occurred when she was seventy-eight years of 
age. In their family w'ere seven children, two 
daughters and five sons, six of whom reached 
adult age. 

Richard, their first born, was ten years old 
when he came with his father to Ohio, and 
until he reached his majority he assisted his 
father on the farm. Then he engaged in agri- 
culture on his own account. In 1848 he began 
work at the wagon and carriage trade in Kirt- 
land. Lake county, Ohio, and continued there 
two years. Then he came to Mayfield and 
opened a sliop, which he ran from 1850 until 
1888, when he retired. 

Mr. Worts was married l\[arch 13, 1847, to 
Polly Bennett, a native of Fishkill, New York, 
born March 27, 1824. In her infancy she was 
brought by her parents to Ohio, who first set- 
tled in Lake county, and when she was about 
five years old they renaoved to Cuyahoga 
county. Her parents, Abram and liebecca 
(Presley) Bennett, were of Scotch descent and 
were natives of New York. They had a family 
of fourteen children, six daughters and eight 
sons, all of whom, except three, reached adult 
years, Polly being the fourth born. Mr. and 
Mrs. Worts have three daughters and two sons, 
— Byron, Jefferson, Amelia F., Mariah A. and 
Mary Ann. 

Mr. Worts has a comfortable home, and 
about three acres of land devoted to the j)ro- 



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duction of small fruits. For a number of years 
he has been identified with the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church, and for thirty years has been 
sexton for the church. His political affiliations 
are with the Eepublican party. During the 
Civil war he served one year as a private in 
Company A, Forty-first Ohio Volunteer In- 
fantry, having enlisted in August, 1861, and 
was discharged on account of disability. 



P^ERKY MOERISON, one of the substan- 
tial and well-known men of Solon town- 
ship, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, is a repre- 
sentative of one of the pioneer families 
of the county. A brief sketch of him and his 
forefathers is as follows: 

Perry Morrison was born on the farm on 
which he now lives, August 5, 1847, son of John 
Morrison, Jr., and grandson of John Morrison, 
Sr., both natives of New York. Both grand- 
fathers were in the war of 1812. The elder 
John Morrison and his family were among the 
first settlers of Solon township, and here in the 
midst of the forest he and his son cleared and 
developed a fine farm, the one on which Perry 
Morrison now lives. The mother of our sub- 
ject was before her marriage Miss Lucy Perry, 
and she, too, was a native of New York. She 
died ill September, 1892, at the age of seventy 
years. The father had passed away in 1853. 
They had a family of seven children, namely: 
Adelbert, a member of Company C, Sixth Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry, died in Libby Prison; 
Charlotte, deceased; Sherman, deceased; Perry, 
whose name heads this article; Lewis, deceased; 
Lucyette, deceased; and Alice. 

Perry Morrison was reared at the old home- 
stead and was educated in the district schools. 
When he was sixteen he began working out as 
a farm hand, and continued thus occupied in 
this and adjoining townships for several years. 
Since 1872 he has been at his present location. 
Here he is engaged in farming and dairying, 
keeping a dairy of about twenty-five cows. 



This farm comprises 140 acres and has been 
still further developed by him since he came 
into possession of it, he having erected a com- 
modious two-story residence and a good barn 
and otherwise made valuable improvements. 

Mr. Morrison was married at Bedford, Ohio, 
January 11, 1871, to Mary Culham, a native of 
Albany, New York, and a daughter of John 
and Ann (Quinn) Culham, highly respected 
residents of Twinsburg, Ohio, aged eighty-one 
and seventy years respectively. Mr. Culham 
was born in Ireland. He and his wife have had 
a family of seven children, four of whom are 
living — John, Mai-y, Lizzy and James. Two 
died when young and Thomas died in Chicago, 
Illinois. Mrs. Morrison was eleven years old 
at the time her parents came to Ohio. She and 
Mr. Morrison have five children: Albert A., 
Stella, Earl, Nelly and John, their ages ranging 
from twenty-two to ten years. 

Like his father, Mr. Morrison affiliates with 
the Democratic party. He and his family are 
members of the Disciple Church. 



SAMUEL BPJTTON is one of the suc- 
cessful men of Solon township, Cuyahoga 
— - county, Ohio, and like many of the citi- 
zens of this place hails from the Emerald Isle. 
Mr. Britton was born in county Tyrone, Ire- 
land, in August, 1847, son of James Britton, 
Jr., and grandson of James Britton, Sr., the 
latter being a Scotchman who located in county 
Tyrone, where he purchased 450 acres of land. 
The mother of Samuel Britton was before her 
marriage Miss Catharine Johnson, and she, too, 
was a native of county Tyrone. James Britton, 
Jr., and his wife passed their lives and died in 
Ireland. They were the parents of seven chil- 
dren, three sons and four daughters. 

When he was eighteen years of age, Samuel 
Britton emigrated to the United States. He 
worked for one William Hutchings for three 
months, then was employed in a cheese factory 
for some time, and aftei'ward worked on a farm 



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in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, fur tliree yearo fur 
Julius S. Giles. He was married in 1870, and 
after that lived on a farm at Bainbridge for 
three years. At the end of that time he came 
to Solon township, Cuyahoga county, and for 
some years lived on rented land here. In 1877 
he settled on the farm on which he now lives, a 
mile and a quarter from Solon. Here he owns 
132^ acres of excellent land, with good im- 
provements thereon. His barn, 40x60 feet, 
with 20-foot posts, and basement, is one of the 
best in the township. It has a capacity for 100 
tons of hay and grain. Mr. Britton has given 
no little attention to the stock business, and in 
this as well as farming has met with success. 
He now keeps a dairy of twenty-five cows. 

Mr. Britton was married Decemlier 8, 1870, 
to Anna Jane Smyton, who was born in county 
Tyrone, Ireland, daughter of John and Marga- 
ret (Johnson) Smyton. Slie came to this coun- 
try when she was fourteen years of age. Her 
father died when she was ten years old, leaving 
a widow and three children, the others being 
Rachel and Alex, tlie latter being now deceased. 
Mrs. Smyton is still a resident of county Ty- 
rone. Mr. and Mrs. Britton have five children: 
May B., Carrie Anna, George William, Grace 
Elizabeth and Fred S. All have had the benefit 
of good educational advantages. 

Mr. Britton's family are Presbyterians, and, 
politically, he is a Democrat. 



LD. BATTLES, one of the prosperous 
I farmers of Mayfield township, Cuyahoga 
1 county, Ohio, was born on the farm on 

which he now lives, October 1, 1836. He is 
the ninth child and sixth son of Inthox and 
Arthusa (Porter) Battles, and on his father's 
farm he grew up, and received a district-school 
and academic education. Two years before he 
reached his majority he began working out by 
the month on neighboring farms. 

November 1, 1860, he married Caroline 
Jacobs, who was born in this township, March 



6, 1836, oldest child of Harmon and Harriett 
(Keyt) Jacobs. They have three children, one 
son and two daughters: Ewing, of this town- 
ship; Harriett, wife of James Short; and Viola, 
wife of James Rogers. 

After his marriage Mr. Battles located on the 
farm where he now lives, and where he has 
since remained, with the exception of five years 
spent in Ashtabula county, this State. He 
owns 322 acres of choice farming land and car- 
ries on general farming and stock raising, being 
very successful in his operations. 

Politically, Mr. Battles is a Repultlican. He 
is now serving as Township Trustee and as 
School Director. 



lAMES COVERT, who resides near Wil- 
>> I son's Mills, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, is the 
^^ proprietor of the "Chagrin Valley Poul- 
try Farm." 

Mr. Covert was born in Mayfield township, 
this county, October 12, 1822, a son of one of 
the early pioneers of northern Ohio. His 
father, James Covert, Sr., a native of New Jer- 
sey, went from that State to New York when he 
was twelve years old, and in 1807 took up his 
abode in Cuyahoga county, Ohio. At that time 
there were but few people in Mayfield town- 
ship. In the midst of the forest lie secured a 
tract of land, built a log house, and became 
prominently identified with the early pioneers. 
He and his wife, nee Martha Judd, had four- 
teen children, the subject of our sketch being 
the eighth born. He was reared on his father's 
farm, and received his education in the common 
schools of the district. Among the early set- 
tlers of the township were the Johnsons, Judds, 
Smiths, Jacksons and Coverts. Many of the 
older members of these families have long since 
passed away, but their descendants still remain 
here, and these names are found on most of the 
school records of the township. 

In 1847 the subject of our sketch married 
Mary J. Sheldon, who died some years later, 
leaving three sons and two daughters: Frank- 




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lin, Polly, Wayne, Elizabeth and Cordelia. Mr. 
Covert married for his present wife, in 1887, 
Miss Mary Maranda Iliggins, a native of this 
township, and a daughter of Henry M. Iliggins, 
who came to this county in an early day. ller 
only child died in infancy. 

In early life Mr. Covert was a great hunter, 
and has also traveled a great deal. He made 
the journey to California, spent some time on 
the plains and visited various portions of the 
West. His Chaojrin Valley Poultry Farm, re- 
ferred to at the beginning of this sketch, was 
the first farm taken up in Mayfield township by 
Abner Johnson, comprises 150 acres, and is well 
equipped for the purpose to which it is devoted. 
For some time Mr. Covert has given his special 
attention to the raising of line poultry, and in 
this enterprise his efforts have been attended 
with success. 

Like his father before him, IMr. Covert's po- 
litical affiliations are with the Democratic party. 
Fraternally, he has been identified with the I. O. 
O. F. for three or four decades, having his 
membership at Chagrin Falls. 



,SCAK JACOBS, one of the prosperous 
farmers of Mayfield township, Cuyahoga 
■' county, has recently retired from his farm 
and removed to Chagrin Falls. As one of the 
representative men of the county, it is appro- 
priate that personal mention be made of him in 
this work. A resume of his life is as follows: 
Oscar Jacobs was born in Mayfield township, 
Cuyahoga county, Ohio, December 25, 1841. 
Harmon Jacobs, his father, who was born in 
Rutland county, Vermont, in 1809, was when 
four years old taken by his father to New York, 
his mother having died in Ver:nont. Ho re- 
mained in New Yoi'k until 1825, when, at the 
age of sixteen, accompanied by bis brother, he 
started on foot for Geauga county, Ohio, carry- 
ing a pack of about forty-five pounds on his 
back. Upon his arrival in Ohio he worked out 
by the montli on farms in various places until 



he was twenty-two years of age, when he was 
employed by Halsey Gates to work in the mill, 
and remained in his employ six months. He 
then took chai-ge of the mill, and for nine years 
ran it on the shares. After this he bought a 
farm in the southeastern part of Mayfield town- 
ship, where he spent the rest of his life and 
died. His d^ath occurred in 1885. He was a 
man who was well posted on current events and 
occupied a leading place in the community in 
wliich he lived. For some time he served as 
Township Trustee. Politically, he was first a 
Whig and afterward a Republican. 

Looking still further into the paternal ances- 
try of our subject, we find that the Jacobses are 
of English origin. Three brothers by the name 
of Jacobs emigrated to this country from Eng- 
land previons to the Revolutionary war. One 
of them, our subject's great-grandfather, was a 
soldier in that war, fighting on the side of the 
colonies, while his two brothers remained loyal 
to the king. Aaron Jacobs, the grandfather of 
Oscar, was a participant in the war of 1812. 
This Aaron Jacobs came to Ohio nine months 
after Buffalo was burned, and settled in Trum- 
bull county, he being the first of the Jacoi)ses to 
settle on the Western Reserve. 

The motlier of Oscar Jacobs was before her 
marriage Miss Harriett Keyt. She was born in 
New York in 1814, daughter of Gideon Keyt, 
a native of New Jersey and of English descent. 
They came to Cuyahoga county in 1832. She 
is still living, making her home with her 
youngest daughter and her son Oscar. The}' 
had a family of four children, all of whom grew 
up, namely: Caroline, wife of Lorenzo Battles, 
of Mayfield township, this county; Margaret, 
deceased ; Oscar, the subject of our sketch ; and 
Augusta, wife of Oliver Gary. 

Oscar Jacobs was reared in his native place, 
receiving his education in the common schools 
and at the seminary in Geauga county. He 
was married November 15, 1864, to Verlena 
Traver, who was born in St. Joseph county, 
Micliigan, in 1845, d-aughter of Robert and 
Eliza (Jerome) Traver. Mr. Tiaver was a native 



OUTAMOOA OOVNTt. 



of New York. He removed from Michigan to 
Ohio with his family when Mrs. Jacobs was 
quite small. Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs have four 
children: Milan, Harmon O., Elmer C. and 
Zella A. Mr. Jacobs spent one year on his 
father's farm after he was married, and then 
moved to his own land. He owns 244 acres, 
on which until quite recently he was engaged in 
general farming and stock raising. 
Politically, he is a liepublican. 



\ A\ jjII-I^IAir BEITTON, a well-known citi- 
\f\// zen of Solon township, Cuyahoga conn- 
■i "I ty, Ohio, was born in county Tyrone, 
Ireland, August 6, 1831, son of James and 
Catharine (Johnson) Britton, both natives of 
that same county. James Britton, Sr., the 
grandfather of William Britton, was born in 
Scotland, and removed from there to county 
Tyrone, Ireland, where he purchased 450 acres 
of land, most of which is still held by members 
of the Britton family. The subject of our 
sketch is one of a family of seven children, 
three sons and four daughters, namely: Mary, 
who died in New York; William; Eliza, a resi- 
dent of New York city; Anna, who died in 
New York city; James, a resident of Ireland; 
Samuel, who lives in Solon, Ohio; Belle, who 
died in Ireland. Both parents are deceased, the 
mother having died at the age of fifty-six, and 
the father at si.xty-seven. 

William Britton remained in his native land 
until after he attained his majority, and in 
1854 he emigrated to America, sailing from 
Londonderry to Liverpool and thence to New 
York, where he landed after a voyage of twenty- 
six days. For two years he was engaged in 
teaming in New York city. From there he 
came to Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and was for some 
time engaged in teaming for William Ilutch- 
ings. It was in 1865 that he located on his 
present farm. Here he owns 101 acres of well- 
improved land, e(|uipped with good house, barn, 



stock sheds, etc. In connection with his farm- 
ing operations, he also keeps a dairy of some 
fifteen cows. 

Mr. Britton was married April 20, 1S58, to 
Rachel Johnson, who was born in county Ty- 
rone, Ireland, June 24, 1829, daughter of John 
and Rebecca (McGinnes) Johnson, who were 
born, passed their lives and died in that county, 
both reaching advanced ages, her father eighty- 
four and her mother ninety-six. The names of 
their nine children are as follows: Margaret, 
Ann, Rachel, Robert, John, James (1), Arthur, 
Rebecca and James (2). They were members 
of the Church of England. Mrs. Britton came 
to this country unaccompanied by any of the 
members of her family, and was seven weeks in 
making the ocean voyage. Mr. and Mi"s. Brit- 
ton are the parents of four children, viz: Ida J., 
wife of Robert Thompson, of this township; 
Ira J., in the employ of the Brush Electric 
Light Company, of Cleveland; Annie R., de- 
ceased; and Lucy P., who has a position in the 
office of the Cleveland Railroad Company. 

Mr. Britton's parents were Presbj'terians, and 
he and his wife are also members of that 
Church. Politically he is a Democrat. For 
six years he has served as a member of the 
School Board. His whole life has been charac- 
terized by the strictest integrity, and those who 
know him best esteem him most. 



C. ROSSITER, chief clerk of the city 
water department, was born in Cleveland, 
October 24, 1852. He spent a brief period 
in the common schools, but not forming a re- 
markable liking for the routine work of the 
schoolroom, ceased to l)e a pupil at twelve years 
of age. He became office boy for C. R. Evatt, 
a coal dealer, at that age, and some time after- 
ward was left in charge of the business while 
that gentleman was absent on a three months' 
trip to Europe. On his return the business of 
the concern had been so well attended to that a 
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CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



made to young Kossiter by Mr. Evatt. Mr. 
Evatt opened a branch coal office and at thirteen 
years old Mr. Rossiter was given clmrge of it, 
and conducted it seven years. He remained in 
tlie coal business with other parties, David 
Lucas, M. T. Thompson, and James Rossiter, 
liis father, who purchased the business of Todd, 
Wells & Co., and is still a dealer. 

J. C. Rossiter entered the water office as a 
clerk in 1881. He has remained continuously 
through the administration of both political 
parties, being promoted four times, the last one 
in 1891, when he was made chief clerk by 
Director Herrick and continued in the same 
position by Director Farley. 

James Rossiter came to Cleveland in 1851, 
from county Wexford, Ireland. He married 
Margaret Cullen in the old country. Their 
children are: J. C; P. F.; Mary (deceased), 
married C. B. Coon; J. W. (died at fifteen) ; 
Margaret, wife of Frank Fowler, a clerk for tlie 
United States Express Company; William J.; 
and Catharine, who died in 1889. 

J. C. Rossiter married, November 15, 1875, 
in Cleveland, Catharine, daughter of Patrick 
Mahon, who was born in Roscommon, Ireland, 
came to Cleveland in 1863, and engaged here as 
a custom tailor. He married Ellen Wasliing- 
ton and reafed thirteen children. 

Mr. and Mrs. Rossiter are the parents of 
James (deceased), Nellie, John, William, Mar- 
garette and Catharine. 



EDWARD J. MAC4INN, cashier of freight 
office of the Pennsylvania Railroad, has 
1 practically grown up in the service of 

this company. He entered it as a telegraph 
operator twenty-two years ago, and by close 
application to business and exemplary conduct 
has risen by degrees and passed through all in- 
termediate stations, arriving at the goal in 
1888, when he succeeded Agent Andrns as 



cashier. 



gent 



Mr. Maginu received a liberal education at 
the puldic schools of Milan, Norwalk and Akron. 
At the last named place he learned telegraphy 
and was made night operator at Loudonville, on 
the Pittsburg, Fort AVayne & Chicago Railroad, 
this being his first permanent position. Over- 
work so aggravated an injury of the hip which 
he received when a boy that he was obliged to 
quit work, remaining idle one year, and when 
he again became an employe of the company it 
was as previously stated. 

Mr. Maginn was born in Glasgow, Scotland, 
December 15, 1856. In 1856 his father, James 
K. Maginn, came to Ohio and located in Milan. 
He was a ship carpenter and joiner by trade, 
and followed it (including two and a half years 
in the Government service during war), together 
with machine work, till retirement. He mar- 
ried Anna McEwen, and Edward J. is the only 
living one of their two children. 

October 13, 1880, Mr. E. J. Maginn married, 
in Cleveland, Maggie McConville, whose father, 
Francis McConville, resided in Sandusky. Their 
children are Ressie, Ethel and Grover C. 



d[AMES F. WALSH, inspector of boilers 
j for the city of Cleveland, was born in 
county Cork, Ireland, April 11, 1847. 
His father, Michael Walsh, an engineer, came 
to the United States in 1848 and made his 
home first in Piermoiit, Rockland county. New 
York. In 1854 he came to Cleveland and was 
employed with the Cleveland, Columbus, Cin- 
cinnati & Indianapolis Railroad Company, and 
was a trusted man, remaining twenty-seven 
years. P^'iom 1881 until 1884 he was on the 
pay roll of the Lake Shore Company. He is 
now retired, and is eighty-two years of age. 
For his wife he married Mary Irving, and 
they have seven children, the third one being 
James F. 

The latter received only a fair English educa- 
tion from the Cleveland schools. On leaving 
them he became timekeeper for Blish vfc Gar^ 



CVTAHOGA COUNTY. 



lock. He remained with them till 1860, when 
he went to Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, and 
entered on his apprenticeship as a boiler-maker 
with the New York &, Erie Kailroad Company. 
In January, 1863, with trade completed, he re- 
turned to Cleveland and worked for the C. & E. 
two years. He then went to Meadville, Penn- 
sylvania, remaining there till 1867 in the em- 
ploy of the Atlantic & Great "Western Eailroad. 
lie left the Keystone State then, and after a 
two-years' service witii the Lake Shore & Michi- 
gan Southern Railroad Company in Cleveland, 
returned to Petroleum Center, Pennsylvania, 
and spent two years with F. J. Hanna &, Com- 
pany, boiler-makers. On his final return to 
Cleveland in 1871 Mr. Walsh entered the em- 
ployment of the Cleveland Steam Boiler Works 
and remained till his arrangement with the 
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad 
Company, in 1874, when he was made assistant 
foreman of the boiler shops, holding this place 
till July, 181)3, when he was appointed by 
tlio director of fire department to his present 
poi^ition. 

In 1870 Mr. Walsh married, in Cleveland, 
Miss Ellen, a daugiiter of James Marr, a tailor 
of this city. Their children are: M. J., a ma- 
chinist; j". F., Jr., W. T., Mary I., Elizabeth 
E., Maggie II., John T. and Joseph R. 



dl M. P>URGESS, a farmer of Orange town- 
ship, this county, was born at Boonville, 
Oneida county. New York, February 6, 
1822, a son of William Burgess, who was born 
at Pittstield, Massachusetts, June 27, 1787. 
The latter's father, Jose])!) Burgess, was also a 
native of that State, and the family trace their 
ancestry to Tliomas Burgess, who came to Mas- 
sachusetts in 1630. He became one of the 
prominent and influential settlers of his locality. 
The family have always been active workers in 
churches, schools, different professions, and 
have V)een soldiers in the wars of this coiintrv. 
Williani Burgess, father of oui' subject, was 



married in 1810 to Estlier Williams, who was 
born in Leno.x, Massachusetts, in 1791, and was 
also a member of a prominent family. After 
marriage they moved to Vermont, next to 
Boonville, Oneida county, New York, and in 
1833 located in Bainbridge, Geauga county, 
Ohio. Mr. Burgess died there, at the age of 
sixty-two years, and his wife survived until 
eighty-two years of age. The former was a 
blacksmith by trade, was a Democrat in his 
political views, and both he and his wife were 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
They liad nine . sons who grew to years of ma- 
turity, viz.: John Chandler, who died at Scran- 
ton, I'ennsylvania; Allen, a resident of Russell, 
Ohio; Alvin, a prominent Methodist minister 
in Jamestown, New York, where he has served 
as Presiding Elder for a number of years; 
Joseph M., onr subject; Theodore; Charles W.; 
John W. ; Cornelius, engaged in railroad work 
at Cleveland; and D. Franklin, a resident of 
Sohm, Ohio, who was a soldier in the late war, 
a member of the Sixth Ohio Cavalry. In 1862 
the mother and nine sons met at Cleveland, 
which was the last time the ten were ever to- 
gether. 

J. M. Burgess, the subject of this sketch, 
came to Ohio when eleven years of age, where 
he was reared to farm life, and attended the 
district schools of Bainbridge. At the age of 
nineteen years he was employed as mail and 
baggage master on the Hartford & New Haven 
Railroad, continuing in that position two years, 
and is now one of the oldest ex railroad men in 
Ohio. Mr. Burgess has resided on his present 
farm of 180 acres of well improved land for the 
past forty years. He has all the necessary im- 
provements on his place, and also has a sugar 
grove of 900 trees. 

April 30, 1845, Mr. Burgess was united in 
marriage with Louisa Fowler, wdio was born, 
reared and educated at Bainbridge, Ohio, a 
daughter of Horatio Fowler, a native of Con- 
necticut. His father, John Fowler, was one of 
the early pioneers of Bainbridge. Horatio was 
married May 31, 1821, to Jemima Russell, a 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



native of Middlelield, Massachusetts, and a 
daugliter of Gideon Kussell, who was born in 
Somers, Connecticut, December 25, 1760. He 
was a Ilevolutionary soldier, and was the first 
settler of Russell, Ohio, having located there in 
1816. Gideon Enssell married Jemima Al- 
vard, wlio was born at Iladley, Massachusetts, 
in 1762. Mr. and Mrs. Horatio Fowler had 
ten ciiildren, eight of whom grew to years of 
maturity, namely: Louisa, Marvin, Harriet, 
Emily, Norman, Laura, Justin and Alferd. 
During the late war Norman was a soldier in 
the Second Minnesota Infantry, and was killed 
at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863. Two children 
died when young, — John and Ed. Mrs. Fowler 
departed this life March 23, 1866, and her hus- 
band survived until August 21, 1873. 

Mr. J. M. Burgess and wife have four chil- 
dren: John N., who received his education at 
Oberlin, Ohio, and is now a successful teacher 
in Los Angeles, California; H. N., now at 
home, who married Eva A. Straight; she died 
leaving one son, Clarence H.; Elmo J., wife of 
William A. Stewart, of Solon, Ohio; and Alice 
M., at home. Mr. and Mrs. Burgees lost two 
children by death: Emily, at the age of nine 
years, and a babe of one year. 

Mr. Burgess votes with the Republican party, 
and has served as Trustee and as a member of 
the School Board. Both he and his wife are 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 



GF. EMERY, a farmer and stock raiser of 
Warrensville township, Cuyahoga county, 
Ohio, is a man who for a number of years 
has been prominently identified with the vari- 
ous interests of this section of the country. 
Some personal mention of him is therefore ap- 
propriate on the pages of this work, and a brief 
sketch of his life is as follows: 

C. F. Emery was born in Jaffrey, Cheshire 
county. New Hampshire, April 10, 1832, son 
of Samuel and Mary (Bailey) Emery, both na- 
tives of that State. Samuel Emery was a suc- 



cessful farmer, was a tjuiet and unassuming 
man, and in his religious belief was a Univer- 
salist. He died at the age of sixty-one years, 
his death resulting from blood poisoning; and 
previous to that sickness he was never sick a 
day in his life. After his death his widow 
came to Cleveland, Oiiio, and spent her last 
days with her daughter, Erniina Kidd. Mrs. 
Emery was a woman of many estimable quali- 
ties. She was one of a family of seven, all of 
whom have passed away. The subject of our 
sketch was the fourth born in a family of seven 
children, four of whom are now living, namely: 
Louisa, widow of Samuel Bent, of Massachu- 
setts; Alnion, of Cleveland, Ohio; C. F.; and 
Erinina, wife of Robert Kidd, of Cleveland. 

C. F. Emery grew up in his native State. At 
the age of twelve he commenced work in a cot- 
ton factory, attending common school in winter. 
When he was twenty he bought the time inter- 
vening between that and his majority, paying 
his father $150 for the same. At the age of 
twenty-one he came to Ohio, and his first em- 
ployment was in a chair factory in Newburg, 
where he remained until he was twenty-three, 
and during that time laid up $700. Then, on 
account of too close confinement in doors, he 
sought a change of occupation, and turned his 
attention to the butchering business, being en- 
gaged with William B. Falloasbee. He con- 
tinued in this business until he had saved up 
110,000. Then, disposing of his interest in 
the meat market, he became a partner in the 
Ohio Chair Co., with which he was connected 
three years. Next, he began buying horses 
and selling the same to the Government, and 
in this enterprise was also successful. In the 
meantime the Civil war had been inaugurated, 
and he had sent a substitute to the field of 
action. He has continued buying and selling 
horses up to the present time. For years he 
has been engaged in heavy hauling for the 
Cleveland Rolling Mill Co. at Newburg. 

Mr. Emery has for a number of years been 
connected with the street railway system of 
Cleveland. In 18N0 he was engaged in what 



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was known as the Street Chariot Railway "War, 
which lasted for three months. At its close he 
owned 125 horses and thirteen chariots, which 
were used to convey passengers on Woodland 
avenue from the work house to Bank street. 
When the trouble was finally settled the railway 
company put its road and cars in good shape, 
and two years later Mr. Emery was chosen 
president of the company, in which position he 
remained until it was consolidated with the 
West Side. He then occupied the position of 
vice-president until another consolidation was 
effected, this time with the cable line. At this 
writing he is one of the directors of the Cleve- 
land City Eailway Co. 

It was in 1881 that Mr. Emery began farm- 
ing. He owns a large farm in Warrensville 
township, all well improved and used princi- 
pally as a stock farm, blooded horses being his 
specialty. His place is known far and near as 
" Forest City Farm." During the past year he 
sold nine horses which were shipped to Rus.-iia, 
one which went to Liverpool, and at different 
times has made shipments to Canada and to 
almost every State in the Union. At this 
writing he has about 200 head of blooded 
horses. Besides the other enterprises men- 
tioned, Mr. Emery is also interested in the 
Taylor &, Boggis Foundry Company, of Cleve- 
land. 

In politics lie is a Republican. 
Mr. Emery was married in 1855 to Miss 
Aiitonette A. Burke, daughter of Barzillai B. 
and Prudence Bnrke, of Xewburg, Ohio. They 
have four children, viz : Louisa, wife of L. W. 
Prior, resides with her father, her two children 
being Emory and Russell; Alfred B., engaged 
in a coal and teaming business in Chicago, Illi- 
nois, he and his wife, nee Laura Hartvvell, hav- 
ing two sons, Fred and Clarence; Antonette 
Augusta, who is attending kindergarten school 
in Boston, preparing herself for a teacher; and 
Christopher, who is a student in the Cleveland 
Business College. Mrs. Emery's father was 
among the first settlers of Cleveland, being 
brought here when eight years of age by his 



parents in their location here. In the war of 
1812 he was a drummer, and afterward was a 
farmer. In 1865 he received an autograph 
letter from General Winfield Scott, written at 
the age of seventy-nine years, without glasses. 
Mrs. Emery's mother was a daughter of Cap- 
tain Philo Taylor, who kept one of the first 
hotels in Cleveland. This hotel stood near the 
present site of the New England House. 



djOHN A. THORPE, division superintend, 
ent of the Cleveland Electric Railway Coin- 
- - pany, is one of those progressive young 
men whose success is due to an invincible am- 
bition to go up higher and to avoid a continu- 
ous and never-ending tread in the paths of the 
plodder or mediocre citizen. He is of hnmble 
parents, who were of foreign birth and most 
limited means, and as a consequence was forced 
to be content with only a smattering of an edu- 
cation, obtained at the Cleveland citj' schools. 
At ten years of age we find him employed in a 
coal-breaker, sorting out the slate, and on leaving 
Scranton, Pennsylvania, his old home, and be- 
coming a Cleveland boy, he sold papers, blacked 
boots and did any other honorable service to 
earn an honest penny. His mother secured two 
stands at the market and put her young son 
into the management of one of them. His next 
work was in a cooper shop of the Standard Oil 
Company, where he remained twelve years, 
completing his trade and becoming an efficient 
workman. 

His railroad experience begins with his exit 
from the cooper shop in 1881. He was ap- 
pointed a conductor on the Brooklyn line and 
was promoted to be starter at the corner of 
Pearl street and Clark avenue, and so remained 
until the consolidation in 1893, when as a re- 
ward for long and valuable service he was made 
division superintendent, having charge of all 
South Side and West Side lines of the Cleveland 
Electric Company. 



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Mr. Thorpe was born in Scrantou, Pennsyl- 
vania, May 2, 1857. In 1866 his father, J. J., 
a native of Dnblin, Ireland, came to Cleveland 
and was employed on the street railroad work 
for a nnniber of years. lie emigrated to the 
United States in 1856, locating in Scrauton, 
I'ennsylvania. He married Catherine Garrity, 
who bore him six children, viz.: W. J., on the 
Cleveland police force; T. P.; Ella, wife of John 
Kushman; May, wife of G. O. Brainard; and 
Katie, single. 

In April, 1883, Mr. Thorpe married, in Cleve- 
land, Miss Katie, a daughter of Timothy D. 
Ryan, of Ohio. Of their five ciiildren, four are 
living: William S., of Cincinnati; Grace A., 
Joseph E., Maudie Josephine (died in June, 
1892, at five years of age), and Estella. 



ri( J. EHRLER, one of the oldest i-ailroad 
iijl men in Cleveland in point of residence, 
// *\ and now local freight agent of the Cleve- 
' land, Cincinnati, Ciiicago & St. Louis 

Railroad, popularly known as the "Big Four," 
was born in this city July 27, 1846. His father, 
Joseph Ehrler, of German birth, born in the 
province of Wurtemberg, came to Cleveland in 
1838. AVhile able for duty he followed merchant 
tailoring. In his latter years he was almost an 
invalid, dying in 1888, at sixty-nine years of 
ao-e. He married a Hanoverian lady named 
Annie M. E. Hackman, who died in 1874, at 
fifty-six. Her children were: A. J.; Magdalen, 
wife of M. Nisins, of Cleveland; John, de- 
ceased, and Mary. 

A. J. Ehrler attended the Cleveland public 
and private schools, and after he began business 
attended night school, conducted by Lawyer 
Brown. 

His first work of importance was for Mr. A. 
M. Perry, a Cleveland miller, having charge of 
the retail department, remaining with him nearly 
two years, when his railroad career opened by 
accepting, February 1, 1864. a minor position 
with the Cleveland, Columbus ^V; Cincinnati 
»0 



Railroad Company, then jointly operated with 
the C. & E. and B. & E. roads. He performed 
service as caller and tally man for three years, 
when it was observed by the general agent. Dr. 
Hills, and the chief clerk, J. T. R. McKay, that 
he possessed a fitness for peculiar and important 
duties, which the management decided sbould 
be undertaken. This work was of a secret 
nature and the person who did it was nothing 
short of a detective from one railroad investi- 
gating the business methods of one of its con- 
nection, touching the matter of earnings on 
mileage. Dr. Hills appointed Mr. Ehrler to 
this difficult task and sent him to Toledo to 
keep "tab"' on the Cleveland & Toledo Railroad 
Company's business. He was absent on duty 
four weeks, and his work was so well performed 
that Dr. Hills wrote him a personal letter con- 
gratulating him on his success and stating that 
his report contained just the information the 
company desired, and, granting him a two 
weeks' vacation, requested him to report for 
regular dnty at an appointed time. He was 
given a clerkship in the local freight office, and 
was promoted in line for meritorious service, 
and in 1883 was given charge of the central 
freight station. Ten years later he was made 
local freight agent of the "Big Four." 

While Mr. Ehrler was in the employ of 
Agent Hough, of the Cleveland, Colnmbns & 
Cincinnati, Mr. Valliant, agent of the Lake 
Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad, ap- 
proached him with an offer to accept a position 
with his company, which proposition Mr. Ehrler 
submitted to Agent Hough, and then and there 
an agreement was entered into between the two 
agents not to interfere with each other's em- 
ployees, which agreement has been strictly lived 
up to. 



DR. ANNETTE T.WINSHIP, physician, 
363 Prospect street, Cleveland, was born 
in Cumberland county, Maine, a daugh- 
ter of Oliver and Clementine (Morton) Winship, 
natives of the same State, 



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Dr. Winship received her literary training at 
the Maine State Seminary, taught school two 
years in Maine and three in Massachusetts, and 
afterward in tlie high school in Dover, New 
Hampshire. Afterward she read medicine under 
tlie instructions of Dr. N. R. Morse, of Salem, 
Massachusetts, and then attended the medical 
department of the Boston University, gradu- 
ating in the class of 1882. She began the 
practice of her chosen profession in Cleveland, 
in tlie spring of 1883, and has enjoyed marked 
success. She has a general practice, which is 
mainly among women and children. She is 
now on the staff of the Women's and Children's 
Dispensary at Cleveland, and she also has been 
a member, from the first, of the Girls' Educa- 
tional and Industrial Union, and in religion she 
is a member of the Free Baptist Church. 



EORGE CAUXTER, a prominent con- 
I tractorof Cleveland, was born in England, 
in 1849. He learned his trade from his 
father, John Caunter, a large contractor, 
whose ancestors for many generations were 
mechanics. Devonshire, Ashburton, and White- 
combe were the scenes of the operations of 
John Gaunter. His wife's maiden name was 
Elizabeth Hanaford. 

George Caunter came to the United States 
in 1871 and located in Cleveland, engaging in 
building, which he has continued with but a 
single interrnption to the present time. The 
year the Xickol Plate Railroad was completed 
he went into Hancock county and purchased 
timber land, put in a sawmill and laid out a 
town, calling it Townwood. Upon closing out 
tills business he went South and was engaged in 
operating a gold mine for three years in North 
Carolina, being part owner of the business. He 
tiien returned to Cleveland and invested in the 
Stevens Dishwashing patent, and became vice- 
president of a company formed for the purpose 
of manufacturing the machine. He is inter- 



ested in the Cleveland Molding and Manufac- 
turing Company, and was its president. Mr. 
Caunter is fond of the turf and is the owner of 
some animals that have developed some con- 
siderable speed. As a contractor Mr. Caunter's 
work reviews as follows: His first contract was 
for the building of a residence on Scoville ave- 
nue; residences of F. Hirshimer, M.J. Mandel- 
baun, M. Baker, Theo. Sandford, Julius Feiss, 
John W. Heiser and L. Ernstine. Business 
blocks: Garlock block, W. J. White, gum fac- 
tory, Woodland avenue street-car barns. Hays 
Building, John Guetz, Haber Brothers and 
Halle Buildings, the new Sheriff Street market. 
Grand Stand for the Cleveland Driving Park 
Company, West Side Police station, Cleveland 
City Hospital, and many churches and school 
buildings of the city, and is now contracting 
for the King and Uhl block and the new per- 
manent building. 

Mr. Caunter married, in England, Elizabeth 
Ann Townsend, and their children are: John 
Harold, Stephen Edward, George Gilbert, 
Lilian May, and Maud Mary. 

Mr. Caunter is a Forester, a member of the 
Royal Arcanum, Cleveland Builders' and Deal- 
ers' Exchange, and the Cleveland Chamber of 
Comi 



J I AMES LUKE, an engineer and one of the 
I most trusted employes of the Cleveland &, 
— Pittsburg Railroad Company, was born 
near London, England, October 14, 184S. Be- 
ing but four years of age when his parents died, 
he was brouglit to America by an uncle, who 
proceeded on to California, leaving him in 
charge of a man named Jolin G. Abraham, a 
farmer near Wellsville, Ohio, who died June 25, 
188'J; and his wife, nee Sarah Coe, died in Au- 
gust, 1884. By Mr. Abraham was young James 
brought up to the usual work of the farm. At 
nineteen he decidetl to become a railroad man, 
and secured a position as fireman on the road 
under Engineer B. Rand; in 1876 be was prO' 



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nioted engineer, and followed that responsible 
calling until 1SS8, when he came into the Cleve- 
land yard of his company. 

October 18, 1876, is the date of Mr. Luke's 
marriage, in Wellsville, Ohio, to Laura Frances 
Mackenzie, whose father, Norman K. Macken- 
zie, married Lydia S. Gavei7and was a physi- 
cian. Mr and Mrs. Luke's children are named 
John Mackenzie and Edgar Gaver. The family 
belong to the Hough Avenue Eeformed Ghnrch. 



d I AMES NELSON BRAINARD, one of 
the pioneers of Brooklyn township, Cuya- 
— hoga county, Ohio, is the oldest of the 
nine children of Seth anJ Djlilah Brainard — a 
family which is well known in Cuyahoga county. 
James Nelson BrainarJ was born in Haddam, 
Connecticut, December 30, 1812, and in 1815 
came with his parents to Cuyahoga county, in 
an ox-cart, being thirty-five days on the road. 
Ilis father's log cabin was one of the first houses 
raised in that pirt of the township. Amid 
frontier scenes he grew up, his education being 
limited to that received in the little log school- 
house near his home. He helped his father to 
clear their land, remained at home until he was 
twenty three years of age, and then started out 
in the world to do for himself. His first loca- 
tion was in Parma township, where he cleared 
up and developed a farm. That farm he still 
owns. During his early life he took great 
pleasure in hunting, being noted far and near 
for his skill as a hunter. At that time the 
forest not only abounded in game of all kinds, 
but in it Indians were also found. 

In May, 1835, Mr. Brainard was married to 
Clarmelia A. McComber, whose death occurred 
in 1842. She was the mother of three children: 
George E., who resides in the State of Wash- 
ington; Charles W., a resident of Michigan; 
and Betsey D., who died at the age of eight and 
a half years. November 19, 1842, Mr. Brain- 
ard marrird Lucia Rndd, a native of Jefferson 
t'.ounty, New York, who was born April 10, 



1822, and who came to Cuyahoga county in 
1834, when she was twelve years old. Her 
parents, Horace and Dorcas (Wakefield) Rudd, 
were natives respectively of Massachusetts and 
New Hampshire. Horace Rudd settled in 
Maytield township, Cuyahoga county, at an 
early day, spent his life on a farm, and died in 
August, 1866, in his eighty-first year. His 
wife died at the same place, at the age of sixty- 
seven years. Mr. and Mrs. Brainard ai-e the 
parents of seven children, four daughters and 
three sons, namely: Carinelia A., widow of 
Lester D. Taylor; next came a son who died in 
infancy; Martha M., at home; Eliza M., wife of 
B. II. Brainard, of Maytield township; Lillian 
A., wife of Benjamin R. Scliaef, of Brooklyn 
Village, Ohio; Seth L., who died at the age of 
three months; Frank R., who married Rosa- 
mond M. Clayton, resides at the old homestead. 
Mr. Brainard remained on his farm in Parma 
township until 1860, when he m )ved to May- 
lield township, and since 1870 he has resided at 
his present home. All these years he has bjen 
extensively engage 1 in general farming. He 
owns 122 acres of land. Politically he i-^ a Re- 
publican, and has served as St^hool Director 
and Supervisor. 



LAWSON STILES, a most familiar figure 
I in the operating department of the Lake 
i Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad 

Company, is a representative of one of the old- 
est families of Ashtabula county and conse- 
quently of Ohio. 

Aaron Stiles, the worthy founder of the family 
in this State and grandfather of our subject, was 
born in Connecticut, May 19, 1776. In 1810 
he brought his family into Ashtabula county and 
made a settlement in Harpersfield township, 
where he improved a farm from the wild forest 
and reared a family of seven children. His wife, 
a Connecticut lady, was Miss Abagail Gaboon. 
Ezra, seventh child of Aaron Stiles and the 
father of Lawson Stiles, was born in October, 



CUTAUOQA COUNTY. 



1816, and died in 1883. He adopted the occu- 
pation of his ancestors and spent his whole life 
in his native county. He married Cynthia 
Kingsley, whose fatlier, John Kingslej, was an 
itinerant Methodist preacher, who covered nearly 
the whole of uortiiern Ohio territory organizing 
churches, and was one of those self-sacrificing 
semiiuissionary preachers whose labors did 
much to place Methodism on a sure and substan- 
tial foundation in the Western Reserve. He 
married a Mrs. AVilliams, who upon his death 
again married — this time Bartholomew Hogarty. 
Ezra Stiles was the father of three children, — 
Lawson, Mary Louisa and Loton M., deceased, 
a conductor who was killed by accident in 1891 
in the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern yards 
at Ashtabula. 

Lawson Stiles, born September 18, 1843, se- 
cured a village- school and academic education, 
left the farm at eighteen years of age, aiid his 
first permanent employment was in the service 
of the Cleveland, Painesville & Ashtabula Rail- 
road Company, being the first of his tribe to 
desert the farm and break the record of a long 
line of husbandmen. He began his service as 
freight brakeman, on May 21, 1864, was pro- 
moted to freight conductor January 8, 1866, and 
since 1880 has been in regular passenger ser- 
vice. During all these twenty-nine years of his 
service he has not failed to sign the payrolls a 
single month, giving practically an uninter- 
rupted service. 

September 20, 1870, Mr. Stiles was married 
in Ashtabula county, Ohio, to Leonora A., daugh- 
ter of F. N. Bond, a farmer of Morgan town- 
ship, that county. Only one of Mr. and Mrs. 
Stiles' three children is living: Alfred E., 
nineteen, in the fourth year in the Cleveland 
high school. 

This Stiles family was represented in the early 
Colonial history of America by one Francis 
Stiles, who obtained a grant from Lord Salton- 
stall to establish a colony on their property near 
Windsor, Connecticut. Francis Stiles left J[il- 
brook, Bedfordshire, England, with a company 
of twenty-five persons, on the ship Christian, 



and in 1635 landed at Windsor, or what is now 
Windsor, Connecticut. He met with some dif- 
ficulty in the new country by opposition from 
prior settlers, but being a man of decision and 
firmness readily established ami maintained his 
rights. 

One hundred and three years from the date of 
his settlement, John Stiles, the great-grand- 
father of our subject, was born. He served 
through the Revolutionary war and died at 
Windsor. 

Mr. Stiles is a member of Lake Shore Lodge, 
No. 307, F. & A. M., Madison, Ohio; of AVebb 
Chapter, No. 14, R. A. M., Cleveland; and 
Cleveland Division, No. 14, O. R. C. 



li 



EORGE W. PARSONS, the senior con- 
ductor in the service of the Cleveland & 
Pittsburg Railroad Company, was born 
in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, November 
11, 1830. His father, Jehu Parsons, was a 
native of the "Blue Grass" State of Kentucky, 
but in his youth went into Pennsylvania, from 
which State he found his way to Ohio, about 
1837, locating in New Lisbon, where he pur- 
sued his trade of stone-cutting until his death, 
the next year, at the age of thirty-three yenrs. 
His wife was a grand niece of James Wilson, 
one of the signers of the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence, and of the five children of this mar- 
riage three are still living. Besides our subject 
two daughters survive, — Mrs. McBride, at 
Evansville, Indiana, and Mrs. Bender in Erie, 
Kansas. 

Upon the death of his father young George 
was bound out to a gentleman, Joseph Straughn, 
a Salem (Ohio) farmer, with whom he remained 
until reaching his majority, when, for his faith- 
ful service and general good demeanor, he was 
presented by Mr. Strauglin with eighty acres of 
Iowa land, two suits of clothes and a bible. 

On casting about for an opening Mr. Parsons 
saw that railroading presented some pojsibili- 



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ties foi' at) ambitions youth, and he decided to 
try tliat. The Fort Wayne was jnst building 
tlirouo-li Salem and Canton, and he helped lay 
the track between those two points. He then 
came to the Cleveland & Pittsburg, which was 
also being built. February 2, 1852, while the 
line from Pittsburg to Cleveland was under 
construction, Mr. Parsons was acting conductor 
of a gravel train. After the opening of the 
road for business Mr. Parsons served suc- 
cessively as brakeman, baggage man, freight 
conductor, and finally, April 1, 1861, was pro- 
moted to the position of passenger conductor, 
running over the Tuscarawas branch. He has 
probably traveled a greater distance than any 
other man on the system, making twice the 
circuit of the earth annually. 

No incident or accident has ever happened to 
mar the superior record of Mr. Parsons as a 
safe and faithful man in the performance of his 
duty or to interfere in any way with the com- 
fort of a single passenger or employee. 

September 24, 1854, Mr. Parsons married at 
Smith Ferry, Pennsylvania, Helen Grace, a 
daughter of William Mclvinnell, a Scotchman, 
who in the old country was a lace merchant. 
lie resided in Liverpool, England, where Mrs. 
Parsons was i-eared. She was educated in 
Wales. The family came to the United States 
in 1846, locating in Steubenville and later in 
Wellsville, Ohio, where he died in 1864, aged 
sixty-live years. His wife, nee Agnes Hall, 
bore him five children, two of whom are still 
living. 

Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
Parsons, viz.: Agnes Amelia, wife of George 
Bruner, of Chicago, Illinois, a prominent rail- 
road man of the Cleveland & Pittsburg Rail- 
road; George C, an expressman in the employ 
of the American Express Company, who mar- 
ried May, a daughter of ex-Superintendent 
Hulburd of the American Express Com- 
pany; AVillie, deceased; Jennie, wife of C. E. 
Wliitlock, of New York city; Marion E., wife 
of John Widlar, of Cleveland, agent of W. P. 
Willis, a New York importer. 



Mr. Parsons' life has been an exceedingly 
active one, devoted to the single business of 
railroading, and with one company. Employ- 
ers have changed, superintendents have come 
and gone, and new men have grown old in the 
service, all under the eye of George W. Parsons. 



/George W. ARBLTCKLE, a leading 
I jf practitioner of medicine in the city of 
^j!^ Cleveland, was born in East Liverpool, 
^ Ohio, on the 29th of January, 1846. 
His father's name is S. C. Arbuckle, while his 
mother's maiden name was Sarah A. Hughes, 
and both are of Scotch and French lineage. 
His mother, born in Ohio, died in August of 
1878, and the father, a native of Pennsylvania, 
died in February, 1892, both in St. Paul, Min- 
nesota. The jnaternal grandfather of Dr. Ar- 
buckle served as a soldier under Napoleon, 
under whose command he crossed the Alps and 
with him participated in the famous battle of 
Waterloo. 

Until our subject was nine years old the fam- 
ily resided in East Liverpool. They then re- 
moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, and in that city 
the son grew to maturity and attended the pub- 
lic school. At the age of twenty-two years he 
entered the wholesale grocery store of his 
brother, who is now a retired merchant of St. 
Paul. In the employ of his brother he re- 
mained until 1878. From an early age he had 
a manifest love for the suljject of medicine and 
allied subjects, and throughout his early life he 
improved every opportunity of gaining knowl- 
edo-e relating to these subjects, and long before 
he entered the profession in which he has been 
so successful he was known as " Dr. Arbuckle." 
In 1878 he entered the State University of 
Iowa, where he took a course of lectures in 
medicine, and in 1879-'80 he attended the 
Hahnemann Homeopathic College at Chicago, 
where he graduated in the spring of 1881. His 
preceptor was Dr. Charles Draper Williams, 
who was one of the most noted physicians of his 



CU YAHOO A COUNT t. 



day, being known thronghout the United States. 
He was the cliief founder of the Cleveland 
Homeopathic College. With Dr. Williams our 
suhject studied and prepared liimself, in the 
main, for his profession. While under the 
guidance of Dr. Williams he was sent by tiie 
doctor to Pine City, under a call for a pliysician 
to administer to tiie wants i)f an afflicted popu- 
lace, wiio were in tiie midst of an epidemic of 
scarlet fever. Upon tiiis errand Dr. Arbnckle 
distinguished liimself by handling his patients 
witli plienoiiienal skill and success. After 




gradiiatini;- in his jirofessii 



id there h 



located in Min- 
mtil November 



1, 1884, when he removed to Toledo, Ohio, 
where he intended to locate, but became dissat- 
isfied with tlie place and surrounding country, 
and came on to Cleveland. Here he has practiced 
since May 1, 1885. He was appointed surgeon 
for the Valley Railroad Company and held tiie 
same position for five years, when the road 
changed management and surgeons. The Doc- 



holds 



the Cleveland Il.iiiieo- 



pathic Collesje of (ieneral Surgery. He has a 
large practice and pays special attention to the 



treatment of the diseases of women and chil- 
dren. He belongs to the clinique of gynaecol- 
ogy in the College Hospital of Homeopathy in 
Cleveland, in company with Dr. Biggar and 
others of merit and prominence in their profes- 
sion, both as practitioners and instructors. He 
is a member of the Round Table Club and 
Medical Society, and is also a member of several 
other prominent medical organizations. Fra- 
ternally he is a member of the I. O. O. F., and 
of the A. F. & A. M. In 1893 Dr. Arlmckle 
was the regular nominee of the Republican con- 
vention for the office of Coroner of Cuyahoga 
county, and at the general election in Novem- 
ber was elected by a majority of 7,791 votes, 
for a term of two years, beginning January 1, 
1894. 

Dr. Arbuckle married, in Stillwater, Minne- 
sota, December 23, 1SG8, Miss Martha St. 
Clair, who died February 15, 1870, at the age 
of twenty-three years. One child, a son, who 
died in infancy, was born by this marriage. 
September 7, 1871, the Doctor married Miss 
Elizabeth A. Caine, a daughter of Thomas A. 
and Lucinda Caine, and by the second marriage 
six children have been born, the oldest being 
Samuel T., a student at the Cleveland Homeu- 
jiatliic Medical College; the second, George A\"., 
is also a student at this college; tliQ third child 
is Elizabeth Miranda; the fourth, Daisy Viola; 
the tiftli, Cora Pearl; and the si.xth, Myrtle Ivy. 

The Doctor and wife and family are of the 
Presbyterian Church faith. Politically Dr. Ar- 
buckle is one of the active R'^publicans of the 
city. 

He liimself is one of eight children who grew 
to maturity, and the following are their nam^s: 
Ann .1 , wife of Captain Jeremiah Welter, of 
St. I'aiil, Minnesota; Samuel Culbertson, re- 
tired nierchanl of St. Paul, served in Company 
A, Sixth Minnesota Regiment; Thomas Hughes, 
a retired citizen of East Liverpool, Ohio; Ben- 
jamin Franklin, who died at Helena, Arkansas, 
as a solilier in Company A, of the Sixth Minne- 
sota Regiment; Francis Marion, a resident of 
St. Paul, Minnesota, served for si.x years as 



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Slierifl of that county, and is now a real-estate 
dealer; tlie next child in order of age is George 
AV. Arl)iickle, the subject of this sketuii, while 
the next is William II. W., a resident and specu- 
lator of St. Paul; the last is Alfred J., a resi- 
dent of the same city. 

Tlie father of these children was a successful 
contractor and builder. He was a mason by 
trade, but building and contracting was his life 
business. lie retired from active business life 
in 18G8 and died in 1892, at the ripe old age of 
eighty two years. 



T. BLAISDELL, a pioneer engineer on 
the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & 
St. Louis Railroad, was born in Lake 
Village, New Hampshire, December 8, 1829, a 
son of Eliphal^t Blaisdell, a merchant in early 
life and afterward a farmer. He was born Sep- 
tember 25, 1797, and died at the age of ninety- 
two years and six months. His father was born 
in New Hampshire before the American Revo- 
lution, of English ancestry, married a Miss 
Malone, and they had the following children: 
Hannah; John, a sailor; Betsey; Hugh, who 
served as a Captain in the war of 1812; Elipha- 
let; and Polly. The father was afterward mar- 
ried to a Mrs. Oliver. The maiden name of 
Mr. Blaisdell's mother was Sarah Robinson; her 
father was killed at the battle of Bunker Hill, 
January 17, 1776. Mr. and Mrs. Eliphalet 
Blaisdell had three children, viz: P. O., conduc- 
tor on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago 
Railroad, and died in Chicago; Jacob R., an en- 
gineer on the same road; and B. T., our subject. 
The latter left home at the age of seventeen 
years, after receiving only a limited education, 
went to Lowell, Massachusetts, and was em- 
ployed in a market one year, and for the follow- 
ing four years was engaged in teaming in Boston. 
He then decided to try his future in the AVest, 
and accordingly located in Cleveland, Ohio, in 
1854. In April of the same year Mr. Blaisdell 
began work as a fireman on the Cleveland, Cin- 



cinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad, under 
Engineer Frank Libby, long since deceased. 
He remained in that capacity until Christmas, 
1861, was then promoted to be engineer, and 
for the following eight years served in the freight 
department. During that time an accident oc- 
curred which came near costing him his life. 
His train was nearing Columbus, and while go- 
ing down the steep grade into town he whistled 
for brakes, but the brakeman discovered the 
train to be broken in two. He then lost his en- 
tire self-possession, and, being unable to render 
the engineer any assistance, the train went into 
the yard with such speed that it struck an engine 
standing on the turn table, sending it into the 
machine shop, also tore down brick walls, and 
wrecked things generally. Mr. Blaisdell re- 
mained with his engine and was unhurt, but the 
fireman jumped on entering the roundhouse and 
was killed, as was a wiper under the engine 
standing on the turn table. Since 1869 Mr. 
Blaisdell has been in the passenger service, and 
has failed to respond to his regular call on very 
few occasions, one having been during his visit 
to the World's Fair. In 1874, with the L. M. 
Hubby, No. 140, he pulled aVanderbilt special 
from Cleveland to Cincinnati, a distance of 245 
miles, in 302 minutes. 

Mr. Blaisdell was married in 1880, to Mrs. 
Sincrleton. 



LFRID P. DITTOE, civil engineer 
for the New York, Chicago & St. 
Louis Railroad, is a worthy representa- 
tive of one of the pioneer families of Perry 
county, Ohio, where he was born at Somerset, 
December 25, 1855. In the spring of 1864 his 
parents removed to Vineland, New Jersey, 
where his father engaged in farming; three 
years later the family i-eturned to the West, set- 
tling in Covington, Kentucky, some years after- 
ward removing to Newport, same State. Young 
Dittoe attended the district schools in New Jer- 
sey, and while residing in Covington was a pn]iil 



GUTAHOGA COUNTY. 



in the public and Catholic schools. When he 
had decided to devote his life to the profession 
of civil engineering he entered the office of 
Joseph Earushaw, civil engineer and surveyor, 
Cincinnati, Ohio. He began his studies there 
April 1, 1872, applying himself diligently to 
mathematics, and also attending the night 
classes of McMicken University and the Oliio 
Mechanics' Institute. 

When the "Nickel I'latc " railroad was being 
constructed Mr. Dittoe resigned his position 
with Mr. Earushaw, and entered the service of 
the construction company as draughtsman: 
April 1, 1881, J. A. Latcha was chief engineer 
with headquarters at Cleveland, Ohio. When 
the latter resigned in 1884 the position of chief 
engineer was abolished, and Mr. Dittoe was 
placed in charge of the office with the title of 
engineer. He had in his care the maps and rec- 
oi"ds of the company, and designed some of the 
principal bridges and buildings. He still fills 
this position, where his ability and integrity 
have long bi-en recognized and appreciated. 

At Buffalo, New York, September 9, 1880, 
Mr. Dittoe was united in marriage to Isabella 
Bryans, daughter of Thomas and Jane (Graham) 
Bryans. Mr. Bryans was born at Glasgow, 
Scotland, April 1, 1829, and died at Buffalo, 
November 8, 1S8G. He crossed the sea to 
America in 181(3, settling in the village of 
Arthur, Wellington county, Canada West, where 
Mrs. Dittoe was born September 30, 1859. 

Jacob Dittoe, the great grandfather of Wilfrid 
P. Dittoe, was a prominent figure in the early 
history of the Catholic Church in Ohio. He 
donated 320 acres of land near Somerset, Perry 
county, to Bishop Fenwick, for the purpose of 
establishing a Dominican convent: his son, 
Peter, superintended the building of a church 
thereon, being the first Catholic Church erected 
in the State. Jacob Dittoe was a son of Joseph 
Dittoe, who came from Alsace when that prov- 
ince belonged to France; the name was then 
spelled De Toe. I'eter Dittoe, son of Jacob 
Dittoe, was born at Eininitsl)urg, Maryland, 
July 18, 1793, and died at Somerset, Ohio, July 



80, 1868. He came to Ohio with his parents 
in 1802, and in 1812, when the United States 
called for troops to defend the northern frontier 
against the invasion of the British, he joined 
General Harrison's army and aided in giving 
the arms of the Crown their second American 
defeat. He married Ann Spurk, the union be- 
ing consummated July 4. 1817; Mrs. Dittoe 
was a daughter of Peter Spurk, of Chillicothe, 
Ohio. There were born to them a family of 
eight children: Elizabeth, Cecelia, Francis R., 
Lewis H., George M., William T., Gertrude and 
Peter. 

George M. Dittoe, father of Wilfrid P., was 
born at Somerset, Ohio, May 21, 1830. He 
completed the literary course at St. Joseph's 
College, which was then in existence near 
Somerset, studied law, and was admitted to the 
bar, bnt never engaged in the practice of his 
profession. Drifting into journalism he became 
the proprietor and editor of the Democratic 
Union published at Somerset, and conducted 
this paper successfully until the spring of 1864. 
For a number of years he has been editor of the 
Kentucky State Journal, published at Newport. 
November 28, 1854, he wedded Martha V. 
Elder, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Elder, 
of Somerset, Ohio. Seven children were born 
of this marriage: Wilfrid P.; Herman A., a 
resident of Piqua, Ohio; one child that died in 
infancy; Gussie C, wife of H. T. Byiium, of 
Cincinnati, Ohio; Ralph E., of Washington, 
District of Columbia; Louis G. and Eugene C, 
both citizens of Cincinnati. The mother of this 
family was born at Somerset, Ohio, July 26, 
1834. Charles Elder, her father, was born at 
Emmitsburg, Maryland, in January, 1798, and 
died at Lancaster, Ohio, Decembers, 1S70. His 
ancestors were among the first Catholic families 
to settle on Maryland soil, having come over as 
members of Lord Baltimore's colony in 1634. 
Mr. Elder removed to Ohio in 1814, but did not 
settle at Somerset until 1828; there he married 
Elizabeth Lynch, daughter of John and Eliza- 
beth (Ledwidge) Lynch, of Zauesville, (!)hio. 
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were James and Ann (Hughes) Elder; Ann 
Hughes was a relative of Archbishop Hughes, 
and was of Irish descent. 

Wilfrid P. Dittoe and his wife, Isabella, are 
tlie parents of a family of seven children: Ger- 
trude; Florence, deceased; Wilfrid, Howard G., 
Isabella., Gerald C. and Kalph. Mr. Dittoe 
belongs to the Civil Engineers' Club of Cleve- 
land, and is one of the leading members of the 
profession in the State. 



GIBBS, a prominent business man of 
North Eoyalton, was born February 6, 
1825, in Milford, Massachusetts, a son of 
Benjamin Gibbs, who was born in the same 
town, was a cabinet-maker by trade and married 
Miss Pedee Thayer, and had two children: Chi- 
rinda, who married Elihu Veber, and Clark, 
the subject of this sketch. In the autumn of 
1825, the father moved with his family to what 
is now Wyoming county. New York, where the 
following children were born: Charles, who died 
at the age of twenty-one years, unmarried, in 
Koyalton township; Leonard, who died in Me- 
dina county, this State, aged twenty-five years, 
married; Hiram, who died in Galesburg, Illi- 
nois, at the age of forty years; and Farnham, 
now a Disciple minister. In New York State 
Mr. Benjamin Gibbs owned and managed a nice 
farm of 188 acres, and worked at his trade of 
cabinet-making, and also built and ran a saw- 
mill. To secure water-power for the mill he 
excavated an extensive ditch, in which work his 
health was greatly impaired. In 1835 he moved 
to Hamden township, Geauga county, Ohio. 
He sold his farm in New York State, taking 
mortgages upon it, but, failing to realize 
upon them, he made a special arrangement, in 
1838, with Joseph Post, a real-estate dealer in 
Geauga county, and secured 106 acres of land in 
Royalton township, Cuyahoga county, and in 
the spring of that year moved upon it. At his 
home here one more son was born, named Alex- 
ander, who is now a farmer of Brunswick town- 



ship, Medina county, Ohio. His health failing 
again, after moving to Ohio, Mr. Gibbs aban- 
doned his trade and turned his attention exclu- 
sively to fanning, which he continued to the 
time of his death, in January, 1851. His wife 
survived until 1876, and they are both buried in 
the Center cemetery. They were both sincere 
members of the Freewill Baptist Church, and he 
was a zealous Whig in his political views. 

Mr. Clark Gibbs, whose name heads this 
sketch, at the age of eighteen began to learn the 
trade of wagon-making, under the instructions 
of a man named Case, at Brighton village, and 
later at various other places, until he became a 
thorough master of the art, and he followed this 
trade in subsequent life. In 1847 he bought a 
mill privilege, with an old mill. In 1848 he 
built a small dwelling-house and his wagon 
shop; then sawed all his own lumber and re- 
built the mill in 1849. Soon afterward he put 
in a turning lathe, buzz saw, jig saw and a 
grindstone, all run by water. 

In August, 1861, he enlisted in the Second 
Ohio Cavalry, which was sent to Fort Scott, 
Kansas, to do duty in guarding and scouting. 
Next it was ordered to Monticello, Kentucky, 
where it had its tirst engagement. It followed 
the raider Morgan for a short distance, returned 
to Crab Orchard, refitted, and went to Knox- 
ville, Tennessee, under the command of Burn- 
side, and was part of the command that took 
Cumberland Gap, the last time it was captured 
from the Confederates, after ciiasing them back 
toward Virginia. The regiment was then 
brought back to assist Grant at Chattanooga. 
Mr. Gibbs served with his company continuously 
until June 25, 1865, except that he was in the 
hospital from December 24, 1864. He was 
honorably discharged at Columbus, Ohio. 

Returning home he found his mill " sadly 
demoralized." The dam was washed out and 
the machinery mud-bound. He himself was 
not able to work, and labor was very high. But 
within two years he got the mill again under 
headway, with a corn-grinder added. In the 
fall of 1893 he put in one of the largest water- 



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wheels in tlie county, — seventeen feet in diam- 
eter and with a shaft twenty-nine inches in 
diameter, — and he has been engaged in milling 
to the present time, lie is a " natural-born " 
mechanic, exhibiting marked skill and origin- 
ality. He is unassuming in his manners, does 
not seek notoriety, and is a marked example 
among successful men. He is well preserved 
and strong in his physical frame, and he has a 
pleasant home. Is a member of the Disciple 
Church, in which he is now Elder, and lie has 
been Deacon for many years. In his political 
sympathies he was originally a Whig, and since 
the dissolution of that party he has been a de- 
cided Republican, but he will not have office. 

April 2, 1848, is the date of his marriage to 
Miss Almira Kent, who was born in Brecks- 
ville, June 16, 1823, a daughter of llollis and 
Catharine (Oaks) Kent. Her parents, natives 
of Massachusetts, located in Brecksville, Cuya- 
hoga county, Ohio, after their marriage. Mr. 
Gibbs" children are: Eugene B., a farmer of 
Hinckley, Medina county; and Emily, who mar- 
ried I). J. Cook, and died February 10, 1891, 
and was buried in Royalton Center cemetery. 

Mr. and Mrs. Gibbs still make their residence 
on tlie place purchased in in 1849, — the pleas- 
est place in the world to them. 



|f AV. BURNETT, proprietor of the Chagrin 
At I Falls Livery, Feed and Sale Stables, was 
^*^ born at Russell, Geauga county, Ohio, 
March 1, 1857, as a son of Joshua and Annette 
(Smith) Burnett. His father was born at New- 
burry, Ohio, a son of Henry Burnett, a native 
of Massachusetts, who was one of the early set- 
tlers of Newburry. 

Joshua and Annette Burnett had six children, 
five of whom are now living, namely: Mary 
McFarland, of Bainbridge, Ohio; Henry H., 
of Bainbridge; J. AV., our subject; Drusilla, 
wife of AV. S. AVait, of Newburry, and C. R.. of 
Russell, Ohio. The father died at Russell, Jan- 
uary 13, 1883, and the mother is still living. 



J. W. was i-eared at Russell, and for some 
years was engaged in farming in that place, but 
later embarked in the livery business at Chagrin 
Falls, which he abandoned after eighteen 
months to engage in brick manufacturing in the 
same place. October 4, 1893, he again took up 
the livery business. ISir. Burnett thoroughly 
understands his line of work, having well ar- 
ranged stables, stocked with horses both speedy 
and safe. In his spacious carriage-house bug- 
gies and carriages, both single and double, are 
to be found; everything is of the best quality, 
and patrons are so served as to make the place 
popular. 

Mr. Burnett was married in Russell, in the 
year 1879, to Jenny McLaughlin, a native of 
the town, daughter of Alexander McLaughlin, 
born in Scotland. Mr. and Mrs. Burnett have 
two children, — Myron A. and Harry. 

Mr. Burnett is a Republican in political prin- 
ciples. Fraternally he is a member of the 
I. O. O. F., Chagrin Falls Lodge, No. 290. 



l^llLLIAM C. POLLXER, Cleveland's 
popular and efficient Director of Police, 
^ was born in Calbe, province of Saxony, 
Germany, March 7, 1854. His father, AVilliam 
PoUner, was by occupation a manufacturer of 
woodenvvare. Young AVilliam's life until sev- 
enteen was passed in the usual manner, — attend- 
ing schools and performing those little odds 
and ends devolving on a boy about a well regu- 
lated home. At the age mentioned he sailed 
for America, landing at New York and locating 
first in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, and en- 
gaging in marble cutting and polishing. In 
1873 or 1874, in response to a desire to see 
more of our country, he visited the States along 
the Missouri river and crossing he explored 
Texas, Kansas, Indian Territory, etc., and find- 
ing no place suitable for a permanent location 
he returned east and reached Cleveland in 1878. 
Here he engaged in the cigar business, and con- 
ducted it as a manufacturer and dealer nine 
years. 



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m 



Mr. Pollner early evinced a taste for politics, 
identifying himself with the party of Jefferson 
and Jackson, and contributing to its cause in 
every succeeding campaign. As a reward for 
his services he was appointed in 1887 Ganger 
for the Eighteenth District of Ohio by Presi- 
dent Cleveland. On retiring from office in 
1890 he was made agent of the L. Schlather 
Brewing Company, and in April, 1892, was 
elected manager of tlie Columbia Brewing Com- 
pany's plant of Cleveland, terminating his ser- 
vices with them April 10, 1893, by accepting 
his present position tendered by Mayor Blee. 
He was a member of the Public Library Board 
for five or six years, term expiring in 1892. 

In discharging his official duties Mr. PoUnei-'s 
aim is to give the city the best possible service 
with the means at liis command and to secure to 
persons and property that protection guaranteed 
them by law. 



D, O. CASWELL, a prominent real-estate 
dealer of Cleveland, and Councilman 
— ' from the Si.xth District, was born in 
Medina county, Ohio, April 17, 1857. lie se- 
cured a liberal English education at the Normal 
College of Lodi, Ohio. At eighteen he entered 
a drug store at Lodi, Ohio, for the purpose of 
becoming a pharmacist. There he studied dili- 
gently for three years, at the end of which time 
he received an offer from Dr. IST. II. Ambler, a 
cousin, to assist that well known gentleman in 
handling his large real estate interests and in 
developing " Blue Rock " Springs in the East 
End, which Mr. Caswell named. Upon the 
death of Dr. Ambler Mr. Caswell was the 
proper person to administer on his large realty 
and other interests, and was so appointed. 
While engaged in this capacity he has developed 
into the real-estate business as a general buyer 
and seller for holders in real property. 

Mr. Caswell is prominent in politics locally. 
He was nominated for Councilman first in 1892, 
and elected, and reelected in 1893, by a majority 



exceeding that of any other on the ticket, lie is 
chairman of the C^ommittee on Lighting and a 
member of the Committees on Ordinances and 
Judiciary. 

Mr. Caswell is a son of Charles Caswell, born 
in Brattleboro, Vermont, September 9, 1808. 
He was a stock-raiser and one of the first set- 
tlers of Medina county, going there in 1831 
from Huntington, Vermont. His earthly pos- 
sessions at that time were an ax and twenty-five 
cents in change, — two scarce and indispensable 
articles at that time. December 31, 1833, he 
married Sarah A. Landon, a daughter of John 
R. Landon, a farmer, who came to Ohio in 1815 
from Sweden, New York, but born in Massa- 
chusetts in 1794. He married Ruth P. Stick- 
ney, a daughter of Reuben Stickney, who car- 
ried a Major's commission in the Colonial army 
during the Revolutionary war and served 
through that famous struggle. One of his sons, 
James Stickney, was a soldier of the war of 
1812. Reuben Stickney's wife, nee Sarah 
Cleveland, was a niece of Moses Cleaveland, the 
founder of the metropolis of Lake Erie. Our 
subject's great-great- grandmother was a Payne, 
a first cousin of Thomas Paine, and her uncle 
founded Painesville Ohio. The Landons and 
the Caswells are of English origin. Charles 
Caswell died November 26, 1859, and his wife 
February 19, 1877. Their children are: Cla- 
rinda, wife of W. W. Gray, of Medina, Ohio; 
Mary A., widow of II. II. Doan; Ruth, wife of 
C. L. Seeley, of Westerville, Ohio; II. A. Cas- 
well, at Medina; and D. O. Caswell. 

Mr. Caswell is Adjutant of the Cleveland 
Gattling Gun Battery. 



LUCIAN J. LITTLE, a representative citi- 
I zen of Solon township, Cuyahoga county, 
i Ohio, was born in Aurora, Portage county, 

this State, July 8, 1841. His grandfather, War- 
ren Little, one of the first settlers of Aurora, 
came to Ohio from Becket, Massachusetts, and 
in Aurora Amasa Little, the father of our sub- 



CJJyAltOOA COUNTY. 



ject, was born. The latter died in Soloti towu- 
sliip, ("uyaboga county, in 1864. Bv occupa- 
tion be was a farnier; in politics a llepnl)liean: 
in religion a Disci])le, and was eborister of the 
cliurcb and a deacon. The mother of L. J. 
Little was, before lier marriage. Miss Lucretia 
Jewett, her father being James Jewett. She 
died in 1890. Amasa Little bad six cbildren 
wbo reached maturity, four of whom are still 
living, viz.: L. J., whose name heads tliis arti- 
cle; and Alice Stevenson, Frank, and Nelly 
Eoynton, of Cleveland. Those deceased are 
Adelia and Anna does. 

L. J. Little lived in Aurora and Youngstown 
previo\is to his coming to Solon, which was 
when he was live years old. Here be was 
reared. He received his education in the dis- 
trict sebools of tliis county and at Hiram. 
Farming has been his life occupation. He 
owns 118 acres of excellent land, well improved 
with good buildings, etc., and in connection 
with his farming be is also engaged in the 
dairy business. 

]\ir. Little was married. May 21, 1808, at 
Warrensville, Ohio, to Miss Maria Conkey, who 
was before her marriage a successful and popu- 
lar teacher. Her parents, Pliny and Sylvia 
(Hancbett) Conkey, were natives of Vermont, 
father of llutland and mother of Yergennes. 
Both are deceased. Her father died at sea, 
while on his way to California in 1851, aged 
fifty-four years; and her mother died at the 
age of sixty-nine. They had eight children, 
namely: Sabinna, Fandacy, Almeda, Andrew, 
Lafayette, George, Charles and Maria. Mr. 
and Mrs. Little have three children: Fred, a 
graduate of the Chagrin Falls high school with 
the class of 1889, is now in a surveyor's ofKce 
in Cleveland; and Sylvia L. and Nellie E., both 
attending high school at Chagrin Falls. In the 
social circles of their community, Mr. Little and 
bis family are prominent factors. They are all 
members of the Disciple Church. Mr. Little 
has been and is a prominent and active member 
of the Disciple Church, holding many offices 
in the same: is now Deacon, Treasurer and 



Trustee, and for about twenty-tive years was 
chorister. His daughter Sylvia is now organ- 
ist for the church choir and Treasurer of the 
Sunday-school. Mrs. Little is a member of the 
W. C. T. U., and is an active worker in it as 
well as in the church. Politically, Mr. Little 
is a Republican, and in regard to temperance is 
strictly a Prohibitionist. 



CHARLES A. MAPES is one of the in- 
telligent and well-informed men of Solon 
— township, Cuyaboga county, Ohio. He 
is a descendant of prominent early settlers of 
the county. Of his life we make record as 
follows : 

His grandparents, John D. and Henrietto 
Mapes, came here from Massachusetts, being 
among the first settlers of Orange township, 
and took a prominent part in shaping its early 
affairs. He passed away some years ago. She 
is still living, having attained lier eigbty-first 
year. Notwithstanding they reared tlieir family 
on the frontier, they gave their children the best 
educational advantages the country afforded. 
Their son Edwin, the father of our subject, and 
the late lamented Garfield attended the district 
school together. Edwin Mapes died in 188-1. 
He and bis wife, whose maiden name was Mary 
Thorp and who was a daughter of Ferris Thorp, 
bad a family of seven children, six of whom are 
living, viz.: Perry, of Orange; John, also of 
Orange; Charles A.; Hortense, wife of Clarence 
Straigbt, of Michigan; Gertrude, wife of Ben- 
jamin Jenks, of Bainbridge, Ohio; and Fred, at 
home. Their father owned a farm of 154 acres, 
was ranked with the prosperons and well-to-do 
men of the vicinity, and in public afl'airs took 
an active part. He affiliated with the Republi- 
can party, served as Township Trustee several 
terms, also served as Clerk, and for twelve 
years was a Justice of the Peace. He was a 
member of the Free-will Baptist Chnrcb. 

Charles A. Mapes was reared on his father's 
farm, ami was educated in the district schools 



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and at Austinbiirg, Ohio. When he was eighteen 
be began teaching school. lie has taught seven- 
teen terms. It was in 1883 tliat he located on 
his present farm, and liere lie has since resided, 
carrying on his fanning operations in summer 
and teaching school during the winter. His 
farm comprises seventy-two acres and is nicely 
improved with good house and bank barn. 

Mr. Mapes was married October 18, 1881, to 
Eva Younker, a native of Solon township, Cuya- 
hoga county, Ohio, and a daughter of A. D. and 
Jane (Morrison) Younker. Mr. and Mrs. Mapes 
are the parents of six children, viz.: Alice J., 
Charles Ed, Bessie, Herman A., Florence J. 
and Clarence E. 

Mr. Mapes is like his father in both politics 
and religion. He has served as Superintendent 
of the Sunday-school, and in all matters of re- 
ligion, education and temperance is an active 
and efficient worker. 



BOAKDMAN rEAUSE,to whom ])elongs 
^ the distinction of boing the oldest resi- 
— ' dent of Xewburg township, Cuyahoga 
county, Ohio, was born in St. Lawrence county. 
New York, December 31, 1814, son of Jonathan 
Pearse. Jonathan Pearse was born in Rhode 
Island, spent the first sixteen years of his life 
there, and then removed with his father to Rut- 
land, Vermont, where he remained until after 
his marriage. In 1817 he removed from St. 
Lawrence county. New York, whence he had 
gone from Vermont, to Cleveland, Ohio, and 
located at the place where the subject of this 
sketch now lives. Ohio whs then a frontier 
State and in many portions of it there were no 
improvements whatever. At the time Mr. 
Pearse built his log cabin on this land there was 
no road in this part of the township and the .set- 
tlers here were few and far apart. Here he 
spent the rest of his life, and died in the sixty- 



third vear of his a 



ge. 



The Pearses are of 



Welsh descent. Richard Pearse, the father of 
Jonathan, was a native of Rhode Island, was a 



soldier in the Revolutiouai-y war, and by trade 
was a hatter. Further than this their history 
cannot be traced. Lucy Scovil was the maiden 
name of Boardman Pearse's mother. She was 
of English descent, was a daughter of Thomas 
Scovil, and was a native of Massachusetts. 
Massachusetts was also her father's native State. 
She, however, was reared in Vermont. Jona- 
than Pearse and his wife were the parents of 
eight children, one of whom died early. Tiie 
others all grew up to occupy honorable and use- 
ful positions in life. 

Boardman Pearse was the second son and third 
child in the above family. He was in his third 
year when he came to the farm on which he now 
liv^es, and where, with the exception of one year 
spent in Indiana, he has passed his life. At the 
time he went to Indiana he was about twenty- 
one. All these years he has been engaged in 
general farming. A portion of the old home 
farm has been disposed of, some of it bringing 
the handsome price of $1,000 per acre. Mr. 
Pearse now retains oidy forty-nine and a half 
acres of the original tract, it being adjacent to 
the city. 

September 15, 1847, Mr. Pearse married Isa- 
bel Rathbun, who was born in Avon, New York, 
January 20, 1820. They have had seven chil- 
dren, namely: Scovil V., Mary (deceased), 
Louisa, Lucy A., EUery F., Alice E. and 
Perry G. 

Previous to and during the war Mr. Pearse 
was a strong anti-slavery man. He has been a 
Republican ever since the party was organized. 
In his prime he took an active part in local 
affairs, and for a numln-r of 3'ears served as 
School Director of his district. For many 
years he has been an Elder in the Presbyterian 
Church. 



SHERMAN B. INGERSOLL, M. D., was 
, the son of the late Cyrus IngersoU, who 
was born in Lee, Berkshire county, Massa- 
chusetts, September 2, 1802. His mother was 
Fanny (Humphrey) IngersoU, who was born in 



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North Goshen, Litchfield comity, Connecticut, 
June 9, 1808. Cyrus Ingersoil came to Ohio 
with Ilia father, Calvin Ingersoil, when he was 
about twelve years old, and lived in Mentor, 
Lake county, Ohio, where he grew to manhood, 
and was there married to Lydia Barlow. They 
fettled in Mentor, where she died. They had 
two children, only one living to grow up, Cyrus 
J-., who died in Madison, Lake county, Ohio, 
during the sixties. 

Cyrus Ingersoil and Fanny Humphrey were 
married in the old Franklin House on Pearl 
street, Cleveland, Ohio, August 14, 1844. They 
settled in Parma township, Cuyahoga county, 
Ohio, in the spring of 1848. Here Cyrus 
Ingersoil died, November 8, 1877. The widow 
still survives. 

Sherman B. Ingersoil was the only child. 
He was born in Spencer township, Medina 
county, Ohio, January 28, 1848. He was but 
three months old when his parents settled in 
Panna township, where he grew to manhood, 
and has always resided. He received a common- 
scliool education, and afterward took up the 
study of medicine, graduating in the class of '70 
at the Medical Department of the University of 
Wooster. Dr. Ingersoil, however, abandoned 
his profession, and has given his attention to 
farming. He is the owner of 135 acres of land, 
well improved. 

He was married in Berea, Ohio, J3ecember 
24, 1877, to Miss Fannie A. Watson, daughter 
of James and Mary (Burton) Watson, who are 
residents of Brooklyn, Cuyahoga county, Ohio. 
Mrs. Ingersoil was born near Berea, Ohio, No- 
vember 28, 1855. Fonr children were born in 
the family of Dr. and Mrs. Ingersoil, viz.: 
Wade Hampton, Nina Estella, Lula Lorena and 
Mary Burton. Mrs. Ingersoil died Ajjril 1, 
181j6. 

Dr. Ingersoil has taken a decided interest in 
political affairs. He has been a candidate for 
the Legislatiu-e on the Democratic ticket, but 
was defeated. Since 1870 he has been a dele- 
gate to all the Democratic county conventions, 
ftud has been chairman of the Cuyahoga County 



Democratic Central Committee for four years. 
In 1893 he received the nomination for County 
Commissioner on the Democratic ticket, but was 
defeated by his opponent on the Republican 
ticket. He has also been active in local affairs, 
having held the office of Clerk of Parma town- 
ship since 1874, and having served for a num- 
ber of years on the Sciiool Board. He has also 
been one of the directors of the Parma and 
Brooklyn Plank Road Comj)aiiy since 1877. 
and is the present superintendent and secretary 
of the company. 



DANIEL McAFEE, an ex-soldier of the 
I Civil war and one of the well-known 
citizens of Solon township, Cuyahoga 

county, Ohio, is a native of the Emerald Isle, 
born in county Derry in the year 1830, son of 
James McAfee. 

When he was eighteen years of age Mr. Mc- 
Afee landed on American soil, and with this 
country he has ever since been identified. For 
two years he worked at the blacksmith trade in 
the city of Philadelphia. From there lie came 
to Bainbridge, Ohio, and continued working at 
his trade for some time. AVhen the war came 
on he was among the first to enlist his services 
for the protection of the Union. It was in 
1861, and as a member of the Second Ohio 
regulars that he enlisted. He was chief of me- 
chanics and was stationed at and near Washing- 
ton for some time. Once he was captured by 
the enemy. For twenty-six days he was held a 
prisoner at Belle Island. After the war Mr. 
McAfee bought his present farm, 150 acres, 
which is now well improved with good build- 
ings. He keeps a dairy of twenty-three cows. 

Mr. McAfee was married April 3, 1852, to 
Mary Isabelle Huddleston, who has proved her- 
self a helpmate in the truest sense of that word. 
She was born in Belfast, Ireland, daughter of 
Gilbert Huddleston. Her father reached the 
advanced age of eighty-two years. He is de- 
ceased. Her mother, now eighty-threcj is still 



CUTAHOGA COUNTY. 



living at the old homestead near Mr. McAfee's. 
They had six children: Mary Isabelle, John, 
Adam, James, Margaret and Sarah. Mr. and 
Mrs. McAfee have four sons, viz.: Thoinjison, 
a resident of the State of Miciiigan; "William, 
contractor and builder at Xewbnrg, Ohio; Nor- 
ville, a telegraph operator at Bedford; and 
James, engaged in the practice of medicine at 
Cleveland. 

Politically, Mr. McAfee is a Democrat. He 
has served four terms as Township Trustee. 
He is a Presbyterian, and three of his sons are 
members of the Disciple Church. 



OBEET H. HILL, auditor freight re- 
ceipts for the Lake Shore & Michigan 
Southern Ry. Co., Cleveland, Ohio, was 
born near London, England, February 
25, 1832. Li 1842, at the age of ten years, he 
came to this country, and was sent by his par- 
ents to a private school near Boston, Massachu- 
setts, but left school at the age of fourteen. He 
studied land surveying and when twenty years 
old was employed on a government survey in 
Canada. Afterward he was employed as a 
draughtsman for about five years in the State 
Engineer's department of New York. In 1857 
he was engaged in surveying, but as tiiere was 
little of such work to do in that year of busi- 
ness depression, he abandoned the occupation, 
and in September, 1858, entered the service of 
the Michigan Southern Railroad Company. 
Since that time he has been continuously in 
the service of that company and its successor, 
the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway 
Company. He was at first employed as a clerk 
in the Toledo freight office; afterward, in 
1863-'61. as station agent at West Detroit and 
Detroit, Michigan; in 1865 was contracting 
freight agent at Chicago; in June, 1866, was 
appointed chief clerk of the general freight de- 
partment, Michigan Southern & Northern In- 
diana Railroad; and in June, 1869, was made 
chief clerk of the department of freight accounts 



for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Rail- 
way. In December, 1890, the title of that 
ofllce was changed to " Auditor Freight Receipts." 
Mr. Hill has been in the railway service thirty- 
six years and is well known among railroad 
officials and agents, and his whole service has 
been characterized by the strictest fidelity in 
the performance of every duty that devolved 
upon him. 

His father, Charles Hill, an actor and theat- 
rical manager, married Miss Ann R. Fair- 
brother, of London, England. His only brother 
is Barton Hill, well known as an actor and 
stage manager. 

Mr. Hill was married at Rochester, New 
York, in 1855, to Miss Mary J. Jones, of 
Greece, Monroe county. New York. They have 
two sons and two daughters. The older son, 
Charles R., is traveling auditor of the Atlantic 
& Pacific Railroad, and lives at Albuquerque, 
New Mexico. The other son, Arthur E., is em- 
ployed in the audit department of the Lake 
Shore & Michigan Southern Railway, and the 
daughters, Rosalie and Grace, reside with their 
parents in Cleveland. 



ENRY RUSSELL, a large general con- 
tractor of Cleveland, was born in Stock- 
il ton-on-Tees, England, Septemljer 27, 
1840, a son of Samuel Russell, who 
moved to West Hartlepool in 1850 and was 
a foremost contractor of the place. He in- 
structed his son from his youth in those prin- 
ciples of mechanics necessary to make him an 
efficient workman. 

July 20, 1868, the subject of tiiis sketch 
reached Cleveland. He came here for the pur- 
pose of a permanent residence. He was en- 
gaged the first three years as a superintendent 
of workmen on salary, not taking any contracts 
nor being known as an independent builder un- 
til 1873. He confines himself to no especial 
class of buildings, having erected many business 
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are the residences of John E. Ensign, W. J. 
Morgan, Dr. Strong, J. H. Wade, H. E. Teach- 
out, Messrs. Barl<er and Strauss, R. H. Boggis 
and C. J. Morgan; and the factories of the 
Cleveland Foundry Company, Taylor & Boggis 
Foundry Company, and Silas Merchant's foun- 
dry, and the Wade and Sargent blocks. 

Mr. Ilussell employs from sixteen to lifty 
men, and has built up a splendid business and 
an enviable reputation as a builder in Cleve- 
land. He was the first vice president of the 
Employing Carpenters' Association of Cleveland. 

Mr. Russell married, October 12, 1865, 
Hannah, a daughter of John Wilson, a miller 
by trade. To them have been born: John Wil- 
son, an architect of Cleveland; Ann Elizabeth; 
Samuel, a mechanic, and a partner with his 
father, firm of Russell & Son; Harrieand Emily. 

Mr. Russell is a devout Christian gentleman 
and active worker in the ranks of the Salvation 
Army and does his whole duty to man and to 
his Maker without reserve. 



EORGE H. BILLMAN, attorney at law, 
t Cleveland, Ohio, is one of the rising 

meinburs of the bar of Cuyahoga county. 

lie was born at Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, 
and received his elementary education in the 
public schools of his native town. He was 
afterward a student at the Western Reserve 
Academy, at the United States Military Acad- 
emy at West Point, and at the University of 
Wooster, Ohio, being graduated at the latter 
institution with the degree of A. B. in 1887. 
Having determined upon the law as his profes- 
sion he ctitered tiie University of Michigan, 
from which he received the degree of LL. B. in 
1889. He was admitted to the bar of Cuyahoga 
county in December, 1S90, and since that time 
has been practicing in Cleveland. For two years 
he was associated with the Hon. Henry McKin- 
ney, under whose direction he had begun the 
study of law. He now occupies ofHces at i^os. 
929-'30-'31, Society for Savings Building, 
working independently. 



Politically Mr. Billman affiliates with the 
Republican party, taking an active interest in 
the issues of that body. He is a member of the 
Euclid Avenue Presbyterian Church. A young 
man of many social accomplishments, he enjoys 
a wide circle of friends. 



I^IrEWMAN ROBIXSON,of Bedford, Ohio, 
I Vl was born in ISTewburg, Cuyahoga county, 
Jj 11 March 20, 1817, a son of Stephen and 
V Mary (Benedict) Robinson. The father 

was from St. Lawrence county. New York, and 
the mother was a native of Vermont. Mr. 
Stephen Robinson was in the war of 1812. In 
1813 he came to Cuyahoga county with his 
family, and December 31, 1818, settled in Bed- 
ford as one of the first settlers of the town. 
Stephen and Mary Robinson had twelve chil- 
dren, viz.: Daniel, Isaac, Nathan, Maria, Eb- 
enezer, Anna, Ezra, Nathaniel, Sally, John, 
Newman and Cornelia. Of this number two 
are now (1893) living — Sally and Newman; 
John departed this life January 7, 1891, aged 
seventy-nine years. Tlieir father was a farmer, 
politically a Whig, and religiously a member of 
the Baptist church. He died September 18, 
1882. The mother died March 14, 1854, at 
eighty- two years of age. 

Mr. Newman Robinson, the eleventh of the 
twelve children, received his education in Bed- 
ford schools, and by practical experience after- 
ward in doing business. His first work was 
driving an ox team in a brick yard; later he 
worked on a farm. In 1810 he bought a tan- 
nery learned the trade of his workmen, and 
carried on this business successfully for thirty- 
three years. He also engaged extensively in 
shoe manufacturing for many years. In 1878 
he sold out the tannery business, and has since 
been in the shoe trade. In 1860 he built a fine 
two-story brick building for his business, which 
was burned in 1S91. In 1892 he built a three- 
story brick block, a credit to the; town, 




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Mr. Robinson was married September 26, 
1839, to Laura Kenjon, born at Adams, Jeffer- 
son county, New York, a daughter of James 
and Hannah (Oatinau) Kenyon, both natives of 
New York, the father from Jefferson county 
and the mother from Herkimer county. They 
came to Bedford in 1838. The father was a 
soldier in the war of 1812. He died March 2, 
1873, and the mother October 7, 1875. They 
had seven chihlren, namely: Laura, Lodusca, 
Caroline, Roderick, James, Lucy Ann and 
Adaline. The father was a farmer by occupa- 
tion, a Democrat and a member of the Baptist 
Church. 

Mr. and Mrs. Robinson have had three chil- 
dren: Frederick H., born February 17, 1841, 
died June 29, 1865; F. A., born September 15, 
1850, died May 30, 1852; and Dora B., born 
June 27, 1858, died September 26, 1880; she 
was a successful and popular teacher, active and 
zealous in church and Sabbath-school work; her 
death was a great loss to her parents, the church, 
the Sabbath-School and the village. 

Mr. Robinson is a Prohibitionist. He has 
been a member of the Town Council, and 
Treasurer of the School Board. For forty years 
he has been a Deacon in the Baptist Church. 
His wife lias been active in the W. C. T. U. 
She united with the Baptist Church at the same 
time with her husband. 



d( P. McKINNEY, a mason, contractor and 
builder, and member of the City Council 
— fruni the Second District, was born in 
county Leitrim, Ireland, in November, 1840. 
He arrived in Cleveland May 4, 1867, and the 
first year was a lay workman at his trade. Hav- 
ing a small surplus fund accumulated from his 
year's work, in 1868 he engaged in contractitig 
and has followed the same business since, taking 
and completing many large contracts for build- 
ings of every description. He is well known in 
his line, and his reputation for fail- and sipiare 
dealing is untarnished. 



Mr. McKinney became interested in politics 
as soon as he became a citizen, and at once iden- 
tified himself with the Democracy. His first 
candidacy was in 1884, when he made the race 
for Councilman from the Seventh ward, but was 
defeated. He was not again a candidate until 
1891, when he made the race for the Council 
from the Second District, and was elected with- 
out opposition. In this Council he was chair- 
man of the committee on Harljors and Wharves; 
and was on committees on License, Public 
Works, Streets and Railroads. 

In April, 1893, Mr. McKinney was re-elected 
to the Council by a majority of over 800 votes. 
His committee relations are much the same as 
they ^eve in the previous Council of 1893. He 
introduced a resolution, which was unanimously 
adopted, providing that street railroads should 
not be granted any further privileges; that they 
should agree to pave sixteen feet of any street to 
be used by them as a right of way for a double 
track, and seven feet for a single track; and to 
give transfers for one continuous ride on all 
branches of the same company with which they 
come in contact. He was the same year inter- 
ested in a measure to reduce the price of gas 
from .fl.OO per 1,000 feet to $0.60, which re- 
sulted in a compromise of $0.80 per thousand. 
He also secured the passage of a resolution forc- 
ing the cable road to run a night car between 
12 p. M. and 6 a. m. In the present Council he 
is interested in securing the passage of the Rus- 
sell Scofield Street Railway ordinance, a much 
needed franchise at this time. 

Mr. McKinney is a son of John McKinney, 
a farmer, who married Catharine McMorrow, 
now a resident of Cleveland. John McKinney 
died in January, 1889, at seventy-six years of 
age. His children were: P. J.; Bridget; Cath- 
arine, wife of James Mehan; John, deceased; 
Terens, deceased; Mary Ann and Mai-garet, 
both deceased. 

Mr. McKinney is often a delegate to county 
and State conventions of his party, and was 
present at the national cotivention when General 
Hancock was nominated for President of the 



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United States. He was treasurer of the comity 
central coinmittee during Johnson's first cam - 
])aign, receiving and disbursing more tlian 
110,000. In 1884 he was vice president of the 
Seventii Ward Democratic Club. The same 
year he passed through an almost fatal spoil of 
sickness, and on his recovery read from half a 
dozen papers the announcement of his death! 

In February, 1886, Mr. Mclvinney married 
Eva, a daughter of George Tlioma. Their chil- 
dren are Patrick J., Mary Ellen and John 
Henry. 

Mr. McKinney is a member of the A. O. H., 
of which he is State Treasurer for Ohio, and a 
Knight of St. John. 



JjOHJST JASTEE, cashier of the Woodland 
I Avenue Loan Company, engaged in the 
banking business in 1867, as collection 
clerk for Henry Wick ife Company, just as he 
bad completed a course at Bryant & Stratton's 
Business College and was but fifteen years of 
age, and he remained in the employ of that in- 
stitution uninterruptedly for twenty-two years, 
serving in the several capacities of bookkeeper, 
discount clerk and teller, retiring when he was 
holding the last named position. He aided in 
the organization of the Dime Savings and Bank- 
ing Company, but before final articles of incor- 
poration were issued he cast his lot with the 
Woodland Avenue Loan Company as its cashier. 
In November, 1889, this institution had a capi- 
tal stoclc of $50,000, one year later its capital 
was increased to $150,000, and during the sum- 
mer of 1893 the capital was again increased, this 
time being brought up to §250,000. Its author- 
ized capital is now (February, 189-4) half a mil- 
lion dollars, of which half is paid up; and the 
deposits now auiountto $1,400,000, with a sur- 
plus of $50,000. During the recent panic this 
bank paid currency, refusing to permit custom- 
ers to use pay-roll checks. They not only had 
a plenty of currency witii which to meet the de- 
mand made on them, but also helped customers 
of other banks to meet their pay rolls. 



Mr. Jaster was born in New York city, 
March, 1852, and the same year his father, also 
named John Jaster, came to Cleveland and 
opened a merchant-tailoring establishment, and 
remained in that business permanently for thirty 
years or more, enjoying a successful trade. He 
is now retired, and aged seventy-five years. His 
birth occurred in Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Ger- 
many, and he emigrated to this country in 1851. 
He married Miss Xavian and had three cliil- 
dren: J. W., Charles and Moritz, — all living in 
Cleveland. 

Mr. Jaster, whose name introduces this 
sketch, is usually independent in politics, tak- 
ing active part in public affairs, but prefers to 
keep ont of " politics," although he watches the 
general trend of them with a sharper eye than 
he apjiears to have in that direction. Once he 
was nominated for the Board of Education on 
the Democratic ticket in a very strong Repub- 
lican district, and lacked only twenty-one votes 
of being elected. 

He was married in this city, in the autumn 
of 1877, to Miss Lucy Abrecht, a daughter of 
Louis Abrecht, a jeweler, and they have three 
children: Clara, fifteen years of age; Jessie, 
thirteen: and John, Jr., seven years of age. 



AMALIEL E. HEPJIICK, the subject 
of this sketch, was born January 17, 
^i 1827, in Wellington, Lorain county, 
Ohio. His father was a descendant of 
the Revolutionary stock of that name, of Berk- 
shire county, Massachusetts, and came to Ohio 
when a young man. Mr. Herrick's grandfather, 
Francis Herrick, was a Colonel in the war of 
1812, and the Herrick family owned one-fourth 
of the township of Wellington. He received 
his early education in the common schools, and 
subsequently attended Oberlin College, where 
lie spent nearly three years, being forceil to 
leave college at that time on accouTit of ill 
health. He began the study of law in the oftice 
of Andrews, Foot & Hoyt in 1850, and was ad- 



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uiitted to the bar in 1852. Some time after- 
ward he bought out tlie business of the law firm 
of Cowles & Mastick and began the practice of 
law alone. Mr. Herrick was so successful dur- 
ing the first eight months of his law practice as 
to be enabled to pay the entire pui'chase price. 
His practice kejit increasing in a general way 
and so continued for ten years. In the mean- 
time he admitted to a partnership Merrill Bar- 
low, and the firm name became Ilerrick & 
Barlow. This partnership lasted until Mr. 
Barlow was appointed by Governor Brough 
Quartermaster General of Ohio. He then prac- 
ticed alone until the year 1873, when he ad- 
mitted his brother .1. F. Herrick as partner, 
which partnership lasted about fifteen years. 

Mr. Herrick has for the greater part of his 
law practice had the care and management of 
large estates, and large properties belonging to 
others. He has handled the property of several 
large estates for a term of over twenty years, to 
the entire satisfaction of his clients. Besides 
being president of the Cleveland Linseed Oil 
Company, Mr. Herrick is a director in the East 
Cleveland Railway Company, and is engaged in 
many other large business enterprises. He has 
been Trustee of the First Presbyterian Church 
for fifteen or twenty years, and for the past ten 
years President of the Board of Trustees of that 
church. He is also a Trustee of the Cleveland 
School of Art. Cleveland Bethel Union, and the 
Humane Society. He has not only given freely 
of his time to these societies and organizations, 
but has always responded promptly and gener- 
ously with financial aid when solicited or occa- 
sion required. 

He has been very successful in his undertak- 
ings, and has amassed a large amount of 
property from which he derives a good revenue. 
He has always been an energetic factor in any 
movement, private and public, which had for its 
object the benefit of the business interests of 
the city, and is highly regarded both personally 
and professionally. Mr. Herrick was married 
to Ursula Andrews, daughter of Sherlock J. 
Andrews, of Clevelaml, Ohio, in January, 1800, 



and they have had five children, of whom two 
daughters and one son are now living. His son, 
Fra!ik R. Herrick, graduated at Yale in the 
class of 1888, and took a post-graduate course at 
Harvard, and is now engaged in the practice of 
his profession as a member of the firm of Her- 
rick & Hopkins, at Cleveland. The daughters 
are Ella H. and Ursula A., one of whom has 
just finished her education, and the other is still 
pursuing her studies. 



HAELES W. CHASE, a representative 
business man of the city of Cleveland, 
was born in Portage county, in this State, 
in the year 1846, of New England ancestry. 
His father, Captain Charles W. Chase, was born 
and brought up on the island of Nantucket, 
Massachusetts, and, in common with a large 
majority of the inhabitants of that island, he 
adopted a seafaring life. At the age of four- 
teen years he shipped on a whaling vessel as a 
" boy before the mast," the duties of which sit- 
uation he performed faithfully, and continued in 
the service for over twenty years, rising througii 
the various positions incident to the business 
until he became master of a vessel. His mother 
also was of the good old New England stock, 
beino- a great-grandchild of Captain Hezekiah 
Coflin, who commanded the ship Beaver, of 
Boston Harbor " tea party " fame. 

Mr. Chase, whose name introduces this brief 
biographical sketch, was educated in the com- 
mon schools of his native county, and completed 
his school days in the higher grades at the acad- 
emy at Newton Falls, Ohio. In the spring of 
1804 he came to Cleveland and engaged in tiie 
clothing business, becoming a clerk in the store 
of C. H. Robison, on Superior street, who was 
then known as the " Yankee clothier." He re- 
mained there about two years, and then entered 
the employ of J. H. DeWitt & Company, and 
then continued with James W. Cnrson, the suc- 
csssor of DeWitt & Compmy. In 1872 Mr. 
Chase became a member of tlie firm, which was 



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changed to James W. Carson & Company, and 
remained in that relation until January, 1882, 
when, the business becoming unprofitable, the 
firm was obliged to make an assignment. 

Soon after this Mr. Chase became identified 
with the successful merchant-tailoring business 
of James II. Cogswell & Company, who suc- 
ceeded to that branch of the business after the 
Carson failure; he remained there for eight 
years. 

In 1872 Mr. Chase was married to Miss Al- 
mira F. Cowles, a daughter of the late Edwin 
Cowles, and they have had three cliildren, only 
one of whom is now living, namely, Helen E. 
Upon the death of Mr. Cowles in 1890, Mr. 
Chase became a trustee and secretary and treas- 
urer of his estate, to the interests of which he 
has mainly confined himself up to the present 
time. He is also prominently identified with 
other business interests, l>eing a director and 
secretary of the Cleveland Leader Company, and 
also holding the same positions in the Cowles 
Electric Smelting and Aluminum Company, the 
W. B. Davis Company, men's furnishers, and 
the Maple Grove Dairy Company, large dealers 
in dairy products, and pioneers of the practice 
of delivering milk and cream in glass bottles. 

In addition to his numerous business duties, 
Mr. Chase has found time to attend to church 
and benevolent work, and in these relations is 
connected with the Young Men's Christian As- 
sociation as director and vice president, and with 
the Second Presbyterian Church in several of- 
ficial relations. For many years Mr. Chase has 
been an active and consistent member of tliat 
influential denomination of working Christians. 



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[OITN I. NUNN, an embalmer and funeral 
director, at 559 Woodland avenue, has 
been identified as a business man with the 
city of Cleveland since 1881, when he opened 
up his present business on the East Side. 

He is a son of Isidor Kunn, one of the old 
settlers of this city. His father was born in 



Germany, September 12, 1832. His parents 
died in their native land, where he was reared 
and educated. At the age of eighteen years 
Mr. Isidor Nunn came to America, and coming 
to Cleveland located in this city about 1850, and 
for nearly a half century he has resided here. 
In early life he had learned the cabinet-maker's 
trade, and at this he was employed until 1866, 
when he opened up an establishment of his own 
in the furniture and undertaking business. 
About the year 1870 he disposed of the furni- 
ture feature of his Inisiness and thereafter 
turned his whole attention to undertaking. He 
is one of the active and progressive men of this 
city to-day; is an active director in the Lorain 
Street Bank, and sustains other important busi- 
ness relations. 

He married in this city, Carolina Mnller, who 
has borne him a family of nine children, as fol- 
lows: John I.; Charles F., deceased, dying after 
reaching a very promising and enviable posi- 
tion and reputation in the undertaking business; 
Lizzie; Caroline; George, deceased; Frank G.; 
Lena; Adolph and "Willie. The father of these 
children belongs to that sturdy, honest Teutonic 
class of people, more often referred to as "our 
good German citizens." In politics he has al- 
ways l)een a stanch Democrat. He has a good 
and faithful wife, who was a devoted mother 
and loved friend. Death claimed her in 1875. 

Their son, John I., whose name introduces 
this personal sketch* was born in Cleveland, 
August 23, 1860. He attended the city schools 
and then gained a practical education in a local 
business college. He adopted the vocation of 
his father, that of an undertaker, and spent 
much time in preparation for thel)usiness. One 
year was spent in the West at Kansas City, 
Missouri. He then returned to Cleveland and 
began a business for himself. He has enjoyed 
a wide and e.xtended patronage and has made a 
close study of embalming, in which he is one of 
the most successful and best informed undertakers 
in the city of Cleveland. He is one of the most 
successful young business men of the city, and 
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1890 lie was brought before the people as a 
Democratic candidate for the office of City 
Councilman for the Fifth ward, an overwhelm- 
ingly Ilepnblican ward. Notwithstanding, Mr. 
Nnnn was elected, as the first Democrat ever 
elected in the district. He was re-elected in 
1S91, and to-day he stands as a popular and in- 
fluential man in the ranks of his party, and is 
esteemed as a wise and safe public officer. 

He is a member of the Funeral Directors' 
Association of the Btate of Ohio, of which he 
was secretary for a number of years. He has 
also been president of the same association, and 
to its interests he has devoted time and atten- 
tion, striving to dispel the prevailing idea that 
the association is one formed for pecuniary pur- 
poses rather than for the purpose of educating 
its members to a higher standard in their pro- 
fession. 

Mr. Nunn was married June 2, 1885, to Miss 
Mary F. Lenze, a native of Pittsburg, and they 
now have three children, viz.: Isidore, Alardees 
and Olga. 



fll LVA BRADLEY, who died November 
Zl1\ 28, 1885, was for many years a leading 
1/ *i character and citizen of the city of Cleve- 
' land, to which place he came in the year 

1859. He was born in Ellington, Connecticut, 
November 27, 1814, a son of Leonard Bradley, 
and when a small child his parents removed to 
Ohio. AVhen a lad of fifteen years Mr. Bradley 
began the life of a sailor on the Lower Lakes, 
and followed that life for twenty-five years. He 
then settled in Cleveland, and became manager 
of a fieet of vessels of which he was the princi- 
pal owner, and from that day to his death he was 
one of the most active vessel men and heaviest 
vessel owners whose craft plied upon the Great 
Lakes. The first vessel of his OM'nership was 
known as South America, wliich was lost after a 
few years of service. Among the several ves- 
sels which he had constructed were the South 
America, l.^aytoii, Birmingham (^schooner), pro- 



peller Lidiana, Ellington and Oregon, — all of 
which he sailed. Other vessels built by him were 
the Charles Griswold, Bay City, Wyllington, 
Queen City, Kimball, Wagstafi", J. F. Card, Es- 
canaba, Newgana, Maria Cobb, — all of which 
were built at Vermillion. The first vessel built 
by him in Cleveland was the Fayette Brown; 
then followed the S. J. Tilden, Bradley, Thomas 
Quayle, Cobb, Rhodes, steamer Fay, steamer 
Chamberlain, schooner John Martin, steamer E. 
B. Hale, steamer Henry Chisholm, steamer R. 
P. Ranney, and steamer City of Cleveland. Mr. 
Bradley also owned the steamer Fred Kelley,- 
the Warner, steamer Superior, the Sandusky,- 
the steamer Sheldon and the Ely. 

He remained actively engaged in the marine 
business until the date of his death, devoting 
fifty years to the business either as a sailor or 
vessel owner. He was also largely interested in 
real estate in the city of Cleveland, and at the 
time of his death he had accumulated a very 
large fortune. He began in life with no other 
capital than willing hands and an ambition to 
succeed. Perseverance, tact and enterprise en- 
abled him to amass a fortune of over $2,000,000. 

He was married, in Milan, Ohio, to Helen Bur- 
gess, who is still living, and they have the fol- 



lowing 



children: Elizabeth, the wife of N. S. 



Keller; Eleanor, wife of C. E. Grover; Marietta, 
wife of C. F. Morehouse; and Morris A. 

Morris A. Bradley was reared in the city of 
Cleveland, received his first schooling in the 
public schools of the city and then attended 
Hiram College. In the year 1881 he became 
associated with his father in business, as clerk. 
Upon the death of his father he was made one 
of the e.xecutors of the large estate, and since 
that time his time and attention have been given 
to the management of the same, as well as to 
his own private business interests. He is inter- 
ested iu the vessel business as a member of the 
Bradley Transportation Company, and the Ohio 
Transportation Company, of which companies 
he is president and manager. He succeeded his 
father as president and manager of the Bradley 
Transportation Coin|iiiiiy, his f;itiier having 



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been its presideut from itsorgauization in 1882. 
Mr. Bradley is also president of the State Na- 
tional Bank, and also of the Cleveland and 
Buffalo line of steamers. Since tlie death of liis 
father he ha.s built tlie steamer M. B. Grover, 
the steamer Pasadena, the steamer Hesper, the 
steamer Gladstone, the steamer George Stone, 
and the steamer Alva, and has pnrchased the 
barge Adriatic and the steamer Southwest. 

lie is largely interested in real estate in the 
city of Cleveland, and he and otiier members of 
his family have been instrumental in the build- 
ing of several important business and other 
blocks in the city. 



JT. IIAYDEN, traveling auditor for the 
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway 
Company, first engaged in railroad busi- 
ness in September, 1860, as a ticket agent at 
Adrian, Michigan. A few months later he was 
transferred to Hillsdale, that State, as station 
agent, where he remained eleven years; the 
next succeeding two years lie performed the 
same same duties at Kalamazoo, and when he 
made a fourth change it was to enter on his 
duties as traveling auditor for the company, this 
appointment being made May 1, 1873. 

Mr. llayden was born at Northampton, Mas- 
sachusetts, November 4, 1825. His primary 
and grammar-school training was all received in 
the same village and most of it in the same 
building. At thirteen he was left an orphan 
by the death of liis mother, and two years later 
he set out alone for Syracuse, New York, and 
joined his brother, wlio was a carpenter and 
joiner, and at this business he engaged as an 
apprentice to his brother, serving six years, as 
was the ancient custom. 

Instead of following his trade, however, he 
turned his attention to merchandising; but in 
this bis reward was not satisfactory, and he sold 
out his business therein and went to Milwaukee, 
Wisconsin, wliere he became secretary of the 
Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and in this 



capacity he was engaged until he decided to 
enter railroad business. His only brother, E. 
T. Hayden, still lives in Syracuse. 

In that city, November 12, 1840, Mr. Hayden 
married Miss Caroline Noltou, a daughter of 
Lyman and Sarah Noltou, and a sister of Mrs. 
C. P. Leland. Mr. Hajden's children are three 
in number, namely: Charles J. and Frank N., 
of the Fidelity & Casualty Company, of Chicago; 
and Gertrude, wife of S. M. Bond of Cleveland. 
Mrs. Hayden died February 28, 1890, aged 
sixty-five years. 

Mr. Hayden joined the Masonic order at 
Milwaukee in 1854, taking the three first de- 
grees there; he received the council, chapter and 
commandery degrees in Hillsdale, Michigan, 
and the ineffable degrees in Detroit, when he 
was initiated into the Scottish rite, August 15, 
1865. He has passed all the chairs in the 
council, chapter and commandery, being five 
years Master, and one year presiding officer of 
the Grand Council of Michigan. Since 1886 he 
has been secretary and treasurer of the Lake 
Shore & Michigan Southern liaihvay Mutual 
Life Insurance Association. 



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V/V/' Cuyahoga 
1( 11 field, Por 



DER, chief deputy Sheriff of 
hoga county, was born in Brim- 
field, Portage county, Ohio, August 9, 
1865, and was educated liberally in the public 
schools of Brimfield and Ravenna. At fifteen 
years of age he entered the shoe house of E. D. 
Sawyer, of Cleveland, as a clerk and remained 
five years, or until Mr. Sawyer's election to the 
sherifi^s office, when he was made a deputy, and 
on Sheriff Ryan's accession to office ilr. Sny- 
der was appointed chief deputy. 

T. E. Snyder, our subject's father, was born 
at Rootstown, in 1842, and engaged in the shoe 
business in Cleveland for a number of years, 
but is now a merchant of Brimfield. Peter Sny- 
der, grandfather of W. S., was born in Snyder 
county, Pennsylvania, the original home of this 
German family. He emigrated to Portage 



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County, t'bis State, in 1886. He married Hen- 
rietta Wagner, and they had eight children, six 
of whom are still living. The ancestor to whom 
credit is due for the settlement and naming of 
Snyder county, Pennsylvania, was Peter Sny- 
der, a German subject, who emigrated to this 
country in old colonial days. 

T. E. Snyder married Miss Alice, a daughter 
of William Kelso, one of the first settlers of 
Portage county and proprietor of the old Union 
Hotel. Tiie chiklren of this union are: Carrie, 
wife of V. E. Underwood; W. S. ; Howard and 
Clarence. 

W. S. Snyder married June 6, 1889, in St. 
Louis, Missouri, Miss Annette, a daughter of 
F. W. Eosenthal, a wholesale carpet dealer of 
St. Louis. Mr. and Mrs. Snyder have one 
child, William Eobert. 



C. STUDLEY, of Cleveland, was born 
in South Byron, Genesee county. New 
^ York, August 2, 1844, and lived on a 
farm until the age of six years, when his 
parents removed to Rochester. He attended 
the public schools, and at sixteen left the high 
school to accept the position of cashier in a dry 
goods house. After serving in this capacity 
and that of assistant bookkeeper in two other 
and larger stores, he was tendered and accepted 
a position in Jay Cooke & Company's First 
National Bank in Washington, in September, 
1864, tilling the j)Osition of individual and gen- 
eral bookkeeper and receiving teller. At this 
time the famous firm was acting as general 
agent for tlie United States Government in the 
sale of the various issues of bonds authorized 
by Congress to supply the needs of our great 
army, to sustain our country's credit and to 
perpetuate our national unity. The subscrip- 
tions for these bonds came from all parts of the 
country and passed through the hands of tlie 
First National Bank. In July, 1870, Mr. 
Studley resigned his position there to accept 
that of teller and assistant cashier of the First 
National Dank of Cleveland, Ohio. In Febru- 



ary, 1873, the Society for Savings — now the 
largest banking institution in Ohio and one of 
the largest savings baidcs in this country — ten- 
dered him the position of mortgage and interest 
clerk, which he accepted and which he now 
holds. 

Mr. Studley has been actively identified with 
benevolent institutionsof the city, — prominently 
with the Lakeside Hospital. In 1871 he was 
elected its treasurers holding the oflice till 1883, 
when he resigned to enter the Board of Trus- 
tees. He served in the latter capacity until 
1893, when he was chosen secretary of the hos- 
pital, which office he now holds. 

Mr. Studley is a son of Luther Studley, who 
was born in Byron, Genesee county, New York, 
October 21, 1805. His forefather was from 
Wales, coming to America many generations 
ago and settling in Massachusetts, whence the 
family afterward drifted into western New 
York. Luther Studley was a land dealer in the 
later years of his life, and was engaged in 
business in Rochester. At Batavia, that State, 
he mari'ied Miss Lucy A., a daughter of Thomas 
Main, who was a farmer. February 28, 1882, 
Mr. Studley died, leaving the following chil- 
dren: Seymour L., now a resident of Omaha, 
Nebraska; H. C, the subject of this sketch; 
and Francis L., wife of William Davis, of 
Rochester, New York. 

Mr. H. C. Studley was married in Cleveland, 
October 1, 1874, to Ella M., a daughter of Dr. 
Philo Tilden, who was a prominent pioneer and 
business man of the Western Reserve, settling 
at Unionville in 1820. For four years he was 
a practicing physician over a scope of country 
many miles in extent. He became interested 
in the iron-ore business, and saw an opportunity 
to build up an industry in the manufacture of 
cast and pig iron. He built the first blast fur- 
nace on the lake, at Black River, and subse- 
quently built three other furnaces, and conducted 
the business until 1868. He supplied the Fed- 
eral Government with much of his manufac- 
tured product during the Ciivil war, for ord- 
nance and vesfel arnioi-. 



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He was from Pawlet, Vermont, his birth- 
place, graduated at the Burlington, Vermont, 
Medical College, and died in 1884, at the age 
of eighty-two years, leaving five children. His 
T^-ife, who was a Mrs. Bradley, of LeBoy. Xew ] 
York, died in 1873. 

Mr. H. C. Studlcy's cliildren are: Henry T., 
drowned June 24, 1890, at the age of fourteen 
years; Kachel M , now aged fifteen; and Edna 
F., fourteen. The family are all members of 
the Second Presbyterian Church. 



/George L. case, attorney and real-es- 
II -Wi tate dealer, Cleveland, was born October 
\^l 5, 1842, at Sharon, Medina county, Ohio. 
His father, Seth A. Case, was born Jan- 
nary 10, 1814, in Xew York State, and when 
ten years of age came to Ohio, with his father, 
who settled in Medina county, where he lived 
the remainder of his days. He was an esteemed 
pioneer of that county, a man of sterling char- 
acter, who commanded the respect of his neigh- 
bors and acquaintances, and a pioneer and leader 
in all temperance, church and educational work. 
He was a mechanical genius, and operated a 
wagon and carriage factory for a number of 
years at Sharon, where he died in 1885, having 
retired from active business ten years pre- 
viously. The Case family is of English origin, 
the early representatives of the family in this 
country settling in Connecticut. 

The subject of this sketch, after attending the 
common schools, entered the academy of his 
native town and completed the course there. 
Tn 1862 he entered the quartermaster's depart- 
ment in the United States Army service at 
Kashville, Tennessee, where he remained till 
18G3, when on account of ill health returned to 
Sharon, where for two years he was engaged in 
farming. He then came to Cleveland and en- 
gaged in the real-estate business, to which he 
confined himself till 1n7(). He subsequently 
located in Xew York city, where he studied law 
in C.ilim.l.ia CulU-ue. and graduated in the 



spring of 1880, at which time he was admitted 
to the bar of that State. He practiced his pro- 
fession in that State for about two years and 
then returned to Cleveland, being admitted to 
practice in the State of Ohio in June, 1883, 
since which time he has been an active and suc- 
cessful member of the Cleveland bar. ^Mean- 
while he has been largely interested in the real- 
estate business, building in the city on an aver- 
age of about twenty houses per year for the last 
five years. Mr. Case is one of the leading Pro- 
hibitionists of the State, and has been actively 
engaged in the interests of his party since 1871. 
He has been for the last several years chairman 
of the county executive committee, as well as a 
member of the Ohio State executive committee, 
and was for two years treasurer of the latter. 
In 1892 he was a Prohibition candidate for 
Secretary of State, and made a very creditable 
race, running ahead of his party ticket, though 
he was defeated because of the weakness of his 
party, which has steadily gained in its strength 
from the time of its organization in the State. 
In 1887 Mr. Case was married to Miss Ella 
Zerbe, daughter of the late Jonathan Zerbe, of 
Massillon. 

Mr. Case has always been a man of temperate 
habits, hence his enthusiasm as a Prohibitionist. 
His moral character is above reproach, and as a 
citizen he is of progressive spirit. He has been 
a stanch friend of education, and has for the last 
several years been a trustee of Buchtel College, 
of Akron, Ohio. 



djOHN C. IIARDEN'BERGII, Councilman 
j from the Tenth District of Cleveland, 
^ Ohio, was born in Providence, Rhode Isl- 
and, August 28, 1848, and was liberally edu- 
cated in the schools of that historic city, and at 
the proper age l)ecame an employee of the 
Franklin Machine Company, conducting an es- 
tablishment for the manufacture of cotton 
macliinerv, for the purpose of learning the ma- 
chinists' trade. In 1876 he was seized with a 



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desire to come West, and in response to it 
located in the metropolis of Lake Erie the same 
year. He was with the Cleveland, Cincinnati, 
Chicago & St. Louis Kailroad Company as a 
machinist one year; the next year he decided to 
pursue a different line of work, and accordingly 
became a locomotive lireman, October 18, 
1881. He received his promotion as locomotive 
engineer, and continued on the railroad in this 
capacity until July, 1891, when he retired to 
engage in a less hazardous employment. For a 
period he was in the tea and coffee business, 
but is now connected with the Allied Publish- 
ing Company. 

Mr. Hardenbergh became interested in poli- 
tics some years ago as a local worker and or- 
ganizer of the Single Tax forces, but not until 
1893, when a new Councilman from the Tenth 
District was to be named, did he bloom out as a 
candidate with his consent. He went through 
a heated campaign and was elected by 133 ma- 
jority, succeeding Councilman Ptak. 

In the organization of the Council into com- 
mittees Mr. Hardenbergh was placed on the 
committees on Claims and Accounts, Wharves 
and Harbors, and Labor, — being chairman of 
the latter. One of his favorite measures before 
the Council has been a bill to abolish the con- 
tract system and allow the city to do its own 
work without the intervention of contractors. 
He introduced a bill providing for the construc- 
tion and operation of all street railroads in the 
city, believing that the municipality ought to 
reap the profits incident to the operation of rail- 
road lines over its thoroughfares. He is now a 
member of the Legislative Committee of the 
Council, to which these bills were referred. 
The bills are now before the Legislature of Ohio 
for passage. 

Mr. Hardenbergh is a son of Fayette Har- 
denbergh, of Providence, Ilhode Island, who 
was a machinist and was for years foreman of 
the Franklin Machine Company, of that city. 
He died in September, 1893, sixty-nine years 
of age. His ancestors were Holland Dutch, 
some one of whom foumled the family in New 



England during Colonial times. Our subject's 
mother, Anna J., was a daughter of Stephen 
(!lark, of an old Rhode Island family and a car- 
penter by trade. The children of Fayette Har- 
denbergh and wife are: Anna C, wife of Israel 
Arnold, of Lonsdale, Rhode Island; John C; 
Amy, now Mrs William Trafford, of Fall River, 
Massachusetts; and Carlton, of Providence, 
Rhode Island. 

John C. Hardenbergh was married in Boston, 
Massachusetts, September 26, 1870, to Anna E. 
Wood, whose father, William Wood, was a ma- 
chinist there. By this marriage there is one 
child, Alice, now Mrs. John Mehringer, of 
Brooklyn village, Ohio. 

Mr. Hardenbergh was for a year Chief of 
Division No. 318, B. of L. E., and is still a 
most active promoter of the interests of the 
order, being a member of the General Board of 
Adjustment, and a member of the Legislative 
Committee, composed of twenty eight persons. 
He is also identified with the Orangemen, Odd 
Fellows and with the Protestant Association of 
Apprentice Boys. He is most heartily in favor 
of fraternities organized for legitimate mutual 
good, and is frequently found in the field of 
such organizations. 



G^HARLESJ.ESTEP, attorney and coun- 
I selor at law, Cleveland, was born July 23, 
— ^ 1858, at Cadiz, Harrison county, Ohio. 
After graduating at the high school of Cadiz, 
he was sent to Wooster University, where he 
spent three years in study. Very early in life 
he manifested a taste and disposition for the 
legal profession, and left college at the end of 
his third year to begin his study of law in the 
office of his father, J. M., a leading lawyer of 
that section. He advanced very rapidly in his 
studies, and within two years was enabled to 
pass an examination successfully before the 
Supreme Court at Columbus, to be admitted to 
the bar in October, 1881. For a time there- 
aflir le reniaintd in thccftice of hi? father, 



COTAIWGA COUNTY. 



with whom he began tlie practice as his j)artiier. 
William G. Estep, his brother, was admitted to 
the bar May 1, 1884, and talking his place with 
his father brought about the occasion of Cliarles 
J. coming to Cleveland, where he opened an 
office and began what has proven a successful 
career as a lawyer. In the spring of 1887 he 
was nominated on the Democratic city ticket for 
Police Prosecutor, and as such was elected. His 
ability in that position was so marked during 
his first term that he received a renomination 
(by acclamation) by his party, which was really 
in the minority in the city, but by the aid of 
Republican votes Mr. Estep was re-elected, in 
the spring of 1889, being one of the only two 
Democrats elected on the ticket. During Judge 
Ilntchins' occupancy of the police bench, Mr. 
Estep was called to take his place for a few 
weeks, wliich place he filled with considerable 
credit. In April, 1893, he was appointed iirst 
assistant in the department of law in the muni- 
cipal government of Cleveland. 

Mr. C. J. Estep married, in 1889, Miss Edith 
G. Arthur, by whom he has a son, Arthur. 



SEYMOUR F. ADAMS, attorney at law, 
Cleveland, was born July 3, 1837, at 
Vernon, Oneida county, New York, a son 
of Silas and Alvira Adams, of Oneida Castle, 
New York. His father was born also at Ver- 
non, July 4, 1809, and he has been a horticul- 
turist and farmer of some note. In 1858 he 
located at Oneida, New York, whei'e he still 
resides, at the age of eighty-four years. 

Mr. Adams was educated at Hamilton Col- 
lege, Clinton county. New York, where he 
graduated in 1858, with the degrees of A. B. 
and A. M. He then as an instructor took 
charge of the classical department of the Oneida 
Seminary, where he remained one year, and was 
then elected by the trustees of the Vernon 
Academy as its princii)al, in which capacity he 
served one year. The profession of law ap- 
peared early to invite Mr. Adams into its realm. 



and in 1860 he began its study at the Uuiveroity 
of Albany, New York, and graduated there with 
the degree of LL. ]>., in May, 1861, was ad- 
mitted to the bar in the same year, and com- 
menced practice in Lewis county, that State. 

The breaking out of the war changed the 
operations of Mr. Adams. In July, 1862, he 
enlisted in tlie Fifth New York Heavy Artillery 
as Second Lieutenant. February 11, 1863, he 
was promoted First Lieutenant, and early in 
1865 as Captain. Having been a law graduate 
and a lawyer by profession, he was called upon 
to perform the duties of Judge Advocate in the 
division of which liis regiment was a part, being 
detailed by the commanding officer of his di- 
vision, and upon this detailed duty he served 
nearly half of the first year of his army life. In 
1803 with his regiment he went to Harper's 
Ferry, where he was detailed as Ordnance Of- 
ficer, in which capacity he served .several months. 
Later he was detailed as Aid-de-camp on the 
staff of General Max Wel)er, commanding 
officer of the division, who afterward was re- 
lieved by General John D. Stevenson, and he 
appointed Captain Adams his Adjutant General 
and Chief of Staff, and as such he served until 
mustered out of the service in July of 1865. 
He was a participant in many important battles 
and campaigns, as the battles of the Shenandoah 
Valley, under General Sigel and Sheridan, etc. 

At the close of the war Mr. Adams returned 
to New York and there resumed the practice of 
his profession. In 1865 he was elected the 
District Attorney of Lewis county, but before 
the expiration of his term of office he resigned, 
having received a letter from Judge Bishop of 
this city, inviting him to come to Cleveland and 
become his partner in the practice of law. The 
invitation was accepted and at once Mr. Adams 
came to Cleveland. He and Judge Bishop were 
associated together in the profession from 1867 
till 1881, in which latter year the death of Judge 
Bishop occurred. In 1877 Judge Bishop's son 
became associated with this firm, and after the 
death of his father, young Bishoj) remaining in 
the firm, the style of the same was changed to 



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333 



Adams & Bishop, rather than Bishop tt Adams, 
and at present the law firm of Adams & Bishop 
has an extensive general practice. 

In 1871 Mr. Adams married Miss Eliza, the 
daughter of Sylvester Spooiier, of Vermont. 
Mr. and Mrs. Adams have two children. The 
older is a daughter, Sarah, who is now in Smith 
College as a student. The younger, "Walter S., 
is attending the Cleveland high school. 



FRANK NELSON WILCOX, attorney 
and counselor at law, was born in Brecks- 
— ville, this county, June 17, 1855, a son of 
the late Stephen Miller and Margaret (Coates) 
Wilcox. He received his early education in the 
district schools, which he left in 1871 to enter 
Oberlin College, and the following five years 
were spent in attending the higher schools and 
teaching country schools. At Oberlin College 
he took a special course in Greek, Latin and 
mathematics, and finished his course there in 
1875, at which date he came to Cleveland and 
worked in an abstract office until 1876, when he 
began the study of law in the ofhce of Prentiss, 
Baldwin & Ford, later in that of S. M. Eddy, 
with whom he remained until 1878, at which 
time he was admitted to the bar, having studied 
law after coming to Cleveland. Upon being 
admitted to the bar Mr. Wilcox opened an office 
with S. S. Wheeler, with whom he remained 
about one year. 

About this time Mr. Wilcox entered the 
Sheriff's office as a secretary, and remained there 
for two years, after which he resumed the prac- 
tice of law alone, and so continued until the 
summer of 1883. At this date he and F. M. 
Chandler became partners in the practice of law, 
and remained as such until 1885, when Mr. 
Chandler accepted the position of deputy county 
recorder. Thereafter until 1887 Mr. Wilcox 
practiced law without a partner, at this date en 
tering into partnership with Mr. T. L. Strom- 
pie. This partnershij) lasted about three years. 



Thereafter the law firm of Wilcox & Collister 
was formed, and this firm still exists, and has a 
remunerative and successful general practice. 
For the last two years Mr. Wilcox has been 
largely absorbed in that pi-actice and that busi- 
ness relating to street railways, in Cleveland 
and other cities. He is interested as attorney 
and stockholder in several companies of indus- 
trial importance. 

He was married December 25, 1878, to Miss 
Jessie F., daughter of H. H. Snow, of Brecks- 
ville, Ohio, and they have three children, Owen 
N., Frank N. and Ruth. 

Mr. Wilcox's father, Stephen Miller Wilcox, 
was born in 1817, at Brecksville, Ohio, while 
his mother, Margaret Coates, was born in 1813, 
near the present site of Rochester, New York. 
Her ancestors were of English origin, coming 
from England about the year 1800 and settling 
first in New York, but removing to Royalton, 
Ohio, about 1810. The paternal great-grand- 
father of Mr. Wilcox was a graduate of Oxford 
University, and brought with him to America a 
library of many hundred volumes of standard 
works. From the Connecticut Land Company 
he purchased 3,000 acres of land at Royalton, 
where he lived many years and reared a large 
family, and his descendants are living yet in 
that locality. 

In the year 1842 our subject's parents were 
married at Brecksville, where the parents of 
both had settled about 1816. It is said that 
the Wilcox family is also of English origin and 
came to New York about 1700, and Josiah Wil- 
cox, the great-grandfather of our subject, was a 
soldier in the Revolutionary war. 



ILL G. GUENTHER, lawyer, is a son 
of Philip and Frederika Gnenther, 
* born August 2, 1868, in Cleveland, 
and while an infant his parents removed to In- 
dianapolis, where he was educated in the public 
schools and under private tutors, receiving ^vi- 
vate instruction in German. Fi-ench and Latin. 



CZrrAlIOGA COUNTY. 



He then came to Cleveland and became cash- 
ier in a mercantile establisliment of his maternal 
grandfather, J. C. "Weber, one of the oldest shoe 
dealers in the city. In the year 1886 he entered 
the office of Henderson, Kline & Tolles, where 
he stndied law until 1889, when he was admitted 
to tlie bar, at the age of twenty-one years. 
With this law firm he remained until 1891, 
when he opened an ottice and entered upon tlie 
practice of his profession alone. He has been 
successful in his practice and has rapidly gained 
a remunerative clientage. He has a general 
practice, and is largely interested in matters re- 
lating to insurance. He is connected with 
several Cleveland banks, for some of which he 
acts as attorney, and is also connected with mer- 
cantile and manufacturing interests in this city. 

He was married June 30, 1891, to Miss Alice 
V. Morgan, daughter of Herman L. and Sarah 
Morgan, of Cleveland. Their only child is a 
son, Philip Morgan, born October 23, 1893. 
Mr. Guenther is a meml)er of the Disciple 
Church. 



TjAMES THOMPSON is one of the early 
K I settlers of Solon township, Cuyahoga 
^^ county, Ohio, and is one of its most re- 
spected citizens. Mr. Thompson has been a 
resident of this place since November, 1848. 
Of his life we make record as follows: 

James Thompson was born in county Derry, 
Ireland, March 22, 1822, son of John u'nd Ma'r- 
garet (Gray) Thompson, both natives of that 
county. Ilis mother died when James was 
eighteen months old, leaving him and one other 
child, William, who became a prominent and 
successful physician of Solon, Ohio, and who is 
now deceased. For his second wife John 
Thompson married Catharine Linton, also a na- 
tive of county Derry, and by her he had four 
children, namely: Thomas, of Madison, Ohio; 
John, of Solon, Ohio; Eliza Cray, of Tuscola, 
Michigan; and May, who died in Michigan. 
Mr. Thompson was a soldier in the Hritish army 



for three years, and for twenty-one years he was 
employed as a linen bleacher in his native isle. 
It was in 1831 that he came with his family to 
America. He spent two years in Clinton coun- 
ty, New York, three months in Buffalo, that 
State, one year in Portage county, Ohio, a num- 
ber of years in Bainbridge. Ohio, and finally 
came from there to Solon. Here he died at the 
age of eighty-six years. He was a member of 
the Presbyterian Church, and his life was an 
exemplary one. 

The subject of our sketch was about eleven 
years old when his father settled in Bainbridge. 
He attended the district school for some time, 
but the chief portion of his education was that 
received in the practical school of experience. 
On the ninth of November, 1848, he settled on 
the land on which he now lives. At that time 
two acres of the land near the road had been 
cleared and a little log house, 18 x 26 feet, had 
been built. Here Mr. Thompson made his 
start. As a result of his earnest and persistent 
efforts, his farm, 130 acres, is now ranked with 
the best and most desirable in the neighborhood. 
The primitive log house was long ago replaced 
by a modern commodious two-story residence, 
located on a natural building site, and a large 
barn, 36x50 feet, was built. Summit Avenue 
Station is within thirty rods of his home. In 
connection with his farming, Mr. Thompson has 
also given considerable attention to the stock 
business. He now keeps a dairy of twenty- five 
cows. 

Mr. Thompson was mairied, October 4, 1848, 
at Bainbridge, Ohio, to Arvilla M. Kingsley, 
daughter of Enos D. and Mary (Mann) Kings- 
ley, natives of Becket, Massachusetts. Her 
father was the fifth settler of Baiii bridge, and 
her parents had a family of five children: Faber 
E., Sally, Arvilla, Jane and Nathan. Mr. and 
Mrs. Thompson became the parents of two 
children, one of whom, Katie M., is the wife of 
William Arthur, and has three children: Jesse, 
Graeie and Harlan. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur re- 
side at the homo place with her father. Mrs. 
Thompson departed this life June 29, 1888, after 



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forty years of happy married life. iSiie was a 
devoted Ciiristian woman, a member of the 
Presbyterian Church, and her life was such that 
it won many friends. Mr. Thompson's career 
has been characterized by industry, honesty and 
sobriety, and all who know him esteem hiiii for 
his many estimable traits of character. 



D^AVID G. NESBIT, Deputy Collector 
|l and Inspector of Customs of Cleveland, 
— was born in Summit county, Ohio, De- 
cember 28, 1846. lie is a son of William 
Nesbit, an early settler of Summit county and 
a farmer, born in Westtnoreland county, Penn- 
sylvania, in 1794. He was a private soldier in 
the war of 1812. In 1832 he settled in Sum- 
mit county and passed the remaining years of 
his life on the old homestead, dying in 1873. 
He married Lucinda Hungerford, born in Her- 
kimer county, Xew York, in 180G, who died in 
1891. Their children are as follows: Alex- 
ander, a farmer of Northfield, Summit county; 
David G.; Emily, who married Samuel Gallic; 
and Caroline, wife of William H. Deisman, — 
all of same county : two others are deceased. 

David G. Nesbit's life until the age of fif- 
teen was spent on the farm and was unevent- 
ful. On August 4, 1862, he enlisted in the 
One Hundred and Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer 
Infantry, Company G, Captain D. N. Lowry, 
Colonel J. A. Lucy, and later Colonel T. C. 
Boone. The regiment was stationed at Camp 
Dennison, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky. A 
part of it, stationed at Maysville, Kentucky, 
then at Murfreesborough and Chattanooga, 
Tennessee, participated in the engagements at 
Chattanooga and Murfreesborough. Mr. Nes- 
bit was later put on detached duty in a block- 
house, and later on, December 4, 1864, was 
captured and taken first to Meridian, Missis- 
sippi, thence to Selma, Alabama, and finally to 
Andersonville, Georgia. Upon entering this 
rebel hades Mr. Nesbit weighed 165 pounds. 
After five months' confinement and dieting by 



Mr. Wirz, weighed on his release, he tipped the 
beam at eighty- nine pounds! Mr. Nesbit 
reached the Union lines at Jacksonville, Florida. 
He went by boat to Annapolis, Maryland, and 
by rail to Columlnis, Ohio, where he was dis- 
charged as a paroled prisoner June 10, 1865, 
having served two years and ten months. 

On taking up civil affairs Mr. Nesbit was 
engaged in putting down oil wells and at car- 
penter work for a few years. He then became 
a student at the Spencerian Business College in 
Cleveland, studying the subject of penmanship, 
which he taught for three successive winters. 
In 1871 he came to reside permanently in 
Cleveland and worked as a carpenter, and later 
entered the employ of I. J. Lewis, a large con- 
tractor of Cleveland, and afterward for Mr. 
Richardson, a cabinet worker. In 1881 he en- 
gaged for himself in contracting and building, 
and followed it up until his appointment to his 
present office, March 19, 1890. 

Mr. Nesbit is a Republican, of course, and 
for eight years was a member of the county 
central committee, representing the Eighteenth 
ward. He is an active member of the G. A. 
R. ; served two years each as Junior and Senior 
Vice Commander, and three years as Com- 
mander of Memorial Post, No. 141, of Cleve- 
land. 

He was married March 17, 1871, to Mrs. 
Harriet Gardner, a daughter of Lyman Humph- 
rey, a lawyer of Portage county, Ohio, and a 
sister of Lyman U. Humphrey, e.\-Governor of 
Kansas. 



\1111\ILLIAM F. CARR, aClevel 
\/\// 'ley, was born at Canal Ful 
«« March 13, 1848. His pare 



eland attor- 
toii, Ohio, 
parents, Jacob 
and Jane M. Carr, removed to Illinois when 
their son was a small child, and thereafter until 
the fall of 1872 their home was in that State, 
where young Carr was brought up on a farm 
and given a liberal education in the jiulilic 
scliool, Leaving Illinois he returned to Ohio, 



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and at Bucyrns began the reading of law under 
the guidance of General E. I>. Finley, his uncle. 
lie was admitted to the bar in 1875, and shortly 
afterward removed to Cleveland and entered 
upon what has been a successful career in his 
profession. In 1876 he formed a partnersliip 
with Thomas Emery, which continued till 1879, 
when his partner left Cleveland and located in 
Bryan, Ohio. Thereafter Mr. Carr remained 
alone in practice until the fall of 1883, when he 
associated himself with F. H. Goff. January 
1, 18'JO, Mr. Carr and his partner, Mr. Goff, 
and E. J. Estep and Judge M. R. Dickey, as- 
sociated themselves together in the practice of 
their profession, under the firm name of Estep, 
Dickey, Carr &, Gotf, which is now one of the 
strongest law firms of Cleveland. 

Mr. Carr's father was born in Stark county, 
Ohio, and his mother was l)orn in Holmes 
county, this State. The father is a farmer and 
lives a retired life at Wadsworth, Ohio. Mr. 
Carr's paternal grandfather was a native of New 
Jersey and at a very early date migrated to 
Stark county. On the maternal side Mr. Carr 
traces liis ancestral history back to England, tlie 
early ancestors in this country coming before 
the Revolutionary war, and among them his 
great-grandfather, who was a participant in the 
Revolutionary war. 

November 8, 1883, Mr. Carr married Alice 
T. Codding, of Bucyrns, Ohio, and their chil- 
dren are Marion Codding and Marjoria Leigh. 



fr^' EORGE A. McKAY. Deputy Collector 
I Ti' and Marine Clerk, Customhouse, Cleve- 
'S^ land, was born in Oswego, New York, 
June 16, 1841. His father, Alexander 
McKay, was born at Strathuavar, Scotland, in 
1805, and his mother, Rozetta Louisa McKay, 
at Little Y'ork, Canada, in 1819. His paternal 
grandfather was forester for the Duke of Suth- 
erland in Scotland; and his mother's father was 
Colonel Hamilton of the British army. 

The life of Mr. George A. McKay as a youth 
was similar to tliat of the average boy of the 



United States, receiving the usual common- 
school education through all the grades, and 
completing a collegiate course at Columbus, 
this State. He was brought by his parents to 
Cleveland in 1847. In early life he entered 
the employ of the Lake Shore it Michigan 
Southern and the Cleveland, Columbus, Cin- 
cinnati & Indianapolis Railway Companies. 
In the old depot he was employed as clerk in 
the office of Addison Hills, agent and general 
freight agent of both roads. His business em- 
braced shipments by both rail and lake, and he 
settled both classes of accounts for the railroad 
company. 

At the breaking out of the war, in 1861, he 
enlisted as a private in Company A, Sevetitii 
Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for three 
months, and went into camp at Camp Taylor 
on Woodland avenue April 17, that year. He 
had been connected with the Cleveland Zouaves, 
an independent company, previous to his enlist- 
ment, and on account of his knowledge of mili- 
tary tactics was promoted to the highly honor- 
able position of Second Sergeant in the com- 
pany. The regiment was ordered to Camp 
Dennison, near Cincinnati, in May, after they 
had been thoroughly drilled in tactics at the 
previous camp; and on arrival here they had to 
build barracks, etc., and had the pleasure of 
experiencing what they might expect in the 
dim and misty future in what would constitute 
a soldier's life. The experience proved to be 
rough, to say the least; but as his father had 
been a soldier before him, and had inculcated 
in his mind in the days of his youth what he 
might expect, providing he ever was made to 
undergo a soldier's life, he tried to take things 
as easily as he possibly could, knowing that 
there was no use in crying over spilt milk. 

June 19, 1861, he re enlisted for three years 
or during the war. In the latter part of that 
month the regiment was ordered to West Vir- 
ginia, then under command of Major-General 
George B. ^IcClellan. It was transported by 
rail from their camp to Clarksburg, that State, 
and was reviewed there previous to a forced 



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march over the mountains to Weston, where it 
captured $45,000 in gold, wliich was in tlie 
way of taking flight for Kichmond, Virginia, 
tiien the capital, so called, of the Confederate 
States. 

During the war our suhject was severely 
wounded several times; and the records in 
Washington show that he participated in every 
battle in which his regiment was engaged, as 
the first battle of Winchester, Port Republic, 
Cedar Mountain, Antietam, Chancellorsville, 
Gettysburg, storming of Lookout Mountain, 
Missionary Eidge, Einggold, etc. lie was pro- 
moted through the various grades in his regi- 
ment to the position of Captain, and was 
selected as Assistant Inspector General on the 
staff of the brigade, division and corps in which 
he served. On the expiration of his second 
enlistment he was mustered out, and he re- 
sumed civil life. 

This he did by becoming road and lake re- 
ceiver for the Lake Shore A; Michigan Southern 
and the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & 
Indianapolis Eailway Companies, — the position 
being one of the most important in the gift of 
the companies. Thence he was promoted chief 
of the Merwin street depot and flats, serving 
there till promoted chief clerk for the Erie 
Transportation Company fast-freight line; from 
that to chief voucher and tariff clerk of the 
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Eailway on 
the consolidation of the various roads in that 
system. 

Several years afterward he accepted a position 
on the Toledo, Wabash A: Western Railway as 
bookkeeper and voucher clerk in their general 
ofiice, ])eing afterward made ticket and freight 
agent for the same road at Logansport, Indiana. 
Subsequently he was again transferred, this 
time to the Ohio Central Eailway system as 
ticket, freight and express agent at Corning, 
this State, where he had some twenty- three 
stations in his charge. 

Afterward, when his old schoolmate and 
comrade, William Brew, was elected auditor for 
the connty of Cuyahoga, he was selected by 



him for his general knowledge to serve in his 
office as one of his deputies and clerks, doing 
duty also in the office of the county treasurer as 
one of the deputies under D. A. Kimberly, at 
that time county treasurer. Mr. McKay was 
elected Inspector of Weights and Measures for 
the city of Cleveland, and served as such for 
more than four years, when he declined to serve 
longer on account of too great exposure to in- 
clement weather. 

After the appointment of Captain M. B. 
Gary as collector of customs for the district of 
Cuyahoga he was elected by the Captain, on 
account of his knowledge of records and marine 
law and business, as one of his deputies and 
marine clerk. He has a thorough knowledge 
of that branch of business, and is considered an 
expert therein. He is still employed at the 
customhouse. 

In social relations Mr. McKay was the 
National Adjutant General for the Union Vet- 
erans' Union for two consecutive terms; has 
been a Commander in the Grand Army of the 
Republic; has been a Worthy Patriarch in the 
Encampment of Odd Fellows, and is a member 
of the Eoyal Arcanum, Knights of Honor, 
Eoyal Adelphia, National Union, Chosen 
Friends and several other secret societies. 



DR. J. B. FOX, a successful physician with 
I an office at 1226 Euclid avenue in the 
city of Cleveland, is a man of rare ability 

and talent. He is the owner and also financier 
of Dr. J. B. Fox's Sanitarium, at 979 Willson 
avenue, wliich was established in 1888, and here 
Dr. Fox treats all forms of ulcerated diseases, 
including bone ulcers, fever sores, cancers, milk 
leg, etc. He is a successful treater of diseases 
of the skin, of which he makes a specialty. He 
has devoted years to the study of his specialty, 
and for the past thirty-two years has studiously 
and constantly applie<l himself, having thus full 
well mastered those subjects in which he makes 
any pretension. He is not a medical college 



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graduate, but is a inati who has devoted bis time 
and attention to certain lines of diseases, and in 
the treatment of those certain lines he has met 
with ])henomenal success, and lias trained con- 
sideral)le reputation as a surgeon. 

lie located in the city of Cleveland in 1880. 
lie wa!^ born in Maine, in 1887, a son of Will- 
iam A. and Zilla (Hilton) Fox, both of which 
parents descended from Scotch and English 
ancestry. Dr. Fox was reared in his native 
State, where he also received a liberal English 
education. He was reared on a farm, attending 
the country schools. He was brought up, 
mainly, in the home of liis paternal grandfather, 
who was an able and prominent physician, and 
under the guidance and influence of this gratid- 
fatlier Dr. Fox took up the study of medicine, 
and when he was twentj-oiie years of age he 
began the practice of his profession. He located 
in Boston, Massachusetts, and there remained 
for eighteen years, excepting four years and Ave 
months, which he spent in the civil war. He 
enlisted and served in the construction com- 
pany of the army, and was placed in charge 
of the transportation of certain divisions, being 
placed in i-esponsible positions, requii-ing tact, 
energy and j)luck. At the battle of Bull Run 
he was wounded in the thigli and upper arm, 
also in the left side, and in fact was rather 
seriously injured, but by virtue of taking excel- 
lent care of himself, as best he could under the 
circumstances, he recovered, and was soon ready 
for duty. After the close of the war he trav- 
eled over the country a very great deal. He 
owned and operated a sanitarium in Boston be- 
fore the war, and since coming to Cleveland he 
has pushed forward in the prosecution of his 
woik and his practice, and it is worthy of note 
to mention that he has succeeded quite well, even 
in the face of the stiongest opposition; being a 
man of merit, respectability and intelligence, he 
has judiciously conducted himself, and has not 
only achieved success in his profession, but 
gained for himself an estimal)ie character and 
repiitiitiiiM. His sanitarium is well equipped 
and the patients are well provided for. He 



bears many testimonials from people who have 
been successfully treated by him, and he has 
been successful in relieving some of the most 
distressed by reason of such diseases as he has 
made a specialty. 

He is a member of the A. F. & A. M. and is 
otlierwise prominently connected among citizens 
of Cleveland. 



djEREMIAH W. FAY, a native and a well 
known pioneer of Parma township, was 
^ the son of the late Benajah and Ruth 
(Wilcox) Fay. His father was born in Massa- 
chusetts, 1777, and his mother was a native of 
Lewis county, New York, where she was born 
1781. In 1816 they came to Cuyahoga county, 
Ohio, and settled in Parma township, where 
they lived till their death, he dying in March, 
1862, and she September 16, 1831. Benajah 
Fay and his wife were the parents of three chil- 
dren, viz: Mabel, the first white child born in 
Parma township, and is the widow of Dudley 
Humphrey; Jeremiah W.; and Ruth, who be- 
came the wife of Edward Baldwick. 

Jeremiah W. Fay was born March 8, 1822, in 
Parma township, where he was reared to man- 
hood and where he has always resided. Farm- 
ing has been his principal occupation in life, 
and he owns a farm of seventy-eight acres, 
which is well improved. 

He was married in Cleveland, Ohio, Septem- 
ber 5, 1854, to Miss Mary A. Bradley, a daugh- 
ter of Alfred and Clarissa (Briscoe) Bradley. 
They were natives of Connecticut and came to 
Cuyahoga county in an early day, settling in 
Rockport township, where he died in 1850. 
She died in Wisconsin in October, 1884. They 
had ten children, five sons and five daughters. 
Mrs. Fay was the fourth child. She was born 
in Rockport township, July 5, 1836. Mr. and 
Mrs. Fay are the parents of five children, four 
of whom are living, viz.: William N.; Edgar 
B., who married Dora Hoffman; Alfred W., 
who married Jennie E. Peck; and Clarence E. 
The deceased child, Albert W., died in infancy. 



OV7AH0OA COUNTY. 



Mr. Fay has held the office of Township 
Ti-easiirer six years, and that of township Trus- 
tee for one term, and has served as Justice of 
the Peace for three terms. He has taken a very 
active part in all local affairs. In politics he is 
a Republican, taking a good degree of interest 
in these matters. Mr. Fay has been a member 
of the I. O. O. F. since 1855. 



D. KNIGHT, an employe of the Valley 
r^ Railroad, was born at Port Jervis, Orange 
county. New York, February 11, 1863, a 
son of James R. Knight, who was born 
in that county in 1838, was engaged as engineer 
for the City Water Works many years, and for 
seven years served as chief engineer of the 
Cleveland Rolling Mill Company. His brother, 
Samuel Knight, was an extensive farmer and 
lumber dealer in the Delaware valley. The 
tracing of the genealogy of the Knight family 
by Hon. Charles II. Winfield, a prominent 
Jersey City attorney and a relative of the fam- 
ily, and by ex-Governor Bross, of Illinois, re- 
veals the fact that they are of Scotch, Welsh 
and Holland Dutch descent. The date of ar- 
rival of the founder of the family in America 
was during the Colonial period. James R. 
Knight married Jennie, a daughter of Phillip 
Decker, a native of Orange county. New York, 
and of Welsh extraction. They had the follow- 
ing children: G. D., our subject; Julia, wife of 
W. A. Gordon; James T.; W. B., bookkeeper 
for the Standard Oil Company; Jennie; and 
Jessie. 

G. D. Kniglit spent the first eight years of 
his life on a farm, and the next half decade was 
passed in the village of Port Jervis, where he 
received a liberal education. In 1880 the fam- 
ily located in Cleveland, Ohio, where young 
Knight obtained employment as fireman for the 
Cleveland Rolling Mill Company, remained 
there three years, then became a brakeman on 
the Eastern Division of the Erie Railroad, dur- 
ing the following year secured the position of 



fireman on the West Shore Road, a few months 
later returned to Cleveland, and soon afterward 
went to Jacksonville, Florida, for the purpose 
of working on the Florida and Key West Rail- 
road. After arriving there, Mr. Knight be- 
came dissatisfied with the outlook, and returned 
to Atlanta, Georgia. He found employment 
with the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia 
Railroad, running between Atlanta, Chatta- 
nooga and Macon, but six months afterward 
was forced from the Soutii by the prevailing 
malarial diseases. Soon after his return to 
Cleveland, Mr. Knight began work on the Val- 
ley road. 

He was married in Port Jervis, New York, 
February 4, 1887, to Minnie, a daugliter of J. 
W. Roloson, formerly a conductor on the East- 
ern Division of the Erie Railroad, but now re- 
tired from active labor. Mr. and Mrs. Knight 
have one child. May R., born December 30, 
1887. Mr. Knight is a member of the P. H. C, 
of the Grievance Committee of the B. of L. E., 
and for three years was Councillor of the 
O. U. A. M. 



DR. EL ROY M. AVERY, State Senator 
1 for the Twenty-fifth Ohio District, an 
able educator, a popular author, and an 

ideal American citizen, is a descendant of that 
old Norman family of Averys who found their 
way into England with William the Conqueror 
in the year 1066. 

Christopher Avery, born in England about 
1590, came to Massachusetts in the transport 
Arbella, with Governor Winthrop, and landed 
at Salem in June, 1630. He was a selectman 
of Gloucester, Massachusetts, for eight years. 
Later, he lived in Boston, and in New London, 
Connecticut, and was made a freeman of that 
colony in 1669, dying ten years later. His de- 
scendants are found in every State of the Union. 
Contemporary with Christopher Avery were 
John Avery, who died in Boston in 1654; 



Thomas Avery of 



Salt 



a blacksinitli. who 



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came over in the vessel John and Mary in 1633; 
and Dr. "William Avery, of Dedham, who came 
to America in 1654 and died in Boston in 1687 
(the houses of Dr. William Avery and of Chris- 
topher Avery were united, prol>ably for the first 
time in America, l)y the marriage of Catherine 
Hitchcock Tilden and Dr. Elroy M. Avery, the 
subject of this memoir); Dr. "William Avery, 
Dr. Jonathan Avery, Dorothy (Avery) Angier, 
Dorothy (Angier) Hitchcock, Gad Ilitclicock, 
M. D., Catherine (Hitchcock) Tilden, Junius 
Tilden, Catherine H. Tilden, Elroy M. Avery, 
Caspar II. Avery, Amos W. Avery, Abraham 
Avery, William Avery, John Avery, James 
Avery and Christopher Avery. 

Christopher's only child was James, founder 
of the Groton Averys. When ten years old, he 
came with his father to Massachusetts. Joanna 
Greenslade of Boston became his wife. He 
moved to Gloucester, and six years later, 1650, 
moved to New London, where his friend, the 
younger Winthrop, had made a settlement five 
years before. James Avery was a large land- 
owner in and near New London, and in 1656 
built the "Hive of the Averys" at Poquonuock 
Plain, and lived there till his death. The build- 
ing is still in good repair and owned and oc- 
cupied, as it always has been, by an Avery. 
James Avery became a famous Indian fighter, a 
very active business man, and an influential 
citizen. He seems to have been invariably 
designated to treat with the neighboring In- 
dians, and to settle the controversies between 
them and the whites. He was townsman twenty 
years, was twelve times elected totlie Connecti- 
cut General Court, was a Peace Commissioner, 
Assistant Judge of the County Court, and a 
prominent member of the church. After the 
death of his first wife he married Mrs. Abigail 
Holmes, in 1698. He died April 18, 1700. 

John Avery, James's third son, married Abi- 
gail, daughter of Samuel Cheesbrough, in 1675. 
The records show him to have had strong mili- 
tary inclinations. In 1700 he became one of 
the original ju-oprietors of Xew Lebanon, Con- 
necticut. 



William Avery, John's third son, married 
Anna Eichardson in 1715. His second wife 
was Sarah Walker. 

Lieutenant Abraham Avery, the ninth son of 
William Avery, served as a soldier in the Revo- 
lutionary war. Later, he became a privateer and 
was captured by the enemy. After sufiFering 
on a prison ship, he was landed at Elizabeth- 
town, New Jersey, and begged his way back to 
Connecticut. He married Mercy Packer of 
Groton, six children being born of the union. 
He moved to New York about 1794, and about 
1800 settled at Preston, Chenango county. He 
died at Earlville, Madison county. New York, 
in 1843. 

Amos Walker Avery, Abraliam's third son, 
was born at Colerain, Massachusetts, in 1789. 
In 1808 he married Nancy McCutcheon, settled 
in Monroe county. New York, and later moved 
to La Salle, Michigan, where he died in 1863. 

Casper Hugh Avery, the oldest child of Amos 
W., was born at Preston, New York, July 25, 
1809. He settled at Erie, Monroe county, 
Michigan, in 1833 and married Dorothy Put- 
nam, September 26, 1843. She died March 17, 
1868, and he followed March 5, 1873. 

Elroy McKendree Avery, the oldest child of 
Caspar IL, was born at Erie, Monroe county, 
Michigan, July 14, 1844, soon after which his 
father moved from his farm to the county seat. 
Dr. Avery's business education began when he 
became carrier for the two newspapers published 
in Monroe, at a weekly compensation of thirty 
cents from each. To this pittance he soon added 
small sums earned as bill-poster and distributor. 
He was by nature a student, and soon became 
able to teach, his first school being in French- 
town township, Monroe county, when he was 
only sixteen years of age. He '> boarded 
around" and enjoyed all the luxuries and com- 
forts implied by that term. 

The •' Smith Guards" was the first company 
raised in Monroe county for service in the Civil 
war, and one of the teachers and many of the 
larger boys of the union school joined it, young 
Avery among the number. This company be- 



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came Company A, Fourth Michigan Infantry. 
Oil account of his youth he was denied muster- 
in, and the regiment went to Washington with- 
out him. But he could not content himself at 
home; accompanying a later regiment to Wash- 
ington, he joined his classmates, July 14, 1861, 
just as they were preparing to advance toward 
Bull Kun. Taking the gun and uniform of a 
sick comrade he crept in under the canvas, so 
to speak, and became^ Federal soldier. The 
first week of his seventeenth year closed with 
the battle of Bull Run. This experience 
brushed away some of the novelty of soldiering, 
and when the First Michigan returned to their 
State after a three months' service the school- 
boy soldier accompanied them, at the earnest 
solicitation of his mother. lie subsequently 
enlisted in the Fifteenth and Seventeenth 
Michigan Regiments, but each time his loving 
mother prevented his being mustered in. In 
1863 the young military enthusiast was mus- 
tered in as a private in Company E, Eleventh 
Michigan Cavalry. He remained with his 
regiment through all its campaigning under 
Burbridge, Stonenian and other leaders, and 
was promoted from the ranks to Sergeant- 
Major on the field of the liand-to-hand contest 
at Saltville, Virginia. He was a war corre- 
spondent for the Detroit Daily Tribune, the 
beginning of a journalistic career which was 
continued for many years after the war witli 
both pleasure and profit. At the end of the 
war (xiugust, 1865), he was mustered out of 
service at Pulaski, Tennessee. 

Prompt!}' turning his attention again to the 
attainment of a better education, he attended 
the Monroe (Michigan) high school in order to 
prepare for the University of Michigan, where 
he matriculated in September, 1867. His 
sophomore and junior years found him with 
scant means for finishing his studies, and to 
replenish his depleted purse he accepted the 
principalship of the Battle Creek (Michigan) 
high school, at an annual salary of $1,000. 
After a satisfactory service of four months he 
resigned this position, accepted another on the 



editorial staff of the Detroit Tribune, caught 
up with his class at Ann Arbor, carried his 
college and journalistic work, and was grad- 
uated in June, 1871. 

Before graduation Mr. Avery was offered 
and accepted the superintendency of the Char- 
lotte (Michigan) public schools, but at his own 
request he was released from his engagement to 
accept a like position in the East Cleveland 
(Ohio) schools, offered him in July, 1871. In 
August, 1871, he resigned his editorial work 
and began anew his pedagogical career. In the 
following year the village of East Cleveland was 
annexed to the city of Cleveland, but for a time 
the school supervision was not much affected 
thereby. When the growth of the East high 
school demanded all of his time as principal he 
was released from his responsibility as super- 
visor. In 1878 the East high school and the 
Central high school were consolidated, and Mr. 
Avery was transferred to the principalship of 
the Cleveland Normal School, then the apex of 
the public-school system of the city. The next 
year he retired from pedagogical duties and 
assumed a work more lucrative but not more 
congenial. 

As an educator Dr. Avery has no superior in 
this or any other State. His knowledge is 
broad and general; his mind and habits are 
disciplined; systematic method is visible in 
everything he d'oes. He has the rare and happy 
faculty of being able to impart instruction in a 
clear and pleasing manner, creating among his 
pupils much enthusiasm and a desire for orig- 
inal investigation. In consequence he was 
poptdar and successful in the schoolroom. If 
he has anything to say through the press or 
from the platform the public 'is at once im- 
pressed with the fact that he has mastered both 
his subject and its proper presentation. 

For two seasons after leaving the schoolroom 
Dr. Avery was in the lecture field with an 
illustrated experimental lecture for non-scien- 
tific people on electric light. He carried nearly 
two tons of apparatus with him and succeeded 
in making a scientific lecture pay. In May, 



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1881, he began the organization of Brush elec- 
tric-light and power companies in the larger 
cities of the country. 

Wliile he was a teacher some of his spare 
hours had been employed in text-book author- 
ship. His Elementary Physics was published 
in 1876, and was immediately adopted for use 
in the Cleveland high schools. In 1878 his 
Elements of Natural Philosophy appeared, and 
met with a success so marked tiiat its publish- 
ers called for "more copy:" they have since 
published his Elements of Chemistry, Complete 
Cliemistry, First Principles of Natural Phil- 
osophy, Modern Electricity and Magnetism, 
Teachers' Handbook and Physical Technics. 
His text-books are largely used by the better 
class of high schools in the United States and 
in Canada. Other books written by him, and 
issued by other publishers, have also had wide 
circulation. His published addres.ses have been 
much commended for their force and finish. 
For the last eight or nine years he has had in 
hand an extensive historical work which he 
hopes to iinish l)y the end of the century. 

In politics Dr. Avery has made himself felt 
as a representative of the people. In the spring 
of 1891, without his consent and even against 
his will, he was made a candidate for Council- 
man from the Sixth District, comprising the 
Twentieth, Twenty-iirst, Twenty-second and 
Twenty-third wards. At the election (April 7, 
1891), his majority was 1,027, larger than tliat 
given in any other district in the city. This 
council had to deal with the organization of the 
new city government under the " Federal plan," 
and the ordinances for the creation of the de- 
partments of Public Works, Law, Accounts, 
Fire, Police and Charities and Correction, bear 
his name. He took the leading part in the in- 
vestigation, and the passage of the ordinance 
which reduced the price of gas from a dollar to 
eighty eighty cents per thousand cubic feet, and 
secured the payment into the city treasury of 
five per cent, of the gross receipts of the gas 
companies. He was chairman of committees 
for the iiivcstiixation of the street railroads of 



the city, and of the city infirmary. His anti- 
smoke ordinance, declaring the emission of 
dense smoke to be a nuisance and affixing a 
penalty therefor, is another evidence of his wis- 
dom and public spirit. His pet project was 
the founding of a city farm school for evil dis- 
posed, incorrigible or vicious youth, abandoned 
children, or those ill-treated by intemperate or 
brutal parents. This measure stirred a respon- 
sive chord in the hearti of a vast majority of 
the thinking and reputable men and women of 
the city, and was passed by the Council by a 
vote of si.xteen to two, but was killed by the 
mayor's veto. Had this bill become a law 
many youthful offenders would have been saved 
from contact with hardened criminals; they 
would have been taught trades and given the 
fundamentals of a common education, and 
finally returned for good citizenship, andvjholly 
free from any crim'uuil record. But the end 
is not yet. 

At the end of the year Dr. Avery felt that 
he couhl not afford to give the time necessary 
for the proper performance of the duties at- 
tached to public service, and positively declined 
a re-election. 

In the summer of 1893 he was forced by 
leading citizens into a contest for the liepub- 
licjm nomination for a State Senatorship, and 
under the popular vote plan won a magnificent 
victory. He spoke every night during the en- 
suing campaign and helped materially to win the 
magnificent victory for the Republican ticket 
in November, his plurality l)eing only fifteen 
short of nine thousand. He led led the entire 
legislative ticket. 

Dr. Avery was the founder of the Logan 
Club, the oldest permanent Republican club in 
the city, and still serves as its president. He 
is general secretary and treasurer of the Ohio 
Protective Tariff League, and has been for 
many years a member of the Republican county 
central committee. He was the second presi- 
dent of the Ohio Conference of Charities and 
Correction. He is a member of the American 
Historical Society; a life member of the Ohio 



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Archaeological and Historical Society; of the 
Western Reserve Historical Society and of the 
American Economic Association; a Fellow of 
the American Association for the Advancement 
of Science; a charter member of the Forest City 
Post, (j. A. R.; and president of the Western 
Reserve Society of the Sons of the American 
Revolution. He is a Knight Templar, and re- 
ceived the thirty-second degree, Scottish Rite 
Masonry, in February, 1878. 
r July 2, 1870, Mr. Avery married Catherine 
Hitchcock Tilden, who had succeeded him in 
the princijmlship of the Battle Creek high 
school. She was his most able assistant during 
his pedagogical career in Cleveland. Generous 
in sympathy, capable of advising with wisdom, 
she has been in every way an ideal companion. 
Thus Dr. Avery's life has been and is full of 
activity, abounding in practical application, 
always progressive and unusually successful. 



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NDREW A. BUTLER, a farmer of 
Brecksville township, was born Sep- 
^ tember 27, 1831, at Hillsdale, Columbia 
county. New York, of which county his 
father, Peter Butler, was also a native. An- 
drew's grandparents are from Scotland. Peter 
Butler was but three years old when his father 
died, and was brought up by his uncle, Andrew 
Adams, to whom the Adams homestead fell by 
descent of property. On this farm Mr. Butler 
located. He married Charlotte Hinman, who 
was born in Woodbury, Connecticut, a daughter 
of a Revolutionary soldier, who l)ecame a ser- 
geant and participated in the battle of Danbury, 
Connecticut, so near home that his wife could 
hear the noise of the fire-arms. Peter Butler's 
children were: Jane, who married William 
Shepherd and died aged forty years, in Van 
Buren county, Michigan; Andrew A. was the 
next in order of birth; Mary S., who married 
Colonel Frank Sutton, of Clinton, Iowa; and 
Ann E., the widow of Henry Bruner, of Cuya- 
hoga Falls. Their father left his home in New 



York in 1S87 for Tallmadge, Ohio, and came 
through with a team of two horses, having a 
very tedious journey, of four weeks. Previ- 
ously he had visited this region and purchased 
land on which were a few rude improvements; 
but he had the misfortune of losing his wife 
there in 1846. He afterward married again, in 
Tallmadge, went to Goodhue county, Minne- 
sota, and was located fifty miles from any mar- 
ket; but Cailon Falls near him soon became a 
market. He niarried again, in that State, and 
lived there till 1886, when he returned to Ohio, 
then aged eighty-six years. He had been badly 
dealt with and deprived of a very comfortable 
farm. Andrew A. paid his way back to Ohio 
and gave him a home for the remainder of his 
life. He died in 1887, and is buried in Tall- 
madge beside his first wife. In his political 
views he was a Democrat, and in religion a 
Methodist. Was six feet tall and weighed 200 
pounds. He had a powerful frame and in his 
life-time did an immense amount of work. 

Mr. Andrew A. Butler, our subject, was reared 
to farm life, not having more than six weeks' 
schooling after he was fourteen years of age. 
While yet a boy he assumed the responsibilities 
of caring foi- three sisters besides himself, until 
they became self-supporting, by teaching school. 
In the spring of 1851, with his savings, he went 
to Duhuqua, Iowa, to look up a location there, 
and pre-empted a tract of land in Clinton county, 
but afterward surrendered it, and the next spring 
started for California, during the gold-mining 
excitement. With a company of eight he started 
from Sabula, Iowa, and in four months and 
twenty-one days arrived at Downieville, Sierra 
county, California, where they commenced 
work. He was in that State four years, and was 
successful. May 3, 1856, he left San Fi-ancisco 
on the Golden Gate for Aspinwall, and sailed 
on the Vanderbilt to New York, whence he 
came to Richfield, Summit county, Ohio, where 
he purchased 106 acres of land. He has always 
been a farmer, making his start from almost 
nothing. The success which he has attained 
proves him to be a man of good judgment. He 



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was a Democrat up to the tire on Fort Sumter, 
since which time he has been a Republican. 
For eight years he has been township Trustee; 
in the fall of 1892 he was elected Justice of the 
Peace. 

December 3, 1857, he married Miss Esther 
II. Ingham, who was born in Manchester, Eng- 
land, July 5, 1837, a daughter of William Ing- 
ham, who came to America in 1845, settling in 
Sharon, Medina county. He resided upon his 
farm until 18G7, and then came to Brecksville 
township, locating upon 264 acres in the north- 
western part of the township. In 1887 he re- 
moved to Brecksville Center, wliere he has since 
resided. His children are: Lottie, now Mrs. 
George McCreery, of Brecksville township; and 
Frank A., a farmer of the same township. A 
foster child, Nellie C, has been given a good 
education and regarded as one of the family. 
Mr. Butler's elegant farm of 2G4 acres is fully 
in the hands of his children. While not a church 
member he contributes to the support of the 
churches whenever asked. There is probably 
no more systematic farmer in the township than 
he, and he is a thorough business man and a 
representative citizen. 



djOHN WARKEN TAYLOR, manager of 
real-estate investments and estate counsel- 
^' or, 5 Euclid avenue, Cleveland, is a native 
of Mecca, Trumbull county, Ohio, a son of 
AVilliam D. and Mary (Moran) Taylor. His 
uncle. Rev. Dr. Moran, was one of the most 
prominent and able men in the Methodist 
Church South during the war. Mr. Taylor's 
parents were natives of the north of Ireland, but 
of English and Scotch descent. Shortly after 
their marriage in 1849 they came to America, 
settling in Mecca, Ohio. Mrs. Taylor died in 
1853, and Mr. Taylor, now seventy-four years 
of age, is living at Cortland, Ohio. Of the three 
sons our subject is the only survivor, liis broth- 
ers, Edward and Robert, having died some years 
since. 



Mr. Taylor was raised on a farm in Trumbull 
county, Ohio, received his literary education in 
Western Reserve University, taught school for 
three winters, was salesman in the furnishing 
store of C. S. Fields in Warren, Ohio, four 
years; at the age of nineteen he commenced the 
study of law with Taylor & Jones at Warren, 
and was admitted to the bar of Ohio in 1876; 
afterward, taking the law course in Ann Arbor 
University of Michigan, he graduated there in 
1878, at which time he was admitted to the 
Michigan bar. Returning to his native county 
in 1878, he opened a law office at Warren, 
where he enjoyed a good practice till 1884, in 
the meantime serving a terra of three years as 
Justice of the Peace. 

While never seeking an office Mr. Taylor has 
always taken a lively interest in politics; was 
one of the managing Republican Central Com- 
mittee men at Warren during the memoraijle 
Garfield campaign when the mammoth Grant 
and Conkling meeting was held there. 

In July, 1884, Mr. Taylor moved to Cleve- 
land, since which time he has been engaged in 
the handling of estates and real estate invest- 
ments of his own, in 1893 purchasing, improv- 
ing and platting Douglas Park, consisting of 
thirty acres of choice territory in the East End, 
upon which he has erected a large number of 
houses. While largely engaged in real-estate 
matters, his legal talents are constantly em- 
ployed in the care and management of numerous 
estates entrusted to his care as well as in real- 
estate matters and the law of real estate and 
titles generally, in wiiich he is especially 
proficient. 

While busily engaged in other affairs he still 
clings to his first occupation, that of farmer, 
as a recreation. He owns and manages a farm 
of 128 acres a few miles out of Cleveland, where 
he is engaged in rearing some fine horses. He 
also has seventy six acres of garden land in the 
city of Toledo and interests in timber lands in 
Michigan. 

He is a self-made man in every sense of the 
word, havincr ptarteil at tiie bottom of the ladder. 



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Intolerant of trickery and duplicity, he has 
achieved his success in life by upright, straight- 
forward inetliods, a keen business judgment and 
diligent application to the affairs in his charge. 
He is a member of Holyrood Commandery and 
resides at 1253 Euclid avenue. 



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AVID HENEY KIMBERLEY,whofor 

years has been a well known and es- 
teemed citizen of Cleveland, is a native 
of England, being born at Great Borton, a sub- 
urb of Birmingham, on September 22, 1842. 
His father, George Kimberley, was of English 
nativity, and a manufacturer of nails in Great 
Borton, but subsequent to the birth of the son 
above mentioned he removed to the city of Bir- 
mingham, where he was engaged in the grocery 
business until 1862, in which year he died, at 
the age of si.xty-seven years. He married Maria 
Ashwell, who was born at Brownsgrove, England, 
in 1800. Her father was the Rev. James Ash- 
well, a Baptist minister, who emigrated with his 
family to the United States in the year 1831, 
landing at New York and coming direct to 
Cleveland; but owing to the fact that at that 
date Newburg was larger than Cleveland, he 
soon afterward removed to Newburg. Not long 
thereafter he returned to Cleveland, where for 
many years he preached and resided. In liis 
ministerial work his labors were not confined 
solely to Cleveland, but extended over the sur- 
rounding country. In those early days in the 
history of this section the minister's compensa- 
tion was very small, and his was inadequate for 
the support of himself and family, and Jhis 
made it necessary that he should engage in some 
industrial enterprise. In his boyhood he learned 
the nail-making trade, to which he resorted, and 
for quite a period, six days in the week he spent 
in his shop, and on Sundays occupied the pulpit. 
Rev. Ashwell was not only a pioneer settler of 
Cuyahoga county but a pioneer minister, and 



upon the communities in which he labored 



he left his imi 



He was a man of sterling 



qualities, resolute and firm, devotedly religious 
and universally esteemed. 

He was twice married. By his first marriage 
he had two children,— Mrs. Maria Kimberley 
and her brother James. In the history of this 
family is noted an unusual feature, namely, that 
the mother of our subject at the time of her 
brother's birth, was twenty-one years of age, 
and the mother of a child whose birth preceded 
that of her own brother. The second marriage 
of Rev. Ashwell was consummated in his seven- 
ty-sixth year, his wife being in her seventy-fifth 
year. 

When Mr. Kimberley of this sketch was live 
years of age his mother formed a desire to join 
her parents in the United States, and her hus- 
band declining to leave his business in Birming- 
ham, — at least at that time, — and being willing 
that his wife and children shoiild come to this 
country, she and six children sailed for America 
in the Henry Clay, in 1846, leaving the father 
and the eldest son in Birmingham. The family 
set sail from Liverpool and after a voyage of six 
weeks landed in New York, on Christmas eve of 
18^46. On the voyage the Henry Clay caught 
fire while at sea, but before much damage was 
done the flames were extinguished. That same 
ship on the next voyage was burned in mid 
ocean and all on board perished. 

Leaving New York city Mrs. Kimberley 
came direct to Cleveland, making the journey 
up to Albany by way of tlie Hudson river, 
thence by rail to Buffalo and thence from Buf- 
falo to Cleveland by way of the stage, the lakes 
at that time being frozen over. The trip from 
Buffalo to Cleveland required seven days. For 
a short time Mrs. Kimberley made her home 
with her father, but soon afterwai'd went to her- 
self. The following were her children that 
came with her : Alexander, Sophia, Frederck, 
Edward, Sarah and David H. As observed, 
the eldest of her children, whose name was 
James, remained in England with bis father. 
Five of these children are now living. 



GUTAHOGA COUNTY. 



Mrs. Kiiiiberley was a woman of strong in- 
tellectuality and will power, and of strict moral 
and religious views. She was a Christian wo- 
man in the strictest sense, and her life was iilled 
with acts characteristic of a woman of strong 
faith and convictions. She was of a determined 
character, independent and self-reliant, and 
though she was never joined in this country by 
her husband, she never lost courage or faltered. 
She assumed the responsibility and task of rearing 
her children, all of whom she lived to see reach 
maturity. She died in a ripe old age, in 1876, 
and was laid to rest in Eiverside cemetery. 
David II. Kimberley M'as but a child of five 
years when brought to Cleveland by his mother, 
and here, save four years spent in the army, he 
has spent the whole of his life. He attended 
the public schools until ten years of age, at 
which age he accepted work in a mercantile es- 
tablishment, where he remained until he was 
fifteen years of age, when he went on to a farm; 
but not being satisfied witli farm work he soon 
left it. A portion of one year was spent on the 
schooner John F. Warner and on the propeller 
(ralena. At the age of sixteen years he opened 
a meat-market on the corner of Detroit and 
Kentucky streets. This was in the fall of 1800. 
He operated the meat-market until the spring 
of 1801, when with the breaking out of the Civil 
war he sold out and enlisted in the army. 

He enlisted in April, 1801, in James P. Mc- 
Illrath's Light Guard Zouaves, which was one 
of the first to answer the first call of President 
Lincoln for 75,000 troops for a three months' 
service. The pay for this first call was only 
§11 per month and no bounty. Before the 
three months had expired tlie second call for 
volunteers for three years was made by the Pres- 
ident, aiuK'aptain Mclllrath, forming his com- 
pany in line, asked those who were willing to 
re-enlist to take one pace to the front. The en- 
tire company, without a single exception, 
stepped forward and re-enlisted. The company 
was assigned as Company A of the Twenty-third 
Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, of which 
General W. S. Eosecrans, Registrar of the 



United States Treasury, was Colonel; the Hon- 
orable Stanley Matthews, afterward member of 
the United States Supreme Bench, was Lieuten- 
ant Colonel; Rutherford B. Hayes, afterward 
President, was Major; General Hastings, after- 
ward United States Marshal of the Ohio Dis- 
trict, was Lieutenant; Robert Kennedy, later 
Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, was also a lieu- 
tenant; William T. Lyon, afterward Lieutenant 
Governor of Ohio, was also a lieutenant ; General 
James M. Comley, a noted newspaper man, and 
ex-United States Minister to the Sandwich Isl- 
ands, was a Major of this regiment, wjiile Gov- 
ernor William McKinley, Jr., of Ohio, was then 
a private. Probably no other regiment of the 
Union army furnished as many distinguished 
men as this. The regiment was in the Army of 
the Potomac and the Army of West Virginia, 
and Mr. Kimberley, along with it, served 
through the entire time of his enlistment, par- 
ticipating in all the campaigns and engagements 
of the regiment without being wounded or cap- 
tured, though he had several narrow escapes 
from both experiences. There were other mem- 
bers of the old Twenty-third who were honored 
in after years by the public. A7nong them 
were Asa Van Sickle, who was twice Recorder 
of Cuyahoga county; Wilbur Bently, who was 
County Commissioner of this county; Alfred 
Jerome, who was County Commissioner of this 
county; and the subject of this personal sketch, 
who was twice Treasurer of this county; and a 
number of other members of the regiment, who 
in different parts of the State were elected to 
positions of honor and trust. 

In 1804, after having served several months 
over his three-years' enlistment, Mr. Kimberley 
was discharged, at Columbus, Ohio, being then 
only in his twenty-second year. Returning to 
Cleveland Mr. Kimberley engaged in the flonr 
and feed business on Detroit street, at which 
business he continued for twenty-two years. 

Immediately after coming out of the army 
Mr. Kimberley took an active part in politics, 
and for about twenty years he was an active 
member of the Republican county central com- 



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mittee, also serving on tlie city central coininit- 
tee. In 1885 Mr. Kimberley was nominated 
by the Republicans for the office of County 
Treasurer, and after a heated campaign he was 
elected by a majority of over 4,000 votes. His 
administration of the affairs of that office was 
so successful and satisfactory to the people that 
in 1887 he was re-nominated and re-elected, 
again running ahead of his party ticket. 

In 1890 Mr. Kimberley retired from the office 
of County Treasurer and soon afterward he was, 
— at the death of William H. Doan, the philan- 
thropist, — elected to succeed Mr. Doan in the 
presidency of the Cleveland Permanent Building 
& Loai) Association, the second largest building 
and loan association in the United States. He 
has since been three times elected to this posi- 
tion, which he now holds. In Ma}', of 1891, at 
the organization of the Lorain Street Savings 
Bank Company, Mr. Kimberley was elected its 
president, in which position he has since con- 
tinued. In 1891 he was elected president of 
the Northern Ohio Paving & Construction Com- 
pany, which company he still serves in this 
same position. Since 1891 he has been vice 
president of the Produce Exchange Banking 
Company. He is president of the East Harbor 
Boating and Fishing Club, having been elected 
to this position in 1888. He is a Director in 
the Ohio Abstract Company, trustee of the Riv- 
erside Cemetery Association, and vice president 
of the Permanent Block Company, and is in- 
terested in other business enterprises. These 
various and important business relations are 
evidence within themselves that Mr. Kimberley 
has been an active business man, and also marks 
that respect and esteem in which he is held by 
his fellow citizens. 

The life of Mr. Kimberley has been an active 
one. Very early in life — at the age of sixteen 
— he began his business career. Four years was 
spent in the active defense of the Union, and re- 
turning from the war he embarked upon what 
has been a remarkably successful business ca- 
reer. Beginning in business with limited 
capital, and unaided, he fought tiie battle of life 



alone, gaining the esteem and friendship of his 
fellow citizens. By an honest, industrious and 
frugal course in life, he soon became a popular 
citizen and a successful business man, and then 
followed honors as a public officer. Retiring 
from public office, he again assumed the role of 
a business man, and since then many business 
relations has he filled with gratifying success; 
and now, at the age of fifty-one years, Mr. Kim- 
berley appears not only as a prominent and es- 
teemed citizen but as one whose life has been 
filled with honors and whose success in the 
financial world has been equally marked. 

Fraternally he is a member of the order of 
Knights of Pythias. In Grand Army circles 
he has been quite active, being a member of the 
Army and Navy Post, ami lie also belongs to 
the Chosen Friends. 

In 1864 Mr. Kimberley married Elsie A., 
daughter of Archibald Cunningham, of Colum- 
bus, Ohio. Mrs. Kimberley was born at Cuya- 
hoga Falls, Ohio. The home of Mr. and Mrs. 
Kimberley has been blessed by the birth of five 
children, four of whom are living, as follows: 
David Henry, Gladus (deceased). May Verrilla, 
George Garfield and Riiea Nell. 



CHARLES BLANCK, a respected citizen 
of Brecksville, was l)orn January 1, 1848, 
in Berlin, Germany, a son of Charles 
Blanck. He attended an advanced school and 
then learned the trade of brass finisher. In 
January, 1869, he emigrated to America, on the 
Cymbria, being three weeks on the sea. Land- 
ing February 16, 1869, at New York city, he 
remained there six weeks: next he worked on a 
railroad at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, for six 
months, then at his trade in Philadelphia for 
more than a year; next he went to New York 
to find work again, but failed, and then he came 
to Youngstown, Ohio, and found work in a coal 
mine at Hubbard, in the vicinity; but in a 
short time rheumatism began to trouble him, 
and he came to Cleveland, where he worked at 
his trade. 



CUrABOGA COUNTY. 



In the autumn of 1875 he went to Brecks- 
ville, where he was employed in a sawmill, on a 
farm and at other miscellaneous jobs in the vi- 
cinity. After his marriage in 1890 he located 
upon rented land, where he followed farming, 
but in the following March bought a home in 
tlie village where he now resides. 

In July, 1890, he visited his native country, 
sailing from New York on the Columbia, 
bound for Hamburg. After making his parents 
and other friends a visit there he returned to 
the United States, sailing from Hamburg on the 
Augusta Victoria, and landing in New York. 

On public questions he is a Hepublican, and 
both himself and wife are members of the Con-' 
gregational Church. 

January 21, 1890, he married Viola Sher- 
wood, who was born in Waterford, Erie county, 
Pennsylvania, March 24, 1854, a daughter of 
Stephen L. Sherwood. At the time of her mar- 
riage she was visiting her brother, S. U. Sher- 
wood, in Brecksville township. The marriage 
was celebrated in (Cleveland, hj the Eev. Dr. 
Pomeroy. 



Jj J. BARNES, a prominent citizi^n of 
Brecksville township, was born July 7, 
— 1829, in this township, a son of Aaron 
Barnes, who was a native of Hartford county, 
Connecticut, and was married in that State to 
Roxey Fenn, who was born in Plymoutli, Con- 
necticut, a daughter of Jesse Fenn. After his 
marriage Mr. Aaron Barnes lived a few years 
in Litchfield county, Connecticut, and in 18 IG 
moved to tiie town of Sharon in the same coun- 
ty, where he lived until May 1, 182G, when he 
started for Ohio. He had made a trip to this 
State the preceding fall, and looked over the 
land in Cuyahoga and Trumbull counties, but 
made no selection. His journey hither, when 
moving with his family, was by team to Albany, 
Erie canal to Buffalo, by the schooner Minerva 
to Cleveland, and tiience by team again to the 
western part of Brecksville tovvnshij), near a 
brother-in-law. Asa Fenn. The last niglit 



(Sunday) on the lake was au exceedingly rough 
one. Mr. Barnes located on fifty acres of land, 
upon which was an old log house. Wild ani- 
mals wei-e plentiful. On the home farm, which 
he purchased later, he lived until his death, 
April 1, 1836. His wife survived many years 
afterward, and they are now buried near each 
other in liice cemetery. Politically Mr. Barnes 
was a Jackson Democrat. His children, born 
in Connecticut, were: a daughter who died 
young, in infancy; Giles C, a farmer of this 
township; Martiia, who married Calvin Jenk- 
ins and died in Trumbull county; Hannah, de- 
ceased at the age of about twenty-five years; and 
Amanda, who became the wife of Oliver Bart- 
lett and died in Brecksville. Those born in 
Ohio were: Caroline, who married Charles 
Gordon and died in Michigan; and Jesse J., 
the subject of this sketch. 

Mr. J. J. Barnes, whose name heads this 
sketch, received a common-school education in 
district No. 1, in Brecksville, and, being an ajjt 
pupil, he made good use of his opportunity. At 
the age of sixteen he was called upon to teach 
school, and he proved to be a successful teacher. 
To pass his examination and obtain a teacher's 
certificate he walked to Cleveland, fourteen 
miles, and back in one day, when the board of 
examiners comprised Professor Freese, J. "W. 
Gray and J. D. Cleveland. He taught his old 
district school for two terms. He remained at 
home, however, continuing in agricultural pur- 
suits. After his marriage he located upon a 
farm of twenty acres, in the western part of 
Brecksville township, where he was engaged in 
agriculture until 1873, at which time the farm 
had grown to 300 acres. He then moved to the 
center of the township, and with his sons bought 
out the mercantile business of C. L. Young, 
where he remained fifteen years, being very suc- 
cessful in the business. He bought the most 
substantial business house in Brecksville, which 
he still owns, with his son William. After his 
retirement from business, his sons continued in 
the mercantile trade for some years. Mr. 
Bai-nes. our subject, erected a very commodious 



CU TABOO A COUNTY. 



residence, where he now resides. In life he has 
been successful and in domestic habits exem- 
plary. For many years he was a Republican, 
but always a prohibitionist in principle, and was 
one of fifteen to organize this party at Crestline, 
Ohio, and ever since then he has been an ardent 
worker for the party, — indeed a leader. Pre- 
viously he had taken little or no interest in pol- 
itics. He is a member of the Congregational 
Church, in which body he has served as Trustee. 
He is one of the leading men in his commu- 
nity, always taking an active interest in what- 
ever is designed for the benefit of the people. 

November 1, 1848, he married Miss Cebrina 
L. Jacox, who was born July 31, 1828, in Bath 
township, Summit county, this State, a daugh- 
ter of Elijah Jacox; she was an estimable 
woman, a member of the Congregational Church, 
and is now deceased. Their children are: Her- 
schel E., living with his family, nearest neigh- 
bor; James F., of Richfield, Summit county; 
Homer W., who died November 16, 1882, aged 
twenty-seven years; William H., at home with 
his father and a business partner; Jesse Je- 
rome, in Brooklyn Village with his family, en- 
gaged in dry-goods business in Cleveland; 
Albert T)., a successful merchant all his busi- 
ness life, died at Bedford, September 1, 1891, 
aged twenty-eight years. 



^RANC4E V. SMITH, a farmer of Orange 
township, Cuyahoga county, was born in 
this township, January 27, 1844, a son 
of Captain Almon Smith, a native of Connecti- 
cut. He was one of the pioneer settlers of 
Orange township, and was an ofKcer in the late 
war. His father. Captain Smith, Sr., was an 
officer in the Revolutionary war, and was a 
member of an old and prominent family. The 
mother of our subject, nee Susan Henrietta 
Squires, was a native of Connecticut and a 
daughter of Morris Squires. Mr. and Mrs. 
Smith were married in Connecticut, but soon 
afterward located in a loy cabin in the woods of 



Orange township, where they immediately began 
clearing a farm. The father died of cholera in 
1849, in middle life, leaving a widow and six 
children, viz.: Sidney, who was killed by light- 
ning at the age of nineteen years; Sarah Ben- 
nett, a resident of Twinsburg, Ohio; Susan 
Whitham, of Cleveland; Orville W. and Orange 
v., twins; and Lyman, deceased when young. 
Orville W. wag a soldier in the Ninth Ohio 
Battalion during the late war, was a gallant 
ofScer of his company, and served through the 
entire struggle. He died at the old home farm 
in 1872, leaving a widow and two children, — 
Cora and Florence. After the father's death, 
Mrs. Smith married James Henry, and they re- 
sided at Solon. She died at Twinsburg, Ohio, 
at the age of seventy- six years. Captain Smith 
was a Whig in his political views, was elected 
the first Assessor of Orange township, was a 
member of the Masonic order, and both he and 
his wife were members of the Methodist Church. 

Orange V. Smith, the subject of this sketch, 
was reared to manhood on the old home farm. 
After reaching a suitable age he was employed 
in a cooper shop four years. In 1873 he came 
to his present farm of 122 acres in Orange town- 
ship, where he has a good, new residence, 16 x 27 
feet, with an L 16x22 feet, another addition, 
16 X 16, and the structure cost $1,650. Mr. 
Smith is engaged in general farming and stock- 
raising, and also conducts a large dairy. 

In March, 1867, he was united in marriage 
with Sophia G. Myers, who was born and reared 
at Streetsborough, Ohio, a daughter of John 
Myers, a native of Virginia. He was first mar- 
ried to Permelia Hazen, and they had two chil- 
dren. Mr. Meyers was afterward united in 
marriage with Nancy Tucker, a native of Ma- 
honing county, Ohio, and a daughter of John 
Tucker, one of the first settlers of that county. 
Mr. and Mrs. Myers had seven children, viz.: 
George Wallis, who served in the Ninth Ohio 
Battalion during the late war; Amelia; John; 
Sophia, wife of our subject; Mary Esther and 
Rebecca, twins. John Myers died at Streets- 
borough, at the age of seventy-one years, and 



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his wife died at the age of eixty-eight years. 
Mr. and Mrs. Smith have four children: A. E., 
a traveling salesman for the firm of B. Drehers 
& Sons, of Cleveland ; Kollo O., engaged in en- 
gineering; Myrtle B.; and Jamie H. Mr. 
Smith is identified with the Republican party. 



jILLIAM H. BEAVIS, practitioner of 
law in the city of Cleveland, is a son 
of the late Benjamin R. Beavis, who 
was horn in London, England, in 1826, coming 
to America when but a child, with his parents, 
who located in Brooklyn village, where he was 
reared and educated. Preparing for the pro- 
fession of law, was admitted to the Oliio l)ar in 




1851, after which date he engaged in a good 
practice here. He was elected Justice of the 
Peace, became prominent in public life, and was 
twice elected to the State Senate, being first 
elected in 1871, and again in 1873. lie held 
other positions of honor and trust, and enjoyed 
the confidence and esteem of his fellow citizens. 
He married Fredericka Mueller, of Cleveland, 
and of their children this personal sketch con- 



cerns William H. Beavis, who was born in 
Cleveland, October 18, 1859, and who was given 
a high-school education. He then attended the 
Law Department of Cincinnati College, and 
graduated in 1883 with the degree of Bachelor 
of Laws. Locating in Cleveland, he became 
associated with his father in the practice of law 
under the firm name of Beavis & Beavis, which 
drm existed until the death of his father in 
1884. Mr. Beavis is secretary to the Board of 
Directors of the German-American Savings 
Bank Company. He is also a director of the 
Consolidated German Newspaper Company, and 
has an interest in several other corporate com- 
panies, as well as in considerable real estate. As 
a lawyer he occupies a creditable position in the 
profession, and is a member of the County and 
State Bar Associations. 

He was married December 25, 1890, to Miss 
Julia Luetkemeyer, and has one child. 



d|OHX RODGERS.— One of the leading 
and representative citizens of Solon town- 
— ship, Cuyahoga county, is John Rodgers, 
who with the exception of five years has been 
closely identified with that township since 1841, 
and has contributed his full share to the mate- 
rial growth and development of that community. 
Mr. Rodgers is a Tiative of Ireland, having 
Iteen born in county Antrim on the 22d day of 
June, 1829, the second son and fourth child of 
Alexander and Ruth (Bartley) Rodgers, both 
natives of the Emerald Isle. The Rodgers 
family emigrated to America in 1841, embark- 
ing at Belfast, going first to Liverpool, and 
thence to Xew York, landing at the latter port 
on the 22d day of June, that year, after a voy- 
age of thirty-one days. From New York city 
they came direct to Ohio, by the way of the 
Hudson River to Albany, thence by the Erie 
Canal to Buffalo, and then across the lakes to 
Ohio, their destination being Cleveland. An 
accident happening to the steamer en route to 
Cleveland, they with others left the vessel at 
Fairport, the Rodgers family proceeding thence 



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to Bainbridge township, Geauga county, Ohio, 
where they expected to iind relatives. In this 
they were disappointed, and they went thence 
to Solon township, Bedford county, and visited 
a sister of Mr. Eodgers, who was the wife of 
Thomas Marshall; next they visited another 
sister at Bedford, and subsequently took up 
their abode in a log house in Solon, owned by 
Mr. Marshall. That fall they removed to Bain- 
bridge township, and into a log house owned by 
Mr. Logan. Here Mr. Eodgers purchased a 
cow, and the following spring purchased fifty 
acres of improved land in that township, paying 
$15 an acre for the land. On this land was a 
log house and a frame barn, and here the family 
settled down to farming. Mr. Eodgers was a 
baker by trade, having worked at the same in 
Ireland, and as may be imagined the family had 
a hard time of it for a time, being in a strange 
country and engaged in a (to them) strange em- 
ployment. During the second winter on the 
farm the family had not to exceed fifty pounds 
of flour, which was earned by our subject by 
by hauling logs with oxen. For five years the 
family remained on this place, during which 
time the members were for a great portion of 
the time ill with the fever and ague, our sub- 
ject alone escaping that disease, and during the 
illness of the family he did all the work both 
out of doors and in the house, which was no 
small task, as the stock at that time consisted of 
six cows and a yoke of oxen. After paying 
about $300 of the purchase money for their 
land, they abandoned the farm and moved to 
Solon township and purchased ninety acres of 
unimproved land, where, in February, 1846, 
our subject and his father cut logs and built a 
cabin. The family moved upon their tract of 
land, and by hard work, living on potatoes and 
corn meal, succeeded in clearing a part of it the 
first year, putting in a crop of potatoes. After 
clearing more land they put in about four acres 
in wheat and reaped a large crop of fine grain, 
which they sold for seed wheat, selling this in 
town for $1 per bushel. After about $200 had 
been paid on the farm our subject worked out 



for $11 per month for eight months, giving the 
money to his father to help pay the remaining 
purchase money. The following winter our 
subject remained at home and assisted his 
father clearing ten acres more and hauling logs 
to the mill, and for this he got lumber with 
which to build a barn, which building he helped 
to put up the next winter. He assisted his 
father to pay off all the indebtedness on the 
farm, and in clearing and improving the land, 
and here the family lived for many years. His 
father died in 1863, at the age of seventy-one 
years, his widow surviving him about eight 
years, dying at the age of seventy. The par- 
ents were members of the Presbyterian Church. 
Most of the education of our subject was se- 
cured before the family came to America, he 
attending the common or public schools. . When 
he was twenty- four years of age he worked 
during the summer until he had earned $51, 
and then engaged with Jason Eobins in a 
cheese house at $16 per month, and the follow- 
ing summer in the same place for $20 per 
month. During the next winter he purchased 
a horse and wagon, and engaged in buying up 
pelts on commission, in which he met with 
success. Following this he returned to work 
in the cheese factory for $26 per month, and 
subsequently his employer gave him an interest 
in the business. In the spring of 185-1 or 
1855 he entered into a co-partnership with Mr. 
Eobins in the stock and cheese business, and 
the first summer following made $800, besides 
his interest of about $1,000, in the business. 
After remaining in partnership with Mr. Eobins 
for about six years he drew out $14,000 and 
fifty acres of land. The money he invested in 
stock and in cheese-making. In 1862 he pur- 
chased gold and silver and United States notes, 
which investment proved a profitable one, his 
i-eturns from the same being rapid and large, 
more than doubling his money invested in gold. 
During those days he made money rapidly, and, 
re-investing judiciously and exercising good 
business judgment, he has succeeded in ac- 
cumulating a large property. 



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Mr. Rodgers followed the stock business for 
thirty-five years, meeting with success. Dur- 
ing this time he assisted in organizing a bank 
at Chagrin Falls, having for an object tlie 
placing therein of his son, who about that time 
finished his collegiate course at Oberlin. 

Mr. Rodgers has made a success of his life 
all through, and in doing so has surmounted all 
obstacles and conquered all difficulties, unaided 
and alone, having no outside assistance, but re- 
lying entirely upon his natural business ability 
and his inexhaustible stock of energy and en- 
terprise. Coming to America when but a lad 
of twelve years, with only a limited education, 
and being the son of poor liut honest parents, 
he was early thrown upon his own resources, 
and was not only earning his own living but 
also assisting his family when most youths 
were in the school-roona. But by unflagging 
industry and a determination to get ahead in 
life, aided by shrewd business sagacity and judg- 
ment, he has made for himself not only riches 
but a name and reputation for honesty and fair 
dealing that is known all over the county. lie 
is what )nay be termed a self-made man, in 
every sense of the word, and his life and suc- 
cess is a splendid example for the poor young 
men and hoys of the country, as it demonstrates 
what one poor Irish lad has accoinplished by 
his industry and energy; and what one has 
done others can do. 

Mr. Rodgers was married on the 17th day of 
January, 1866, at Cleveland, to Miss Eliza Mc- 
Farland, who was born on the 3d day of Janu- 
ary, 183<J, in Millix, Tyrone county, Ireland, 
and is the daughter of James and Elizabeth 
(Johnson) McFarland. Her parents came to 
America in 1836. Mrs. Rodgers is a member 
of the Pi'esbyterian Church, and is well known 
in her community as a woman in the true 
sense of the word, her kindness of heart and 
hospitality endearing her to her neighbors and 
friends. To Mr. and Mrs Rodgers four chil- 
dren have been born, three of whom survive: 
William Emmet, born September 15, 18G7; 
Mary E., born March 27, 1871 ; Jane M., born 



September 1, 1875, died May 3, 1888; and 
Carrie P., born Xovember 13, 1878. 

William Emmet Rodgers was educated in the 
common schools at Chagrin Falls and at Ober- 
lin College. After leaving college he engaged 
for a time in the stock business, but at present 
is engaged in the banking business in Bedford, 
being at the head of the Rodgers bank of that 
city, which was established in 1892. Mr. 
Rodgers is a young man of more than ordinary- 
business talent, and like his father is endowed 
with great energy, which trait of character 
seems to have come to him through his father 
from his grandmother Rodgers, who was a 
woman of remarkable energy and perseverance. 



ENRY CART WRIGHT, a farmer of 
Royalton township, Cuyahoga county, 
il was born at this place October 1, 1840. 
His father, Richard Cartwright, was 
born in Berkshire, England, April 6, 1815, 
where he was reared to farm life, and was after- 
ward engaged as a sheep herder. In 1836 he 
came to the United States, being obliged to 
borrow the money to pay for his passage, and 
he was seven weeks and three days in crossing 
the ocean. He borrowed twenty shillings, and 
this was repaid with his first earnings. He 
came with the family of John Fembrook, whose 
daughter, Harriet, he afterward married, in this 
county. Mr. Fembrook located in Strongsville 
townsiiip, Medina county, this State, and both 
he and his wife died on the farm on which they 
first settled. After settling in Royalton town- 
ship, Mr. Cartwright farmed on shares for a 
time, and then bought the land where he con- 
tinued to reside until his death, November 25, 
1857. In political matters he was a stanch sup- 
porter of the Republican party. ]\rrs. Cart- 
wright survived her husband until May 20, 
1892, and both were buried in Royalton Center 
cemetery. They had seven children, namely: 
George, a farmer of Royalton township; Henry, 
whose name introduces this sketch; Edward, 



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who died when young; Mary A., who married 
Marcus Warner and is deceased ; Edwin, who 
died young: Elizabeth, wife of Waylatid Edger- 
ton, of Royalton township; and William, a 
farmer of this locality. 

Henry Cartwriglit, the subject of this sketch, 
was reared to farm life, at length engaging also 
in butchering. After his marriage he located 
where he now lives, and, in company with his 
brother George, owns over 335 acres of fine 
farming land. They are engaged in general 
farming and dairying. 

October 31, 1872, Mr. Cartwright was united 
in marriage with Lucy P. Edgerton, who was 
born in Royalton township, August 8, 1847, a 
daughter of John and Philena Rhoda (Perry) 
Edgerton, natives of Massachusetts. The father 
was born in Hawley, in 180-4, and the mother 
in Savoy, in 1814. They were married in their 
native State, December 6, 1838, and in an early 
day came to Ohio. They were the parents of 
seven children, all of whom are still living ex- 
cepting one, who died in infancy. Mr. and 
Mrs. Cartwright have five children, namely: 
Mettie, Ilallie R., Harry J., Herbert W. and 
Harley P., — all at home. Mr. Cartwright votes 
with the Republican party, and both he and his 
wife are members of the Baptist Church, in 
which the former has served as Deacon, Trus- 
tee and Treasurer, and Mrs. Cartwright has 
been a teacher in the Sunday-school. 



IjOHN VICKERS PAINTER, vice-presi- 
J^ I dent of the Cleveland Stone Company, was 
^^ born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, July 
20, 1835. His parents, Samuel Marshall Painter 
and Ann Vickers Painter, were descendants of 
those people of the Quaker State who accom- 
panied AViliiam Penn from England. In his 
boyhood and youth he received the Quaker 
training, that sect whose stern principles make, 
as the philosopher says, " Such men as consti- 
tute a state, a state worthy of the name." Edu- 
cated at Haverford College, Pennsylvania, he 



early came West and embarked in business in 
Cleveland, where he has since resided. He first 
engaged in railroading in the employ of the 
Cleveland & Toledo Railroad Company. In 
this capacity he acquired the business habits 
which exhibited to some extent his executive 
ability as a man of prompt and shrewd judg- 
ment. Later, Mr. Painter went into the bank- 
ing business, in which he continued until June 
1, 1873, when he retired from business because 
of failing health. 

After some years abroad he became interested 
in manufacturing and iron mining, and in the 
organization of the Cleveland Stone Company. 
Mr. Painter is a director in several of these 
corporations, and in the Cleveland & Pittsburg 
Railroad Company, of which he is also vice- 
president. 

With integrity and dignity, Mr. Painter has 
been progressive and successful in his business 
life. 



LEANDER SNOW has long been identi- 
I fied with Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and as 
i one of its pioneer citizens is justly enti- 
tled to biographical mention in this work. Of 
his life, we make record as follows: 

Leander Snow was born in Oswego county, 
New York, July 14, 1822, son of Barzilla and 
Polly (Grinnell) Snow, natives of Massachusetts, 
the former born April 11, 1781, and the latter 
July 31, 1784. After their marriage his parents 
settled in Massachusetts, removed from there to 
Oswego county. New York, some time later, 
and in the summer of 1833 emigrated to Cuya- 
hoga county, Ohio, and settled in Parma town- 
ship, on what is known as the State road. There 
they spent the residue of their lives and died, 
the mother passing away on the 18th of March, 
1855, and the father on the 30th of April, 1859. 
They had a family of twelve children, eight sons 
and four daughters, Leander being the ninth 
born. 

The subject of our sketch spent the first 
eleven years of his life in his native county, and 



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came with his parents to Ohio in 1833. He 
continued to make his home with them until the 
time of his marriage, after which he settled on 
a farm in the same township, and in Parma 
township he has lived ever since, his time and 
energies being devoted to agricultural pursuits. 
Ilis farm is well improved with good buildings, 
fences, etc. 

Mr. Snow was married in Iloyalton town- 
ship, this county. May 15, 1847, to Miss Sarah 
Prindle, who was born there, October 17, 1820. 
Her father, the late Nathaniel Prindle, was a 
native of New York, and her mother, nee Sir- 
linda Spra^ue, was born in New Haven, Addi- 
son county, Vermont, November 19, 1806. 
They were married in Iloyalton township, this 
county, and were among its earliest settlers. 
Both have passed away. Mrs. Snow was their 
only daughter. She and a son composed their 
family. Mr. and Mrs. Snow have had seven 
children, four of whom died when young. The 
others are as follows: Viola, wife of Herbert 
Oviatt; Hattie, wife of Charles E.Warren; and 
Lillie. 

Politically, IMr. Snow has long been a Jack- 
sonian Democrat. He takes an active interest 
in local politics and has served in several official 
positions, among which are those of Township 
Treasurer, Township Trustee and Township As- 
sessor. Fraternally he is identified with the I. 
O. O. F., having been initiated into that order 
in 1855. 



dj P. THOIIP, an old resident and promi- 
I Tu>nt farmer, and at present the President 
— - of the Cuyahoga County Agricultural So- 
ciety, was born on the farm where he now lives, 
January 22, 1834. His father, Warren Thorp, 
was born in Cleveland, April 12, 1802, just 
before the State of Ohio was created. Of 
course, at that time tlie point called Cleveland 
comprised only a few log cabins. The exact 
site of the house wliere Mr. Warren Thorp was 
boi-n was where George Worthington's hardware 
store is now located. Joel Thorp, father of 



Warren, was a native of New Haven, Connect- 
icut, married Sarah Dayton about 1792, and 
came with an ox team to Ashtabula county, this 
State, in 1799, settling in the wilderness about 
twenty miles from the nearest white inhabitant, 
and resided there about a year. During that 
time a son was born, when he, the father, was 
absent at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, to obtain 
supplies for the family, and the chief medical 
adviser ("midwife") on the occasion was an 
Indian woman ("squaw"). Mr. Thorp was de- 
tained by heavy rains making the bridgeless 
streams impassable, and he could not arrive 
home as soon as he expected. From the same 
cause he was detained again in June following, 
when he made the trip again to Pittsburg, on 
the same errand. During his absence this time 
the poverty of his family was so great that his 
wife emptied the straw from the bed-ticks and 
gathered from it the few scattered grains of 
wheat, which she boiled and carefully divided 
among her little children! This not being 
sutficient to support them until the return of 
the husband and father, Mrs. Thorp had almost 
given up in despair when she one day espied a 
wild turkey in the field. Taking down from its 
pegs the old flint-lock gun, she cleaned it up in 
good order, charged it with the last remnant of 
gunpowder there was in the house, crawled out 
carefully into the Held, leveled the gun across a 
log, fired, and down came the turkey! and the 
reader can imagine what a feast that little fam- 
ily enjoyed for a day or two. 

In 1801 this family moved to what is now 
Cleveland. Being a carpenter, Mr. Thorp built 
the first frame house in the place, during the 
ensuing winter, for Alonzo Carter, a leading 
man of the county. While Mr. Thorp was np 
from the ground in the erection of this build- 
ing, a number of children, including several 
Indian boys, were playing among the shavings 
below and carelessly set fire to the building, 
utterly consuming it. Mr. Thorp also erected 
the "Judge Kingsberry " residence, at the 
corner of Kinsman and Woodland Hills: this 
building is still standing. In 1804 he moved 



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into New burg township, where he remained 
until 1808, when he removed to Buffalo, New 
York. Residing there until the war of 1812, 
he joined the United States army and was killed 
at the battle of Lundy's Lane. By the burning 
of Buffalo all that was left of his household 
goods was a set of silver spoons, which his wife 
carried away in her bosom! The disasters men- 
tioned of course broke up the family, so that 
they were obliged to scatter and each look out 
for himself. Three of the sons, including 
"Warren, the father of the subject of this sketch, 
came to Cleveland, where the latter made his 
home at Judge Kingsberry's, going to school 
winters and working for his board. He com- 
menced working for Israel Hubbard on a farm 
on Kinsman street, for whom he cleared altout 
forty or fifty acres. He was also engaged with 
other parties in the same business until 1823 or '4 
when he purchased the farm where J. P. now 
resides. Then until some time in 1825 he kept 
"bachelor's hall," with his brother Bezaleel, 
building during this time a small log cabin and 
making some improvements upon the land. 

December 15, 1825, he married Hannah 
Burnside, a native of Hubbard, Trumbull 
county, this State, born May 4, 1809. This 
marriage was celebrated at the residence of her 
sister, Mrs. Serenus Burnett, in Orange town- 
ship, Cuyahoga county. Soon after that event 
they moved with an ox team over a blazed road 
to the little log cabin mentioned, ou the farm 
where the subject of this sketch now lives. 
There was no glass in the windows, and the 
door was not hung. Arriving here in the even- 
ing, Mr. Thorp, with ax and auger, improvised 
a table whereon to eat the supper which she was 
preparing, and after their repast he made the 
bedstead, the first in the house, and for cordage 
they used bark. For the first several nights 
they were serenaded by wolves, the music being 
more shocking to the nervous system than that 
of any old-fashioned "shivaree." 

They occupied this farm until 1864, rearing 
a family of seven children. The first death in 
the family was that of Mrs. Thorp, June 3, 



1883; and Mr. Thorp died April 3, 1888, in 
his eighty-sixth year. In early life he had 
been a Democrat in his political views, but dur- 
ing the most of his life he was a Bepublican. 
He was honored with all the ofiices of his town- 
ship excepting that of Justice of the Peace. 
Both himself and wife were consistent and hon- 
ored members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Cliurch, in which body he was a Class-leader 
for nearly forty years. His house was always 
the Methodist itinerants' home, as well as the 
most comfortable stopping place for all the 
members of the church making their pilgrim- 
ages to his neighborhood. Consequently he 
was better known than most of the residents of 
the county. 

The fifth child in the above family, and third 
son, J. P., was reai-ed ou the farm where he 
still lives. The first school he attended was in 
the log schoolhouse in his native district, Cha- 
grin Falls, and at Twinsburg, where Samuel 
Bissell taught; and he afterward attended Bald- 
win University at Berea; then he taught school 
three winter seasons. In the spring of 1860 
he went overland to Oregon, being five mouths 
on the road, and in that distant land was en- 
gaged in gardening, ranching and in conducting 
a trading post, where he was fairly successful. 
In the summer of 1864 he i-eturned by way of 
the Isthmus of Panama to New York city and 
Philadelphia, at which latter place he had his 
gold-dust coined. Arriving home he purchased 
the old homestead of his father, where he has 
since remained. 

In his political principles Mr. Thorp is a Re- 
publican, and he has been active in public 
affairs; has been Trustee, etc., of his township, 
holding all the ofiices, indeed, excepting that of 
justice of the Peace. He has been connected 
with the Cuyahoga Agricultural Society a1)out 
eighteen years, in which also he has held all the 
offices, one after the other, excepting that of 
secretary. He was elected vice-president of 
that association in 1892, in 1893 superintend- 
ent of the grounds, and in 1894 president, 
which position he now holds. 



CUTAHOGA COUNTY. 



October 20, 1864, is the date of Mr. Thorp's 
first marriage, when he wedded Miss Melissa 
Norris, of Sandusky county, Ohio, and by that 
marriage there were five children, namely: 
Jason W., Willis N., Myra Alice, Henry J. and 
Mary L. March 18, 1888, Mr. Thorp married 
Mary Alice Emerson, of Akron, Ohio, born at 
Marquette, Michigan, February 8, 1861, and 
reared in Cuyahoga Falls, this State, until 
twelve years of age, and then moved to Akron. 
By this last marriage there are two children, — 
"Warren E. and Russell E. 



1 11 IjILLIAM C. HUY, who is engaged in 
V/Vyv general farming in Brooklyn town- 
"' ^ ship, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and who 
also operates a feed and cider mill and manu- 
factures wine, is a man who has met with suc- 
cess in the various enterprises in which he is 
engaged. 

He was born in Alsace, France, January 29, 
1840, son of Jacob Huy, a native of the same 
place. It was in 1840, the same year William 
C. was born, that the Huy family emigrated to 
America and located on a farm in Parma town- 
ship, Cuyahoga county, Ohio. Seven years 
later they removed to Brooklyn township, same 
county, and settled on the land now occupied 
by the subject of this sketch. Here the father 
built his own house, even making the doors and 
door casings himself, and in this home he 
spent the rest of his life. His death occurred 
August 20, 1893, in the eighty-first year of his 
age. His wife, nee Caroline Froeblich, a native 
of France, passed away in 1870, at the age of 
fifty-two. They were the parents of two chil- 
dren, a son and daughter. The daughter, 
Emma, is the wife of George Doitz, and lives in 
Cleveland. 

Mr. Huy was assisting his father on the farm 
when the war broke out. In 1862 he enlisted 
in Company B, One Hundred and Seventh Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry, as leader of the Regiment 
Brass Band, which band had the honor of play- 



ing the first national airs in Charleston, South 
Carolina, after the surrender of the rebel forces. 
He continued in the service until the war closed, 
being a participant in many of the prominent 
engagements of the war, among which were 
those of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. His 
natural ability as a musician, together with his 
popularity with both comrades and officials, 
gained for him in 1865 promotion to the posi- 
tion of chief musician in the regiment. He 
was mustered out of the service July 10, 1865. 

The war over, Mr. Huy settled down to farm- 
ing in Brooklyn township, and in this occupa- 
tion he has since been engaged. His farm 
comprises fifty acres of well-improved land. 

Mr. Huy was married November 6, 1865, to 
Eva Fild, a native of Baden, Germany, who 
came to this county with her parents when she 
was nine years old. She was reared in Parma 
township. They are the parents of six chil- 
dren, namely: Lina, William, Julius H., Emil 
E., Louisa and Emma. All are living e.xcept 
William. Lina is the wife of William C. 
Braun. 

Mr. Huy is a member of Glenn Lodge, No. 
263, I. O. O. F. 



CHARLES BESTER, a successful farmer 
of Royaltou township, Cuyahoga county, 
was born in Prussia, Germany, October 
5, 1843, a son of John and Philamena Bester. 
Charles attended the compulsory schools of his 
native country until fourteen years of age, then 
followed wagon-making at various places four 
years, and in 1865 sailed from Bremen to the 
United States, landing in New York after a 
stormy voyage of six weeks. After spending 
four weeks in that city, he opened a wagon and 
carriage works on Lorain street, Cleveland, Ohio, 
and remained there until 1873. In that year 
Mr. Bester came to Royalton township, Cuya- 
hoga county, Ohio, locating on his present farm 
of 105 acres, which is now in a fine .state of cul- 
tivation. In 1885 Mr. Bester erected a good 



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barn, and has also a wagon-shop on his place, 
where he does all his own work and much of his 
neighbors. 

June 24, 1868, in Cleveland, Ohio, Mr. 
Bester was united in marriage with Catherine 
Pfanestiel, born in Hesse Darmstadt, Germany 
December 26, 1845, a daughter of Caspar Pfan- 
estiel, who came from Bremen to New York in 
1858 and afterward located in Cleveland, Ohio. 
Mr. Pfanestiel had served in the German army 
Mr. and Mrs. Bester have four children : Charles, 
at home; Anna and Dr. William F., of Cleve- 
land; and Eudolph, at home. Mr. Bester gave 
his son William F. a good literary and medical 
education, who graduated at the Western Re- 
serve Medical College at the age of twenty-one 
years, and is now successfully practicing his 
profession in Cleveland. Mr. Bester has made 
what he now owns by unrelenting toil, fair and 
honest dealings, and has the respect of the en- 
tire community. He takes but little interest in 
political matters, but is a constant reader of both 
the German and English papers. He has served 
his township as Road Supervisor. Religiously, 
Mr. and Mrs. Bester are members of the Lu- 
theran Church. 



|\\ If ATHAlSr B. BOWLER is another one of 

I \| the prosperous farmers of Solon town- 
J ^ ship, Cuyahoga county, Ohio. 
' Mr. Bowler was born in Carlisle, 

Schoharie county. New York, August 24, 1826. 
His father, Captain George I. Bowler, was an 
officer in the war of 1812. The Captain was 
born in Newport, Rhode Island, and was twice 
married, first to Susan Barber, and after her 
death to her sister, they being natives of Rhode 
Island and members of a prominent and highly 
respected family. In 1833 he and his wife came 
with their family to Geauga county, Ohio, and 
settled at Auburn, being among the pioneer 
settlers of that frontier district. There the 
Captain lived for half a century. He was a 
farmer all his life. Politically, he was first a 
Jaeksoniau Djiajerat aul afterward a Rspub 



lican. About the only public office he ever filled 
was that of Township Trustee. He was a mem- 
ber of the Christian Church. The children by 
his first wife were twelve in number. The liv- 
ing are: William; Phebe Warren; N. P., of 
Cleveland; Nathan, the subject of this sketch; 
while the children by his second wife, nee Lucy 
Barber, were, Rev. Charles, a member of the 
Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, who was 
killed at Lookout Mountain; and John R., who 
is a resident of Pasadena, California. Four of 
this number were teachers. 

Nathan B. Bowler was reared and educated at 
Auburn, Ohio. He carried on farming in 
Orange township for several years, and from 
there came to Solon township, where he has 
since resided. His present farm, which was for 
many years known as theMcConney farm, com- 
prises 150 acres of rich soil, and has upon it 
first-class improvements. From the residence, 
which is located on a natural building site, a 
magnificent view of the surrounding country is 
obtained. Among other improvements on the 
place is a fine maple orchard and sugar house. 
Mr. Bowler keeps a dairy of twenty-five cows. 

He was married at Aurora, Ohio, in 1864, to 
Betsey Hickox, a native of that place and a 
daughter of Volney and Eunice (Waldo) Hickox, 
who came to this State from Connecticut. Mrs. 
Bowler died in January, 1893, leaving two chil- 
dren : Alida A. and Charles W., both at home 
with their father. Charles W. is married and 
has one son. Forest. 

Mr. Bowler's political views are in accord 
with those advocated by the Republican party, 
and his religion is that of the Disciple Church, 
of which he is a consistent member. He and 
his family are among the highly respected people 
of the vicinity in which they live. 



T[f ENRY A. CARTER, one of the early 
IrM pioneers of Cuyahoga county, was born 
JJ 41 on the farm where he still resides, March 
'^ 12, 1819, a son of Lewis Carter, who 

who came from Connecticut to Ohio about 1814. 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



He was married, in Koyalton township, to Al- 
mira (Payne) Clark, widow of Melzer Clark. 
Her parents came to this county early in 1812. 
Mr. and Mrs. Carter had three children: Lo- 
renzo, who died in Royalton township, in 1860; 
Henry A., whose name introduces this brief 
memoir; and Louis, who died in infancy. Their 
father died when Henry was about five years of 
age, and was buried in Brecksville township, 
and their mother afterward married Henry L. 
Bangs, and they had several children. She 
departed this life about 1875, and lies buried in 
liichfield. Summit county, Ohio. 

Henry A. Carter, the subject of this sketch, 
attended the common schools of his native 
locality, afterward entered the schpols at Akron, 
this State, and then taught in Royalton and 
Brecksville townships, also in Summit and 
Medina counties. He lived with his step-father 
until the latter naoved to Michigan, after which 
he and his brother conducted the home farm. 
After his marriage Mr. Carter located upon a 
farm of seventy- one acres, north of where he 
now resides, which he cleared, and remained 
there until after the close of the late war. He 
next spent four years in Brecksville township, 
and in 1871 came to his present location, where 
he now resides with his son. He has been a 
life-long, hard-working farmer, and successful 
in all his undertakings. Politically, his first 
presidential vote was cast for Martin Van 
Buren, but since 1856 he has voted with the 
Republican party. 

In September, 1844, Mr. Carter was united 
in marriage with Martha S. Frost, who was born 
in Genesee county. New York, Xovember 8, 
1825, a daughter of Jewett and Eunice (King) 
Frost, who came to Cuyahoga county about 
1830. Mr. and Mrs. Carter have two children: 
Bertha E., now Mrs. Erwin Payne, of Cleve- 
land; and Elwin L., at home. 

E. L. Carter was born in Royalton township, 
February 23, 1853, attended the common 
schools of his district, afterward entered the 
schools of Richfield, Summit county, and in the 
fall of 1872 became a pupil of Oberlin College. 



He then taught school three terms in Royalton 
and two terms in Hinckley township, Medina 
county. He was married, October 15, 1879, to 
Amanda Snow, who was born in Brecksville, 
June 29, 1859, a daughter of Holland and Mary 
(Lockhart) Snow, and by this marriage there 
are three children: Bertha M., born January 12, 
1882; Henry H., August 16, 1884; and Lay ton 
E., August 31, 1892. After marriage Mr. Carter 
located where he now resides. In political 
matters he sympathizes with the Republican 
party. 



LEWIS HEXNIXGER, one of the early 
1 settlers of Brooklyn township, Cuyahoga 
i county, Ohio, is a native of Germany 

and possesses the characteristics of the 
German people. 

Mr. Henninger was born in Bavaria, July 
15, 1819, son of John Henninger of that place. 
John Henninger emigrated to America with 
his family in 1833, coming direct to Cleveland 
and selecting Parma township, Cuyahoga 
county, as a place of location. On a farm in 
this township he passed the rest of his life, 
being seventy years of age at the time of his 
death. His wife, nee Catharine Brahm, lived 
to be seventy-five. They were the parents of 
seven children, four daughters and three sons, 
all born in Germany, all came to America and 
all reached adult age. With one exception they 
all located in Cuyahoga county. 

Lewis Henninger, the youngest son and the 
fifth born in the family, was fourteen years old 
when he came to Ohio. He grew up on his 
father's farm, attending the district school dur- 
ing the winter and in summer assisting in the 
farm work. Honesty, industry and economy 
were early instilled into his life, and to his 
early training he attributes much of the success 
he has attained. He is now the owner of 107 
acres of fine land. May 9, 1893, his residence 
was wholly destroyed by fire, and since then he 
has erected a more pretentious one, at a cost of 



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$3,000. In connection with his fai-ming he 
has also been engaged in the stock business, 
and for some years has kept a dairy. 

In April, 1850, Mr. Henninger married 
Christena Orth, a native of Germany. She 
died a few years later, leaving two daughters, 
namely: Anna, wife of William Alber, of Me- 
dina county, Ohio; and Minnie, wife of Charles 
Graff, also of Medina county. Mr. Henniuger's 
second marriage occurred in 1858, when he 
wedded Catharine Ilardt. She, too, is a native 
of Germany, but has been a resident of Ohio 
since she was twelve years old. They have five 
sons, viz.: Lewis, of Brecksville township, this 
county; George and Philip, at home; Henry, 
also at home; and Frederick W., who is in col- 
lege at Ann Arbor. 

In national issues Mr. Henninger supports 
the Democratic party, but for township officers 
he votes for the best men, regardless of party 
lines. He is a member of the Evangelical 
Church. 



FF. DAY, manager of the hat, cap and 
gents' furnishing department of J. L. 
— Hudson's great clothing establishment of 
Cleveland, was born in this city in 1859, and 
commenced work for himself here at the early 
age of fifteen years, operating a lath machine in 
a sawmill. After spending a season at this 
business he began learning the art of steam- 
pipe fitting; but in 1875 he entered the employ 
of H. F. McGinnis, of Cleveland, hatter and 
furrier, as a clerk, and remained in that posi- 
tion for six or seven years. His employer 
failing in business, he engaged with C. H. 
Fuller & Co. and continued with them until 
January, 1884, when he was engaged by the 
celebrated J. L. Hudson house and placed at 
the head of the hat and cap department. Two 
years afterward he was in addition given charge 
of the gents' furnishing department, which po- 
sition he now fills. Under his supervision are 
about twenty salesmen. 



Mr. Day's success in life has been due ex- 
clusively to his own efforts. He is steady, 
always at his post, not losing a week since 
1875! For the past twelve years he has been a 
member of the militia of this city,— the " Cleve- 
land Grays." 

He was married in this city, May 10, 1887, 
to Miss Nellie Johnson, who was reared in 
Dunkirk, New York, and they have two chil- 
dren: Joseph H., six years of age, and Alice 
Mildred, three years old. The residence is at 
386 Dunham avenue. 



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EORGE N. DOW, master car builder of 
the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern 
!^l Railway Company, inaugurated his ca- 
reer as a railroad man at Salem, Massa- 
chusetts, with the Easton Railroad, in Decem- 
ber, 1868, as a messenger boy in the office of 
the roadmaster. May 1 of the next year he 
began learning his trade in the car shops of the 
same road, and in October, 1879, was made a 
foreman of freight repair. In September, 1881, 
he was given charge, in addition to freight re- 
pairs, of the building of new trucks, platforms, 
and running gear of passenger cars. In May, 
1886, he was transferred to the Boston & Maine 
Railroad as general foreman of the south end of 
the road, with headquarters at Boston. Octo- 
ber 1, 1887, the SummerviJle shops were placed 
under his supervision. May 1, 1889, Mr. Dow 
made an entire change, leaving the Boston & 
Maine Road and going to the Pullman Palace 
Car Company at Pullman, Illinois, as superin- 
tendent of repairs, and remained there until 
June 16, 1890, when he came to the Lake 
Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company 
as general car inspector, and .Inly 1, 1891, was 
promoted to division master car builder, — com- 
pleting in December, 1893, twenty-four years 
of continuous unbroken service. 

Mr. Dow was born in Kingston, New Hamp- 
shire, October 21, 1853. Early the next year 
his father, G. W. Dow, a railroad man, moved 



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to Lynn, Massachusetts, and four years later 
located in Salem. G. W. Dow was born in 
Plaistow, New Hampshire, in 1827, and spent 
most of his life in railroad service. He en- 
listed in the Union army at the first call and 
served to the close of hostilities, and died Au- 
gust 12, 1881. By marriage to Olivia, a 
daughter of Nathaniel Smith, Mr. Dow became 
the father of two children, — George N. and 
Charles, now located in Salem, Massachusettf?. 

George N. left the public schools at the age 
of sixteen years, after receiving a fair English 
education, and became a messenger boy, as be- 
fore stated. June 17, 1875, he married, in 
Boston, Mary Y. Statem, a daughter of William 
Statem, a blacksmith. They have one child, 
Alice M., born August 26, 1876, and is now in 
the freshman class of the Cleveland high 
school. 

Fraternally Mr. Dow is a Mason, an Odd 
Fellow, a Workman, a member of the B. M. 
Relief Association, the Master Car-Builders' 
Association, and of the Central Eailway Club. 



If 



H. AVERY, a well known farmer 
id influential citizen of Brecksville 

township, was born on the same farm 
where he now lives, and which he owns, June 
26, 1845. His fatlier, George J. Avery, was a 
native of county Kent, England, born in 1815, 
the son of George Avery, who M'hen a boy 
learned the trade of butcher, which he followed 
in London. (Botli his parents were farmers.) 
When a young man he, the last mentioned, was 
married, in county Kent, to Miss Mary With- 
erdon, and they had the following named chil- 
dren: George J., born in 1815 and the father 
of our subject; Mary, born in 1817; Hester, 
1819; James, 1821; Harriet, 1826; Ann, 1S27; 
Sarah; 1829; and Joseph, 1830. Tiiis wife died 
in England, as did also the daughter Hester; 
and for his second wife Mr. Avery married 
Mary Fields, and about 1840 emigrated to the 
United States, with all his cliildren excepting 



George, Jr., and James. Sailing from London 
they landed at New York, and came to Cleve- 
land by the canal and lake, and finally arrived in 
Brecksville township. Near the west line of 
this township he purchased forty-one acres, 
where he lived until his death, when about 
sixty years of age; and he was buried in Rice 
cemetery. By his last marriage there were no 
children. 

George Avery, Jr., father of W. H., was 
reared on a farm in his native country. Soon 
after his marriage, in 1841, he emigrated to 
this, the land of golden opportunity, whither 
his father and many of his friends had come the 
previous year. With his bride and brother 
James he bade farewell to his native land, and 
from London took passage on a sail vessel 
which required six weeks and three days to 
reach New York; they encountered consider- 
able ice on the way and at one time the situation 
was perilous. On arrival at Cleveland the bride 
was left there while the brothers walked out to 
Brecksville, where a conveyance was secured to 
take her out. 

Mr. Avery purchased a small piece of land, 
on time, near the west line of the township, 
where Mr. W. H. Avery (our subject) now 
lives. Here he began farming, and resided 
there the remainder of his life, dying Septem- 
ber 3, 1850, after a short illness, and was 
buried in Rice cemetery. In his political sym- 
pathies he was an old-line Wliig. For his wife 
he liad married Louisa Avann, who was born in 
county Kent, England, in 1824. After the 
death of lier husband she married George 
Reanier and moved to California, and she is 
now living at Capitola, that State, again a 
widow. Mr. George (Jr.) Avery's cliildren 
were: Elizabeth, born September 12, 1842, and is 
now a widow of W. II. Sheldon, living in Texas; 
William IL, whose name heads this article; and 
Charlotte, born December 13, 1849, and is now 
a widow of Samuel Shurtleff. 

The gentleman whose name heads this bio- 
graphical sketch was only five years of age 
when lii< father died, and liis school advantages 



CXJ7AG0MA aOUNTT. 



were consequently very limited. When but 
sixteen years of age he began life for himself, 
and first he was employed for a short time by 
Clinton Wjman, of Independence township, 
and next by that good citizen, J. J. Barnes, then 
a farmer of this township, until his enlistment 
in the United States army, in September, 1864, 
at Cleveland, in Company H, One Hundred and 
Seventy-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and 
was detailed to Tullalioma, Tennessee. The 
first regular engagement in which he partici- 
pated was at the Cedars, when the Union forces 
were repulsed and driven back to Murfrees- 
borough. Mr. Avery was then detailed to 
various places in that vicinity, then to Wash- 
ington, District of Columbia, and later to 
North Carolina, where lie joined General Sher- 
man, at Goldsboro, and continued with him un- 
til the close of the war. During his service he 
received no wounds. lie was discharged June 
30, 1865, at Cleveland. 

Returning to Brecksville township, he found 
a home and employment at Mr. Barnes' again, 
as his mother had left for California. After a 
time he purchased the home farm and kept 
" bach " for two years, while working it. After 
his marriage, in 1869, he located upon his 
present farm, the Avery homestead, where he 
has since lived, following general agriculture 
and also the dairy business extensively. He 
has an excellent farm of nearly 100 acres, 
which is systematically cultivated and managed. 
There are few, if any, more stirring and system- 
atic farmers in the township than Mr. Avery, 
and these traits have been important factors in 
his success. In his dealings he is straightfor- 
ward and reliable. With regard to political 
issues he is a stanch Republican, and is public- 
spirited, but is no office-seeker. He and wife 
are members of the Congregational Church. 

June 16, 1869, Mr. Avery married Miss 
Rosaline Comstock, who was born March 26, 
1847, in Richfield, Summit county, Ohio, a 
daughter of Allen and Lydia (Miller) Comstock. 
Her father was a native of Connecticut and her 
mother of Massachusetts, and are now deceased. 



Mr. and Mrs. Avery's children are: May, born 
May 4, 1870, now Mrs. Harry Seward, of Akron, 
Ohio; Laura, who died in infancy; George A., 
born November 16, 1875; Myron C, December 
14, 1879; Charles W., who died when three 
years of age; and Harry W., born April 8, 1884. 



C. SCHELLENTRAGER, Auditor of 
Cuyahoga county, is a widelyand favorably 
known citizen of this portion of the State. 
He was born in Eisenach, Germany, March 2, 
1846, and emigrated to America in 1859, cross- 
ing the ocean in a clipper ship, the journey last- 
ing forty-nine days. He had received an ordi- 
nary education in his native country, in the 
citizens' school and Teachers' Seminary of 
Eisenach. 

After his arrival he spent the first six months 
in New York, engaged in a cigar factory, strip- 
ping tobacco, at $ 2 per week in wages. Then he 
came to Akron, this State, and worked as an 
apprentice in his brother-in-law's bindery, the 
first complete book bindery at Akron, estab- 
lisiied in 1859. While he was thus employed 
he was favored in attending the elementary and 
high schools there, in perfecting his education, 
by special arrangement with the school oflicials, 
and passed through ail the grades of study. 
In the meantime he followed the occupation of 
book-binder, after which he left Akron for New 
York. He embarked from there for San Fran- • 
cisco, California, leaving New York on the (so 
called) opposition line in the steamer America, 
and after crossing the istiimus of Nicaragua 
took the steamer Moses Taylor on the Pacific 
side, reaching San Francisco after a most inter- 
esting trip of twenty-four days, in June, 1863. 
On arriving, unable to secure work at his 
trade, he accepted a position as waiter in the 
Globe Hotel, for the consideration of $15 per 
month and board. After this he secured a po- 
sition as clerk in a fruit store in the fall of the 
same year, and under very favorable circum- 
stances remained there until his return to Cleve- 



COYABOGA COUNTY. 



land in April, 1866. Being an active Union 
boy, he had joined, while sojourning In San 
Francisco, a volunteer military company organ- 
ized for the purpose of entering the army then 
in the fields of battle, but the company failed to 
receive an order to report for field duty, and was 
mustered out in 1865. 

On returning to Cleveland he engaged in the 
restaurant and saloon business, which he con- 
tinued to manage until 1883, with considerable 
success, principally under the firm name of Die- 
bolt & Company, thence removing in 1884 to 
Glenville, to engage in agricultural pursuits. 
He became the manager and owner of The Cleve- 
land Aromatic Disinfectant Company in 1891. 
Was married in July, 1869, to Miss Adella L. 
Guebhard, and has two children: Carl and 
Clara. 

In politics he has always been an ardent 
Democrat, firmly believing in its true prin- 
ciples, and steadfast in his position for the 
interests of the many. He became active in 
politics in 1872, during the Greeley campaign, 
and was elected to the City Council of Cleve- 
land in the spring of 1877 from the old Third 
ward, and was twice re-elected. While a mem- 
ber of the City Council he was repeatedly nomi- 
nated on the county ticket for Representative, 
Sheriif, etc., and finally honored with the nomi- 
nation of County Recorder in the fall of 1882, 
and successfully elected as such, but not success- 
ful in the election of 1885 for the same office. 
He was again placed on the Democratic ticket 
in 1886 as a candidate for County Auditor, 
without his knowledge or consent, and his defeat 
was mainly due to his embarrassed condition and 
ill health. 

On account of his experience in municipal 
affairs and his known progressive, sincere and 
honorable ideas of public duty, he was in the 
spring of 1888 again called out and elected 
Mayor of GleTivillc. Declining a re-election in 
1890, he was sought for the place in the spring 
of 1892, and again elected by a handsome ma- 
ority. In the fall of 1892 he was, without 
opposition, nominated for County Auditor the 



second time, and triumphantly elected against 
much opposition from unknown sources. He 
resigned his position as Mayor of Glenville in 
August, 1893, and entered upon the responsible 
duties of the oflice of County Auditor Septem- 
ber 11, 1893. This testimonial of the people is 
an evidence of the broad mind, business capaci- 
ty, and general integrity of Mr. Schellentrager. 



fJRNST A. SCHELLENTRAGER, a 
prominent pharmacist of the city of 
— tl Cleveland, is a brother of the Auditor of 
Cuyahoga county, Mr. C. C. Schellentrager. 
The gentleman whose name introduces this 
sketch was born in Eisenach, Germany, Febru- 
ary 22, 1850, attended the citizens' school of his 
native city until 1864, and then emigrated to 
America, coining direct to Cleveland, with his 
mother and youngest brother and sister. Pos- 
sessing a predilection for the drug business, he 
entered the employ of Dr. H. C. Busch, a drug- 
gist on the corner of Ontario street and the 
public square in Cleveland, soon after his arrival 
here. After remaining with Dr. Busch two 
years, he engaged with Ilartness & Shannon, 
where he spent another two years. Following 
this he was for several years engaged in the 
capacity of manager of the drug store of Dr. 
W. H. Capener on St. Clair street, after which 
time he was called to Ravenna, Ohio, to take 
charge of the drug business of E. P. Braiiierd & 
Son. He returned to Cleveland in 1873 and 
embarked in business for himself on St. Clair 
street, where he has built up an enviable reputa- 
tion for competency and reliability. In 1887 
he formed a partnership with Eugene R. Selzer 
and opened a drug store at No. 1021 Superior 
street, under the firm name of Eugene R. Selzer 
& Co.; but at the end of five years this partner- 
ship terminated, and in 1893 Mr. Schellentrager 
associated himself with George J. Hoehn, and 
under the firm name Schellentrager & Hoehn 
opened a new pharmacy at the corner of Superior 
and Norwood streets. In January, 1894, the 



CUTASOOA COUNTY. 



Madison Pharmacy, corner of Superior street 
and East Madison avenue, was purchased by 
this firm. Mr. Schellentrager, however, de- 
votes most of his time to his St. Clair street 
institution. He has taken much interest in 
pharmacy and devoted much time to it, and 
though not a graduate he has labored zealously 
for the promotion of pharmaceutical education. 
While president of the Cleveland Pharmaceu- 
tical Association in 1882 he took the first step 
toward the establishment of the Cleveland School 
of Pharmacy; and ever since the organization 




of this school he has been honored with the 
presidency of the pharmacy school committee, 
which position he holds at present. In 1878 
he was elected a member of the Cleveland Board 
of Education (now the School Council), and his 
twelve years' incumbency of that office testifies 
most fitly as to tlie value of the service he has 
rendered and the appreciation of the public. In 
1886 he was chosen president of the board by a 
unanimous vote, notwithstanding the fact that 
the board was nearly equally divided on polit- 
ical issues, which in itself was an unusual com- 
pliment. He is also a member of the American, 



Ohio and Cleveland Pharmaceutical Associa- 
tions, being most active in the latter, seldom 
missing a meeting. 

His family consists of a wife and seven chil- 
dren, as follows: Emmy L., wife of M. J. Keip, 
of Chicago; Fred C, druggist of the same city; 
Ernst A., Jr., employed in his father's phar- 
macy; Ada L., Johanna, Eleonora M. and Wal- 
ter Ludwig, — the last mentioned yet an infant. 
Mrs. Schellentrager is an accomplished lady and 
a fine musician, having studied under Professor 
Oscar Paul, a prominent instructor in the Con- 
servatory of Music at Leipzig, Germany, where 
she was reared and married. 

Mr. Schellentrager has recently erected a very 
comfortable modern home in Glenville, one of 
Cleveland's suburbs, where he was so fortunate 
as to strike a rich flow of natural gas, which he 
utilizes. His home, "The Evergreens," is fur- 
nished in a manner adapted to contentment, 
and is occupied by an appreciative family. 



fl( L. EADWAY, one of the old settlers 
f/_l\ and well-known farmers of Newburg 
jj *\ township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, forms 
' the subject of this article. 

Mr. Itadway was born in Fayetteville town- 
ship, "Windham county, Vermont, November 3 0, 
1828, son of Richard Radway, who was born in 
Putney, that same county, in 1804. Richard 
Radway was a blacksmith by trade. About 
1841 he emigrated with his family to Ohio and 
settled in Newburg, Cuyahoga county, where 
he followed his trade three years. In 1844 he 
located on the farm on which the subject of our 
sketch now lives, and the rest of his life he de- 
voted to agricultural pursuits. He was a 
Democrat in politics, and at one time served as 
Township Trustee. Of his father, Jonathan 
Radway, little is known. It is supposed, how- 
ever, that he was born in Rhode Island and was 
of English descent. He died when Richard 
Radway was four years old. Richard Radway 
died at the age of seventy-two. The mother of 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



our subject, nee Mary Ann Stone, was a native 
of Yermont and was left an orphan when quite 
young. She died at about the age of sixty-five 
years. Two sons and one daughter composed 
their family, A. L. being the oldest and being 
about twelve years of age when he came with 
them to Ohio. He had attended school some 
in Vermont, and after coming to this county 
went to the district schools for several winters. 
All his life he has been engaged in general 
farming and is now the owner of ninety-two 
acres. 

Mr. Eadway was married in 1853 to Marietta 
Rathburn, a native of Livingston county. New 
York. She came out to Cuyahoga county, 
Ohio, when she was twenty years old and for 
five years was engaged in teaching school in 
Newburg township. 

Politically, Mr. Radway is a Democrat. He 
has served as Trustee of the township, and for 
many years has been an Assessor. 



THOMAS R. CLEMENT, one of the 
Trustees of Strongs ville township, Cuya- 
hoga county, Ohio, is a highly respected 
citizen and one of the representative men 
of his community. A brief sketch of his life is 
herewith presented: 

Thomas R. Clement was born in the town- 
ship in which he now lives, February 1, 1856, 
son of Edward and Sophia (Redrup) Clement, 
both natives of England, the former born in 
Berksiiire in 1817 and the latter in Bucking- 
hamshire in 1819. Edward Clement came to 
America when he was about sixteen years of 
age, and it was in Strongsville township, Cuya- 
hoga county, Ohio, that lie su])8equently met 
and married Miss lledrnp. They have been 
residents of this township ever since. In their 
family of eight children Thomas R. is one of 
the younger. He was reared and educated 
here, and in this vicinity has resided all his 
life. 

October 18, 1877, the subject of our sketch 
was married, in Royalton township, this county. 



to Miss Florrie Saunders, who was born there 
June 15, 1858, and their union has been blessed 
by the birth of two children, Yernice L. and 
Louis H. 

Mr. Clement was elected Trustee of Strongs- 
ville township in the spring of 1893. In all 
public affairs he has ever taken a commendable 
interest. Both he and his wife are prominent 
and active members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. He has served as Sunday-school 
superintendent for several years, and has at 
various times tilled most of the leading offices 
in the church. In politics he is a stanch Re- 
publican. 



ffJfENRY R. HEN N I NGER, another one 
rpHI of the prosperous farmers of Parma 
II 4j township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, was 
^ born and reared in this township, and in 

this township he has spent his whole life. As 
one of its representative citizens it is therefore 
appropriate that biographical notice be made of 
him in this work. Briefly, a sketch of his life 
is herewith presented: 

Henry R. Henninger was born July 3, 1845, 
son of Philip G. and Sophia (Orth) Henninger, 
both natives of Germany, the former born in 
Bavaria, October 20, 1813, and the latter May 
9, 1823. They were married in Cuyahoga 
county, Ohio, and after their marriage settled 
in Parma township, where she has since re- 
sided, his death having occurred July 15, 1892. 
They reared eight children, whose names are as 
follows: Helen, John, Henry R., Louisa, Emma, 
Laura, Julia and Mary. 

Henry R. Henninger was married here, No- 
vember 21, 1876, to Miss Margaret L. Uhinck, 
daughter of William and Margaret M. (Boyer) 
Uhinck. Her parents, both natives of Ger- 
many, came to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, about 
the year 1848 and settled in Parma township, 
where her mother died March 6, 1887. They 
had six children, of whom Mrs. Henninger was 
the third. Slie was born in Parma township, 
January 21, 1853. Mr. and Mrs. Henninger 



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are the parents of eight children, seven of whom 
are living: William P., Edwin J., Carl H., 
Artluir J., Elma M. S., Oscar A. and Roman 
G. Harvey J. died in infancy. 

As already stated, Mr. Henninger is ranked 
with the prosperous farmers of the township. 
He owns a hundred acres of fine land, and has 
it well improved with good buildings, etc. He 
alRliates with the Democratic party, and has 
always talcen an active part in political affairs. 
He has filled several of the township ofiBces, 
has served as Justice of the Peace for twelve 
years, and in all the positions to wliich he has 
been called he has performed his duty with the 
strictest fidelity. In church work he also takes 
a prominent and active part, being a member of 
the Evangelical Lutheran Church. 



Tf AMES PRESTON, one of the well-known 
J^ || farmers of Strongsville township, Cuya- 
^dy hoga county, Ohio, dates his birth in 
county Armagh, Ireland, early in the '30b. 
He spent his youthful days on his native isle, 
and in 1855, upon reaching manhood, emi- 
o-rated to America. From that time up to the 
present he has made his home in Strongsville 
township, and since his marriage, which oc- 
curred two years after his arrival here, he has 
lived on his present farm. He owns eighty- 
three acres of land, well improved and under a 
high state of cultivation, and the buildings and 
general surroundings of the place are indicative 
of the thrift and prosperity that have attended 
Mr. Preston's earnest efforts. 

Mr. Preston was married iu this township, 
November 16, 1857, to Mrs. Sylvia C. (Kelly) 
Meacham, widow of Stephen Meacham, Jr., 
who died here in 1851. Mr. and Mrs. Meacham 
had six children, two of whom are living, viz.: 
Lucy and Marquis. Mr. and Mrs. Preston have 
one son, Francis J., who married Miss Ida M. 
Brown and resides in Strongsville township. 

Mr. Preston is a public-spirited and pro- 
man. He is generous in his support 



of the gospel and of all worthy causes. In- 
deed, any measure that has for its object the 
welfare of his community is sure to find in him 
a hearty supporter. He has served three years 
as Township Trustee, and has also filled the 
office of School Director. 



ELMER A. SPERRY.— To attain to the 
maximum of success in life it is impera- 
1 tive that a man shall devote himself to 

that business or profession for which he has an 
apparent natural predilection. By insisting 
upon following his own inclinations in early 
life the subject of this sketch has proved that 
nature designated to him thus early the field in 
which his efforts might be turned to the best 
account. 

Mr. Sperry is of Huguenot-American ex- 
traction and his birth occurred at Cortland, 
New York, October 12, 1860, his parents being 
Stephen D. and Mary A. (Bard) Sperry. The 
father was a man of great mechanical skill and 
his career was one of activity and usefulness. 
His death occurred on the 28th of February, 
1891. The mother of our subject died soon 
after he was ushered into the world and he was 
taken in charge by his grandparents, by whom 
he was reared. His natural aptitude for me- 
chanics and his determined devotion to experi- 
ments in this line caused no little solicitude to 
his indulgent grandparents, who wished him to 
devote himself to his studies in school with 
more singleness of purpose. When it became 
evident that he would not turn his attention to 
other studies he was given all opportunity in 
the way of mechanics, and gained a knowledge 
of the making of windmills, drills and other 
tools and machinery, and while a boy mastered 
the work of bookbinding, also learning glass- 
blowing and grinding. He learned the process 
of making air pumps and a railroad tricycle, 
his marked ability being a matter of no little 
astonishment to those who had watched his 
progress. Very early he became interested in 



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electricity, and, feeling that while he had some 
practical knowledge of this subject he also had 
a greater necessity of a theoretical information, 
he devoted himself to study, and by the use of 
text-books and by preparing himself for prac- 
tical experimentation he greatly increased his 
knowledge of the subject, in the meanwhile de- 
voting considerable attention to the construction 
of an electric motor. Being dissatisfied with 
his accomplishment, he decided upon attending 
the State Normal School at Cortland, where he 
gained a thorough knowledge of mathematics, 
chemistry and physics. There he also attended 
lectures on the science of electricity, applied 
himself to such books as treated upon the sub- 
ject, and virtually completed a course in elec- 
trical engineering. In 1S7G he took his first 
contract, which was for automatically recording 
the movements of a gas meter seven miles dis- 
tant, by means of a single electric wire. This 
work he accomplished most successfully. 

In his investigations with the dynamo he 
found that a large portion of the same was in- 
active and nnoperative, and he set to work to 
remedy this fault, which entailed so much loss 
of power and efficiency. His ideas were re- 
duced to practical plans and drawings in 1878, 
the same being based upon scientific and mathe- 
matical principles. Tlie production which was 
the result of his genius and talent was patented, 
and designated as an economic generator and 
automatic regulator. The Sperry dynamo and 
electric machine were adopted and are so de- 
signed as to admit of a double field magnet, — 
a conspicuous and valuable improvement. Mr. 
Sperry is inventor of what is termed the Sperry 
system of lighting, as well also of an automatic 
gas engine and an electric mining machine. 
He is one of the charter members of the Amer- 
ican Institute of Electrical Engineers, and also 
of the National Electric Light Association and 
the Chicago Electric Club. He is a ready and 
concise thinker, thoroughly informed in the 
scientific lines to which he has devoted his at- 
tention, and though he is yet a young man he 
has gained distinctive prominence as an electric 



engineer, being known far beyond the radius of 
Cleveland, which city has been his home for the 
past few yearg. He has been very successful 
in his province of labor and thought, and has 
high standing among those most conspicuous 
in this line of science and business enterprise. 
In 1887 Mr. Sperry was united in marriage 
to Miss Zula A., a daughter of Edward Good- 
man, proprietor of the Chicago Standard. The 
children of our subject and his wife are Helen, 
Edward and Lawrence. 



YROX ACKLEY, an old settler of 
Middlebnrg township, was born in the 
^ township of Livingston, Columbia 
county. New York, October 6, 1822; 
and when he was fourteen years of age his 
father, Thomas Ackley, emigrated to Ohio, set- 
tling in Middlebnrg township, this county, in 
1838. He died June 21; 1845. 

Mr. Myron Ackley, our subject, has been a 
resident here ever since 1838, engaged in farm- 
ing, and is therefore one of the oldest settlers. 
He was married here to Miss Betsey E. Fowles, 
who was born in this township, and died here, 
November 9, 1870. By this marriage there 
were three children, namely: Harriet E., who 
became the wife of H. M. Root and died Octo- 
ber 6, 1889; Samuel J., who married Miss Ida 
K. Spoiford and resides in this township; and 
Ellen, who is the wife of Franklin Eeckwith. 



ICHAEL SCIIAAF, a well-known and 
prosperous farmer of Middlebnrg town- 
^ ship, was born in Germany, October 
5, 1828, the son of Conrad Schaaf. 
When our subject was about five years of age 
his father emigrated to America with his little 
family, and, coming directly to Ohio, took np 
his residence in Brooklyn township, Cuyahoga 
county. There the honored parents continued 
to reside until death summoned them to the life 
eternal. 



GUTAHOOA COUNTY. 



Michael Schaaf continued to reside in the 
locality where he was reared until the spring of 
1853, when he came to Middleburg township, 
where he secured a farm, to whose improving 
and cultivation he has since devoted his atten- 
tion, and that with excellent results. The 
place is thoroughly well kept, has yielded good 
returns for the labor and care expended and is 
provided with convenient and substantial build- 
ings. 

The marriage of Mr. Schaaf to Miss Eliz- 
abeth Scuhardt was celebrated in Brooklyn 
township, March 22, 1853, his wife being also 
born in Germany. 

Our subject and his estimable wife are the 
parents of eight children, by name as follows: 
Elizabeth P., Charles, Lewis O., Henry J., 
George W., Rosa C, Julius W. and Leonard M. 

Taking much interest in local affairs and 
ever advocating those measures which tend to 
the good of the community, Mr. Schaaf has 
been called upon to serve in a number of posi- 
tions of trust, and has proved in each instance 
a capable and conscientious official. He and 
his family are members of the German Lutheran 
Church, and in the work of the local society 
they take a prominent part. 



El U. PUTT, proprietor of the Wilmot Ho- 
tel, Cleveland, has been a resident of this 
1 city for the past twenty-three years, hav- 
ing been brought here by his father, Richard 
Putt, when a child of three years. He was 
born in Cuyahoga county, this State, in 1868, 
and reared in this city, assisting his father in 
the poultry business, which he still carries on 
extensively at 749 Detroit street. He has car- 
ried on a business of 340,000 a year; but since 
May, 1891, he has also been the proprietor and 
manager of the "Wilmot Hotel, on Ontario street, 
succeeding his father, who had opened the house 
in 1890. This is one of the best hotels in the 
city: it has seventy rooms for guests. Though 
a young man, our subject is thoroughly adapted 



for the business. He is also interested in real 
estate. He is also one of the firm of Burrows & 
Putt, proprietors of 123 lots in Glenville, where 
during the last year (1893) they did some bnild ■ 
ing. Mr. Putt is one of the most progressive 
young men of the city, — probal>ly the youngest 
hotel proprietor of any importance in this part 
of the State, being only about twenty-three 
years of age when he took charge of the hotel ; 
but his success has proven his ability. 

In his social i-elations he is a member of the 
Maccabees, Columbia Tent, No. 134, Cleveland. 
He was married in 1891, to Miss Maud Quig- 
ley, daughter of John Quigley, of this city, and 
they have a son, Clarence. 

Richard Putt, proprietor of the American 
House, Cleveland, has been a resident of this 
city since 1871. He was born in Devonshire, 
England, September 13, 1845, and was fourteen 
years of age when he came to America, locating 
at Strongsville, Cuyahoga county. After a res- 
idence there of two or three years, September 
24, 1862, he enlisted in Company C, One Hun- 
dred and Twenty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infan- 
try, and was discharged May 16, 1865, on 
account of disabilty caused by gunshot wounds 
x-eceived at Lovejoy station, Georgia, September 
4, 1864. He was shot through the right fore- 
arm, the ball passing through below the left 
elbow. The one ball made four bullet holes! 
After remaining in the hospital for about six 
weeks he was given a furlough. 

After his discbarge from the army he re- 
sumed his trade of harness-making for about 
three years, and then engaged in the prod- 
uce business, dealing principally in butter and 
eggs, at which he continued until he came to 
Cleveland. Here he established the poultry 
business, to which he devoted bis entire atten- 
tion, doing the largest business of all in this line 
in the city, until 1888. He slaughtered 1,000 
head weekly for the local trade. In 1888 he 
turned the business over to his eldest son, and 
formed the company of Putt, Fife & Pentland, 
and took charge of the American House, which 
had just been refitted. In the spring of 1893, 



CUTAEOGA COUNTY. 



Fife and Peutland retiring, he formed a partner- 
fihip with Isaac Eeynolds, and again thoroughly 
refitted the house. The hotel has a capacity for 
accommodating 300 people. In January, 1891, 
he opened the Wilmot House on Ontario street, 
which he is still conduct] i)g in company with 
his son. 

In his political sympathies he is a stanch 
Republican. 

He was married in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, 
in 1865, to Miss Emellne Osborn, of Lorain 
county, this State, and they have three children, 
namely: Mamie, wife of W. A. Neil, of this 
city; Ernest and Charles. 



II RA FITZ WATER, a respected citizen of 
Brecksville township, was born November 
-i 6, 1823, in Yates county, New York. His 
father, John Fitzwater, was born December 4, 
1800, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a son of 
Joseph Fitzwater. John grew up to manhood 
in Yates county, and December 26, 1822, mar- 
ried Sabra Peckins, who was born August 10, 
1804, in New York, a descendant of an old 
New England family. He inherited nothing, 
as his father lost property by imperfect title. 
He located upon a piece of i-ented land, where 
his widowed mother afterward made her home 
with him. About 1825 he moved to Warren 
county, Pennsylvania, and purchased land, 
where he lived ten or eleven years, following 
agricultural pursuits, erected a sawmill and did 
something in the line of lumbering. He bar- 
gained for land in the northeast corner of 
Brecksville township, and came through on 
horseback to look at it, and in the spring of 1837 
moved upon it with his family. A two-horse 
wagon contained his household goods and farm- 
ing implements. On the land was only an old 
hut, with an elm -bark roof, and this afforded 
them shelter for two years, when a substantial 
frame structure was erected. Mr. Fitzwater's 
mother, Mrs. Joseph Fitzwater, spent the re- 
mainder of her days here with iior son, and she 
lies buried on the old homestead. 



Many years after his settlement here Mr. 
Fitzwater moved to the center of Brecksville 
township, where he intended to live a retired life; 
but, not content with doing nothing, he returned 
to the farm and erected a new house, and occu- 
pied it as a residence until 1873, when he and 
his wife and two sons (John and William) to- 
gether with their families, started for White 
county, Tennessee, where he intended to intro- 
duce sheep-raising. He lived there until his 
death, in August, 1874; his wife had departed 
this life during the preceding April. They were 
at tirst buried in Tennessee, but were afterward 
exhumed and brought to Brecksville township, 
and now lie in a private cemetery on the old 
homestead. 

Politically Mr. Fitzwater was a Whig and 
Republican. In her younger days his wife was 
a member of the Methodist Church. He was a 
self-made and determined man, fearless and suc- 
cessful in the business of life's activities. His 
children were: Ira, our subject; and David, 
born in New York; David died December 23, 
1893, in Paulding county, Ohio, aged nearly six- 
ty-nine years. Those born in Pennsylvania were:' 
George, a resident of Paulding county, Ohio; 
Charles, who died young, in Pennsylvania; Ra- 
chel, who also died in Pennsylvania; and Thomas 
W., now a farmer of Brecksville township; and 
those born in this township are: John A.; 
William, a farmer of this township; and Mary, 
who died young. 

Mr. Ira Fitzwater, whose name introduces 
this biographical sketch, was ten years old when 
he became a resident of Ohio. He was brought 
up as a farmer's son in a pioneer country. 
When he was twenty-seven years of age his 
father gave him fifty acres of land in Indepen- 
dence township, adjoining the paternal home- 
stead. He afterward added to it by purchase 
until he had in all about 150 acres; but he now 
has 290 acres, all excellent land. He has been 
a successful farmer, straightforward in his deal- 
ings, never having had a lawsuit. In his 
political views he has always been a stanch Re- 
publican, and has served as Trustee of his town- 



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ship, and in other offices; but even for these 
situations he was elected against his will. He is 
one of the most highly respected citizens of the 
township. He is the oldest representative of 
the pioneer family to which he belongs. 

December 31, 1865, he married Miss Catha- 
rine Dillow, who was born in Brecksville town- 
ship about 1827, a daughter of Andrew and 
Elizabeth (Farrar) Dillow. After his marriage 
he lived some years with his wife's parents, and 
they located where our subject now lives. His 
wife died January 13, 1893, and was buried at 
Center cemetery. She was a member of the 
Congregational Church. 



m 



[lEL JOHNSON, one of the leading 
itizens of Cuyahoga county, was born in 
lochester, Vermont, February 24, 1820, 
a son of David and Zebiah (Richason) Johnson, 
natives also of that State. Three children 
were born in the family of Mr. and Mrs. John- 
son in Vermont, viz.: Daniel, whose name heads 
this sketch; George, who died in Seneca county, 
Ohio, at an advanced age; and Charles, deceased 
in Royalton township, Cuyahoga county, at the 
/age of fifty-seven years. In 1834 the family 
, joined a brother-in-law, Chauncey A. Stewart, 
I in Eoyalton township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio. 
Mr. Johnson purchased a farm of seventy acres 
one mile west of Royalton Center, paying $3 
T)er acre, and the land was covered with timber. 
Their only place of shelter was a small log 
cabin. A few years afterward a new cabin was 
built, more land purchased, and the father lived 
there until an advanced age, dying April 30, 
1860. His wife died eight years afterward, 
February 27, 1868, and they were buried in the 
township cemetery at Royalton Center. Mr. 
Johnson was identified wit-h both the Whig and 
Republican parties, and was a member of the 
Free-will Baptist Church. Mrs. Johnson was a 
member of the Methodist Church. 

Daniel, the subject of this sketch, received 
only a limited education, and was early inured 



to farm labor. For twenty-five years he was 
engaged in the butchering business in Cleve- 
land, having made the journey to that city 
every other day during that time, and was very 
successful in his dealings. At one time Daniel 
and George Johnson owned over 900 acres of 
land. In 1874 our subject came to Royalton 
Center, where he has ever since lived a partially 
retired life. He has disposed of his land until 
he now owns only 100 acres. He loans his 
money, and also deals in real estate. He is one 
of the wealthy and influential men of his county, 
has always taken an active part in the improve- 
ment of his locality, and has made many friends 
during his active life. He cast his first presi- 
dential vote for William H. Harrison, in 1840. 
June 20, 1866, he was united in marriage 
with Sarah A. Craddock, born in Royalton 
township, April 11, 1841, a daughter of Rich- 
ard Craddock, who emigrated to Royalton town- 
ship, Ohio, in the fall of 1840. Mr. and Mrs. 
Johnson had one son, David R., who was born 
February 3, 1868, and died April 4, 1869. They 
also reared an adopted daughter, Lottie, now 
the wife of R. F. Hamblin, a physician of Royal- 
ton township. Mrs. Johnson is a member of 
the Methodist Church. 



T' H. CAHOON, 374 Franklin street, Cleve- 
land, Ohio, has for many years been a 
well-known citizen of this place and since 
1887 has been retired from active busi- 
ness, enjoying the fruits earned by a life of 
honest industry. 

Mr. Cahoon was born in Fredericktown, 
Maryland, July 7, 1832, son of Joel and Mar- 
garet Cahoon, the former a native of Vermont 
and the latter of Washington, District of Co- 
lumbia. The mother is still living at the old 
homestead in Dover township, this county, she 
having attained her eighty -fourth year. Joel 
Cahoon came to Cleveland, Ohio, as early as 
1810, with his parents, Joseph and Lydia 
Cahoon, and settled on the farm where our sub- 



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ject's mother now resides. Joseph Cahoon was 
the first settler of the township. There were 
but four houses iu Cleveland at that time. Joel 
Cahoon was a farmer by occupation and at an 
early day was also engaged in contracting. 
During the war of 1812 he went to the front as 
a soldier and rendered most valiant service. In 
his family were eleven children, seven of whom 
three sons and four daughters — are still liv- 
ing. Their names are as follows: T. H., the 
subject of our sketch; John J., an engineer of 
Memphis, Tennessee; Lydia, a teacher; D. K., 
deceased; Charles O.; Laura E., a teacher; 
Martha W.; Leverett J., deceased; J. Marshall, 
who is extensively engaged in grape culture on 
the home farm in Dover township; Mary Emma, 
deceased; and Ida M., a teacher. 

T. H. Cahoon spent his early life in working 
on his father's farm and in attending the dis- 
trict school. In 1851 he came to Cleveland 
and beo-an learning the trade of ship carpenter. 
This business he followed for fifteen years. 
Tlien he ran a planing mill, and in 1876 en- 
gaged in the lumber business in this city, being 
a member of the firm of Cahoon & Hutchinson. 
In this business he continued until 1887, when 
he retired, as above stated. 

Mr. Cahoon was a member of the City Coun- 
cil of Cleveland in 1882, and it was largely 
owing to his vote and influence that the ordin- 
ance was passed which granted the Johnson 
line franchise over Scoville avenue, thereby 
making an opening for a single fare from 
Brooklyn through the city. 

Mr. Cahoon was married, March 27, 1860, on 
the Miami river, near Cincinnati, Ohio, to Miss 
Elizabeth Hughes, daughter of Richard and 
Elizabeth Hughes. Her grandfather Hughes 
came with Governor Bebb from Wales to this 
country, and it is recorded of him that he 
bought the first tract of land west of the Miami 
river. Richard Hughes was born in 1808, was 
married January 21, 1830, and died August 25, 
1850. His wife was born in Pennsylvania iu 
1807, emigrated to Ohio with her parents, John 
Elder and wife, in 1815, and died September 6, 



1870. She was a most estimable woman and a 
devoted Christian. Mr. and Mrs. Hughes had 
a family of eight children, viz.: Elizabeth H., 
wife of Mr. Cahoon ; Mary, deceased, wife of 
Joseph Cillay; Frances, wife of George Hare; 
Martha, wife of Dr. Griswold; Ezekiel; Mar- 
garet, wife of Aaron Haggaman; and Rebecca. 
Both Mr. and Mrs. Cahoon are members of 
the Presbyterian Church, and he is a member 
of the I. O. O. F. and the A. O. U. W., in both 
of which organizations he has passed all the 
chairs. He has represented Ohio in the Na- 
tional Council of the A. O. U. W. Politically, 
he has always been a Republican. 



LIVER EMERSON, late of Parma town- 
ship, Ohio, was a son of Asa and Sally 
(Small) Emerson, who emigrated from 
Lowell, Massachusetts, to the West, and after 
visiting different places, settled in the southern 
part of Ohio, where Cincinnati now stands, and 
in 1820 removed to Cuyahoga county, settling 
in Parma township. They both died in Parma 
township. They were married in Maine, Janu- 
ary 26, 1803. The father died November 20, 
1855, and the mother November 5, 1858. They 
had eleven children, of whom Oliver Emerson 
was the eldest. 

He was born in Bowdoin, March 11, 1804, 
and was sixteen years of age when he came to 
Cuyahoga county, and was living in Parma 
township when he was married to his first wife, 
Minda Ilodgman, November 30, 1826. They 
settled in Parma township, where Mrs. Emer- 
son died, July 24, 1849, of cholera. They had 
six children, namely: Minerva H., Alfred M., 
who is a resident of Cleveland ; Stepiien, who 
died in Cincinnati, Ohio, January 14, 1861; 
Lucina J., now the widow of Albert Standen, 
who died in Cleveland, Ohio, September 8, 1884; 
Oliver S., who is a resident of Parma township; 
and Orlando, who is a resident of Cleveland. 

April 4, 1850, Mr. Emerson was again mai-- 
ried, his second wife being a daughter of Jesse 



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and Kebecca (Jones) Farwell, and widow of 
Mile Hildreth, namely, Mrs. Lydia Hildreth. 
Mrs. Lydia Emerson, the second wife of Oliver 
Emerson, was born in Middlebury, Vermont, 
April 9, 1816. 

Oliver Emerson died in Parma township, 
February 28, 1890. He was a man who took 
a good degree of interest in political affairs, and 
for a long time was Postmaster of Parma; and 
he also held various township ofKces. He was a 
farmer by occupation. Since his death Miss 
Minerva II. Emerson has been Postmistress of 
Parma. 



SH. STEWAKT, a farmer of Eoyalton 
township, Cuyahoga county, was born on 
the place which he still owns, located two 
miles west and a half mile south of Center, 
October 16, 1829. His father, Chauncy A. 
Stewart, was born March 27, 1782, and bis 
father^ Samuel Stewart, came to this State from 
Bristol, Vermont, in the spring of 1817. 
Chauncy A. Stewart was married in Vermont, 
to Cynthia Richardson, a native of Xew Hamp- 
shire, and a daughter of Daniel Richardson, a 
blacksmith by trade. He mysteriously disap- 
peared while in Canada, and is supposed to have 
died. Chauncy Stewart came to Cuyahoga 
county, Ohio, in the fall of 1816, locating on 
the farm which our subject still owns. He ex- 
changed his Vermont farm for one in Royaltou 
township, which was then covered with timber, 
and at that time only one family resided in this 
community. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart had one 
child when they came to Ohio, Daniel R., who 
died in Shell Eock, Iowa, after reaching years 
of maturity. One child was born to them in 
this county, S. H., the subject of this sketch. 
After locating on his farm Mr. Stewart built a 
rude cabin of poles and bark, but afterward a 
more substantial log cabin took its place, in 
which our subject was born. Mr. Stewart was 
a great hunter and wolf trapper. In the spring 
of 1817 the parents of Chauncy Stewart came 
to Royaltou township, bringing with them the 



remainder of their family, excepting one daugh- 
ter, who joined them soon afterward. The 
father died at this place, and was buried in the 
Disciple Cemetery. Chauncey A. Stewart died 
in 1866, and his wife survived until 1869, both 
having been meml^ers of the Disciple Church. 
The former was a Whig in his political views, 
later a Republican, was a prominent and suc- 
cessful farmer, and a highly respected citizen. 

S. H. Stewart, the subject of this sketch, re- 
ceived his education in the schools of his na- 
tive county. Being a born mechanic, he se- 
cured work at the carpenter's trade in early life. 
After his marriage he began work with his 
father on the home farm, and, after the latter's 
death, purchased his brother's interest in the 
place. He resided there until coming to Center 
in 1877. Mr. Stewart removed to DeKalb 
county, Illinois, but a short time afterward re- 
turned to this county. He has been a life-long 
agriculturist, and his excellent farm of over 320 
acres speaks for his ability in that line of work. 

Mr. Stewart was married December 4, 1849, 
to Mary A. Carter, who was born in Yorkshire, 
England, March 25, 1830, a daughter of John 
and Elizaljeth (Dodsnorth) Carter, who crossed 
the Atlantic in the fall of 1831, locating in 
Ohio. The father was a wagon-maker by trade, 
and made the first one-horse dump cart in 
Cleveland, In political matters, Mr. Stewart 
has been a Republican since the formation of 
that party, has served his township as Trustee 
for six terms, and was also Justice of the Peace 
one term, having declined further nominations. 



EORGE P. HERMAN, a grocer and 
■ baker of Cleveland, was born in this city, 
September 12, 1850, a son of Jacob and 
Elizabeth (Rock) Herman, natives of 
Germany. The father came to Cleveland about 
1849, and followed the carpenter and joiner's 
trade, which he had learned in the old country. 
Both he and his wife were members of the 
German Evangelical Church. The latter now 
resides in West Cleveland. 



CUTAHOGA COUNTY. 



George P., one of seven children, two of 
whom died in early childhood, began work for 
himself in the store which he now occupies in 
1867, as clerk for John Kock. Five years 
afterward Mr. Herman became a partner in the 
business, under the firm name of John Rock & 
Company, and in 1891 he purchased his part- 
ner's interest, since which time he has continued 
as sole proprietor. He employs iifteen men in 
the sale department. The store is located at 
981 and 983 Woodland avenue, and is one of 
the largest in that part of the city. 

In 1875 Mr. Herman was united in marri- 
age with Miss Anna Darmstaetter, a native 
of Germany, and a daughter of Gabriel and 
Anna M. Darmstaetter, natives also of 
that country. To this imioii have been born six 
children, — Hattie, George C, Cora Anna, 
Walter C, Elsie and Beatrice Ruble Ethel. 
The eldest died at the age of four years. Mr. 
and Mrs. Herman are members of the German 
Evangelical Church. In political matters, the 
former affiliates with the Republican party. He 
has ever been a most worthy and serviceal)le 
citizen, giving his influence to forward all 
movements and enterprises which have for their 
object the improvement of the city. He is an 
excellent business man, and is classed among 
the responsible, worthy and enterprising men 
of the city. 



George march.— Among the promin- 
ent and representative citizens of Chagrin 
Falls is Mr. George March, president of 
the Chagrin Falls Banking Company. 
Mr. March was born at Windsor, Ashtabula 
county, Ohio, May 30, 1848, and is the son of 
George aud Laura Ann (Blakslee) March. The 
father was a native of Sutton, Massachusetts, 
where he was born in 1791, and in that town 
was reared. He learned the trade of machinist. 
From Massachusetts he removed to AV^indsor, 
Ohio, locating at the latter place and engaging 
in farming in 1841. In 1849 he removed to 
Cluiorin Falls, and there resided throutrhout the 



remainder of his life. He was a Republican in 
politics and a member of the Masonic lodge. 
His death occurred in 1863. His father was 
Daniel March, who was a native of Sutton, Mas- 
sachusetts, and was of English descent, tiie 
Marches coming to America from England in 
1620. The mother of our subject was a native 
of Connecticut, and removed to Clarendon, 
Ohio, when young with her parents. She died 
in Chagrin Falls, in her eighty-lifth year. Her 
father was Ozi Blakslee, who was a native of 
Connecticut and was a soldier in the war of 
1812. He was of English descent. Five chil- 
dren were born to the parents of our subject, as 
follows: Eliza, of Chagrin Falls; Laura, who 
died at tlie age of thirty years; Mary, who died 
at the age of about seven years; George, our 
subject; Sarah, who died at the age of thirty 
years. 

Our subject caine to Chagrin Falls the day 
before he was one year old. He was reared in 
the same place and secured his education in the 
public schools of the district. The death of his 
father when he was but a youth threw him 
upon his own resources, and at the age of 
fifteen years he commenced to work for C. Bull- 
ard & Lord, in the wooden-ware business. He 
continued with this firm as an employee until 
1872, when he bought an interest in the busi- 
ness, and retains the same, at present, the firm 
being known as Bullard & March. In 1886 he 
waselectedsuperintendentof theChagrin Falls & 
Southern Railroad, and held that position until 
the sale of the road to the Cleveland & Canton 
Railroad Company. Upon tlie organization of 
the Chagrin Falls Banking Company in 1890, 
Mr. March was elected president of the same, 
and holds that position at present. He is also 
president of the Chagrin Falls Manufacturing 
Company, who manufacture all kinds of sad- 
irons. He is also interested in the cattle busi- 
ness in Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico, 
and is a Director of the American Cattle Com- 
pany of Colorado. 

He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, 
affiliating with Gulden Gate Lodge, Xo. 245, 



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being Master of that lodge at present; is a mem- 
ber of Chagrin Falls Chapter, No. 152, a 
thirty-second-degree Mason and also a Mystic 
Shriner. Politically he is a Republican, with 
Prohibition teadencies. He has served several 
years in the City Council of Chagrin Falls. 

From the above outline of Mr. March's life 
it will be seen that he has been an active man, 
and has met with more than the average degree 
of success. He is a self-made man and owes 
his present position in life entirely to his own 
efforts and enterprise, backed by a character for 
honesty and integrity. He has always dis- 
charged in a faithful and satisfactory manner 
the duties of the different positions he has been 
called to fill, and while yet a comparatively 
young man has established a reputation for fine 
business and executive abilities second to no 
citizen of Chagrin Falls. 

Mr. March was married in 1875, to Sarah 
W. Wales, who was born at North Abington, 
Massachusetts, and is of English descent. To 
this union three children have been born, as fol- 
lows: Fred G., born 1878, and died at the age 
of five years; Forest O., born in 1883; Herald 
W., born in 1886. 

Mr. and Mrs. March are members of the 
Congregational Church, of which Mr. March 
has been a Trustee and Treasurer for some time. 
He has also been interested for several years in 
the lecture course, which has proved a great 
success. 



J 



AMES WPJGHT, of Cleveland, was born 
;, II in Scotland, February 6, 1820, an only son, 
^ and the only member of the Wright fam- 
ily who ever left Scotland. His father died in 
1819, and in 188G, at the age of seventy years, 
his mother died, and both lie side by side in the 
cemetery at Berwickshire, Scotland, with their 
many ancestors. 

Mr. Wright started from home at the early 
age of ten years, traveling through Scotland, 
England and Ireland. In 1837 he came to this 
country and located in Cleveland. His first 



employment was in steamboat painting, and 
while thus engaged he sailed on all the princi- 
pal rivers of the United States. At one time 
he was assistant foreman in Eage Company, No. 
1, of Volunteer Firemen; later he purchased 
several acres of land, where he engaged in gar- 
dening; then was proprietor of a paint and 
paper store, which business is now carried on by 
one of his sons. 

Mr. Wright was first married November 5, 
1845, and to this union were born five children, 
two now living, — John J. and Walter E. Wright. 
One son, A. F., died in 1892. 

In 1861 Mr. Wright was united in marriage 
with Mary E. Goodsell, of New York city, and 
they have two children, — Helen and Louis. 

Politically Mr. Wright is a stanch Republi- 
can. He is one of two charter members of the 
St. Andrews society now living, and is a worthy 
representative of the business men of the early 
days, also a highly esteemed and valued citizen. 



[lOHN R. EDWARDS, engaged in the 
|l coal trade and teaming in Cleveland, was 
born in this city in 1842, a son of Rodal- 
phus and Sophia (Musson) Edwards. His 
mother was born August 15, 1819, has been an 
honored resident of Cleveland for many years, 
and is a worthy member of the Presbyterian 
Church of East Cleveland. His father is de- 
ceased. Mr. and Mrs. Edwards had eight chil- 
dren, viz.: Sarah A., at home; John R., our 
subject; Cherry, deceased at the age of seven 
years; Mary J., widow of the late D. P. Brower, 
and a resident of this city; Lydia E., wife of N. 
Cates, of Cleveland; Julius S., a lumber and 
coal dealer of this city, married Anna Adams; 
Sophia R., widow of Edward Roberts; and one 
who died unnamed. 

John R. Edwards received his education in 
Newburg, Ohio, under the tutorship of Prof. A. 
Spencer, and afterward was engaged in clerking 
for four years. At the opening of the late war 
he enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and 



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Fiftieth Oliio National Guards, was engaged on 
garrison duty at Fort Slammer, near Washing- 
ton, District of Columbia, three months, and 
took part in one skirmish. After returning 
home, Mr. Edwards resumed clerking for two 
years. He was then the owner of a large stone 
quarry for ten years, employing on an average 
twenty men. His next venture was in his 
present business, under the firm name of Ed- 
wards Brothers, which partnership continued 
until 1889, and since that time our subject has 
remained alone. He now owns about fifty head 
of horses. 

In 1865 Mr. Edwards was united in marriage 
with Miss Mary M. Brower, a native of Summit 
county, Ohio, and a daughter of D. P. and Ma- 
tilda Brower, and they have four children: 
Joliu R., who assists his father in tlie office, 
married Jennie, a daughter of Eev. Daniel Ew- 
ald, of Cleveland, and they have one child, 
Helen; Pearl Alberta, who has been a teacher 
in the Lincoln school for the past two years; 
Sadie May, a pupil in the Cleveland high school ; 
and J. R., attending the Lincoln school. Mr. 
Edwards is a member of the American Legion 
of Honor, and is a stanch Republican. 



DAvenu: 
born II 



MACHOL, Rabbi of the Scoville 
ivenue Temple, Anshe Chesed, was 
in Germany, November 13, 1845, 
a .'^on of Zadik and Esther Macho! . The father 
was a mercliant in Europe, but August 19, 1893, 
at the request of their children, tiiey came to 
America. They now reside in Leavenworth, 
Kansas, where they celebrated tlieir Golden 
Wedding January 8, 1893. Mr. and Mrs. Ma- 
chol have four children: M., our subject; Han- 
nah, wife of Charles Salinger, of Leavenworth, 
Kansas; Henrietta, wife of A. Hynian, of Oiiaga, 
that State; and Jennie, wife of A. Salinger, also 
of Leavenworth. Mr. Machol has reached the 
age of seventy-four years, and his wife is seven- 
ty-one years of age. The latter's mother lived 
to be 104 years of age, and Mr. ilachol's mother 



reached the age of 106 years. Mr. and Mrs. 
Machol are most excellent people, and carry the 
respect and esteem of a large circle of acquaint- 
ances. 

Dr. Machol, the subject of this sketch, re- 
ceived his education in the Theological Serai- 
nary of Breslau, Germany, where he graduated 
in 1869. He then came to the United States, 
spending the first two years at Leavenworth, 
Kansas, and was then called to what is now one 
of the largest congregations in Cliicago, remain- 
ing there four years. Since 1876 he has filled 
his present position in Cleveland, which alone 
speaks in the highest terms of commendation 
respecting his ecclesiastical and executive abil- 
ity. On first taking charge of the church they 
worshipped in a small building on Eagle street, 
but with the increase of membership they were 
compelled, in 1880, to build the present temple, 
which will seat 1,700 people. Over 210 fami- 
lies are now members of the church. The 
Sunday School, which contains a membership of 
over 200 children, occupies five large rooms on 
the lower floor. 

Dr. Machol was married in 1871, to Miss 
Minnie, a daughter of Bernhard Rosenthal, for- 
merly a Rabbi and teacher in Wurtemberg, 
Germany, for thirty-nine years. He died at 
that place in 1874, at the age of sixty-five 
years. He was an intelligent and useful man, 
and was highly respected by all who knew him. 
His widow afterward came to this country, and 
lived with our subject until her death, in 1879, 
at the age of sixty-eight years. Mr. and Mrs. 
Rosenthal had six children, namely: Rosa, wife 
of D. Frey, of San Francisco; Emma, now Mrs. 
S. Mooney, and a resident of Aspen, Colorado; 
Max, of Cincinnati, Ohio, married Miss Mary 
Rosenthal; Minnie, wife of our subject; Bettie, 
wife of S. Weinberger, of Idaho Springs, Colo- 
rado; and Anna, wife of J. Tiraendorfer, en- 
gaged in the insurance business in Cleveland. 
Mrs. Machol came to America at the age of 
sixteen years, and is now forty-three years of 
age. Mr. and Mrs. Machol have five children, 
namely: Jacob, twenty-one years of age, was 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



formerly engaged in the study of art, bnt was 
obliged to abandon that occupation on account 
of his eyes, and is now the editor of the Jewish 
Review; Henry, nineteen years of age, is a 
pharmacist of Cleveland; Bernhard, who grad- 
uated at the Cleveland high school at the age of 
seventeen years, is now a junior in the Adelbert 
College, and is preparing himself for the Uni- 
versity; Gertrude, fifteen years of age, is at- 
tending Miss Andrews' school; and Ernest, aged 
twelve years, is a pupil of the public school. 
In his social relations, Dr. Machol is a member 
of the Masonic order, Chicago Lodge, No. 443. 
He is a man of excellent scholarship and ability, 
of fine personal appearance, and is much re- 
spected wherever known. 



B. CODY, a dealer in real estate at 5 
Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, was born in 
41 Painesville, Ohio, October 12, 1866, a 
son of Lindus and S. Amelia (Farns- 
worth) Cody, of English ancestry. He was 
about four years of age when his parents moved 
to Michigan, whence after a year they removed 
to Lincoln, Nebraska, where they resided four 
years, and the father was engaged in the whole- 
sale grocery trade. Since then our subject has 
been a resident of Cleveland. He graduated at 
Adelbert College in 1891, and previously bad 
taken a course at the business college of this 
city. Being thus thoroughly equipped for 
business, he associated himself with his brother 
in 1889, succeeding their father in the real-es- 
tate business. Since that time they have made 
the following allotments: Arlington, now called 
Livingston, fifteen lots; Plymouth Place, about 
fifty lots; Logan Court and Woodard Place, 
si.\ty lots; "Wade Park, 100 lots; Fenton & 
Cody Plat, near Madison street, off Cedar ave- 
nue, 100 lots; Beulah Park or Camp Lake- 
wood, seventy -five lots, where Mr. Cody conducts 
the Camp Lakewood Hotel; the Cody allotment 
on Euclid avenue, seventy-five lots; and in con- 
nection with their father they opened the Cody, 



Hill & Spencer allotment on Euclid avenue, of 
140 lots. They have also erected upward of 
500 houses in Cleveland, and they are still con- 
stantly engaged in the work of building. Mr. 
Cody also owns lands in Michigan. 

Our subject has been one of the most success- 
ful young real-estate dealers in the city, being 
a man of thorough mettle. 

His father, Lindus Cody, was born in Daven- 
port, Iowa, in 1840, the son of Philip and Har- 
riet M. (Sherwin) Cody. Philip Cody died in 
Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and his wife, Mrs. 
Harriet Cody, died here in Cleveland. Mr. 
Cody was reared principally in this city, as he 
was brought here from Davenport by his parents 
when he was four years of age. At the age of 
twenty-one he was engaged in gardening in 
East Cleveland for three years; was next em- 
ployed in the lumber business in Michigan for 
four years; then he was a general merchant in 
Lincoln, Nebraska, two years, and two years in 
the wholesale grocery trade; next, returning to 
Ohio, he entered both the general mercantile 
and real-estate business in Collinwood, and 
seven years afterward he disposed of his mer- 
chandise and moved into the city of Cleveland 
to engage in real-estate allotments, building, 
selling, etc. He erected the reaper works in 
Rockport, the Sumner block on the lake front, 
a fine double dwelling on the corner of Lexing- 
ton and Willson avenues, assisted in the erection 
of the New Philadelphia (Ohio) pipe works, was 
president of the company, and he is still en- 
gaged in building, 

In the line of gospel missions he has been a 
great worker. First he established the Congre- 
gational Church of Collinwood, where he started 
the mission, which finally grew into a self-sup- 
porting church; and he started the mission on 
Central avenue, now called the Gospel Union 
Church. In all, he has given twenty -five years 
to mission work. For twenty years he was as- 
sociated with the Congregational Church, but 
now he holds his membership in the " Gospel 
Union " Church. He is proprietor of the 
camp grounds at Collinwood on the lake front. 



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Being an active prohibition worker he has been 
placed in nomination by his party for various 
offices. 

Mr. Cody is a cousin of Colonel William F. 
Cody (" Buffalo Bill "), and was born in the 
same town as the celebrated sportsman of the 
" wild West." He was married in 1801, to 
Miss S. Amelia Farnsworth, a native of New 
York, and they have nine children, namely: 
Harriet E., wife of A. J. Marsh, a real-estate 
dealer; Lillie S., engaged in educational and 
journalistic work in New York; H. B. and F. 
L., dealers in real estate in Cleveland; Mary A., 
now studying for foreign mission work in New 
York city; Arthur P., a student of Hudson 
College; Ethel J., Belle C. and Gertrude. 



THOMAS WILSON.— Among the many 
prominent and representative citizens of 
Cleveland few are more favorably or 
' widely known than Captain Thomas Wil- 
son, who for years has been one of the leading 
and most successful navigators and vessel build- 
ers and owners of the city, and has been most 
closely identified with the ship-building indus- 
try and shipping interests of the Great Lakes. 
Captain Wilson was born on October 31, 
1838, at Fifesbire, Scotland. He comes from 
a seafaring family, his father and both grand- 
fathers having been sea captains. His father, 
(Japtain Thomas Wilson, Sr., was appointed as 
a customhouse officer at Gwedore, in the north 
of Ireland, when our subject was a child, and 
thither the family was removed and resided for 
several years. In 1854 the family came to the 
United States and located in Philadelphia. At 
Gwedore, where the early boyhood days of our 
subject were spent, the educational advantages 
were not of the best, and his opportunities of 
acquiring an education were limited. Yet by 
close application, led on by an ambition to gain 
knowledge, the young fellow became proficient 
in the common English branches, which was 



sufficient for all practical purposes, and this, 
added to his sturdy, sterling character, which 
had been fostered and nourished by good and 
devoted Christian parents, gave him a fair start 
in life, though not possessed of means. 

Immediately following the removal of the 
family to America young Wilson, then but six- 
teen years of age, following the natural bent of 
his inclination, adopted the life of a sailor, thus 
following in the footsteps of his ancestors. For 
three years he sailed the seas, beginning as a 
" ship boy." During this time he gained a 
thorough knowledge of seafaring, and his stock 
of general information was largely increased by 
a visit to numerous foreign ports. After three 
years' service upon the high seas young Wilson 
came to the Great Lakes, first as a wheelman, 
and soon advanced to mate and captain, and in 
the latter capacity commanded quite a number 
of lake steamers. Among navigators he was 
considered a safe and perfectly responsible cap- 
tain, and his services were consequently always 
in demand. For as many as twenty-five years 
Captain Wilson's home, it might be said, was 
upon tlie lakes, and during all that time he was 
recognized by navigators and those interested 
in shipping as one of the most cautious and re- 
liable captains on those waters, and his genial 
and hearty nature made him a general favorite 
among owners, sailors and the traveling public. 
Having been successful in accumulating some 
capital, and growing tired of continuous sailing, 
in 1872 Captain Wilson built an excellent 
freight steamer, which he named D. M. Wilson, 
a name given to a son, whose birth at about 
that time had so gladdened the home of the 
Captain and his most estimable wife. The 
building of the D. M. AVilson proved a success- 
ful venture, and stimulated the Captain's am- 
bition to become more largely interested as a 
vessel owner, and he built next the steamer 
Hiawatha and her consort the Minnehaha. 
Then followed the building of the Tacoma, 
Wallula and Kesota, and in 1886 the George 
Spencer. Later he built the Wadena, Missoula, 
Spokain. Yakima, tiie names of the vessels be- 




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ing suggested by a trip the Captain made 
through the great Northwest and Pacific coast 
country several years ago. Each of the fore- 
going vessels were large and especially adapted 
tor service on the Great Lakes. As a navigator 
and vessel owner Captain Wilson has met with 
marked success, and his success may lie solely 
attributed to his fidelity, his integrity and his 
perseverance. 

Besides his interests as a builder and owner 
he is, and has been since its organization, presi- 
dent ot the Ship Owners' Dry Dock Company, 
president in 1893 of tlie Lake Carriers' Asso- 
ciation, president of the Huron Dock Company, 
director of the American Steel Barge Company, 
and vice-president of the Central National 
Bank of Cleveland. He is also largely inter- 
ested in Lake Superior iron mines. 

Among all of Captain Wilson's business 
associates, friends and acquaintances he is re- 
garded as a man of remarkable force of char- 
acter, and one glance at his robust physical 
proportions, his clear and intelligent eyes and 
rugged face, is sufficient to stamp him, even 
among strangers, as a man endowed with more 
than ordinary abilities, and one who has prop- 
erly used the talents and faculties bestowed 
upon him by a generous Providence. The in- 
fluence of the moral and religious training 
given him while a boy by his parents, added to 
the sterling worth imparted to him by his 
Scotch ancestors, caused Captain Wilson to 
grow up as a manly, conscientious youth, scor- 
ing everything low and mean, and early in life 
commanding the confidence of all who knew 
him. And these traits of character grew and 
expanded as he developed into a man, and with 
years were amplified to the broadest degree, 
and to-day his word is regarded as good as his 
bond, and in all matters, whether pertaining to 
business, religious, social or political affairs, he 
is looked upon as a man of vigorous and healthy 
opinions, and as possessed of the necessary 
courage to express and maintain his convictions. 
He is fair, just and kind, yet determined. He 
abhors hypocrisy, his belief and feeling being 



to picture and represent everything in its true 
colors, be they bright and pleasant or dark and 
gloomy. No principle he holds should be 
compromised, and no stop be made at an inter- 
mediate point. In taking a stand on any im- 
portant question, be it moral, religious, social 
or business, he invariably reasons it from all 
directions and deliberately and calmly arrives 
at his conclnsion, and from these conclusions it 
is difficult to shake him; yet at the same time 
he is not bigoted or self-important, but on the 
contrary is always open to conviction, and is 
unpretentious and modest in his bearing. 
Among the rich and influential he is respected 
for these sterling qualities, and among the poor 
he is loved for his charity. 

With all of his various and pressing business 
cares Captain Wilson has found time and op- 
portunity to discharge the religious and social 
duties of a man of his position in life. He is 
a firm and active friend of temperance, and has 
done much to promote that good and worthy 
cause. He has always been a friend to educa- 
tion, and has been for years a supporter of 
Christianity. He has been for years an official 
member of the Euclid Avenue Congregational 
Church, of which he has been a firm and valu- 
al)le friend. 

His charity is unbounded and yet unostenta- 
tious. For a long time it has been his plan to 
place a liberal sum in the hands of his pastor at 
Thanksgiving and Christmas-tide for the pur- 
pose of purchasing delicacies for distribution 
among the poor of his church, strictly enjoining 
on his pastor that the source of these gifts 
should not be made known. In behalf of sev- 
eral benevolent organizations of this city he has 
rendered active assistance and given liberal 
contributions. Among these organizations may 
be mentioned the Seaman's Floating Bethel, of 
which he is president. In fact. Captain Wil- 
son is always ready and willing to improve 
each and every opportunity of doing good unto 
his fellow man, and few exercise better judg- 
ment in rendering aid to the needy and dis- 
tressed, both in bodily and spiritual comfort. 



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P'raternally he is a member of the Masonic 
order, being a Royal Arch Mason. 

In September, 1870, Captain Wilson married 
the daughter of Honorable David Morris, of 
Cleveland, and located in what is known as the 
" East End." Here he has ever since resided. 
One son and two daughters have been born in 
his family. In January, 1886, however, the 
son, when just budding into a noble and prom- 
ising youth, possessing the sterling character of 
his race, passed away in death, at the age of 
thirteen years, sadly and irreparably breaking 
tlie happy family cii-cle. 



ELIAS B. PIKE, a farmer of Orange town- 
ship, Cuyahoga county, was born at Yet- 
1 eran, Chemung county. New York, June 

30, 1822, a son of Sewall and Perinelia (Beards- 
ley) Pike, natives of Massachusetts and Connect- 
icut, respectively, and members of prominent 
old families. The paternal grandfather of our 
subject was a soldier in the Revolutionary war; 
and the maternal grandfather, Elias Beardsley, 
took part in both the Revolution and the war of 
1812. Sewall Pike died in Chemung county, 
New York, at the age of fifty-six years, leaving 
a wife and six children, viz.: Betsey, David, 
Lucy, George W., Francis and Elias B. Our 
subject is now the only survivor of the family. 
In 1840 two brothers, George W. and Francis, 
came to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and two years 
afterward they were joined by the mother and 
Elias B. George W. was a blacksmith by 
trade, and for a numl)er of years lived with the 
Shakers. The mother died in Orange town- 
ship, at the age of fifty-one years. Mr. and 
Mrs. Pike were members and active workers in 
the Methodist Cliurch. 

Elias B., the subject of tliis sketch, received 
his education in Chemung county. New York. 
He came to this county when it was compara- 
tively a wiklerness, and was obliged to make his 
own roads. He now owns a valuable and well- 
improved farm of seventy-five acres, where he 



has a comfortable residence, 16 x 24 feet, with 
an L, 16 x 30 feet, has two large barns, and all 
other necessary farm improvements. In politi- 
cal matters, Mr. Pike affiliates with the Re- 
publican party, and has served his township as 
Trustee and as a member of the School Board. 
October 15, 1846, he was united in marriage 
with Elizabeth Barns, who was born in New 
York, July 25, 1828, a daughter of William and 
Margaret (Doty) Barns, natives of Vermont. 
They came to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, in 1842, 
and afterward removed to Illinois. The father 
died at tlie latter place at the age of forty years, 
leaving nineciiildren: Myron, Harriet, William, 
Elizabeth, Thirza, Lorenzo, Margaret, James 
and Jeannette. The mother departed this life 
in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at the age of eighty- 
five years. Both she and her husband were 
members of the Methodist Church. Mr. and 
Mrs. Pike have three children, namely: Andrew 
S., a resident of North Solon, who has two sons, 
Archie E. and Wilson S.; George W., of New- 
burg, Ohio, who has one son, Eugene B.; and 
Eveline L., wife of C. C. Lowe, who has six 
children,— Victor E., Darwin E., Edith E., 
Clyde E., Grace E. and Chester C. Our sub- 
ject lost two children by death, — Emma E. at 
the age of one year, and Edie J., aged three 
years. Mr. and Mrs. Pike are members of the 
Methodist Church. 



'jnijICHARD WHITLOCK, a farmer of 
K^ Orange township, Cuyahoga county, 
JJ ^ was l)orn in Devonshire, England, Feb- 
V ruary 22, 1838, a son of Elias and Mary 

(Stoneman) Whitlock, also natives of that coun- 
try. They came to tiiis country in 1843, and 
resided in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, until their 
death, the father dying at the age of sixty 
years, and the mother at the age of sixty-two 
j'ears. Tlicy were prominent and industrious 
farmers, and were respected by all who knew 
them. Mr. and Mrs. Wliitlock had eiglit chil- 



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dren, namely: Ann, Christopher, John, Mary, 
Fannie, Samuel, Eichard and Grace. One child 
was drowned while crossing the ocean. 

Richard Whitlock, the subject of this sketch, 
came to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, when five years 
of age, received his education in the district 
schools of Orange and Solon townships, and has 
resided in this neighborhood since his marriage. 
He now owns a valuable and well improved 
farm of 104 acres, where he has two good resi- 
dences, fine barns, and a large dairy. 

Mr. Whitlock was married February 22, 
1869, to Elizabeth Thompson, who was born, 
reared and educated in Solon, this county, a 
daughter of Christopher and Elizabeth (Forest) 
Thompson, natives of Yorkshire, England. The 
parents died in Solon, Oliio, the mother at the 
age of sixty-four years, and the father aged sev- 
enty-two years. They had six children, — John, 
Robert, Sharlotte, Elizabeth, Rebecca and "Will- 
iam. Mr. and Mrs. Whitlock have two chil- 
dren, — Minnie and Samuel, both at home. One 
child. Otto, died at the age of five years. Mr. 
Whitlock is independent in political matters. 
Both he and his wife are members of the Free- 
Will Baptist Church, in which the former holds 
the office of Deacon. 



[( NDREW DALL.— Prominent among 
the leading contractors and builders of 
Cleveland is Mr. Andrew Dall, junior 
member of the well-known firm of Mc- 
Allister & Dall. Mr. Dall is a native of Scot- 
land, having been born in Markinch, in the year 
1850, and is the son of Andrew and Elizabeth 
(Davidson) Dall. Andrew Dall, Sr., a native 
also of Scotland, served an apprenticeship of 
seven years at the stone-cutting trade, in his 
native country, was married, and in 1852 came 
with his family to the United States, locating 
in Cleveland. He was a skilled mechanic, am- 
bitious and enterprising, and it was not a great 
while after coming to Cleveland before he was 
contracting and building on his own account. 
He was successful from the beginning and soon 



became identified with his adopted city as a 
leading contractor and citizen. Among the 
conspicuous buildings he erected were the Ran- 
dall, Wade and Backus residences, the St. Paul's 
Episcopal Church, and the dormitory and Adel- 
bert College. In partnership with his son, our 
subject, he erected the Euclid Avenue opera 
house. His death occurred in 1887, after a life 
of great activity and usefulness. His success 
may be gauged by the change in his financial 
condition during his life in Cleveland. He 
came here a poor man, but died possessed of a 
competency, leaving his family in comfortable 
circumstances. 

The children of Mr. and Mrs. Dall were six 
in number, only three of whom survive, they 
being Robert Dall, a contractor of Toledo, Ohio; 
Mrs. John Protheroe, of Cleveland; and our 
subject. 

The subject of this sketch was given a 
common-school education in the public schools 
of Cleveland. Following in the footsteps of his 
father, he served an apprenticeship at the stone- 
cutting trade, making himself thoroughly 
familiar with all the details of that trade and 
becoming a most efficient workman. In 1874 
he was taken into his father's business as a 
partner, and together they erected many build- 
ings of note in Cleveland and neighboring 
cities. In 1877 Mr. Dall engaged in business 
by himself for a time, and erected among other 
buildings the Wilshire Building on Superior 
street, the Fairmount Pumping Station, the 
residences of S. T. Everett, the City Hall at 
Troy, Ohio, the Eaker buildings and Public 
School Library at Dayton, Ohio, and the post 
office and customhouse at Grand Rapids, 
Michigan. 

In 1888 he formed a co-partnership with Mr. 
Arthur McAllister, and the firm of McAllister 
& Dall has taken rank as one of the most suc- 
cessful contracting firms in Ohio. Among the 
important buildings they have erected, and 
which will remain as monuments of their skill 
and proficiency, are the Society for Savings 
building, the Calvary Presbyterian church, the 



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residences of J. E. French, H. E. Hatch and S. 
F. Haserot, on Enclid avenue, and of Samuel 
Mather on the Lake Sliore east, and the Erie 
County Savings Bank at Buffalo, New York, 
which is one of the handsomest and most sub- 
stantially constructed buildings in the country, 
being of granite, nine stories high on one street 
and ten stories high on another, exclusive of 
attic and basement, and they rebuilt Euclid 
Avenue opera house. They also built the 
Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument in Cleveland, 
which will itself be a lasting evidence of their 
handiwork. 

Mr. Dall was married in 1873 to Miss Alice, 
daughter of John Bennett, one of Cleveland's 
old and well-known citizens, and once Chief of 
the City Fire Department. Six children have 
been born to Mr. and Mrs. Dall, as follows: 
Emma, who graduated at the Brown-Hathaway 
school in 1893; William, who is with C. Y. 
Schwcinfurth, one of Cleveland's leading archi- 
tects; Elizabeth, John, Joseph and Irene. 

The above outline shows what Mr. Dall has 
accomplished as a contractor and builder, and 
when his age is considered his achievements 
have been great and far beyond those of the 
average contractor of his years. And as a man 
and a citizen he has builded in character as suc- 
cessfully as he has in stone and mortar, and he 
enjoys an enviable reputation as an enterprising, 
energetic and honorable citizen. He is a self- 
made man and owes his present position in the 
business world entirely to his own efforts. He 
began at the bottom and climbed to the top, un- 
aided save by his own energy, perseverance and 
pluck. He has a special skill in handling heavy 
material and attends to all the mason work of 
his firm. His executive ability is great and his 
success in handling men equal to that in hand- 
ling matter. 

As a citizen Mr. Dall takes an active interest 
in the afPairs and institutions of his city. He 
is an ardent Ilepublican and renders his party 
aid, but has never consented to stand for office. 
He is a friend to the public schools, believing 
firmly in that .'ivstem of education. 



A friend says of him : " His chief character- 
istic is his absolute reliability. He is a splen- 
did mechanic, a successful builder, and a good 
man and citizen. He is broad and liberal in 
his views, enterprisiiig and energetic, charitable, 
kind-hearted, and thoroughly consistent in all 
his actions." 



iT^EORGE M. HICKS, son of the late 
I 'Wi George B. Hicks, of Cleveland, was born 
>-ll February 20, 1859, in this city, attended 
the public school, and graduated at the 
high school of Cleveland in 1877, after which 
he attended Delaware College for a short time. 

In 1881 he began the study of law in the 
ofhce of Burke, Ingersoll & Sanders, in whose 
office he remained two years, being admitted to 
the bar at Columbus in 1886, at which date his 
professional career began. In 1887 he became 
interested in real estate, and since that time he has 
handled a very great deal of real estate, and as 
a dealer in the same he has achieved more than 
ordinary success. In fact he has done but very 
little in general law practice, his time being 
mainly devoted to the real-estate business. His 
plan has been to purchase larger tracts of land, 
platting the same, and selling it in town lots. 
As a business man he is regarded as a very far- 
seeing, shrewd and close calculator. He is of a 
progressive spirit and has a zealous interest in 
the growth and develojiment of the city of 
Cleveland, in which he has always resided, and 
to the prosperity of which he has made liberal 
contribution. 

He is married, having wedded, in 1889, Miss 
Jennie King. 

Mr. Hicks' father, George B. Hicks, was born 
June 10, 1831, at Canton, St. Lawrence county. 
New York. At an early day ho came to Ohio, 
and was one of the first telegraph operators of 
the country. In fact he became an operator 
when telegraphy was almost in its infancy- In 
1860 he invented a repeater which is yet in use 
by the Western Fnion Telegraph Company. 



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George B. Bicks was elected General Manager 
of the Associated Press, in which capacity he 
acted ten years. Later he became president of 
the Forest City Varnish, Oil & Naphtha Com- 
pany, of Cleveland, and also president of the 
Cleveland Telegraph Supply & Manufacturing 
Company, and to the invention and manufacture 
of electrical appliances he gave much attention, 
and well succeeded. Unfortunately death came 
to him in 1873, when he was just in the noon- 
day of his life. 



d[AY PHELPS DAWLEY was born at 
Ravenna, Ohio, March 7, 1847, was 
— brought up on a farm in his native county 
and graduated at the Ravenna union school in 
1869. He then attended the Eclectic Listitnte 
at Hiram, of which James A. Garfield then had 
control as principal. Later young Dawley at- 
tended the Western Reserve College at Hudson, 
where lie spent three years, completing the 
classical course. 

In 1871 he entered the law office of Hon. J. 
M. Jones of Cleveland, and pursued his studies 
until 1872, when he was admitted to the bar. 
He remained with Mr. Jones until he (Jones) 
was elected a Judge of the Superior Court in 
1873, at which date Mr. Dawley and S. M. 
Stone became partners in the practice of that 
profession, and continued as such for about four 
years. In 1878, Mr. Stone having gone to New 
York, Mr. Dawley associated himself with 
Judge J. K. Hord, and still later with Hon. 
Martin A. Foran. At present Mr. Dawley is 
alone in the practice, and in his profession he 
he has achieved more than ordinary success, and 
is esteemed both by his professional brethren 
and the public at large. 

In 1882 he (unsoliciting) was elected to the 
Board of Education for the Second Ward, and 
also a member of the Board of Library Man- 
agers, and in public life he has always appeared 
a progressive and sagacious character. He was 
one of the first in the counsel for the State in 



testing the constitutionality of a certain liquor 
law, in which case the opinion of a previous 
court was reversed. He appeared as counsel 
for the St. Clair Street Railway Company of 
Cleveland in several important cases, and was 
for some time an attorney for that company. In 
criminal practice he has achieved considerable 
success and did some brilliant work in the trying 
of one Moran for murder, he and his partner Hon. 
M. A. Foran defending the prisoner. 

In 1864 Mr. Dawley enlisted in Company C, 
Eleventh Infantry, Fourteenth Army Corps, 
and served until the close of the war, as a pri- 
vate, and Orderly at the headquarters of Gen- 
eral Jefferson C. Davis. He was but seventeen 
years of age when he enlisted in the army ser- 
vice, and soon after his enlistment was detailed 
as orderly to the headquarters of General Davis, 
for the purpose of carrying dispatches from one 
quarter to another, all messages being oral, and 
consequently his work was an important as well 
as dangerous one. He was also a participant in 
all of the engagements of his command, and was 
one of those who made the famous mai-cli with 
Sherman to the sea. 

Mr. Dawley married, in September of 1873, 
Miss Iva G. Canfield, daughter of Harrison 
Canfield of Pennsylvania, and they have four 
children: William J., Arthur Addison, Frances 
Canfield, and Ruby Louise. 



G. FRISBIE, who has been engaged in 
the real-estate, loan and investment busi- 
ness at 5 Euclid avenue since March, 
1889, is entitled to representation in this 
history of the leading men of Cleveland. He is 
a native of Geauga county, Ohio, born August 
15, 1866. 

His father, Dr. Stephen Frisbie, a well-known 
physician of Geauga county, is deceased. The 
first twenty years of Mr. Frisbie's life was spent 
upon a farm, receiving his earlier education in 
the public schools; in connection with the 
common l)ranches of the public scliool, Mr. 



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Frisbie toot a business course and also studied 
music. When launclied out on the world for 
himself, he began by teaching music in the 
public schools of Fainesville, Chardon and 
Fairport. After teaching three years in the 
above places, he accepted the position of head 
bookkeeper for George M. Hicks. 

One year later they formed the partnership 
of Hicks & Frisbie. They were associated four 
years, during which time they successfuly 
handled the Orchard Grove Allotment. The 
partnership being dissolved, Mr. Frisbie opened 
his present office in July, 1893, doing a general 
business of real estate, loans and investments. 
His Euclid avenue allotment, consisting of fifty 
lots, he disposed of in thirty days. He has just 
purchased three, allotments, comprising 500 
lots, which witli his usual success will certainly 
be disposed of in a comparatively short time. 
He is one of the most progressive members of 
business circles in Cleveland and is ever upon 
the alert to aid in the development of any pos- 
sible resource in the State. 

Mr. Frisbie was married in 1890 to Miss 
Florence Johnston, one of Cleveland's most 
talented readers, a daughter of C. H. Johnston 
of this city. Two children have been born of 
this union, Esther L. and Charles Arthur. 



»[?%) ICHAKD E. GAIIRATY.— Probably no 
r^' citizen of I'recksville township included 
II ^ in this volume has figured in so many 
^ positions in life as the gentleman whose 

name introduces this sketch, and who is a native 
of Montreal, Canada. 

His father, James Garraty, was a native of 
Maidstone, county of Kent, England, and was 
born in 1801, and the father of the last men- 
tioned died in the Peninsular war, serving with 
honor in the English army. Our subject's 
great-grandfather lost his life in the battle of 
Trafalgar, under Admiral Nelson. Thus it will 
be seen that Mr. Garraty, our subject, has de- 
scended fruni a lino of militai-y families. .lames 



Garraty was but four years of age when his 
father died, and he was brought up by the Duke 
of York, and the father's commission was con- 
ferred upon this young man. At Waterloo his 
youth deprived him of active work under the 
commission given him, and at his request the 
commission of Bugler was granted him. The 
evening before the great battle he was in a de- 
tachment of English soldiers who encountered 
a detachment of French cuirassiers in a corn- 
field seven miles from the renowned field of the 
battle of Waterloo, and with a force of 700 
they came out with only seventy, and not an 
officer I He was present at the Waterloo en- 
gagement, officiating as Bugler. At the age ot 
twenty-one years he received his commission, 
and he served thirty-one years in the British 
army, in various military and scientific posi- 
tions. In 1841 he was sent to Canada to quell 
the revolt there, and was discharged from 
service with a pension, and was placed at the 
head of a noted seat of learning in Canada, a 
government institution. 

During the latter years of his life he pur- 
chased a beautiful homestead in the parish of 
St. Henri de Mascouche, where he resided for 
the remainder of his life. His homestead was 
a very pleasant and popular resort for all army 
officers and military men of note who resided 
in or visited Canada. He had married, in Dub- 
lin, Miss Anna Whyte, who was born in Sep- 
tember, 1811, in Warwickshire, England, and 
they reared seven children, our subject being 
the first son and second child. He died in 1877, 
and his mother in 18G0, and their retnains now 
sleep side by side in the family vault, near the 
homestead in C'anada. 

Mr. Richard E. Garraty, whose name heads 
this sketch, left home at the age of ten years, 
on account of the prospect of too severe a dis- 
cipline in military life, etc. When thirteen 
years old lie began to learn the blacksmith's 
trade, but left that before he completed his ap- 
prenticeship. Being somewhat of a roving dis- 
position, he concluded to seek his fortune in the 
United States rather than remain at a good 



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home in the old country and be under a dis- 
cipline so slavish and nonsensical as antiquated 
conservatism had conferred upon the present 
generation. Crossing the St. Lawrence river at 
Rouse's Point, he proceeded to Albany, New 
York, and found work at his trade, where he 
remained for a number of years. Ignored by 
his father, he never i-eturned home except to 
see a dearly beloved mother in her last hours. 

Soon after coining to the United States he 
endeavored to enlist in the Federal army, but 
his youth prevented him. Having found friends 
in Albany, he remained and prospered, continu- 
ing in the employment of one man for seven 
years. From $5 a week his wages were finally 
raised to $3 a day. After the death of his 
mother, however, he did not immediately return 
to the United States, but went to his native 
city and found employment at his trade for two 
years in the Canada Marine Works. Next he 
was at Albany again for six months. In the 
spring of 1866 he came to Cleveland and for 
the first five years was employed at his trade in 
the shops of the Atlantic & Great Western 
Railway. 

May 28, 1868, he married Miss Pauline 
Kreckel, a native of Nassau, who was brought 
to the United States when a babe by her 
parents. Mr. Garraty then took up bis resi- 
dence at 74 Merchant avenue, Cleveland. Some 
time later, failing sight necessitated the aban- 
donment of his trade, and he opened a general 
store, the business of whicli constantly increased 
and soon became profitable; but the "panic" of 
1873 made the collections slow and business 
dropped off, so that in addition to the store he 
took an agency for the Sandusky Lime Com- 
pany for a short time. He exchanged his busi- 
ness and property in Cleveland for his present 
farm of 200 acres, in December, 1875, where 
he has since been engaged in general farming, 
devoting his attention principally to the rearing 
of horses, of which class of animals he is an 
ardent admirer. He seemed to adapt himself 
to farming as readily as to any of the other 
employments in which he has been engaged. 



and has reaped success. As a systematic, 
thorough farmer he ranks foremost in the 
township. 

In his political sympathies he is a Republi- 
can, and although a regular attendant at the 
elections he takes no further interest in the 
otiice-seeking efforts of anyone. Both himself 
and wife are members of the Methodist Episco- 
pal Church. Being fond of reading he is well 
posted on scientific and general matters. 

His children are Alfred J., a graduate of 
Berea University, and Wilhelmina B., a most 
interesting daughter receiving a thorough course 
of education. 



d( AV. DERTUICK was born in Norton 
I township, Summit county, Ohio December 
14, 1840, a son of Ananias and Samantha 
(Squires) Dertliick, natives of Portage county, 
Ohio. His paternal grandfather, James Der- 
thick, was born in the State of Massachusetts, of 
English descent, and the mother's people were 
also from the old Colony State. The father died 
in 1861 but the mother survives and is a resi- 
dent of Bedford. They reared a family of five 
children: James W., Huldah, F. A., H. A., de- 
ceased, who was a member of the United States 
Army, and J. W., the subject of this notice. 
Mr. Derthick was a chair maker by occupation. 
He was a zaalous member of the Disciple 
Church. Young Derthick acquired a good edu- 
cation by diligent study and wide reading at his 
father's fireside. He was reared to the life of a 
farmer and still devotes his energies to tilling 
the soil. He owns a tract of thirty-four acres 
in an advanced state of cultivation, and he has a 
good residence delightfully situated, command- 
ing a fine view of the surrounding country. 

He was married in 1861, to Alicia Hubbell, 
a daughter of Dr. A. T. Hubbell, who was dur- 
ing his life one of the most prominent physi- 
cians of Bedford. In 1864 Mr. Derthick en- 
listed in the service of his country, becoming a 
member of the One Hundred and Seventy- 
seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was in 



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Tennessee in 1864, and went round by North 
Carolina, etc., with Sherman. He belongs to 
Bedford Lodge, No. 375, A. F. & A. M., is one 
of the active members of the Disciple Church, 
and takes a deep interest in the work of the 
Sabbath-school in which he is a teacher. 

Mr. and Mrs. Derthick are the parents of a 
family of ten children, four dying early in life: 
Henry J., a graduate of the Bedford high- 
school class of 1891, is a successful scholar at 
Hiram College; Mary was a member of the 
high- school class of 1893; Paul and Pearl are 
twins; Lee and John, both graduates of the 
high school, died at the age of twenty years. 



EDAVARD MEAGHER, a farmer of Roy- 
alton township, was born in Bucking- 
— ^ hamshire, England, December 1, 1834, a 
son of Thomas and Sarah (Woodman) Meacher. 
His father, a farmer by occupation, rented 700 
acres of land from Lord Bridgewater for many 
years. In May, 1836, the family sailed from 
Liverpool to New York, and afterward came to 
Cuyahoga county, Ohio, where the father pur- 
chased 350 acres of timber land in Royalton 
township. His death occurred August 1, 1873, 
his wife surviving until January 5, 1884, and 
they were buried in the Royalton cemetery. In 
political matters, Mr. Meacher was a free-silver 
man and abolitionist. Both he and his wife 
were members of the Baptist Church. Two 
children were born in the family of Mr. and 
Mrs. Meacher in England: Tliomas, a farmer 
of Royalton township; and Edward, whose 
name heads this sketch. Two more children 
were added to the family in Royalton township, 
namely: Charlotte, wife of William Tompkins, 
of Benton Harbor, Michigan; and Charles A., 
who died in this township, at the age of thirty- 
one years. 

Edward Meacher, the subject of this sketch, 
was brought to America when a babe. He at- 
tended the district schools during the winter 
months, and was also a pupil of the old school 



located on Prospect and Erie streets, Cleveland, 
his parents having resided in that city two 
years. He declined further educational advan- 
tages. Soon after his marriage Mr. Meacher 
located on his present farm of 100 acres, where 
he erected a pleasant home in 1875, and has the 
farm under a tine state of cultivation. In ad- 
dition to general farming, he has conducted a 
dairy for many years. In political matters Mr. 
Meacher was formerly a Republican, but has 
since joined the ranks of the Prohibition party. 
He was married December 5, 1858, by Rev. 
Silas Barnes, to Ann R. Rogers, who was born 
in Somersetshire, England, October 16, 1839, a 
daughter of Edwin and Rachel (Winsor) Rogers, 
who came on the Hindoostan from Bristol to 
the United States in May, 1849, landing in 
New York after a rough passage of six weeks, 
and shortly afterward resumed the journey to 
Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Rogers purchased a 
small farm in Warrensville, and Mrs. Meacher 
attended the common schools of that district. 
Mr. and Mrs. Meacher had one son, George E., 
born November 29, 1859, who died June 15, 
1886, and was buried in the Royalton cemetery. 
For many years prior to his death he was Su- 
perintendent of the Baptist Sunday-school at 
Royalton Center. Mr. Meacher contributes 
largely to that church. 



JOHN WESLEY CHAMBERLAIN has 
been identified with the history of the 
township in which he resides since 1861 
and is numbered among the most successful 
agriculturists of Cuyahoga county. He is a 
native of the State of Ohio, born at Twinsburgh, 
Summit county, January 31, 1832, a son of 
Hiram and Susan (Wilson) Chamberlain. The 
mother died when John W. was a child of four 
years, leaving three other children: Reuben, 
Anna and Sylvia. The father was married a 
second time, and by this union two children 
were born, Carrie and Asel. He still survives, 
at the advanced age of eighty-four years. John 



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Wesley Chamberlain spent his boyhood and 
youth in aiding his father in the hard labor of 
the frontier farm. He attended the common 
schools of the neighborhood, making the most 
of the meager opportunities afforded him for 
acquiring an education. Leaving the parental 
roof he settled on a tract of fifty-two acres, 
known as the Asel Beeraan farm; to this he has 
made additions until he now owns 200 acres, all 
of which is in an advanced state of cultivation. 
The improvements are all of the most substan- 
tial character, reflecting much credit upon the 
proprietor. A dairy of twenty-five cows pre- 
sents some excellent specimens of the bovine 
species. 

Mr. Chamberlain was married February 28, 
1861, to Maria A. Kenedy, a daughter of Mil- 
drim and Ciarisa (Wheeler) Kenedy. Mrs. 
Chamberlain was born at Aurora, Ohio, but was 
reared and educated at Solon. She was a 
woman of many admirable traits, and her death, 
which occurred June 11, 1891, was deeply la- 
mented by her family and a wide circle of 
friends. Mr. Chamberlain has been uniformly 
successful in all business operations and has 
accumulated a competence. Employing only 
the most correct methods he has gained the con- 
fidence of all with whom he has had dealings, 
and has the respect of the entire community. 
Politically he supports the principles of the 
Republican party. 



jILLIAM STEFFEN, division superin- 
tendent of the Cleveland Electric Rail- 
way Company, was born in Mecklen- 
burg, Germany, November 21, 1846. His 
father, Fred Steffen, brought his family to 
Cleveland in 1866, and young William secured 
work in a candle factory, next in Comstock's 
packing-house, later was teamster for Thomas 
&, Butts, lumber dealers, and two years later 
entered the service of the East Cleveland Rail- 
way Company as hostler. Afterward he 
was employed as driver, conductor and night 



watchman, and he was the first man as starter 
on Superior street. His next promotion was to 
the rank of foreman of Willson and Euclid 
avenue lines, remaining eighteen years, or until 
the late consolidation, when he was made di- 
vision superintendent, having charge of Euclid, 
Wade Park and Cedar avenue lines. Mr. 
StefFen is a natural street railway man. He is 
competent, and is a favorite of the men under 
his charge. 

Fred Stefien married Miss Ebert, who bore 
him William; John; Fred Henry; Minnie, 
wife of Charles Koerck, near Hillsdale, Michi- 
gan; and Mary, single. The father died in 
1880, aged fifty-eight years, and the mother is 
still living. William Steffen married Decem- 
ber 2, 1870, in this city, Sophia Milling, of 
German birth. Their children are Georgie and 
Arthur. 



^ llf ELVIN P. EDGERTON, a farmer of 
I Cuyahoga county, was born in Royalton 
^ township, this county, March 31, 1844, 
, son of Hiram Edgerton, who was born 
in Massachusetts in 1819. The latter drove 
from his native State to Ohio in an early day, 
purchased a tract of wooded land in Royalton 
township, Cuyahoga county, and was engaged 
in lumbering and farming. He followed the 
former occupation during the winter seasons, 
having hauled his lumber to the Ohio canal. At 
the time of his death he owned 135 acres of 
land. Mr. Edgerton was married in Royalton 
township, to Wealthy Perry, a daughter of 
Caleb Perry, and they had two children, — Mel- 
vin P., our subject; and Adelaide, now Mrs. 
John Coats, of Brooklyn. The wife and mother 
died in 1875, and was buried in the Center 
cemetery. Mr. Edgerton afterward married a 
sister of his former wife. His death occurred 
March 31, 1883, and his widow still resides at 
Center. In political matters, Mr. Edgerton 
was an active worker in the Republican party. 
Melvin P., the subject of this sketch, at- 
tended the schools of his district, and was early 



CUTAHOGA COUNTY. 



inured to farm labor. In the spring of 1873 he 
located near where he now lives, and in 1874 
came to his present place of 150 acres, where he 
is engaged in general farming and dairying. 
He has erected all his farm buildings, and tiie 
place is now under a fine state of cultivation. 

Mr. Edgerton was married May 11, 1872, to 
Salenda Raymond, who was born in Royalton 
township, Cuyahoga county, May 11, 1847, a 
daughter of Joshua and Harriet (Francis) Ray- 
mond, who came from Massachusetts to this 
State, and were among the pioneer families. 
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond had three children: 
Marshall, of Royalton township; Salenda, wife 
of our suuject; and Lettie, now Mrs. Addison 
Tibbals, of Center, this township. Mr. and 
Mrs. Edgerton also have three children: How- 
ard L., who graduated at the Brecksville high 
school before seventeen years of age, and is now 
a clerk in that city; Arthur P., attending 
school; and Harley G., at home. Mr. Edger- 
ton afBliates with the Republican party, and 
both he and his wife are members of the Disci- 
ple Church. 



ffJfENRY COVERT, a resident of Wil- 
IrHj son's Mills, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, is a 
11 41 representative of one of the early pioneer 
^ families of Maylield township, this coun- 

ty, the Coverts being one of the first two families 
that settled here. 

James Covert, the father of our subject, was 
born in New York, and it was in the spring of 
1807 that he came to Cuyahoga county and 
took claim to a tract of Government land in 
Mayfield township. This land he developed 
into a fine farm and on it he spent the rest of 
his life, his death occurring at the ripe old age 
of ninety-eight years and six months. James 
Covert's father, Thomas Covert, was a native of 
New York, and in that State passed the whole 
of his life. For his wife James Covert married 
Phoebe Sherman, a native of Massachusetts, 
who had come to Cuyahoga county when she 



was a little girl. She died at about the age of 
fifty years. They were the parents of seven 
children, four sons and three daughters. 

Henry Covert is the oldest of the above 
named family. He was born in Mayfield town- 
ship, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, March 30, 1839, 
and here he was reared and educated. His 
whole life has been spent in general farming 
and raising of fine stock, also as an exten- 
sive dealer, and in connection with the latter 
occupation he has also done some shipping. 
His farm comprises 500 acres of land, all in 
one body, and is the largest and finest farm in 
the county. 

Mr. Covert was first married to Miss Sarah 
Willson, a native of this township, who died 
some years later. She was the mother of five 
children, — "WilliauiH.jJamesB., Martin, Martha 
and Andrew J. The last named died at the age 
of two years and a half. For his second wife 
Mr. Covert wedded Rosa Goodman, also a na- 
tive of Ohio. She died without issue. For 
his third wife he married Henrietta Arndt, who 
was born and reared in Germany. They have 
one son, Harry. 

In national politics Mr. Covert has all his 
life affiliated with the Democratic party, but in 
local politics he has been somewhat independ- 
ent. He served two terms as Township Trus- 
tee, has been Judge of Election, and has filled 
various other minor oflices. Fraternally, he has 
been identified with the Masonic fraternity for 
a number of years, having his membership in 
Willoughby Lodge, No. 302, Chagrin Falls, and 
in the Chapter. 



ORVIL McAFEE, one of the trusted 
employees of the Pittsburg & Cleveland 
Railway Company, has held the position 
of telegraph operator at Bedford since 



1880. He has been connected with railroad 
business during the past thirteen years and has 
won the confidence and esteem of all the officials 
of the company. 




j3^^^^ ^av-elt. 



CUYAHOGA GOUNTT. 



387 



He is a native of the Buckeye State, born 
near Hudson, Summit county, June 30, 1858. 
Daniel McAfee, his father, emigrated to the 
United States from the Emerald Isle, and was 
united in marriage with Mary Huddlcston. To 
them were l)orn four children: Thomas, a resi- 
dent of Gagetown, Michigan; W. J., a con- 
tractor living in Cleveland; J. D., a physician 
in Cleveland; and Korvil. The parents reside 
at Solon, Cuyahoga county. Mr. McAfee is a 
l)lacksmitii by trade, but he also gives some at- 
tention to agricultural piu-suits. During tiie 
late war he was in the service four yeai-s. In 
politics he supports the principles of the Demo- 
cratic party, and he is a consistent member of 
the Disciple church. Norvil McAfee was reared 
at Solon and there received his elementary edu- 
cation; he pursued his studies further in the 
academy at Austinburg, and afterward engaged 
in teaciiing, meeting with gratifying success in 
this profession. 

December 25, 1884, Mr. McAfee wedded 
Miss Eliza Dunl)ar, a daughter of Alexander 
and Mary (Trail) Dunbar, natives of Scotland; 
the father died in 1880, but the mother still 
survives, and resides at Bedford. Mrs. McAfee 
was born, reared and educated at Bedford. Our 
subject and wife are the pai-ents of two children : 
Ethel Marie and Florence May. Mr. McAfee 
is a zealous worker in the ranks of the Demo- 
cratic party: since 1888 he has been a member 
of the City Council, where his service has been 
most efficient. He is aTi honored member of 



the I! 



,oyal 



No. 1007. 



I( M. GASSER, who resides on Lake avenue, 
i> I West Cleveland, has been a resident of 
V^' the Forest City during nearly his entire 
life and at the present time he is identified 
with her business interests and has attained to 
a position of no inconsiderable prominence. 
He is a native of Switzerland, having been born 
in 1842, the son of Nicholas and Catherine 
Gasser, and one of the six children born to 



them. Of the children four are living at the 
present time. When our subject was yet a 
mere child his parents emigrated to the United 
States, locating in Cleveland in the year 1854, 
and here passing the remainder of their days. 
Tiie father was a contractor by profession; his 
death occurred in 1882, and that of his wife in 
1884. 

Our subject received a good common-school 
education, and after completing his studies he 
entered at once into active business. He was 
employed in the Cleveland post office for a 
period of eight years. In 1872 he made his 
first business venture on his own responsibility, 
opening an establishment for the sale of 
stationery and confections and conducting the 
same successfully until 1878, when he com- 
menced operations in that line of enterprise to 
which he now devotes his attention, — that of 
floriculture. The undertaking on the start was 
one of modest order, but by careful methods 
and perseverance the business has been de- 
veloped and the range of operations extended 
until the enterprise is one of the most extensive 
of the sort in the State, Mr. Gasser holding 
distinction as one of the leading and most 
popular florists in the Forest City. His con- 
servatories consistently take rank with the best 
in tlie State, being tinely equipped and pro- 
vided with all modern accessories for the suc- 
cessful propagation of all kinds of flowering 
plants. 

Mr. Gasser served loyally in the late wai- nf 
the Rebellion, enlisting, in 1861, as a member 
of C!onipany 15, Seventh Ohio Volunteer In- 
fantry, and serving in the ranks until 1804, 
when he i-eceived bis honoralile discharge, at 
Cleveland. He participated in many of tlie 
principal battles, prominent among which were 
those of Antietam and Cedar Mountain. He 
was wounded in the left arm and side, March 
23, 1862, at Winchester, being thereby in- 
capacitated for active service for some time. 

Mr. Gasser was married, in 1867, to Miss 
Catherine Fox, a daughter of Andrew Fox, one 
of the early settlers and prominent residents of 



CUYAHOGA COUmTT. 



Cleveland. Our suliject and his wife have one 
child, Rose E., who is now the wife of Riblet 
D. Knisley, who is an official in the Marine 
Bank. 

In his political adherency Mr. Gasser is 
identified with the Republican party, and 
fraternally is a prominent nietnber of the 
Knights of Pythias, in which order he has 
taken all the degrees. 



|ILLTAM B. BOLTON, an attorney of 
recognized ability and occupy iny con- 
spicuous official positions with certain 
of the most important enterprises of Cleveland, 
is the only child of John and Martha (McCuiie) 
Bolton, and was born January 7, 1853, being a 
native of the State of Pennsylvania. 

John Bolton, who is now well advanced in 
years, has devoted a long and useful life to the 
profession of school teaching, and is at the jires- 
ent time a teacher in the West high school of 
Cleveland. He has been ever zealous and de- 
voted to his work, and has kept pace with the 
rapid strides made in the science of pedagogy, 
not content, as is true in the average case, to 
fall into any conservative rut and to finally be 
quite out of touch with the methods and 
progress of the later years. Professor Bolton 
is a man who is held in the highest esteem, not 
only by tiiose who come under his influence as 
students, but by all wlin ai-e perirjitted to gain 
recognition of his ability and culture with an 
appreciation of his genial and sympathetic 
character. He was for some time superintend- 
ent of the public schools at Portsmouth, Ohio, 
and after removing to Cleveland was retained 
as a teacher in the Central high school of the 
city. He bus been a resident of the Forest 
City since 1872, and in his labors here has 
gained a high popularity and esteem. In his 
lineage he is of English extraction. His father 
served as a naval officer in the war of 1812. 

William B. Bolton was educated in the com- 
ni i'i schools and graduated from the high 



school at Portsmouth in 1871, and entered the 
office of A. C. Thompson, ex-Judge of the 
Court of Common Pleas and Congressman for 
that district, and under such able direction 
began the study of law. In 1873 he removed 
to Cleveland and later continued his studies in 
the office of Ingersoll k, Williamson and was 
admitted to the bar in 1881. He is general 
counsel of The Brush Electric Company, of 
which corporation he is also a director. He 
holds a similar preferment with the Short 
Electric Railway Company and is local counsel 
for the General Electric Company, of New 
York. He was appointed assistant solicitor of 
the New York, Chicago efe St. Louis Railway 
Company in 1882, and upon the re-organization 
of that company, in 1887, he was appointed 
assistant general counsel, discharging the duties 
incidental thereto with much ability and dis- 
cernment. The executive preferments which 
he has held are ample testimony of this acumen 
as a lawyer. His office is maintained at room 
52fj, Cuyahoga Building. 

In his political adherency Mr. Bolton has 
ever been strongly arrayed with the Republican 
party and has taken an active interest in 
furthering the principles which that organiza- 
tiun maintains. 

The marriage of oui' subject occuri'ctl in 
June, 1883, when he was united to Mrs. Lilyon 
Beamer, a daughter of Mr. George Beckett, of 
Cincinnati. To Mr. and Mrs. Bolton one child 
has been born, a son, whose name is John 
Donald. 



EORGE CARTWPJGHT, a successful 
farmer of Cuyahoga county, was born in 
I Royalton township, this county, July 24, 
1839. His father, liichard Cartwright, 
was born in Berkshire, England, April 8, 1815, 
was reared on a farm, and after reaching a suit- 
able age engaged in herding sheep. In 1836 
he came to the United States, being seven weeks 
and three days in crossing the ocean, and he was 
obliged to borrow money to pay for his passage. 



CUYAHOGA OOUi\Tr. 



After landing in New York he came to Royal- 
ton township, where he immediately secured 
work as a farm hand. He was soon afterward 
married to Harriet Pembrook, also a native of 
England, who came to this country on the same 
steamer as her husband. Mr. and Mrs. Cart- 
wright had tiie following children: George, 
whose name heads this sketch ; Henry, a farmer 
in Royalton township; Edward, deceased at the 
age of two years; Mary, deceased, who was the 
wife of Marcus Warner; Edwin, who died in 
infancy; Elizabeth, wife of Wayland Edgerton, 
of Royalton township; and William, a fanner 
of Cuyahoga county. After his marriage Mr. 
Cartwright rented land for a time, and then 
purchased a part of the farm on which George 
still resides. He added to his original purchase 
until, at the time of his death, November 25, 
1857, he owned ninety acres. He was a stanch 
supporter of the Republican party, and held 
many township offices. Mrs. Cartwright sur- 
vived until May 20, 1892, a meml)er of the 
Baptist Church. 

George Cartwright, of this sketch, was early 
inured to farm labor, and after following that 
occupation for a time was engaged in butcher- 
ing. In partnership with his brother Henry, 
he now owns 336 acres of fine farming land in 
Royalton township. They are industrious and 
successful farmers, as well as quiet, unobtrusive 
citizens. Mr. Cartwright made a home for his 
mother after her husband's death, and also 
cared for the younger children until they reached 
years of maturity. Politically, he is a stanch 
Republican, having cast his first presidential 
vote for Abraham Lincoln. In religion his 
sympathies are rather with the Baptist Church. 



dlOSEPH SMITH, one of the representative 
citizens of Royalton township, was born at 
--- this place, September 24, 1819, a son of 
John and Lucy (Sprague) Smith, natives of 
Verliiont, the former born in 1792, and the 
latter in 1798. One child, Amanda, was liorn 



in this family in that State. When the daugh- 
ter was six months old they came with ox teams 
to Ohio, where Mrs. Smith's father, Knight 
Sprague, had previously located. They named 
Royalton township in honor of their home in 
Vermont. Mr. Smith located on a part of his 
father-in-law's land, remaining there until death, 
June 19, 1824, which was caused by a falling 
tree while assisting in cutting the Auglin Road 
from Royalton to Bennett's Corners. Three 
children were born in the family of Mr. and 
Mrs. Smith in Ohio, namely; Joseph, our sub- 
ject; Eliza, deceased at the age of four years; 
and Sally, who died at the age of forty years, 
was the wife of Nelson Ferris. After her hus- 
band's death, Mrs. Smith married Luther B. 
Ijoswortb, and she departed this life in 1859, at 
the ago of si.xty years. 

Joseph Smith, the suhject proper of this no- 
tice, received a limited education, having at- 
tended school only abinit seven weeks in the 
year. At the age of twenty -five years he sus- 
tained an injury of the riglit knee, which made 
him a cripple for life. Thus compelled to aban 
don agricultural pursuits, Mr. Smith learned 
the shoemaker's trade, and followed that occu- 
pation until 1872. Li that year he purchased 
a small farm in Royalton township, remaining 
there about sixteen years, and now lives a re- 
tired life at Royalton Center. Politically, he 
was formerly a Whig, his first presidential vote 
having been cast for William II. Harrison, ainl 
has been a Republican since the formation of 
that party. He resigned the office of Justice of 
the Peace after forty-two years, and held the 
office of Clerk eighteen years. He was also 
Postmaster eight years. 

He was married September 24, 1843, to 
Louisa Gordan, who was born in Royalton 
township, March 20, 1824, a daughter of O. C. 
and Polly (Howe) Gordan, and they have had 
the following children: Mariah, now Mrs. Dins- 
more; Bratton, a resident of Elkhart county, 
Indiana; Mary H., wife of J. N. Webber, of 
Royalton Center; Orrin, deceased in infancy; 
John, a resident of Cleveland, Ohio; Sarah U., 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



wife of Ora N. Porter, of Parma township, 
Cuyahoga county; Dayton W., of Eiyria; and 
Fred C, a resident of Collinwood, this State. 
Mrs. Smith is a member of tlie Disciple Church. 
Mr. Smitli is one of the highly respected pio- 
neer citizens of lloyalton township, and is 
widely and favorably known. 



URAM COOK, a fanner of (hiyahoga 
county, was born in Monmouth county, 
New Jersey, December, 14, 1828, a son 
of Jolin Cook, also a native of that 
State. While in his native State the latter was 
engaged as a fisherman during the winter sea- 
sons, and in the summer worked at farm labor, 
lie was married in New Jersey, to Eliza Jones, 
and they had two children in that State, — 
Abram, our subject; and Deborah A., widow 
of Joseph llumbaugh, and a resident of Brook- 
lyn village, this county. In 1831, via the Erie 
canal and lake Erie, the family came to Ohio, 



lug been acconi]>anicd by th 



oth 



fan 



Mr. Cook spent the first winter in Strongs- 
ville township, wiiere he was engaged in cliop- 
ping wood, receiving two shillings per cord. 
In the spring of 1832 he purciiased 100 acres 
of land in Parma township, paying $2 per 
acre, but was able to pay only a small amount 
down. Ills later payments for the place were 
made at Eiyria. Mr. Cook found employment 
in a brick-yard at Brooklyn village during the 
summer seasons, and was engaged in clearing 
his farm during the winters. In that way he 
soon satisfied all claims against his place, put 
the same under a good state of cultivation, and 
erected a brick residence, the brick having been 
manufactured on bis farm. He subsequently 
sold that farm, and in 1SI5 bought 100 acres 
of land in lioyalton township, to which ho after- 
ward added sixty acres. In addition to his gen- 
eral farming, Mr. Cook bought and sold large 
quantities of fruit. In early life he was iden- 
tified with the Democratic party, but afterward 



became a stanch Republican. He attended the 
Free-will Baptist Church. Mr. Cook departed 
this life in 1871, and his wife survived him a 
number of years, dying in 1881, and both now 
sleep in the Royal ton Center Cemetery. The 
children born to Mr. and Mrs. Cook in Ohio 
are as follows: Alva D., deceased in infancy; 
Delos, a lawyer of Cleveland; Sarah, wife of 
Thomas Meacher, of Royalton township; and 
David, a retired policeman of Brooklyn village. 

During the i-esidence of the family on their 
farm in Parma township, A!)ram and his sister 
Deba went into the woods one warm afternoon 
to gather mandrakes (May-apples), and on their 
return home they saw a bird at the edge of a 
cornfield, and Abram, as he picked up a stone 
to throw at it, saw two huge rattlesnakes, one 
black-spotted and the other yellow and white. 
He ran to the nearest house for help, and two 
men came and killed them. One measured five 
feet in length and the other six feet; one was 
three inches in diameter and the other four, and 
one had twelve rattles and the other fourteen. 

Aliram Cook, the subject of tliis sketch, re- 
ceived a limited education, and was early in- 
ured to farm labor. Before reaching his twen- 
ty-first year he found employment at the old- 
fashioned mud-brick yard, in which his father 
had been so long engaged, afterward served an 
apprenticeship at the carpenter's trade under 
his brother-in-law, Josepii Rumbaugli, and then 
followed his trade at Cleveland. Some time 
after his marriage Mr. Cook located m Royal- 
ton township, Cuyahoga county, where he has 
ever since continued to reside, with the excep- 
tion of one year s])ent near New Lisbon, Wis- 
consin. In the fall of 1802 he located on his 
present farm, wdiere he has erected all his farm 
buildings, and has put the place under a fine 
state of cultivation. He followed the carpen- 
ter's trade for many years after locating in this 
county, but is now giving his attention j>rinci- 
pally to his farm. In political matters, Mr. 
Cook is a stanch Repul)lican. 

He was married in the fall of 1852, at Cleve- 
land, Ohio, to Eliza McRunnolds, a native of 



CUTAIIOGA COUNTY. 



Ireland, who came to the United States when 
young. Tliej had one cliild, George A., now a 
contractor and builder of Brooklyn village. The 
wife and motlier died July 0, 1856. Mr. Cook 
was afterward united in marriage, at Indepen- 
dence, with Mary J. McClelland, who was born 
April 29, 1839. Her parents were natives of 
the north of Ireland, of Scotch ancestry, and 
while emigrating to the United States a storm 
at sea drove them northward. Their vessel 
foundered off the coast of Newfoundland, and 
while tlius shipwrecked Mrs. Cook first saw 
light, being one of six infants born on that ves- 
sel. She was given the title of "The Good 
Baby " by tlie crew, from the fact of her seeming 
inability to cry, which faculty the other five 
seemed to possess to a wonderful degree. She 
was brought to Ohio at the age of thirteen, 
raised by her uncle and aunt, Thomas and Jane 
McGrath. Mrs. Cook is a member of the Dis- 
ciple Church of Royalton Center. 



SHARON P. INMAN, a prominent citi- 
1 zen of Brecks\ille township, was born 
— ' May 9, 1847, in Parkman township, 
Geauga county, Ohio. His father, Henry In- 
man, was born March 6, 1814, in Beaver 
county, Pennsylvania, a son of Samuel Intnan, 
a native of Scotland. The last mentioned was 
an early settler of Beaver county, and in 1816 
came to Geauga county, locating in Parkman 
township, on a farm in the deep woods. Henry 
completed his school days at a select school 
kept by Rev. Ezekiel De Wolfe, a graduate of 
Yale College, who was once talked of as a can- 
didate for vice-president on the ticket with 
James Buchanan. In later years he was Post- 
master at San Francisco, California, under 
Buchanan's administration. At that school Mr. 
Inman made great advancement, where he was 
associated with Daniel R. Tilden, now of Cleve- 
land, and David Tod, afterward governor of the 
State. For some years afterward he taught 
school at Parkman villao"e. 



He was married in Bundysburg, January 23, 
1838, to Miss Margaret Porter, who was born 
in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, Sep- 
tember 16, 1815, a daughter of John and Eliz- 
abeth (Glenn) Porter, who was born in Fort 
Ligonier, Pennsylvania, while her parents were 
taking refuge in that fort from Indians, who 
were then raiding that territory during the 
Revolutionary war. She received a good edu- 
cation and was an intelligent woman. Some 
years after his coining to Ohio Samuel Inman 
died, in Parkman township, and afterward his 
widow married Captain Henry White, one of 
the first settlers in Trumbull county, Ohio. 
After his marriage Mr. Henry Inman located 
on the old liomestead, buying out the heirs, 
and remained there till the spring of 1860, 
when he removed to Mesopotamia township, 
Trumbull county, and one year afterward he 
came to Brecksville township and purchased a 
farm of fifty acres, which forms a part of the 
present farm of Mr. Inman, our subject. In 
1855 Mr. Henry Inman had become surety for 
a brother-in-law, who died sooti afterward and 
Mr. Initjan had to lose the whole amount he 
secured. Although this crippled him finan- 
cially, he took heart and started in anew in 
life's precarious battle. He died after remov- 
ing to Brecksville township, February 3, 1864, 
after a short illness contracted by waiting on 
the sick where putrid erysipelas prevailed, and 
he was buried at the C!enter cemetery. His 
wife died May 23, 1867, and was buried by his 
side. Mr. Inman was a proficient biblical 
scholar and a Master Mason of Western Phenix 
Lodge at Parkman, Ohio, for sixteen years, and 
attended several meetings of the Grand Lodge, 
which met at Columbus, this State. He was a 
Democrat of the Jacksonian type, and in former 
years contributed many articles, etc., to the 
Cleveland Plaindealer. He was well read in 
literature and general science and of powerful 
argumentative ability. In person he was six 
feet tall and of perfect build. 

His children were: Mary J., who was born 
December 5, 1838, and married first Henry 



GU7AJI06A COUNTY. 



Hoffman and afterward Daniel (jarduer, who is 
now deceased; she is now a widow, living in 
('leveland; Frederick W., wlio was born Octo- 
ber I'J, 1840, and is now a wealthy orange- 
raiser of Florida; Lucy A., born February 28, 
1843, married Charles Allen and is now the 
widow of William Wheeler, of Connecticut; 
John n., born October 10, 1844, and at present 
coiinecteil with the Akron (Ohio) Stoneware 
Company; Sharon P., whose name lieads this 
sketch, was the next in order of birth; twin 
daughters, born February 13, 1849, died March 
1 following; Sydney C, born June 29, 1852, is 
carrying on the drugs and hardware business 
on a large scale in Akron, Ohio; Ida B., born 
June 13, lSy4, is a resident of Akron; Alma 
A., born December 23, 185G, is now Mrs. 
Henry Nickerson, of Circleville, this State; 
(;ii;u-les T., born September 21, 1859, is also 
engaged in drugs and hardware at Akron. 

Mr. Sharon P. Inman, of this sketch, en- 
listed ill the Union army September 15, 1862, 
at Cleveland, under Lieutenant Bailey, after- 
ward Captain, in Hoffman's battalion, and was 
detailed to do guard duty at Johnson's island, 
but in a short time was rejected on account of 
his youth. Having lost his father at the ago 
of seventeen years, when the estate was in debt, 
t!ie care of affairs fell upon him and his 
brother John. Soon, however, our subject con- 
cluded to try military life again, and March 28, 
18(55, at Cleveland, he enlisted in Company B, 
One Hundred and Ninety-eighth Regiment, 
under Lieutenant Kaynor, and was sent to 
Camp Chase. Directly the news of the fall of 
liichinond came and the company was dis- 
banded. Tiien for a year Mr. Inman was 
traveling salesman throughout Indiana for G. 
G. Norris. of Cleveland. 

Decemlier 25, 1871, he married Miss Destine 
E. Stocker, who was born in Boston township. 
Summit county, July 14, 1847, a daughter of 
Mewell and Jane (Bailey) Stocker, farmers from 
New England. Since his marriage he has re- 
sided on the farm which he now occupies. He 
purciiascd the inteivst of his brother in this 



farm in 1880. Besides iigricultuie he has also 
been engaged in the lumber trade to a great 
extent. 

In his political sympathies he is a Democrat. 
Having an exceedingly retentive memory, he 
excels in the treatment of statistical matters, 
and when therefore he undertakes to make a point 
in an argument he is hard to match. In his 
religious views, as one would infer from the 
foregoing statements as to his mental qualities, 
he is liberal, believing in practicing religion 
seven days in the week. 



FJRANCIS H. CHESTER, an honored 
farmer of Brooklyn township, was born 
-- December 5, 1835. His father, Simeon 
Chester, Jr., a native of Groton, Conneeticnt, 
made a trip to Brooklyn on foot as early as 1822, 
selected and purchased a tract of eighty acres, 
and returned home the same way. August 23, 
1823, he married Evaline Fish, also of Groton, 
and with a team of two yoke of oxen they emi- 
grated to their new home in the wild West, 
liringing along with them also his parents, three 
sisters and a niece. He erected a log house for 
their habitation and proceeded to improve the 
farm. 

The pioneers of the southern jiart of the town- 
ship had erected a log schoolhouse and desired 
Mr. Chester to teach for them, and to pay him 
for his services offered to clear off the timber on 
a part of liis farm. This offer was accepted, and 
he became one of the first teachers in the only 
schoolhouse in Brooklyn townehipsouth of Clark 
avenue, and probably the only one in the county 
west of the Cuyahoga river, with the exception 
of a similar structure near the intersection of 
Clark and Jennings avenues and one in " Ohio 
City," where at that time there were only three 
frame dwellings. 

August 18, 1851, Mr. Chester died, in his 
sixty-second year, and September 19, 1859, his 
wife also died, in her sixtieth year. In their 
family were four sons and two daughters, ;ill of 



VUTABOGA COUNTY. 



whom grew up and were marrieil excepting one 
daughter, a teacher, who died January 8, ISiil, 
at the age of twenty years. 

Of tlieir children, Francis II., the youngest 
and the only one that was not born in the log 
cabin mentioned, has spent all his life here in 
his native town. At the age of twenty years he 
left the farm and learned and prosecuted for 
some time the carriage- making and carpenter's 
trades, but has for several years past been a 
farmer, in which occupation he takes an intelli- 
gent interest. 

He has had an extensive experience in public 
affairs. During the war he was Enrolling 
Officer and Dej)nty Provost Marshal: also a 
member and secretary of the Eighth Independ- 
ent Battery, Ohio National Guards, during its 
terra of service. In 1864 he was elected Town- 
ship Clerk, Treasurer in 1865, and re-elected in 
1866, Clerk again in 1867, a member and Clerk 
of the Brooklyn Village Board of Education in 
1869, and in 1871 he was elected a member of 
the Township Board of Education, in which po- 
sition he has since served about twenty years, 
much of the time as its presiding officer. In 
1874 he was appointed Treasurer to succeed the 
absconding treasurer, and was re-elected the two 
following years. In 1877 he was elected Trus- 
tee of the township. 

Concerning the long and faithful services of 
Mr. Chester in the educational field, tlie Amer- 
ican School Board Journal of September, 1891, 
says: " Francis H. Chester has been connected 
with the Brooklyn, Ohio, school board for 
twenty years and served as its presiding officer 
for thirteen years. He is a well-informed man 
on all general topics, thoroughly alive to the 
needs of the public school system, progressive, 
watchful and able." 

As to the fraternal orders, Mr. Chester is a 
member of Glenn Lodge, No. 263, I. O. O. F., 
at South Brooklyn, of which he has been the 
Permanent Secretary for ten years and an active 
member for over thirty years. 

November 9, 1865, he married Miss Nancy 
A. Brainerd, the only daugliter of Luther and 



Marcia (Sprague) Brainerd, and granddaughter 
of Demas and Nancy Brainerd, of East Had- 
dam, Connecticut, and of Avery and Annis 
(Johnson) Sprague, of Keeue, New Hampshire. 
She was born in the house where she now lives, 
December 16, 1842. Amos Brainerd, a soldier 
of the war of 1776, who settled with his family 
in the southern part of this township in 1815, 
was Mrs. Chester's great-grandfather. The pio- 
neer schoolhouse above referred to was located 
on his farm, and it was upon this farm that the 
first furrow was turned, south of the Big creek, 
by his son Demas. 

Mr. and Mrs. Chester's children are: Burton 
S., born September 29, 1866; Marcia E., No- 
vember 30, 1869; Simeon B., born November 
4, 1878; Howard F., born July 20, 1879; and 
Butli A., February 1, 1885, — all of whom are 
at home, and, including their parents, were all 
born in Brooklyn and have been continuous res- 
idents there. 



STANLEY G. STONE, deceased, was born 
\ April 16, 1822, in the township of Mad- 
— - rid, St. Lawrence county, New York, a 
son of Solomon and Nancy (Nash) Stone, who 
died in Lenawee county, Michigan. They 
owned a farm and reared a large family. 

Mr. Stone, our subject, came to Ohio in 1841, 
and worked as a farm hand, supporting his 
widowed mother, who had purchased a piece of 
land where his widow now resides. Returning 
to New Y''ork, he married, October 16, 1^44, 
Miss Clarinda Jones, who was born February 
10, 1823, in Madrid, and two weeks later came 
to Ohio, by boat and horse carriage to Niagara, 
thence by boat to Cleveland, and buggy to 
Brecksville township, where they located and 
ever after resided. At the time of their coming 
here Mr. Stone's mother, one sister and two 
brothers w^ere living witli him. A few years 
later he purchased the farm from his mother. 
At that time it contained sixty acres, but at the 
time of his death Mr. Stone had increased his 
acreage to 225. He died April 10, 1890, and 



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was I)iiried in Brecksviile cemetery. lie was 
an excellent business man, which qnality he ex- 
hibited in tlie h've-stock trade as well as in 
I'arniing, etc.; and although he was a great 
read(!i- and well posted he was not argumenta- 
tive, and therefore was far more liberal than 
alniiLst any one would give him credit for. He 
was very industrious, — indeed so much so that 
he over-worked and thereby hastened his death. 
In his political principles he was a Democrat, 
and regularly attended the elections as a patri- 
otic citizen. Since his death Mrs. Stone has 
continued to reside on the homestead and man- 
ages, through an agent, the extensive interests 
connected with it. 



BW. JACKSON of Cleveland, a member 
» of the City Council, was born in Lorain 
county, Ohio, December 28, 1802, a 

worthy son of Barnabas Jackson, who settled in 
Lorain county nearly forty years ago. Barnabas 
Jackson was born " away down in the State of 
Maine," in 1818. In 1830 his father, Joseph 
Jackson, moved his family West and located at 
Liverpool, Ohio. From this point Barnabas 
made his way West farther still on an investi- 
gating tour, penetrating the frontier as far 
West as some point in Iowa. He w-as not long 
aljsent when he returned to Liverpool fully de- 
termined to make Ohio his home. He married, 
in the spring of 1849, Martha Farnam, and in 
the spring of 1853 he moved his family, includ- 
ing his widowed mother and a sister, to Lorain 
county. Here he purchased a fine farm and 
live<l and died a prosperous and happy man. He 
invested in and improved property in Cleveland, 
and at his death August 8, 1889, he enjoyed a 
nice income and left a valuable estate to his 
chililren. They are: Charles; Ellen, wife of A. 
L. Bingham of Lorain county; Sarah, wife of C. 
J. Keltner; F. II. Jackson, of Cleveland; An- 
drew, of Lorain; B. W. and James, of Cleveland. 
1!. W. Jackson received a liberal educational 
the cdnnnon schools of Lorain cnunty and at 



Oberlin College, where he spent two years. He 
came to Cleveland on reaching his majority and 
engaged in the retail grocery business. One 
year later he became ])roprietor of a feed and 
sale stable, which he conducted seven years. 
While in this business, by falling from tlie mow 
to the barn floor, Mr. Jackson was so injured as 
to incapacitate him for vigorous physical exer- 
tion, and his business has been confined since 
to dealing in hay in car-load lots. 

In the spring of 1889 Mr. Jackson was elected 
to the Council from the First Ward. His ne.xt 
election was from the First district, to represent 
which he was re-elected in 1892. In the present 
Council he is serving on the committee on 
Finance, of which he is chairman, and lie is also 
on the committee on Lighting. He is a faithful 
member and discharges his duties without fear 
or favor. 

June 1, 1884, Mr. Jackson married, in Gar- 
rettsville, Ohio, Miss Blanche Nichols, a daugh- 
ter of P. C. Xichols, a prominent farmer, ex- 
County Commissioner, and a pioneer of Portage 
county. His wife was Miss II. C. Younglove, 
and their children are: Cairie, wife of B. II. 
French; Merrell; Grace, wife of Arthur Haven; 
Blanche; Paul; and Lucy, wife of L. V. Miller. 
Mr. and Mrs. Jackson have only one child, 
LeRoy Nichols, six years old. 

Fraternally Mr. Jackson is an Odd Fellow. 



GCORLETT, a member of a most highly 
respected family of Newburg's pioneers 
■— and a popular conductor of the Erie Rail- 
road, was born in Cleveland, September 25, 
1846, and completed his school education at the 
Newburg high school, being once a pupil of A. 
J. S])encer, the venerable secretary of the Cleve- 
land Fire Department. At the age of thirteen 
years he was employed by J. V. N. Tates as a 
stationary engineer, engaged in sawing stove 
wood. Next he was employed for four years by 
Poole & Johns, in their grocery; and then his 
railroad cxpeiience began, April 1, 1867, as a 



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brakemau, under Conductor H. Corlett, now 
depot master for the Erie Company at Cleveland. 
For live years he set brakes and was making 
liiinself familiar with the operations of trains, 
lie was then made a train baggageman, where 
he remained until his promotion as freight con- 
ductor, and after five years of experience in that 
line he was made passenger conductor. Being 
a man of comprehensive grasp, an " all-around" 
man, he is occasionally placed in charge of a 
yard in cases of emergency: was yard and train 
master in the Cleveland yard nearly two years. 
In the twenty-seven years of his connection with 
the Erie, Mr. Corlett has probably lost not more 
tlian two months from duty. Through no neg- 
lect of his has any passenger ever been injured, 
or even employee, and no record of suspension 
stands against him. He is a conspicuous 
member of tiie 0. R. C, serving in an official 
capacity, and is a believer in legitimate and 
wortliy fraternities. 

His father, Daniel Corlett, is a retired resi- 
dent of Newburg, honored as an upright man. 
He was born May 25, 1820; and his parents, of 
the isle of Man, descended from Belgian French 
who settled on that island in the sixteenth cen- 
tury, in tiie parish of Ballaugh. Daniel Corlett, 
Sr., our subject's grandfather, was born in 1786; 
in 1848 he came to Ohio, and in 1873 died, on 
the farm which his son John had provided for 
him near Warrensville, Ohio. He married Mar- 
garet Corlett not a relative, and they had six 
children, — Daniel, Harry, John, Margaret, Jane 
and Kate, — all of whom located in Cuyahoga 
county excepting Margaret, who married John 
Corlett, not a relative, and moved to Lake county, 
Ohio. John, born in 1817, came to the United 
States in 1840, was a stone mason by trade, and 
died in 1888. He was in charge of the aque- 
duct in New York city when it was in progress 
of construction, and also of the building of the 
Boston water-works; and, had not misfortune, a 
stroke of paralysis, overtaken him at thirty, he 
would have made a national reputation. Harry, 
the next born, emigrated to the United States 
in the '40s, was a prominent farmer in Warrens- 



ville till 1859, when he went to California, 
prospected and speculated, gathering a snug 
sum, and returned to his home in Warrensville; 
Jane, the next, married M. Wolverton; Kate 
married William Brew, a railroad man; Daniel 
Corlett came to this country in 1840, purchased 
the Quayle farm in Newburg, and divided his 
time between it and boiler-making until his re- 
tirement from business: he married Isabella 
Mollen, who was a native of Lagnacrave, county 
Monaghan, Ireland, and a sister of Christopher 
Mollen, Cleveland's first auctioneer. Daniel 
Corlett and wife were the parents of Henry; 
Christopher; Margaret, wife of Eli W. Can- 
nell; and Jennie, who married A. G. Mitchell. 
Mr. C. Corlett, whose name heads this sketch, 
was married in Painesviile, Ohio, October 5, 
1876, to Miss Alice Jane Garrett, a daughter of 
John Garrett and one of the pioneers of Lake 
and Geauga counties. Mr. Garrett was born 
in 1820, a native of the isle of Man, and was 
married to Letitia Clague. Two children were 
born to them, namely: Alice and Josephine, the 
latter dying when two years old. Mr. Corlett's 
children are: John, born July 14, 1877, now a 
freshman in the Cleveland high school; Christo- 
pher, born January 23, 1879; Harry Winfield, 
November 3, 1880; Frankie, born July 16, 
1882, died in 1884. 



J' 



;AMES AVERY, a well-known citizen and 
probably as good a mechanic in his line as 
Brecksville ever had, if not better, was 
born in Kent, England, in 1821, a son of George 
Avery. (See sketch of William H. Avery.) 
Early in life Mr. Avery learned the blacksmith's 
trade, and in the spring of 1841 came to the 
United States, with his brother George. Sailing 
from London, they arrived at New York after a 
voyage of six weeks and three days, and they 
finally reached Cleveland, by water, whence they 
walked out into Brecksville township. After 
his marriage in 1850, our subject located on a 
farm where he now lives. Fur a while he car- 



CUYABOOA COUNTY. 



ried on a blacksmith shop there, and then re- 
moved it and his residence to Brecksville center, 
wiiere for twenty years he followed his trade. 
In 1882 he returned to his farm, where he has 
seventy-five acres of good land. He has been 
quite successful, both as a mechanic and as a 
farmer. As a Democrat he is intelligent and 
loyal to his party. 

January 2, 1850, is the date of his marriage 
to Miss Eunice M. Whitnall, who was born 
July 8, 1818, in Pompey, Onondaga connty. 
New York, a daughter of Rev. Isaac and Eliza 
(Lewis) Whitnall. Her father, a native of Can- 
terbury, England, was educated for the Baptist 
ministry in his native connti-y, and after his ar- 
rival in the United States he adopted the doc- 
trine of " free salvation for all mankind," and 
preached at various places during pioneer times 
— Strongs ville, Cuyahoga county, as early as 
1828. In traveling he rode horseback, through 
the wild forests. Notwithstanding his change 
of doctrine he was never excommunicated by 
his church. He was married in 1811, partici- 
pated in the battle of Trafalgar under Commo- 
dore Nelson, and finally died in Koyalton, 
Orleans county. New York, while engaged in 
pastoral duties. His wife died in Eockport, 
Cuyahoga county, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Avery's 
children arc: Hester L., born August 18, 1852, 
is now the widow of J. W. Rooks, of Brecksville 
township; Cassius C, born August 18, 1854, 
ilied Septeml)cr 20, 1855; and Cassius (second), 
born January 10, 1850, died August 12, 1861. 



If B. STEPHENSON, a highly respected and 
representative citizen and extensive farmer 
-i of Brecksville townsliip, was born February 
4, 1828, in Richfield, Summit county, Ohio. 
His father, Hugh Stephenson, was born in York- 
shire, England, March 22, 1791; and his father, 
William Stephenson, came to the United States 
in 1803, locating at Kinderhook, New York, 
where Hugh was reared to manhood, and July 
15, 1817, married Elizabeth Hopkins Holland. 



who was born May 22, 1789, in Columbia 
county. New York: she was a cousin of Martin 
Van Buren, President of the United States. 
Soon after his marriage Hugh Stephenson came 
West, in 1818, and located in Richfield town- 
ship, Summit county, Ohio, which section was 
at that time a dense, wild forest. The old- 
fashioned, typical log cabin was his home for 
many years, but the farm gradually showed 
signs of improvement, under the persevering 
hand of the owner. He moved to Brecksville 
in 1831, where he lived until 1856, when he 
died; and his wife died in 1865, and they both 
lie buried in Brecksville cemetery. These old 
pioneers shared all the hardships incident to 
pioneer times. Too much cannot be said in their 
praise as developers of comfortable homes in a 
wilderness despite innumerable obstacles. They 
were both for many years members of the Con- 
gregational Church of Brecksville. 

Their children were: John C, born May 3, 
1818, died when three years old; Jane E., born 
September 6, 1822, married Charles Kellogg, 
and died in this township; William M., born 
May 19, 1824, and now a farmer of Linn 
county, Iowa; I. B., whose name introduces this 
sketch, is the next in order of birth; Maria I., 
born February 10, 1830, became a schoolteacher, 
and died at the age of thirty-six years, unmar- 
ried; and Frederick H., born October 28, 1832, 
is a farmer in Traverse county, Michigan. 

Mr. I. B. Stephenson, our subject, being 
brought up in the pioneer wilds of Ohio, of 
course had but little school advantages. He 
remained upon the parental homestead as a 
farmer's son until his marriage, December 10, 
1860, to Miss Maria Marsh, who was born May 
24, in Columbia county, New York, a daughter 
of Luther and Sarah (Rich) Marsh, who came 
to Ohio in 1831, locating in Brecksville town- 
ship. Since his marriage Mr. Stephenson has 
still continued the farmer's life. His place now 
comprises 153 acres, two miles south of the 
center of the township. 

During the California gold excitement Mr. 
Stephenson, like thousands of others, started for 




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0U7A110GA COUNTY. 



the source of the excitement, sailing on the ship' 
Daniel Webster fronn New York to Nicaragua, 
and from the isthmus to San Francisco on the 
Golden Age. After spending a year and a half 
in the Golden State he returned by the same 
route, sailing from San Francisco to the isthmus 
on the Golden Gate, and thence to New York 
on the Illinois, and came to his old home in 
Brecksville township in 1855. During the 
summer of that year he went to Michigan and 
was employed in sawmills near Grand Rapids 
for a short time, returning to his old home. 
Excepting these absences he has i)een in the 
neighborhood of his birthplace. 

His children are: Rosa B., now Mrs. William 
Gosser of this township; Sarah M., who married 
William Noble of this township; and Frederick 
S. and Dwight C, both at home. 

In his political sympathies Mr. Stephenson is 
a Republican, taking great interest in public af- 
fairs and being a regular attendant at the elec- 
tions. He is a successful fanner and a highly 
respected citizen. 



CHARLES A. KUZEL was born in Nev- 
^ jezic, Bohemia, July 4, 1859, as the oldest 
- ^ son of Francis and Agness (Sykora) 
Kuzel. Both parents were born in Bohemia, 
where they were married. They came to the 
United States in May, 1866, with a family of 
three children: one child has since been born in 
theirfamily. Of these only the three sons survive, 
the daughter having lost her life in 1869, by 
drowning. The parents came direct to the city 
of Cleveland, on their arrival in this country, 
and they have since lived here. The father fol- 
lowed his trade, that of tailor, up to about ten 
years ago, when, on account of old age, he re- 
tired and spent his last days in rest from con- 
stant labor to which he was so long used. 

The subject of this sketch obtained a fair 
common-school education, but from early life 
he has been under the necessity of employing 
his time in earning a support. To the sup- 



port of his parents and brothers he was 
called upon for contribution in youth, and hence 
a collegiate education has never been afforded 
Mr. Kuzel. He completed a course in book- 
keeping at the Cleveland Business College, and 
at the age of seventeen years accepted a posi- 
tion in the County Clerk's office, where he has 
since been an employee, arising from the low- 
est to the highest position in the office. He 
has been in that office since September 19, 
1876, and is regarded as being thoroughly well 
acquainted with the detail work of the office. 
While in this office he has kept up his studies 
at night, and has thus become well-informed 
upon many subjects of interest, and has col- 
lected an excellent private library. Since 
early youth Mr. Kuzel has been very fond 
of books and study. He applied himself to 
the study of law and has continued the study at 
his opportunity for so doing while he has been 
in the office of the Clerk of Common Pleas. 

In June, 1884, he was admitted to the bar. 
In politics Mr. Kuzel is a stanch Republican, 
and as a citizen he is highly respected. 

June 20, 1887, he married Minnie A. Evans, 
of Cleveland, and they have two sons and a 
daughter. 



TlAMES M. DILLOW, a retired farmer of 
k-. I Brecksville township, was born October 
^^ 3, 1822, in Brecksville, Cuyahoga county, 
Ohio. His father, Andrew Dillow, was born 
in Washington, Pennsylvania, November 10, 
1790, was reared a farmer and was married 
there, March 29, 1810, to Elizabeth Farrar, who 
was born December 29,^ 1787. His parents 
were killed by Indians, and he was taken by an 
old lady of the neighborhood to bring up, who 
took kind care of hira. When yet a boy he 
came to Brecksville township, looked over the 
country, and returned to Pennsylvania, where 
he was married, and about 1830 moved here 
with his wife and two children, namely: Mary, 
who married Henry Stebbins and died here in 
Ohio; and George W., a farmer, who was mar- 



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i-ied twice, first to Uceba Rnssel and afterward 
to Pearliette M. Fenn, and died in Brecksville. 
Mr. Andrew Dillow located at Center and was 
employed in tlie old Wyatt gristmill for forty 
years, resigning when his health failed. About 
a year after his arrival liere he purchased a 
tract of land, all woods, a mile east of Center, 
located upon it and made it his home for the 
remainder of his life. Ilis children were: Jane, 
who married Miranda Peck and died in Brecks- 
ville; Peter, a farmer, who married Eliza 
Rinear and afterward Arminda Norville; 
James, wliose name heads this sketch; Eliza- 
beth, who married Francis Stebbins and died in 
tiiis town ; Catharine, who became the wife of 
Ira Fitzwater and died here; and Orlando, who 
died young. - Mr. Dillow died November 16, 
1877, and his wife April 9,1865: both were 
buried in East cemetery. Mr. Dillow was a 
Whig and Republican, and his wife a member 
of the Presbyterian Church. As to his physical 
frame he was large and stout, and during his 
life did an immense amount of hard work. 

The gentleman whose name heads this sketch, 
Mr. James M. Dillow, was reared upon a farm 
and obtained his modicum of education in the 
way characteristic of the wild period of pioneer 
times in Ohio. His father once willed the old 
farm to him if he would remain upon it; but 
this was Ijoth unsatisfactory to the other chil- 
dren and distasteful to him, and he surrendered 
the will and struck out in life for himself un- 
aided, lie had given all his earnings to his 
parents and assisted them in every way. 

April 22, 1847, he married Sarah J. Clifford, 
who was born April 20, 1830, in Northfield, 
Summit county, Ohio, a daughter of "William 
and Eunice (Cranmer) Clifford; her fatlier was 
from Beaver county, Pennsylvania. After his 
marriage Mr. Dillow lived a year with his 
father, then bought a farm from Theodore 
Breck, when he had not a dollar to pay for it! 
Mr. Breck was kind enough to lend him |;75, 
and gave hijn as long a time as ho wished to 
return it and pay for the land. One horse, 
hitched to a mud boat, was able to haul all his 



earthly possessions! but with a determination 
to succeed he set to work and paid the above 
debts before they were due! Soon afterward he 
purchased ninety acres adjoining. He has been 
a farmer all his life. In later years he removed 
to the south of Center, to seek a more healthful 
location and afterward he moved to Center. In 
December, 1892, he moved to his present place, 
where he is enjoying a retired life. He has 
owned several farms, and still has 140 acres of 
land. His amiable wife, who lias been of great 
assistance to him through all their struggles, is 
is a member of the Congregational Church. 
Mr. Dillow has been a man of exemplary habits, 
never having used tobacco or intoxicating 
liquor. Politically he was a Republican before 
the war, and since then a Democrat. He has 
been Constable four years. Judge of Election, 
etc. He has worked very hard all his life, and 
has never " worn out the seat of his pants." 

His children are: Andrew C, who died at 
the age of five years; Ella J., who is living at 
home; Julia E., who also died when five years 
old; George, who died young; Eddy J., who 
died when ten years of age; Clark J., a farmer 
of this township, who married Isabella Wal- 
lace, of Northfield, Summit county, Ohio; 
Myrton U., who died when two years old; and 
P^rank H., who married May King, of Cleveland, 
and settled in that city. 



d[ H. COATES, a merchant of Brecksville, 
I is of English ancestry. His father, John 
— Coates, was born in Yann, Yorkshire, Eng- 
land, in 1801; and his father, also named John, 
emigrated with his family to tlie United States 
in 1803, settling in Genesee county. New 
York, leaving England because of the domineer- 
ing rule of the aristocrats. He was a wealthy 
man, and in 1815 exchanged his Genesee county 
property for a tract of 3,300 acres of land in 
North Royalton, Ohio. In the winter of that 
year he and his son John came lu-re on horse- 
back, built a house upon the land and returned 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



borne; and during the ensuing summer, with 
wagons and teams of horses the entire family 
moved here, ai-riving in North Royalton after a 
journey of six weeks. 

In November, 1827, John Coates, Jr., mar- 
ried Lucy Ann Weld, who was born in Guil- 
ford, Connecticut, in 1806, and they came and 
occupied the house at North Royalton. Mrs. 
Coates died in 1852, at the house before men- 
tioned, and Mr. Coates in 1873, at Brecksvilie, 
not members of any church; he was a zealous 
Republican. Their children were: Edmund, 
born in 1828; James M., 1830; James H., 
whose name heads this sketch, born in 1832; 
Mary Weld, who died in infancy, was born in 
1884; Mary A., now living at Brecksvilie, born 
1887; Frank M., born in 1848, is a doctoy at 
Berea; Louis W., born 1845, now at Lincoln, 
Nebraska; and William R., who was born in 
1851, and is now mayor of Brooklyn, Ohio. 

Mr. J. H. Coates was born in the northeastern 
corner of Royalton tow^nship, this county, and 
when fourteen years of age entered the store of 
B. H. Wood & Company, of West Richfield, 
Summit county, this State, where he remained 
two or three years; next he was at Sharon three 
years; at Akron a year, employed in Old Stone 
Block for McCurdy & Michner, merchants; and 
finally came to Brecksvilie township. 

In 1855 he married Miss Maria L. Storrs, a 
native of New York State and a daughter of 
Elijah Storrs, who settled in Summit county in 
pioneer times. After his marriage Mr. Coates 
located in the village of Brecksvilie. In 1857, 
his health being poor, he moved to Grand 
Haven, Michigan, where he remained five 
years, a portion of which time he was in the 
lumber business, and while a resident there a 
daughter was born in the family, named Julia 
M., who is now the wife of H. C. King. He is 
a professor at Oberlin (Ohio) College, where 
she graduated in July, 1879. She has spent 
one year at Berlin, Germany, pursuing an ad- 
vanced course of study. 

In 1863 Mr. Coates returned to Brecksvilie 
townsiiip, moved to the center and at once 



launched into mercantile business. In Brecks- 
vilie township Ben E. was born, who also is 
now a merchant at the center. In 1893 he 
also made a journey abroad, being gone about 
six months. He is a leading business man of 
the place, being very popular, etc. 

When the subject of this sketch returned to 
Brecksvilie he opened a store in compliance 
with a request of a number of customers. His 
capital was limited, but his energy and good 
judgment enabled him to prosper, and he re- 
mained in business there until 1889, when he 
retired and left his son to continue the business, 
as head partner. For the entire time he has 
been merchant there he has also been Post- 
master, and is now holding that position. The 
office is still continued in the building, which 
is now rented. 

Mr. Coates has always been a Republican. 
Has been Township Treasurer for thirty years, 
Township Clerk in 1850-'51 before his mar- 
riage. In all his public relations he has given 
good satisfaction, establishing a repiitation that 
may be envied by almost anyone. He and his 
wife and son are exemplary members of the 
Congregational Church, of which body he has 
been Treasurer for many years, and in which he 
has held other offices, and is now Deacon. He 
has a very pleasant home, north of the village. 
Is one of Brecksvilie's most highly respected 
citizens, influential in the community and a 
successful business man. 



CONSTANT ROOT, a prosperous farmer 
of Royalton township, was born August 
^- 21, 1840, in Holland, in the province of 
Seeland, the son of Adrian Rooy, also a farmer. 
Brought up to the same vocation, our subject 
had but fifteen months' schooling. With the 
aid of money sent him by friends in the United 
States, he was able to come to this, the land of 
opportunity, in 1868. Sailing on the ship 
Pennsylvania, in eighteen days he landed at 
New York. For more than a year he lived at 



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COTAHOGA COUNTY. 



Cincinnati, in the employ of a milk dealer, and 
later was employed in the chemical works there, 
the managers of which sent him to Cles'eland 
in their service, in which capacity he remained 
until the spring of 1874. lie then purchased a 
tract of land, with a view of farming, hut was 
unfortunate in the bargain, as the land proved 
too poor, and in 1879 he located upon his 
present place of 196 acres, where he is pro8])er- 
ing by his industry and good management. 
His energy and economy are characteristic of 
his nationality, lie votes with the Republican 
party. 

April 22, 1871, he married Miss Christina 
Hasseloo, who was born in Holland, in the 
province of Gelderland, October 25, 1845, and 
came to the United States with her widowed 
mother and children. Mr. and Mrs. Rooy com- 
menced housekeeping in Cleveland, and during 
life have liad the following children: Adrian; 
Johanis, at home; Herman, who died October 2, 
1893; William and Jennie G., also at home; 
Josie, who died young; and Annie C, who is 
an inmate of the parental home. The parents 
are members of the Lutheran Reformed Church 
of Cleveland, and are highly respected citizens. 



diOEL B. CATIOON, deceased, was in his 
iifu-tinie an honored citizen of Dover 
— - township. He was ijorn in Herkimei-, 
Herkimer county. New York, August 28, 1793. 
His father, Joseph Cahoon, was born in Rhode 
Island, married in Massachusetts, and removed 
to Herkimer, New York, and after residing in 
various places settled in Vergennes, Vermont, 
where he lived until he emigrated with his 
family to Ohio, settling in Dover township, 
Cuyahoga county, in October, 1810. His wif(^, 
whose maiden name was Lydia Kenyon, was a 
native of Massachusetts. Josej)h C'ahoon and 
wife died in Dover township. 

The subject of this sketch, Mr. Joel B. 
Cahoon, came with his parents to Cuyahoga 
county in 1810, when ho was seventeen years of 



age. He remained on the farm with his father 
until he enlisted, in March, 1813, in Captain 
D. Mills' company of Ohio militia, and served 
in the war with Great Britain until its close. 
After spending a short time at home he engaged 
in contracting for public works until 1842, 
when he returned to Cuyahoga county, and con- 
tinued to reside in Dover township until his 
death, September 28, 1882. 

He was married in Frederick City, Maryland, 
July 14, 1831, to Mrs. Margaret Yan Allen, 
nee Dickson. She was the widow of John D. 
Yan Allen and a daughter of John Calhoim 
Dickson, and was born in Washington, District 
of Columbia, February 8, 1810. Mr. and Mrs. 
Cahoon became the parents of eleven children, 
viz.: Thomas H., J. Joseph, Lydia E., D. Ken- 
yon, Oscar, Laura E., Martha W., Leverett J., 
J. Marshall, Mary E. and Ida M. 



IjOSEPH FETZER, Townsliip Trustee of 
k, I Warrensville township, Cuyahoga county, 
^>^ Ohio, dates his birth on the river Rhine, 
Germany, in the year 1843. His parents, Frank 
and Elizabeth Fetzer, were natives of that 
country, and there he spent the first eighteen 
years of his life, receiving a good education in 
his native language. 

At the age of eighteen the subject of our 
sketch emigrated to the United States, locating 
first in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and a year later 
coming to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and settling 
in Bedford. He is now the owner of 115 acres 
of choice farming land, upon which in 1888 he 
erected an elegant residence, at a cost of §2,800. 
He has two barns, one being 40 x 60 feet, 
and the other 30 x 60 feet, with rock base- 
ment. In connection with his farming oper- 
ations, he also deals in stock, and in both 
has met with marked success. Among his stock 
is found a fitie dairy. 

Mr. Fetzer was married at Bedford, Ohio, in 
1867, to Miss Mary Friennd, who was born 
and reared in East Cleveland, this county, her 



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father being Valentine Friennd, a native of 
Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Fetzer liave four 
chilflreii, — Edward, Lewis R., Gust and Katie. 
The oldest son is engaged in farming near 
home. 

Politically, Mr. Fetzer is identified with the 
Democratic party and is one of its active work- 
ers here. As Township Trustee he is perform- 
ing faithful and efficient service. Mrs. Fetzer 
is influential in religious work. 



FRANCIS II. WAGAR, a prominent 
farmer and horticulturist of Lakewood 
— Hamlet, Cuyahoga county, has passed his 
entire life in that section of the Buckeye State 
wliere he now resides, his birth having oc(?lirred 
March 15, 1827, in Rockport township, as the 
district of Lakewood Hamlet was then known. 
He was the youngest son and tlie lifth in order 
of the six children of Mars and Katurah (Miller) 
Wagar, who were pioneer settlers in Rockport 
township, and concerning whose lives a more 
detailed mention is made in connection with 
the sketch of their son, Adam M., as appearing 
elsewhere in this volume. 

In the locality where he still aliides, an hon- 
ored and useful citizen, the subject of this re- 
view was reared to manhood, receiving such 
educational advantages as were afforded and 
profiting duly by the .same. Reared to the 
pursuits of the farm he has ever continued his 
connection with that most important industry, 
bringing to the work progressive methods and 
a careful supervision of all details, thus attain- 
ing to the full measure of success in the enter- 
prise, which has yielded the most prolific re- 
turns as rewarding his industry and well directed 
efforts. He has devoted no little attention to 
horticulture and in this branch of his work he 
has met with particularly felicitous success. He 
has erected a fine residence on Detroit street, 
Lakewood, where he is suri-ounded by the com- 
forts and luxuries of life. His fine farmstead 
comprises 100 acres, most of which is situated 
in Lakewood Hamlet. 



On the 22d of September, 1853, Mr. Wagar 
was united in marriage to Miss Serena Tucker, 
a native of Richland county, Ohio, where she 
was residing at the time of her marriage. The 
date of her birth was February 11, 1833. 

Of the seven children born to our subject and 
his wife five are living, namely: Mars E., mar- 
ried Miss Rosa Slaughter, who died November 
12, 1891; he was again married in November, 
1893, to France Grant, of Pomeroy, Ohio; Lee 
H., who married Miss Caroline Woodbury; 
Forest H.; Plattie M.; and Effie S. The two 
deceased are Ida and Carl, both of who died in 
childhood. 

In political matters Mr. Wagar holds inde- 
pendent views. He has never been an office 
seeker, but such is his personal popularity and 
such the confidence reposed in him by the resi- 
dents of the community that he has been called 
upon to serve in various executive capacities, 
having tilled the offices of Township Assessor 
and Constable most ably and acceptably. In 
his religious views our subject holds to the 
broad, liberal spirit, being neither aggressive 
nor intolerant. 



T'HOMAS JAMES, of Parma township, 
Ohio, was born on Staten island, New 
York, January 26, 1831, a son of the 
late Matthew and Mary (Moles) James, 
who emigrated from Staten island in the sprintr 
of 1841, and settled in the township of Parma, 
wliere they lived till their death. The father 
died April 28, 1876, and the mother died No- 
vember 13, 1877. They had ten children, six 
sons and four daughters, of whom Thomas was 
the third. 

He was ten years old when he came with his 
parents to Ohio. After remaining at home un- 
til 1854, he went to California for the purpose 
of mining, remaining in the mines till 1858, 
when he i-eturned to Ohio and purchased the 
farm where he now lives, on York street, in 
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engaged in agricultural pursuits. His farm, 
consisting of 100 acres, is in a fine state of cul- 
tivation and well furnished with the required 
equipments. As to public station, Mr. James 
has served as School Director. 

He was married in Trumbull county, Ohio, 
October 27, 1864, to Miss Ann Bratten, who 
was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, Sep- 
tember 11, 183G, a daughter of James and Jane 
(Hamilton) Bratten. Her parents, who died in 
Warren, Trumbull county, Ohio, had eleven 
children, of whom Mrs. James was the sixth. 
She came with her brother John to Warren, 
Ohio, in 1854. Mr. and Mrs. James are the 
parents of four children, three of whom are liv- 
ing: Loa E., Lettie E. and Eva. The deceased 
child, Maggie, died in infancy. 



JW. EDGEKTON,of Boyal ton, Cuyahoga 
county, was born May 19, 1845, a son of 
John Edgerton. The latter was born in 
Massachusetts in 1804, but in 1838 came to 
Cuyahoga county, Ohio, in company with sev- 
eral brothers. John Edgerton was married in 
Massachusetts to Philena Perry, a native of the 
town of Savoy, that State, and they had the fol- 
lowing children: Mary, George, J. Wayland, 
Lucy, Altnon, Carrie and Clarence. The latter 
died in infancy. Mr. Edgerton was a successful 
fanner, and a well-known and respected citizen. 
In political matters, he was a stanch Republi- 
can. His death occurred November 11, 1883, 
and his widow resided in Boyalton township 
until her death, which occurred February 21, 
1894. 

J. W. Edgerton, the subject of this sketch, 
received his education in the schools of his na- 
tive county, his first teacher having been Cor- 
tielia Elliott. He remained on the home farm 
until eighteen years of age, then worked for 
Ilufus Perry in Kankakee county, Illinois, spent 
one year in Ohio, and then, in company with 
his brother George, returned to Illinois. While 
there Mr. Edgerton farmed on rented land one 



year, and tlien came to Ohio and served an ap- 
prenticeship at the carpenter's trade, under S. 
N. Nelson, having worked for that gentleman 
three years. After his marriage he followed 
his trade two and a half years in Cleveland, 
Ohio. In 1870 he came to this township and 
purchased his present farm of John Simpson, 
and four yeai-s afterward erected a wagon repair 
shop on his place, to which he has since added 
blacksmithing, conducting business under tlie 
firm name of J. W. Edgerton & Son. In 1885 
our subject erected one of the finest residences 
in the township. 

January 1, 1868, lie was united in marriage 
with Elizabeth Cartwright, who was born No- 
vember 17, 1848, a daughter of Richard and 
Harriet (Pembrook) Cartwright. By this mar- 
riage there are three children: George S., en- 
gaged in business with his father; and Nellie 
and Emery, at home. In political matters, Mr. 
Edgerton votes with the Republican party, and 
has served as Township Trustee for four years. 
Both he and his wife are members of the Bap- 
tist Church, in which the former holds the 
position of Deacon. 



E'CKSTEIN CASE, a prominent resident 
of Cleveland and a member of a distin- 
1 guished family, and, holding a position of 

conspicuous order as secretary and treasurer of 
the Case School of Applied Science, is particu- 
larly deserving of attention in this connection. 
He was born at Carlyle, Clinton county, Illi- 
nois, July 9, 1858, and there he was reared to 
mature years. His father, the late Zophar Case, 
was a native of Oliio and a brother of the late 
Leonard Case, Sr., one of the most prominent 
business men of Cleveland for many years. The 
father of our subject was born at Warren, 
Trumbull county, January 5, 1804. He re- 
moved from his native State to Illinois about 
the year 1829 and located at Carlyle. In his 
later days he resided in Cleveland, where he 
died, August 2, 1884, liis remains being taken 



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403 



for interment to Carlyle, where he had lived for 
so many years and where he had attained a po- 
sition of unmistakable prominence. He had 
been an ardent and active supporter of the Dem- 
ocratic party, and was conspicuous in the polit- 
ical affairs of the community in which he lived, 
having held many of the more important county 
offices. He was a prominent Eoyal Arch Mason 
and also an active member of the Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows. He married Mary Ellen 
Halstead, who died in 1882, at the age of sixty- 
four years. They became the parents of 
thirteen children, eight of whom are living. 
They were of German and Holland descent re- 
spectively, their ancestors having come to 
America about the middle of the eighteenth 
century. Mrs. Case was a lineal descendant of 
Governor Richard JSlichols, of New York. 

The subject of this review attended school in 
his native town until he had attained the age of 
fourteen years, and in 1878 he gained a cadet- 
ship at West Point Military Academy, where he 
remained for two years. He left West Point to 
engage in the study of law, commencing his 
course of reading at Carlyle, Illinois, in the fall 
of 1880. In July of the succeeding year he 
came to Cleveland and entered the law office of 
Judge J. E. IngersoU, with whom he remained 
one year, after which he continued his studies 
for an equal length of time in tiie office of Ran- 
ney & Ranney. in the fall of 1883 he entered 
the senior class of the law school of the Univer- 
sity of Michigan, at Ann Arl^or, and graduated 
at that institution in March, 1884, at which time 
he was admitted to practice at the Michigan 
bar. Returning to Ohio, he was admitted to 
the Ohio bar, at Columbus, in May of that year. 
He forthwith engaged in the practice of his 
profession in Cleveland, devoting his attention 
principally to the settlement of estates. In this 
line of practice he appeared chiefly l)efore the 
probate court, though his general practice was 
of some extent. 

In July of 1887 he accepted the position as 
secretary and treasurer of the Case School of 
Applied Science, to the discharge of the func- 



tions of which incumbency he has since devoted 
his attention. The school, whose work is one of 
great practical value, was endowed by his cousin, 
Leonard Case, and the institution holds high 
rank among those of similar province in tlie 
Union. 

Politically Mr, Case is a Democrat. He is a 
thirty-second-degree Mason, and from 1887 to 
1890 held the position as Secretary of the Scot- 
tish Rite bodies of Cleveland. He is a member 
of the Greek fraternity, the Phi Delta Phi. 

Mr. Case is a man of fair education, having 
graduated at Ann Arbor with the degree of 
Bachelor of Laws, and having been closely identi- 
fied with the Case School of Applied Science he 
has done much effective work in advancing the 
cause not only of science but of education in 
general. 



DM. CALKINS.-One of the oldest em- 
I ployees of the " Big Four " Rnilroad 
— ' Company, located at Cleveland, is its 
general baggage agent, D. M. Calkins. He 
became a railway employee as early as 1854, as 
brakeman on the Cleveland & Sandusky lluil- 
road, now a part of the Lake Shore & Michigan 
Southern railroad system. He broke one year 
on a mixed train from Cleveland to Sandubky, 
and then secured a regular run from this city 
to Toledo, as train baggageman, remaining four 
years, retiring in 1857 with S. F. Tinney, master 
of transportation, and entering the service of 
the St. Louis, Alton & Terre Haute Railroad as 
train baggageman. In tiie fall of 1858 Mr. 
Calkins returned to Cleveland and liegau rail- 
roading again, this time for the Cleveland A: 
Columbus Railroad as freight brakeman, which 
he continued till the breaking of his arm by ac- 
cident at Shelby one year later. Recovering, 
he was made check recorder at the old pa.sseiiger 
depot in Cleveland, and served till just about 
the close of tiie war, when he was apnointcd 
depot baggage agent. In this capacity he ren- 
dered service until 1876, when he was promoted 
as general baggage agent of the Cleveland, 



404 



CUYAWJOA GOUNTT. 



Culuinbiis, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railroad, 
since made the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago 
& St. Louis Railroad, or more familiarly the 
'' Big Four." 

Mr. Calkins was born in Jefierson county. 
New York, June 10, 1836. His father, Amos 
Calkins, was a farmer and instructed his son in 
the husbandman's art until 1852, when he 
brought his family West and located them in 
Cleveland, where our subject attended the St. 
Clair school for about two years. Amos Calk- 
ins returned to New York in 1880 and died in 
Jefferson county, New York, in 1888, at the age 
of seventy-two. lie married Susan, the daugh- 
ter of Mark Adams, originally a New Englander 
from Connecticut. Mrs. Calkins died in 1851. 
She was the mother of three childien, two of 
whom lived to maturity, D. M. and Mrs. Mary 
Nichols, who died in New York in 1889. 

September 1, 1860, D. M. Calkins married, 
in Mentor, Ohio, Maria M. Fenton, whose 
father, Horace Fenton, was a builder of this 
city. Two children were born of this union, a 
son and a daughter: Jay Bert, a clerk of the 
general baggage agent; and Nellie. 

Fraternally Mr. Calkins is P. M. of Cleveland 
City Lodge, No. 15, A. F. & A. M., a member 
of Webb Chapter, No. 14. and of Ilolyrood 
Commandery, No. 32, Kniglit Templars. 



II. BUSIINELL.— The Bushnell fauiily 
trace their ancestry to 1689, and number 
among its members many noted people. 
William Fitch Bushnell was born at Lisbon, 
Connecticut, November 18, 1793. lie was mar- 
ried in 1815, to Jane Parisii, who died in 1829, 
leaving him with six children. lie was married 
to Betsey Wood, in 1830, by whom he had two 
children. In 1836 they came from Rome, New 
York, and located on a farm two miles south- 
west of Independence, Ohio, on which a small 
clearing had been made. After arriving at In- 
dependence they spent the night in a small log 
cabin, which was located ou land now included 



in the cemetery, and Mr. and Mrs. Bushnell 
were afterwai-d buried almost on the same spot. 
He died November 20, 1877, and Mrs. Bush- 
nell survived until 1885. Of his eight children, 
the first. Dr. Andrew L. Bushnell, sleeps in an 
honored grave in Cincinnati, the beloved phys- 
ician, the earnest advocate of education, temper- 
ance, and the friend of the poor. The second 
son, Albert, was a missionary to Africa for 
thirty years, and died on the Guinea coast. His 
third son, William A., was connected with P. 
T. Barnum, also accompanied Jennie Lind in 
her tour of this country. He was married to 
Catherine Hayes, and now sleeps in his lonely 
grave in the south of France. Francis Wright, 
who had an honorable name in Oberlin as a 
Christian, early entered into rest. His fifth son, 
Simeon Martin, will long be remembered as the 
friend of the slave. For rescuing one he suf- 
fered long in prison, bis health was impaired and 
he died in 1861, at Oberlin. His daughter, 
Mrs. Jane E. Fitch, is now living at Brooklyn, 
New York; George C. is still living on the old 
homestead in this county. 

The youngest son, Charles Henry, was born 
May 29, 1840, and died March 12, 1892. He 
received his education in the common schools, 
and at Oberlin College, after which he taught 
for a number of years. September 12, 1862, he 
enlisted for services in the late war, entering 
the Hoffman Battalion, which was afterward 
merged into the One Hundred and Twenty- 
eighth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 
The regiment was stationed at Johnson Island 
to guard the Rebel prisoners. At the close of 
the war he returned home and was engaged in 
school -teaching until he embarked in the mer- 
cantile business. He was Deputy County 
Treasurer of Cuyahoga county for twelve years. 

September 14, 1861, he was united in mar- 
riage with Jerusha C. Kinsley, a daughter of 
Prentice Kinsley, who was born September 5, 
1801, and who came from Middlel>ury, Ver- 
mont, to Vienna, Trumbull county, Ohio, in 
1832. He traveled over the Western Reserve 
as a Methodist minister. In 1863 he embarked 



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ill the grocery business in Cleveland, but in 
1869 engaged in the same occupation at Inde- 
pendence. He afterward sold his store to Mr. 
Bushnell, with whom he made his home until 
his death, November 20, 1887. He was married 
January 12, 1824, to Ruby M. Aiken, who was 
born at Barnard, Vermont, Fel)ruary 28, 1803, 
and died at Independence, Ohio, June 1, 1858. 
Mr. and Mrs. Kinsley had three children: Ruby 
A., Alma S. and Jerusha C. Mr. and Mrs. 
Bushnell had two children: Mary L., who was 
married December 1, 1886, to Fred W. Merkle, 
and Jennie E., who was married September 30, 
18!)1, to Leonard Merkle, who now owns the 
store, representing the third generation. Mr. 
and Mrs. Fred W. Merkle also have two chil- 
dren: Florence Bushnell and Charles Henry. 

Mr. Bushnell was a Republican in political 
matters. The family are members of the Pres- 
byterian Church. 



LEWIS FORD, formerly a farmer and 
I later a gardener, and residing at 51 May- 
1 field street, Cleveland, was born in Cum- 

mington, Hampshire county, Massachusetts, 
February 20, 1806. His parents, Hezekiah 
and Huldah (Cobb) Ford, were both natives of 
the Bay State: the father, a farmer, died at the 
age of eighty-nine years, and his father, also 
named Hezekiah, lived to be ninety-one years 
old. Mr. Ford's mother died September 11, 
1835, at the age of seventy-one years. Mr. 
Ford is the youngest of nine children, five of 
whom died in early life. Ansel, who was born 
in 1788, died December 21, 1858; Darius and 
Cyrus, twins, burn May 16, 1790; Darius died 
April 6, 1859, and Cyrus, the father of Horace 
and Francis Ford, died April 13, 1864. These 
sons all emigrated to Ohio previous to 1853. 

Mr. Lewis Ford, the only one of the family 
•now living, was a farmer in Massachusetts, a 
Selectman (Trustee), taught school some five 
terms, — in which calling he succeeded well, as 
one of his pupils (bis wife) can testify! He 



was married September 11, 1832, to Miss 
Christia B. Lyman, daughter of John C. and 
Susan (Burgess) Lyman, of Massachusetts. She 
was born in May, 1805. Their cliildren were: 

The first-born died unnamed. 

John, who died at the age of sixteen months. 

John (second), born November 19, 1835, is 
the only one still living. He married Nancy 
Phillips, of East Cleveland. 

Lewis, born July 1, 1837, died June 7, 1854, 
from an injury received on the railway'. 

Frank James, born August 2, 1839, died 
June 26, 1876. He married Letitia Smith and 
had one child, Ida, now the wife of Alfred Plant. 

Orville D., born October 2, 1840, died Octo- 
ber 6, 1879, in Colorado, on his way home from 
Utah, where he had mining interests. He mar- 
ried Elizabeth Maxwell, and their three children 
are Lyman A., and Florence E. and Flora A., 
twins, who died at ten years of ago. 

EUery C, born April 27, 1842, died January 
31, 1888. He married Miss Julia Prentice, 
and Clara, wife of Charles Nesbit, is their only 
child. WhileastudentatOberlinCollego,in 1861, 
EUery C. enlisted as a private and served during 
the war, in the infantry, and returned from the 
Held a Colonel, having been promoted li(M;ause 
of conspicuous acts of gallantry on the field of 
battle. After leaving the army he was ap- 
pointed to a clerkship in the General Land 
Office at Washington, District of Columbia, 
ultimately becoming Chief of the Mineral 
Division, some years ago resigned and enteied 
on the practice of law, in connection with land 
cases, and had great success, being an expert in 
land matters, and finally died in Le Droit Park, in 
Washington, from disease having its origin in 
army life. He was a prominent Mason, attaining 
to the highest honors in the gift of his brethren : 
he was an exceedingly popular man. Frank James 
also enlisted for the war at the same time, also 
as a private, being previously a member of 
the Cleveland Grays, and was promoted from 
rank to rank until he became Major. He 
served during the war and died from disease 
contracted in the arujy. fdii Plnut has one 



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child, Frankie, wbo is now (1893) four years of 
age; she is tlie great-grandchild of the sul)ject 
of this sketch, and t!ie only one.. 

The laotlier of these children died July 29, 
186-4, and Mr. Ford, for his second wife, mar- 
ried, April 7, 1871, Mrs. Florintha Bates, 
widow of the late Isaac Bates, of Masaachu- 
setts, and daughter of Jacob and Olive Whit- 
marsli, of the same State. She had two chil- 
dren by Mr. Bates, who died September 22, 
1802, at the age of fifty-two years; these chil- 
dren are Theodore M., who married Olive Cozad 
and has four children,— Clifford W., Eosamond, 
Stanlee T., and Eussell C. ; and Newton W., 
who married Gertrude Cassell. Mrs. Ford's 
first husband was Veren Dawes, and by her first 
marriage she had two children, — Martha L. and 
Charles W.: the former died in 1888, Hged 
fifty years, and the latter is a resident of Cutn- 
mington, Massachushusetts. Mr. Dawes died 
Xovember 28, 1843. 

Mr. Ford, our subject, and his wife are Itoth 
members of the Congregational Churcii. lie is 
an ardent Eepublican, and one of the best of 
men. Being nearly eighty-eight years of age, 
he is becoming blind, luit his mind is clear and 
is as jovial as most men are at forty. 



llEEMAN L. MOEGAX, a farmer and 
l| stock dealer, was born in the house 
^ where lie still resides, No. 221 Union 
street, November 4, 1832, a son of 
Youngs L. and Caroline (Thomas) Morgan, 
natives of Connecticut. 

The founder of the family in America, James 
Morgan, came from Wales in 1640, and located 
in Connecticut. Our subject's grandfather, 
Youngs L. Morgan, and his wife's grandfather. 
Major Minor Spicer, were from the same local- 
ity in Connecticut. The two families, also the 
Fish family, came in covered wagons to Ohio 
in 1811, and were thirty-six days on the road. 
Y I'.ings M >rgan and his sjns purchasedjthree 



farms from General Perkins, the agent of the 
Connecticut Land Company, where they spent 
the remainder of their lives. Youngs L. Mur- 
gan, Jr., the father of our subject, was born in 
Connecticut, October 3, 1797. In September, 
1811, he came to Ohio, locating on the farm 
where our subject still resides. Occasionally, 
from 1814 to 1818, he cut and sold wood where 
Long, Ch;im;ilain and Michigan streets are now 
located, wiiich he exchanged for boots, shoes 
and clothing. He assisted in clearing Broad- 
way, and was foreman of 200 men during the 
construction of the Oliio canal. In 1822 Mr. 
Morgan engaged in the fur trade with Jolin 
Jacob Astor, went to the Lake of the Woods, 
wliere their sleds were drawn by dogs, also trav- 
eled 500 miles on snow shoes without seeing a 
white man! They were obliged to kill their 
dogs for food, and afterward gave SoO for a 
bushel of corn I 

Mr. Morgan was a cousin of Senator Edwin 
Morgan, who will be remembered as having 
come to the rescue of Senator Charles Sumner 
when brutally attacked by Senator Brooks, of 
South Carolina. Mr. Morgan was a warm 
friend of Garfield, and the latter partook of his 
hospitality while preaching or speaking in cam- 
paigns in Ohio. Youngs Morgan was married 
September 25, 1828, to Caroline Thomas, a 
daughter of Anthony and Mary Thomas. The 
father died in New York, and the mother in 
Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Morgan had five 
children, three of whom died young. One son, 
C. C. Morgan, is engaged in the real-estate 
business in Cleveland. Youngs Morgan died 
June 22, 1888, aged ninety-one years. Ilis 
widow still resides in this city, aged eighty-five 
years. 

n^rinan L., the subject of this sketch, was 
reared on a farm, and received his education at 
Hiram College. After leaving the college he 
returned to the old homestead, remaining there 
until it became a part of the city of Cleveland, 
and has since l)een engaged in the real-estate 
business. For the past six years he has been 
Trustee of Hiram College, aud is also a mem- 



CUrAllOOA COUNTY. 



ber of the Cleveland Disciple Union, which as- 
sists in the establishing and care of chnrches not 
self-snpporting. 

Ml'. Morgan was married September 30, 
1857, to Miss Sarah H. Smith, who was born in 
Akron, Ohio, November 28, 1838, a daughter of 
Warren H. and Lydia Smith, members of old 
Coimecticut families. The father was born in 
that State, and came to Ohio witli his parents, 
Moses and Sarah Smith, in 1826. The mother 
came to this State in 1811, and is still living, 
aged eiglitj-tliree years. Mr. and Mrs. Smith 
had two children. Their son, Harrison D., is a 
well-known wholesale confectionery manufac- 
turer of Cincinnati. He married Kate Bevis, a 
member of an old family of that city, and they 
have two daughters, — Eleanor and Catherine. 
Mr. and Mrs. Morgan have had five children, 
three now living: Cora M., wife of Noyes P. 
Gallup, who was born and raised in the same 
locality in Connecticut as the Morgans, and is 
now an insurance agent of Cleveland; Alice 
M., wife of W. Guenther, an attorney of this 
city, and they have one son, P. Morgan; and 
Julia Katherine, at home. Two sons died in 
infancy. The family are members of the Chris- 
tian Church, in which both Mr. Morgan and 
his father have held the ofiice of Elder. In 
political matters, Mr. Morgan votes with the 
Republican pai'ty. 



lyjff M. SPANGLER, a malt manufacturer, 

11 ^ Cleveland, Ohio, was born in Stark 
"^ county, this State, October 6, 1813, son 

of Michael and Elizabeth (Miller) Spangler. 
His father, a native of Pennsylvania, came by 
wagon from York county, that State, to Ohio in 
1800, and was among the early pioneers of the 
Western Reserve. He followed farming until 
1819, when he came to Cleveland, at that time 
a town of about 200 inhabitants; and became 
proprietor of the tavern known as The Com- 
mercial, on Superior street, where the Miller 



block now stands. This tavern he conducted 
until he retired from active labor, when he pur- 
chased a farm in East Cleveland, where he 
spent the closing years of his life, and died in 

1838, al the age of fifty-six. His wife was 
born in the State of Mai-yland, and lived to the 
advanced age of ninety-one years. She died in 
Cleveland in 1880. They were the parents of 
six children, namely: Margaret, who married 
Joseph K. Miller; Catharine, wife of William 
Lemon; M. M., our subject; Captain Bazil L.; 
Mary, wife of Thomas Lemon; and Harriet, 
unmarried. M. M. is the only one of this fam- 
ily who is now living. Bazil L., a merchant by 
occupation, was a Quartermaster during the late 
war. His death occurred in 1885, at the age 
of sixty-nine years. 

M. M. Spangler followed the hatter's trade 
for a number of years. In 1837 he engaged in 
merchandising at Monroe, Michigan, and sub- 
sequently returned to Cleveland and entered the 
coal trade. During the years 1841-'42 he served 
as Treasurer of Cleveland township. He was 
City Treasurer two years, Chief Engineer of the 
Fire Department three years, and a member of 
the Council from the Third ward. Although a 
stanch Republican, he was elected from a strong 
Democratic community. Nor are these all the 
public positions he filled. In 1854 he was 
made Sheriff of Cuyahoga county, which ofiice 
he held two terms. It w^as during his incum- 
bency that Parks was hung for the murder of a 
man in Summit county. Since retiring from 
that office, Mr. Spangler has been engaged in 
the manufacture of malt. 

Mr. Spangler was married, November 29, 

1839, to Miss Deboi-a Ann Potts, who was born 
at Niagara, Canada, in 1820, daughter of 
Richard Potts. She is a memlier of the Epiph- 
any Church, of Cleveland. Fraternally, Mr. 
Spangler is identified with the F. & A. M. and 
the I. O. O. F. 

George M., the only son of M. M. and Deb- 
ora Ann Spangler, was born in 1842. He at- 
tended the public schools of his native city, 
Cleveland, and afterward the Hnmiston In- 



cutjUioga county. 



stitiite on the Heights. After completing his 
education he was employed as clerk in a whole- 
sale shoe store. He was Jnst merging into 
maniiood when the war broke out, and May 20, 
18(52, he enlisted as a member of Company E, 
Eighty fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He 
served on picket and garrison duty at Harper's 
Ferry for three months. In May, 1864, he re- 
enlisted in Company F, One Hundred and Fif- 
tieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was ap- 
pointed Third Sergeant of his company. He was 
in the fortilica'tions at Washington when the 
Rebels attempted to take the city, and was with 
his regiment on guai-d froTii the Potomac to 
Georgetown. After his 100-day .service expired, 
Mr. Spangler i-eturned to Cleveland. He con- 
tinued to clerk until 1809. That year he re- 



ceived an 



appoi 



lent in the Assessor's otHce, 



and subsequently was in the Internal Revenue 
otHce of this city. Four years later he resumed 
the position of clerk in Captain Paddock's store. 
In 1878 the firm of Holly & Spangler was 
formed, and for two years did a successful busi- 
ness, dealing in hats, caps and furs. At the 
eiid of that time Mr. Spangler disposed of his 
interest in the store, and has since been engaged 
with his father in the manufacture of malt, 
under the firm name of M. M. it George M. 
Spangler. 

George M. Spangler was married in 1868 to 
Miss Ella A. Kinney, a native of Rensselaer 
county, New York. They have two sons: 
Kinney M., who married Clara Belle DeForest, 
of Rens.selaer county, New York; and George 
M., Jr., a student in the Spencerian Business 
College. 



w 



\ILLIAM AIKEN, deceased, was for 
many years a prominent fanner and 
highly repected citizen of Cuyahoga 
county, Ohio. He was born in Middlesex 
county, Connecticut, May 6, 1808, and when 
four years of age was brought by his parents, 
George and Tamson (^Iliggins) Aiken, to the 
county in which he spent tiie rest of his life and 



died. It was in 1812 that they came here, and 
their settlement was at what is now Brooklyn. 
George Aiken was born August 4, 1706, and 
departed this life February 18, 1844; and his 
wife, born November 7, 1768, lacked one day 
of being ninety-one years old at the time of her 
death. Their children, all now deceased, were 
as follows: Serel, Jerad, Irad, Julia, Lnry, Caro- 
line and William. 

William Aiken and his brother bought 114 
acres of land in the vicinity of tlie Infirmary, 
the ground occupied by that institution also 
being included in the tract, the purchase price 
of this tract being ten shillings per acre. Si.xty 
acres of this land were sold in 1891 for $00,000. 
Indeed the whole tract has been sold and is now 
occupied by beautiful homes, forming one of 
the most delightful portions of the city. Here 
the subject of our sketch spent nearly the whole 
of his life. His death occurred April 10,1875, 
aged sixty- seven years. He was well known 
throughout the county, and all who knew him 
respected him for his many sterling qualities of 
mind and heart. In politics he took little in- 
terest, and never sought or accepted office, but 
his vote was always cast with the Rejiublican 
party. 

Mr. Aiken was married March 6, 1832, to 
Miss Betsey Clark, who was born May 17, 
1812, daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Cole) 
Clark, natives of Connecticut. Her father died 
in that State in June, 1831, aged sixty-four 
years; and her mother passed away in 1833, 
also at the age of sixty-four. Mr. and Mrs. 
Clark were the parents of ten children, viz.: 
Joseph, who married Clarissa Dickinson; Corey, 
who married Mary Skinner; Diodate, who mar- 
ried Caroline Aiken, a sister of William Aiken; 
Mary, wife of Joseph Brainard; Phebe, wife of 
Warren Ely; Lydia, wife of Sylvanus Brooks; 
Hannah, second wife of Sylvanus Brooks; Ruth, 
wife of Isaac Robinson; Maria, wife of Erastus 
Smith; and Betsey. Mrs. Betsey Aiken is the 
only one of this family who survives. She is 
the mother of seven children, as follows: An- 
drew, further mention of whom is found in an- 



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other sketch; Harrison, wlio married Hattie 
Bets and has two children, is engaged in farm- 
ing in Portage county, Ohio; Hannah, wife of 
Hubbard Hill, Wisconsin, lias nine children; 
Caroline, wife of Harrison James, Cleveland, 
has three children: George, who has been twice 
married — first to a Miss James and after her 
death to Jane Cowen — has seven children, his 
hoine being in Cleveland; Eugene, who is mar- 
ried and living iti the West; and Nellie. One 
son, Irad, died at the age of two years. 

Mrs. Betsey Aiken represents the old Clark 
family in honor of whom Clark avenue, in 
Cleveland, is named. She is growing old 
gracefully, and although she has now readied 
her eightieth mile-post she is still young in 
feeling and sympathy. Her circle of friends is 
as large as lier circle of acquaintances, and as 
one of the most worthy of pioneer women of 
Cleveland she is held in the hiffhest esteem. 



T[J|ENEY P. FOOTE, a farmer of Dover 
Ip-j township, is a son of the late Ransom 
II ^ Foote, who was born in Lee, Berkshire 
^ county, Massachusetts, February 15, 

1803, and was brought by his father, David 
Foote, in 1815, to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, who 
settled in the northwestern part of Dover town- 



sh 



and lived tin 



until his death. On 



arriving at the estate of manhood Mr. Ransom 
Foote married, March 28, 1824, Miss Catherine 
Porter, who was born in Waterbury, Con- 
necticut, November IG, 1806. and whose father, 
Asahel Porter, emigrated to this State in 1810, 
settling also in Dover township. Mr. Ransom 
Foote continued to reside on the old homestead 
of his father until his death, which occurred 
October 11, 1846. His wife died April 6, 
1886. They had twelve children, namely: 
Lavias H., deceased; Betsey, deceased; Ran- 
som; Angeline, deceased; Laura, the widow of 
Alfred G. Bright; Emeline, the wife of Thomas 
Liggett, of Cleveland; Asahel; Catharine; 



Maryette, widow of David Miller; Statira, de- 
ceased; Henry P., our subject; Abigail, the 
widow of Thomas Niles. 

Mr. Foote, whose name heads this sketch, 
was born in Dover township April 21, 1844; 
was reared on his father's farm, and has all his 
life resided in his native township excepting 
the seven years he lived in Berea. He attended 
Baldwin University at Berea three years. 
Farming is his occupation, and he owns eighty- 
eight acres of the old homestead. He has been 
active in local offices, as well as in ofKcial rela- 
tions ill the Methodist Episcopal Church. 



'ip^i OBERT LAW, one of the prominent 
k^ and well to-do farmers of Mayfield 
Jj ¥^1 township, Cuyahoga county, is ranked 
V with the self-made men of the county. 

Mr. Law was born in Belfast, Ireland, July 
4, 1824, son of David Law, also a native of 
that place. David Law was a miller by trade, 
which he followed on the Emerald Isle for 
several years. About 1835 he emigrated to 
America, and located on a frontier farm in 
Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and here in the midst 
of the forest he built a log cabin and settled 
down to agricultural pursuits. His wife, nee 
Alice Willis, was also a native of Ireland. Both 
died a few years after coming to this country, 
he at the age of fifty-fonr years, and she at 
forty-five. They wei-e the parents of nine chil- 
dren, five sons and four daughters, all of whom 
reached adult years, Robert being the sixth child 
and youngest son. 

As above stated, Mr. Law is a self-made man. 
When he was fourteen years old he started out 
to make his way in the world as a sailor, and 
ere long was promoted to the position of chief 
mate on a sailing vessel, running between New 
York and China. He also ran between other 
ports, and followed the sea for a number of 
years, up to 1851, when he came back to Cuya- 
hoga county, Ohio, and located in Mayfield 
townsliip. Here he bought the farm upon 



CUrAUOOA GOUNTV. 



wliicli he now resides, it being but little im- 
proved at that time. Here his earnest efforts 
liave been attended with success, and while he 
has been successful he has also met with mis- 
fortunes. In 1879 he was burned out and sus- 
tained a loss of about .1j'10,000. Previous to 
this time he had for twenty-two years run a 
large cheese factory, making as liigh as a thou- 
sand cheese one moutii and no less than 9,000 
pounds of butter. His farm comprises 233 
acres of choice land, and its improvements are 
among the best in the township. He built his 
commodious and elegant residence in 1889, at a 
cost of S1,000. 

Mr. Law was married in 1852 to Henrietta 
Clark, a native of St. Lawrence county, New 
\ ork, wiio camc! to Oiiio when she was quite 
young. They had nine children, seven daugh- 
ters and two sons: Ida, wife of A. A. Jerome, 
of Maylield township, this county; Florence, at 
home; Eudora, wife of Fred Silsby, of East 
Cleveland; Carrie, wife of George Tinker, of 
Maxville, Ohio; Ilattie, at home; Arthur, de- 
ceased; Willis, deceased; Fannie, deceased; and 
Nettie, wife of John Thompson, of Green Oak, 
Michigan. All were born on tlie farm on which 
Mr. Law now lives. Mrs. Law departed this 
life August 10, 1890. She was a woman of 
many sterling qualities, was a faithful member 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was 
loved by all who knew her. Mr. Law and his 
family are also members of the Methodist 
Clnirch. 

Politically, Mr. Law was a Democrat before 
the war, but since then has i)cen identified with 
the Ilepiiblican party. 



SAMUEL GYNN, a representative farmer 
j of IJrecksville township, was born Sep- 
- — tember 20, 1835 in iruntingtonshirc, 
England, in the town of St. Ives. His father, 
James Gynn, was a brickniaker liy trade, and 
married Mary .V. Hani, who also was a native 
of the same shire. 



Mr. Gynn, our subject, received a common- 
school education and learned the trade of his 
father. At the age of nineteen, in the spring 
of 1854, he emigrated to the United States, sail- 
ing from Liverpool, England, on the ship De 
Witt Clinton, and landing at New York, and 
being seven weeks on the ocean. His brother 
had previously come to this country, locating in 
Cleveland, and, accompanied by another brother, 
Henry, he came on to this city. Samuel secured 
work ill the brickyard of William Mail, which 
was in Irwin's Gull, and continued there two 
years. Then he and two brothers, Llenry and 
John, struck out in the brick-manufacturing 
business for themselves, near the site of the old 
paper-mill, where they continued for three 
years. Samuel next started in business for him- 
self, at the corner of Clark and Burton avenues, 
on the West Side, in Cleveland, and continued 
there for thirteen years, enjoying good success. 
From being a poor boy he has reached a com- 
petence. 

His long cherished desire to i)ecome a farmer 
at length prompted him to purchase a farm, and 
in 1873 he came to Brecksville and purchased 
211 acres of John Brainley, at a cost of 87,500, 
moved upon the place and has ever since occu- 
pied it, enjoying success in his favorite calling, 
the most honorable of all. His pleasant resi- 
dence is situated on a considerable elevation 
above other dwellings in the neighborhood, and 
from his beautiful place an inspiring view of 
magnificent distances can be had. He has made 
all his property by his own efforts, as when he 
first came to (Meveland he had not a cent. In 
his views of national issues he sides with the 
Republican party, taking great interest in the 
nation's welfai'e, although he is no seeker of 
office for himself. He and his estimable lady 
are members of the Congregational Church. 

May 0, 1850, in Cleveland, he married Mar- 
tha Brainley, who was born May 7, 1839, in 
Nottinghamshire, England, a daughter of 
Matthew and Sarah (Aldershaw) Bramley, who 
emigrated to this country in 1844, being four- 
teen weeks on tlie ocean: the vessel was report- 



GUTAtlOGA COUNTY. 



eil as lost with all on board. Mr. Gynn's 
children are: Sarah, now Mrs. William Palmer, 
of Cleveland; Mattie, who married William 
Kennedy, now also of Cleveland; Samuel, Jr., 
Julia, Arthur, Asa and Nellie. Sam nel married 
Winniefred Star, of Brecksville. All the un- 
married children still make their home with 
their parents. 



fl( RTIIUE ADAMS.— Few if any of 
i/j\ Brecksville's old citizens are better 
jj ^ known than the gentleman whose name 
' heads this sketch. Ilis long residence 

in the township, with his many dealings with 
the public, has given him a wide and favorable 
acquaintance. He was l)orn April 18, 1831, in 
Richfield township. Summit county, Ohio, which 
joins Brecksville township, this county. 

His father, AugHstus Adams, was born in 
Litchfield county, Connecticut, where he re- 
ceived a meager education and was partly reared 
on a farm. In his youth he began to learn the 
blacksm'ith's trade, at Torrington, Connecticut, 
and nearly completed his apprenticeship. In 
1814, he ])ought the remainder of his time as 
apprentice for $50, giving his note, went to 
New Haven and worked a while in a Govern- 
ment factory there, where they manufactured 
cannon carriages; next he went to Goshen and 
"set up shop" awhile, and then started for the 
" far distant West," arriving in Richfield town- 
ship, Summit county, Ohio, to seek broader 
fields of opportunity for his fortune. lie traveled 
with a wagon and one small horse, bringing his 
tools. His journey was a tedious one, beset 
with many obstacles and disappointments, which 
disciplined his wit and patience. Just before 
reaching his destination he found it necessary 
to cut down trees that stood defiantly in the 
way of his little horse and wagon. Arriving at 
his destination in Ohio, he " set up shop " and 
])rospered in his work. 

The next important event in liis life was liis 
choice of a wife, namely. Miss Polly Farnham, 
a native of Connecticut who iiad come to Rich- 



field with her parents, John and wife. Her 
father "took up" 1,200 acres in that township. 
But Mrs. Adams died in 184G, being laid at rest 
ill Richfield township, after she had become the 
mother of four children, namely: Mary, who 
married Dr. Monson and died in Independence 
township, Cuyahoga county; Phoebe, now Mrs. 
John Noble of Brecksville township, and 
Arthur, the subject of this sketch; besides 
Eliza, who died in infancy. After the death of 
his wife Mr. Adams returned to Connecticut 
and married a widow, Mrs. Anna Barber. 

In 1833 Mr. Adams moved into Brecksville 
township, purchasing over 325 acres of timber 
land, in its primitive State, and located in the 
soutliern part of the township. Naturally a 
a blacksmith-shop was among the first imjjrove- 
ments upon this property, and in a short time 
he was known far and near as a good workman 
and of absolute necessity to the wants of the 
growing pioneer community. He had therefore 
a large and prosperous business. To obtain the 
iron required in his work he made a trip to 
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, which required many 
days to accomplish, the iron being brought by 
canal. In later years he abandoned his trade 
and gave his attention to farming, which he fol- 
lowed during his active life. After he quit 
manual labor at the anvil he assumed the part 
of director of the work there. His death oc- 
curred in 1884, and he now sleeps in Center 
cemetery. Politically he was a Whig and Re- 
publican, being well informed and decided in his 
views, and was a regular attendant at the 
elections. He was bitterly opposed to the use 
of intoxicants, and never would even allow any 
of them to be used at "bees," or industrial 
gatherings. He was a zealous member of the 
Congregational Church. At his trade he had 
few equals and no superiors: was a highly re- 
spected citizen every way, and was a self-made 
man in every sense of the word. After his 
death his widow survived a number of years, 
and died at Urbana, Ohio, in 1889. 

Mr. Arthur Adams, whose name introduces 
tin? sketch, attended Twinsl)urg (Ohio) Aca<l- 



CUYAUOGA COUNT!-. 



cadeiny two years, when Professor Samuel Bis- 
sell was at its bead. Xatii rally a mechanic, lie 
exliibited a great degree of aptitude at the trade 
of carpentry, and by practice developed a 
tliorongh knowledge of the trade. After his 
marriage he located on the farm which he now 
occupies and owns, and followed agricultural 
pursuits, in addition to some carpentry work. 
He has erected many bnidings in his neighbor- 
hood, and some even beyond the limits of his 
community; but in 1870 he abandoned this 
trade and has since given his attention more 
exclusively to fanning. His farm comprises 
108 acres, and lies two and a half miles south 
of Brecksville Center. For himself he erected 
one of the largest barns in the township. He 
is a good and successful farmer. In politics he 
is a stanch Republican, and in religion both 
himself and wife are members of the Congre- 
gational Church. 

January 1, 18G3, he married Miss Diana E. 
Green, who was born January 24, 1843, in Illi- 
nois, a daughter of Harvey and Catharine 
(Parker) Green, who came to Independence 
township when their daughter was a child. Mr. 
and Mrs. Adams' children are: Harvey A., of 
Atlanta, Georgia: Arthur G., at home; Grace, 
of Painesville (Ohio) Seminary; Earl F., a 
school-teacher; and Rnba J., at home. 



FPtANK PJELEY, president of the Brook- 
lyn Building & Loan Association, was 
^ born in Cleveland, Ohio, December 11, 
1842, son of Hugh Rieley. The elder Mr. 
Ricley, a maltster by trade, came to this city 
from Buffalo, New York, in 1838. He was 
born in Ireland in 1813 and died in Cleveland 
in 1882. He and his wife were the parents of 
seven childien, four of whom survive, viz.: 
Mrs. Alfred Tilton, Cleveland; the subject of 
this sketch; Hugh, Colorado; and T. A., Cleve- 
land. 

Frank Rieley remained with his father until 
he was sixteen years of age, when he began 
learning the trade of carriage painter. When 



the Civil war came on he joined the Union 
army, becoming a private in Company I, Third 
Ohio Cavalry, and with the Army of the Cum- 
berland saw service in Kentucky, Tennessee, 
Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, being a par- 
ticipant in many of the prominent engagements 
of the war. He was taken prisoner at Lexing- 
ton, Kentucky, by Morgan's men, but made his 
escape on the field and rejoined his regiment. 
At the close of the Atlanta campaign, in which 
he was engaged, he returned to Louisville, 
Kentucky, for horses for the army. After 
some other special service he joined his regi- 
ment at Macon, Georgia, from which point he 
was sent North and was mustered out August 
15, 1865. During his service he was pro- 
moted from the rank of private to that of first 
sergeant. 

After leaving the army Mr. Rieley was for 
eighteen months engaged in work at his trade. 
Then he turned his attention to the grocery 
business, and a few months later to the coal 
business, under the firm name of Ackley & 
Rieley. Two years after this, in coinpany witli 
Charles Geib, he engaged in the carriage busi- 
ness. The following year brought about a 
change w'hereby Mr. Rieley engaged in malt- 
ing, which he continued five years, or until he 
was elected Street Commissioner in 1879. He 
served as Street Commissioner four years, and 
was at the same time a member of the Board of 
Improvement. In 1883 he engaged in con- 
tracting, paving and sewering in partnership 
with Luke Brennan, which business relation 
existed until 1890, when Mr. Rieley became in- 
terested in the Northern Ohio Paving & Con- 
struction Co., as superintendent. He resigned 
his position in the spring of 1891 to accept the 
office of Deputy Director of Public Works for 
the city, being appointed as such by R. R. Iler- 
rick, and serving under him until May, 1893, 
when a new administration brought about 
change in office. He has since been engaged in 
contracting. 

In 1878 Mr. Rieley was elected to the City 
('onncil from the old Twelfth ward, on the Re- 



CUYAHOOA COUNTY. 



publican ticket, and while a member of tliat 
body rendered most efficient service. He re- 
signed from the Council to accept tlie office of 
Street Commissioner. Mr. Rieley is a real- 
estate owner in the city, and is president of the 
Walworth Run Foundry Co. 

He was married December 25, 1809, to Mary 
A. Pritchard, of Geneva, Ohio. Their children 
are Charles F. and Oliver E,. 

Mr. Rieley is a member of Army and Navy 
Post, G. A. 'r. 



/George a. sciilatterbeck, 

I T/ a leading member of German circles in 
V?^ this city, is justly entitled to the space 
that has been accorded him in this vol- 
ume, lie was born in Bavaria, Germany, Sep- 
tember 7, 1829, a son of John M. and Rosina 
Schlatterbeck. His boyhood and youth were 
passed in his native land, where he received a 
good education in the common schools. Am- 
bitious to make a place for himself in the world 
he came to America at the age of twenty-three 
years, and after landing on these shores pro- 
ceeded directly to Cleveland, Ohio, where he 
has since resided. 

Being without means on his arrival in Cleve- 
land, he embraced the first opportunity to earn 
a livelihood by carrying brick up the building 
at the corner of Water and St. Clair streets, 
then in course of construction. He then 
worked in a brickyard, where the Standard Oil 
Works are now located, until cold weather set 
in, when he obtained employment on a farm in 
Newburg. In November, the same year, he 
obtained a position with P. M. Weddell, in this 
city, for whom he worked for eighteen months. 
He then commenced to work at the carpenter 
trade, and worked for the same contractor on 
house work for over six years, when he went 
into the Cleveland & Pittsburg car shops, 
where he stayed over five years, and after some 
six months' work in the shops of the Lake 
Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad he started 
out as a contractor. 



He conducted an important and extensive 
business until 1874, when he was elected 
County Commissioner on the Liberal Demo- 
cratic ticket. Himself a Republican in politics, 
he was afterward elected to the office by his 
own party, serving fifteen years in this respon- 
sible position. He is a man of broad public 
spirit and discharged his duties with rare 
fidelity. He continued to carry on his private 
business upon a diminished scale, but the de- 
mands of the office increased from year to year 
until all personal enterprises were abandoned. 
Retiring from public life in 1890, he turned his 
attention to fire insurance. He has other in- 
terests in this city, and has met with well- 
merited success in all of his ventures. 

Mr. Schlatterbeck is a member of the Masonic 
order, belonging to Concordia L^dge, No. 345, 
F. & A. M., and to Webb Chapter, No. 14, R. 
A. M. He has belonged to the I. O. O. F. 
thirty-five years, was its treasurer for eight 
years, and has passed all the chairs of the 
subordinate lodge and the encampment. For 
six years he represented his order at the Grand 
Lodge. He has been associated with the 
Knights of Pythias, and has always taken an 
active interest in social affairs. He is secretary 
of the German Pioneer Association, of which 
he has been a member from its organization. 

He was married in this city August 5, 1859, 
to Miss Wilhelmina Steinbrenner. They have 
two children: Elizabeth, wife of E. C. Carter, 
of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and Rose, a com- 
petent teacher in the public schools of this 
city. 



LUTHER BATTLES, who was for many 
I years a conspicuous figure in agricultural 
1 circles, is a worthy representative of one 

of the oldest families of Cuyahoga county. Pie 
was born in Herkimer county, New York, 
April 29, 1826, the fifth child of Luther Bat- 
tles, Sr. When he was a child of eight years 
his parents removed to this county, and settled 
upon an unimproved farm in Mayfield township. 



CUYAnoflA COUNTY. 



where he grew to years of maturity. His early 
education was received in the primitive log 
schoolhouse which fostered the budding intel- 
lect of many an aspiring youth; while pursuing 
his more advanced studies he was a pupil at 
Kirkland Flats, attending the sessions held in 
the old Mormon Temple, and also attended the 
seminary at Chester, Geauga county, for one 
year. At the age of twenty years he began 
teaching, the first school of which he was mas- 
ter being on Chagrin river near the Falls. He 
afterward went to Indiana and for a year taught 
in Kendallville, returning to Mayfield at the 
end of twelve months. 

He was married December 1, 1847, to Miss 
Catherine H. Mapes, a daughter of Kufns and 
Abigail (Allen) Mapes. Mr. Mapes was born 
in New York State April 3, 1795; he was a 
soldier in the war of 1812, and in 1816 was 
married to Miss Allen, who was a descendant 
of Ethan Allen, born in the Province of Maine 
before it was a State. They emigrated to Ohio 
in 181S and settled in Mayfield township, where 
they passed the remainder of their lives; they 
were the parents of seventeen children, fifteen 
of whom grow to maturity. In 1868 they cele- 
brated their fiftieth marriage anniversary. Mr. 
Mapes died March 8, 1874, while his wife sur- 
vived until January 13, 1882. After his mar- 
riage Mr. Battles located on seventy acres of 
heavily timbered land, for which he had paid eight 
dollars an acre; after clearing twenty-five acres 
he sold out for double the amount expended, 
and bought a tract of partially improved land. 
Later he purchased the old homestead on which 
his father had settled in 1884, and to this he 
added until the farm comprised 375 acres; here 
he carried on a general farming business, gain- 
ing an enviable reputation in the breeding and 
raising of live stock. In 1877 he retired froin 
active pursuits, purchasing his present residence 
where he and his family are surrounded with 
the comforts of the nineteenth century civili- 
zation. 

Mr. and Mrs. Battles are the parents of five 
children: Franklin, born June 6, 1849, died 



August 20, 1859; Alpha B., born June 28, 
1855, is the wife of L. W. Stevenson; Eugene, 
born November 14, 1857, married Miss Mary 
Hill; James E., born April 24, 1861, is men- 
tioned elsewhere in this volume; Hillianl, born 
April 5, 1863, married Miss Annie Wisenbach. 
Mr. Battles and wife have been for many years 
members of the M. E. Church. He has served 
the township as Trustee, discharging his duties 
with that zeal and fidelity which have marked 
all his dealings in life. 

Luther Battles, Sr., deceased, was born in 
Swanzy, Cheshire county. New Hampshire, Oc- 
tober 17, 1792; the date of his death was Jan- 
uary 14, 1883, in Mayfield. He was descended 
from English and Scotch ancestors, and at the 
age of eight years was taken to New York 
State; his parents settled in Herkimer county 
on the banks of the Mohawk river, where his 
father was drowned in 1809. Mr. Battles was 
married in 1817 to Miss Arathusa Porter, his 
most beloved companion for forty seven years. 
She was of German descent. Her father served 
throughout the Revolutionary war, as quarter- 
master. She was born in Tolland county, Con- 
necticut, October 4, 1796, and died in Mayfield. 
March 18, 1864. In 1834 Mr. Battles was carried 
by the tide of western emigration to Ohio, and 
located in Cuyahoga county in Mayfield town- 
ship. At that time there were no roads made, 
and the school districts were not organized. 
Possessed of a most remarkable physique, he 
performed the heavy labors that fell to the pio- 
neer, faced the hardships and privations, and in 
the end overcame all obstacles. His unusual 
vigor attended him to the close of his life. He 
was a man of firm convictions, honorable in all 
his transactions, conscientious in all the ameni- 
ties of life and in every way worthy of the con- 
fidence reposed in him. 

He had ten childien: Zervirah, l)orii Decem- 
ber 18, 1818, married James E. Keyte, of 
Geauga county; Edwin D., born July 22, 1820; 
Mary, born P^el)ruary 22, 1822, died January 
24, 1888; Sarah, born December 23, 1823, died 
November 28, 1856; Luther, subject of this 



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sketch, born April 29, 1826; Newton, born May 

10, 1828, died December 20, 1861; Henry, born 
September 18, 1830; Alexander, born January 

11, 1833, died November 19, 1873; Lorenzo, 
born October 1, 1836; and John I., born No- 
vember 14, 1889, died March 31, 1893. Newton 
was a soldier in the late Civil war, a member 
of the Forty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and 
died in Camp Wickliffe, Kentucky, and was 
Ituried on the old homestead here in Cuyahoga 
county. Henry resides in Geauga county; and 
Lorenzo D. lives on the old homestead. 

The eighth annual reunion of the Battles fam- 
ily was celebrated September 8, 1888, at the old 
homestead, now owned by Lorenzo Battles, May- 
field. Meeting called to order by the president, 
John Battles. Mary Ann Battles, historian, 
then read a collection of family history, extend- 
ing back some 200 years, after which Luther 
Battles closed with the following address: 

^^ Relatives and Friends: Impelled by an ir- 
resistible impulse of love and respect, we meet 
to-day to renew our friendship and commemo- 
rate the lives and death of our father and 
mother. There is no place so sacred to our 
hearts as the home of our childhood. If it was 
humble it was our home, and until life is with 
us no more it will be a place where our memo- 
ries will never cease to linger, and on their con- 
secrated altars its fires will never cease to burn. 
So the events of to-day are to live; they will go 
down into history to be read by generatiosis yet 
unborn; it is for them to know who we are, 
where and how we have lived, and where we 
came from. 

'■ It is now fifty-three years since our father 
and mother with their eight children started 
from Herkimer town and county. New York, 
for their comparatively wilderness home in 
Ohio, Cuyahoga county, situated on the east 
bank of the Chagrin river, in the town of May- 
field, and now known as a part of the East Hill. 
They came from u tica to Buffalo by canal, and 
from Buffalo here in a wagon drawn by a pair 
of gray horses, — to our long-talked-of home. 
With little or no irioney, strangers among 



strangers, with no revenue save the products of 
their own industry, they depended upon their 
own efforts for everything. They did not ex- 
pect manna to fall in the wilderness for them, 
nor loaves to come to their baskets, or fishes to 
their nets, without an effort of their own; so 
they taught us that we could not reap if we did 
not sow. Now they com menced the long and weary 
struggle for life anew ; hardships were encountered 
on every hand, but they had an indomitable 
will that never deviated from their main object, 
which was to conquer the wilds of nature and 
provide for the wants of their household; and 
whatever measure of success crowned their lives 
was the direct result of their own vigorous ef- 
forts; out of the storms of effort came forth 
sunshine; out of the bitter came forth sweet. 

" I ask, who was the great central figure and 
loving sympathizer in all our trials and vicissi- 
tudes, our griefs and disasters, our hopes and 
fears, who heard every cry and felt the throb- 
bings of every heart ? None but mother. To 
provide for our wants was the highest ambition 
of her life, her only pleasures were ours, her 
only bliss our care. Early every Sunday morn- 
ing it was her delight to dress us neat and clean 
for church. She directed our feet in the path 
of wisdom, and for us to honor God was her 
daily precept; love for her children was the 
guiding star of her life. 

No tongue oi' peu or crafty art 

Can tell the love of a mother's heart. 

" At our new home two more children were 
born, making ten in ail. At a proper time we 
were all married, but one. Mother was at our 
marriages to make merry and glad. Another 
step on in the march of life finds her sharing 
our bitter griefs over the graves of our children. 
She sipped at every cup of our sorrows; she 
clothed our sighs with her smiles and tears; she 
was a rock and refuge of strength, and in her 
we did safely trust. Shelived to see two of her 
children consigned to their final place of rest, but 
in this she gracefully submitted to the decree of 
her God. She sacrificed her boy at the shrine 
of liberty, then bowed her head with patriotic 



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fortitude at his sad, lamented fate. If ever a 
mother fiilfilied her task, and drained the cup 
of life and duty to its utmost limit, it was she, 
our mother. If in all the world there was an- 
other like her, it was my wife's motlier, now 
sleeping by her side. 

" The moral fortitude of our parents and in- 
dustry of their hands crowned their lives with a 
living success. All through their days of plenty, 
their hearts were full of human sympathy, and 
their hands were open to deserving charity. No 
one knows the true heart of parents better than 
their children; and what I say I say from 
knowledge, and what I say is true. Our father 
and motlier have gone; long and weary was the 
road they trod, cheerfully bearing life's burden 
on their way; their work is done, and to-day we 
pay tribute to their memory. We can look be- 
yond their graves and say all is well. Their 
Christian lives and virtues, love of home and 
children, are now blended into one, and as long 
as these hearts of ours continue to throb, their 
lives should be an altar on which our memories 
should never cease to linger. 

" And now a word to ourselves. What an 
awe-inspiring lesson is here reflected for our 
mutual consideration! Now we realize there is 
nothing left to us but their memory. We read 
their names on the cold marble that marks their 
place of rest. If we should call, they would 
uotanswer; their hands have ceased to adminis- 
ter; their voices have ceased to cliide. Their 
memory warns us to renounce the vain phan- 
toms of this life and cling more and more devot- 
edly to the sanctity of our homes and virtue of 
our children. It is for us to keep their memo- 
ries sacred, nor let it end at the grave. When 
we look back we behold lengthening shadows 
mark our pathway; time is slowly weaving our 
shrouds and spreading our palls. We die, and 
from that austere and mystic fate we cannot 
claim relief. Our past lies before the world as 
an open book, known and read by all. Our fu- 
ture is a tale untold, but it is left for us to say 
what that tale shall be; if good, then we live 
for a purpose; if bad, we live in vain. It mat- 



ters not how long we may live, but how well; 
our lives are not measured by the years we live, 
but by the good we do. 

" Who gets the most out of this life ? It is not 
always the rich, neither is it the poor, itut it is 
he who lives for himself, and lives for others as 
well. One becomes a benefit to others, for hu- 
manity's sake, and another for immediate honor 
or future rewards. The selfish man never sees 
himself as others see him; he would have every- 
body serve his purpose. The conceited man is 
much the same. He flatters himself that he is 
a special favorite here, and expects to be here- 
after. Such when weighed in the balance are 
found wanting. In general a man is lauded for 
his gold, but the time hurries ou when he will 
only be known for the good he has done. The 
angel of mercy that cares not for gold hovers 
around with tireless wings to record, if any, the 
good deeds of justice, mercy, charity and love 
which have adorned their lives. It is not self, 
and self alone, and vain conceit, nor gold, nor 
formal prayers, nor empty ceremonies, nor sac 
rificial blood that will be of any avail to us in 
the great beyond. The happy man here and 
hereafter is he who applies justice to himself 
and benevolence to others. 

" In conclusion, I would say that the religion 
of our parents was confined to narrow limits, 
owing to the age in which they lived. If they 
were living to-day they would denounce the be- 
lief that the sin of Adam brought death and 
condemnation into the world, and that sin ne- 
cessitated the cruciti.xion of Jesus as the only 
way whereby the human race could bo savod. 
They would have reasoned in this way: If Jesus 
died for the sins of the world, then the debt is 
paid and the sinner is free and needs no pardon. 
But this is not so. Jesus has paid no man's 
debt of sin. All have to pay their own. Jesus 
died a martyr to the cause of justice and mercy, 
not as a sacrifice for sin. We are to look for a 
savior within our-selves, and know that punish- 
ment is inevitable to him who violates the laws 
of justice, love and mercy; and to avoid pun- 
ishment we must avoid the act, making man 



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his own mediator; and the measure of his hap- 
piness depends entirely on his efforts for good, 
conscience sitting in judgment on every act. 
Merit will ever determine destiny; we never can 
expect benefits that we have not earned, neither 
need we fear punishments which we do not de- 
serve. 

" The day is not far away when the only re- 
ligion will be that of man's humanity to man; 
the only atonement will be that of restitntion; 
the only object of life will be that of happiness; 
and the only redeemer will be the practice of 
virtue, justice, love and truth." 



EiLIJAII STEARNS, a farmer and fruit- 
grower of Olmstead township, was born 
1 in this township, in 1843, a son of Elijah 

and Wealthy (Usher) Stearns, who settled in 
this township in 1826. Our subject was 
brought up and educated in Olmstead township, 
and has always been engaged in farming. 

In 1862 he enlisted in the Union service for 
three years, in the Fifteenth Ohio Independent 
Battery, was assigned to the Western army and 
participated in the battle of Holly Springs and 
in the siege of Vicksburg. Taking sick, he 
next spent a time at home on furlough, and then 
rejoined his regiment at Cairo, Illinois. He 
made the trip to the sea under General Sher- 
man, and returned through the Carolinas, and 
participated in the grand review at Washington, 
and was honorably discharged at Columbus, 
Ohio, in July, 1865. 

He purchased his present farm in 1873. It 
contains twenty acres, three acres of which are 
in grapes and two acres in other fruit. He is a 
member of Olmstead Falls Post, G. A. K, No. 
634, of which he has been Oflicer of the Day 
for five or six years. In [lolitics he is a Repub- 
lican. 

He was married in Middleburg township, in 
November, 1880 to Miss Oella C. Pa Delford, a 
native of New York and a daughter of William 
and Desire (Tourgee) Pa Delford: her father 



was a native of Massachusetts, and her mother 
of Saratoga county. New York. They came to 
this county in 1859. Mr. Pa Deltbrd's death 
occurred in Dover, March 3, 1893, and Mrs. 
PaDelford's March 3, 1886, on her seventy- 
fifth birthday. It is a coincidence worthy of 
note that they both died on the same day of the 
year, but seven years apart. The seven chil- 
dren whom they reared are: William T., who is 
married and resides in Denver, Colorado; Catha- 
rine Amanda, dying in infancy in New York; 
Frances Mary, married and residing in Forest- 
ville, Chautauqua county. New York; Bernard 
Wellington, living in Chicago; Aiigusta Re- 
becca, wife of Heman Perry, of Dover town- 
ship; Oella, now Mrs. Stearns; and Lydia 
Ophelia, who married John Morris Ford, of 
Olmstead township. Mr. and Mrs. Stearns have 
two children, namely: Percy Pa Delford and 
Bernard Augustus. Mrs. Stearns was a mem- 
ber of the Baptist Church at Chautauqua, New 
York. 



ARRIS BRAINARD, deceased, who 
was for nearly two decades an honored 
resident of Parma township, Cuyahoga 
county, Ohio, was born in Middletovvn, 
Connecticut, January 2, 1804. In his native 
State he spent the first ten years of his life. 
Then his parents removed with their family to 
Massachusetts, from whence a year later they 
came out to Ohio. After residing in Cleveland 
one year they settled in Brooklyn township, 
Cuyahoga county, and in this county spent the 
rest of their lives. Subsequently, however, 
they made two moves, going from Brooklyn 
township to Strongsville and from there to Roj- 
alton township. At the latter place Warren 
Brainard, the father of our subjijct, died sotne 
time in the '50s. His wife, Sally Brainard, 
survived him until January 1, 1875, when her 
death occurred in Michigan. 

Harris Brainard continued to reside with his 
parents, with the exception of a period of three 
years, until the time of his marriage, which 



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event occurred in Brooklyn township, April 26, 
1832, the lady of his choice being Hester Ann 
Storer. She was born in Maine, March 14, 
1811. After their marriage they settled on a 
farm in Brooklyn township, where they contin- 
ued to live until the spring of 1842. At that 
time they removed to the northwestern part of 
Parma township and here they spent the residue 
of their lives. His death occurred December 
15, 1860, and his good wife passed away Septem- 
ber 26, 1889. They had a family of ten chil- 
dren, of whom we make record as follows: Ab- 
igail, who died at about the ageof fifteen years; 
Webster S. ; Edward P.; Sarah, widow of Sim- 
eon Byrum; George W.; Anna E. ; Franklin, 
who lived only a year and a half; Dwight, who 
died at the age of thirty-four years; William; 
and Charlotte. 

Both Mr. Brainard and his wife were active 
members of the Congregational Church, and for 
many years he was a Deacon. His whole life 
was devoted to agricultural pursuits. Honora- 
ble and upright in all the walks of life, his 
many estimable traits of character won for him 
the confidence and esteem of all who knew him. 



NDREW PIKE, a farmer of Solon town- 
ship, Cuyahoga county, was born in 
Orange township, this county. May 27, 
1850, a son of Elias and Elizabeth 
(Barnes) Pike, pioneer settlers of Orange town- 
ship. They have three living children: An- 
drew, our subject; Evelyn, of this comity; and 
George W., a resident of Cleveland. 

Andrew Pike was reared on the old home- 
stead, and received his education in the public 
schools. In January, 1881, he was appointed 
United States mail clerk, under President Gar- 
field, from Syracuse, New York, to Cleveland, 
and served in that position six years. In 1882 
he located on his present place of forty-one 
acres in Solon township, then known as the 
Dan Morse farm, and situated two and a half 
miles from Randall. 



January 25, 1870, Mr. Pike was united in 
marriage with Sarah Harper, a daughter of 
James and Sarah (Lee) Harper. To this union 
have been born two sons: Archer Elias, a com- 
mercial traveler of Cleveland; and Wilson S., 
also of that city. In his social relations Mr. 
Pike is a member of Bedford Lodge, No. 375, 
F. & A. M. 



GPIARLES J. SWIFT, who has been a 
resident of Cleveland since December, 
— - 1892, and who has secured recognition 
as among the more progressive and enterprising 
of the younger business men of the city, is a 
native of the old Keystone State, having been 
born at Corry, Erie county, in December, 1866. 

His father, Charles J. Swift, was a well- 
known and prominent merchant of that Penn- 
sylvania town, having there been engaged in 
the hardware business for many years. In 
politics he was a thorough-going Republican, 
and was more or less conspicuous in the coun- 
cils and work of his party, having held local 
official preferments of importance. He was 
identified with the Masonic order, having been 
a Sir Knight, and both he and his wife were 
devoted members and communicants of the 
Protestant Episcopal Church, to whose cause 
they lent their most active suj)port. The death 
of the father occurred in 1886 and that of the 
mother in 1868. 

As already noted, the subject of this sketch 
came to Cleveland in 1893, the change of resi- 
dence being made in order that he might as- 
sume charge as business manager for the Ford- 
Washburn Store Electro Company, an office for 
which he was particularly qualified by reason 
of his advanced business methods and executive 
ability. He had prior to that been engaged in 
the shipping of coal, salt and builders' supplies, 
and had carried the enterprise successfully for- 
ward. The Store Electro Company failed in 
January, 1894, and since then Mr. Swift has 
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was once also secretary and general manager of 
the Dnplex Electro Company, Limited. He 
had been thoroughly equipped for an intelli- 
gent directing of any enterprise with which he 
might become identified, his practical business 
training having been antedated by tlie careful 
theoretical education secured at college. 

Supporting the principles advanced by the 
Republican party, Mr. Swift had occupied a 
position of no little prominence in a political 
way at his old home in Pennsylvania. In his 
fraternal affiliations he is identified with the 
Knights of Pythias. Though yet a young man 
he has proved his extraordinary qualifications 
as a business man, is of pleasing address, an 
interesting conversationalist, and one who has 
gained an unmistakable popularity during the 
time of his residence in the Forest City. 

Mr. Swift took unto himself a wife in the 
year 1888, being then united to Miss Maud L. 
Hammond, a daughter of Thomas Benton Ham- 
mond, a well-known resident of Pennsylvania. 
They are the parents of one child, Alice, who 
was born in 1889. 

Our subject and his wife are communicants 
in the Protestant Episcopal Church, and are 
earnest and devoted in their support of the 
same. 



OWEN PAYSON SNOW, a highly es- 
teemed citizen of the farming commun- 
ity of Brecksville township, was born 
September 15, 1823. in Piscataquis county, 
Maine. 

His father, Russ Snow, was born in New 
Hampshire, May 21, 1789, and was reared on a 
farm; and his father was Benjamin, a graduate 
of Dartmouth College, who taught school and 
was an oflicer in the Revolutionary war. After 
the death of his father, Russ Snow moved to 
Maine, with his widowed mother. In New 
Hampshire, August 12, 1792, he married Ruth 
Hibbard, and while living in that State they 
had two daughters: Charlotte L., who married 
Alexander J. Snow and lives in Carroll county, 



Illinois; and Jane E., who died at the age of 
eighteen years. In Piscataquis county, Maine, 
Mr. Snow located on a piece of new land and 
built a house and barn, and followed farming, 
and while a resident there had the following 
children: Owen P., our subject; Henry IT., a 
farmer of Brecksville; and Orpha P., who died 
at the age of thirty-three years, unmarried. 

In the spring of 1835 Mr. Russ Snow came 
to Cleveland on his way to Indiana; but, find- 
ing an old acquaintance in Brecksville township, 
he purchased 240 acres of land in the southeast 
corner of the township, at $5 an acre, and dur- 
ing the ensuing autumn his family came on, ar- 
riving after a six weeks' journey, including a 
week's visit at the old home in New Hamp- 
shire. Coming on the State road, they found 
their way to their destination, a mile and a half 
distant, hy the aid of blazed trees. Their first 
residence in Ohio was a log bouse, that had 
been erected by the former owner of the place, 
who had also cut down the trees on five acres 
around it. In 1845 the old log house gave 
place to a good brick residence, which still 
stands. During those times their milling was 
done at Boston, Summit county. On that farm 
Mr. Snow continued to reside until his death, 
January 8, 1875, when he was making his home 
with his son, our subject. His wife had died 
some years before, that is, April 30, 1858, and 
they are both bm-ied in Riclifield township. In 
person Mr. Snow was six feet tall and weighed 
190 pounds, and was proportionally strong and 
enduring. In his younger days he received an 
academic education and taught school some, 
and on arriving here he went in debt for his 
land; but his energy and good judgment en- 
abled him to " come out all right " and prove 
himself to be a successful man among life's 
vicissitudes. In politics he was a Whig, then 
Republican, and finally Prohibitionist; he was 
a prohibitionist from principle from the begin- 
ning. For a period he was Trustee of his 
township. In Maine he was Captain of militia. 

The gentleman whose name hea<ls this sketch 
was twelve years old when he came to Ohio. 



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As he grew up he attended the academy at 
Kichfield, Ohio, for a term, and has always been 
a farmer, and in former years also conducted a 
dairy. After his marriage he first located upon 
the old homestead, where he has since resided. 
He now has 180 acres of good farm land, and 
raises horses and sheep and some other live 
stock. In politics he is a Republican, but no 
office-holder or oftice- seeker. 

October 22, 1852, he married Miss Frances 
C. Fay, who was born August 18, 1835, in 
Geddes (now Syracuse), New York, a daughter 
of Horace and Rosana (Eaton) Fay, who catne 
to Oliio in 1836. Mrs. Snow was but four 
montiis old when her mother died, and she was 
taken care of by an uncle, Origen Eaton, who 
had been a soldier in the war of 1812 aud lost 
an arm at the battle of Lundy's Lane. He 
owned a farm in the northern part of Brecks- 
ville township. Mrs. Snow taught school before 
she was sixteen years of age. Their children 
are: Emma R., now Mrs. C. O. Bartlett, of 
Brooklyn village; Edwin F., who died when t\vo 
years and nine months old; Charles A., wlio 
died wiien nine months old (these two children 
died witiiin three days of each other, and are 
buried in the same grave); Fannie E., who 
married Dr. Knowlton, of Cleveland; Karl F., 
a machinist and millwright, of Brooklyn vil- 
lage; Minnie B., an educated young lady who 
attended school at Oberlin, Ohio, and Cambridge, 
MassacluLsetts, and is now teaching physical cul- 
ture in Mansfield, Ohio; Ned P., a farmer of 
Brecksviile township; and Frank K., attending 
school. 



TITUS N. BRAINARD, a retired farmer 
of Cuyahoga county, Ohio, was born at 
the place where ho now resides, 1640 
Pearl street, Cleveland, July 15, 1825. 
His parents, Marvin and Betsey (Brainard) 
Brainard, were both natives of Connecticut, 
and although they borC the same name they 
were not relatives. They were married in 
Biooklyn, Ohio. Marvin Brainard came to this 



county in 1814, when this part of the country 
was new and its chief inhabitants wild animals, 
and here he spent his whole life in agricultural 
pursuits. He was born February 9, 1799, and 
died in 1853. He and his wife had five chil- 
dren, namely: Mary, born September 11,1822; 
Titus N., the subject of this article; Betsey 
Adelia, born May 27,1828; Jeptha O., born 
January 2, 1831; and Marvin B., born Sep- 
tember 6, 1833. 

Titus N. Brainard is the only one of the 
family now living. His life, like his father's, 
has been devoted to agricultural pursuits, and 
his whole career has been characterized by 
honesty and industry. The brick building 
which he has remodeled and which he occupies 
was built by his father and grandfather. He 
has never been an office-seeker, nor would he 
ever accept official position. On one occasion 
he was elected Supervisor, but paid his fine and 
declined to serve. 

Mr. Brainard was married in 1857 to Miss 
Clarissa Thompson, a native of Canada and a 
daughter of Francis and Hannah (Ford) Thomp- 
son, her father a native of New York State and 
her mother of Canada. They came to Cleve- 
land aljout 1839. Of their nine children, only 
four are now living, viz.: Mary, wife of Will- 
iam Bly, Cleveland; Mrs. Brainard; Dr. F. L. 
Thompson, Cleveland; and William L. Mr. 
and Mrs. Brainard have had five children, as 
follows: Ella, widow of Mansfield Mower, re- 
sides with her father, her two children being 
Hazel B. and Jennie C. ; Marvin A., a young 
man of twenty-two years, who was accidentally 
shot October 19, 1882, his death resulting in- 
stantly; Bettie C, wife of Harry Farnsworth, 
Cleveland; Jennie D., wife of G. S. Barnett, 
died in 1886, aged twenty-two years, leaving 
an only child, Harley B. ; Frank J., teller in 
the Brooklyn Savings & Loan Association. 
Mrs. Brainard is a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church: also her five children and 
grandson, Harley B. Barnett. 

During his long life in the vicinity of Cleve- 
land Mr. Brainard has seen the wilderness 



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cleared away and has marked the growth of a 
beautiful city; and he has not only been a wit- 
ness to this growth and development but he 
has also done his part toward bringing about 
the change. Titus avenue in Brooklyn Village 
was named in honor of him. 



( A. JEROME, ex-County Commissioner 

i\ and a prominent farmer of Cuyahoga 

— county, Ohio, dates his birth in Orange 

township, this county, August 16, 1842. 

His father, Asahel Jerome, a native of New 

York, came to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, in 

1835, and located in Orange township, where 



he passed the residue of his life and died, be- 
ing seventy-eight years of age at the time of 
his death. He was a man of many sterling 
qualities and occupied a prominent place in the 
pioneer community in which he lived. Many 
of the township offices, including that of Justice 
of the Peace, he filled with credit to himself 
and to the people who elected. During the 
latter part of his life he was identified with the 
Republican party. He was a deeply pious man 
and for a number of years was a worthy mem- 
ber and officer of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. His father was of French descent and 
had died when Asahel was fourteen years of 
age. The mother of A. A. Jerome was before 
her marriage Miss Lavina C. Sabin. She was 
born and reared in Connecticut, and lived to bo 
seventy-two years of age. They were the par- 
ents of four children, two sons and two daugh- 
ters, all of whom reached adult years. A. A. is 
the older son and third child, the others being 
as follows: Eliza A., deceased; Olive L., de- 
ceased; and Horace F., of Huntsburg, Geauga 
county, Ohio. 

In his native township A. A. Jerome spent 
the first eighteen years of his life. When the 
war came on he enlisted, in April, 1861, in 
Company A, Twenty-third Ohio Volunteer In- 
fantry, as a private; was promoted as Sergeant; 
and was in the service four years and two 



months. His service was under McClellan and 
Sheridan. Twice he was wounded, — first by a 
piece of shell at New Berne Bridge, secondly 
by a ball at the battle of Winchester. This 
last wound was in the cheek bone and resulted 
in the loss of his eye. He remained in the 
ranks until the war was over, when he was 
honorably discharged, June 5, 1865, at Cleve- 
land. 

After his return from the army, Mr. Jerome 
settled down to farming, and in this occupation 
he has been engaged ever since. He now owns 
over a hundred acres of tine land in Mayfield 
township, and is regarded as one of the promin- 
ent and prosperous farmers of the county. His 
political affiliations are with ihe Republican 
party, and he has held most of the township 
offices. In 1885 he was elected County Com- 
missioner, which office he tilled satisfactorily for 
a term of six years. A veteran of the war, he 
is, of course, a member of the G. A. R., his 
membership being with the L. N. Norice Post, 
No. 141. 

Mr. Jerome was first married in 1866, to 
Miss Hattie Henderson, a native of Oi-ange 
township, this county, who died a few years 
later, leaving one daughter, Blanche, who is 
now the wife of Silas Cathen, of Newburg, 
Ohio. In 1872 Mr. Jerome married Ida E. 
Law, a native of Cuyahoga county, and they 
have three daughters — Hattie E., Henrietta L. 
and Florence E. 



dl N. VEBER, a merchant of Royalton Cen- 
ter, is a son of Elihu Veber, who was born 
— July 12, 1822, in the township of Buck- 
lin, Massachusetts. The latter was a son of 
John Veber, of the same State, who died in 
1S32. After that event the home was sold. 
Then Elihu Veber, with an older brother and 
giiardian, Rensselaer (married), removed to St. 
Lawrence county. New York, where Rensselaer 
lost his wife by death, and in 1834 moved to 
Ohio, settling in Royalton township, Cuyahoga 
county. Here they purchased a tract of new 



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land and cleared a portion of it, and then ex- 
changed it for a place farther north, which they 
divided, Elihn taking his widowed mother to 
support, at the age of eighteen years, and his 
guardian giving him his time. After his 
mother's death he made his home at his brother's. 

February 22, 1844, he married Miss Clarinda 
Gibbs, who was born March 15, 1822, in Mil- 
ford, "Worcester county, Massachusetts, a daugh- 
ter of Benjamin and Peedee (Thayer) Gibbs, 
who settled in Geauga county, Ohio, in 1834, 
and iu 1838 in Royalton. After marriage 
Elihu located near where his widow now lives. 
He assisted in cutting out the first road south 
of where he afterward lived toward Hinckley, 
Medina county. * He followed agricultural pur- 
suits many years, and at length became a car- 
penter, and still later a stone contractor, and 
built many stone culverts for the county. His 
health finally began to fail, and after several 
years of suffering died, September 6, 1886, and 
was buried in Royalton Center cemetery. Politi- 
cally he was a Republican, and he held town- 
ship offices, as Trustee, Assessor for six years, 
and Real-estate Assessor one year. He was a 
well known, highly respected, determined, thor- 
oughgoing, persevering man. Since his death 
his widow lias resided at the old homestead. 
She is a member of the Disciple Church. 
Their children are: James N., the subject of 
this sketch; Ellen, now Mrs. Eugene Riley, of 
Medina county, Ohio; Charles, a farmer of this 
township; and Juliet, now Mrs. Fred Ellsworth, 
of Royalton township. 

Mr. J. N. Veber, whoso name heads this 
sketch, was born February 18, 1847. In Feb- 
ruary, 1865, he enlisted in Company B, Second 
Ohio Cavalry, which was first ordered to Colum- 
bus and thence to Harper's Ferry, and after- 
ward was stationed in and around Washington 
for a time. Next it was sent to Springfield, 
Missouri, and to St. Louis, same State, where it 
was mustered out, and Mr. Veber was honor- 
ably discharged September 11, 1865. 

Returning home he opened out in the butch- 
ering bu.sinuss and sold meat to a wholesale 



market in Cleveland for some time, making his 
headquarters at his father's home. After his 
marriage, in 1870, he located in the southern 
part of Royalton township, and in 1872 settled 
nt the Center, engaging in mercantile trade, in 
which he still continues, moving his goods into 
the pi-(!sent building in 1882. He is a success- 
ful business man, of uniformly fair dealing and 
strict uprightness of character. He owns a 
nice little farm of sixty-live acres. He is a de- 
cided Republican, and has been township 
Treasurer for nine years. He attends the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church. 

February 22, 1870, is the date of his mar- 
riage to Miss Mary H. Smith, who was Ijorn 
January 19, 1846, in Royalton Center, a daugh- 
ter of Joseph and Louisa (Gordon) Smith. 
Their children are: Daisy L., a school-teacher; 
Lelia R. ; and Bert W. 



OTTO DOEHN was born in the city of 
J Cleveland in 1868, a son of H. W. and 
Charlotte (Kohlman) Doehn, and both 
parents are residents of Cleveland. The father 
was born in Germany, town of Mecklenburg, 
and there was reared and educated. He en- 
tered the German army, and for a number of 
years served as an oflicer in the same. He 
early in life turned his attention to painting, 
frescoing and decorating. Perfecting himself 
in this line of art he then came to America, 
locating in Cleveland in 1865, direct from the 
fatherland. He married in this city and be- 
came the father of two children, the subject of 
this sketch, and a sister, whose name is Alma. 
In the public schools of Cleveland young 
Otto secured a liberal common-school educa- 
tion. Under his father he served an appren- 
ticeship of two years, after which he entered 
the drug business, in which he remained four 
years. Then he became interested in photog- 
raphy, and after learning the business embarked 
in the same for himself. He is now conduct- 
ing a very important and paying business in 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



bis profession, in which he is thoroughly well 
up and informed. He keeps apace with all the 
later improvements for doing work in his pro- 
fession, and owns one of the best equii)ped 
galleries in the city. Here in the studio are 
executed the finest of photographs and portraits 
of all kinds. From tlie alpha to the omega of 
bis profession Mr. Doehn has passed, having 
gained a practical knowledge as well as theoreti- 
cal, and to the operating department in bis 
studio he gives bis individual attention. 

He is a Christian gentleman, being a mem- 
ber of the Young Men's Christian Association, 
and has been upon its reception committee for 
the last three years. He is a member of the 
Cleveland Vocal Society, one of the prominent 
musical societies of the city, which bad the 
honor of an invitation by the World's Fair 
Musical Department to furnish music upon the 
Exposition grounds. He is also a meml)er of 
the Singers' Club. Much of his spare time is 
given to elocution and music. From boyhood 
days has been interested in elocution, and in 
the last year and a half has been studying under 
Prof. A. T. Saunders, and at present is a pupil 
of Prof. J. G. Scorer. Mr. Doehii is also a 
member of the " Elocutionists' Club," wliich is 
comprised of the best talent of this city. He 
is also a member of the Chautauqua Circle, of 
the Young Men's Congress, of the Cleveland 
Art Club, and of the National Photographers' 
Association. He is a member of the Willson 
Avenue Presbyterian Church, being founder 
and president of its choir. 



ffJl HOLLAND SNOW, an influential 
\\~\\ farmer of Brecksville township, was born 
11 t March 31, 1827, in Piscataquis county, 
^ Maine, and was eight years of age when 

he came to Ohio. (For sketch of iiis ancestry 
see in this volume the account of Owen Payson 
Snow.) In bis school education, besides attend- 
ing the common district schools, he attended 
one term at Brooklyn village, when Professor 



Cbnrchill, now of Oberlin College, was at the 
bead, and afterward he taught school in Brecks- 
ville and Richfield townships. He married, 
October 22, 1851, Mary J. Lockert, who was 
born June 2, 1835, in Richfield township. Sum- 
mit county, a daughter of James Lockert, a 
farmer. Mr. Snow remained an inmate of the 
parental home until 1864, when he located 
where he now resides, which was a portion of 
the home farm. He now has about 200 acres 
of excellent farm land, and be is still a fanner, 
prospering in bis vocation, and is an influential 
citizen. Politically be first voted for the Free- 
Soil candidates, then was a Republican until 
Horace Greeley ran for the office of President, 
since which date he has been independent. 
He has been a Trustee of bis township nine 
years. 

His children are: Ida M., I)orn August 15, 
1854, and is at her paternal home; Jessie F., 
born June 5, 1857, is now Mrs. F. N. Wilcox, 
of Cleveland; Amanda J., born June 29, 1859, 
is now Mrs. Elwin Carter, of Royalton town- 
ship; Harry W., born September 25, 1862, is a 
farmer of Brecksville; and Charlie C, born 
August 29, 1864, is a clerk in the City Au- 
ditor's office; besides a son who died in infancy. 



S. RITDGERS.— William S. Rudgers, 
the father of the subject of this sketch, 
was born March 24, 1804, in Newbui'g 
township, Orange county. New York, 
a son of Daniel Rudgers, Jr., who was a son of 
Daniel Rudgers, Sr., who died before tjie liirtb 
of the son mentioned, his widow afterward mar- 
rying John Case. Daniel, Jr., was a tanner and 
currier by trade, but in later years was a farmer. 
He married Nancy Purdy, who was born in 
Orange county, and their children were: Mary, 
Sarah, Nancy, Mehitabel, Jane, Elizabeth, 
Esther, William S., Charles, Daniel, Isaac C, 
Thomas and John. Of these Isaac C, William 
S., John, Elizabeth and Esther are yet living. 



CVTAIIOOA COUNTY. 



William S. Eudgers, the father of the sub- 
ject of this sketch, was hrought up to the tan- 
ner's trade until the age of sixteen years, when 
he found work on the farm. February 23, 
1826, he married Miss Maria Corser, who was 
born July 27, 1808, in Vermont, a daughter of 
Thomas and Mercy (Bennett) Corser, who 
located in Genesee county. New York, where 
Mrs. Rudgerswas brought up. At the time of 
liis marriage Mr. Rudgerri had " only the coat 
on his back" as the totality of his worldly 
possessions. Tiie first season he worked on 
shares, and later he took up a piece of wild land 
in Genesee (now Wyoming) county, and lived 
there three and a half years, when he moved to 
ChHutauqua county, same State, and resided 
tliere four years. 

In 1831 lie visited Cuyahoga county and 
looked over the land, and February, 1835, 
when sleighing was good, he moved his family 
litre, which then comprised a wife and four 
children. They first settled in Royalton town- 
ship, and Mr. Rudgers afterward purchased 
land in Rrecksville township, — seventy-five 
acres, at §10 an acre, — where he now resides 
with his son. For the land he had to go in 
(h'ljt, which required much labor to dischage. 
AVhun he tirot settled here there was a log cabin 
on the jjlace and a few improvements com- 
menced. Wild game and dangerous animals 
were plentiful. All the clearing and other im- 
provements now seen upon the farm have been 
accomplished by him. He has always been a 
farmer, and successful in his calling. He was 
at first a Jackson Democrat, then a Whig and 
Republican, and he has faithfully attended the 
elections, missing but one Presidential election 
since he became a voter. He has never been a 
politician or office-seeker. In religion he was 
once a Methodist local preacher, being a mem- 
ber of that denomination for forty years; but he 
is not a member now. 

Mrs. Rudgers died March 17, 1892, after a 
married life of sixty-six years, and was buried 
at the center of the township. Slie was a Con- 
p-reirationalist. The children of Mr. and Mrs. 



Rudgers were: Carrie, now Mrs. Herschel 
Welton, of Cleveland, Ohio; Daniel, a farmer 
of Brecksville township; Joiin W., who died in 
Michigan; George H. was killed in Girard, 
Ohio, by the accidental bursting of a cannon 
during the civil war, when they were celebrat- 
ing the final victory of the great struggle; Eliz- 
abeth, who died at tlie age of eighteen months; 
Charles W., who died at the center of the 
township; Tliomas J.; ami Micali, whose name 
heads this sketch. 

Mr. M. S. Rudgers, undertaker at Brecks- 
ville, was born January 1, 1845, in Brecksville 
township, and completed his school days at the 
"center" when Messrs. Geary and Alien were 
teachers there. He was brought up a farmer's 
son, but, being of a mechanical turn of mind, 
lie picked up some of the elements of carpentry, 
wliich trade he completed under the instruc- 
tions of A. D. Kent, of Cleveland. Returning 
homo he took contracts on his own responsi- 
bility, the first being for Henry Perry at 
Brecksville Center. Afterward he purchased 
land of Luther Marsh near the center and laid 
out lots, streets, etc., and built houses. Later 
he purchased more land of Tlieodore Breck and 
erected more houses, thus being the principal 
builder of the little village. Afterward lie did 
considerable work at Akron, this State, in 
whicli city he at one time owned considerable 
property: owns some there even yet. 

After his marriage in 1876 he settled at the 
center of Brecksville, where he had opened out 
in the undertaking business, which lie still con- 
ducts; and he still owns several houses in the 
place. In 1883 he moved to Akron and lived 
there two years, returning then to Brecksville. 
Previously he owned a farm of 100 acres, 
which interest he purchased from the Cole and 
Judd heirs, and established his residence in a 
very unassuming dwelling, upon it, a mile and 
a quarter south of tlie center, the same season. 
In 1886 he erected one of the finest dwellings 
in tiie township,, and on the highest elevation, 
where there are the most pleasant surroundings. 



and thi« residence In 



Mip, 



CUTAIIOOA COUNTY. 



liicrh point one can have a view of fifteen to 
eijrhteen miles in different directions. His 
farming interests he directs, having retired 
somewhat from actual toil. 

Politically he was a Eepnblican until 1892, 
when he joined the Prohibition party, in which 
he is very zealous. He voted for William Mc- 
Kinley, however, while his sympathy was for 
prohibition. He and his wife are members of 
the Congregational Church, in whicii he has 
held offices for twenty years: was for a long 
time superintendent of the Sunday-school, and 
is now Deacon and musical director of the choir 
and Sabbath -scliool. In the Sunday-school his 
influence was marked, as the institution then 
had the greatest attendance it has ever had dur- 
ing its existence. In all his undertakings he 
has had success, and his dealings have always 
been honest. 

October 18, 1876, is the date of his marriage 
to Allah Fessenden, who was born August 81, 
1855, in Twinsburg, Ohio, a daughter of John 
W. and Mary (Righter) Fessenden. They have 
an adopted daughter, born June 26, 1884, who 
enjoys all the liberties and luxuries of an own 
daughter. 



GP. SMITH, proprietor of the Bedford 
News Register, which was established at 
Bedford, November 27, 1891, by Mr. 
Smith, as an independent paper in politics, de- 
voted to home interests, was born in Summit 
county, Ohio, June 8, 1858. His father, R. C. 
Smith, was born at Monkton, Vermont, and his 
mother, whose maiden name was Isabel Deis- 
man, was born in Columbiana county. When 
a boy of five years his parents removed to Bed- 
ford, and here Mr. Smith was educated. When 
a young man he became general agent for the 
Cassell Publishing Company, of New York, at 
that time conducting the largest publishing 
business in the world, and at Danville, Illinois, 
he located in 1883. Subsequently he returned 
to Bedford, and there, preparing himself for 
doing job printing, opened an establishment 



and continued at job printing with success; and 
in connection with the publication of the above 
named paper he still does a considerable amount 
of job printing. At one time he ushered into 
existence the Bedford Bee, a small folio which 
did not prove a success, and hence had but a 
short existence. 

Since 1891 Mr. Smith has been a Notary 
Public. He is a member of the order of 
Knights of Pythias, belonging to the uniform 
rank of that order; is also a member of the 
Royal Arcanum and of the uniform rank of 
that order; and a member of the Junior Order, 
United American Mechanics, and of the Sons 
of Temperance, of whicli oi'der he was, for two 
terms. Grand Worthy Patriarch of the State of 
Ohio. 



CORNELIUS BURGESS, the senior con- 
, ductor in age and point of service on the 
— Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. 
Louis Railroad, was born in Oneida county. 
New York, near Boonville, November 27, 1829. 
His father, William B. Burgess, was born in 
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, June 27, 1787, and 
died in Bainbridge, Geauga county, Ohio, No- 
vember 9, 1849; and his father, Joseph. L. 
Burgess, settled in Oneida county. New York, 
as early as 1800, in which State William B. 
enlisted for service in the war of 1812. He 
was a large, powerful man, a blacksmith and 
was among the first to anchor an anvil in Bain- 
bridge, in 1832. He was an exemplary citizen, 
strikingly illustrating the traits of Christian 
charity and right conduct, was unfaltering in 
his devotion to duty, and in his patriotism as 
faithful as a Revere or as a Putnam. 

Tracing the genealogy back to the old coun- 
try, it is ascertained that our subject comes of 
a line descending from Thomas Burgess of 
Eno-land, who settled in Lynn, Massachusetts, 
about 1630, and in 1637 received the assign- 
ment of a section of land in Duxbury, Massa- 
chusetts, where he trained his children in agri- 
culture. One of his descendants, six genera- 



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tioiis removed, was Joseph L. Burgess, onr sub- 
ject's grandfather, who married Ann Metcalf, 
of PittsHeld, Massachusetts, and emigrated to 
New York State, as previously mentioned. 
William B. Burgess married Esther Williams, 
and iiad the following children: John Chandler, 
horn January 9, iNll, and was a hotel-man in 
Hartford, Connecticut, and died Octol>er 23, 
1S79, at Scranton, Pennsylvania; Allen, born 
Xovember 7, 1812, is a Geauga county farmer; 
Alvin.'l)orn February 10, 1820, spent his life 
in the ministry, w.as a prominent presiding 
el<lcr, of wide acquaintance throngliout the Erie 
Conference and western Pennsylvania, and died 
in the midst of his usefnlness September 21, 
1872; Joseph M., horn February 6, 1822, and 
is a farmer of Solon. Ohio; Theodore, born 
January 1. lS2-t, who devoted his later life to 
railroading, and died July 20. 1800; Charles 
W., a farmer in Geauga county, horn Xovem- 
ber 8, 1825; John W.. horn December 1, 1827, 
and died in Scranton, Pennsylvania, August 28, 
1888; Cornelius, the subject of this sketch, born 
Xovember 27, 1829; Dr. Franklin, born Feb- 
ruar}' 13, 1832, was a Lieutenant in the United 
States Army during the war and now a resident 
of Solon, Ohio; and two who died in infancy, 
namely: Ann Louis, born in ISIO. and Xor- 
mau. born in 181S. 

Mr. Burgess, our subject, was a farmer boy 
until 1849, when he came to Cleveland and 
secured work on the Cleveland, Columbus it 
Cincinnati Railroad, where he remained until 
July, 1850, when he returned to Bainbridge 
and engaged again in agricultural work for one 
season. Then uTitil the spring of 1853 he re- 
sided with an uncle, Lyman Williams, at Mont- 
ville. Ohio; next he was employed by his 
brothers in the Wyoming House at Scranton, 
Pennsylvania; and in March, 1856, he came to 
Cleveland and worked six months in what is 
now the Kenuard House. During the follow- 
ing autumn and winter he was an employee in 
the Xeil House at Columbus, kept by Wheeler 
A: Faling, and continued as a clerk there until 
1857, when he went to Dubuque, Iowa; not 



succeeding there in rinding employment he 
went to Dunleith, Illinois, where for a short 
time he was clerk in Argyle House. His next 
work was as brakeman on the Illinois Central 
Railroad until the spring of 1S5S, when, with 
a desire to re-engage in farming, he went to 
Wisconsin and followed the plow one season. 

December 29, 1859, he arrived once more in 
Cleveland, and January 19, 1860, he began 
work on the Cleveland, Columbus & Cincin- 
nati Railroad, where he has since remained, 
making a record for faithful service unequaled. 
December 26, ls59. is the date of his mar- 
riage, in Roekton, Illinois, to Miss Lucy, a 
daughter of Cushing Bowker, who was born in 
Xew Hampshire and died in Canada, whither 
he had removed. Mr. and Mrs. Burgess have 
four children: Abbie M., born May 26, 1863, 
died in April, 1868; Theodore, born September 
5, 1866. is an engineer on the Cleveland, 
Lorain & Wheeling Railroad. The last men- 
tioned married Isabel Gilmore, a niece of Gen- 
eral Q. A. Gilmore; Edward S., born October 
4, 1869, is a fireman on the Cleveland, Cin- 
cinnati, Chicago & St. Louis liailroad ; Albert 
A., born October 27, 1872, is a clerk for Strong, 
Cobb & Co., wholesale druggists, of Cleveland. 



LLOYD A. DUXHAM, one of the rising 
: young farmers of Bedford township, was 
1 born on the old Dunham homestead 

March 1, 1861, a son of Asa and Lticina 
(Ransom) Dunham. The father is one of the 
well-known and highly respected citizens of 
Bedford; the mother is not living. There were 
six children in the family. Lloyd A. passed a 
quiet and uneventful youth on the farm. He 
attended the public schools at Hiram, and later 
took a course in the Spencerian Business Col- 
lege at Cleveland. Following this came several 
years of active business experience, first as 
shipping clerk in a general store, as hotel clerk, 
as proprietor of a grocery business in Cleve- 
land, and as commercial traveler. He was in 



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the employ of (J. II. McCormick, of Chicago, 
and for two years was with tlie McCormick 
Company. His wide experience and native 
ability enabled him to command a most profit- 
able class of custom. 

In 1885 he retired from tlie commercial 
world, taking up liis residence on his farm; the 
land Ih in an advanced state of cultivation and 
all tin; Ijiiildingfl are of the most substantial 
style. 

Mr. Dunham was married in Cleveland, 
February 22, 1884, to SiibIo 1). Murray, who 
was born in Washington, District of Columbia, 
a daughter of Douglass and Mary (Ringwaltj 
Murray; the father is deceased, but the mother 
survives, a resident of Cleveland. Mr. and 
Mrs. Dunham are the parents of two children: 
Lucinia M. and Lloyd C. Mr. Dunham ad- 
heres to the principles of the Republican party, 
but is in active sympathy with the Farmers' 
Alliance. lie is a man of much more than 
ordinary intelligence, frank of manner and 
genial in disposition, withal one of the most 
popular men of the township. 



G^ II MILES W. D. MILLER, a representa- 
h tiv(s citizen of Berea, was born in Lima, 
' Portage county, Ohio, November 25, 
1842, where he passed his childhood days. 
When he was but two years old his parents 
died, and at ten years of age he came with his 
mother's sister to Strongsville, Ohio, and made 
his home with an uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. 
Dewey, for twelve years, excepting about a year. 
Two years he attended Baldwin University. 
November 19, 18G0, he married Miss Vienna 
Pomeroy, a native of Strongsville, and engaged 
in farming in that township for two years. For 
four years he was engaged in sawmilling in In- 
diana, vrhich business he disposed of and en- 
gaged again in farming and dealing in stock. 
Afterward he exchanged his farm for a store 
and a half interest in a stock of hardware in 
Berea, and conducted that store for about twenty 



years, — until January, 1893. He has also been 
interested in other business. He has been a 
director of the Bank of Berea for many years, 
and is largely interested in the Cleveland & 
Berea Electric Railway, being president of the 
company. He has held several public offices. 
Was instrumental in estahlishing the Middle- 
burg township poor-house. As to the brother- 
hoods, he is a member of Oriental Com- 
mandery of the Knights Templar of Cleveland, 
lie has five children, namely: Dayton C, 
Harriet K., Alanson P., Harlan D. and Harry I>. 



JlJlENRY Fl'.OKIJLlCII, Postmaster and 
Ir^ proprietor of a general store at South 
II — Brooklyn, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, was 
^ born in Independence township, this 

county, March 10, 1848. 

Jacob Froehlich, his father, a native of Al- 
sace, France, emigrated to this country in 1837 
and located in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, he be- 
ing eighteen years old at that time and without 
any means save what he earned with liis own 
hands. Here he was variously employed, among 
other things working on the Ohio canal. For 
his work on this canal he received his pay in 
" wildcat money," and thus lost the most of his 
wages. However, he was enabled to save some 
of his earnings, and as soon as he was able re- 
turned to France and brought his parents back 
with him. He was married in Cuyahoga fwunty 
to Sophia Dentzar, a native of Bavaria, Ger- 
many, who had come to this country with her 
parents when she was seventeen years old. 
They were married hy Esquire Lockwood, one 
of the very first settlers in the county and a 
man who is still living. After their marriage 
they located in Independence township, where 
they reared their family anil .«pent the rest of 
their lives. She died at the age of sixty-eight 
years, and he was seventy-one at the time of his 
death. They were the parents of four children, 
three sons and one daughter, all of whom are 
still livirig, Henry being the oldest. 



CUTAnOGA COUNTY. 



When the war came on Henry Froehlich was 
a boy in his 'teens, but before its close and 
wlien not yet fifteen years old he enlisted as a 
musician in Company E, One Hundred and 
Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Afterward, 
however, he became a private, being the young- 
est soldier in the company, and continued in 
the service two years and ten months, until the 
war closed. Although he was in numerous 
battles and often in the thickest of the fight, he 
never received a scratch. A braver and truer 
soldier than young Froehlich never faced the 
enemy's fire. He was honorably discharged at 
Charleston, South Carolina, after which he re- 
turned to his home in Independence township, 
this county. 

In 1867 Mr. Froehlich went to Independence, 
Missouri, where he had a class in music, and 
was also the leader of a band. He remained in 
Missouri two years. It was during that time 
that General Grant first ran for the presidency, 
and thronghout the campaign Mr. IVoehlich 
and his baiid played in various cities in Mis- 
souri. His war experience and his life in Mis- 
souri had given him a taste for excitement and 
adventure, and in 1868, in company with a 
number of others, all well equipped with teams 
and provisions, he started for the Indian Terri- 
tory. They visited Fort Gibson, Fort Smith 
and Baxter Springs, and on tiiis trip had no 
little trouble with the Indians, the trouble 
arising through white outlaws and squatters. 
Their return was attended with many narrow 
escapes. 

Upon his return to his liome in Ohio in 
1869, Mr. Froehlich, feeling the need of a bet- 
ter education, began attending school. The 
following year we find him in Cleveland work- 
ing at the tinner's trade. In 1871 he engaged 
in the hardware business in South Brooklyn, 
in partnership with his brothers. Subse- 
quently their business was consolidated with 
that of C. Huhn. In 1880 Mr. Froehlich dis- 
posed of his interest in this establishment, and, 
in company with M. Hoehn, engaged in the 
wholesale implement business on Michio-an 



street in Cleveland. They did a successful 
business until July of the following year, when 
Mr. Hoehn was accidentally drowned, and after 
his death our subject continued business alone, 
removing it in 18S2 from Cleveland to South 
Brooklyn. In 1889 he took in as a partner Mr. 
Thomas Whittlesey. This partnership, how- 
ever, was terminated a short time after by Mr. 
Whittlesey's death, Mr. Froehlich buying the 
widow's interest and a short time afterward 
selling the establishment to Hnhn & Koch. 
Then from 1889 until 1893 he was engaged in 
farming at the old homestead, and in 1893 he 
again engaged in the implement business, tak- 
ing back the stock he had sold to Huhn & 
Koch. In the meantime he was appointed 
Postmaster of South Brooklyn, under Cleve- 
land's first administration, and has since served 
as Postmaster in connection with his other 
business. 

For two years Mr. Froehlich has been a mem- 
ber of the Board of Education of South Brook- 
lyn, serving as president of the board, and was 
elected a member of the Council of the village 
in the spring election. Fraternally, he is a 
member of the I. O. O. F., K. of P. and 
Foresters. 

Mr. Froehlich was married in 1877 to Eliza 
Huhn, a native of South Brooklyn, and they 
have five children, three sons and two daugh- 
ters, namely: Alma, Carl, George, Edwin and 
Elsa. Carl died February 15, 1894, at the age 
of fourteen years. 



CHARLES MURFETT, a farmer of Orange 
township, Cuyahoga county, was born in 
England, in September, 1833, a son of 
Edward and Sarah (Gilbert) Murfett, natives 
also of that country. After coming to this 
country the parents located in Orange, where 
the mother died at the age of seventy-three 
years, and the father lived to the age of 100 
years, dying January 24, 1894. He was a 
Democrat in bis pdlitical views, and was a mem- 



GU7AIJ00A COUNTY. 



ber of the Christian Church. Mr. and Mrs. 
Murfett had six children, viz.: Edward, Charles, 
Mary Ann, Mathews (deceased), Emiline Har- 
der, Sarah Knapp and Carrie Abell. 

Charles, our subject, came to this country 
when four years of age, and received his educa- 
tion in the schools of Orange. He was success- 
fully engaged at the butcher trade for twenty 
years. In 1863 he came to his present farm of 
209 acres in Orange township, where he lias a 
comfortable residence, three good barns, one 
30 X 80 feet, and many other improvements. In 
his political views Mr. Murfett is identified 
with the Republican party. 

He was married at the age of thirty years, to 
Ellen Abell, a daughter of Alvin and Almina 
(Reynolds) Abell, and they had one daughter, 
Mina, wife Charles Burton and was a popular 
teacher before marriHge. Mrs. Murfett died in 
1868. February 22. 1871, Mr. Murfett was 
united in marriage with Clara Corlett, a native 
of Warrensville, Ohio, and a daughter of Will- 
iam and Jane Corlett, natives of the Isle of 
Man, and among the pioneer settlers of "War- 
rensville, Ohio. The father died in 1870, and 
the mother in 1888. Mr. and Mrs. Corlett had 
eight children, — Ellen, William, John, Robert, 
Jane, Thomas (deceased), Clara and Sylvenus. 
Mr. and Mrs. Murfett have seven children, viz.: 
Ada M., Charley C, (a graduate of the high 
school), Mable Belle, Alice Dora, Olive Clara, 
Edith Edna and John J. 



BL. MARBLE is a member of the Mar- 
ble & Shattuck Chair Company, and is 
recognized as oneof the most progressive 
business men of Bedford. This company was 
organized in 1885 and the following year was 
reorganized as a stock company, when the firm 
of Klinger & Dodge of Akron was merged into 
the corporation. The entire plant belonging to 
this firm was destroyed by fire March 17, 1886; 
and although it was a severe blow to the busi- 
ness the buildings were replaced with charac- 



teristic energy, and operations were resumed 
the next July. As the plant now stands it con- 
sists of a brick engine-house, a factory, 40 x 154, 
three stories high, a finishing and ware room 
40 X 160, two stories high, and an upholstery 
room, 24 x 100, two stories high. Ninety men 
are employed in this establishment, and a busi- 
ness of $140,000 per annum is transacted, the 
patronage being drawn from every quarter of 
the United States. 

In 1887 F. D. Hills purchased the stock 
owned by Mr. Dodge, and in 1890 S. S. Mc- 
Millin became the owner of the stock formerly 
controlled by Mr. Shattuck. 

Mr. Marble is a native of the town which is 
the scene of his business successes. He was 
born February 6, 1851, a son of Levi Marble. 
The father was born in the State of New York 
at Marbletown, in 1820, and at the age of twelve 
years came to Ohio with his father, Thomas 
Marble. He was married to Mary A. Richard- 
son, a native of Vermont, and of this union four 
children were born: C. B., F. D., B. L., and one 
deceased. Levi Marble was engaged in busi- 
ness at Bedford for a number of years. He 
died at the age of seventy years. Politically he 
was identified with the Republican party; he 
was a member of the I. O. O. F. and atone time 
served the people of his township as Treasurer. 
B. L. Marble was a youth of fourteen years 
when he began his career in the commercial 
world. For two years he was in the employ of 
the Purdy Chair Company, and was afterward 
with the B. J. Wheelock Chair Company. 
Going to Alliance, Ohio, he superintended the 
erection of a chair factory for the firm of Beeson 
& Hartzell, and had charge of the business one 
year. At the end of this time he returned to 
the B. J. Wheelock Company, but later went to 
Toledo, where he remained one year. He then 
came to Bedford in the employ of the Taylor 
Chair Company, and was foreman of this estab- 
lishment until 1885, when he embarked in busi- 
ness for himself. 

Our worthy subject was united in marriage 
at the age of twenty-three years to Mary E. 



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Matthews, a daughter of Joseph and Martha 
(White) Matthews. Mr. Matthews is deceased. 
Mr. and Mrs. Marble are the parents of three 
children: Bessie L., and Linn Levi and Lloyd 
Joseph, twins. The family occupy a handsome 
residence where they are surrounded with all 
the comforts of this century of improvements 
and inventions. Mr. Marble is a Republican, 
and has served as a member of the City Council 
two years. He belongs to the Masonic order, 
having a membership in Bedford Lodge, ^so. 375 
A. F. and A. M., Summit Chapter, No. 74, 
R. A. M., and Holyrood Commandry, No. 32, 
K. T. He is also a member of the Knights of 
Pythias. 



DA. KEISTER, expert accountant, 405 
I Cuyahoga building, Cleveland, has been 
a resident of this city since the first of 

the year 1888, coming from Pittsburg, Penn- 
sylvania. 

He is a native of New Haven, Gallatin county, 
Illinois, born July 22, 1863, son of Daniel B. 
and Anna E. (Hunter) Keister, who moved to 
this city in 1893. Both the Keister and Hunter 
families were among the oldest settlers of West- 
ern Pennsylvania, five generations ago. Tem- 
perance and longevity, as well as patriotism, 
•have been prominent characteristics of the an- 
cestry, several of whom were faithful soldiers in 
the Revolutionary war, the war of 1812, and 
the war of the great rebellion. They have been 
public-spirited in both church and State. Dur- 
ing the late war Mr. Daniel B. Keister took an 
active part, not only using his voice upon the 
stump, but also aiding greatly in actual hard 
work. He organized the One Hundred and 
Forty-eighth Indiana Cavalry, took it to the 
front as Captain, and served in the field for a 
year, when he resigned and received an honor- 
able discharge. For a number of 'years he was 
engaged in the music business, but is now living 
a retired life. 

The sul)ject of this sketch, the third of five 
children in the above family, was reared from 



his sixth year in Pennsylvania, on the old 
homestead near Pittsburg, and completed his 
education at an Eastern college. At the age of 
fifteen he became bookkeeper at LTniontown, 
Pennsylvania, and ever since then the science 
and art of keeping accoimts has been his spe- 
cialty. He has held many positions in the em- 
ploy of prominent firms in Pittsburg, Mount 
Pleasant and LTniontown, Pennsylvania, New 
York city and Cleveland. At times he has 
done considerable special work, to.ishich he now 
gives his entire attention. He is a true expert 
accountant and bookkeeper, and has proven 
himself an honorable and trustworthy man. 

In company with others, during the early 
part of last year, 1893, he organized the Cleve- 
land Dress-Facing and Manufacturing Compa- 
ny, of which he was elected secretary and general 
manager, but September 23, following, a des- 
tructive fire consumed their entire business 
outfit, and since that time Mr. Keister has de- 
voted his entire time to his profession, in which 
he so easily excels. 

He is a Royal Arch Mason, a member of For- 
est City Lodge, No. 388. He was married in 
Pennsylvania, September 8, 1886, to Miss Fan- 
nie B. Britt, and they have two children, — 
Frank S. and Annie. Mr. and Mrs. Keister 
are members of the Presbyterian Church, and 
worship at the old stone church on the public 
square. The family residence is in the East 
End. 



d[ A. FITZWATER, a representative citizen 
of Brecksville township, is a native of the 
same township, born July 12, 1838. For 
his ancestry see the sketch of Ira Fitzwater in 
this work. He was educated in the schools of 
his time and remained upon the farm until after 
his father's death. February 22, 18G0, he mar- 
ried Miss Hannah C. Pratt, who was born in 
Crawford county, Pennsylvania, in 1840, a 
daughter of Jacob and Hannah (Eldridge) Pratt, 
who came to the village of Independence and 
kept hotel there. After marriage Mr. Fitz- 



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water resided upon the old farm until 1873, 
when he and father and mother, his family and 
his l^rother William emigrated to White county, 
Tennessee, locating on land which they had pur- 
chased there. During their residence in that 
State of two years Mr. Fitzwater traveled over 
the distance between that point and Brecksville 
three times with teatn, being respectively 
twenty-three, twenty-six and twenty-four days 
on the journey. Their locality in Tennessee 
was an abandoned section and required a great 
amount of work to prepare it for cultivation. 

Mr. Fitzwater returned to his native Brecks- 
ville until 1891, when, for the sake of liis wife's 
health he removed to the center, purchasing 
property where he now resides, enjoying a par- 
tially retired life. He owns 185 acres of ex- 
cellent land, the greater part of which he has 
accumulated by his own hard work and econom- 
ical management. His life therefore has been a 
successful one. Having some practical knowl- 
edge of carpentering, he occasionally does a 
little of his own work. In his views of national 
questions he is in sympathy with the Republi- 
can party. Was a member of Company B, One 
Hundred and Ninety-eighth Ohio Volunteer 
Infantry. During the latter part of his career 
on the farm he was also engaged in the dairy 
business to some extent. 

His children are: Myron E., a farmer of this 
township; Lewie E., at home; and Lilly J., 
who died at the age of eight years. 



RFILA STEARNS, a farmer of Olmstead 
I township, was born in this township, in 
1840, a son of Elijah and Wealthy (Usher) 
Stearns; his father was a native of Vermont 
and his mother of New York. His father came 
to Olmstead township at the age of sixteen 
years, was married in Cuyahoga county, and re- 
mained a resident here until his death, in June, 
1891, when he was eighty-five years of age. 
Our subject's mother died in 1851. In their 
family were eleven children, of whom seven are 



now living, namely: Asher, who resides in Olm- 
stead township; Ortila, whose name heads this 
sketch ; Elijah, Jr., who also is a resident of this 
township; Cassius, a resident of Olmstead 
township; Ferdinand, a resident of the same 
township; Orphelia, twin sister of the subject, 
is now the wife of George Stevens, of Ashta- 
bula, who lived until recently in Olmstead; and 
Wealthy, wife of Thomas Hall, also a resident 
of Olmstead. A lialf-brotlier, named Myron 
Stearns, resides in Eaton township. 

Mr. Orfila Stearns, our subject, was brought 
up in Olmstead township. In September, 1862, 
he enlisted in the F'ifteenth Ohio Independent 
Battery for three years or during the war, and, 
being in the Western army, participated in the 
siege of Vicksburg. Being afterward trans- 
ferred to the Invalid Corps, he was sta- 
tioned at Rock Island, Davenport and 
Milwaukee, and was also in the Pro- 
vost Marshal's office at Fond du Lac, 
Wisconsin. He was discharged at Milwaukee, 
June 28, 1864, and returned to Olmstead town- 
ship, Cuyahoga county. He settled upon his 
present farm in 1874, where he owns thirty- 
seven and a half acres of good land, and has 
prospered in agricultural pursuits. A good 
natural-gas well is on his place. 

In 1874 he married Miss Isabella Fitch, a 
native of Olmstead township and a daughter of 
Hudi5on and Abigail (Wilson) Fitch, natives of 
Connecticut, who came to Olmstead in an early 
day and now reside in Nebraska. Our subject 
and wife have two children, — Bertha and Ger- 
trude. 

Mr. Stearns is a member of Olmstead Post, 
G. A. R., No. 634, and in his political views is 
a Republican. 



djOHN W. SYLVESTER, a young man in 
I the employ of the Lake Shore & Michigan 
Southern Railroad Company, has risen 
rapidly to his present position as a result of 
faithful service. He was born at Port Clinton, 



CUYAHOGA VOUNTT. 



Ottawa county, Ohio, December 13, 1854, re- 
ceived his school education in his native village, 
and spent two years in the course at Baldwin 
University, at Berea, this State. After teach- 
ing public school one winter, rather as a kind of 
experiment, he ascertained thereby that the ped- 
agogical profession would not be as pleasant to 
him as some other callings. He decided to try 
the more exciting business of railroading, which 
he commenced as baggageman at Port Clinton 
station. Two years later he began as a brake- 
man on a work train, and in time was made 
foreman of a gang, and at length conductor. In 
this capacity he served five years, on the Nor- 
walk division. Next he served for five years as 
through freight conductor, or until 1889, when 
he entered the passenger service, in which he is 
still making a good record. He is a member of 
the O. of R. C, for which he was a delegate to 
their national convention in 1892. He is also 
a Master Mason. 

The subject of this brief notice is a son of J. 
W. Sylvester, Sr., who was a prominent pioneer 
citizen of Port Clinton, and was born in New 
Jersey, in 1810. Being ambitious to take in 
more of the world than he could in the old plod- 
ding States of the East, he came in early youth 
to this State. He taught school, became Treas- 
urer of Ottawa county. Postmaster of Port 
Clinton by appointment under President Will- 
iam H. Harrison's administration, and was Col- 
lector at the port of Port Clititon during the 
administrations of Presidents Grant and Hayes. 
When he first came to Ohio he was the main 
support of his widowed mother with fourteen 
children. Being a natural mechanic he began 
taking contracts for the construction of bridges, 
one of which was the old Eli bridge at Zanes- 
viile, which he, in company with his brother, 
Benjamin, built more than sixty years ago; that 
bridge is still in use. Previous to the war he 
was engaged in the boot and shoe business in 
Port Clinton, and since 1868 his attention has 
been devoted to the insurance business. He 
married Eliza Correll, a native of Pennsylvania, 
and is now aged sixty- five years. Of their 



six children only two are now living, namely: 
Miss Hattie, at Port Clinton; and J. W., whose 
name heads this sketch. 

The latter was married in Port Clinton, May 
30, 1876, to Miss Lucy A. Gates, a daughter of 
Henry Gates, who married Eunice Cornwall and 
had five children. Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester, of 
this sketch, are the parents of William R., El- 
nora and Wallen J. 



DAVID S. GILMORE, Postmaster 
Wilson's Mills, Ohio, is a veteran of 
Civil war and is a man well known 



of 

of the 

and 

highly respected in the community in which 
he lives. Of Mr. Gilmore's life we make re- 
cord as follows: 

David S. Gilmore was born in Chester town- 
ship, Geauga county, Ohio, July 19, 1839. 
The Gilmores are of Scotch descent. Ashbel 
Gilmore, the grandfather of David S., was born 
in Massachusetts, and was one of the earliest 
settlers of Chester township. His son, Silas 
Gilmore, the father of our subject, was born in 
Chester township. A sister of Silas was the 
first white child born in Geauga county. The 
mother of David S. Gilmore was before iier 
marriage Miss Lois Nichols. She was a native 
of Vermont and of English descent. About 
the time she was grown she came with her par- 
ents to (^hio, and in Chester township, Geauga 
county, she met and married Silas Gilmore. 
After their marriage they settled on the farm, 
in that township, on which they still reside. 
They are the parents of seven children, three 
sons and four daughters, David S. being the 
oldest child. He was reared on his father's 
farm, and attended the district school and also 
for a time was a student at Chester. Soon 
after the war he came to Cuyahoga county and 
entered into a partnership with General Willson, 
his father-in-law. They carried on the milling 
business together for one year. Subsequently 
Mr. Gilmore was in partnership for some time 
with Myron Willson. E\er since he came hoie 



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he has occupied a prominent place among his 
fellow citizens, filling various positions of trust 
and importance. He has served as Township 
Trustee, was for many years a School Director, 
and for the past twenty years has been Post- 
master, lie owns 100 acres of land in this 
vicinity. 

"Wlieu the Civil war came on Mr. Gilmore 
was among the first to join the Union ranks. 
He enlisted July 10, 1861, in the Seventh 
Ilegiment Brass Band, and as a musician per- 
formed faithful service until May 9, 1862, 
when he was discharged on account of disabil- 
ity. The following year he re-enlisted, this 
time in the Third Brigade, Third Division and 
Twenty-third Army Corps; bnt on account of 
some mistake in the papers that were made out 
he was discharged. Again he enlisted, this 
time under General Jack Casment, in the same 
corps, in which he served until the close of the 
war. His whole service was as a musician. He 
was discharged at Greensborongh, North Caro- 
lina, was mustered out at the same place, and 
from there returned home. He is now a mem- 
ber of Sam Allen Post, G. A. R., of Kirtland, 
Ohio. 

Mr. Gilmore was married January 29, 1867, 
to Mary C. Willson, daughter of General F. and 
Eliza (Henderson) Willson. She was born and 
reared at Wilson's Mills. They have two sons: 
George S., a conductor on the Cleveland street 
car line; and Charles W., at iiome. 



rB. MANY, one of Cleveland's young, 
prosperous and influential business men, 
was born March 15, 1860, in tliis city, 
graduated at the high school here and entered 
the service of the Valley Railway Company, 
wliure he had charge of the purchasing and 
ticket departments for five years. In 1881 he 
interested liimself in the oil business, as a mem- 
ber of the Harrison & Many Lighting Company, 
in which trade he is still interested. In 1886 
this firm took the contract for lighting the sub- 



urbs of Cleveland. He is also interested in the 
following enterprises in the official relation 
named: President of the Cleveland Vitrified 
Pressed Brick Company; president of the At- 
water General Electric Company; director in 
the Caravel Gold and Silver Mining Company; 
member of the firms of Harrison & Many and 
Harris & Many Lighting Company, as already 
mentioned; interested in the G. C. Kuhlman 
Car Company; and dealer in paving brick, 
operating alone. 

As to fraternal relations Mr. Many is a mem- 
ber of Pearl Lodge, Uniformed Rank, K. of P.; 
of Prieu Chevalier Division, No. 3, National 
Union; Ottwawa Shooting Club on the San- 
dusky river, as Secretary of the Locust Point 
Shooting Club; the Cleveland Yacht Club; and 
the Cleveland Athletic Club. As to politics he 
is a Republican. 

John J. Many, father of F. B., was born in 
New York city, in 1819, graduated at Mt. 
Holyoke (Massachusetts) College, and came to 
Cleveland in 1850, for the purpose of accepting 
the auditorshi]) of the Cleveland, Columbus, 
Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railroad, and held 
that position for twenty-four years. Failing 
health caused him to resign, in 1876, and he 
died in 1876. The grandfather of our subject 
was James Many, and great-grandfather was 
Count Francis de Mona (origin of name), who 
was a native of France. He was one of the ori- 
ginal Huguenots who emigrated to America. 
He stood guard at Gouverneur's island in the 
war of 1812, furnishing his own provisions, but 
was afterward reimbursed by the Government. 
He owned Blackwell's island and other estates, 
wliich now constitute the town of Ilaverstraw, 
New York: the family permitted it to revert to 
the Government. 

Mr. Many's mother's name before marriage 
was Jane L. Brady. Her father, Philip Brady, 
was the son of Sir James T. Brady, of Ireland, 
whose coat of arms was the memorial sign to 
the name Brady, formerly 

" The barons of Loch Tee : 
Three empty purses aaU spend your money free." 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



Mrs. John J. Many's paternal grandparents, 
Sir John and Lady Cordelia Johnstone, were na- 
tives of Scotland; and her maternal grand- 
parents, George and Susana Little, owned three 
estates in Ireland, one of which was that of 
Ballagarrive. 

Mr. Many, our subject, was married July 20, 
1886, to Miss Ilda M., daughter of Henry and 
Frances (Perew) Dresden, of Cleveland and of 
American and French ancestry, and Mr. and 
Mrs. Many have one child, who is named 
Frank. 



J. IIEKBERT, an active businessman 
of Cleveland, was born in St. Louis, 
^ Missouri, August 25, 1861, of Irish 
parentage. His father, Martin J. Her- 
bert, born in county Clare, in 1827, emigrated 
to the United States in 1850, married in Johns- 
town, Pennsylvania, Bridget O'Connell, moved 
some years later to St. Louis, Missouri, and was 
injured fatally while employed on the river 
there. Mrs. Herbert returned to Pennsylvania 
and there married Timothy O'Brien. 

M. J. Herbert, the youngest of his father's 
four children, secured a very scant education, 
and before his ninth year he became water car- 
rier in Libby's Glass-house, in Pittsburg. His 
next employers were Oliver & Brothers & Phil- 
lips. For them he worked two weeks, receiv- 
ing $1.50 at first and later $4 a week. Three 
years afterward he entered their rolling mills, at 
90 cents a day, and remained three years, when 
he came to Cleveland. He was employed by 
the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company as heater 
and catcher till 1887, at which time he was 
forced into a strike and virtually became its 
leader, in consequence of which he incurred the 
displeasure of the superintendent, and to pre- 
vent the precipitation of another strike result- 
ing from his discharge, he resigned. Since then 
Mr. Herbert has given iiis attention to accident 
insurance, first with tlie Equitable and for the 
past four years with the Standard. 



Mr. Herbert became known to politics in 
1887, when he was made the Democratic candi- 
date for Alderman from the Second district. He 
was nominated without his knowledge and 
consent for the Legislature in 1887. In 1890 
he was elected to the Council from the Twenty- 
si.xth ward, but was legislated out of office. 
After having served one year he was again 
elected, under the Federal plan, forthe term ex- 
piring in 1894. He was the minority candidate 
for President of the Council at its reorganiza- 
tion, 1893, and in consequence is chairman of 
the committee on Public Offices and Officers. 
In this position he rendered conspicuous service 
in securing the confirmation of the new cabinet 
and the approval of the Mayor's bond. Mr. 
Herbert is serving on the committees on Fire 
and on Printing. 

August 12, 1887, Mr. Herbert married Mar- 
garet Flaherty, a lady of Canadian birth. Their 
children are Margaret, Lawrence and Martin. 
Mr. Herbert is President of Branch No. 40, C. 
M. B. A., and Secretary of Division Xo. 3., A. 
O. H. 



SAMUEL WALLACE, deceased, formerly 
\ of Brecksville township, was born in 1806, 
~ — in Washington county, Pennsylvania, 
and came to Brecksville in 1816 or 1817, and of 
course was brought up as a pioneer: was em- 
ployed for a time on the construction of the 
Ohio canal, and saved some money, which he 
invested in a boat, that lie rati for a time on that 
water-way. In the fall of 1838 he married Miss 
Emily Moses, who was born October 30, 1819, 
in the township of Victor, Ontario county. New 
York, a daughter of William and Phoebe (Mi- 
nor) Moses, who emigrated to Independence in 
1837, by way of the Erie canal, Lake Erie and 
the Ohio canal. Mr. Moses was a farmer by 
vocation. 

After marriage Mr. Wallace, our subject, lo- 
cated on Iliver Road, in Brecksville township, 
where he owned a farm. He also owned the 
canal-boat Florida, which he ran that season, 



VUTAUOOA COUNTV. 



and spent the winters on the farm. About 1844 
he abandoned boating and resorted to farming 
along the river road, where he owned 160 acres, 
and lived there till his death, from consumption, 
in October, 1850, and was buried in Center cem- 
etery. In politics he was a Whig, and in reli- 
gion a Congregationalist. Was a thorough 
business man. By his death he left a widow 
and iive children, in very comfortable circum- 
stances. After his death Mrs. Wallace took 
charge of affairs and continued to reside on the 
old place till 1884, when she removed to her 
present farm. At that time it consisted of 150 
acres: now there are 175 acres. Her capacity 
as a business woman has been tested, and she 
has proven entirely capable. She now owns al- 
together 830 acres of land, which she manages 
in a successful manner. But she has had a great 
deal of trouble in the loss of children, etc. One 
of the children lay fourteen months practically 
helpless. She is every way worthy of the beau- 
tiful home she occupies, and of the high esteem 
in which she is regarded by all who know her. 
She is a member of the Congregational Church. 
Her children have been : Mary, who died at 
the age of eighteen years; Susanna, now Mrs. 
Ed McCreery, of this township; William, who 
died aged thirty years; Eieanora, who died at 
the age of nineteen year.s; and Samuel W., de- 
ceased when thirty years old. 



JLLIAM KEIIRES,a merchant and the 
Postmaster of AVarrensville, was born 
in Cleveland, Ohio, July 13, 1855, a 
son of John and Minnie Kehres, natives of 
Germany. In 1847 the father located in Cleve- 
land, wiiere he was afterward married, and both 
still reside in that city. They were the parents 
of eight children, four sons and four daughters. 
William, the eldest child of the family, re- 
ceived a good education in the public schools, 
and afterward learned the cigarmaker's trade. 
In 1887 he located at Warrensville, Cuyahoga 
county, where he has since been engaged in the 



mercantile business, now occupying a store 
room 20 x 46 feet. Through the efforts of Mr. 
Kehres tlie post office was established in this 
city, after having been discontinued four years, 
and in February, 1890, he accepted the position 
of Postmaster. In 1892 he was elected Clerk 
of Warrensville township, by the Republican 
party. 

At the age of twenty-four years, Mr. Kehres 
was united in marriage with Minnie, a daughter 
of John Le.xzo. They have five children, — Ar- 
thur, Lizzie, Alma, Roland and Helen. In his 
social relations, Mr. Kehres is a member of the 
Independent Order of Foresters, of Ohio. 



ILLIAM O. GORDON, one of the 
most enterprising and progressive citi- 
zens of Bedford, was born in the town 
which is still his home March 9, 1851. His 
parents were James and Elizabeth Gonluii, na 
fives of Scotland; they emigrated to the United 
States, and passed their last days at Bedford. 
William O. is the fifth of a family of four sons 
and two daughters. He received his education 
in the common schools of his birth-place, and at 
the age of ten years began his career in the 
commercial world. Having inherited many 
admirable traits from his Scotch ancestors he 
gave early evidence of the reliability and stead- 
fastness that have marked all the years of Ids 
life. He was first employed by the old Wheel- 
ock Chair Company and there gained a thorough 
knowledge of all the details of this business. 
In 1878 Mr. Gordon went to Anderson, Indi- 
ana, where he was employed in a chair factory 
owned by Wheelock & Company. Later he 
entered the employ of the Taylor Chair Com- 
pany and for thirteen years was associated with 
this corporation. The connection was severed 
in 1890, when the Bedford Chair Company was 
organized with our worthy sul)ject as superin- 
tendent. A wiser choice could not have been 
made, as he is a skilled mechanic as well as a 
man of wide commercial experience. 



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Mr. Gordon was married June 16, 1872, to 
Miss Hattie Robinson, who was born at New- 
burgh, Ohio, a daughter of Cornelius Robinson, 
and granddaughter of James Robinson, one of 
the well-known pioneers of her native place. 
Mrs. Gordon's mother was a Miss Caruthers, a 
native of Ireland. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon are 
the parents of a family of six children: Ellen, 
wife of Lester Kingore, is the mother of one son, 
Kenneth; Kit B., William A., Sada, Frank, and 
Bert, who died at the age of ten months. The 
mother and two older daughters are members of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church. The family 
occupy an attractive residence on Brown's Lane, 
where tliey are surrounded with all the com- 
forts of this advanced civilization. 

Politically Mr. Gordon supports the princi- 
ples of the Prohibition party; he has been for 
many years an ardent worker in the ranks ot 
temperance reformers, and was a member of 
the Sons of Temperance and the Temple of 
Honor. He belongs to Bedford Lodge, No. 
375, A. F. it A. M. As a member of the City 
Council he was a faithful guardian of the best 
interests of Bedford and did much to promote 
her welfare. 



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OHN G. SPEAR, a prominent farmer of 
Warrensvilie township, Cuyahoga county, 
is a native of that township, born Novem- 
ber 28, 1852. His father, John Spear, a native 
of England, emigrated to the United States in 
1845, locating in Cuyahoga county, a poor man. 
He was married in England, to Miss Ann Fry, 
also a native of tliat country, who died in War- 
rensvilie township, this county, April 12, 1806, 
at the age of fifty-five years. He is still living, 
now aged eiglity-two yoai-s. They had three 
children: Ann, wife of -J. S. Stoneman; Eliza- 
beth, who mari-ied Jacob Stoneman; and 
John G. 

The last mentioned was reared in his town- 
ship, receiving a common-school education, at 
Chagrin Fails. He was married April 19, 1876, 



to Miss Jennie Brew, also a native of Warrens- 
vilie township, and they have one son, by name 
George A. 

Mr. Spear has one of the finest farms in the 
township, comprising eighty acres and well im- 
proved. He also has a farm of seventy-two 
acres in Orange township. His farming opera- 
tions embrace general agriculture, in which he 
has been very successful, being now able to lend 
considerable money of his own. For his resi- 
dence he has a modern frame house, and for 
farm houses he has an excellent barn and other 
outbuildings. 

In his political principles Mr. Spear is a Re- 
publican, and as to religion he is a member of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church. 



CHARLES BAYER, who is engaged in 
general farming in Brooklyn township, 
Cuyahoga county, Ohio, dates his birth 
in Darmstadt, Germany, June 19, 1839. 

John Bayer, his father, also a native of Ger- 
many, was born in 1808, and in 1849 emigrated 
to this country, coming direct to Cuyahoga 
county, Ohio, and first settling in Parma town- 
ship. In that township he remained until 1867, 
when he removed to the farm on which his sou 
Charles now lives. His wife, whose maiden 
name was Margaret Steller, came with him to 
this country, and her death occurred Octol)er 
25, 1868, the year after his removal to this 
farm. His death occurred July 13, 1880. They 
had four children, Charles being the only sur- 
viving member of the family. 

Charles Bayer was ten years old when he canie 
with his parents to Cuyahoga county. He had 
attended school in the old country for four 
years, aiul after they came here he went to the 
Parma township schools for some time. After 
his father's death he came into possession of the 
old homestead, which comprises seventy acres of 
choice land. His whole life has been devoted 
to general farming and stock raising, and in 
this occupation he has l)een very successful. In 



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1881 he erected a tine brick house, at a cost of 
|>'4,000, it being supplied witli all the modern 
iinproveineuts and conveniences. 

Mr. Bayer was married May 12, 1867, to 
Anna Reimer, a native of Germany. She was 
born July 21, 1847, and came to this country 
when slie was seventeen years old. They have 
six children, four daughters and two sons: Anna 
L., Metta K., Emma M., William ()., Edward 
II. and Alma AV. They lost five children in 
infancy. 

Mr. Bayer is a member of the Evangelical 
Church. 



THEODORE M. WARNER, accountant 
for the Society for Savings, is a son of 
the late Wareham J. Warner, a promi- 
nent man in the history of Cleveland, 
lie was born in this city, February 10, 1844, 
given an education in the city schools, and at 
lit'teen began work for Huntington & Brooks, 
qucensware merchants on Water street. On 



this firm he entered the Government 



service, as purser in the Quartermaster's De- 
partment, on the steamer Mustang, plying the 
Rio Grande liver to furnish supplies, etc., to 
the Federal troops in that desert country. 

In 1864 Mr. Warner quit this service, after 
being out a year, returned to Cleveland and 
entered the service of George Sprague & Com- 
pany, wholesale grocers on Merwin street, and 
remained with them five years. Next he was 
employed by the Worswick Manufacturing 
Company, and had charge of their office until 
1877. That year he accepted a position with 
the Society for Savings, as bookkeeper. In 
1883 he was promoted to the position of ac- 
countant, which he now holds. 

In politics Mr. Warner is a radical Repulili- 
can, made more zealously so by the panic of 
1893. He never fails to give loyal and hearty 
support to the nominees of his party, and does 
much good work in a quiet way. In 1876 he 
was elected to the City Council, which body 
was dubbed the "Centennial Council." lie 



represented the First ward, and was three times 
re-elected, which fact alone speaks volumes as 
to the value of his services. He was chairman 
of the committee on Fire and Water, and in 
consequence was ex officio a member of the 
Fire Board. He retired in 1884, voluntarily, 
with a conscionsness of having performed his 
duty as he saw it, and having repeatedly re- 
ceived the plaudits and puljlic approval of his 
constituents. 

He is a member of To Kalon Council, No. 
524, Royal Arcanum; Washington Lodge, No. 
10, K. of P., and of Cuyahoga Council, No. 
523, National Union. 

January 1, 1868, is the date of Mr. Warner's 
marriage, in Cleveland, to Miss Alice C. Ken- 
nedy, of Jackson, Michigan, a daughter of 
Thompson Kennedy, and lives in a line resi- 
dence at No. 258 Bolton avenue. 



IRAM DAY, one of the oldest living 
settlers of Cuyahoga county, Ohio, is the 
second son and fourth-born of a family 
of eight children. His parents were 
Benjamin and Nancy (Andrews) Day. The 
father was a native of New Jersey, but removed 
from that State to Washington county, Penn- 
sylvania, in 1811. In 1812, on the day of the 
battle of Put-in-Bay, September 10, he arrived 
in Cleveland, Ohio, and was greeted with tlie 
roar of the cannon not far distant. He and 
other settlers there had everything in readiness 
to "beat a hasty retreat" in case the Americans 
lost the day. William Hale and A. Crosby 
were among the number who were there on that 
eventful day. He purchased 333 acres of land, 
all of which was heavily timbered, and. under- 
took the arduous task of reducing it to a state 
uf cultivation. The bear, wolf and deer roved 
tiirough the forest at will, and many Indians 
dwelt in the neighborhood. Here in these wild 
surroundings their children were reared and 
educated, with the exception of Phcelje, de- 
ceased, who remained iu Pennsylvania with her 



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grandmother; she married James Hannah; 
Robert grew to manhood upon his father's 
farm, but chose the profession of medicine as 
his vocation; he became one of the prominent 
physicians of this State, and died at an ad- 
vanced age; Hiram is the subject of this notice; 
Lavinia, deceased, was the wife of Abner Cros- 
liy; Catherine, deceased, was tlie wife of Hiram 
Mcllrath; Margaret, deceased, Delilah, who 
married S. McFarlin, of Cleveland; and Florus, 
who died at the age of seven or eight years. The 
father died at the venerable age of ninety-four 
years, the mother having passed away some 
years earlier. 

Hiram Day was born in Washington county, 
Pennsylvania, September 10, 1809, and was an 
infant of two years when his parents removed 
to Ohio. He assisted his father in the labors 
of the farm, and acquired his education in the 
priniitive log schoolhouse of the frontier. He 
remained under the parental roof until he had 
attained his majority, and during the seventeen 
years that followed he devoted his energies to 
placing the liomestead under cultivation and 
clearing it of debt. 

He was married November 10, 1837, to 
Mrs. Catherine Bishop, who was born in East 
Cleveland. Two children were born of this 
union: George W., who died at the age of two 
years, and Joseph A., whose history is given 
elsewhere in this volume. Mrs. Day died with- 
in si.\ years after her marriage. Mr. Day was 
married a second time, this union being with 
Deborah Albee, of East Cleveland. They are 
the parents of two children: Martha Adelaide, 
deceased, and Mercy, wife of Olney Crozier, 
who resides upon the homestead. Mrs. Day 
departed this life in August. 1882. After his 
first marriage Mr. Day settled upon 100 acres 
of laud in the heart of the forest, and a second 
time performed the heavy labor necessary to 
render the land productive. In early days he 
gained a wide reputation as a chopper, and was 
equally famed for the number of rails he had 
split. He is now eighty-five years of age and 
retains his mental and physical vigor to a re- 



markable degree. By unremitting toil he ac- 
cumulated a competence which has made his 
old age one of peace and comfort. For more 
than half a century he has been a consistent 
member of the Presbyterian Church. In the 
time of the Whig party he gave his support to 
that organization, but when its usefulness had 
passed into history he gave equal allegiance to 
the Kepublican party. 



E- GEESHAM, a representative young 
business man of Cleveland, since 188S 
^ has been manager of the interests of Mr. 
J. H. Wade, in the absence of that gen- 
tleman. 

He is a native of Sheffield, England, born in 
December, 1865, a sou of Samuel S. and Emily 
(Hooton) Gresham, who are now residents of 
Cleveland, locating here in 1890, after spending 
two years in Canada. Mr. Gresham was reared 
in his native country and educated in the com- 
mercial schools of Sheffield. Learning the cut- 
lery trade, in the works of Wheatley Brothers, 
he was made, within four years after he was em- 
ploj'ed there and before he was twenty-one years 
of age, manager of the pocket-knife department 
of the institution. Also, prior to his majority, 
he was Sergeant of the First Battalion of the 
York and Lancaster Regiment, in which he 
served three years, being promoted each year. 
His motto is to excel in all that he undertakes. 

Ill 1886 he came to America, locating first in 
Philadelphia, where he spent some seven montiis, 
entering the insurance business while there; 
then, after making a short sojourn at West 
Point, he came to Toledo, where he followed the 
insurance business a few months, and ne.xt went 
to Chicago, and was engaged by John Hunter 
for a short time in contracting, and finally came 
to this city and associated himself with Mr. 
Wade as his private secretary, which relation 
he now holds. 

Mr. Gresham is a gentleman of good, st>und 
business ability, faithful and reliable. He is a 



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member of the Lake View Lodge, I. O. O. F., 
and vice president of the Keating Wheel Clnb. 
August 4, 1890, at St. John's Church, by 
Rev. F. M. Hall, he was married to Miss Alice 
Linley, daughter of Councillor Percy Linley, of 
Sheffield, England. Mr. and Mrs. Gresham are 
the parents of one child, named Harry. They 
are members of St. Mark's Church, Protestant 
Episcopal, of this city, and in his political views 
Mr. Gresham is a Repulilican. 



HARLES H. DUNBAR, a retired farmer 
of Brecksville townsiiip, was born March 
31, 1817, in Brimfield, Hampden county, 
Massacliusetts. His father. Captain John Dun- 
bar, was Itorn in Worcester, that State, and 
married Miss Lucy B. Bliss, a native of Hamp- 
den county, and had the following childi-en: 
Charles H. (our subject), Thersa, Lucretia, 
Rebecca, John, Lucy, William, and Tliomas. 
In the fall of 1831 Captain Dunbar came to 
Brecksville townsiiip, this county, in a one- 
horse wagon, and bought a tract of eighty acres 
in the western part of the township, at $3 an 
acre. He also purchased seven fine horses, 
which he took back to the east, driving thein l)y 
riding horseback, and sold them in Boston for 
a high price. 

May 21, 1832, his parents and their eight 
children hired a four-horse team and a two- 
horse team and started West, laying in a supply 
of goods at Albany and coming by way of the 
canal to Buffalo and the steamer Henry (!lay to 
Cleveland, arriving in Cuyahoga county June 4. 
They found that the house and improvements 
on their place had been removed during the 
owner's absence in the East, and they tempora- 
rily occupied a log house at some distance from 
their work. After their arrival here the fol- 
lowing children were born: George, Frank and 
Homer. Thersa died unmarried, at the age of 
twenty-two years; Lucretia is now the widow 
of Francis Adams, of Chicago, Illinois; Re- 
becca is the widow of William Wheeler, of Chi- 



cago; John is a retired hotel -man of Beloit, 
Wisconsin; Lucy is now Mrs. Burr Van Noate, 
of Brecksville township; William is a fruit- 
raiser in California; Tliomas is a farmer at 
Gallatin, Montana; George is a resident of 
South Cleveland; Frank, of Gallatin, Montana; 
and Homer is a retired hotel-keeper of St. 
Joseph, Missouri. Their father died at the age 
of eighty-four years, and his wife at eighty- 
nine years of age, and they are buried in Center 
Cemetery. During his later years Captain 
Dunbar lived a retired life in Beloit, Wiscon- 
sin, but died at Brecksville Center. He was a 
successful man of business, having obtained the 
possession of 200 acres of good land. In poli- 
tics he was a decided Whig and Republican, 
and anti-slavery. He never sought political 
office, but he held offices in the Congregational 
Chui'cb, of which Mrs. Dunbar was also a 
member. 

Mr. Charles II. Dunbar, whose name intro- 
duces this sketch, was sixteen years of age 
when he came to Ohio; and, being the eldest 
of the children, in frontier life, he had fewer 
advantages of school education. He took his 
sisters in a two-horse wagon to Oberlin, to at- 
tend school there. He remained upon the 
farm, working industriously in clearing, etc., 
until he was twenty-one years of age. 

September 17, 1839, he married Miss Har- 
riet W. Storrs, who was born Jnly 17, 1820, in 
Westport, Essex county, New York, a daughter 
of Elijah and Julia (Ilolcomb) Storrs, who came 
to Ohio in 1834, locating in Summit county. 
She attended school at Hudson, Ohio, and after- 
ward taught school, at one time for a dollar a 
week, when a calico dress cost $3. After mar- 
riage Mr. Dunbar located first on rented land 
in Brecksville township, and then purchased 
fifty-si.\ acres of land, going in debt for it. He 
followed agriculture there for sixteen years, and 
then moved upon his present farm, which in 
area was an addition to the tract of over 200 
acres he already had. Since his location here 
he has been engaged in buying live stock, wool, 
etc., traveling throughout the Western States 



CUTAJIOGA COUNTY. 



and Canada. He and Mrs. Dunbar .spent the 
winter of 1882-'83 in Florida. He is now 
practically retired from l«isiiicsB, which is in 
charge of liis son Cliarlcs F. They have rented 
property in Cleveland and have interests else- 
where. Mr. Dnnbar has been a successful man 
in life, and his efficient wife has done her share 
toward his success. He is a man of strong 
constitution, determined disposition and of 
business-like habits, capable of filling many re- 
sponsible positions. He was originally a Whig, 
and is now a Republican. Both he and his wife 
are members of the Congregational Church, of 
which he was formerly Trustee, and Deacon for 
a nnml)er of years, but resigned on account of 
fjiilure in the faculty of hearing. He is a great 
friend of the cotninon-school system. His only 
child, Charles F., born May 30, 1841, is living 
with him. 



\\A\1 ^'' ^'^^^^' a"<^itor of the Cleveland, 
Vf/W/ L"™" ^ Wheeling Railway Company, 
?i ^ is a native of Ohio and of Scotch an- 
cestry. His father, Robert Park, born in Carl- 
ton Hills, Scotland, emigrated to the United 
States in 1819, and made a temporary residence 
in Ithaca, New York, where he followed his 
trade, cabinet- making and carpentering, for 
about a decade, when he renewed his westward 
journey and settled in North Fairfield, Huron 
county, in 1830. The last years of his life 
were spent on a farm, and he died in 1855, at 
the age of fifty- three years. He was married 
at Ithaca, to Miss Margaret Lockhart, and they 
had the following named children: Mrs. Mor- 
foot, wife of B. F. Morfoot, of Elyria, Ohio: 
Miss Eva Park; Mrs. D. F. Myers, of Hills- 
dale, Michigan; W. II. Park; Mrs. C. M. 
Casey, of Indianapolis, Indiana; and C. E. 
Park, also of Indianapolis. 

Mr. W. H. Park, whose name introduces this 
sketch, was educated primarily in the district 
schools. To prepare for his business career he 
completed a course in the well-known Pough- 
keepsie (New York) Business College, graduat- 



ing May 2, 1865. He returned to the farm 
and remained until May, 1868, when he was 
employed by the " Big 4" at Greenwich station 
as a man of all work. In January, 1873, he 
came to the Lake Shore & Tuscarawas Valley 
Railway Company, now the Cleveland, Lorain 
& Wheeling, as agent at Canal Dover, where he 
remained until 1876. He was then transferred 
to Elyria, in the same capacity, antl served 
there until July, 1877, when he was promoted 
to the positions of paymaster and traveling 
auditor. After filling those positions until 
January 1, 1881, he was elected auditor for the 
company. 

He is a member of the Association of Rail- 
way Accountants. Joining the Masonic order 
in 1878, he now afliliates with the Cleveland 
City Lodge, Cleveland Chapter, Holy Rood 
Commandery and Lake Erie Consistory. 

August 26, 1875, at Canal Dover, he married 
Miss Fannie, a daughter of Hon. Edmund Bur- 
nett, who.«e original home was in Connecticut; 
and the children of Mr. and Mrs. Park are 
Robert, aged seventeen; and Ralph, aged -four- 
teen. 



[1 LEXANDER HADDEN, son of the late 
l\ Alexander Iladden, of Wheeling, West 
ii Virginia, was born in that city, July 2, 
1850. When he was nine years of age 
his father's death occurred, and about that time 
his mother and the family removed to Euclid 
township, this county. His mother now makes 
her home with him. In Euclid township Mr. 
Hadden spent his youth, at work on a fai-m and 
in attending district schools. He also attended 
the high school at Collamer, and then went to 
Oberlin College, at which institution he gradu- 
ated in 1873. In the same year he began read- 
ing law in Cleveland under the instructions of 
Spaulding & Dickman, the latter now being a 
judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio. In Oc- 
tober, 1875, Mr. Hadden was admitted to the 
bar, and at once began the practice of law. In 
February, 1882, he was appointed Assistant 



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County Prosecuting Attorney, by Honorable C. 
M. Stone. In this capacity lie ser%'ed with 
credit and ability until 1885, in January of 
wbicli year lie became Prosecuting Attorney for 
the county, having been elected to the ofKce in 
the preceding fall. In the fall of 1887 Mr. 
Iladden was re-elected to that office, in which he 
served a second term, which ended January 1, 
1891. He then opened an office in connection 
with Mr. Sheldon Parks, and he has since re- 
mained in the general practice of his profession. 
He tried many important cases in court while 
Prosecuting Attorney, among which was the 
case of the State of Ohio vs. Otto Leuth, in 
which Leuth was indicted for the murder of 
Maggie Thompson, a child under seven years of 
age, in which case Leuth was convicted of mur- 
der in the first degree, and for which crime he 
was hanged. 

July 17, 1883, Mr. Hadden married Miss 
Frank Hawthorne, and they have two children, 
a daughter and son. 



DAVID BRATTON, a prosperous farmer 
I of Brecksville township, was born De- 
cember G, 1818, in Stamford township, 

Bennington county, Vermont. His father, 
X BoberL^xattan, also a native of the Green 
Mountain State, was a farmer in humble cir- 
cumstances, and married Mrs. Huldah (Knowl- 
ton) Butler, a widow, born in Massachusetts 
near the Vermont line. In 1827 Robert Brat- 
ton moved his family from Stamford to Shafts- 
bury across the mountain, the journey being 
an impressive one on the mind of young David. 
' Disposing of his small farm of twenty-five 
j acres, Mr. Bratton and his wife and seven chil- 
dren (the oldest not yet thirteen years of age) 
moved to Ohio, by way of the Erie canal and 
lake to Cleveland, and thence by a hired con- 
veyance to Brecksville, the journey from Cleve- 
land out requiring the time from sunrise to 
sunset. Here they arrived, with l)ut $5 in 
money, and none of the children olil enough to 



help to a con.siderable extent. Finding a tem- 
porary home in the southern part of the town- 
ship, Mr. Bratton cultivated a farm the first 
year on shares. After living there one winter 
he moved further north. Later he purchased 
twenty-five acres of land southeast of where his 
son David now lives. In later years the par- 
ents and one son, Robert, and two daughters 
moved to Ashtabula township, Ashtabula 
county, where they continued to reside until 
their (the parents') death, — ^Mr. Bratton dying 
July 28, 1872, and his wife August 22, 1879, 
and they are Ijuried in that vicinity. Their 
children are: David, the subject of this sketch; 
Lydia, who died unmarried; Sallie and Robert, 
who reside in Ashtabula county; Timothy, who 
died in 1832; Harry, now a resident of Ashta- 
Inila; Joseph, of jSTew Lyme, Ashtabula county; 
and Alonzo, who died in infancy. 

Mr. David Bratton, belonging to a family in 
poverty, was brought up to habits of industry. 
When but ten years of age he began working 
for wages, at $3 per month, and afterward for 
!S5 a month, with the savings from which he 
paid for the home of his parents and purchased 
a yoke of oxen, at $45, and also contributed 
$50 toward the improvements of his parents' 
place. Accordingly, in consideration of what 
he had done, he was given his time at the age 
of eighteen years. 

In February, 1847, he married Miss Laura 
Tuthill, who was born in New York in 1825, a 
daughter of Deacon Samuel Tuthill, who emi- 
grated to Cuyahoga county in early times. 
Mrs. Bratton died September 14, 1888, and was 
buried in Royalton cemetery. She taught 
school several terms: was formerly a Baptist in 
her church relations. After his marriage Mr. 
Bratton located where he now lives, and where 
he owns 15G acres of excellent land; and he has 
erected all the buildings now on his farm. By 
his own industry and economy he has accumu- 
lated a competence. Probably no man in the 
township has labored under so many and great 
difficulties as he, and at the same time succeeded 
in doing so well. Politically he is a Democrat, 



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and has generally selected the best men in his 
township for county offices. His children are: 
Maria, now Mrs. William Evans, of Royalton 
township; Ernest, of Ashtahnla, Ohio; Harvey 
T., on tlie home farm; besides an infant son 
who died unnamed. 



GYRUS C. BREEN, an iionored repre- 
sentative of one of the oldest pioneer 
families of Brecksville township, was born 
January 2, 1841, in tiiis township. His father, 
Joseph Breen, Jr., w_as born in Beaver county, 
Pennsylvania, in 1808, and the father of the 
latter, Joseph, Sr., was a native of Ireland, born 
in 1765 and brought to the United States in 
1770 by his widowed mother. He grew to 
manhood in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, and 
in 1804 married Jane Clifford, wiio was born 
November 9, 1786. In 1808 he came to 
Youngstown, and in 1810 moved to Boston, 
Summit county, Ohio, where he resided a few 



years. 



He moved to Brecksville townshi 



ISlS, into a log house he had built the preced- 
inir year, on the farm where Mr. (^yrus C. 
Breeti now lives. In 1864 a frame addition 
was built, and in 1875 the old log portion was 
torn away l>y (!yrus C. Breen, who built a 
frame house on the same ground. The price 
paid for the farm was |2.18 per acre. The reader 
can imagine how wild the forest was here at 
tjiat time: not a stick had been cut liy white 
man, and the woods were rife witli all the 
species of wild animals that ever roved in Ohio. 
The battle of Lake Erie at Put-in Bay was dis- 
tinctly heard by Mr. Breen, while he with 
others was at a "raising" in Independence 
township. This family were among the pio- 
neers of Beaver county, Pennsylvania. The 
int)tlier of Jane (Clifford) Breen, whose maiden 
name was Elizabeth Stoops, was captured by 
the savages during tlieir raid through western 
Pennsylvaiua during the latter part of the last 
century, and carried to tiie vicinity of Sandusky, 
Ohio, where she was rescued, single-handed, by 



a daring man named Brady, who was made 
famous by his great leap clearing tiie Cuyahoga 
river near Cuyahoga Falls. 

On the wilderness spot above referred to Mr. 
Breen lived until his death, August 10, 1829: 
his wife survived until June 5, 1865. Their 
children were: John G., Nancy, Joseph, Eliz- 
abeth, William, David, Cunningham, Edward, 
Sarah Jane, James and Cyrns C, — all of whom 
are dead. 

Joseph Breen, Jr., the father of the suly'ect 
of this sketch, was brought to Brecksville by 
his parents, and was reared on the farm now 
owned and occupied l)y our subject. October 
10, 1839, in Northtield, Summit county, he 
married Betsey Hunt, who was born August 
28, 1821, in that township, a daughter of 
Abner, Sr., and Betsey (Johnson) Hunt. He 
then located opposite where Mr. Cyrus C. 
Breen now lives, and continued there the re- 
mainder of his life, dying February 23, 1873. 
He was made a cripple for life by having, when 
a boy only five years of age, fallen over a log 
in the door-yard and breaking his thigh bone 
and dislocating his ankle: the latter injury, not 
being noticed, was not properly cared for. He 
learned the trade of weaver in his younger days, 
and in early life here in the forest wove the 
goods used by the family. His children were: 
Cyrus C, whose name heads this sketch; and 
William J., a farmer of Brecksville township. 
Their mother survived until May 21, 1892, and 
now lies buried in the Eastern cemetery be- 
side her husband, which had been given by 
"Granny" Timmons to the township; but, the 
deed being lost, it fell to i\Ir. Cyrus C. Breen 
and his brother, who deeded it to the township 
in the fall of 1892. Politically Mr. Joseph 
Breen was a Republican, and in religion his 
wife was a Methodist. 

The gentleman whose name introduces this 
sketch was brought up a farmer's boy, remain- 
ing a resident at the parental liome until he 
was twenty-seven years of age. Being the eld- 
est son, he was of considerable assistance to his 
parents. For a home lie at iirst rented the 



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place where he now lives; later he bought a 
small tract of tweuty-foiir acres, to which he 
added at different tiines, and now has 115 acres 
of land, all of good quality. In his political 
views he was formerly a Republican, but since 
1866 he has been a Democrat. For fifteen 
years he was a School Director. All his life 
he has been a successf id farmer and one of the 
most deserving pioneers. 

He was married December 29, 1867, to Mary 
R. Packard, who was born August 7, 1846, in 
Hinckley township, Medina county, Ohio, a 
daughter of I. S. and Betsey A. (Bellus) Pack- 
ard. Tier father was born in Franklin county, 
Massachusetts, and her mother in Franklin 
county, Vermont. Mr. and Mrs. Breeu's chil- 
dren are Joseph S. and Elmer C. Joseph S. 
Breen was married February 21, 1892, to 
Hattie Whitehead, and now lives on a part of 
the farm of the late Joseph Breen, Jr., deceased. 



It /I F. BARRETT, of the Cleveland Bronze 
1 1^1 & Brass Works, was born in Cuyahoga 
Jj ii county, Ohio, April 21, 1863. Thomas 
' Barrett, father of the subject of this 

notice, was an Irishman, a native of county 
Mayo, his birth occurring about 1833, came to 
Cleveland in 1859, and was for many years 
foreman for Rhodes & Company, but is now in 
the water department of the city's employ. He 
married Bridget Gallagher, and their children 
are: M. F. ; Thomas S., a civil engineer on the 
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad; and Hannah A. 

M. F. Barrett was educated in the parochial 
scliools of this city, graduating at sixteen years 
of age, and spent some time in the private school 
of Prof. George Kelly before entering the For- 
est City Business College, where he took a di- 
ploma, completing his education. 

On taking up the realities of life Mr. Barrett 
apj)renticed himself in the shops of the Cuya- 
lioga Steam Furnace Company, where he com- 
pleted his trade and became a leading molder, 
remaining in their employ till October, 1892, 



when he formed a partnership with P. J. F. 
Tumney and engaged in the same business 
under the firm name of The Cleveland Bronze 
& Brass Works. They are building up a fine 
business, fully meeting the expectations of the 
proprietors. 

In 1890 Mr. Barrett became interested in 
politics, and the next year he was elected to 
membership on the Cleveland School Board, 
serving one term. In the year 1893 he was 
elected to the city council from the Eighth dis- 
trict, receiving a majority of 700 votes. He is 
chairman of the committee on Department Ex- 
aminations, and a member of the committees on 
Taxation and Assessment and on Ordinances. 

Mr. Barrett is not married. 



T=^ DWARD H. REED, an old and esteemed 
Vr citizen of Strongsville township, was born 
^^^ in Cornwall, England, in St. Agnes par- 
ish, October 22, 1823. In 1837 he came to 
America with his father, Thomas Reed, now 
deceased, who married Mary Hichens; both the 
parents were natives of Cornwall. On their 
emigration to this country they settled in 
Strongsville township, where they lived until 
their death, he dying May 21, 1877, and she 
April U, 1872. 

Of their thirteen children Edward H. was the 
sixth in order of birth. His boyhood days were 
spent in Cornwall, and he was brought by his 
parents to this country in their emigration 
hither, in 1837. For some six or seven years 
he was engaged in mercantile business in 
Albion, but farming and stock-raising have 
been his chief occupation, besides dealing in live 
stock to some extent. He is now the owner of 
160 acres of land; once he had 300 acres. Of 
late years he has led a retired life. 

His first marriage was to Miss Hannah Cole, 
in Strongsville township, and by that union 
there was one daughter, Florence IL, who is the 
wife of H. K. W. Stebbins, of Youngstown. 
For his second wife Mr. Reed married Emeline 



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G. Snow, a native of Strongsville, and by this 
union also there was one daugiiter, who died 
when about four years of age. Mrs. Emeh"ne 
Reed died in Strongsville township; and for 
his third wife Mr. Eeed married Mrs. Harriet 
E. Strong, widow of J. C. Strong, who also died 
in this township. 

Mr. Reed lias filled the office of township 
Trustee for many years, Treasurer for several 
years, and Assessor of the real estate of the 
township; and he has taken a very active part 
in all local affairs, as well as in general politics, 
having been a Republican ever since the organ- 
ization of the party. 



[( RTIIUR MANNING WAITT, general 
1\ master car builder of the Lake Shore & 
-^ Micliigan Southern Railway Company, 
was born in Boston, Massachusetts, Oc- 
tober 24, 1858. He is a son of Robert M. 
Waitt, a sea captain in early life, who later re- 
tired from that and became a customs official, 
and finally in business in Boston. He was 
born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1824. 
He is descended from three Welsh brothers 
who separated on landing in America, one 
settling in Rhode Island and one in Massachu- 
setts, the location of the third being unknown. 

Robert M. Waitt married Ellen Hinckley, 
whose father, Matthias Hinckley, a sea captain, 
was descended directly from Governor Hinck- 
ley, one of Massachusetts' famous governors. 
Matthias Hinckley married Mary C. Cobb, a 
daughter of one of the first families of New 
England and related to the renowned James 
Otis. 

Arthur M. Waitt is the only living one of 
two children. He graduated at the Mas,sachu- 
setts Institute of Technology in 1879, taking 
the degree of S. B. in Mechanical Engineering. 
His railroad life began with the Chicago, Bur- 
lington & Quincy Railroad Company in 1879 at 
Burlington, Iowa, as clerk in the office of the 
gfmeral superintendent, a temporary position, 



while waiting for an opening in the mechanical 
department. A change from this office placed 
hira in the car and locomotive department of 
the road at Aurora, Illinois, where he remained 
two years. Becoming somewhat broken down 
in health, the next nine months were spent in 
travel and recuperation. On becoming able for 
daily duty again be took position as draughts- 
man in the car department of the Easton Rail- 
road at Salem, Massachusetts. One year later 
he took the position of leading draughtsman in 
the locomotive department of the same road at 
Boston. In 1884 he was appointed general 
foreman of the car department of the Eastern 
Railroad. Eighteen montlis later this road be- 
came a part of the Boston & Maine system, 
soon after which consolidation Mr. Waitt was 
made assistant master car builder, which he 
held till February, 1888, when he took the posi- 
tion of assistant manager of the Pullman Palace 
Car Works at Pullman, Illinois. In October, 
1889, he accepted the position of assistant gen- 
eral master car builder of the Lake Shore & 
Michigan Southern Railway Company, becom- 
ing chief of the office October, 1892, succeeding 
John Kirby. 

Mr. Waitt married, in Boston, Miss Maude, 
a daughter of Roscoe and Sarah Gleason. One 
child is the result of this union, Weymer Hinck- 
ley. Mr. Waitt holds a membership in the In- 
dependent Order of Odd Fellows and affiliates 
with the National Union. He is the present 
presiding officer of the Central Railway Club, 
composed of officials of railroads centering in 
the Middle States, and he is a member of the 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers. 



FW. liOLTZ, the genial and popular com- 
mercial agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee 
— & St. Paul Railway Company for Cleve- 
land and northern Ohio, was born in this city, 
Decembers, 1862, and completed his education 
in the high school, graduating at the age of 
.seventeen years. Soon after this he wa.s em- 



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ployed by the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern 
Railroad Company as clerk in the freight de- 
partment, where he remained eight years. He 
accepted next a position for the Chicago, Mil- 
waukee & St. Paul Railway Company as travel- 
ing freight agent, with headquarters ii> Cleve- 
land, and was on the road until 1889, when he 
was invited to represent the company in the 
capacity of commercial agent, their freight 
business having grown so as to require the 
establishment of such an agency. In this posi- 
tion Mr. Boltz is doing his company valuable 
service by advertising the line and bringing it 
generally into notice of shippers, as a safe, 
swift and reliable company in the performance 
of its contracts. He is a very genial man, 
winning in his manners, and just the man for 
the place he now occupies. 

Mr. Boltz is a son of J. A. Boltz, a dealer in 
confectioneries, who was born in this city in 
1841, a son of Jolin Boltz, the first of the fam- 
ily here. The last mentioned came from Ger- 
many in 1835, and died in 18G1, being then 
iifty-nine years of age. The mother of Mr. 
F. W. Boltz was named before marriage Cather- 
ine Meyers, and her father, Philip Meyers, also 
came from Germany. The children by that 
marriage were: F. W.; Edward G., with the 
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Com- 
pany; and Charles A., in the service of the post 
office department. 

Mr. F. W. Boltz was married in Cleveland, 
June 2, 1886, to Lillian E. Cook, daughter of 
Charles E. Cook of this city, and they have one 
child named Raymond Quintin, now aged three 
aii<l a half years. 



djOHN K. CULVER, deceased, for many 
years prominently identified with the agri- 
— cultural interests of his township, and 
more than worthy of recognition in this volume, 
was born in Livingston county. New York, 
May 23, 1820, a son of John and Catherine 
(Goodrich) Culver, natives of the State of New 



York. TJie mother died in 1829, leaving a 
family of eight children with whom the father 
removed to Ohio in 1834. There he passed the 
remainder of his days, living to the age of 
seventy-five years. He was engaged in farming 
the most of his life, bravely bearing the burdens 
that fell to his lot as a pioneer. In early times he 
supported the Whig party, but as that organi- 
zation passed into history he gave his allegiance 
to the Republican party. 

John K. Culver, a lad of fourteen years when 
he came to the western frontier, was reared to 
the life of a farmer and received his education 
in the district schools. It was in 1852 that he 
located the land on which he made his perman- 
ent home, and he brought a tract of seventy-four 
acres to a high state of cultivation, thoroughly 
testing the resources of both soil and climate in 
the cultivation of fruit-trees. On this tract is 
one of the most extensive orchards in this local- 
ity, containing 1,600 trees, which embrace all 
the choice varieties that thrive in this latitude. 

Mr. Culver was united in marriage Tuesday, 
August 29, 1843, to Delia Caroline Allen. 
Miss Allen was one of the early educators of 
the State, a young woman of unusual intelli- 
gence; she received one dollar a week for her 
services and " boarded round." Her father was 
Enoch Allen, a man highly respected by the en- 
tire community. He was born in Hillsboro 
county. New Hampshire, December 8, 1788, 
and at the age of six years was taken to Windsor 
county, Vermont, where he grew to ifiaturity. 
He removed to Troy, New York, in 1809, and 
five years later he settled in Onondaga county. 
New York. He was married July 9, 1815, and 
in 1817 he came to Ohio, and made his home 
at Newburg until he removed to Bedford in 
1828. His death occurred there December 29, 
1872. During his lifetime he had been a farmer, 
carpenter and cabinet-maker and had also kept 
a hotel. He was one of the charter members 
of the Masonic lodge at Bedford, and was one 
of the first members of the Disciple church at 
that place. He was a man of much force of 
character and was held in the highest regard. 



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He had a family of ten children, five of whom 
grew to maturity: Delia C. Bnel, Harvey, Lucy 
and Amos. 

Mr. and Mrs. Culver were the parents of four 
children: Alfred is a resident of Parkville, 
Missouri; Piuma lives at Lakeside, Ohio; Frank 
is a citizen of this township; and William is 
still a member of his father's household. 

Mr. Culver died October 18, 1893. a highly 
respected citizen. 



EU. BATTLES, a prominent old settler 
and successful farmer of May field town- 
' ship, Cuyahoga county, is a native of 

Herkimer township, Herkimer county, New 
York, born July 22, 1820. 

Luther Battles, his father, was l)orn in New 
Hampsiiire, October 17, 1792, and in 1800 he 
went with his parents to Montgomery county, 
New York, where he was reared to farm life. 
When lie w^as twenty-one he entered the service 
in the war of 1812, and as a private served for 
a time. He was married in Herkimer county, 
in 1817, and after his marriage settled down to 
farming in that county. There he remained 
until 1834, when he came to Cuyahoga county, 
Oliio, and bought a farm in Mayfield township, 
to the improvement of which he at once devoted 
his energies. At the time he purchased this 
place there was a small log house on it, but 
tliere were no roads in this vicinity and but few 
improvements had been made in the neighbor- 
hood. Here he spent the rest of his life, and at 
the time of his death was ninety years and tliree 
months old. In his prime he occupied a lead- 
ing place in the community, being a man of in- 
fluence and serving in various local offices. He 
was a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Ciiurch, and during tlie latter part of liis life 
was identified with the Republican party. His 
father, Ueland Battles, was a native of New 
Hampshire, and was descended from botli the 
Scotch and the Englisli. The motlier of E. D. 



Battles was before her marriage Miss Arathusa 
Porter. She was born in Connecticut in 1790, 
daughter of Alexander Porter, a native of Con- 
necticut and an officer in the Revolutionary war. 
His ancestors were Holland Dutch. Arathusa 
Battles died at the age of si.xty-eight years. 
They were tlie parents of ten children seven, 
sons and three daughters, all of whom reached 
man and womanhood, their names being as fol- 
lows: Zerviah, Edwin D., Mary, Sarah, Luther, 
Newton, Henry, Alexander, Lorenzo D. and 
John T. They were all reared in Mayfield 
township. 

Edwin D. Battles was in his fourteenth year 
when the family came to Cuyahoga county. He 
had attended school some in New York previous 
to their removal to Ohio, and afterward pursued 
his studies in various places, for a time being a 
student in the school in which Garfield was ed- 
ucated. Then lie taught school for several 
years, teaching during the winter and spending 
the summer in farm work, chopping, clearing, 
etc. He also learned the carpenter's trade, at 
which he worked for some time. He built the 
house in which he now lives. 

Mr. Battles was married September 16, 1846, 
to Harriett N. Bralnard, a native of Lewis 
county, New York, who came to Ohio when she 
was fourteen years old. After their marriage 
they located on the farm on which Mr. Battles 
still lives. Mrs. Battles died May 2, 1893. 
She was the mother of four children, two of 
whom died in infancy. The other two are Orlin 
T., a resident of Euclid township, this county; 
and Martha O., wife of Ethan V. Tinker, of 
Mayfield township, this county. 

Politically, Mr. Battles is a Republican. He 
has filled the office of Townsliip Trustee. For 
several years he has had much to do in the way 
of settling estates for various parties, a business 
for which he seems to be especially fitted, and 
in the performance of which duties he has al- 
ways rendered entire satisfaction, in both Cuy- 
ahoga and Geauga counties. He has also been 
guardian in many cases, in all of which he has 
given satisfaction to l>oth parties. Mr. Battles 




(g? ^ SS^^^fed. 



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has long been a member of tlie Methodist Epis- 
copal Church, in which for thirty-four years he 
has served as Recording Steward. 

The following testimonial is appropriate here: 

Whereas, This Quarterly Conference has 
learned with pleasure that Brother E. D. Bat- 
tles, the present Recording Steward, has served 
continuously in that capacity for more than 
thirty-four years with painstaking care and ac- 
curacy; and 

Wheeeas, We have heard with heartfelt sor- 
row of the sore bereavement of our brothei- and 
faithful recording steward in the death of his 
beloved wife, who departed this life May 2, 
1893; 

Resolved, l&t, That we, as a Quarterly Con- 
ference, recognize and appreciate the long years 
of unbroken service of our brother; and we re- 
turn to him our thanks for the faithful and ac- 
curate performance of the duties devolving upon 
him in his office. 

Resolved, 2d, That we extend to our brother, 
in this the greatest affliction of his life, our 
brotherly sympathy, and pray that the great 
Healer may heal his wounded heart, comfort 
his bereaved and sorrowing spirit, and cheer him 
in his loneliness amid the infirmities of age. 

Resolved, 3d, That these resolutions be 
spread upon the records of this Quarterly Con- 
ference, a copy be forwarded to the Pittsburg 
Advocate and Chagrin Falls Exponent for pub- 
lication, and also to Brother Battles. 

R. O. Payne. ) „ 

T-. r > Committee. 

l. Llainee, J 



CAPTAIN GEORGE STONE has been a 
conspicuous figure in lake navigation 
circles since 1844, and has made a record 
worthy of inscription in this volume. He is a 
native of Canada, born at Normandale, county 
Norfolk, March 17, 1823, a son of John Stone, 
who was also a sailor for years. The paternal 
grandfather, John Stone, Sr., was captured off 
the coast of Long Island by the British when a 



lad. He was forced into the naval department 
during the war of the Revolution, and after the 
close of this struggle was given a land grant in 
Canada, which he accepted; he took up a home- 
stead in Charlotteville township, Norfolk 
county, where his family of thirteen children 
were reared. His ancestors were natives of 
Ireland. John Stone, Jr., was residing in 
Cleveland in 1824, and had the contract for 
carrying the stone used in the construction of 
the Government pier. He owned a small ves- 
sel, the Traveler, and brought the stone from 
Kelley's island. He was a native of Her Ma- 
jesty's Dominion, but died in the State of 
Michigan. George Stone was reared upon the 
farm, but sometimes went sailing with his 
father. In 1844 he shipped as a sailor and for 
thirty-six years was on the lakes. Four years 
after he became a sailor he was made master of 
a vessel," the Napoleon, which he manned two 
seasons. He next had charge of the Tom Cor- 
win, and a year later became captain of the New 
Haven, one of the largest vessels on the lakes 
at that time; he held this position five years. 
In 1857 he associated himself with Captain A. 
Bradley and the relationship existed until the 
death of Captain Bradley. Since that time he 
has been connected with the firm of M. A. 
Bradley & Company. During the time that he 
was with Captain A. Bradley he had charge of 
the building and sailing of the Wagstaff, Es- 
canaba, Fayette Brown, Alva Bradley, Fay, E. 
B. Haile, and Henry Chrisolm. He also super- 
intended the construction of numerous other 
craft. During his career covering a period of 
thirty-six years he never lost a vessel, although 
he braved some of the roughest seas. He has 
remained ashore since 1880, and has given his 
attention to the interests of M. A. Bradley & 
Company, of which he is a stockholder and 
trustee. 

Captain Stone was married at Vermillion, 
Ohio, in the year 1845, to Emily Cuddeback, 
daughter of James and Hannah Cuddeback. 
Mrs. Cuddeback still survives at the age of one 
hundred and three years. The Captain and his 



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wife have two children: Captain Henry W., a 
resident of Cleveland, has been master of a ves- 
sel since his twentieth year; Marian J. is the 
wife of Dr. Gardner of Painesville, Ohio; she 
has been twice married, her first husband having 
been Captain Merwin Thompson, deceased. 
The Captain and Mrs. Stone are members of 
the East Cleveland Presbyterian Church. lie 
is one of the Trustees of this church. He 
is a man of rare qualities: as a captain he had 
the entire confidence of his sailors; as a citizen 
he enjoys a reputation for the strictest integrity. 



nr^j OBERT HUGHES, one of the leading 
r^' florists of the Forest City, was born in 
11 ^ Anglesea, North Wales, March 4, 1839. 
^ His parents were of Llanedwn,the home 

of Lord Poston, and where Mr. Hughes' groat- 
grandfather and his maternal grandfather were 
gardeners for two generations. He was edu- 
cated in the English national schools and en- 
tered the work of general floriculture at a 
youthful age, fourteen years. Was in the em- 
ploy of Sir Buckley Hughes for five years, 
then was second gardener to the Marquis of 
Auglosea. At the age of twenty-four years, 
after a service of five years for the marquis, he 
went to London to improve himself as florist in 
Vitch's nursery for a year. 

A desire to see the New World then gained 
complete control of him, and in response to it 
he embarked for the United States, the land of 
many opportunities, and arrived at New York 
in 1866. Proceeding to Peekskill, he attended 
Kregg's (Craig's?) private garden the first year, 
and the next ten years he spent as chief gardener 
for George W. McClain at Yonkers, New York. 
In 1877 he came to Cleveland and purchased a 
greenhouse on Euclid avenue, near Sterling, 
and was for many years eminently successful, 
furnishing plants and cut flowers for all his- 
toric occasions, and had the run of the best 
trade on the avenue. His inability to procure 
a new lease on the expiration of the old one 



forced him to seek new quarters, and his loca- 
tion on East Prospect street and the building 
of his extensive houses followed. He makes a 
specialty of supplying weddings and other 
parties, and churches and dwellings with palms 
and flowering plants. Some of the greatest 
wedding parties in Cleveland have been sup- 
plied by him. His competency for his peculiar 
calling may be inferred from the fact that he 
was systematically trained, in the first place, in 
a country noted for thoroughness, and from the 
further facts that he is naturally painstaking 
and careful, and ambitious to excel all com- 
petitors in all departments of his business. He 
is devoting his whole life to the calling of his 
choice, and deserves the patronage of all the 
city and surrounding country. 

His father, Hugh Hughes I)}' name, mar- 
ried Elizabeth Roberts, and they had seven 
children, only two of whom are now living: 
Mrs. Williams, of Anglesea, Potcrug, Llanedwn, 
and the subject of this notice. The latter mar- 
ried, in Erie, Pennsylvania, August 6, 1883, 
Miss Margaret Jones, a native of Dowlas, South 
Wales, and their children are Elizabeth, Robert 
R. and John R. 



LJ. RAD WAY, who hiis long been a res- 
I ident of Newburg township, Cuyahoga 
1 county, Ohio, and who is one of its pros- 
perous farmers, dates his birth near Brattleboro, 
Vermont, September 7, 1832. He is a son of 
Richard Radway and a grandson of -lonatiian 
Radway. Richard Radway was born and reared 
in Vermont. He was a blacksmith by trade, 
at which he worked for some years in Vermont 
and for three years after lie came to Newburg, 
Ohio. H was in 1841 that he emigrated to 
Ohio and settled in Newburg, from whence, 
three years later, he removed to the farm on 
which he spent the rest of his life. He died at 
the age of seventy-one. His wife, whose 
maiden name was Mary Ann Stone, ami who 
was also a native vi Vermont, died \)vvv at tlie 



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age of sixty-five years. They were the parents 
of two sons and one daughter. Both the sons, 
A. L. and L. J., reside on the land which their 
father owned. Tiie daughter, Olive, is now the 
wife of Daniel Marshall, of Cleveland, Ohio. 

L. J. Radway is the youngest of the family. 
He was a mere lad when they came to Ohio, and 
in the district schools of this county his educa- 
tion was received. He has heen engaged in 
fanning all his life, and now has 129 acres of 
land, well improved and under a high state of 
cultivation. 

December 28, 185-1, Mr. Iladway married 
Barbara Metzner, a native of Bavaria, Germany, 
born December 11, 1834'. She came to Cuya- 
hoga county, Ohio, in 1852. Iler parents, Mi- 
chael and Barbara Ann (Schwinn) Metzner, 
were natives of Germany. Her mother died at 
the age of sixty- five and her father lived to be 
over ninety. Mrs. Radway is the youngest of 
their two daughters who grew to womanhood. 
Mr. and Mrs. Radway have three sons, Alfred 
Michael, George Stone and Charles Leavitt; and 
one daughter, Bella Mary Ann. All were born 
on the farm on which they now live. 

The only office Mr. Radway has ever held 
was that of Road Supervisor. In politics he is 
a Democrat. 



FRANK WARD, one of the progressive 
agriculturists of Bedford township, is 
— entitled to more than passing mention in 
this connection. He was born on the farm 
which is still his home May 21, 1849. Joseph 
Ward, his father, was one of the conspicuous 
figures in the early history of this county. He 
was born in Yorkshire, England, and emi- 
grated to the United States when a young man. 
He was united in marriage in 1832 to Emelino 
Folsom, a widow having two children. George 
Folsom, the only one surviving, is an engineer 
residing in Cleveland. Ho was one of the un- 
fortunates in the great disaster at Ashtabula, 
Ohio. Mrs. Ward's maiden name was Gray, 
and her birthplace Buffalo, New York. Mr. 



Ward was engaged in the operation of a saw- 
mill for twelve years, giving his attention to 
clearing his land during the summer season. 
He met all the hardships of pioneer life with 
steady purpose, and many years before his 
death had the satisfaction of owning one of the 
best improved farms in the township. He 
died at the age of eighty-one years; his wife at 
the age of fifty-two years. Politically he gave 
his allegiance to the Democratic party. He 
was a consistent member of the Disciple 
Church and a highly respected citizen. 

Frank Ward is one of a family of three chil- 
dren: Carrie Salisbury resides at Newburgh, 
Ohio, and Rolinda Tollzin lives in the city of 
Cleveland. He still resides on the old home- 
stead, one and a half miles from Bedford. 
Many of the landmarks have disappeared, re- 
placed by the modern improvements of the 
nineteenth century. 

In 1874, June 4, Mr. Ward was united in 
marriage to Ella Eddy, in Center township, 
Columbiana county. She was born at Warrens- 
ville, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, a daughter of 
Frank and Almeda Eddy; the father is de- 
ceased; the mother, whose maiden name was 
Skeels, was born in New York State, and is 
now residing in Medina county. Mr. and Mrs. 
Ward have two children: Eddy J., born Feb- 
ruary 26, 1877, and James W., born February 
26, 1881. Adhering to the principles of the 
Democratic party Mr. Ward casts his suffrage 
with that body. He is a man of superior busi- 
ness qualifications, and is regarded as one of the 
most reliable men of his township. 



LR. DUNHAM, one of the members of 
j the farming community of Bedford town- 
1 ship,, was born on the farm which is still 

ills home December 25, 1858, the place having 
been in possession of the family many years. 
His parents, Asa and Luciua (Ransom) Dun- 
ham, were highly respected citizens of Bedford. 
They reared two sons: L. R., and Lloyd A., 



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whose history is given on another page of this 
volume. The mother died June 14, 1886. The 
paternal grandfather of our subject was John 
Dunham, one of the first settlers of this town- 
ship. Young Dunham received his earliest 
instruction in the primary schools of Bedford. 
In his youth he was a pupil at Baldwin Uni- 
versity, Eerea, Ohio, and Hiram College. His 
schooldays ended lie chose tiie occupation to 
which he had been reared, and has since de- 
voted his best energies to husbandry. He has 
120 acres under cultivation; the improvements 
are all first-class. 

Mr. Dunham was married March 3, 1880, to 
Miss Myrtie Young, of Hiram, Portage county, 
Ohio, a daughter of Thomas and Loretta 
(Lampson) Young. Mrs. Dunham received 
her education at Hiram College, and is a 
woman of superior attainment. Our subject 
and wife are the parents of two children: Jessie 
B. and Nellie \l. 

Mr. Dunham lias always taken a deep interest 
in public affairs, and for fourteen years has 
been a most efficient member of the Board of 
Education. He is an active meml)er of the 
Farmers' Alliance, serving as secretary and then 
president of his society and representing this 
body in convention. He is a man of good ad- 
dress, is well informed upon the topics of the 
day, and has a host of friends, of whom he is in 
every way worth}'. 



Jll UGIISTITS F. IIAKTZ, lessee and man- 
J*j\ Hger of the Euclid Avenue Opera House, 
1/ L and one of Cleveland's well known and 
' and popular citizens, was born in Liver- 

pool, England, in 1845. He is one of eight 
children, six of whom are living. His father 
was Nathan Hartz, a jeweler by trade, who died 
in 1880, at the advanced age of seventy-six years. 
He was for many years a very successful and 
large manufacturer of jewelry, watches, chro- 
nometers, etc. 

In 1868 the subject of this sketch came to 
America, locating in New York city as a ma- 



gician. Before coming to the United States he 
had traveled in continental Europe and other 
countries a great deal. In New York city he 
made his home for about twelve months. He 
then began traveling in the United States, and 
in 1871 permanently located in New York city, 
again taking up to the profession of magician. 
Five years later he began traveling again and 
for ten years was on the road. About 1880 he 
became interested in the real-estate business 
with an office in Cleveland. He continued in 
the real-estate business about one year. Be- 
coming lessee and manager of the Park Theatre 
building, he operated the same for about eleven 
weeks, and the building being burned again his 
employment was changed. It was about this 
time that he first leased the Euclid opera house 
and in a permanent way began his career with 
the theatrical profession. Contracting with 
Richard Mansfield, he was for one year mana- 
ger of that distinguished actor; he also managed 
several other attractions and theaters, all of 
which made money for him. With success he 
has continued to be the lessee and manager of 
the Euclid Avenue opera house, which was de- 
stroyed by fire, in October, 1892. The edifice 
was rebuilt in the summer of 1893, and refitted 
and made one of the handsomest, most com- 
modious and most excellent opera house of the 
country. It is the pride of tlie city, and its 
management under Mr. Hartz has made it a 
popular place of amusement. Here tlie best of 
opera companies and dramatic attractious of tlie 
United States appears, and the theater-loving 
people of Cleveland find occasion to feel grateful 
to Mr. M. A. Ilaniia for building the theater, 
and to Mr. Hartz for his success in not only 
elevating the stage but amusing and instructing 
his patrons by securing the best actors and 
actressess of tlie country. 

Mr. Hartz is a gonial, pleasant geiitleinan of 
refinement and education. He was educated in 
a private school in Liverpool, a school known as 
Mechanics' Institute. He graduated in 1863. 
As a magician l^fr. Hartz was one of marvelous 
skill. He mastered many of the principles of 



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the art, and his genius has originated many ex- 
cellent tricks now operated by magicians. 

lie has been successfnl in his business 
undertakings and is regarded as a man of busi- 
ness foresight and Jis one who understands how 
to please his fellow man, and he is recognized 
as a man of excellent principles and as one who 
characterizes all his business dealings with in- 
tegrity and fidelity. He is of a cliaritable 
nature, liberal in bis views, and is happy when 
it is his privilege to make others happy. 

Mr. Hartz is a prominent Freemason, being 
of the Chapter degree. He is also a member of 
the following orders: Knights of Pythias, 
Knights of Honor, Royal Arcanum, National 
Tiiion and others. He also belongs to the 
athletic club of Cleveland and Excelsior chilj. 
In politics he is a stanch Republican. 

Ill 1N78 Mr. Hartz wedded Miss Carrie S. 
Hill, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. 
Hartz have three children, namely. Clover, 
Fannie and Frank Louis. Mr. and Mrs. Hartz 
had four children but were bereaved of their 
first, whose name was Augustus, when the be- 
loved child was thirteen months old. Mrs. 
Hartz died March 3, 1891, and February 24, 
1894, Mr. Hartz married Miss Rosetta A. Hart, 
of New Orleans, Louisana. 



d[|OHN NOBLE, a prominent farmer of 
I Brecksville township, was born June 7, 
^ 1830, at the the village of Arkendale, in 
Yorkshire, England, the son of John Noble and 
Mary (Scott) Noble, who had five children, 
namely: Thomas and William, residing in 
England; John, the subject of this sketch; 
Mark, who came to the United States in 1859, 
enlisted in Company F, Second Ohio Cavalry, 
and was killed at the battle of Stony creek ; and 
Henry, who died in England. In early life the 
father followed the trade of shoemaker, and 
later the grocery trade. Both he and bis wife 
died in their native native country. 

Mr. John Noble, our subject, is the only one 
of the family now living in the United States, 



He was reared a farmer in his native country, 
as his father's business was such that he could 
be of no assistance to him. As early as the age 
of nine years he began herding sheep, receiving 
the meager wages of $10 for six months' ser- 
vice. Later he found work as a farm hand, and 
had no difficulty in finding enough work to keep 
bin) employed, as he belonged to tliat class of 
young men who can be depended upon faith- 
fully to look after their employers' interests. 
Being economical, he bad saved up nearly $100 
by the time he was twenty years of age, with 
which he paid his fare to this the land of golden 
opportunity. 

April 28, 1850, he sailed from Liverpool 
on the vessel Riverdale, and in twenty-eight days 
landed in America, a stranger in a strange land, 
excepting that a brother of his mother was liv- 
ing on Long Island, with whom he found em- 
ployment, on a farm, as overseer. In the spring 
of 1852 he came to Ohio, — by rail to Erie, on 
foot thirty-two miles to Conneaut, — ice closing 
navigation, — and from Conneaut by water to 
Cleveland. He arrived here a total stranger. 
Proce3ding on to Richfield, Summit county, be 
found employment in the service of Uriah 
Oviatt, a farmer with whom he remained three 
years, which is evidence that liis work was sat- 
isfactory. From Stephen Welton he purchased 
a small piece of land at the west center of Rich- 
field township. After this he purchased ninety 
acres of Thomas Stephenson, where he lived 
until 1863, when he moved to the place where he 
now lives. At that time there was no dwell- 
ing-house upon this land, and scarcely any im- 
provements of any kind. All the present im- 
provements on the place, excepting an old 
blacksmith sliop and a barn, have been made by 
Mr. NolJe. His land now comprises 187 acres. 
His occupation has been general farming and 
stock-raising, and his signal success has been 
brought about by his own efforts, his start in 
life having been very meager. In politics he 
has never voted any but the Republican ticket; 
and although no politician he takes an active 
interest in the success of his party, being a 



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regular attendant at the elections. He and his 
amiable wife are members of the Congregational 
Church, in which body he is a Deacon and 
Clerk. 

June 14, 1855, is the date of his marriage to 
Miss Mary Stephenson, a daughter of Thomas 
Stephenson, who was an early settler in that 
township, locating there in 1817. lie died 
there, at the age of seventy-seven years. Mr. 
and Mrs. Noble's children are: Charlotte E., at 
home; Cornelius M., a schoolteacher of Brecks- 
ville township; Julia A., deceased at the age of 
nine months, and was buried in Richfield, east 
of Center, with her mother, who died June 19, 
1861. For his second wife Mr. Noble married 
Phebe Adams, who was born May 6, 1827,' a 
native of Kichfield township and a daughter of 
Augustus and Polly ^Farnham) Adams. By 
the latter marriage there have been three chil- 
dren, namely: John A., of Cleveland; Alice P., 
now Mrs. Harry Snow of Brecksville township; 
and William U., living with his parents. 



diOHN KOCH, an old street-railroad man 
] of Cleveland and adjuster of claims of tlie 
Cleveland City Railway Company, was 
born in Hesseu Darmstadt on the Rhine, Ger- 
many, December 11, 1836. Twenty years later 
he came to the United States and located in 
New York city, where lie was variously em- 
ployed for six years, concluding his work there 
as a bookkeeper. He came to Cleveland in 1862 
and soon thereafter became interested in the 
wholesale cloth and trimming business, and was 
a partner with Adams, Goodwillie i% Company 
till 1876, since which time Mr. Koch has given 
most of his time to street railroad enterprises. 
He subscribed the first dollar's worth of stock 
to the Superior street road, was its originator 
and carried out the building of the road. He 
is vice president and director of the Cleveland 
Investment Company and a stock owner in 
other paying concerns, besides having quite ex- 
tensive investments in'city real estate. 



Mr. Koch is a son of a farmer, who ilied in 
1880, at eighty-four years of age. Two of his 
seven children are in Cleveland, John and 
George. The former was a poor boy on reach- 
ing Cleveland. He came into possession of 
means only as he earned it by labor and invest- 
ment. He is a Royal Arch Mason, and is quite 
active politically and is a Democrat in national 
matters. He was one of the presidential Elect- 
ors in the campaign of 1892, on the DenKH-raiic 
ticket for the State of Ohio. 

Mr. Koch married, in Hoboken, New Jersey, 
in 1861, Miss Maria Kramer, born in the snme 
German State as himself. Their children are: 
Maria, deceased, at eleven; Ida, deceased, at 
twelve; Martha M., wife of Frank S. Bander of 
Darien, Georgia; John H., graduated at the 
high school this year; and Laura G. 



/George AV. JOHNSON, railroad con- 
I If ductor, entered the employ of the Cleve- 
^^^1 land &, Toledo Railroad Company in 
1856, in the capacity of freight brakcman, 
at which post he remained four years, guarding 
the property of the company entrusted to his 
care and safe carriage. Then, after two years' 
experience as fireman he? became freight con- 
ductor, in which capacity he acted for eight 
years; but for the past twenty-three years he has 
been identified with the passenger service ex- 
clusively, and is one of the four oldest passenger 
men on the Cleveland run. 

Mr. Johnson, a New Englander and a son of 
a mechanic, was a youth of only nineteen sum- 
mers when he came West, at which time, how- 
ever, he had no definite point in view; but, hav- 
ing relatives or friends in Cleveland, he drifted 
by an unknown, unconscious force to this city, 
then of about 25,000 people. As railroading 
then was the only desirable employment obtain- 
able, he entered that. 

He is a son of George S. Johnson, who was 
born in Windham county, Vermont, in the town 
of Putney and resided there till his death, in 



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453 



1890, at tlie age of sixty- nine years. Our sub- 
ject's grandfather, Samuel Johnson, was the 
founder of this Vermont family. George S. 
Johnson married Miss ElizalTodgkins of Wind- 
ham county, Vermont, who died in 1846. 
George W., her only child, was born October 9, 
1839. lie was married in New York, March 
16, 1863, to Mary A. Hopper, and their chil- 
dren are: Jessie E., and Teresa Belle, who died 
in 1873, aged three years and nine months. 

Mr. Johnson is one of the few genial, good- 
natured men who take pleasure in looking after 
the comforts of passengers in his charge; and 
during all his long service no passenger or em- 
ployee has received an injury resulting from 
his neglect. 



EOliCJE SITHELM, a prosperous farmer 
I of Brecksville township, was born De- 
cember 18, 1845, in Wittenberg, Ger- 
many. His parents, Peter (a farmer) 
and Hannah (Shephard) Sithelin, had six chil- 
dren, as follows: Peter, George, Barbara and 
Gottlieb, besides a son and daughter who died 
young. In the spring of 1856 they emigrated 
to the United States, sailing from Havre, 
France, on a vessel named Isabella, and arriv- 
ing at New York after a voyage of forty-six 
days. By a sail vessel also they came on to 
Dunkirk, New York, where the father made 
effort to find work, which was then a difficult 
task. Being assisted by authorities they came 
on to Cleveland, where they were at first unable 
to pay for their board and lodging. At length 
Mr. Sithelm found employment with a farmer 
named Gleason, on Tinker's creek, at Inde- 
pendence. His wife died in that township, and 
is buried there. Mr. Sithelm lived to be about 
seventy years of age, dying in Brecksville town- 
ship, and was buried near Tinker's creek. 

Mr. George Sithelm, the subject of our 
sketch, was ten years of age when brouglit to 
this country, and in this pioneer forest, his 
parents being poor, he was kept at hard labor 
instead of being allowed much schooling. When 



he arrived at the age of twenty-one years he 
began to work as a farm hand for a man named 
Bell. Having no means, his fortune was to be 
made by the health lie had and his industrious 
nature. He and his brothers bought two farms, 
and they worked together. After his marriage 
he lived one year on his share of the land. In 
1873 he settled upon his present farm, which 
then comprised seventy-eight acres, a small 
portion of which was rudely improved, and all 
was in poor shape every way; and here Mr. 
Sithelm has lived ever since, making of the 
place the beautiful home that it is, — one of the 
best in the township. It now comprises 126 
acres. From a poor boy at twenty-one he has 
made his way up to his present comfortable 
situation all by his own determination and good 
judgment, — a splendid success; and his hon- 
esty and straightforward character has elicited 
the esteem of the community. He has been 
greatly aided of course by his economical wife. 
In his political sympathies he was once a Dem- 
ocrat, but became a Republican, and is now one 
of the stanch members of that party, but no 
politician. 

In 1879 he married Miss Lena Diefenbach, 
a native of Cleveland and a daughter of Peter 
Diefenbach, and they have one son, George L. 



APTAIN MICHAEL DRISCOLL, one 
of the old captains of the lakes, was born 
at Franklin, Howard county, Missouri, 
August 5, 1822, a son of Jeremiah and Rose 
Driscoll. His parents were natives of Dublin, 
Ireland, and soon after their marriage crossed 
the seas to America. The father was in the 
employ of the Hudson Bay Fur Company as 
trader among the Indians. He was a mason by 
trade and followed this calling for a number of 
years. His death occurred in Cleveland. Cap- 
tain Driscoll was a lad of ten years when the 
family came to Cleveland to reside. At the age 
of eleven or twelve years he took "French 
leave " of the household and went as cabin boy, 



4-4 



cur Aiwa A COUSTT. 



tlie lieffinning of his career as a sailor. For 
yt-ar.s lie was artoat as coi)k; at the a<fe of six- 
teen he sailed before the mast, later as second 
mate, then mate, and at the age of twenty-five 
was made master of the Henry Aineworth. 
From ls4S he sailed the schooner Trenton, of 
which he was part owner, nntil 1851; next in 
order the propeller Cleveland, ])ropeller Dun- 
kirk, steamer Uol)ert Ilollister, steamer Minne- 
sota, steamer Ohio and propellers Olean, Ogdeiis- 
biirgh and Michigan, quitting in 1872, since 
which time he has been marine collector. For 
a time he was associated with John W. \\'arniu' 
in the management of tug lines, and also 
acted as agent for the large river tugs. lie 
has been one of the most acti\e members of 
marine circles in (Meveland and has made a 
most enviable record. In 1858 he was in the 
Governn)ent employ, carrying supplies and oil 
to the lighthouses on lakes. 

The Captain was married in this city Novem- 
ber 18, 1849, to Mary A. Dickey, a daughter of 
lleuben and Martha (Hancock) Dickey, natives 
of the State of New York. They have one son, 
Charles Henry, born November 11, 1853. He 
is marrii'd and resides in this city. Captain 
Driscoll is a stanch Republican in politics. 



IfOlIN KIUKLAND, .d' Kuyalton town- 
J^ I ship, Chiyahoga county, is a son of Alex- 
's^ ander Jvirkland, who was burn in the low- 
lands of Scotland in 1805. He was first en- 
gaged in agricultural pursuits, but afterward 
worked as a spinner for sixteen years. He was 
married in his native country, December 9, 
183G, to Mari^aret Langlands, who also was 
born in Scotland, in February, 1808. They had 
the following children: Ann, who died in Roy- 
alton township, this county, at the age of twen- 
ty-four years; John, whose name heads this 
sketch; James of this county; and Euphemia, 
wife of Henry Tompkins, of Brooklyn village. 
In 1852 Mr. Kirkland sailed from Liverpool, 



England, to New Orleans, and gradually pushed 
northward to Cleveland, Ohio, where he was 
first enijiloyed in a copper slio|) of tin; Cleve- 
land, C.ilimil.Ms, Cinciunali ^- 1 ndi;tiiapulis 
Kailn.ad. In ls57 he nurchas,.) a farm it, 



,1 by 



he oh 



Royalton township. In lsr,4 h 
the remainder o'i his family fioi 
try, who sailed from (ihisgow on the vusst-l City 
of (ilasgow, landing in New York after a voy- 
age of foui-teen days, an<l coming by way of 
r.uifalo arrived in "Cleveland by water. Mr. 
and Mrs. Kirklan,! -lied in this 'township, -the 
former in t)ctolier, LSS8, an.i the hitter .Vngust 
25, iSSo.and were linried in Koyaltou cemetery. 
Mr. Kirkland came to this country a poor man, 
but by unrelenting toil succeeded in ,-eciiring 
a competency. 

John Kirkland, the subject of this sketch, 
was born in Scotland, May 28, 18 f;i, and was 
but a lad when lie was brought to the United 
States. Here he was first em])loyed iiy .1. 1>. 
Cobb iS: Company, in the bookbiniling depait- 
ment of their establishment; next, by Lemuel 
Crawford, coal dealer; then was a soldier 
(teamster) for the Union during the last war for 
six months; ami then was employed in the boiler 
shops of the Cleveland, Cohmibus, Cincinnati 
vt Indianapolis Railroad at Cleveland, and was 
afterward employed by Lemuel Crawford, of 
that city. Since 1857 Mr. Kirkland has re- 
sided in Koyaltou township, Cuyahoga county, 
and since 1884 has been engaged in the mer- 
cantile business in Koyalton Center. June 3, 
1877 he suffered the loss of his right arm at tlie 
wrist by the accidental discharge of a gun while 
hunting. 

June 1(), 1S71, he was united in marriage 
with Mary E. (jOOIi, who was born in Toronto, 
Canada, November 3, 1841, a daughter of Will- 
iam and Ann (McMullen) Coon, the former a 
native of Canada, and the latter of the North of 
Ireland. The mother located in Canada when 
ten years of age. Mrs. Kirkland made her 
home for a number of years with her brother 
Thomas, in Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. 
Kirkland have twp chJldren.^Anna M. and 



iynTAimoA cotrNtr. 



4o3 



William A., — both at home. Mrs. Kirkland is 
a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
In political matters, Mr. Kirkland votes with 
the Republican party, and since October 13, 
1890, has held the positit)n of Postmaster, lie 
i.s thu oldest living male rejircsentative of this 
family. 



IIAKLES COKLETT, deceased, was one 
of the prominent business men at War- 
rensville, Ohio. Of his life we make 
record as follows: 

Charles Corlett was born on the Isle of Man, 
February 27, 1820, son of William and Eleanor 
(Cain) Corlett, both natives of tliat place. In 
duly, 1827, the family emigrated to America, 
and upon their arrival here settled at New- 
burg, Cuyahou;a county, Ohio, where the motiier 
died at the age of sixty-seven years. The 
father reached the advanced age of ninety-two, 
dying in (Meveland. lie was an Episcopalian 
and took great interest in religious matters. 
In their family wei-e eight children, four sons 
and four daughters, namely: William; May 
Gill, deceased; John, deceased; Thomas, a 
prominent Episcopal minister of Cleveland, 
Ohio; Jane Clark; Charles, whose name heads 
this article; Eliza, deceased; and Eleanor. 

In Newburg Charles Corlett was reared, his 
education being received here and in Cleveland. 
Early in life lie learned the trade of bricklayer, 
and this trade he has followed for half a cen- 
tury, working in many of the Western States. 
For fifteen years he was employed by William 
llutehings, of Chagrin Falls, Ohio. In 1851 
he made tlie trip from New Vdik to Caliloriiia. 
It was in 1858 that he settled on the place 
where he recently died, which was then known 
as the Bowell farm. This farm comprises 
ninety-four acres, and is situated two mih^s and 
a (juarter from the city limits. 

Mr. Corlett was married in 1S57 to I'rincilla 
Bowell, who was born neai- Warren, Truminill 
county, Ohio, daughter of Zadiek and Anna 
(Hill) Bowell, the former a native of Fayette 



county, Pennsylvania, and the latter of Vir- 
ginia. Mr. Bowell moved to Ohio at an early 
day, and here he and his wife spent the residue 
of their lives, she being seventy-eight at the 
time of her death and ho ninety-three. They 
had twelve children, some of whom died in in- 
fancy, a record of the others being as follows: 
Angelina, deceased; Thomas, deceased; Mar- 
garet, deceased; Nancy, wife of William Still- 
man, also of Orange township; Kacliel, de- 
ceased; Princilla Corlett; Eliza Pierson, de- 
ceased; and Reese, deceased. Mr. Corlett had 
four children: Walter 11., now engaged in rail- 
roading; Arthur R., Assessor for Warrensville 
township; and Anna Mary and C. Bert, at 
home. Mr. Corlett died March -4, 18'J4, a 
liighly honored citizen. 

The Corlett family are ranked with the lead- 
ing people of the community in which they 
live. Mrs. Corlett is a zealous member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. Politically, Mr. 
Corlett voted with the Democratic party, and 
forhalfacentury wasa memb<M-of the I. O.O. F. 



/^'EOKGEW. VAUGHAN, engineer of 
I ¥/ the New York, Chicago »fe St. Louis 
>!H Railroad Company, became connected 
with railroad service in 1881, when he 
engaged to run the rod for the Pan-Handle 
Company, on maintenance of way on the Pitts- 
])urg DivisioTi. Mr. Vaughan was on this work 
in various capacities for two yeai-s, when he be- 
came assistant engineer. In I SS4 lie was ap- 
pointed supervisor of the thii-d subdivision of 
the Pan-llandle, performing those duties until 
February, 1SS7, when he returned to the ])Osi- 
tion of assistant engineer, filling it about one 
month, when he joined the New York, Chicago 
& St. Louis Company as assistant engineer; in 
February, two years later, was made division 
engineer, and in February, five years later, was 
made engineer for the whole line. 

Mr. Vaughan was born at Paucatuck Bridge, 
Connecticut, November 11, 1859. His com- 



ovtahooa county. 



mon-scLool training was reinforced by a syste- 
matic course of theory and practice in two New 
England colleges to prepare liini for his pro- 
fessional career, — Warner's Polytechnic College 
at Providence, Khode Island, and the Ehode 
Island Institute of Technology. He was not a 
boy of unlimited means, or even in easy cir- 
cumstances, and whatever he accomplished 
while a student was done, we infer, under some 
difficulties. During the summer season he was 
employed on field work, both surface and sewer, 
putting to practical test his previous winter's 
term of theory. Prior to taking up his pro- 
fessional studies Mr. Vaughan learned carriage- 
making, but never followed it. On completing 
his engineering course he secured a hreman's 
berth on a passenger steamer on Barnegat bay 
and Torres river, demonstrating his ability as a 
first-class fireman. He was secured next by the 
Potter Printing Press Company, of Plainfield, 
New Jersey, as draftsman, and the February 
following went to the Pan-Handle Kailroad 
Company as rodman. Mr. Yaughan is a mem- 
ber of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 
and is thoroughly equipped for the profession 
he has chosen. 

Mr. Vaughan is the son of John G. Vaughan, 
a carriage-maker and iron-molder, who was born 
in Khode Island, in 1826, and died in 1887. 
He was employed for thirty years with Cottrell 
& Babcock, printing-press manufacturers of 
I'awtucket. He married Susanna S. Barber, 
who bore twelve children, eight of whom are 
living. In February, 1891, Mr. Vaughan mar- 
ried, in Westfield, New York, Fannie S. Min- 
ton, a daughter of John II. Minton, an uncle 
of George M. Pullman. Mr. and Mrs. Yaughan 
have one child, Dorothy, aged fourteen months. 



djOHN W. WARDWELL, receiver of the 
Cleveland, Canton & Southern Railroad, 
and for more tlian thirty-five years identi- 
fied with railroad service, was born in Salisbury, 
Merrimac county, New Hampshire, June 1, 
1832. II is father was a carriage builder and of 



moderate means, and was able to provide his 
children with only such school advantages as 
were offered in the village school, supplemented 
by a brief period in Salisbury Academy. 

At sixteen years of age young John cast off 
the student's routine and took up life's sternei- 
duties by entering a dry-goods store in Concord, 
New Hampshire, as a clerk, and remained there 
till March, 1851, when the United States A: 
Canadian Express Company offered him a place 
in their employ as driver and later as messen- 
ger, serving till May, 1858, when he went to 
railroading with the Boston & Montreal Rail- 
road as passenger conductor, and remained with 
the company until March, 1865, serving in the 
meantime by promotion as paymaster and cash- 
ier, concluding his service in the latter posi- 
tion. His next position was with the Rutland 
& Burlington Railroad as general agent sta- 
tioned at Burlington, Vermont. In January, 
1870, he retired from this road and became, on 
August 1st following, general passenger agent 
of the Concord Railroad, and gave eleven years 
of his best service in this capacity, retiring in 
1881 and accepting the position of freight 
agent of the Boston & Lowell Railroad, with 
headquarters in Boston. In January, 1886, lie 
was invited to become general superintendent 
of the Cleveland, Canton & Southern Railroad, 
accepting and assuming his duties the same 
month. This official relation existed until Sep- 
tember 15, 1893, when Judge Ricks appointed 
him one of the receivers of the road. 

Mr. "Wardwell's father was Reuben AVardwell, 
born in Pembroke, Merrimac countj", New 
Hampshire, in 1802. He bore the title of Cap- 
tain because of his service as commanding offi- 
cer of a company of liglil infantry, New Hamp- 
shire militia. He married Mary Webster, 
daughter of Israel AV'^ebster, a Revolutionary 
patriot and a tiller of the soil, and died at thirty- 
six years of age. Jeremiah Wardvvell. our sub- 
ject's grandfather, was likewise born in Now 
Hampshire. 

Reuben Wardwell's children were: Jeanette, 
deceased; Harriet, deceased; George; Charlotte; 




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CUTAHOOA COUNTY 



Abial, deceased; Mary and John W. The last 
named was married in October, 1853, in Gil- 
mantoi), New Hampshire, to Mary J. Fitield, a 
daughter of Ceujaniin Fifield, a farmer. 

Mr. and Mrs. AVardwell are the jiareiits of 
Cliarles W., in Cleveland, and Mary F. 

Politically Mr. Wardwell was reai'ed and 
educated a Whig, and cast his lirst vote for 
John C. Fremont. 



'Jr^) OLLIN CHASE SMITH, youngest son 
V^^ of Hiram and Anna Smith, was born at 
II ¥^ the foot of the western slope of the 
^ Green mountains, in Monkton, Addison 

county, Vermont, March 12, 1827. On his 
mother's side he is the seventh in descent from 
Aquila Chase, who emigrated from England to 
Massachusetts in 1630. The stock from which 
he descended was prolific in eminent men, the 
greatest of whom perhaps was Salmon Portland 
Chase, who was twice elected Governor of Ohio, 
twice United States Senator, was Secretary of 
the Treasury in the cabinet of Abraham Lincoln, 
and subsequently Chief Justice of the Supreme 
Court of the United States. 

The subject of this sketch has been both for- 



tunate and unfortunate, — fortunate 



ing 



both able and willing to absorb some of the 
honor necessarily derived from so noble an an- 
cestry, and unfortunate in not being able, though 
willing, to contribute anything, as he says, to 
the common fund; but he has contributed con- 
siderable, as we shall see. 

His paternal grandparents had twelve children, 
— eleven sons and one daughter. In his father's 
family were two sons and one daughter, namely: 
Phebe, born in 1819 and died in childhood; 
Philemon Brown, born in 1821, and died in 
Missouri in 1887; and Kollin C, who alone 
survives. 

In the spring of 1835 his father determined 
to anticipate Horace Greeley's advice and " go 
West." Accordingly he with his fa(nily and 
liousehold effects embarked on a canal -boat at 



Vergeunes, Vermont, which was towed by the 
steamboat ('om. McDonough down Otter creek 
six miles, to Lake Champlain, and then across 
that lake to Whitehall, New York, where they 
exchanged the Commodore for mules, which 
drew them by way of the Champlain canal to 
Troy, New York, thence by the Erie canal to 
Buffalo, and thence they came by the steamer 
Pennsylvania to the then village of Cleveland, 
Ohio, where they arrived in June, 1835, weary 
but undismayed, and all, save the youngest boy, 
fierce for the coming conflict with the almost 
unbroken forest. The family first settled in the 
township of Mayfield, Cuyahoga county, where 
they remained three years, and then removed to 
Bedford in the same county. Here Mr. Smith 
divided his time between hard work — " when he 
could not evade it," he says — on his father's 
farm, and hard study, which he seemed to relish 
more, in the district school, and in a select 
school at Bedford village, taught, at different 
periods, by Professors Whipple, Adams and 
Hawley. Subsequently he continued his efforts 
to obtain the necessary qualifications for teach- 
ing by attending the Twinsi)urg Institute, a 
somewhat noted school at Twinsburg, Ohio, 
managed by Kev. Samuel Bissell, and later at 
Alleghany College, at Meadville, Pennsylvania. 

He read law two years under the direction of 
Samuel Adams, Esq., of Cleveland, and medi- 
cine one and a half years under Dr. S. U. Tar- 
bell, of Bedford, this State, but abandoned the 
visions both of the woolsack and of a life as 
" aid to the undertaker," and returned to his 
" first love," the school-room. 

He began his long career as a schoolmaster 
in the autumn of 1845, in the township of Or- 
ange, Cuyahoga county, and ended it in the 
high school in the township of Warrensville, 
same county, forty-three years later, having 
spent his entire life as a pedagogue in the two 
counties of Cuyahoga and Summit. Ho has the 
satisfaction of knowing that he was almost al- 
ways called, and generally chosen, never having 
applied for more than three schools in his life. 
In the meantime he served two terms of three 



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years each on the Board of County School Ex- 
aminers in Summit county, and four terms in 
the same office in Cuyahoga county, also several 
terms as president of the County Teachers' In- 
stitute. 

On November 10, 1853, he made tlie happiest 
hit of his life by leadinjl, "of her own free will," 
to the matrimonial altar Miss Isabelle R. Deis- 
man, second daughter of H. L. and Letitia Deis- 
man, and for which stroke of good policy he has 
been " proud of himself " ever since. He has 
had seven children, namely: Ida Bell, born in 
1856; Charles P., 1858; George S., 1865; 
Henry L., 1868; Lettie M., 1871; James W., 
1875; and Rollin C, Jr., 1879,— all of whom 
are living except the youngest, who died of 
scarlet fever at the age of three years and seven 
months. Ida B. is married to James S. Viers, 
Esq.; Charles P. is editor and proprietor of a 
newspaper, "The Bedford News- Register;" 
George S. is an upholsterer in the chair factory 
of Hon. Y. A. Taylor; Henry L. is a civil en- 
gineer; Lettie M. is a compositor and the fore- 
woman in the office of the News-Register; and 
James W. is a student in the Bedford high 
school. 

About the year 1864 Mr. Smith was again 
fortunate, in joining Summit Lodge, No. 213, 
F. & A. M., and soon thereafter became a mem- 
ber of Summit Chapter, No. 74, R. A. M. He 
had the honor to preside as M. E. II. P. over 
his chapter for three consecutive terms. Sub- 
sequently he dimitted from Summit Lodge and 
became a charter member of Bedford Lodge, 
No. 375, F. & A. M., and is now serving his 
third term as Worshipful Master of the same. 
He is also P. W. P. in Bedford Division, No. 
81, S. of T., and is also " high private" in the 
" rear rank," as he terras it, in G(jldeiiro(i Lodge, 
No. 467, Knights of Pythias. 

In 1882 he was elected Justice of the Peace, 
served a term of three years and retired, but 
crowned witli all the honors tli;it he craved in 
that direction. 

He is now approaching the evening of life, 
and is endeavoring so to live that when the 



summons comes to join the innumerable cara- 
van, lie may, sustained and soothed by the belief 
that his life has not been all in vain, put his 
hand in that of the grim messenger, and in 
friendly companionship, without a murmur and 
without regret, pass on to the great majority, 
"where the wicked cease from troubling and 
where the weary are forever at rest." 



llAMES LAING has been for many years 
K I one of the most extensive dealers in live- 
^^ stock in Bedford township and has liecome 
thoroughly identified with the agricultural in- 
terests of this locality. 

He was born in Roxbnrg, Scotland, Septem- 
ber 2, 1840, a son of James and Betty (White) 
Laing, also native? of Scotland. The father 
emigrated with his family to the United States 
in 1850, and settled in Ohio, locating 100 acres 
of land in Cuyahoga county. Here he died in 
1859, his wife having passed away in 1850. 
Both were \vorthy members of the Presbyterian 
Church, and politically Mr. Laing voted with 
the Republican party. They had thirteen chil- 
dren, eleven of whom still survive: Annie, rel- 
ict of John Dawson; Elizabeth, relict of Hor- 
ace E. Ilarriman; and Enphemia, relict of 
George Thomas, — reside in I'edford township; 
George and Robert are prosperous farmers in 
the same locality, the former residing on his 
fine farm of 240 acres; Margeret is the wife cf 
Robert Forbes, the well-known Bedford mer- 
chant; Jessie, wife of John Waller, of Solon; 
Jane resides in Kansas, wife of Eugene Wilcox; 
and Mary is the* wife of William Walton, of 
Twinsbnrg, in Summit county. George White 
and Andrew died in infancy. 

James was a lad of ten years when the family 
came to Bedford. He was reared on the liome 
farm, and as he grew to manhood developed 
unusual ability in the management of the 
various departments of agriculture, but gave 
his attention more ])artiularly to the purchase 
of live-stock for the numerous dairies in the 



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neigbl)orhood, embarking in the business at the 
age of eighteen, and visiting at stated periods 
southerly and westerly portions of the State and 
sections of Michigan and Indiana. The sturdy 
young Scotchman soon won for himself a repu- 
tation for honesty in business, ami with a full 
share of native tact, coupled with temperate 
habits and business zeal and integrity, has 
amassed a fair competence, and gained the con- 
fidence and respect of the community. He 
now owns a valuable tract of 200 acres, chiefly 
devoted to the grazing of live-stock. The 
buildings are large and conveniently arranged 
for the various purposes to which they are de- 
voted. 

During the late Civil war Mr. Laing served 
with honor as a member of the One Hundred 
and Fiftieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Politi- 
cally, he supports the principles of the Repub- 
lican party, but in his close application to per- 
sonal business has not aspired to public ofKce. 
He belongs to Royal Dunham Post, No. 177, 
G. A. R. 

Mr. Laing was married in 1880, to Miss 
Mary, the daughter of James and Eliza Titter- 
ington, of Orange township. Onr subject and 
wife are the parents of five children, — Annie 
D., Mattie P., George Alexander, John W. 
and J. Leonard. 



\\ N. RENNET, a well-known and re- 
spected citizen of Warrensville town- 
ship, Cuyahoga county, was born in a 
log house on the farm which he still 
owns, June 10, 1831, a son of Robert P. and 
Olive (Casey) Rennet, natives of Pennington, 
Vermont., the former born in 1796 and the 
latter in 1799. The father was a soldier in the 
war of 1812. In 1818 he came to Warrens- 
ville township, where he was among the first 
settlers, and the country was then inhabited by 
wild beasts. Mr. Rennet died at the age of 
eighty-one years, his wife having departed this 
life when seventy-three years old. The former 
was a farmer by occupation, was first a Whig 



and later a Republican in his political views, 
and was a member and zealous worker in the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. and Mrs. 
Rennet had two children. Tiie daughter Orilla 
Viana, was born January 28, 1817, was mar- 
ried to Francis Pike, and her death occuri-ed in 
Ladora, Iowa county, Iowa. 

R. N. Rennet, our subject, received his edu- 
cation in the old log schoolhouse of his locality, 
and was early inured to farm labor. He now 
owns a fine farm of nitiety-eight acres in War- 
rensville township, where he has a comfortable 
residence, good barns, and other improvements. 
January 1, 1855, l)y Rev. Thomas Smith, he 
was united in marriage with Anna Cooper, a 
native of England and a daughter of Thomas 
and Ann (Wesbel) Cooper, also born in that 
country. They came to America in 1836, 
locating in Orange township, Cuyahoga county, 
Ohio. The father died at AVarrensville, at the 
age of eighty-eight years, and the mother died 
at the home of Mrs. Rennet, in her ninety- 
fourth year. They had nine children, viz.: 
William, Mary, Thomas, Eliza, James, Homer 
(deceased), John, Eunice, Homer and Anna. 
Mr. and Mrs. Rennet have seven children: 
Ciiarles M.. a resident of Warrensville, is mar- 
ried, and has three children — Lilly, Pearl and 
George; Hiram, of Chagrin Falls, has one 
daughter, Nettie; Robert P., a resident, of 
Cleveland, Ohio; Eliza A., wife of Charles 
Sayle, of Warrensville, and they have two chil- 
dren, Eunice and Harry; Cora R., wife of Will- 
iam Moore, of Cleveland, and they have one 
child, Olive Pearl; Olive A., wife of F. Nelson, 
a resident of this township; and Dolly IVLiy, at 
home. One child, George, died September 1, 
1875, at the age of two years. 



ni W. PADDOCK, a farmer of Olinstead 
/l\\ township, settled there in 1861. He 
J *\ was born in Rockport township, in 1839, 
' a son of Elias Denton and Delia (Nichol- 

son) Paddock. His father, a native of Essex 
county. New York, came to Cuyahoga county 



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CUTAEOOA COUNTY. 



when a young man, with his fatlier, Anthony 
Paddock, who came to this county in 1827, set- 
tling in Kockport township, where he died. In 
the same township Mr. Elias Denton Paddock 
grew up and married, and in 18G0 came to 
Olmstead township, locating on 13utterniit 
Kidge, which he ever afterward made liis home. 
He died in 1877. His wife still resides in this 
township. Of their eleven children five grew 
up, namely: A. W., who is the subject of this 
brief sketch; O. I., who resides in this town- 
ship: he enlisted in 1862, in the Fifteenth Ohio 
Independent Battery, and served through the 
war; Mortimer P\, who was a member of the 
same battery, and died here, in 1866; and 
Herbert L., also a member of the same regi- 
ment. He was married in 1868, and went to 
California in the spring of 1871, and his where- 
abouts is now unknown. 

Mr. Paddock, our subject, was reared in 
Rockport township, and has been engaged in 
farming. In 1861 he enlisted in the Eighth 
Ohio Infantry, Company II, for three months, 
at the expiration of which time he re-enlisted 
in the same company and was assigned to the 
Army of the Potomac, wherein he participated 
in the battles of AVinchester, Antietam, Fred- 
ericksburg, Wilderness and Gettys])urg, and 
was honorably discharged in 1864, at Columbus, 
Ohio. During the service he received a gun- 
shot wound. He now owns a good farm of 
thirty acres. 

In liis political views lie is a Republican, and 
in his social relations he has been a member, 
ever since its organization, of Olmstead Post, 
No. 634, G. A. R., of which he is the present 
Commander. Of this body he has been Senior 
Vicar, Chaplain and Adjutant. He and his 
wife are members of the Second Congregational 
Church. 

In 186") in (Uevcland, Mr. Paddock married 
Elmina Stearns, a daughter of Sidney and 
Martha Stearns, natives of Eastern States and 
now residing in Michigan. Mrs. Paddock's 
grandfather, Alvaii Stearns, a nativt! of one of 
the Eastern States, was one of tiic lirst settlers 



in Olmstead township, and resided there dur- 
ing his life. Mr. and Mrs. Paddock have iiad 
three children, viz.: Gertie, wife of Heury 
Daily and residing in Rockport: Jfr. Daily is 
in the railroad service; the otlier two children 
are Ruby and Roy. 



Iff ENRY A. GRIFFIN, editor of the Sun 
IpM and Voice, and president of the Voice 
11 *1 Pul)lisliingCompany, wasborn in the vil- 
^ lage of AVaterdown, near the city of Ham- 

ilton, Ontario, of Welsh and English ancestry. 
Both of his parents died while he was an in- 
fant, and at a very early age he was thrown 
upon his own resources. The village school and 
a term or two in the Hamilton gramtuar school, 
supplemented by independent studies and read- 
ing, while earnitig a living as clerk and book- 
keeper, supplied Mr. Griffin with the rudiments 
of an education. 

In 1865, at the age of twenty years, he re- 
moved to Wyandotte, Michigan, and engaged in 
mercantile business on his own account. A 
taste for literary work induced him to under- 
take the publication of a newspaper in that 
town, the Wyandotte Enterprise, in connection 
with his other business, in 1872. The venture 
was successful, and four years later the paper 
was removed to Detroit and thereafter issued 
under the name of tiio Wayne County Courier. 
In 1880 Mr. Griffin sold the Courier and be- 
came a member of the staff of the Detroit 
Evening News, having previously attracted no- 
tice by some good special work for that and 
other Detroit dailies. In 1882 ho was assigned 
to the managing editorshi]) of the Biifi'alo Tele- 
graph, then owned by the Evening News Com- 
pany; and a year later moved to Cleveland to 
accept a position as editorial writer on the 
Press, which he filled for three years. 

In 1886 the late Edward Cowles offered Mr. 
Griffin a responsible position, with larger op- 
portunities, on the staff of the Leadei-, which 
was accepted and filled, until April, 18'J1, when 



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he became secretary of tbe Board of Control 
and private secretai-y to Mayor Rose, under the 
then new Federal plan of municipal govern- 
ment. In February, 1892, he was appointed Di- 
rector of Police, to fill a vacancy caused by the 
resignation of Colonel J. W. Gibbons. At the 
close of Mayor Rose's official term Mr. Griffin 
purchased a controlling interest in the stock of 
the Voice Publishing Company. 

Mr. Griffin was married in 1867, to Miss 
Mary Imogene DeKalb, of An Sable Forks, 
New York, and tiiey have one daughter living. 



JOHN COLAITAN, a representative citizen 
of Cleveland, has been a resident of this 
city all his life, having been born here, in 
September, 1840, a son of Samuel and Harriet 
(Hedges) Colahan, both deceased. His father, 
a native of Quebec, was a printer by occupation 
in earlier life, and later was in mercantile busi- 
ness and finally in real estate. He was but five 
years of age, in 1813, when he was brought to 
Cleveland, by his parents, who were of Irish 
and French nativity. Samuel Colahan resided 
in Cleveland all his life from the age of five 
years, excepting the two years he spent in Mas- 
sillon and Circleville. He followed mercantile 
business until 1838, from which time he was 
engaged in real estate until his death, in 1886. 
His wife, a native of Virginia, died in 1887. 
They had five children. 

Early in life Mr. John Colahan engaged in 
mercantile business, then was a dealer in fire 
brick, sewer pipe, etc., representing one firm for 
thirteen years; but since 1871 he has been a 
dealer in real estate, giving this luisiness his 
entire attention, and making a specialty of cen- 
tral manufacturing property. He has erected 
several residences, and is in cliargo of several 
large estate. In 1891 he effected one of the 
largest real-estate deals ever made in this city, 
the consideration being $244,000 cash, and 
within the next twelve nu)ntlis he sold upward 
of ^400,000 worth of property, lie thoroughly 



understands his business, as he has from tiie 
start evinced a disposition and ability to be 
thorough, reliable and efficient in the mak- 
ing of sales. The same qualities keep him 
aloof from "politics," by which term is gener- 
ally meant political trickery to some extent. 
He has been active in the business world and 
one of the most progressive men of the city. 
He is laboring diligently for the centralization 
of business at Cleveland, and has already ac- 
complished much in this direction. Is sincere 
in his efforts, frank and honest, and proposes 
nothing but what is honorable. lie has great 
hopes tor the future greatness of the already 
great city of Cleveland, believing that in time 
it will become one of the few first cities in size 
and business character in the United States. 
He handles probably as mucii property as any 
other man in the city. His office is in the 
Beckman Block. 

In 1867 he married Celia De Long, a native 
of Summit county, Ohio. 



fflf M. DOTY, M. D., who has been for 
fr=1| many years identified with the interests 
Jj t of Chagrin Falls, is a native of the State 
"^ of Ohio, born at Bainbridge, Geauga 

county, September 21, 1848. His parents, 
Frederick and Harriet Ann (St. John) Doty, 
were natives of Connecticut and New York re- 
spectively; they emigrated to Ohio in 1835, 
and there passed the remainder of their lives. 
They reared a family of seven children, three of 
whom are deceased. When there was a call 
from the Nation in her hour of need, two of the 
sons took up arms in iier defence, and went 
bravely to the front; .\. M. was a member of 
the Ninety-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and 
E. F. served in the navy; the former resides in 
Portage county, Ohio, but the latter is de- 
ceased. The paternal grandfather of our sub- 
ject was David Doty, a native of Connecticut, 
and a member of an old family of New Eng- 
land. 



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Dr. Doty received his literary education in 
the common schools of Chagrin Falls and at 
Oberlin, Ohio, and when he had finished his 
course engaged in teaching. While this pro- 
fession offered a wide field of usefulness he pre- 
ferred the more serious calling of medicine. 
He liegan the studj' of the science under Drs. 
Curtis and Walters, was successively under the 
tuition of Drs. J. M. Lewis and B. F. Ilolliday; 
Prof. John Bennett was also one of his instruct- 
ors. Entering Western Reserve Medical Col- 
lege, he was graduated with the class of 1873, 
and immediately thereafter located at Chagrin 
Falls. Here he has estahlished a large practice 
and has taken his place among the leading prac- 
titioners of the county. 

In politics he supports the issues of the Re- 
publican party, and has twice been the choice of 
that body for the office of Mayor of the town. 
His career in this capacity has been character- 
ized by the faithful and able discharge of his 
duty. He is a member of the Masonic order, 
belonging to Golden Gate Lodge, No. 245, F. 
and A. M., Chagrin Falls Chapter, No. 152, 
R. A. M., and Oriental Commandery No. 12, 
K. T., of Cleveland. As a member of the 
Sciiool Board Dr. Doty was untiring in his 
efforts to raise the standard of education, and 
has labored zealously to increase the facilities 
for securing to every youth that training that 
will make him a safeguard to the Republic 
which has fostered him. 

Dr. Doty was united in Tnarriage in ls74, at 
Chagrin Falls, to Arvilla P. Goodell. Mrs. 
Doty was born, reared and educated in this 
county, and was previous to her marriage promi- 
nently identified with the work of the leading 
educators of the State. 



W£™. 



GIFFIN,oneof theold retired 
ll/lf/ ^""-^■■" ^^ Cleveland, was born in 
■l "l Tompkins county. New York, Febru- 
ary 13, 1815, a son of John and Lois (Thorp) 
(Jitfin, both of whom are now deceased. They 
reared a family of three childi-cn: Louisa J. and 



Hannah are both deceased, William being the 
only surviving one. He first emigrated to Ohio 
in 1835, and after spending two years upon the 
frontier, returned to New York State. In 1871 
he came back to Ohio, and settled in Cleveland 
where he has since resided. He is a mason and 
builder by trade, and devoted the best years of 
life to this work. As his declining years ap- 
proached he gave up more active pursuits, and 
is now living in quiet retirement. 

He was married in Huron county, Ohio, 
April 2, 1837, to Miss Jane K. Warner, a 
daughter of Justice and Mary (Sperry) Warner, 
and to them were born four children: Louisa J., 
wife of Charles M. Lusk, is the mother of two 
sons, Rollin W. and Milton W.; Rollin S. mar- 
ried Elizabeth I'inkney, and they have one 
daughter, Jessie W. ; E. Adaline is the widow of 
A. K. Ilobart, wlio died in 1882 at the age of 
thirty-eight years; John W. married Carrie M. 
Gascoigne, and to them was born one child, 
Herbert E.; the mother died in 1888, at the 
age of twenty-eight years. Mr. Giffin's second 
marriage was to Annis Kidder-Coleman, and 
thay have one child, Adaline. The mother of 
this family died April 15, 1893, at the age of 
seventy- seven years. She had been a member 
of church over fifty years. From Our Church 
Greeting, published for the Euclid Avenue Con- 
gregational Church, April 23, 1893, the follow- 
ing is (pioted: 

"Our sister, Mrs. Jane K. (Warner) Gifiiii, 
wife of William GilHn, was born in Burlington, 
Vermont, and came to Cleveland when seven- 
teen years of age. She was married to William 
Gifiin in 1837, and in 1SS7 they celebrated 
their golden wedding. They removed to Au- 
burn New York, but returned to Cleveland in 
1871, and have ever since made their home on 
Genesee avenue. On returning to this city she 
united with the Congregational Church by let- 
ter from the Baptist Church of Auburn, New 
York. 

"Mrs. Gifiin was a woman of deep spiritual 
nature and j)rofound religious experience. She 
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daily joy in unseKish ministries of counsel and 
lielp. The word of God was her constant com- 
panion and the songs of Zion were often on her 
lips. The poor and needy always found her a 
wise adviser and a generous helper, and all 
whose lives in any way touched lit^-s took know- 
it'tlge 1)1' her, that she lived in daily fellowt^hip 
with Christ." 

Mr. Gitiin and the children are Church niem- 
liers. In politics he adheres to the Republican 
paity. 



STRATON i 
\ and much 
~ — - ville towns 
was born in Montrose, Forfarshire, 



?. OGILVY, a well known 

respected citizen of Strongs- 

lip, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, 

Scotland, 



June 29, 1820. In his native land he spent 
the first fourteen years of his life. Then he 
entered upon a seafaring life, and for eighteen 
years ran on the Baltic sea, stopping at the va- 
rious poi'ts of Russia, Sweden and Denmark. 
After that he spent twelve months in Scotland, 
studying navigation, and at the end of that 
time again launched out on the deep. He sailed 
all over the world, visiting all the different 
countries on the globe, and crossing the Equator 
twenty-one different times. For five years he 
was an apprentice in the employ of W. S. Glad- 
stone. Then he served in the capacity of second 
mate, later as first mate, and finally as captain. 
While on a voyage to New York, in 1842, he 
met with an accident in which both his legs 
were broken, the result being that he abandoned 
the sea. 

Upon his arrival in America in 1842, Mr. 
Ogilvy came to Cuyahoga county, Gliio, to visit 
his brother John, and while here he purchased 152 
acres of land in Strongsville townshij), the farm 
upon which he now lives. Soon after this he 
returned to Scotland and married Miss Eliza 
Lourie, and brought his bride with him to Ohio. 
They made their home on the farm he ha4 pur- 
chased for about a year and a half, and then, on 
account of his wife's declining health, they re- 
turned to Scotland. She nevgr fully recovered 



her health, although she lived for a number of 
years, and finally died in her native land. They 
had six children, five of whom reached adult 
years, namely: David J.; Weller E., who died 
of lockjaw; Harry; William; and Charles S., 
who died from the eftects of a wound received 
from an engine while he was working in the 
machine shops at Cleveland. Mr. Ogilvy con- 
tinued to reside in Scotland for twenty years, 
and in the meantime was married there again, 
the maiden name of his second wife being 
Mary King. She bore him two children, only 
one of whom, Charles S., lived. She accompa- 
nied him on his return to America, and her 
death occurred in Strongsville township. His 
third wife, nee Sarah Morris, also died in this 
township. March 10, 1886, he was married in 
Cleveland, Ohio, to Mrs. Eliza H. Ody, 7iee 
Harry, a native of Wiltshire, England, born 
October 19, 1835. Her first husband, Thomas 
Ody, died March 9, 1883, leaving her with five 
children, besides whom four had died, as fol- 
lows: Thomas, George, Antoinette, John, Ade- 
line, Sarah, Tlieresa, Francis J. and Amelia. 
Two of these had married before Mrs. Ody's 
union with Mr. Ogilvy. 

Mr. Ogilvy has resided in Strongsville town- 
ship since 1863 and farming has been his sole 
business since that time. He owns 132 acres of 
fine land, well improved and under a high state 
of cultivation. 

Mrs. Ogilvy has been a member of the Meth- 
odist Church since 1866, and for over five years 
has been Superintendent of the Sunday school. 



NDREW J. AIKEN, chief engineer of 
the Fairmount water- works, Cleveland, 
Ohio, was born in Brooklyn, Cuyahoga 
county, this State, January 29, 1834, 
son of William and Betsey (Clark) Aiken, both 
natives of Connecticut. 

Mr. Aiken was educated in his native town, 
and early in life chose for his occupation the 
business of engineer. He ran the engines in 



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the gristmills of Poe, Kelley and Seidell iVr 
Sargeant previous to 1862, and that year went 
on the steam tng, S. C. Ives. He M-as em- 
ployed on the lakes from 1862 until 1872. In 
1872 he resigned his position on the Magnet 
and located in Cleveland. For ten years he 
was first assistant at division pumping station, 
and for eight years he has occupied his present 
position. During all this lime he has never 
had a serious accident. On one occasion he 
risked his own life to save that of another man, 
and from the effects of injury received thereby 
was laid up for sixteen days. From the time 
he started out to make his own way in the 
world he has never been out of employment, 
and during his life in Cleveland and elsewhere 
he has ingratiated himself with his co-workers, 
his employers, and, indeed, all with whom he 
has come in contact. 

Mr. Aiken was married September 25, 1864, 
to Miss Catharine Welsh, adopted daughter of 
Benjamin S. Welsh, of Cleveland. They have 
a family of seven children, namely: William 
was engineer on the John Harper, a lake 
steamer; Louis, machinist; Bettie Louisa, wife 
of a Mr. Small, has one child, Catherine; 
Euth; Harry Lorenzo; Andrew J., Jr.; and 
Esther. 

Of the adopted parents of Mrs. Aiken we 
make record as follows: Benjamin S. Welsh 
was one of the early pioneers of northern Ohio. 
He served in the war of 1812, and afterward 
for some time in the regular army, being 
stationed at Mackinaw Island, then a trading 
post. After his discharge, 1817, he settled in 
Cleveland, where he was well known as a pio- 
neer tavern keeper for many years. He re- 
mained in this city up to the time of his death, 
which occurred in 1876, at the age of eighty- 
seven years. His wife, Sophronia Welsh, died 
in 1872, at the age of seventy-six. Both were 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
and were people of sterling qualities. Mrs. 
Welsh was noted far and near as an excellent 
nurse and good cook. Indeed, few of the pio- 
neers of this city had a warmer place in the 



hearts of the people here than did this wortiiy 
couple. They had a family of four children be- 
sides the adopted daughter alluded to, namely: 
Oscar, who died in 1892, aged seventy years; 
James, who died in 1883; Lorelle, widow of 
James B. Wilber, is a resident of Chicago; and 
Roselia, wife of Henry Hows, of Indianapolis, 
Indiana. 

Politically, Mr. Aiken is a Republican, as 
are his sons aud as also was his father. He is 
a member of the Marine Engineers. Mrs. 
Aikeu is a member of Beckwith Church. 



rOIIN BIRD, foreman of the -Big Fom--' 
y. I round-house at (Meveland, was born in 
^ Toronto, Canada, May 13, 1850. Joseph 
Bird, his father, was a painter. He married 
Mary Turreff, a sister of ex-Superintendent 
Tiirrefl, of the "Big Four," now deceased. 
Their children are: William, a locomotive en- 
gineer on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & 
St. Louis Railroad; John and Elizabeth, un- 
married. 

John Bird learned blacksmithing near To- 
ronto, Canada, but when he came to Cleveland 
in 1872 he went at once to railroading, becom- 
ing a fireman for the Cleveland & Pittsburg 
Railroad Company, running between Welh;ville 
and Cleveland. In 1875 he left the Cleveland 
& Pittsburg and assumed charge of the (Cleve- 
land, Lorain & Wheeling round-house at Lorain, 
Ohio. He was made an engineer in eighteen 
months and remained so five years, when he 
took charge of the Mattoon round-house in Illi- 
nois, and a year later returned to Cleveland and 
went into the Nickel Plate service as an engi- 
neer, running over the first three divisions of 
the road and remaining till July 8, 1890, wlien 
he quit to accept his present position. 

June 12, 1881, Mr. Bird married, in Cleve- 
land, Miss Hannah J., a daughter of Jesse Enoo. 
Mr. Enoo is one of the oldest residents of Cleve- 
land, and a gentleman who has cast fifty-four 
annual ballots in this city. He is now eighty- 



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four years of age and in full possession of all 
his mental and physical powers. He came to 
Cleveland from New York, married here Mary 
Stanfield and reared four children, — G. W. H., 
Hannah J., Mary and Sarah, the two latter being 
unmarried. Hattie Elizabeth is the only child 
of our subject, a girl of twelve years. 

Mr. Lird is a member of the lioyal Arcanum, 
of the A. O. U. "VV. and of the " Big Four " in- 
surance association. He holds the ofiice of 
Cliai)lain in the S. F. I. 



AIITIN BOWEN SCOTT was born 
March 8, 1801, at Deertield, Oneida 
county, New York. His birthplace 
was upon a farm owned by his father, 
Nathaniel Scott, whose farm lay about one-half 
mile west of the line between Herkimer and 
Oneida counties. He was a descendant of 
Bichard Scott, who landed in Boston in 1633, 
oti' the ship Griffin and became the parent tree 
of the family in America. He moved to Rhode 
Island, where he was a contemporary of Iloger 
Williams. 

He embarked in business very early iu life, 
first in connection with navigation upon the 
Mohawk river and the Erie canal, from 1823 
to 1S27, during a part of which period his home 
was at Utica, New York, and at Little Falls. 
He was for a time in the employ of Degroff, 
Watson & Company, which was in that day a 
leading forwarding house of Schenectady. In 
1828 he resided at "Whitehall, situated at the 
head of Lake Charaplain, upon which lake he 
was interested in navigation, as well as upon 
the Chainplain canal. In 1829 he removed to 
the city of Albany, New York, where he be- 
canae the manager for Derevaugh, Butler & 
Company, and later the Thorn ct Curtis Com- 
pany, of Utica, which was of the Utica line of 
canal boats, the first line of canal boats that 
ever navigated the Erie Canal and Hudson 
river. In 1834 he and others formed a stock 
company called the Albany Canal Tow Boat 



Company, a steam transportation company be- 
tween the cities of New York and Albany, and 
of this he became manager at Albany. In 1835 
he removed to the city of New York, a place 
aftbrding better opportunity for the successful 
management of the business of this transporta- 
tion com])any. 

A year later he found his health failing, by 
reason of his close application to business dur- 
ing a period of fourteen active years, and seek- 
ing medical aid it became his plan under the 
advice of his physician to retire, at least for a 
time, from a business career. He did so, and 
then traveled on horseback through the then 
new States of Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and 
"Wisconsin. It was simply a tour that he made 
for the benefit of his health, but during his 
visit to this Western country he not only I'e- 
gained his health but formed a liking for the 
climate and local advantages afforded by this 
region, and, especially liking Cleveland, he de- 
cided upon coming to this city and making his 
future home here. His business in Cleveland 
consisted largely in storing and forwarding 
grain, and to a considerable extent (for those 
days) he also became interested in lake ship- 
ping, being the owner of several vessels wiiich 
he operated in connection with his grain busi- 
ness. He built a steam elevator, which was the 
first brick building erected on the river front. 
He retired from active business in 1865, but 
was interested in Cleveland enteprises up to the 
time of his death, being president of the Mer- 
cantile Insurance Company, a director in the 
old Merchants' Bank, and a trustee of the So- 
ciety for Savings. He died in 1872. 

In 1838 he came to Cleveland, and on the 
25th day of March of the following year he 
married Mary, the daughter of Samuel William- 
son, a distinguished and well known citizen of 
this city, now deceased. Mrs. Scott was born 
in Cleveland February 11, 1813, and died Octo- 
ber 1, 1859. At the time of her death she was 
the oldest native of Cleveland that had con- 
stantly resided in the place from the time of 
birth. Mr. and Mrs. Scott had seven children, 



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all of whom save Charles O. are deceased: two 
grew to maturity. Martin B. died in 1870, 
from fever contracted in the army service. He 
was a soldier in the One Hundred and Fiftieth 
Ohio Volunteer infantry, while John W. died 
in 1873. 

Ciiarles O. Scott, one of the leading citizens 
of Cleveland, was born in this city and edu- 
cated in the public schools here. After prepar- 
ing for college in New Hampshire he entered 
Harvard College, but was not permitted to com- 
plete his course at college by reason of failing 
health. He visited Europe, returned to Cleve- 
land and afterward became interested in the A. 
S. Herenden Furniture Company as a share- 
holder. In the interest of this business he was 
active until 1887, when the business was closed. 

Mr. Scott has been a stockholder in a number 
of manufacturing enterprises, and has been 
very largely interested in Cleveland real estate, 
to the development of which he has materially 
contributed. He has been interested in some 
two or three allotments, and for the past seven 
years he has given his time and attention to his 
own private interests. 

He is a young, active and successful business 
man. Socially, he sustains enviable relations. 
He is a patron of the Historical Society, being 
a life member, and is also a member of the 
Country Club and of the Chamber of Com- 
merce, while politically he is a Republican. 



SW. MATHER, an undertaker and manu- 
facturer of caskets at 1330 Pearl street 
and U09 Woodland avenue, Cleveland, 
was born in Herkimer county, New York, July 
27, 1849, a son of Asaph and Betsey (Davis) 
Mather, natives also of that State. The father 
was born on the same farm, July 14:, 1821, and 
his death occurred in December, 1892. The 
mother, born in 1822, departed this life in 
1875. They were the parents of eleven chil- 
dren, six now living, namely: S. W., our sub- 
ject; Emour, a farmer by occupation, married 



Miss Mary Ann Sawyer; Asaph T., a railroad 
conductor, married Miss Katie Reynolds; Hat- 
tie Jane, wife of Eugene H. Edick, of Cleve- 
land; Mary, now Mrs. Cooley; and William, a 
farmer by occupation, married a Miss Notting- 
ham. All the children reside in Cattaraugus 
county. New York, e.Kcepting the subject of 
this sketch. The deceased children are: Hul- 
dah, who died at the age of twenty years, was 
the wife of Benjamin Thomas; Jeremiah, de- 
ceased at the age of two years; George, at the 
age of seventeen years; Henry married Alphre- 
da Potter, and died when twenty-tive years of 
age; and John, deceased in 1873, at the age of 
twenty-six years. 

S. AV. Mather, the subject of this sketch, 
worked at farm labor until twenty- two years of 
age, was then engaged in the grocery business 
at Cleveland one and a half years, next worked 
at the carpenter's trade, and his next venture 
was to invent a patent tire-lighter. In 1887 he 
went to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where for 
a year and a half he engaged in the manufac- 
ture of patent fire-lighters. Selling out, he 
went to Boston, Massachusetts, where he con- 
tinued in the same business nearly a year. 
Selling out his interest in the fire-lighter busi- 
ness again, he returned to Cleveland in 1879 
and put up an establishment for the manufac- 
ture of the step-ladder, and while there he in- 
vented a step-ladder and patented it. Here he 
engaged in making all kinds of ladders, under 
the name of the Union Ladder Works, which 
was afterward known as the Union Ladder & 
Washboard Works. In 1885 he embarked in 
his present occupation, in the manufacture of 
caskets. In 18^7 the Funeral Reform Associa- 
tion of the United States was formed by Mr. 
Mather, Dr. Gallentine and Dr. C. B. llumis- 
ton. The association now has the following 
officers: Dr. C. B. Humiston, president; E. J. 
Holmden, vice-president; E. H. Edick, secre- 
tary; John Meyer, treasurer; and S. W. Mather, 
general manager. The terms of membership 
are $3 for a family, or $1 for a single person, 
with no further dues or assesements. The asso- 




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eiation is not a monopoly. It claims no special 
right, or does it seek to dominate prices or 
compel patronage. It sells to any person with- 
out regard to locality, and it has among its 
members many of the public-spirited and well 
known citizens of Cleveland and other cities, 
leading ministers and otiier professional men. 

Mr. Mather was married September 6, 1887, 
to Miss Addie Cooley, a daughter of Henry and 
Candace (McCIure) Cooley. Her father is still 
living in New York, aged sixty-six years, and 
her mother died in 1885, at the age of tifty- 
sevcn years. Both were members of the Pres- 
bytei'ian Church, in which the former has served 
as Deacon for many years. They had three 
children: Julia, wife of Walter Searl, of Frank- 
liiiville, New York; William H., who married 
Mary Mather; and Addie, wife of our subject. 
Mr. and Mrs. Mather have had three children, 
only one of whom is now living, Addie Mae. 
Our subject and wife ai-e members of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church. In political matters 
Mr. Mather affiliates with the Republican party. 
Through his varied and eventful life he has 
maintained his honor and integrity, and is emi- 
nently deserving of the respect and patronage 
of the community, of which he is an honorable 
and useful memljer. 



YRFS MILLARD, proprietor of machine 
shops at Chagrin Falls, was born in the 
Kirtland Flats, near where the Mormon 
temple still stands, in Geauga county, Ohio, 
February 15,1816. 

His Father, Brazilla Millard, a native of New 
York, was reared in that State and married 
there, and emigrated to Geauga county in 1811, 
settling upon a farm. In 1832 he moved to 
FuUertown, in the same county, and in 1836 to 
Indiana, and finally to Oakland county, Michi- 
gan, where he died, in his seventy-sixth year. 
He was supposed to be of Scotch descent. For 
his wife he married, in New York State, Miss 
Nancy Moore, a native of that State and reared 



there, and she died in Oakland county Michigan, 
ill her fiftieth year. Her father, John Moore, 
also a native of New York, was a Revolutionary 
soldier and received a pension of $96 perannum. 
She was a sister of Isaac Moore, who was a prom- 
inent citizen of Mentor, this State, being a mem- 
ber of the Ohio House of Representatives one 
term. His son, C. H., is a prominent citizen 
of DeWitt county, Illinois. 

Mr. Cyrus Millard, the fourth in a family of 
fourteen children, — nine sons and five daugh- 
ters, — attended school in the log schoolhouses 
of the day, in his native place, and at the early 
age of ten years began to take care of himself, 
first working upon a farm or at anything else he 
could find to do, for his clothes and board ; for 
a time he was employed by Elijah Smith, who 
had aided him in his younger days. He also 
lived with his uncle, Isaac Moore, who was a 
good man. In 1832 he began work in a mill 
and learned the milling business. Being natur- 
ally a mechanic, he could make anything that 
any other man could. 

At the age of nineteen yeare he located in the 
northern part of Russell township, where he 
married Miss Sallie Surdam, a native of New 
York and the second child of Peter Surdam. He 
again commenced working in a mill, a sawmill 
and box factory, which he soon purchased, and 
he owned and ran it for twenty years. Before 
this, however, he had bought forty acres of land, 
to which he added by latter ptirchases until he 
had 210 acres. In 1866 he sold the farm and 
mill, and moved to Chester Cross Roads, where he 
remained twenty years and where his wife died, 
to whom he had been married just thirty-eight 
years to a day. March 7, 1843, while Mr. Mil- 
lard was living at North Russell, his house 
burned down, and in the disaster also all of his 
four children and a brother fourteen years old 
were burned todeath, — an event too sad and pain- 
ful to dwell upon. All truly sympathetic peo- 
ple will feel as deeply upon this subject without 
words as with them. 

March 11, 1886, Mr. Millard moved to Cha- 
grin Falls, where he now lives. By his first mar- 



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riage there were five children, namely: W. Wel- 
lington, Mary, Maria and Martha, who were all 
burned to death in the tire just mentioned; and 
Martha (second), born June 7, 1844, is the only 



ig, anc 



is the wife of T. W. 



one now 

Scott, of Chagrin Falls, whose sketch is given 
elsewhere in this volume. For his second wife 
Mr. Millard married, April 6, 1873, Miss Rosa 
Kobitison, a native of Orange township, Cuya- 
hoga county, and a daughter of Samuel Robin- 
eon, deceased. She was born near where Presi- 
dent Garfield was born. By the last marriage 
one son has been horn, by name Creighton, who 
is living at home with his parents. 

As to politics, Mr. Millard was at first a Whig, 
then a Republican and finally a Prohibitionist, 
— a very natural succession, — and in religion he 
is a member of the Disciples' Church, to which 
he has belonged ever since 1.S55. He lias never 
used tobacco or drank liquors, lie is a self- 
made man, accumulating what lie has by his 
own industrious habits and honest dealing. He 
one of only three or four from his native place 
who has been successful in life. 



ALEB OAKES.the oldest living descend- 
ant of one of the oldest families of Brecks- 
ville township, was born December 8, 
1822. His father, Carey Oakes, was born in 
Hawley, Massachusetts, and married Miss 
Tamar Easton. Mr. Carey Oakes' father, 
Calvin Oakes, exchanged land in his native 
State in 1815 for land in Brecksville township, 
and early the ne.\t year his two sons, Carey and 
William, left New England for the then far dis- 
tant West, an o.\ team their means of transpor- 
tation, and were forty days on their journey. 
With $11 in money and in a perfect wilderness, 
Mr. Carey Oakes, with his family, then consist- 
ing of wife and two children (Mary and Fran- 
cis), began to prepare a home. In company 
with liis brother, he began to clear up 200 acres 
of the tangled forest, on lot 41, which was cov- 
ered with beech, maple, black walnut, etc. With 



health and per.-everance they succeeded, and 
finally sowed fields of grain throujihiMit \\w 
tract once so densely covered with forest ti'e s. 

Of the two children born in the East, M^ry 
married Doras Lyman and died at Oberlin. 
Ohio; and Francis, a farmer and a lile-long 
resident of Brecksville township, who died in 
1884, aged seventy years. Those born here in 
Ohio were: Isaac, who lived until December, 
1893, a life-long farmer; the next two in order 
of birth died in infancy; Caleb, our subject, is 
the next; Henry, now a farmer of Brecksville; 
Tamar, who married Townsend llorton and 
died in Brecksville; Martha, now Mrs. Alfr.d 
Oreen, of Iowa; and Carey, .Ir., i^f Cedar 
Rapids, Iowa. 

The first habitation of Carey v)akes cnsisted 
of j)o'es and bark, wdiich was shortly afterward 
supplanted by a more substantial one, being a 
frame house. On this farm Mr. Oakes lived 
for a number of years, being a diligent worker. 
He was a man of powerful frame, six feet two 
inches high when standing in undressed feet, 
and weighed 240 pounds. During his life here 
he never changed his residence. He died .lune 
2, 1871, and his wife January 1, 1881, and they 
now lie side by side in Center cemetery. As to 
his political views be had been a Whig. He 
was one of the first three voters in the town- 
ship that voted the Abolition ticket. He served 
as Justice of the Peace two terms. Both him- 
self and wife were members of the Congrega- 
tional Church. 

Mr. Caleb Oakes, whose name heads this 
memoir, was educated partly at Twinsburg, 
Ohio, when Professor Bissell was president of 
the school. On starting from home for this in- 
stitution of learning Mr. Oakes carried all his 
clothes (excepting what he was wearing) in a 
red bandana handkerchief, going on foot and 
crossing the (^liio canal on a log, no bridge 
being erected at that time. 

May 6, 1850, he married Hannah Horton, 
who was born August 19, 1829, in Bellvale 
township, Orange county, New York, a daugh- 
ter of Milton Horton, who came to Milan, 



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Huron county, Ohio, in 1834. It was at tliis 
place that our subject was married, by Rev. 
Newton Barrett, a Congregational clergyman. 
Shortly after his marriage Mr. Oakes exchanged 
a portion of his place for his present farm, 
with his brother Isaac, and he has lived here 
ever since. He has over 200 acres of excellent 
farm land, which is more tiian four times the 
amount lie had at first. He is a thorough and 
systematic farmer, with good business ideas and 
general good common sense. He is a Repub- 
lican, but no politician. His wife, who was a 
member of the Methodist Church, died July 
29, 1892, and is buried in Center cemetery. 
The children are: Lydia, now Mrs. Frank 
Finch, of Summertown, Tennessee; Emma, at 
home; Milton, who died at the age of six years; 
Herbert, wlio died aged twenty two years; and 
Benjamin F., also at home. 



/r^ FORGE H. AVORTHINGTON is secre- 
I ¥/ tary and treasurer of the Cleveland Stone 
>^ Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, with which 
important enterprise he has long been 
associated. The study of the development of a 
great industry, with due attention to the jier- 
sonal energy and ability that have conserved 
such progress, must ever be interesting and 
profitable to those who make note of the com- 
mercial and economic problems of the day. The 
subject of this sketch, who has gained distinct- 
ive prestige as one of the successful and capable 
business men of the Forest City, was born in 
Toronto, Canada, February 13, 1850, the son of 
John and Mary ("Wellborn) Worthington. John 
"Worthington was born in Stafifordshire, Eng- 
land, September 9, 1818, and his death occurred 
December 25, 1873. His widow still survives 
him and is a resident of Toronto. He was 
reared and educated in his native place, and on 
attaining to years of maturity he betook him- 
self to Canada, where he was married and where 
he reared his family. He was a contractor and 
builder, which occupation he followed for many 



years, operating in botii the United States and 
Canada. He erected the Union Depot at Cleve- 
land and was the contractor for the construction 
of the Ashtabula & Jamestown Railroad, now 
a portion of the Lake Shore & Michigan South- 
ern Railroad, and for the Southern ct Central 
Railroad, now a part of the Lehigh Valley sys- 
tem, in the State of New York. He was among 
the first to import building-stone into Canada. 
About the year 1850 he came to the United 
States for the purpose of securing stone for 
shipment to the province, and it was at this 
time that he arranged with the Brownhelm 
stone quarry for its entire output, which of it- 
self was not sufficient to supply his needs. 
This fact led him to purchase the quarry, and 
from it he at once commenced to (piarry and 
ship stone to Canada. He operated the quarry 
very successfully for several years, the entire 
output being consigned to Canada. Finally he 
began to place the product upon the market in 
the States, in the meantime having associated 
his son, James M., with him in the business. 
Later on George H , the subject of this sketch, 
became a member of the firm, whose title was 
thereupon changed to Worthington & Sons. 

No other contractor of the Dominion of Can- 
ada was perhaps more prominent tlian John 
Worthington, for there he erected many im- 
portant piiblic edifices and other fine architect- 
ural structures, achieving success and renown 
in his various undertakings. He was a man of 
sterling qualities, strictly honorable, thoi-oiighly 
persevering,, his success in life being well 
merited. 

He had a family of four sons and three 
daughters, namely: James M., the president of 
the Cleveland Stone Company; Minnie, the 
widow of E. Bendelari; George H., our subject; 
Fanny, wife of W. W. Keighley, of Toronto; 
Jane, widow of T. C. Elwood; John H. and 
Edward E., twins, the former of whom died in 
Calcutta, India, December 7, 1873. 

The immediate subject of this review, George 
H. Worthington, was reared and educated in 
Toronto, finishing his school work at tiie age of 



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gixteeii years, when be entered a wholesale 
eotahlishiuent in that city, remaining thus em- 
ployed for a period of two years. He then en- 
tered the employ of his father, who was at the 
time engaged in carrying out contracts for rail- 
way construction in the -State of New York. 
In this field of labor our subject remained for 
six months, having charge of the entire work 
under tlie contracts of his father, who was then 



of 



impa 



ired 



taking a trip abroad by reason 
health. After the completion of the contracts 
noted, Mr. Worthingtoii went to Drownhelm, 
Ohio, and there entered the employ of Worth- 
ington & Son, which firm consisted of his father 
and an older brother. One year later he became 
a member of the firm of Worthington & Sons. 
After the death of the father, in 1873, the suns 
succeeded to the business, but retained the old 
firm name until the organization of the Cleve- 
land Stone Company was effected. 

Besides holding a half interest in the busi- 
ness of "Worthington & Sons, George H. Worth- 
ington was president of the Berea & Huron 
Stone Company. Upon the organization of the 
Beeman Chemical Company Mr. Worthington 
became interested and is now secretary and 
treasurer of the same. He is also vice-president 
of the Cleveland Washboard Company and of 
the Pike Manulacturing Company, of New 
Hampshire. He has a financial interest in 
several other important enterprises in the city 
of Cleveland, is a member of the Chamber of 
Commerce, a director of the Masonic Temple 
Association, a director of the West Cleveland 
Banking C'ompany, and of the Chamberlain 
Cartridge & Target Company. It may thus be 
readily understood that Mr. Worthington is an 
active and representative business man, one 
whose ability and honor have been thoroughly 
tried and proved. 

In fraternal afhliations he is prominently 
connected with the Masonic order, being a 
member of Tyrian Lodge, No. 370; of Cleve- 
land Chapter, No. 148, and of Oriental Coin- 
mandery, No. 12, K. T., having been made a 
member of tlie commandery in 1874. He has 



been a thirty-fecutid-degi'ee Mason since 1870, 
being a charter member of Lake Erie Con- 
sistory, and of Al Koran Temple, of the Mysiic 
Shrine. 

Mr. Worthington was married at ilt. Ver- 
non, Ohio, in February, 1878, to Mrs. Hannah 
L. Weaver. They make their home at tlie 
Stillman, the beautiful Euclid avenue hotel. 



LORIXDA E. (DEMING)SQUIRE, widow 
i of Charles R. Squire, was born in Brun- 
— i son, Huron county, Ohio, July 31, 1822, 
a daughter of Amos Deming, who was born in 
Saundersfield, Massachusetts, March 12, 1800. 
When Mr. Deming was yet very young the family 
moved to Avon, Livingston county. New York; 
and when eighteen years of age he bouglit the 
remainder of his time from his father and 
walked thence to Brunson, Ohio, where he 
worked for Major Underbill, on a farm and in 
his sawmill, at $10 a month, until he paid for 
fifty acres of land near that place. Two years 
later he returned to New York and was married 
to Miss Fannie Witherell, and with her catne 
back to Ohio, settling on his new farm. He 
died there, in 1885: his wife had died many 
years previously, namely, in 1850. For forty 
years he was a member of the Congregation.d 
Church, and was beloved by all who knew him, 
as he was so kindly in his nature and conduct. 
Politically lie was a Republican. 

He had eleven children, three of whom died 
in infancy. The living are: Lorinda E., our 
subject; Perry B., of Chicago; Lucy, wido^v 
of S. B. Fuller, of Norwalk, Ohio; Mary, wife 
of Warren Buel, of Albert Lea, Minnesota; 
Amos, of Srtugatuck, Michigan; Marana, now 
Mrs. I. T. Ray, of Norwalk, Ohio; Matilda IL. 
now Mrs. E. C. Johnson, of Milwaukee, Wis- 
consin; Harriet E., wlio married John Lamkey, 
of Rock Falls, Illinois. 

Mrs. Squire, whose name heads this sketch, 
was married December 17, 1843, to C. R. 
Squire, of Brunson, Huron county, Ohio, .'et- 



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tied in Wakeman, this State, and a year after- 
ward moved to St. Charles, Illinois, where for 
two years Mr. Squire was employed in various 
occupations. Then they came to Cleveland, 
where Mr. Scjiiire embarked in the wholesale 
and retail grocery business. First lie was clerk 
for Lemuel Wick, then started out for himself. 
.Vfter a few years he failed, owing to the perfidy 
i)f Ills bookkeeper and clerk, and then he turned 
liis inventive mind to the invention of ore sep- 
arators (retorts) and crushing machines. Going 
to New York he interested capital in his enter- 
iprise, and spent several years there. Finally he 
>WHS taken sick and died, October 19, 1891. 

Mrs. Squire still resides at 37 Church street, 
•where she and her husband settled in 1864:. 
They had three sons: Charles A., Frank E. and 
Willie A. Charles married Miss Mattie Bell 
Cameron in 1877, and has four children, — 
Charles E,., Fred Eugene, LeGrand E. and 
Katie; Frank married Miss Martha 1). Lewis in 
1874, and they also have four children, — Leora 
A., Edith M., Luella M. and Leroy Frank; 
Willie married, in 1884, Miss Mary Virginia Fra- 
zier, of North Carolina, and has two children, 
— Lorinda E. and Clara A. The three sons 
are all engaged in railroad work, and in politics 
Republicans. 

Mrs. Squire's mother, nee Fannie Witlierell, 
was a native of Vermont, and was taken by her 
parents to New York in their removal to that 
State; and Mrs. Squire's father was on the tirst 
steamer that ever plied the waters of Lake Erie, 
when it was beached at Erie dnring a storm, 
about 1819 or 1820, and Mr. Squire's father was 
a Methodist Episcopal minister, and died at the 
advanced age of eighty-fbnr years. 



djOTIN G. JAMES, assistant freight agent 
of the Lake Shore A: Michigan Southern 
Kailroal Company, is a gentleman who 
lias come into prominence rapidly as a railroad 



man, rising frui 



•ksh 



be fr 



office of this road to the position lie now oc- 



cupies in less than one decade from the date of 
his entering the service of the company, and his 
being an official of the great Lake Shore system 
in his present capacity speaks more for the char- 
acter of his service than any article written for 
the express purpose of describing that service in 
detail. It was in 1876 that Mr. James' name 
was entered on the pay roll as an employe of the 
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Com- 
pany. Two years' service as a freight clerk 
sufficed to warrant Ijis 2)romo};ioij to the position 
of chief clerk in the general freight office, ^nd 
in this capacity he exhibited those characteristics 
which prompted the n^angigeinent of the road tp 
make him assistant general freight ageiit seveii 
years later. 

Mr. James is an active and intlueutial meni- 
ber of the following committees of the Central 
Traffic Association, viz. : Rules and Regulations, 
Iron and Iron Manufactures, Oil Traffic, Uni- 
form Bill of Lading, Relation with Westei-n 
Roads, Relation with Trunk Lines, Eastbound 
Percentage Basis and Official Classification. 
This will indicate his standing in the railroad 
world more fully than w-e could do in general 
description and statements. 

Mr. James was born in Belmont county, Ohio, 
December 24, 1846. His father, William James, 
was a farmer, born in the same State, but re- 
moved to Bureau connty, Illinois, in 1852. 
There he spent the remainder of his life, dying 
in 1884, at seventy-six years of age. 

Maryland was the original American home of 
the Jameses. A remote ancestor of our subject 
emigrated to Pennsylvania and settled at Union- 
town, and from that point Charles James, the 
paternal grandfather of our subject, emigrated 
to Ohio, settling in Tuscarawas county, where 
he died. William James married, in 1833, Miss 
Eliza A. Maginn is, a daughter of Daniel Magin- 
nis, formerly of Londoun county, Virginia. 
Seven of the eleven children born of this union 
are yet living, namely: Jacob, at Wyanet; 
Charles, at Princeton; Albert, at Ohio; Hiram, 
at Maiden, and Mrs. Samuel Conner, of Ohio,— 
all in the State of Illinois; and Mrs. Orrin W. 



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Zibble, of Olathe, Kansas, and the of subject 
this sketch. Two of the deceased are: Harrison 
W., who died at Glenwood Springs, Colorado, 
in 1890; and Wesley W., who died at Mendota, 
Illinois, from injuries received while an employe 
of the Chicago, Burlington &. Quincy Railroad 
Company. The two others died in infancy. 

John C. James grew up in the country, em- 
ployed on his father's farm, until the age of 
seventeen. The breaking out of the war offered 
a novel experience, and at the same time an 
opportunity of going beyond the confines of 
home, and he took advantage of the opportu- 
nity. He enlisted in the Fifty-seventh Illinois 
Volunteer Infantry, Company B, commanded 
by Captain Van Steenberg, and was attached 
fur service to the Army of the Tennessee, par- 
ticipating in tile battles of the campaign from 
(Jiiattanooga to Atlanta. After the fall of At- 
lanta he was engaged at the battle of Allatoona, 
Georgia, where he received three wounds, one of 
which caused the amputation of his right foot 
and ended liis military service. His position 
was on the right flank of the skirmish line, 
which was driven by a ciiarge of French's Con- 
federate division, the flower of Johnston's 
army, and fell wonnded among the tents of the 
camp of the ?sinety-third Illinois Infantry, 
where he lay for thi-ee lionrs between two lines 
of battle, receiving three wounds and four addi- 
tional balls through his clothes, and 281 bullet 
holes were found in the officers' tent into which 
he had crawled! He was confined in hospitals 
in Rome, Georgia, Chattanooga, and Nashville, 
Tennessee, and Chicago, Illinois, being dis- 
charged from service at the last named place in 
July, 1865. 

Mr. James next turned liisattention to getting 
an education. lie passed through the junior 
year in Western Union College at Fulton, Illi- 
nois, teaching in the meantime to secure funds 
to defray his necessary expenses. He gave up 
jiedagogieal work in a short time and turned 
bis attention to abstract work and the examina- 
tion of land titli's, assisting in writing up a set 
of abstracts for Cuyahoga county, Ohiu, having 



returned to this State in 1870. He was inter- 
ested also in the preparation of an abstract of 
titles for Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, and 
conducted the business about five years when 
he took up railroad work, as before stated. 

Mr. James married, in May, 1874, Annie E. 
Black, a daughter of John C. Black, an early 
settler in Cleveland, and by occupation a builder 
and contractor. The children born to Mr. and 
Mrs. James are: Lawrence W., in the employ 
of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Rail- 
road Company at Kansas City, Missouri; Frank 
T.; Walter M.; and William C. 



|ILLIAM J. AKERS, one of the pro- 
prietors of the Forest City Hotel, 
Cleveland, was burn in Lancashire, 
England, August 2, 1845, and was an infant 
when his parents emigrated to America, settling 
in Cleveland, November 1, same year. His 
fathei-, John Akers, was a civil engineer by pro- 
fession, which he followed for years. After ar- 
riving in this city he turned his attention to 
building, and left many monuments of his labors 
throughout Ohio, in the form of the best build- 
ings of the time, the old jail in Cleveland being 
one. As he was a man of indt pendent means, 
he was prepared to take and fnlflll large con- 
tracts. In 1857, however, he snfi'ered financial 
ruin, consequent upon the general panic of that 
year, and soon afterward, in the same 3'ear, he 
died, leaving a wife (iiee Catherine O'Learie) 
and four children, the latter being: William J., 
whose name ititroduces this sketch; John M., 
proprietor of the Russell House at Alliance and 
also of the dining hall at the Cleveland depot; 
Martha A.; and Mrs. II. A. Bushea. Their 
mother died in Cleveland, in 18'.I3. 

Mr. William J. Akers was a lad of tuelve 
years when his father died, and, being com- 
pelled to Ih' industrious at someemploymetit for 
the support of his mother and tlie rest of the 
family, he had little time for schooling or rec- 
reation. However, he received considerable aid 
in his studies at intervals from his mother, a 



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lady of edaciition and general culture. Among 
his early cares was the building of the lires at 
the school bnilding he attended, for which he 
received ^8 a month. He also secured an old 
horse and wagon and hauled chips to town for 
sale, thus earning a little sum worth mention- 
ing. Later he obtained a place behind the lunch 
counter at the depot restaurant, where he was 
soon promoted clerk, and ere long possessed an 
interest in the business, and continued to pros- 
per until he became sole proprietor. From the 
very beginning he was determined to build a 
fortune, and therefore bent all his energies in 
that direction. As hotel work seemed best 
adapted to his tastes, he applied himself to that, 
and he has owned and managed various hotels 
and eating houses, as the Cleveland Depot eat- 
ing house. Kassell House at Alliance, the Con- 
tinental and Gibson Hotels at Crestline, Ohio, 
and the dining cars over the Bee Line system. 
In some of the above he was associated with his 
brother. 

In 1889 he formed a partnership with S. T. 
Paine, formerly for years clerk of the Forest 
City Hotel. They leased this house, which they 
have ever since conducted; remodeled it, and 
are now running the institution according to 
all the demands of the times, which they know 
well how to do. 

It will be interesting to notice in brief 
review the past history of this site. First, as 
early as 1817 the ground was sold for fifty 
cents: in 1893 an offer of ^iTSO.OOO was refused 
for it I The first hotel on this site was the 
Cleveland Hotel, built in 1825; in 1849 the 
name was changed to Dunham House, and in 
1858 to Rnsseirs Forest City House; in 1868 
the name Eussell was dropped, and ever since 
then no change has been made. During the 
summer of 1893 Messrs. Akers and Paine con- 
ducted the Eureka .Springs Hotel, one of the 
favorite resorts of the Keystone State. 

In benevolent work Mr. Akers has been one 
of the ii.:>st enthusiastic and conspicuons in 
Cleveland. "When the Chicago fire sufferers 
were in their greatest necJ of help, he was secre- 



tary of the relief committee and a member of 
the executive committee for the Michigan fire 
sufferers the same season; was chairman of the 
Ohio river flood relief committee; member of 
the relief committee for the sufferers of the 
Johnstown flood; chairman of the relief com- 
mittee for the sufferers from the Oil City flood 
and fire. This list is a record of labor, and 
many sleepless nights has Mr. Akers had during 
the past ten years in connection with the Bethel 
Associated Charities, being a member of the 
executive committee and of the Board of Man- 
agers of Bethel Union. 

Two of the most satisfactory undertakings 
with which Mr. Akers has been connected were 
the erection of the Masonic Temple at Cleve- 
land and the Masonic Home in Springfield, this 
State, of both of which he is a trustee. He is 
a thirty-third-degree Mason: has been Com- 
mander-in-Chief of Scotti.<h Masonry for north- 
ern Ohio. He has served in all the ofliees of 
the Grand Lodge of Masons excepting that of 
Master of the Grand Lodge. — which, indeed, by 
the way, was tendered him. Initiated into 
j Masonry in 1868, he received the thirty-third 
degree in 1886, in which year lie was also 
appointed representative to the Grand Lodge of 
Kentucky. More locally, he has for three years 
been president of the Cleveland Masonic Club; 
is an honorary life member of the Cleveland 
Grays, and he has been president of the Cleve- 
land Hotel-Keepers' Association ever since its 
organization. In 1891 he was elected vice-pres- 
ident of the Xational Hotel Keepers' Associ- 
ation. Politically he is a prominent Republican. 
For four years he was a member of the Board of 
Education, for six years a member of the Li- 
brary Board, and two years a member of the 
Board of Control of the Honse of Correction ; 
and he is stockholder in a number of business 
concerns in this city. 

In 1893 he was unanimously nominated (by 
acclamation) at the Republican Convention as 
their candidate for Mayor of Cleveland, but was 
defeated in the election by a small number of 
votes. 



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January 2, 1883, is the date of Mr. Akers' 
marriage to Miss Maud Miller of New York 
city, who is a member of the Dorcas Society 
and a member of the Board of Managers of the 
Old People's Home of Cleveland, and is active 
in all benevolent movements. Their residence 
is at 384 Lake streut. 



ILLIAM HOYT, one of the familiar 
l\Myr/ figures connected with the operating 
¥1 department of the Lake Shore & Mich- 
igan Southern Railroad, first began in the service 
of this line when it was operated west of Cleve- 
land as the Cleveland & Toledo Eailroad. His 
first day's work was completed on the evening 
of November 5, 1855, as a brakeman imder 
Conductor Simon Woodbury, the first on the 
division. About fifteen months afterward Mr. 
Hoyt was capable of running the train, and he 
was given charge of a freight crew over the same 
division. In 1868 he received his final promo- 
tion, and twenty-five years have now passed 
since he entered the passenger service. The 
miles he has passed over in these thirty-eight 
years would run up into the millions, and the 
number of passengers he has carried would 
almost equal the population of the whole United 
States. 

Mr. Hoyt was born in Addison, New York, 
June 8, 1834, and soon afterward his parents 
moved to Onondaga county, same State, where 
he grew up. His father, Nathan G. Hoyt, was 
a native of Connecticut, born near Ridgetield, 
that State, and moved to New York State at 
the age of nineteen years. He learned the trade 
of cabinet-making at Auburn, that State, and fol- 
lowed it as a means of livelihood in subsequent 
years. He came to Ohio in 1852, and died in 
Elyria, this State, in 1882, aged seventy years. 
For his wife he married Miss Harriet Hoyt, — 
no relation traceable, but remotely of the same 
stock probably, as her ancestors were also Con- 
necticut people. She died in 181J3, at the age 
of eighty four years. Their' childrtn were: Will- 
iam; Nathan (i., Jr., of Wellins;ton, Ohio; 



Hannah J., who married James Penfield, of 
Elyria; Mary E., wife of T. B. Prentiss, a Bos- 
ton printer; and Henry, a conductor on the 
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Eailroad in 
Kansas. 

William Hoyt worked with his father four 
years before coming west, but did not turn his 
attention in the direction of his trade on reach- 
ing the new Western country. January 3, 1858, 
he married, in Cleveland, Miss Harriet, a 
daughter of Sheridan Roberts, of Warren, Ohio, 
who has two living children, the other being 
Mary A., the wife of T. M. Knight, of Cleve- 
land. Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt's children are: 
William, Jr., a baggageman on the Lake Shore 
& Michigan Soutliern Railroad, who married 
Mary White; Lillian and Ida, — both unmarried. 

Mr. Hoyt is a Master Mason of Cleveland 
City Lodge. 



R. FRANK W. SOMERS, a young and 
promising physician, with an office at 
1545 Lorain street. West Cleveland, was 
born January 25, 1863, at Chardoii, Geauga 
county, Ohio. His father, Lyman Soiners, was 
born in New York State and removed to Ohio 
about 1840, and is now a resident of Chardon. 

Dr. Somers obtained a preliminary education 
in the public schools of his native town and en- 
gaged in school-teaching for four years, and 
then began the study of medicine in the Cleve- 
land Medical College, from which institution 
he holds a diploma, and after receiving a diplo- 
ma from the Huron Street Hospital (Institute), 
he entered upon the practice of his profession. 
While in college he was on the dispensary staff 
and also took charge of the clinique. In one 
month he treated 161 cases. In his individual 
practice he is fast gaining prominence. He is 
a member of the Canal Dunham Medical Asso- 
ciation, and is otherwise prominently associated 
in his profession. 

In March of 1886, Dr. Somers wedded Josie 
Bartell, of Chardon. He is also a member of 
the Methodist Episcopal Cliurch, and in politics 




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he is a conservative man, being a Republican; 
jet he is a very warm friend of the cause of 
temperance and has embraced a very considera- 
ble portion of the principles of the Prohibition 
party. 



L EVERETT TARBELL was born at Cha- 
I grin, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, now Will- 
. i oughby. Lake county, November 27, 1819. 

His father. Colonel Abner Chapman Tarbell, was 
born in Colchester, New London county, Con- 
necticut, August 4, 1791, and died January 3, 
1869, aged seventy-seven years, on the farm on 
which he located on coming to Willoughby in 
1817, and which is now owned and occupied by 
Frank Rockefeller, — " Lakeland." Before leav- 
ing New England he learned the tanning, har- 
ness-making and shoemaking trades, which 
were of inestimable value to him during the 
lirst years of his life in Ohio. 

To illustrate the condition of this part of 
Ohio at the time of its settlement, it must be 
said that he needed chains to haul the timber 
together to be burned, and a kettle in which to 
cook food. To obtain these articles Mr. Tar- 
bell went to Cleveland, fourteen miles away, on 
horseback, and bought a bar of iron, which he 
took home upon the horse, and from which a 
short-linked chain was forged by a blacksmith 
named Titus. This chain is now in the posses- 
sion of one of his descendants. On another 
trip he purchased an iron kettle and carried it 
to his home in the same manner. 

In politics he was originally a Whig, and 
subsequently a stanch Republican. 

In 1816 he was married to Lucy Parks Jones, 
a daughter of Asa Jones, who served as a soldier 
thiough the Revolutionary war, including the 
campaign which ended at Valley Forge. She 
was a typical New England woman, well edu- 
cated for the times, but thoroughly domestic in 
her habits and tastes. She passed away Octo- 
ber 4, 1836, respected by all who knew her. 
In the spring of 1838 he married Mii^s Mary 



K. Watson, who bore him two sons: George W., 
who lives in" Madison, Lake connty, Ohio; and 
Abner Helon, who resides at Wickliffe, on a 
part of the old homestead. She was a very 
estimable woman, of good family, and made for 
him a happy home during the remainder of his 
life. She died in Willoughby in the year 1875. 
Leverett Tarbell, the subject of this shetch, is 
one of three children by the first marriage of 
Abner C. and Lucy P. Tarbell. The eldest, 
Dr. S. U. Tarbell, now deceased, was one of the 
most prominent and successful physicians of 
Cuyahoga county. He died September 9, 1877, 
leaving a widow, but no children. Lucynthia 
Jones Tarbell, unmarried, resides at Willoughby, 
Ohio. 

The subject of this sketch was a diligent 
pupil in the common schools of his native 
town, and subsequently extended his education 
at the select school at Willoughby, at the 
Western Reserve. Teachers' Seminary at Kirt- 
land, Ohio, — Asa D. Lord, principal, — also at 
the Bacon Academy, Colchester, Connecticut. 
In the winter of 1837-'38, he taught in Kirt- 
land, Lake county: in the winter of 1838-'39 in 
South Willoughby. In the fall of 1839 he 
went to Quaker Springs, Saratoga county. New 
York, in which place he taught a five months' 
term of school. In the spring of 1840 he 
went to Colchester, Connecticut, worked on a 
farm during the summer, and in the autumn 
entered Bacon Academy as a student. On 
leaving the academy he went to Oxford, Che- 
nango county, New York, where during the win- 
ter of 1840-'41 he taught a term of school. In 
the spring of 1841 he returned to Ohio, took a 
term of school at Kirtland, and during the 
winter of 1841-'42 taught a term of school 
in the John Doan district in Euclid township. 
During the interim between the spring of 1842 
and the fall of 1847 he alternated between Ohio 
and Chicago, Illinois, teaching school in Ohio 
three winter terms, one in Willoughby village, 
two at "Doan's Corners," now a par-t of Cleve- 
land, and engaged in j-eal estate and mercantile 
Inisiness in Chicago. 



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In August, 1847, lie returned to Willonghby, 
remaining there until September 22, when he 
came to Bedford to visit his brother, Dr. S. U. 
Tarbell, who was located there. Finding an open- 
ing as clerk that pleased him in Watson I. Gray's 
general merchandise store, he sent his horse 
back to Wilioughby and went to work. 

After remaining in the store fourteen months 
he entered upon the study of medicine with his 
brother. This he found too confining for one 
of his stirring disposition, and on the 9th of 
February, 1849, he bought a stock of drugs, 
groceries and provisions, and entered upon a 
mercantile career for himself. He followed this 
business successfully for twenty-five years, 
together with dealing in real estate, serving the 
Government as Postmaster for two terms, the 
village government as corporation Clerk for 
several terms, and served the people of Bedford 
township as Justice of the Peace until he re- 
fused to serve longer. He was the first Notary 
Public appointed by the governor of Ohio in 
Bedford, and still holds a commission from 
Governor McKinley. 

He was a pioneer in improving the village 
in many respects, among which improvements 
may be mentioned the fact tliit he cut and laid 
the first flagstone walk, which proves to be ex- 
actly on the grade since established liy the cor- 
poration engineer. He also placed the first 
curbing and sold the first barrel of kerosene, 
with lamps in which to burn the same. 

He is still actively engaged in caring for his 
own family and property, and in advancing the 
interests of the community in which he lives. 

On December 7, 1850, Mr. Tarbell was mar- 
ried, by Piev. R. Nutting, Jr., at Ravenna, Ohio, 
to Mary Helen, daughter of John and Marilla 
Holt Tinker, who were originally from New 
England. Mrs. Tarbell is a lady eminently 
domestic in her tastes and habits, and yet is act- 
ive in furthering the best interests of the peo- 
ple among whom she resides, and is especially 
zealous in ths cause of temperance. She was 
born in the State of New York, May 22, 1829, 
and came to Ohio when five years of aae. She 



traces her ancestry back to the Mayflower. 
Three children were born to them, — two sons 
and one daughter: Linn Parks was born Sep- 
tember 24, 1851, in Bedford, married to S. 
Jennie, daughter of John N. and Mary Roy, of 
Cleveland, November, 1879, and they have two 
children (Jean and Roy Sheldon), and resides 
and is engaged in business in Cleveland; May, 
widow of Grove G. Cannon, was born in Bed- 
ford, October 15, 1858; and John Dwight, born 
July 20, 1865, a civil engineer by profession. 
He was educated in Bedford, also at the School 
for Civil Engineering and the Case School of 
Applied Science in Cleveland. As a business 
man, Mr. Tarbell is careful, methodical and 
exact, giving to each his due, and requiring the 
same in return. As a citizen he is public- 
spirited, and true to what he believes to be for 
the best interests of the people at large. As a 
friend he sticks closer than a brother. As a 
politician he is far seeing, saying little, but do- 
ing much, and often represents his baliwick in 
Eepublican conventions. As a public oflicer 
he knew his duty and did it fearlessly. His 
aim through a long and successful life has 
been to do unto others as he would that they 
sliould do unto him. 



^Tr^HOMAS S. DUNLAP, attorncy-atlaw, 

I 639 Society of Savings, Cleveland, is a 

II native for the Buckeye State, born at 
■^ Wooster, July 28, 1867. His father, 

Silas G. Dunlap, was a minister of the Presby- 
terian Church. For some time prior to his 
death in 1870 he devoted his energies to secur- 
ing funds for the founding of Wooster Univer- 
sity, with which institution he was connected 
when he was approached by the Pale ATisitant. 
He was a native of Ohio, of Scotch-Irish ances- 
try. Thomas S. grew to maturity near the 
place of his birth. He attended the common 
schools until he had mastered the elementary 
branches, and then entered the University of 
Wooster, at which he was graduated in 1887. 



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His profession was yet to be mastered. Under 
tlie guidance of S. N. Coe be began to read law, 
and afterward spent one year as a student in the 
law department of the University of Michigan. 
In 1890 he came to Cleveland, wiiere he has 
been giving his attention to general practice. 
Possessing more than ordinary ability, ambitious 
and energetic, it is safe to predict for him a 
successful future. 

In politics Mr. Dunlap gives his allegiance 
to the Democratic party. He is a member of 
the Beta Tlieta Pi fraternity. 



d[ F. MYERS, conductor on the Valley 
I Railroad, was born in Allegheny, Penn- 
-^ syivania, November 27, 1847, a son of J. 
C. Myers. The latter was born in Hanover, 
Germany, in 1813. In 1837 he came to tiie 
United States, and, not being able to hire his 
passage, walked from Baltimore to Pittsb\irg, 
and cast his fortunes with Allegheny City. He 
was a zealous worker, and his mercantile ven- 
ture, in which he engaged in early life, yielded 
him good returns. He is now retired from 
active business, in the enjoyment of a small 
fortune, and in the midst of his life-long neigh- 
bors and friends. Mr. Myers celebrated his 
golden wedding April 13, 1893. He was mar- 
ried to Maj-garet Schodde, a native of Germany, 
and tliey had live children: J. A., a retired 
fiirmer of Londonville, Ohio; J. F., our subject; 
Caroline, wife of J. D. Simen, a shoe dealer of 
Allegheny, Pennsylvania; Margaret, wife of F. 
AV. Basselman, also of that city; and William 
H., a traveling salesman of Pittsburg. 

J. F. Myers, the subject of this sketch, re- 
ceived a liberal education in his native city, 
where he became an eflicient accountant, having 
prepared himself for that special work while a 
student at the Iron City Business College. He 
devoted about fifteen years of his life to that 
work, having tilled responsible positions with 
well known firms of Pittsburg. In the spring 
of 1875 Mr. Myers laid aside his well acquired 



profession, and took a more active outdoor woik. 
He secured the position of brakeman on tiie 
Allegheny Valley Rnilroad, three months after- 
ward was promoted to yard clerk, serving in 
that capacity three years, in the following year 
was made assistant yard master at Pittsburg, 
remaining in that position three and a Iwlf 
years, and for the following four years was em- 
ployed as freight conductor on the Baltimore it 
Ohio Railroad. During the next three years 
Mr. Myers was engaged in farming operations 
in Beaver county, Pennsylvania. He resumed 
railroading in 1889, and has since served as 
conductor on the Valley Railroad. In his social 
relations he is a member of the O. R. C, of 
which he served as Junior Conductor one term. 
September 14, 1871, Mr. Myers was uniteil 
in marriage with Caroline M. Schutte, whose 
father, Henry Schutte, was a native of Geriiiany. 
After coming to this country, he became a gro- 
cer of Allegheny, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. 
Myers have two children, — Benjamin, chief bill 
clerk for the firm of Strong, Coblj A: Com]iiny ; 
and Stella D., a dressmaker. 



/r^ EORGE L. QUAYLE, manager of the 
I J/ Ship Owners' Dry Docks in Cleveland, 
\J^ was born in this city in 1842. His father 
was Thuniiis (juayle, a long-time and 
well known resident of Cleveland. 

Mr. Quayle was educated in the public schools 
here, learned the carpenter's trade and also ship- 
building. During the progress of the Civil war 
he spent one year in the marine service of the 
United States,- his work being the construction 
of convoys upon the Mississippi river. Aftei 
the close of this one year's service he returned to 
Cleveland and became associated with his father 
and two brothers under the firm name of 
Thomas Quayle 6c Sous, shipbuilders. In this 
business he was actively engaged until 1891, 
when the tirm discontinued business. Mr. 
Quayle then accepted the position he no a- sus- 
tains. He is also a stock owner in the business 



4^8 



CUtAHOQA COtTNTf. 



of the Ship Owners' Dry Docks Company, a 
etockholder as well as director in the Wilson 
Transit Company of Cleveland, and a director 
in the Garlield Savings Bank, East Cleveland. 
These biisiness relations of Mr. Qnayle are 
pointed out as evidence of the importance of his 
work as a business man, and as such he ranks as 
a successful man. Especially has lie been very 
successful in tiie business of shipbuilding, in 
wl)ich he has been engaged almost continuously 
since his early boyhood. His long experience, 
together with his mechanical genius, places him 
among the most able shipbuilders of Cleveland, 
which jnstly boasts of its many large and suc- 
cessful shipbuilders. 

Mr. Quayle resides in East Cleveland. He is 
now President of Board of Trustees of this 
hamlet, and this public position is some evi- 
dence of the esteem and confidence in which he 
is held by his fellow citizens. Mr. Qnayle is 
alive to the interests of Cleveland and its sub- 
ni-ban towns. He is a member of the Cleveland 
Chamber of Commerce. For years he has been 
a meiniier of the Masonic order, being a Scot- 
tish-rite Mason and belonging to the Mystic 
Shrine. 

Mr. Quayle was married in Cleveland, in 
1870, to Miss "Winifred Johnson, of Pittsburg. 
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Quayle has been 
blessed by the birth of three children, — George 
11., AVinifred and Eleanor. 



qEOIKiK H. OLMSTED, one of the lead- 
c ing iiisur;ui"u men of Cleveland, has been 
a resilient of this city since 1867, coming 
here as the representative of the Atlantic 
Life Insurance C.impanyof Albany, New York, 
with which company he was associated for ten 
years, — until they retired from business. Dur- 
ing the last two years of that time he was super- 
intendent of agencies for the United States and 
Canada. For a )ear or two after this ho traveled 
as special agent for the Brooklyn Life Insurance 



Company of New York; and he resigned this to 
take a half interest in the fire insurance agency 
of S. S. Coe, with whom he was associated until 
his death, which occurred in 1883. The busi- 
ness was continued under the same name, Coe 
& Olmsted, until the death of Mrs. Coe in 1889, 
when Mr. Olmsted succeeded to the entire busi- 
ness. The present firm of (ieorge H. Olmsted 
& Company was ft>rined in 1889 and also the 
firm of Olmsted Brothers (Geurge U. and O. 
N.), who had taken the State agency for Ohio 
and Indiana, for the National Life Insurance 
Company of Vermont, and they are doing double 
the volume of business that was being done by 
the company in the United States at the time 
when they first took charge of tlie^e two States. 
George H. Olmsted & Company do a tire and 
plate-glass insurance business, being general 
agents for northern Ohio for the Metropolitan 
Plate-Glass Insurance Company. The firm of 
Olmsted Brothers represent also the Standard 
Accident Insurance Company. They are located 
in the Atwater building, at the foot of Superior 
street. 

The gentleman whose name heads this sketch 
has been treasurer of the National Safe and 
Lock Company ever since the organization was 
a year old. He is also one of the directors of 
the Woodland Avenue Savings and Loan Com- 
pany, and director of the (,'levelanil Tnmk 
Company. 

He is a native of Lagrange, Lorain county, 
Ohio, born September 21, 1843, the son of 
Jonathan and Harriet (Sheldon) Olmsted; was 
reared and educated in that county, excepting 
that hetooka(ourseinthe Eastman Business Col- 
lege at Poiighkeepsie, New York. For about 
three years he taught school. He kept books and 
clerked in a store for a year at Grafton, Ohio, 
and then took an agency for a door-bell, which 
he introduced in Michigan and Wisconsin, and 
in the spring of 1867 opened out iu the insur- 
ance business. He is now a member of tlie 
Board of Fire Underwriters; also a member of 
the Chamber of Commerce and of the Young 
Men".-> Christian Association. 



CUTAGOUA COUNTY. 



lie was married in Snyhrook, Ohio, in 1872, 
fo Miss Ella Kelley, and they have two chil- 
dren, — Grace and Howard. Mr. and Mrs. 
Olmsted are members of tiie Wilson ilvenue 
Baptist Church, in which lie is a Deacon. He 
resides on Wilson avenue. 

]\Ir. Olmsted's parents made Cleveland their 
home for a number of years, coming here in 
1872. His father, who had been a farmer, died 
in 1877, at the age of si.xty-eight years. 



ARDIS EDOERTON, one of the rep- 
locality, was 
in Royalton 



resentative citizens of his 
born on his present farn: 



townsi] 



June 8, 1839, a son of Sardis Edaer- 



ton, Sr. The latter was born in Holly town- 
ship, Franklin county, Massachusetts, January 
14, 1808, and his father, Ezekiel Edgerton, was 
a native of Hartford, Connecticut, of English 
extraction. Sardis Edgerton was a scythe-snath- 
maker by trade. In the fall of 1831, with a 
horse and wagon, he joined bis brother in 
Breeksville township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, 
where he followed his trade for a time. After 
his marriage he located on the farm where our 
subject now resides, which he bought in three 
purchases, and at that time the country was 
inhabited by wild animals. Mr. Edgerton 
located on the portion of the farm where he in 
1855 erected the present, substantial brick res- 
idence. In political luatters, he was first a 
Whig, afterward became a stanch Republican, 



year 



served as Township 



and for a numb 
Trustee. 

He was married in Newburg, Cuyahoga 
county, March 18, 1834, to Emeline Inghram, 
a native of New York. They had the following 
children: James, of Cleveland, Ohio; Eliza, 
deceased at the age of two years; Sardis, our 
subject; Ann Eliza, wife of Oliver Ellsworth, of 
Hinckley, Medina county, Ohio; Sylvia, now 
Mrs. Morris Kemp, of Berea, this county; Ada- 
line, wife of Henry Akins, of Royalton; Maria, 
wife of John Sauipson; Emma, a resident of 



Cleveland; and Rhoda, wife of George Wood, 
of Ashtabula, Ohio. Mr. Edgerton survived 
until April 6, 1890, his wife having died April 
26, 1885, and they were buried at Royalton 
Center. They celebrated their fiftieth anniver- 
sary March 18, 1S84. 

Sardis Edgerton, the subject of this sketch, 
was reared as a farmer boy, but at the age of 
twenty-three yeai's began learning the brick- 
layer and plasterer's trade, which he followed 
about twelve years. After his marriage he re 
sided with his -parents two years; afterward 
located a short distance east of their home, but 
on the same farm, where he remained seventeen 
years; and since May, 1882, has resided at the 
old homestead. In his political relations, Mr. 
Edgerton is a stanch Republican, his first 
presidential vote having been cast for A. Lin- 
coln, and has held the position of Township 
Trustee. 

September 11, 1862, our subject was united 
in marriage with Mercy M. Akins, who was 
born in Euclid township, this county, October 
29, 1842, a daughter of Henry and Meri-y 
Akins. To this union have been born thne 
children: Rosella E., deceased at the age of two 
years; Willis S., a farmer of Royalton township; 
and Carlos H., at home. Mr. and Mrs. Edger- 
ton are members of the Methodist Church at 
Royalton Center. 



ri( BEL FISH, a prominent farmer of Brook- 
l/j\ lyn township, is a native of the same 
jr\ township, born February 8, 1832. His 
' father. Esquire Jonathan Fish, was born 

December 5, 1787, in New London county, 
Connecticut, where he was brought up, and he 
came to Cuyahoga county in 1817, settling in 
Brooklyn township, and purchasing and locating 
upon a farm where the subject of this sketch 
now resides. This place at that time was of 
course a dense wilderness of woods. Building 
a log house Mr. Fish proceeded to occupy it and 
improve the land until his death, February 15, 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



1870, in bis eighty-second year. lie was a 
prominent man, liaviug been a captain of mili- 
tia in Connecticut, and in this county Justice 
of the Peace many years, and was known on 
that account as " Esquire " Fish. He was also 
a trustee of the township here, taking part in the 
very first town meeting, and afterward was 
Assessor, etc., of the township. In his politics 
he was a Whig and Rejiublican. George Fish, 
fatlier of Jonathan, was a native of Connecticut, 
of English ancestry. The mother of Mr. Abel 
Fish, whose name before marriage was Sarah 
B. Young, was born in East Haddam, Connect- 
icut, and came to Cuyahoga county in 1819, 
and died here December 11, 1893, in her eighty- 
second year. Her father, Ansel Young, was 
also a native of the " Land of Steady Habits," 
and supposed to have been of English ancestry. 
Mr. Jonathan Fish and wife w-ere mari-ied in 
Brooklyn township, and became the parents of 
two sons and one daugliter, namely: Abel, 
whose name heads this sketch; Jefferson; and 
Maria B., the wife of James Brainerd. 

Mr. Abel Fish was' reared on his father's 
farm, his native place. December 28, 1858, he 
married Emeline M. Brainerd, daughter of 
Willard and Harriet Brainerd and a native of 
Brooklyn township. After his marriage Mr. 
Fish located upon the old homestead, where he 
still lives, prosecuting agricultural pursuits in 
general, and also conducting a dairy. He has 
forty-tour acres of tine land, which is situated 
in the outskirts of the city of Cleveland. In his 
political sympathies he is an ardent Republican. 
He has l)een Township Trustee, a member of 
the Council of South Brooklyn and Supervisor 
of Public Highways. He has been a member 
of Glen Lodge, No. 263, 1. O. 0. F., since 1855, 
and of Brooklyn Post, No. 368. G. A. R. Dur- 
ing the war he served under the three-months 
call, under General Burnett, and also served 
three months in the Eighth Independent Bat- 
tery, at Johnson's island ; also three inontlis with 
the same battery on detached duty in Cleveland. 
He is a menii)er of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, zealous and consistent, and has been 



Superintendent of the Sunday-school, etc. lie 
and his wife are members of the Old Settlers' 
Association, and among the prominent people 
of the county. They have two children: Jessie, 
the wife of George Cook, of Brooklyn village, 
and Sheridan P., of South Brooklvn. 



IfffENRY M. FOWLER, a worthy citizen 
fp-| of Cuyahoga county, was born in Can- 
Jl 41 tield, Ohio, September 29, 1830. His 
^ father, Dr. C. R. Fowler, was born in 

Danbury, Connecticut, in October, 1802; and 
his mother, wliose name before marriage was 
Mary Holland, was born in Annapolis, Mary- 
land, in 1812, and both were among the early 
settlers of Mahoning county. 

Mr. H. M. Fowler received an academic 
education, and after arriving at the age of fif- 
teen years became an apprentice at the printing 
business, in the office of the Mahoning Index, 
the first newspaper published in Cantield. 
After working three years there the office was 
destroyed by tire in 1S50. He then completed 
his apprenticeship in Cleveland, in the offices 
of the Herald and Plaindealer. He was em- 
ployed as a "jour." printer in a number of 
offices, in Cleveland, Chicago, Kankakee, Pitts- 
burg, Gallon, Ashtabula, Chardon, etc., the 
rates those days being as low as 20 to 2a cents 
per thousand ems for composition on daily pa- 
pers, the compositor making on an average 
about S8 to $10 a week. 

In 1873-'74: he printed the News and Herald 
in Cantield for A. W. Brownke, who owned the 
office. 

In 1858 he married Miss Martha E. Nib- 
lock, of Salem, Ohio, and by this marriage 
there were four sons and four daughters: of 
these a son and a daughter have died, one quite 
young and the other at the age of thirteen 
years. C. 0. Fowler, the eldest son, is now 
editor of the Cantield Dispatch; John R., the 
next son, is a practical printer, working with 
his father; Frank W., the third son, is pro- 



CUYAHOGA COUNTT. 



jiric'tor of the business college at East Liver- 
pool, this State; and two danghters, Bessie and 
Kei-tie, are unmarried and live at home. 

In the jear 1877 Mr. Fowler, our subject, 
started the Mahoning Dispatch, an independent 
newspaper, which has been running very suc- 
cessfully now for over sixteen years, the circu- 
lation being over 2,000 copies weekly, and is 
largely supported by the farming community. 

At the commencement of the late war Mr. 
Fowler enlisted in the Second Ohio Cavalry as 
a private, and after serving his country until 
September 11, 1865, was mustered out, at Ben- 
ton Barracks, Missouri. He was engaged in 
many battles during bis service, as Winchester, 
Sheridan's raid in Virginia, Peach Tree Creek 
(Georgia), Sheridan in the Shenandoah valley, 
Fisher's Hill, Cedar creek. Wilderness, Sheri- 
dan and Custer raid in Virginia, Bottom 
Bridge, White House Landing, Petersburg, 
etc., etc. He was only slightly wounded, but 
suffered many hardships and exposures, per- 
manently impairing his health. 



/George E. TYLEPv, who has been for 
I ¥(■ several years identified with the horti- 
VH cultural interest of Cuyahoga county, 
was born in New York State in April, 
1839. His parents. Miles and Sallie (Tyler) 
Tyler, though having the same name were un- 
related; they removed to Lake county, Ohio, 
in 1844, and there passed the remainder of their 
lives. They reared a family of eight children, 
seven of whom are still living; all are residents 
of Lake county excepting Mrs. A. M. Warren 
and Mrs. Maria Rush. George E. Tyler passed 
an uneventful youth, attending the district 
school and assisting his father in the cultiva- 
tion of the farm until the civil war aroused 
every patriot in the land. In April, 1861, 
young Tyler responded to Lincoln's call for 
75,000 men, going at once to Cleveland. Before 
leaving that city he had enlisted in Company I, 
Twenty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Presi- 



deit Hayes' regiment, and soon went into 
West Virginia. He participated in the battle 
of South mountain in September, 1862, and 
after one day's fight there lost his strong right 
arm in making the second charge; in the first 
charge he had received a painful but not serious 
wound in his right wrist, and at the moment 
his arm was torn away a spent ball sti'uck his 
knee; he was borne by three comrades to ihe 
rear, but it was necessary for them to drop him 
and themselves several times before they reached 
a place of safety to escape the flying fragments 
of shell and ball. The arm of the wounded man 
was amputated at Georgetown, and in a few 
days he was taken to Fi-ederick City. Maryland, 
and at the end of several weeks to a conva'es- 
cent hosj/ital at Baltitnore, where he was honor- 
ably discharged November 7, 1862. 

Two years after his return from the war he 
began to run a huckster wagon between Little 
mountain and Cleveland, and was very success- 
ful in this venture; he afterwards had a peddling- 
wagon, and was at one time engaged in sawing 
logs on Little mountain. Through the influence 
of General Hastings he was ajjpointed janitor 
of the Cleveland post ofiice, a position he held 
twelve years. 

In 1876 he embarked in the frnit-growing 
business as he had a natural taste for tiiis occu- 
pation. He has seven and a half acres, three 
acres of which cost at the rate tif $1,500 an 
acre. He produces peaches, strawberries, grapes, 
plums and other garden fruit, finding a ready 
market in Cleveland. 

Mr. Tyler was married in 1866 to Miss 
Florence Perry Phelps, a daughter of Alexander 
and Jerusha (Reynolds) Phelps. Mrs. Phelps 
was the widow of William Reynolds; her death 
occurred in 1850. Mr. Phelps' second marriage 
was to Mrs. Betsey Beckwith; there was one 
child of this union, a daughter named Clara. 
Mr. Phelps died August 7, 1891, the date of 
his birth being May 23, 1817. He was a man 
of rare force of character, and was held in the 
highest esteem. Mrs. Tyler is one of three 
children; Spencer is a farmer of Lake county. 



CUTAJIOOA COUNTY. 



and Arthur resides with his brotlier, uinnarried. 
3Ir. and Mrs. Tyler are tlie parents uf one 
child, Flora Adel, wife of L. S. Judd. Mrs. 
Tyler is a woman of much refinement and many 
graces. Mr. Tyler is an ardent Republican. He 
is an honored member of Broiigh Post, G. A. R., 
No. 3?9, of which he is Senior Vice Com- 
mander. 



jV^I L. IIILLIAKI) was born at Wadsworth, 
1^ Medina coiiniy, Ohio, May 10, 1824. 
I 11 Gurdan Ililliard, his father, was a na- 
V live of the State of Connecticut, but in 

the year 1818 joined the emigrant train wind- 
ing its way toward the setting sun. He settled 
in Medina county, Ohio, and there took up the 
burdens that belong to the lot of the pioneer. 
He married Calista Adaline Derthick, a native 
of the State of New York, but the daughter of 
Connecticut parents; there were born to them 
two children, N. L. and Phoelie Ann, who 
died at the age of fifteen years; the mother 
passed away at the early age of twenty-three. 
In later life Mr. Hilliard removed to Canada, 
where he resided for a long period of time; he 
returned to Medina county, however, and there 
jiiissed the last days of his life; he died at the 
advanced age of eighty-four years. He was a 
fanner and was one of the large stock dealers in 
this section. William Hilliard, the paternal 
grandfather of our subject, traced his ancestry 
to Robert Hilliard, who was an otHcer in the 
war of the Roses. Young Hilliard received 
his elementary education in the common schools 
of Wadsworth and afterward entered Sharon 
Academy when Prof. John McGi'egor was 
principal of that institution. For three years 
he was a member of I'rof. McGregor's house- 
hold, pursuing his studies under his personal 
supervision. 

At the age of Hffeen years he went to work 
with his uncle, Isaac Snell, to learti the car- 
penter's trade. AVhen he came to Bedford in 
1851 he secured a position with the Wheelock 



Chair Company, which he filli'd very acceptably 
several years. He was also with the Taylor 
Chair Company, but in 1877 he embarked in 
the manufacture of springs at Cleveland; this 
venture proved a success and he conducted a 
satisfactory trade there until 1893, when he sold 
out and returned to Bedford. 

Mr. Hilliard was married at the age of 
twenty-three years in Norton township, Summit 
county, Ohio, to Julia C. Abbott. She was 
born at Mount Morris, Livingston county, New 
York, a daughter of Calvin and Lois (Eyles) 
Abbott, natives of Connecticut. Mr. and Mrs. 
Hilliard are the parents of two sons: Louis B., 
a resident of San Francisco, California, is 
the superintendent of Bradstreet's Commercial 
Agency for the Pacific coast, having been in 
the employ of this firm twenty years; he was a 
student in the State University of Michigan 
and was graduated from the law department; 
F. A. Hilliard is the secretary of the Cleveland 
Roller Mills Company, and has been with this 
firm during two decades of active commercial 
life. Politically our subject adheres to the 
principles of the Democratic party. 



d'jAMES E. BATTLES, a member of one 
I ofthe prominent pioneer families of Cuy- 
— ahoga county, was born in this county, in 
Orange township, April 24, 1861, a son of 
Luther Battles, whose history appears upon 
another page of this volume. He received his 
elementary education in the common schools 
and finished the course in the East Cleveland 
high school. During his youth he assisted in 
the labors of the home farm, remaining a mem- 
ber of his father's household until his marriage. 
This important event of his life occurred March 
9, 1881, when he was united to Miss Mary 
Grobe, a native of East Cleveland township. 
Mrs. Battles' father, Frederick Grobe, was born 
near Hanover, Germany, and in 1861 emigrated 
to the United States, settling in Cuyahoga 
county, Ohio. 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



In 1882 Mr. Battles purchased seven acres of 
land in East Cleveland. He was unable at that 
time to make a large payment, but by unremit- 
ting toil and strict attention to his interests he 
accumulated sufficient means in a few years to 
cancel the obligation. lie erected his dwelling 
and barn in 1888, both substantial and attrac- 
tive structures. His years of experience have 
added to his knowledge and perfected his skill 
as a market gardener and horticulturist, and 
Cleveland affords a ready sale for all his prod- 
ucts. He has been remarkably successful, and 
is entirely deserving of the title of self-made, 
as his efforts have been unaided. 

For four years he has been an active member 
of the Board of Education, and takes a deep 
interest in increasing the facilities for the com- 
ing generations. He is a member of Oak 
Lodge, No. 77, K. of P., and in politics adheres 
to the principles of the Republican party. 

Mr. and Mrs. Battles are the parents of two 
children: Artliur was born February 11, 1882, 
and Minnie, January 5, 1889. 



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KR VAN NO ATE, who has been for 
ny years prominently identified with 
the agricultural interests of Brecksville 
township, is a member of one of the old pioneer 
families of Cuyahoga county, and is well worthy 
of representation in this volume. He was born 
in Howells, Monmouth county, New Jersey, 
September 6, 1826, a son of William Van 
Noate, a native of the same State, born July 
19, 1798, of Holland descent. He married 
Ardaliss Jones, a native of New Jersey and a 
daughter of David Jones, and after this event 
took up his residence in Monmouth county, 
New Jersey. In the autumn of 1831 he was 
swept by the tide of emigration to the far West, 
as Ohio was then called, making the journey by 
water to New York city, thence up the Hud- 
son river to Albany, ihence by the Erie canal 
to Buffalo, and up the lake to Cleveland on one 
of the two steamers that traveled the lake at 



that time. There were three families in the 
party, and all went to Strongsville township, 
where they found shelter in a log cabin owned 
by Mr. Strong, where they remained while the 
men looked over the farming lands in the neigh- 
borhood. In February, 1832, Mr. Van Noate 
removed with his family to Independence and 
purchased one hundred acres of land, paying 
three dollars and a half an acre; they found a 
tempoi'ary home in a cooper's shop until a log 
house was erected, with the assistance of the 
neighl)ors. Mr. Van Noate died in 1878, at the 
age of eighty years, and his remains lie buried 
at Brecksville Center. His wife died in 1850, 
aged forty-four years. In politics he gave his 
allegiance to the Democratic party, and was a 
subscriber to the first number of the Cleveland 
Plaindealer. He was a consistent member of 
the Baptist Church, and was held in the highest 
esteem by a wide circle of acquaintances. As 
a pioneer he is entitled to the meed of praise 
due those courageous souls who went before 
that the path might be made for the onward 
march of civilization. 

There were seven children in the family: 
Ann, wife of Humphrey Cain, died at South 
Haven, Michigan; Burr, the subject of this 
sketch; Jane, the wife of Charles Marsten, died 
in Chicago; the three named were born in New 
Jersey, the other four are natives of Ohio; 
Maria, the wife of Charles Storrs, died in Mich- 
igan; Charles died in Amboy, Illinois, unmar- 
ried; Charlotte, the wife of Almon Case, died 
at Blendon, Michigan; and George, who resides 
at Glenn, Michigan, wliere he is engaged in 
growing fruit. 

Burr Van Noate was a child of five years 
when his parents came to the Western Reserve. 
He was early inured to the heavy labors of a 
frontier farm, assisting his father in clearing the 
land and bringing it to a state of cultivation. 
Here he grew to man's estate receiving his ed- 
ucation in the district schools and the Brooklyn 
and Ohio City Academies. After leaving school 
at the age of twenty-one he learned the carpen- 
ter and joiner's trade, which he followed in con- 



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CD7AH0GA COUNTY. 



nection with agricultural pursuits for many 
years. In politics, Mr. Van Noate has always 
been a Republican. 

He was united in marriage, March 23, 1853, 
to Miss Lucy J. Dunbar, a native of Briuifield, 
Hampden county, Massachusetts, born Decem- 
ber 12, 1826. Mrs. Van Noate is a daughter 
of John and Lucy (Bliss) Dunbar, who emi- 
grated to Ohio in 1832. A more extended no- 
tice of these worthy people appears elsewhere 
in this volume. After his marriage our subject 
removed to Beloit, Wisconsin, but after a short 
residence there returned to Cuyahoga county. 
About the year 1856 he bought the land which 
comprises his present farm; he has one hundred 
and forty acres under excellent cultivation: the 
buildings are substantial structures. All the 
surroundings are indicative of thrift, prosper- 
ity and refined and cultivated taste. 

Mr. and Mrs. Van Noate are the parents of 
a family of five children: Ella D., Charles E., 
Mary L., who died in infancy. Homer F. and 
Mary C, the wife of Dr. E. L. Bourn, of Brecks- 
ville. Mrs. Van Noate was one of the eai'ly 
educators of the county. Having received 
more than an ordinary education, at the age of 
eighteen years she engaged in teaching, and won 
an enviable reputation. She and Mr. Van 
Noate are consistent members of the Congre- 
gational Church. He is a self-made man in 
every sense of the word, and merits the confi- 
dence reposed in him. Years of industry and 
toil have brought their reward, and a comfort- 
able competence awaits advancing age. 



W. PRESTAGE, foreman and superin- 
Wt tendent of the wood and machinery de- 
di partments of the Taylor Chair Factory, 
Bedford, Ohio, has filled this responsible 
position for twenty years, and has become 
thoroughly identified with the interests of the 
corporation. He is a native of the State of New 
Jersey, born at Elizabethtown, July 26, 1841, a 
son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Moncrief) Brest- 



age, natives of the State of New York. His 
paternal grandfather was Richard Prestage, a 
native of England and a soldier in the war of 
1812; the maternal grandfather was Hugh 
Moncrief, of French descent; he, too, partici- 
pated in the war of 1812. Samuel Prestage and 
wife reared a family of seven children: Eliza- 
beth, George W., Jeannette, Henry, Charles, 
Josephine and Saniuel. Henry was a soldier in 
the late war, being first a member of the Seventh 
Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and later of the 
Sixty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry; for two 
years he was held a prisoner at Andersonville 
and Libby, suffering all the hardships and hor- 
rors of those places. Charles was a member of 
Company A, Eighty-sixth Ohio Volunteer In- 
fantry, and died at Cumberland Gap, Kentucky. 
The mother died at the age of forty years; the 
father passed away in 1891, at the advanced 
age of eighty-one years. He was a farmer by 
occupation: in politics he affiliated with the 
Republican party, and in his religious faith he 
supported the doctrines of the Disciple Church. 
G. W. Prestage was a lad of nine years when 
he came to Cleveland; here he grew to man- 
hood, receiving his education in the common 
schools. Ai'riving at mature years he was em- 
ployed by Dr. J. P. Robinson of Bedford, with 
whom he remained sixteen years. At the end 
of this time he secured a position in the saw- 
mill of Lamson »t "Wise, and at the end of two 
years went into the Rolling Mills, where he con- 
tinued some time. Twenty years ago he be- 
came associated with the Taylor Chair Company: 
his previous experience had prepared him for 
the position he has filled with marked ability 
and to the best interests of those concerned. An 
expert mechanic there is not one detail of the 
business with which he is not familiar. 

Mr. Prestage was married December 10, 
1863, at Bedford, Ohio, to Thaukful S. Mat- 
thews, a daughter of James Matthews, a native 
of Ireland and one of the early settlers of Cuya- 
hoga count}-. Mr. Matthews was twice married, 
the first union being with Ann E. Price, 
a native of Kent, Ohio; there were born of this 



CUTAHOOA COUNTY. 



marriage six children: Mary A., Thomas T., 
Wealthy J., Sylvester D., Elisha J. and Elijah 
G. The second marriage, to Sarah L. Price, re- 
sulted in the birth of five children: John P., 
Thomas E., James T., Thankful S. and Charles 
B. Mr. Matthews died October 19, 1877; Ann 
E. Matthews died June 15, 1837; Sarah L. 
Matthews died August 20, 1887. James T., 
Elijah G. and Thomas E. were soldiers in the 
late Civil war. Mr. and Mrs. Prestage are the 
parents of seven children: Charles W., George 
H., Clyde Eandolph, Fred B., Mabel Lorinda 
and Florence A.; Eda A. died at the age of one 
and a half years. Mrs. Prestage is a member 
of the Disciple Church, is an active worker in 
the Woman's Relief Corps, and is secretary of 
the Iveeley Local Society. Mr. Prestage is also 
a member of the Disciple Church. Politically 
lie is a stanch supporter of the principles of the 
Republican party. 



d I AMES A. PATTOX, who has been prom- 
j inently identified witli the horticultural 
interests of this county for some years, was 
born near the city of Glasgow, Scotland, No- 
vember 16, 1849. After emigrating to America 
he came to reside with his uncle, Alexander 
Patton, at Glenville, Ohio. Here he secured a 
practical education, and when he left school em- 
barked in the occupation of market-gardening 
and fruit-growing. His reputation has been 
made upon the success that has attended his 
culture of the peach; he had 450 trees in bear- 
ing condition, and has gatiiered a heavy crop 
five out of six years, the yield in 1893 amount- 
ing to $1,238; the crop of 1891 was 1,000 
bushels, which was the largest yield. This 
record proves that peach-growing is a possibil- 
ity in this latitude, and that Nature will betray 
her secrets to the persistent ones. Mr. Patton's 
success in raising early vegetables has been al- 
most phenomenal; he has hot-houses for forc- 
ing, and makes a specialty of cauliflowers, 
pai-sley and radishes. His place, situated on 



Doan street, one quarter of a mile from St. 
Clair street, has all the advantages of town and 
country. 

Mr. Patton has taken a deep interest in fos- 
tering educational facilities, and has been an 
active member of the school board for seven 
years. The present school building was erected 
during his term of ofiice chiefly through his 
instrumentality. 

He was united in marriage December 13, 
1874, to Miss Sarah L. Beattie, a daughter of 
W. J. Beattie, one of the old business men of 
Cleveland who died in 1886, at the age of sixty- 
nine years; his wife survives him. Tiiey had 
born to them four children: Mrs. Patton, John 
H., Belle, wife of J. Litton, and William, who 
died at the age of twenty-eight years. Mr. and 
Mrs. Patton are the parents of three children: 
Eliza H., Alexander and Armstrong B. They 
are both members of the United Presbyterian 
Church. Mr. Patton belongs to the Royal Ar- 
canum. He takes little interest in political af- 
fairs, but supports the issues of the Republican 
party. He is in every sense a self-made man, 
and although he was denied the educational 
privileges afforded the youth of this generation, 
he has accepted experience as a teacher, and has 
won his way to the front rank of Glenville's 
most honored citizens. 



W: 



,LIAM J. MARSHALL.— In thecos- 
lopolitan make-up of her citizenship 
America has gained many desirable ac- 
cessions from the mother country within the 
later years, and among these must be numbered 
the subject of this sketch, who is a prosperous 
and representative farmer of Parma township, 
Cuyahoga county, Ohio. 

Mr. Marshall was born February 10, 1825, in 
Cornwall England, and in his native place grew 
to man's estate. His father was John Marshall, 
who died in Cornwall, about the year 1842. 
His mother, whose maiden name was Elizabeth 
John, died in May, 1879, at Cleveland, Ohio. 



CUYAHOGA GOUHTT. 



Our subject was reai-ed on his father's farm, 
and remained at home until 1845, when he de- 
termined to seek his fortunes in the New 
World, emigrating to the United States in the 
year mentioned. He located in Cleveland, 
where he was engaged at the carpenter's trade 
until the spring of 1864. Tiiis valuable trade 
he had acquired in England, and had there been 
employed at the same for a period of three 
years prior to coining to America. During the 
progress of the late war of the Rebellion he was 
for seven months in the employ of the govern- 
ment of his adopted country, his services being 
in demand along the line of his trade. 

In 1863 Mr. Marshall effected the purchase 
of the farm which is now his home, in Parma 
township. lie settled upon the place in the 
succeeding year and lent himself assiduously to 
its improvement and cultivation. That he was 
eminently successful in his well directed efforts 
is evident from the appearance of the farmstead 
at the present time, the place being highly cul- 
tivated, prolific in its yields and equipped with 
excellent buildings. 

Mr. Marshall was married, in Richfield, Sum- 
rait county, Ohio, September 28, 1848, to Miss 
Ann Kirby, who was born in Yorkshire, Eng- 
land, February 8, 1824. Slie died at the home- 
stead December 2, 1887, sorely lamented by the 
companion to whom and to whose interests she 
had ever been devoted. They had two adopted 
daughters: Alice M., who died December 13, 
1881, and Carrie, who is the wife of George 
Schwab, of Parma, Ohio. A grandchild, Will- 
iam Marshall Schwab, was born November 27, 
1893. 

Soon after coming to Cleveland Mr. Mar.^hall 
became connected with the Independent Fire 
Company, and in 1847 helped to organize Com- 
pany No. 6, of which he was a member for five 
or six years, when he again became an organizer 
of a new company, which was named Hope No. 
8, and in which he continued as an officer for seven 
years, being then placed on the honorary list. 

Our subject is a man of broad intelligence 
and much business ability, takes an active in- 



terest in all local affairs of public nature, and in 
his political proclivities is stanchly arrayed with 
the Republican party. He has been lionored 
by his fellow-townsmen with the preferment as 
Township Trustee. He has ever been intimately 
identified with the religious work of the com- 
munity, is a devoted member of the First Pres- 
byterian Church, and has been one of the Elders 
of the same for many years. His wife was also 
zealous in her devotion and work for the church, 
of which she was a most consistent member. 



T'HOMAS M. DeWITT, superintendent of 
Wells, Fargo & Company's Express, is a 
native of Canada, having been born at 
Holland Landing, Feliruary 24, 1854. 
He is in direct descent from John DeWitt, 
Grand Pensionary of Holland, who rendered 
most distinguished services to the Dutch Re- 
public. The first member of the family came 
to this country in 1656. His great-grandfather 
was a member of the Colonial Assembly from 
1768 to 1775, and was one of the nine resolute 
and patriotic men who voted to approve of the 
proceedings of the Continental Congress in 
Pliiladelphia. His grandfather was a member 
of Congress, and at the close of his term was 
appointed Charge d' Affaires to Guatemala, 
Central America. His father resides in Elmira, 
New York, where he has represented tlie United 
States Express Company for thirty-five years, 
and is and has been prominent in city affairs, 
holding positions of trust for many years. 

Mr. Tliomas DeWitt passed his boyhood in 
Elmira, New York. At the age of twenty 
years he entered the employ of the United 
States Express Company, at Elmira. as cashier. 
In 1880, he was appointed agent for the United 
States Express Company at Youngstown, Ohio, 
and in 1882 was transferred to a similar position 
with the same company at Pittsburg. In 
March, 1886, he accepted the agency of the 
Erie Express Company at Cleveland, Ohio, and 
in November of the same year was promoted 



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to its managership. In 1888 tlie Erie Express 
Company disposed of its interests to Wells 
Fargo & Company's Express, and Mr. DeWitt 
was continued in the service of the latter com- 
pany, in tlie position of superintendent, which 
position he now holds. 

The above record abundantly demonstrates 
tlie capacity and fidelity of Mr. DeWitt for the 
Express business, and withal, he is a model 
citizen. 

Mr. DeWitt is a member of The Holland 
Society of New York, by right of direct de- 
scent from the Hollanders who came to America 
in 1654. He is a member of the Calvary 
Presbyterian Church of Cleveland, and with 
his wife and four childi-en resides on East Pros- 
pect street. 



ED ELDEN SEYMOUR, who died January 
k\ 17, 1889, was a native of Vergennes, 
y Vermont, born in 1820. At the age of 

fourteen he went to New York, where lie 
entered the employ of an uncle in the dry-goods 
business and continued for several years. Later 
he came to Cleveland, and afterward proceeded 
to Wisconsin, where he spent three or four years, 
and then returned to this city, in 1848, settling 
on the West Side. He became one of the lead- 
ing citizens of Cleveland, taking an active in- 
terest in all things pertaining to the welfare of the 
city, dealing in real estate being his principal 
occupation. He was interested in most of the 
early allotments on the West Side; was one of 
tlie organizers of the People's Savings and 
Loan Association, and was a director of the 
same at the time of his death. Forniany years 
he was a director of the Citizens' Savings & 
Loan Association of this city. He was always 
one of the foremost to take up and advocate the 
best interests of the city, being resolute, pro- 
gressive and enterprising. He was also en- 
gaged in fire insurance, having established one 
of the oldest agencies in this city. He was also 
one of the organizers of the People's Gaslight 



Company on the West Side, with which he was 
connected at the time of his death as an officer. 
Was largely interested in the erection of both 
business and residence buildings, and was one 
of the most active in securing the ground for, 
and the erection of, the viaduct at the foot of 
Superior street. 

In politics, he was an active Republican, and 
was a zealous member of the I. 0. O. F., being 
largely instrumental in the erection of the Odd 
Fellows Temple on the West Side, which at 
that time was the finest in the State. For many 
years he was a member of St. John's Church, 
Protestant Episcopal, as is also his family. 

He was married in Cleveland, in October, 
1853, to Miss Eleanor J., daughter of Stephen 
N. and Mary A. Herrick, of one of the old 
Connecticut families. Mrs. Seymour still sur- 
vives him, as do his two children, — Mrs. Sidney 
Guy Sea, of Cincinnati, whose husband was 
formerly a merchant and newspaper manager of 
Chicago; and Belden, Jr. 

The latter, after finishing his education, spent 
eighteen months in travel abroad. Returning 
to Cleveland, he entered the employ of W. 
Bingham c% Company for tiiree years; then 
spent five years in the West, located at Chicago 
and Minneapolis, where he was interested in 
various enterprises, until the death of his father, 
when lie was called home and succeeded him in 
business. 



FILLARD F. PO AVERS, managing 
partner of the dry-goods establishment 
. of William Taylor, Son & Company, 
has been associated with this institution 
as an employee or partner since February, 1888. 
He was born in Plymouth, Huron county, 
Ohio, January 30, 1850, a son of Alonzo and 
Mai-y J. (Hackathorn) Powers; completed his 
school education at the high school at Norwalk, 
Ohio, and at the age of fifteen years engaged as 
clerk in a grocery, remaining about two years, 
and then accepted a position as bookkeeper in a 



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dry-goods establisbiiient in JSlorwalk, where he 
remained until he came to Cleveland, in 1871, 
to accept a position as entry clerk for Morgan, 
Root & Company. After working for them 
four years, he was engaged at various things 
till 1885, when lie entered the employ of Taylor, 
Kilpatriek & Company, in charge of credits. 
After the expiration of about eleven months he 
was given a working interest in the business, 
taking charge of the finances and credits. Soon 
afterward, in April, 1886, the name of the firm 
was changed to William Taylor, Son & Com- 
pany. In January, 1889, he was admitted a 
member of the firm, the business being owned 
by the Taylors and Mr. Powers. The business 
was conducted by J. L. Taylor and Mr. Powers 
till November, 1892, when the former died; a 
new partnership was formed, and Mr. Powers 
was made managing partner of the establish- 
ment, which position he now holds, and to which 
he gives his entire attention. Their trade has 
been constantly increasing under his manage- 
ment, having doubled since his connection with 
it. Since his residence in this city, Mr. Powers 
has arisen from the bottom of the commercial 
ladder to one of the top rounds. He is a direc- 
tor in the Wade Park Bank, and in the Savings 
Building & Loan Company. 

February 18, 1874, in this city, he was mar- 
ried to Miss Flora C. Marsh, a daughter of 
Charles E. and Charlotte A. (Bennett) Marsh, 
and Mr. and Mrs. Powers are the parents of 
three children: Ada M., Charles A. and Marsh K. 



SAMUEL HYDE AMES, deceased, was 
born in Troy, New York, October 31, 
1831, and was l)ronght to Ohio by his 
parents in 1833, who soon settled in Olmstead, 
Cuyahoga county, which became their home for 
the remainder of their lives. lie was first 
married to Ellen M. Stevens, also of (Jlinstead, 
July 30, 1854: she died August 31, 1860, and 
he subsequently married Amelia M. Merriam, 
of Dover, in that township, on August 29, 



1861. They began their married life on the 
place that is now known as the old homestead 
farm, and had eleven children, of whom six are 
still living, to mourn the loss of an indulgent 
father. 

Mr. Ames enlisted in the war of the rebellion, 
being assigned to the One Hundred and Third 
Ohio Volunteer Infantry. After about two 
months spent in camp near Cleveland, Ohio, he 
was assigned to the One Hundred and Twenty- 
fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he 
served to the close of the great conflict. Twelve 
hundred men had enlisted in the One Hundred 
and Third, which was more than the quota, 
and therefore two companies were assigned as 
A and B of the One Hundred and Twenty- 
fourth. Leaving his wife and infant daughter, 
(who died before his return), he went into camp, 
and from well known ability and experience in 
his own neighborhood as a good hand to take care 
of the sick, he was appointed nurse there, and in 
the field he was frequently employed in the hos- 
pital. Isaac Ilurdy, of Berea, Ohio, who was 
in the same company, thus speaks of him: "I 
never saw his superior for coolness in the time 
of danger. With several others, I lay wounded 
in the field hospital, unable to move. Comrade 
Ames was nursing us. The rebels would shell 
the camp at intervals and a shell with a burn- 
ing fuse rolled in at the door of the tent. We 
all lay breathless with suspense. The deadly 
missile might explode at any moment and do 
dreadful work. But our cool-headed nurse 
picked up an old shovel and rolled the shell 
away out of doors, remarking, 'There! that 
can't hurt anybody now.' He was a good sol- 
dier and a good citizen, a kind and provident 
head of his family, and his memory will never 
perish in the hearts of friends and family." 

His health began to fail in 1890. He was a 
patient sufferer until October 13, 1893, when 
his life left his body, at his home in Olmstead. 
His funeral was held October 17, under the 
auspices of Olmstead Post, No. 634, G. A. R., 
of which he had been a member. Olmstead 
C'orps, W. R. C, No. 120, also attended in a 



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body, with a large concourse of friends from 
Cleveland and surrounding towns. His remains 
were laid in the ground near his home, in the 
beautiful Butternut Ridge cemetery, his grave 
covered with beautiful Howers, — one more added 
to the silent ranks sleeping in that quiet spot. 
"Soldier, rest ! thy warfare o'er ; 

Sleep the sleep that knows no waking; 
Dream of battle-fields no more, 

Days of danger, nights of waking. 
Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er." 



APTAIN JAMES STONE has been iden- 
tified with the navigators of the Great 
Lakes since he was a youth of seventeen 
years, and is well worthy of the space that has 
been accorded him in this volume. A native of 
Canada, he was born near Port Burwell, Sep- 
tember 10, 1836, a son of William and Eliza 
(P'oster) Stone. The father followed mercan- 
tile pursuits and kept a hotel. He died at Ver- 
million, Ohio. The paternal grandfather, John 
Stone, Sr., served in the Britisli navy by force 
during the Eevolution. He afterward located 
on a land grant in Canada, where his family 
were born and reared. Captain James Stone 
was an infant when his parents removed to Ver- 
Tiiillion, Ohio, where he was reared and edu- 
cated; he had also pursued his studies at Ober- 
lin College before he reached the age of eigh- 
teen years. He then began his career as a 
sailor, and for thirty-eight years without inter- 
ruption was on the Lakes. In 1890 he came 
ashore, and has since been assisting in the man- 
agement of the business of Bradley & Co. 

At the age of twenty-six years lie became 
master of the schooner Challenge, which he 
sailed one season; he was then made captain 
of the S. H. Kimball, of which he had charge 
two seasons; for two seasons he was mas- 
ter of the David Wagstaff; one season he 
was with the Escanaba; two seasons with 
the Negaunee, and six years with the S. J. 
Tilden. He was master of the following 
steamers: the J. S. Fay, two years; steamer 



Selah Chaml)erlain two years; the R. P. Ran- 
ney, three years; the City of Cleveland, two 
years; the M. B. Grover, two years; the Pasa- 
dena, three years; the Hesper, one year, the last 
vessel he sailed. Captain Stone has never lost 
a vessel and has never sailed a vessel that was 
insured. For the past twenty-three years he has 
been a stockholder in the business of Bradley 
& Company, and he is one of the directors of 
the Ohio Transportation Company. He is 
thoroughly conversant with all the details of 
lake navigation, his opinions carrying weight in 
shipping circles. In addition to his shipping 
operations he has carried on some transactions 
in real estate in Toledo, Ohio, and in San Diego, 
California. 

Captain Stone was married in Vermillion, 
Ohio, in 1863, to Sarah F. Parsons. They have 
three children: Lewis is married and resides in 
Vermillion: he is captain of one of the lake 
vessels out of Cleveland ; Mrs. Mary Honneker 
lives in Lorain, Ohio; Burton A. is also a cit- 
izen of Vermillion. The Captain is a member 
of the Shipmasters' Association. In politics 
he is a staunch Republican. 



SAN FORD L. KENNEDY, one of the 
representative business men of Cleve- 
land, Ohio, has been identified with her 
commercial interests since his residence began 
here in the spring of 1853. He is a native of 
Monroe county, 'New York, and a son of Horace 
D. and Deborah P. (Miller) Kennedy; the fath- 
er and mother are both deceased. He was a 
young man when his parents removed to Ohio 
and had been educated in the county of his 
birth. During two winters he taught school in 
the primitive educational institution of the 
frontier, and in the spring of 1853 came to 
Cleveland. He secured the position of clerk 
with the firm of Parish & Knight, in whose em- 
ploy he remained until 1867. In that year both 
members of the firm died, and the business 
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»k Randall. They carry a large and well se- 
lected stock of hardware, including furnaces, 
stoves and ranges, and a complete assortment of 
cooking utensils. In connection with the store 
they have a rejjair shop, transacting a large 
business in this line also. They employ from 
fifteen to twenty-five men, all of whom are 
skilled workers. To Mr. Kennedy, perhaps 
more than to tiie others, the success of this 
firm is due. "When the senior partners were 
stricken with death he was the only person fa- 
miliar with the details of the business, and 
upon him devolved the responsibility of set- 
tling all accounts and the care of retaining a 
well established trade. He proved equal to the 
demand, and has during late years given his 
attention to other matters, although retaining 
his place as head of the firm. He acted as ad- 
ministrator of the estate of Mr. Knight, set- 
tling up his affairs in a manner most satisfac- 
tory to the heirs. His business interests out- 
side tiie firm of Kennedy, De Forest & llandall 
lie chiefly in city real estate. He is truly a 
self-made man and is deserving of the high re- 
spect which he commands in all circles. He 
has been a member of the Masonic order since 
18G7, and in politics is a zealous adherent of 
Republican principles. 

Mr. Kennedy was married in 1889 to Miss 
Sarah Louise Burt, a native of the city of Cleve- 
land. Their residence is on Arlington street. 



THOMAS QUAYLE, ship-builder, was 
l)orn in the Parish of KirkMichael, Isle 
of Man, May 9, 1811. Tliere he resided 
until his sixteenth year, when his parents 
emigrated to the United States. At that period 
the tide of emigration was setting strongly to- 
ward the Western Reserve, its beauties and ad- 
vantages having been painted in glowing colors 
by the Connecticut Land Company. There 
were several other families who had come from 
the Isle of Manand selected farms in flie town- 
sliips of Xewburgii and W.irrensvillc. They 



began the task of clearing their lands in the 
heart of the forest and erected cabins to pro- 
tect themselves from the elements tliat were not 
always kindly in this latitude. They were a 
people who had come from a country whence 
the forests had disappeared generations ago, and 
the surroundings were all new and strange. 
They were quick to catch the methods of their 
pioneer neighbors from the Eastern States, and 
within a few years their farms ranked second to 
none in the community. 

Mr. Quayle had worked for a time as appren- 
tice to a ship-builder in the Isle of Man, and 
having acquired some knowledge of the busi- 
ness naturally investigated in that field of em- 
ployment in his new home. He secured a po- 
sition in the Cleveland ship-yards, and in 1847 
formed a partnership with John Cody. They 
constructed several brigs and schooners, large, 
fine craft in their day, but pigmies when com- 
pared with vessels built a decade later. The 
partnership was dissolved in 1849, and soon 
afterward Mr. Quayle entered into business re- 
lations with Luther Moses under the firm name 
of Moses ifc Quayle. Among the vessels they 
constructed were the Xile, Milwaukee, Forest 
Queen, Dunkirk and the schooner Crescent. 
At a later period a partnership was formed with 
John Martin under the title of Quayle cVi Mar- 
tin, and in a term of twenty years they con- 
structed many of the largest and finest steamers 
and sailing vessels that floated the lakes. After 
the death of Mr. Martin in the spring of 1873 
Mr. Quayle formed a partnership with his sons, 
Thomas E. and George L., the firm name being 
Thomas Quayle & Sons. Although marine af- 
fairs were seriously aifected by the panic of 
1873 this firm constructed several vessels dur- 
ing the period of depression. Among their 
best results were the Commodore, Buffalo, Chi- 
cago and Milwaukee for the Western Transit 
Line, and the Delaware and Conestoga for the 
Anchor Line. Mr. Quayle retired from busi- 
ness in 1879, his sons having charge of the 
shipyard since that time. He was a member of 
the City (-ouncil from the First AVard during 




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one term, but as a rule took no active interest 
in politics. He belongs to the Presbyterian 
Church and to the Masonic order, being a mem- 
ber of the Oriental C'ommandry and the Scot- 
ish Rite. 

He was married in 1835 to Miss Eleanor 
Cannon, and of this union eleven children were 
born, seven of whom grew to maturity: Thomas 
E. ; William H., who died June 25, 1893 ; George 
L.; Charles, who died at the age of twenty six 
years; Matilda, wife of Charles Gill of Cleve- 
land; Kate, wife of Mr. Malone; and Mary, who 
is now Mrs. Barrett. The mother died in 1860. 
Mr. Quayle was married a second time in 1867, 
to Mary Prondfoot, who still survives. 

By his fellow-citizens he is held in the high- 
est esteem ; as an employer he has always been 
regarded as a just man, fulfilling his obligations 
to the utmost of his power. Now in his eighty- 
third year he awaits with cheerfulness the sum- 
mons which must finally come from the great 
beyond. 



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EPTHA H. WADE, inventor and capital- 
ist, was born in Seneca county. New York, 
August 11, 1811. a son of Jeptha Wade. 
His father was a civil engineer and surveyor by 
profession, but he was deprived by death in 
early youth of paternal care and guidance. His 
first serious occupation was learning the carpen- 
ter's trade, of wliich he became a thorougli mas- 
ter; he also made clocks, and musical instru- 
ments, on which he performed with much skill, 
and developed a genius for mechanics. He was 
an excellent shot, and as commander of the 
militia lie was the most expert marksman of 
four hundred men in the ranks. At the age of 
twenty-one years lie became the owner of a large 
sash and blind factory, but after three years' ex- 
perience concluded that his talents were not 
suited to transactions in the commercial world. 
Having a decided taste for all branches of art, 
he determined to study portrait painting, and 
with the celebrated Randall Palmer as his in- 
structor he made rapid progress, attaining an 



enviable reputation throughout Louisiana, New 
York and Michigan. He was but little over 
thirty years of age when he became interested 
in the discoveries of Daguerre. Assisted only 
by the printed instructions he studied out the 
method, and took the first daguerreotype ever 
made west of New Y'ork. Having suffered in 
health on account of close confinement, he be- 
gan looking about for some occupation that 
would take him into the open air. The mystery 
of a message flashed from Washington to Balti- 
more was Just then creating great excitement in 
both the commercial and scientific world. Mr. 
Wade was then in New Orleans, but returned 
to Detroit, Michigan, and began the study of 
the principles underlying the invention. Shortly 
after he commenced the construction of a line 
along the Michigan Central Railroad, opened 
and equipped the Jackson ofiice, and acted as 
operator and manager. After a time he entered 
the field as a builder of lines, meeting with 
many discouragements in the imperfections of 
the inventions. He himself invented an in- 
sulator, still bearing his name, which overcame 
many ditficulties. He was the first to inclose a 
submarine cable in iron armor; this experi- 
ment was made across the Mississippi river at 
St. Louis, and to its success is due the existence 
of the entire cable system of the world. 

When the Western Union Telegrapii Com- 
pany was formed by the consolidation of many 
small lines, Mr. Wade was made general man- 
ager, and to him, more than to any other man, 
is due the credit for the construction of the 
Trans-continental Railway; it was his energy, 
foresight and judgment that conceived and car- 
ried into operation the Pacific Telegrapii from 
St. Louis to San Francisco, bringing the isolated 
gold seekers into communication with the East- 
ern world, and thus attracting the attention of 
capitalists and enterprising business men. The 
location of the line and the responsibility of its 
construction were turned over to him; and he 
labored with indefatigable energy and zeal until 
the last stake was driven. Under his direct 



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man was armed with revolvers and rifle for pro- 
tection against the Indians. In an incredibly 
short time the gigantic scheme was a reality, 
and the El Dorado was reached. There Mr. 
Wade found confusion among the local com- 
panies, which he succeeded with rare tact in 
uniting, securing complete communication with 
the East. It was through his suggestions that 
the various railroad companies built lines for 
their exclusive use. 

He was made the first president of the Pa- 
cific Telegraph Company, and, upon its consoli- 
dation with the Western Union, was made 
president of the entire combination. He filled 
this position with marked ability until a seri- 
ous illness in 1867 warned him that he was 
overtaxing the instrument at his command; 
and although he retired from active pursuits 
for a time he was not of the fibre that readily 
relaxes. As a director in many of the largest 
factories, banks, railroads and public institu- 
tions, his wide experience and sound judgment 
were highly valued. Upon the organization of 
the Citizens' Savings & Loan Association of 
Cleveland in 1867, he was elected its president. 
As president of the Lake View Cemetery Asso- 
ciation he gave evidence of the refined and cul- 
tivated taste which has always marked his charac- 
ter. In 1882 he gave to the city seventy-three 
acres known as Wade Park, which he had kept 
open to the public at iiis own expense for many 
years. 

He was connected with the following corpora- 
tions in the capacities mentioned: Director of 
the Second National Bank of Cleveland; direct- 
or of the Cleveland Rolling-mill Company, the 
Cleveland Iron Mining Company and the Union 
Steel Screw Company; president of the Ameri- 
can Sheet and Boiler Plate Company and of the 
Chicago it Atchison Bridge Company; he was 
also a director of several railroad comj^anies, 
and was president of the Kalamazoo, Allegan A: 
Grand Rapids and the Cincinnati, Wabash & 
Michigan Railway companies; he was also presi- 
dent of the Valley Railway Company, this line 
leading to the coal fields of Ohio. 



He was appointed commissioner of the City 
Sinking Fund, was Park Commissioner, and 
director of the work-house and the house of 
refuge. He was one of the trustees of the 
Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum, and 
erected at his own expense a handsome, fire- 
proof building that will accommodate 150 
children. 

Mr. Wade passed from the activities of this 
life to the " unknown " August 9, 1890. Xo 
word of eulogy can add to the lustre of his 
name. His ability, his talent, his genius, were 
all dedicated to the advancement of humanity, 
and to him humanity owes a deep debt of grati- 
tude. 



llOHN B. COWLE, treasurer of the Cleve- 
Jt I land Dry Dock Company, was born in Bol- 
's^ ton, Lancastershire, England, September 16, 
1826, a son of Daniel and Alice (Beswick)Cowle. 
The father was financially independent in Eng- 
land until he emigrated to the United States, in 
1839, on account of political difiiculties. He set- 
tled in Lake county, Ohio, and the following year 
removed to Cleveland, where he passed the re- 
maining years of his life, his death occurring 
in 1855. 

John B., the eldest of eight children, was a 
youth of thirteen years when the family came to 
this country. During the first winter he chopped 
wood for family use, going a distance of four 
miles to the timber; the next spring he was em- 
ployed in the Cuyahoga Furnace as an apprent- 
ice, serving seven years as a moulder. At first 
he received but §2 a week, boarding himself, 
but before his apprenticeship closed his wages 
were raised a dollar a day. He followed his 
trade eight years, at the end of which time, in 
1855, he became connected with the Globe Iron 
Works. This firm experienced several changes 
in ownership, finally becomingCowle,Cartwright 
& Company, and later the Globe Iron Works. 

In 1886 Mr. Cowle disposed of his interest in 
the establishment with the intention of retir- 
ing from active business; his energies rebelled 



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against this inactivity, and as he was a stock- 
holder in the Cleveland Dry Dock Company, 
he was made treasurer, the duties of this office 
taking up his attentions. He assisted in the 
organization of the Aetna Iron Nail Company, 
and was one of the founders of the Globe Ship- 
building Company, which firm built the steamer 
Anoko in 1882, the largest iron steamer on the 
lakes at that time. 

In 1851, Mr. Cowle was united in marriage 
to Catherine Gillette, of Littleport, Cambridge- 
shire, England. They are the parents of seven 
children, two of whom are living: Alice, the wife 
of W. E. Perkins, of the Purdy McNiel Lum- 
ber Company, and Catherine, the younger, who 
is at home. Mr. Cowle has been a member of 
the I. O. O. F., Erie Lodge, No. 27, having 
united with that fraternity in 1844, when under 
twenty-one years of age, a special dispensation 
being secured from the Grand Lodge. For many 
years, he was one of the most active workers, 
passing all the chairs of the subordinate lodge 
and of the encampment. When the I. O. O. F. 
Hall was erected on the "West Side he aided this 
enterprise by a subscription of $4,000. Mr. 
Cowle has long been a prominent member of St. 
John's Episcopal Church, and held the office as 
Treasurer for a number of years. He is well 
known among all vessel owners and business 
men. 



rVR. J. G. COLEMAN.— To the weak the 
vicissitudes of fortune may bring defeat 
and despair, but to the brave Destiny 
herself must sometimes yield. Born in the city 
of New York, April 19, 1819, Dr. J. G. Cole- 
man began a career that has been marked by 
almost all the fluctuations incident to the lot of 
man. At the age of seven years he was left an 
orplian, and during the five years following he 
was sheltered in the orphan asylum founded by 
the widow of Alexander Hamilton. At the end 
of this tinie he went out into the world and for 
nine year.s lived at Clarkstown, New York, in the 



home of Dr. John Polhamus. Here he recov- 
ered from the shock of diseases incident to child- 
hood, blindness and St. Anthony's fii-e, but so 
dwarfed he never weighed over 120 pounds till 
past twenty-one. His studies were the moth- 
er's catechism, the New Testament and arith- 
metic. Dr. Polhamus was a practicing physi- 
cian, but he also owned and operated a mill 
and superintended the cultivation of a large 
tract of land. Young Coleman divided his time 
between mechanics and agriculture, and at the 
age of fifteen years carried the brick and mor- 
tar necessary to keep five masons employed. 
This unquestionably laid the foundation for his 
lameness. A wall fell with him while tearing 
down an old stone house, crushing two fingers 
of his left hand and the tibia bone of his left 
leg. Then there was the excessive work of car- 
rying the bricks and mortar. His left leg car- 
ried a bad sore for many years and a scar since, 
and a weakness and pain in both knees, which 
physicians could not cure, and compelled him 
to seek relief in study and teaching for a live- 
lihood. At the age of seventeen years he had 
assumed the management of the farm belong- 
ing to Dr. Polhamus, continuing his residence 
with the Doctor until he had attained his major- 
ity. He afterward was engaged in the con- 
struction of docks along the East and North 
rivers, and the following autumn went to west- 
ern New York, where he devoted his energies 
to mastering the mason's trade. In this occu- 
pation he met some serious ac?;idents which 
crippled him for a time. In November, 1842, 
he was caught in the tide of emigration which 
was then moving slowly but steadily to the 
West, and crossing the lakes came to Ohio. He 
worked at his trade at different places and was 
also employed in the potash works north of the 
center of Chardon, his wages being increased 
each month. 

Until this time the necessities of life had 
pressed too hardly upon this young man to 
admit many aspirations beyond the honest win- 
ning of his daily bread. In the spring of 1843, 
however, he determined to enter school: this 



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plan was carried out, and the next fall was also 
devoted to his studies. In 1843 he attended 
two terms, in 1844 two terms, in 1845 one term, 
and then read medicine. He was then employed 
as a teacher at Little Mountain, receiving a 
saiarj of SIO a month. When the terra was 
ended be started with a friend through the oil 
region of Pennsylvania grafting fruit trees, and 
continued this business until the opening of 
school in the spring, when he returned to his 
books. During the winter months following 
he had charge of a school of ninety pupils, and 
then came another period when he again was 
pupil instead of master. 

Desirous of entering Willoughby Medical 
College, he went to work at his trade to obtain 
the necessary funds. Xovember 1, 1845, he en- 
tered this institution, and by working for his 
board was enabled to tinish the literary course, 
taking the highest honors of his class. He then 
became a student in the old Erie Medical Col- 
lege of Cleveland, during an extra session, in the 
fall term of 1847, walking eight miles a day to 
attend the lectures and earning one dollar a day 
at his trade! The odds against which he worked 
make the path of the medical student of the 
present day appear to be a smooth one. In 1851 
he practiced in Cleveland, and graduated in 1852; 
he practiced, studied and graduated. He at 
once began the practice of his profession, but 
while the study of the science of medicine had 
its ciiarms, the practical side was yet another 
story. * 

At the end of one year Dr. Coleman retired to 
his farm at Mnnson, where he gave his attention 
to tilling the soil, responding to the few pro- 
fessional calls in the neigiiborhood where he 
lived. While a resident there he served also 
as Justice of the Peace under the administra- 
tion of Governor Chase. In 18G3 he removed 
to his farm near Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and there 
he has since resided. He purchased in 1872 a 
quarry near Cleveland, which proved a profit- 
able investment, and he also owns some valu- 
able real estate in Cleveland, and fourteen houses 
in C/leveland and Coiliinvood, gaiiieil liy indus- 



try and economy in youth, upon which he de- 
pends for his support, in part at least, in the 
infirmities of age. 

He is one of the ten men through whose 
efforts the Chagrin Falls Xarrow Gauge Eail- 
road was finally completed. Remembering the 
diffiaulties which beset his way, the Doctor has 
ever been a warm friend to those educators 
whose effort has been to increase and improve 
the facilities for the on-coming generations. 
He was one of the founders and supporters of 
Hiram Seminary and College, as delegate from 
the church at Munson, about thirty-two churches 
uniting by delegates; and he was an ardent 
friend of James A. Garfield. In 1870-'71 he 
was for two years Trustee of Chagrin Falls 
township. At one time he was interested in 



th. 



e paper mills at Chagrin Falls; 



he sold his 

interest to Pratt & Pope. He afterward ran a 
large carriage shop at Chagrin Falls. 

Dr. Coleman was married at the age of twen- 
ty-eight years, to Rhoda Ilayden, a daughter of 
Elder William Ilayden. She was born June 
26, 1825, at Streetsboro, Ohio, and died leav- 
ing one daughter, Mary, who married and is 
also deceased. Mary left a family of three chil- 
dren: Mrs. Xellie Farley, Burr, and May Bush- 
ey, who is a successful student and nurse in the 
Huron Street Hospital Training School. After 
the death of his first wife Dr. Coleman was 
married, in 1809, to Amelia Y. Kent, a daugh- 
ter of the Hon. Gamaliel H. Kent, one of the 
prominent early settlers of Chagrin Falls. Two 
children have been born of this union, Jean 
and Gussie. Dr. Coleman has always had a 
home. Even when yet a boy he provided to 
have a home before his marriage. His present 
home he purchased in June, 1862. 

In his religious faith the Doctor adheres to 
the teachings of the Disciple Church, and has 
been a zealous laborer in the cause of his Master, 
in Cleveland, CoUamer, Willoughby, Mentor, 
Munson, Chester, Russell, Chagrin Falls, etc. 
In testimony of his labors as a church official, 
from 1863 to 1894, the Disciple Ciiurch at 
Chagrin Falls, of which he is a member, in 



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December, 1893, presented Dr. Coleman with 
an elegant gold -headed cane as a token of their 
appreciation of the zeal lie had shown in the 
cause of the church. For all his services in 
the cause of religion he has never received, any 
pecuniary compensation. Believing earnestly 
in temperance reform he has supported that 
movement through all its varying fortunes with 
the warmest ardor. In all the walks of life he 
has borne himself with strict integrity and a 
dignity that have commanded the respect and 
confidence of every class of citizens. 



f^ A. MINER, one of the leading farmers of 
tiiis locality, was born in Eoyalton town- 
ship, Cuyalioga county, Ohio, May 11, 
1840. a son of D. A. Miner. The latter's father, 
John Miner, came to Cuyahoga county from 
Genesee county, Ifew York, about 1832, where 
he purchased eighty acres of wooded land, pay- 
ing $10 per acre, and immediately began clear- 
ing his place. His death occurred at this place 
in 1840. Ills wife afterward died at the home 
of her children in Michigan. Daniel A. Miner 
was married in New York to Phebe Williams, 
and they had one child when they located in 
Ohio. She married AYashington Taylor, and 
died in Royalton township. After coming to 
this State one son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Miner, 
Hiram, now a farmer in South Dakota. The 
wife and mother died in Ohio, and the father 
afterward married Sarah Francis, a native of Roy- 
alton, and a daugliter of Thomas Francis, one of 
the early pioneers of this locality. To this union 
were Iwrn nine children, as follows: Phebe, wife 
of Charles Cantield,of Brecksville township, this 
county; F. A., our subject; W. B., of Jackson 
county, Michigan; Betsey Jane, deceased in 
Jackson county, was the wife of John Hunt; 
Loraine, who married Edward Blackmore, and 
also died in that State; Seldon Benjamin, res- 
idents of Jackson county, Michigan; Lottie, wife 
of Edward Blackmore; and Charles, of Jackson, 
Michigan. After comina to Ohio, Daniel Miner 



lived with his father until the latter's death, after 
which he took charge of the farm. In 1864 he re- 
moved to Jackson county, Michigan, where he 
died in 1873. His widow still resides at the old 
homestead in that county, aged seventy-six years. 
Mr. Miner was identified with the Republican 
party, and was a member of the Free-will Baptist 
Church. 

F. A. Miner, the subject of this sketch, re- 
mained on the home farm until nineteen years 
of age, and then learned the trade of plasterer. 
After his marriage he located near where he now 
lives in Royalton township, Cuyahoga county, 
and, with the exception of three years spent in 
Brecksville township, has resided in this locality 
ever since. Mr. Miner came to his present farm 
in 1881, where he is engaged in genei-al farm- 
ing and dairying, having abandoned his trade 
for the past live years. In political matters he 
has been a life-long Republican, and has held the 
important position of Justice of the Peace for 
nine years. 

January 3, 1859, Mr. Miner was united in 
marriage with Eleanor Wilcox, who was born in 
Royalton township, Cuyahoga county, July 9, 
1837, a daughter of Edwin and Jane (Coates) 
Wilcox, the former a native of Massachusetts 
and the latter of Genesee county. New York. 

The Wilcox family were from Holly, Massa- 
chusetts, came here with oxen and wagon, and 
were six weeks on the road, camping out at night. 
After marriage Edwin Wilcox located in Brecks- 
ville township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and his 
father-in-law, John Coates, was one of the early 
pioneers of Royalton township. Mr. and Mrs. 
Edwin Wilcox had the following children: 
Henry, who died at Grafton, West Virginia; 
Charles, deceased in Royalton township; and 
Eleanor, wife of our subject. Mr. Wilcox fol- 
lowed the carpenter's trade during his active life, 
and many of the large warehouses of Cleveland 
were erected by him. His death occurred July 
11, 1879, aud his wife survived until November 
11, 1886, both having been active members of 
the Free-will Baptist Church. Mr. and Mrs. 
Miner have four chihlreu: James H., an eugin- 



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eer on the Xew York, Pennsylvania & Ohio 
Railroad : Edwin D., a fireman on the New York, 
Chicago and St. Lonis Railroad; Lottie M., en- 
gaged in teaching school; and Lillie J., at liome. 
Mr. and Mrs. Miner are 7neniber3 of the Free- 
will Baptist Church, in whicli the former holds 
the position of Deacon, and has been Superin- 
tendent of the Sunday-school for twenty years. 
He is one of the leading citizens of the town- 
ship, has taken an active interest in tlie improve- 
ment of the schools of his section, and is re- 
spected by all who know him. 



[OKACE FORD, of Cleveland, wa.s born 
in Cummington, Hampshii-e county, 
41 Massachusetts, October 22, 1823, a son 
of Cyrus and Clarissa (Whitmarsh) Ford, 
natives also of that place. Cyrus and his son 
Horatio came in a sleigh from Massachusetts to 
Ohio in 1837. Cyrus Ford and his wife visited 
relatives in Michigan during the winter, and 
then located in Massillon, this State, where he 
engaged in raising mulberries and silk-worms. 
On account of sickness, the family came to 
Cleveland in 1841, where Mr. Ford hatched 
1,500,000 silk-worms, but never succeeded in 
getting a cocoon, the reason being attributed to 
the climate. In the fall of 1844 he purchased 
100 acres of land on the north side of Euclid 
avenue, where our subject now resides, and for 
which he paid $18 per acre. He also bought 
100 acres at the same time on Maytield street, 
south of Garfield monument, paying $16 per 
acre. At one time he devoted eighteen acres to 
watermelons. In 1852 Mr. Ford gave the farm 
to his son Horace, but remained there until his 
death, in 1864, at the age of seventy-four years. 
His wife survived until 1874, dying at the age 
of eighty-two years. They had six sons, — 
Horace, Horatio C. (deceased in 1876), Henry, 
Francis, Lewis "W. and George (who died in 
infancy). Mr. and Mrs. Ford and their two 
sons, Horace and Horatio, were charter mem- 
bers of the Euclid Avenue Congresational 



Church, which celebrated its semi-centennial 
December 3 to 10 and following days, 1893. 
While in Massachusetts, Mr. Ford's family was 
raised in the same school district with William 
Cullen Bryant and Senator H. L. Dawes. 

Horace Ford, the subject of this sketch, 
worked on the farm during the summer months, 
and taught school in the winters. In October, 
1846, his district introduced the graded-school 
system, and he then taught in a school in the 
eastern part of the city until 1851, when his 
health failed. In November, of that year, he 
taught in Ohio City. In 1852 Mr. Ford took 
charge of his father's farm, on which he paid a 
debt of 61,600, also taught in District No. 2 
until 1865, and then engaged in market garden- 
ing. He sold forty acres of the Hill property 
for $1,000 an acre in April, 1891, the same 
land having been purchased in 1844 for $16 
per acre. Mr. Ford still owns a lot, 300 x 600 
feet, where he has a comfortable residence, and 
other desirable property. Ford Place, on 
Euclid avenue, was named in honor of his 
father. Before the war Mr. Ford served as 
conductor on the underground railroad. 

He was married in 1852, and had six chil- 
dren, two of whom, Ida and James, died of 
malignant dysentery in September, 1864, the 
the former aged eight years, and the latter eight 
months. They died within three hours of each 
other, and were buried in the same casket. 
The remaining children are: Mary, wife of 
Jesse B. Fay, an attorney of this city, and they 
have two sons, Horace and Thomas; Nellie L., 
wife of J. M. Alton, also of Cleveland, and they 
have one son, George; Arthur IL, engaged in 
gardening; and the youngest child died in 
infancy. The wife and mother departed this 
life in March, 1877, at the age of forty-eight 
years. In February, 1880, Mr. Ford married 
Miss Mary C, a daughter of P. Hovey, of 
Cleveland. She died of apoplexy in December, 
1888, and he afterward married Miss Eliza 
Talbot, a daughter of J. T. Talbot, also of this 
city. Mr. Ford, Mrs. J. I). Bennett, Mrs. 
Horatio Ford and Mrs. Elizabeth liigersol (of 



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Detroit) are the only surviviug charter members 
of the Euclid Avenue Congregational Church. 
Since 1841 Mr. Ford has taught a class in the 
Sunday-school, which now numbers thirty mem- 
bers; ill 1853 he was appointed a Deacon in the 
church, and has served as secretary of the Bo- 
hemian Mission Board since its organization. 
In jiolitical matters, his first vote was cast for 
James G. Birney in 1844, voted with the 
Liberty party until 1848, and since that time 
has been a Republican. Mr. Ford is one of the 
oldest representatives of one of the oldest, most 
favorably known and highly respected families 
in the city. 



OH. CLAFLIN, a farmer of Royaltou 
I township, was born at this place, May 16, 
1825, a son of " Wil liam Clallin, a native 
of Hancock county, Vermont. He was a farmer 
by occupation, and was a soldier in the war of 
1812, participating in the battle of Plattsburg. 
Mr. Claflin was married in his native State to 
Anna Abbot, a native of Vermont, and in 1819 
they located in Royalton township, Cuyahoga 
county, Oliio. Their family at that time con- 
sisted of the following children: Daniel B., de 
ceased in this township, at the age of eighty-six 
years; Amanda, married William Ferris and 
died in Royalton in 1884; Submit, deceased at 
the age of twenty-four years; William A., a 
carpenter by occupation, died in Michigan; and 
Timothy P., who died in Vermontville, Michi- 
gan, and was buried in Camden township, Lo- 
rain county, Ohio. Mr. Claflin purchased a 
small farm of wooded land. His death occurred 
September 6, 1827, by fever contracted while 
working on the Ohio canal, then in the course 
of construction from Cleveland to Akron. He 
was buried in Pritchai-d cemetery, Royalton 
township. After locating at this place four 
children were born in the family of Mr. and Mrs. 
Claflin, viz.: Julia A. J., married Merrick Por- 
ter, and died in Russia township, Lorain county, 
Ohio; Anna A., deceased in Michigan, was the 



wife of Almon Graves; Orson H., our subject; 
and Loyal II., a farmer and grain speculator, 
died in Minnesota. At his death, the father 
left a widow and nine children, and the mother 
succeeded in keeping the smaller ones at home, 
supporting them by weaving and spinning. The 
mother died October 14, 1854, and was buried 
by the side of her husband. 

O. H. Claflin, the subject of this sketch, re- 
mained at home until about eight years of age, 
after which he worked for his board for William 
Ferris ten years. He never wore shoes until 
after his eighth year, his feet having been pro- 
tected by sacks during the winter! After leav- 
ing the home of Mr. Ferris, he secured a 
contract to clear ten acres of timber land for 
$100. Mr. Claflin then attended the Richfield 
select school, where he fitted himself for teach- 
ing, and followed that occupation a number of 
years in Cuyahoga county. In 1850 he began 
work at the carpenter's trade in Wisconsin, and 
after returning to this county located on his 
farm. In the spring of 1855 Mr. Claflin came 
to his present farm of 155 acres in Royalton 
township, which he has cleared, and put under 
a fine state of cultivation. In addition to gen- 
eral farming, he has also done much work at the 
carpenter's trade in his neighborhood. In po- 
litical matters, he is a stanch Republican, has 
served as Trustee and Assessor, and is well 
posted on the general issues of the day. 

Mr. Claflin was married in Wisconsin, June 
26, 1850, to Permelia Smith, and they had one 
child, Thomas M., a member of the i^ordberg 
Manufacturing Company, of Milwaukee. No- 
vember 8,1854, in Strongsville,Ohio, our subject 
was united in marriage with Mariah S. Erswell, 
who was born in London, England, July 17, 
1833, a daughter of Charles and Mary Ann 
(Snow) Erswell, who came to America in 1833. 
While crossing the ocean Mrs. Claflin became 
sick, and, thinking her dead, the Captain or- 
dered her thrown overboard, but the mother 
begged to keep her a few minutes longer, and 
she revived! After spending a short time in 
New York, the family came to Ohio. Mr. and 



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Mrs. Claflin have had the following children: 
Dora, at home; Carrie, wife of John Bailey, of 
Brooklyn village, Cuyahoga county; Artliur H., 
a fanner of Royalton township; Otto H., at 
home; and Loyal, deceased in infancy. 



L. KNAUFF, a prominent fire-brick and 
clay dealer of Xewburg, Ohio, dates his 
^ birth in New York city, September 10, 
1842. In 1849 his father, P. J. Knanff, 
came west and settled on a farm in Cnyahoga 
county, Ohio, and on thi.< farm the subject of 
our sketch grew to manhood. 

July 10, 1861, young Knauff entered the 
service of the United States Government as a 
teamster in an ammunition train. He remained 
in this service until some time in October fol- 
lowing, when he enlisted in Company K, Third 
New York Cavalry, and was mustered \n at 
Darnestown, Maryland, on the 17th of the same 
month. His command formed a part of the 
Army of the Potomac and first met the enemy 
at Ball's Bluff. Following is a list of engage- 
ments in which Mr. Knauff participated during 
the war: 

1861.— Ball's Bluff, October21;near Edwards' 
Ferry, October 22, — both in Virginia. 

1862. — Near Winchester, March 7; Win- 
chester, March 10; Shenandoah valley, April 
8, — all three in Virginia. The following in 
North Carolina: Houghton Mills, April 27; 
near Bryant Church, May 7; near Trenton 
Bridge, May 15; Trenton Creek, May 30; 
Greenville road. May 31 and June 2; Trenton 
creek, Jnne 5, 24, and July 10; PoUocksville, 
July 25; Mill creek, July 26; Young's Cross 
Roads, July 27; Kingston road, August 6; 
Keuse river road, August 20; Washington, Sep- 
tember 6 and 7; Trenton creek, September 9; 
Washington, October 7; Pungo creek, October 
29; Rowles' mills, November 2; near Washing- 
ton, November 3; Tarboro, November 5; 
Bachelder's creek, November 11; Core creek, 
November 18; Kingston i-oad, December 11; I 



Wise's Cross Roads, December 12; South West 
creek, December 13; Kingston, December 14; 
Goldsboro, December 15; Olive Station, De- 
cember 16; Dudley, December 17. 

1863. — Core creek, January 8; PoUocksville, 
January 17; near Trenton, January 18 and 19; 
near Jacksonville, January 20; Sandy Ridge, 
February 13; near New Berne, February 27; 
Skeet Mills, March 3; Swan's quarters, March 
4; near Dover, March 6; Young's Cross Roads, 
March 7; near N^ew Berne, March 13 and 14; 
Washington, March 30; White Fork, April 8; 
Gum Swamp, April 4; Swift creek, April 8; 
Blount creek, April 9; Blount's mills, April 14; 
Peleter's mills, April 16; railroad crossing of 
Coal creek, April 17 and 18; Big Swift creek, 
April 19; Sandy Ridge, April 20; Wise's Cross 
Roads, April 28; near Core creek, April 29; 
Core creek, April 30; Evans' mills. May 5; 
Stony creek, May 7; Gum Swamp, May 22; 
Bachelder's creek. May 23; Washington, May 
24; Jacksonville, May 30; Plymouth, June 16; 
Core creek, June 17 and 18; Trenton, July 3; 
Uallsville, July 4; Kenyonsville, July 5; War- 
saw, July 9; Swift Creek, July 18; Greenville, 
July 19; Rocky Mount station, July 20; Tar- 
boro, July 21; Street's Ferry, July 22; PoUocks- 
ville, July 26; near New Berne, October 7; 
Camden Court House, October 15; Dismal 
Swamp, November 3. 

1864. — In Virginia: Walbridge, May 5; 
Stony Creek station. May 7; Nottaway bridge. 
May 8; Whitebridge, May 9; Chula depot. May 
14; Belcher's Mills, May 16; near Hatcher's 
Run, June 2; near Petersburg, June 10; assault 
on Petersburg, June 15; Daiiville Railroad, 
June 22; Stanton Railroad bridge, June 25; 
Roanoke river, June 26; Reams' Station, June 
29; Deep Bottom, July 26 and 29; Malvern 
Hill, August 1; Yellow Tavern on the Weldon 
Railroad, August 19; Reams' station, August 
21 and 25; Lee's mills, August 31; and Jeru- 
salem plank road, September 2, when Mr. 
Knauff was taken prisoner of war, l>y Hamp- 
ton's Legion, and was thrown into historic Libby 
prison. Twenty days later he effected an escape 




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by tunneling. He decided to follow the James 
river and make an effort to reach the Federal 
lines helow Richmond. During the day he 
lay hidden and at night floated on a log down 
the river. Thus he spent eighteen days and 
was finally picked up by a Union boat. His 
tei'in of enlistment being expii'ed, he came back 
to Cleveland and took up civil pursuits. From 
the rank of private he was promoted to Corporal, 
Sergeant and finally Captain, but he never had 
a command. 

The first tliree years after his return from the 
army Mr. Knauft" was engaged in the butcher 
business. He next became connected with the 
well known lumber firm of Bell, Cartwright & 
Company, with which he remained seven years. 
After that he turned his attention to the fire- 
brick and clay business. The firm of which he 
is now a member, Wright & KnaufF, was formed 
in 1878, when Mr. KnaufF succeeded Mr. Alex- 
ander, who had helped to establish the yard in 
187-i. The name given the plant is The Cleve- 
land Diamond Fire-Brick Works. They occupy 
a tract of several acres in the southern part of 
the city, on the line of the Cleveland & Pitts- 
burg Railroad, which is improved with sub- 
stantial buildings and supplied with modern 
machinery and appliances. The main building 
is 65 X 90 feet, with an annex of 45 x 40 feet. 
Three kilns are in operation, each with a capa- 
city of 50,000 brick. The product consists of 
fire brick for all purposes, including cupolas, 
furnaces, arch work, etc., and the firm is able to 
accommodate patrons with any special form or 
style of work. Both Mr. Knauff and Mr. 
Wright are practical and experienced men in 
the business. 

Mr. Knauff's father is a native of Germany, 
but has been a resident of America since 1830. 
For twelve years he made his home in New 
York city and vicinity. He is a man of family, 
his children being as follows: Augusta, wife of 
Henry Prehn, of Independence, Ohio; A. L.; 
Anna, deceased wife of John D. Evans; Theo- 
dore K., of Atlanta, Georgia; and Amelia, wife 
of E. D. Lerche. 



Mr. A. L. Knauff has been married three 
times— first, September 1, 1868, to a Mrs. 
Swartz, who died December 29, 1869, leaving 
one child, Marie; secondly,' November 23, 1872, 
to Emma Krehbiel, who died June 12, 1885, 
without issue; and thirdly, March 13, 1889, to 
Mrs. Lois Esterbrook. 

He is a member of Memorial Post, No. 141, 
G. A. R.; of the U. Y. U., U. V. L., Prisoners 
of War, Loyal Legion and the Cavalry Associa- 
tion. 



'jT^^ EUBEN GATES was born in Brooklyn, 
[^ Cuyahoga county, August 29, 1821. 
11 *\ His father was the late Jeremiah Gates, 
'^' who was one of the very earliest settlers 

of Cuyahoga county, born in Connecticut about 
1794, and came from Delhi, New York, in the 
year 1815, to Brooklyn, traveling on foot for 
the purpose of examining the country. He was 
satisfied with the country and returned to Delhi, 
where he married Phebe Deming. The young 
couple journeyed to Cuyahoga county, making 
the trip with a horse and wagon to Buffalo and 
thence to Cleveland by way of Lake Erie. For 
two years after this Mr. Gates was employed in 
a sawmill, and in 1819 assisted his brother Na- 
thaniel in the erection of a sawmill at what is 
now known as Five Mile Lock. In 1820 he 
purchased a farm in Brooklyn township, where 
he continued to live until his death, which 
occurred in 1870. His wife passed away twelve 
years later. They had four children, — John, 
Matilda, Reuben and Charles. John died when 
seven years old. Matilda, wife of Isaiah Fish, 
was the first white child born in Brooklyn. 
She died in Brooklyn when about thirty-three 
years of age. "Charles resides in Brooklyn. 

Reuben Gates was reared in Brooklyn, where 
he lived till 1853, with the exception of two 
years, which he spent in Wellington, Ohio, 
where his father built a saw and grist mill. He 
was married in Wellington, Lorain county, Ohio, 
June, 1841, to Miss Harriet J. Avery, a daugh- 



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ter of Waitstill and Lydia (Hendrick) Avery. 
Mrs. Avery died in West Stockbridge, Massa- 
chusetts. Her husband died in Wellington, 
Ohio, in October, 1845. They had three chil- 
dren, of whom Mrs. Gates was the second. She 
was born in West Stockbridge, August 14, 1821. 
Mr. and Mrs. Gates have one daughter, Lydia 
A., born in Brooklyn, November 22, 1845. 

In 185.3 Mr. Gates settled in Parma town- 
ship, where he erected a steam sawmill and con- 
tinued to reside until November, 1870, when 
he sold his farm and mill and removed to Cleve- 
land, Ohio, remaining in the city eight years. 
During that time he, in connection with his 
brother, built the Star Elevator in Cleveland. 
In 1878 he was obliged to take back his farm, 
and so returned to it, where he has since re- 
sided. He owns 138 acres, and has erected a 
fine system of buildings. Mr. Gates was the 
pioneer in using natural gas in the house, drill- 
ing a 1,000-foot well as early as 1862, which 
has furnished gas for heating, cooking, lighting 
and power to blow a steam whistle for calling 
hired help on the farm to their meals. 

Mr. Gates has filled the office of Justice of 
the Peace, and also that of Township Trustee. 
He formerly voted with the Republican party, 
hut is uow a Prohibitionist. 

He has led an active life and has done his 
part in improving the community where he 
lives. 



5' IDNEY HOWE SHORT.— There is un- 
|\ doubtediy no one line of material progress 
— ^ along which so varied and brilliant ad- 
vances have been made within the past decade 
and a half as that of the practical application of 
electric force, and there must naturally be a 
particular interest attaching to those men who 
by their study and experiment have lent their 
aid to the magnificent movement. He whose 
name initiates this review has been an ardent 
worker in the electrical field and has accom- 
plished much, bringing to bear a thorough 
iviiowledge of botli theoretical and practical 



order. H 



e IS vice-presi 



dent of the Short Elec- 



tric Railway Company of Cleveland, and is 
thoroughly identified with the development of 
the system which bears his name and whose 
sudden rise into marked popularity stands as 
the strongest evidence of its excellence. He has 
been untiring and progressive as an inventor 
and personally is a worker of the most pro- 
nounced type, while to his faithful industry and 
tireless patience, combined wit!) his native 
genius, may his notable success be consistently 
ascribed. 

Mr. Short was born at Columbus, Ohio, in 
1858, one of the five children of John and Eliza 
Short. His father was concerned with railroad- 
ing enterprises, having been for five years 
superintendent of the Miami Railroad. He was 
afterward engaged in the manufacture of gen- 
enral machinery and gained considerable promi- 
nence in that field of endeavor, operating one of 
the largest machine shops in the capital city of 
the State, where he is now living a retired life. 
He was born in England in 1825, coming to 
America at the age of twenty years. He and 
his wife are communicants and devoted mem- 
bers of the Protestant Episcopal Church. 

Afforded excellent educational advantages 
and possessed of a natural mechanical taste, our 
subject very early in life, even when a boy in 
kilts, became interested in electricity. His 
mother states that one rainy day she found liim 
in the yard, holding the upper part of a severed 
lightning rod away from the lower and watch- 
ing the play of electricity across the intervening 
space. He prosecuted his studies in the Capi 
tal University and later in the Oiiio State 
University, graduating at the latter in 1880, 
after five years of study. His graduation was 
delayed one year, owing to the fact that he 
filled the position of laboratory director in the 
institution during the first year of tlie absence 
of Professor Mendenhall, who had accepted a 
call to the University of Tokio, Japan. 

While a boy in school it is worthy of note 
tiiat Mr. Short manifested a quite decided in- 
clination to neglect other work than that per- 



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tainiiig to electricity, and his time out of school 
was passed in contriving unique devices from 
old wire and batteries which he purchased from 
tlie Western Union Telegraph Company. All 
the money he could earn in an incidental way 
he deflected toward purchases in the line men- 
tioned and his ingenious appliances were duly 
insinuated into the domestic economies of his 
home. At one time all the house clocks were 
connected by a device by which they could be 
wound simultaneously from one ])lace. This 
appliance was retained until a stroke of light- 
ning ruined it and at the same time all the 
clocks. A system of electric burglar alarms 
was extended through the house and served to 
create no little excitement on several occasions, 
though its efficiency was never tested, save 
inadvertently by members of the family or by 
friends. At one time the young man had his 
bed decorated with telegraph sounders, attached 
to the head and foot boards, with wires running 
into the room through the windows. 

While attending the Centennial Exposition in 
1876, he carefully examined the Bell telephone 
of that date and discovered that he had already 
constructed, in the laboratory of the Ohio State 
University, a device which embodied practically 
the same principles. His apparatus, however, 
had been utilized merely for the transmission of 
sound, and probably no attempt was ever made 
to transmit articulate speech by its medium. 
On his return from Philadelphia to Columbus 
he perfected and patented a long-distance tele- 
phone transmitter, which patent was subse- 
quently sold to the Gold Stock Telegraph Com- 
pany. Later on he secured letters patent upon 
an original type of arc lamp (patent Xo. 
29,625), but no use was ever made of the inven- 
tion. The fascination exercised over him by 
Professor Mendenhall, by reason of the latter's 
al)ility and enthusiasm, caused Mr. Short to 
continue his researches and experiments at the 
State University after the professor had ac- 
cepted the chair of physics in that institution. 
A higher opportunity was thus afforded him for 
close and serious work as a student. He 



almost his entire time, day and night, in the 
laboratory with Professor Mendenhall, who has 
long since gained recognition as one of the most 
able and popular scientists in the Union. 

After graduation Mr. Short went, at the end 
of the summer vacation, to the Colorado State 
University at Denver, and there became vice- 
president of the institution and professor of 
chemistry and physics. He held the combined 
chairs for a period of two years, by which time 
the work had so increased in extent as to render 
imperative the securing of an assistant. In his 
work Professor Short attained no little promi- 
nence, and his connection with the university 
resulted in much permanent benefit to the insti- 
tution, contributing greatly to its prestige and 
substantial advancement. He resigned the 
chair of chemistry in 1883. Notwithstanding 
the manifold demands placed upon his time and 
attention he had in the meanwhile worked up 
his plan for an electric railway, constructing 
his tirst road, a single track with turn-outs, in 
the large basement of the university building. 
The miniature system was put into operation in 
the spring of 1885, and by its novelty attracted 
many visitors. It is safe to say that hundi'eds 
of people in Denver were transported round 
and round the old basement of the university in 
the crowded car operated by the first Short 
motors. Mr. Short wound both the motors and 
the dynamo in the laboratory, doing the work 
himself. 

In 1885 his interest in practical electric rail- 



way 



work and his confidence that he could suc- 



d in the same proved sufficiently potent to 
induce him to resign his position at the uni- 
versity. He immediately commenced work 
upon a surface road conduit system on Tremont 
street, in Denver. His next work was in the 
laying of an electric line, built with a conduit 
on Fifteenth street, running to Capitol hill in 
one direction and to North Denver in another. 
The road, despite the almost insuperable ob- 
stacles opposing the operation of a conduit sys- 
tem, was operated with some success for several 
months by the United States Electric Company, 



CUTAHOGA COUNTY. 



now known as the Denver Tramway Company, 
series motors being utilized. The success of the 
series motors in connection with the conduit 
system, while encouraging to Mr. Short as an 
electrician, was of not sufficient importance to 
induce him to remain in Denver. 

In 1887 he returned to Columbus, Ohio, and 
entered into partnership with N. B. Abbott, of 
the Abbott Paving Company, one of the repre- 
sentative business men of the State, the firm 
title being S. H. Short & Company. The iirst 
work of the firm was in the construction of a 
short line in Columbus, the trolley device being 
utilized in connection with series motors and 
practically identical appliances to those used in 
Denver. Leaving this road partially completed 
Mr. Short went to St. Louis, Missouri, in 1888, 
and constructed a trolley system on South 
Broadway. Although operated for more than 
a year with success, this system was eventually 
displaced by an extensive cable system which 
ramified into all important quarters of the city. 
Mr. Short then went to Huntington, West 
Virginia, coming to Cleveland in June, 1889, 
since which time he has continued his residence 
in the Forest City. He here organized the 
company which bears his name, the Short 
Electric Kailway Company, the Brush Electric 
Company taking a large share of the stock and 
coctracting to do the manufacturing. 

It is worthy of note at this junction that he 
lias recently invented and patented an electric 
motor which does away with the gear attach- 
ment to the car. The device has been placed in 
practical use on the Euclid avenue line and is a 
marked and valuable improvement. 

In the spring of 1893 Mr. Short sold his in- 
terest in the Short Electric Railway Company 
to the General Electric Company, but did not 
sever his connection with the company till the 
first of October. In February of 1894 he took 
charge of the new electrical department of the 
Walker Manufacturing Company of Cleveland, 
a much larger plant and one especially fitted 
for heavy machine work. They are now in the 
field with an entirely new line of electric 



generators and motors for direct and alternating 
work, of any capacity desired, and Mr. Short 
feels that he has never been better prepared to 
do first-class work than at present. 

Mr. Short is a Follow of the Americm Society 
for the Advancement of Science and has the de- 
gree of Bachelor of Science from the State 
University. He is identified with the Cleveland 
Electric, the Union and the Country CInbs, and 
was a member the Electrical Commission of the 
World's Columbian Exposition. 

By his associates and employes he is held in 
the highest esteem and the reason is patent: he 
is singularly unassuming and kindly in manner, 
and has that self-control which withstands the 
annoyances and disappointments that invariably 
beset the inventor. 



flAMES M. WORTHINGTON is president 
i^ I of the Cleveland Stone Company, which 
^^ company was incorporated under the laws 
of the State of Ohio in July, 1886. It has a 
paid up capital of $2,250,000, and commenced 
business August 1, 1886, when it purchased the 
quarries and business of the following concerns: 
Berea Stone Company, J. McDermott & Com- 
pany, Clough Stone Company, Worthington & 
Sons, James Nichol, Xichol & Miller, Columbia 
Stone Company, the Ohio Building Stone Com- 
pany, Ohio Grindstone Company, and the Berea 
6c Huron Stone Company. Since that time the 
company has bought the quarries of L. Halde- 
man c*c Son, Atlantic Stone Company, Lake 
Huron Stone Company and several smaller con- 
cerns. For about a year after its organization 
the following were its officers: William McDer- 
mott, president; J. M. Worthington, vice-presi- 
dent; George H. Worthington, secretary and 
treasurer; and James Nichol, F. M. Stearns and 
Michael McDermott, superintendents. In the 
latter part of 1887 the McDermotts and Mr. 
Stearns retired from the company and since that 
time Jaraes M. Wortliington has been the presi- 



CUTABOOA COUNTY. 



dent, while John Huntington — who died in 
1892 — was vice-president until his death, and 
then he was succeeded by J. V. Painter. George 
II. Worthington is secretary and treasurer, while 
James Nichol is general superintendent, C. W. 
McCormick assistant secretary and E. A. Merritt 
is auditor and assistant treasurer. The general 
ofiices of the company are in the Wilshire Build- 
ing, Cleveland, Ohio, and there are employed 
twenty-eight persons, including cashier, pur- 
chasing agents, accountants, bill clerks, stenog- 
raphers, telegraph operators, city agents, etc. 

The Berea quarries were first opened in 1836. 
For ten or fifteen years nothing but grindstones 
were produced. The business has steadily in- 
creased ever since, until at the present time they 
are the largest sandstone quarries in America. 
In 1871 there were about fifteen different com- 
panies engaged in the business, and in that year 
they were all merged in the Berea Stone Com- 
pany with the exception of J. McDermott & 
Company: these two concerns, becoming owners 
of all the available quarry property in Berea, 
continued in business until the Cleveland Stone 
Company was formed, and bought them out. 
Since that time the latter has purchased fifty-six 
acres of quarry land that adjoins the property 
previously quarried. The Cleveland Stone Com- 
pany now operate eight quarries at Berea, with 
railroad tracks running into all of them. Within 
the fifty-seven years that these quarries have 
been operated about seventy-four acres have been 
(juarried out. The Cleveland Stone Company 
now owns 150 acres of stone on which no qnar- 
i-ying has yet been done. Up to the year 1889 
the depth of rock usually taken out was only 
twenty-four feet. In that year it was discovered 
by boring that there were sixty-three feet of 
good, merchantable stone below the level to 
which the quarries had before been worked. 
From these facts it will readily be seen that the 
Berea quarries are inexhaustible. The product 
of Berea quarries consists of building stone, 
sawed and split fiagging, curbing and grindstones. 
In these quarries there are at present employed 
775 men, 46 steam derricks, 46 steam hoisters, 



19 boilers, 16 engines, 12 channeling machines, 
18 steam drills, 11 steam pumps, 6 grindstone 
turning lathes, 1 saw-mill, containing 6 gangs 
of saws, 1 containing 18 gangs and another con- 
taining 15 gangs (ten of these gangs have screw 
feeds and the rest box-balance feeds), 1 forty-six 
turbine water wheel, 1 grindstone frame factory, 
complete electric light plant for illuminating all 
the mills at night, and a large machine shop, 
containing lathes, planers, shapers, etc. 

At West View, Ohio, on the main line of the 
" Big Four" and about fourteen miles west of 
Cleveland, is situated quarry No. 2, which was 
opened about 1874. Here the company owns 
twenty-three acres, of which two acres have been 
quarried out to the depth of thirty-five feet. 
The depth of rock is about sixty-three feet. 
The product of this quarry consists of grind- 
stones iised in the manufacture of plows, files, 
etc. There are employed in this quarry fifty 
men, who operate well equipped machinery for 
quarrying. 

At Columbia, Ohio, the company have their 
quarry No. 3. This quarry was opened about 
1870, and here the company owns about 105 
acres, of which two acres have been worked out 
to a depth of about fifty feet, and the depth of 
the rock is about seventy-five feet. Here are 
employed eighty-five men. 

Quarry No. 4 is situated atOlmsted Falls, on the 
main line of the Lake Shore Railroad, and about 
fourteen miles west of Cleveland. This quarry 
has been operated since about 1878. The prop- 
erty comprises eleven acres, of which about two 
acres have been quarried out to a depth of from 
twenty to thirty-five feet. The prodiict consists 
of large grindstones used in the manufacture of 
plows, files and axes. Here are employed twenty- 
five men. 

Quarry No. 5, at Nickel Plate, Ohio, extends 
over an area of 220 acres, of which five and a 
half acres have been quarried to a depth of 
twenty-two feet. The entire depth of the rock 
varies from fifty to sixty feet. The product 
consists of building stone, curbing, flagging and 
grindstones for farmers' use. In these quarries 



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170 men are employed, and here the company 
maintain a general store for the accommodation 
of tlie employees. 

In Lorain county are situated quarries I^os. 
6 and 7, and tlie property comprises about 151 
acres, al)out five acres of whicli have been quar- 
ried out to a deptli varying from seventy-five to 
ninety feet. The depth of the rock is about 110 
feet. The output coTisists of building stone, 
curbing, sawed fiagging and grindstones used in 
tlie manufacture of edge tools. 

Quarry No. 9 is situated about two miles 
northeast of the village of North Amherst, and 
comprises about thirty-five acres, of which five 
acres have been quarried out. Here the depth 
of tlie rock varies from forty to eighty feet, and 
the product consists of building stone, sawed 
flagging and large grindstones used in the manu- 
facture of edge tools. 

There are employed in quarries Nos. G, 7, 8 
and y, 550 men. 

The company own quarries No. 10 at Brown- 
helm, about thirty-six miles west of Cleveland. 
These quarries were opened in 1847. The prop- 
erty comprises about sixty-two acres, of which 
eight acres have been quarried to a depth vary- 
ing from thirty to sixty-five feet. The product 
is building stone, and here are employed thirty- 
five men. 

(jnarry No. 11 is situated in Erie county, was 
opened about 1881 and comprises about fifty 
acres. The rock is twenty-five feet deep. The 
product is building stone, and here are employed 
about twenty men. 

The Lake Huron quarries are situated at 
Grindstone City, Micliigan, and extend about 
two miles along the shore of Lake Huron. The 
quarries were first opened in 1850, and have 
been steadily worked ever since. The whole 
property comprises about 600 acres. About 
twenty acres have been quarried out. The prod- 
uct consists of building stone, small grindstones 
for farm use, scythestones and large grindstones 
used in tlie manufacture of cutlery, tobacco 
knives and very fine edge tools. In these quar- 



rits are employed 150 men. ITj 



prop- 



erty the Cleveland Stone Company also own and 
operate a seventy-five barrel roller process flour- 
ing mill, built of stone and said to be the best 
mill of its size in the State. Here the company 
also maintain a large general store. 

In Peninsula, Ohio, are situated quarries 
known as No. 15, and these were acquired by 
the company in 1891, and comprise seventeen 
acres. The product consists of grindstones used 
mainly in the manufacture of wood pulp. Here 
thirty-five men find employment. 

In the city of Cleveland the company has a 
large number of stone yards, from which it sup- 
plies building stone for local building business. 
It occupies a dock on the river which is used 
for shipping by water and receiving stone from 
lake quarries. The company has depots in 
Chicago, Boston and New York, where it carries 
large stocks of scythestones and grindstones. 
The company has also branch offices in Pittsburg 
and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and in Roches- 
ter, New York, also in Toronto, Canada. It 
employs a large number of traveling salesmen. 

All of the various quarries are connected with 
the general office in Cleveland by telegraph and 
telephone wires. The business of the Cleveland 
Stone Company has steadily increased every year 
since it was organized. In 1891 their ship- 
ments were 29,730 car-loads of stone, of which 
over 2,000 cars were grindstones. The business 
of 1892 showed a material increase over that of 
1891. 



J 



OSEPII W. SMITH, deceased, was for 
many years a well-known and highly es- 
teemed citizen of Cuyahoga county, Ohio. 
A brief sketch of his life is herewith presented. 
Joseph W. Smith was born in New York 
State, July 21, 1837, the eleventh son in the 
family of twelve children of Doton and Fannie 
(Worden) Smith. He was eight years old when 
he came with his parents to Cuyahago county, 
Oliiii, and located on the farm where his widow 
now resides. When a young man he was for 



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some time employed as deputy in the Cliagrin 
Falls post office. The greater part of his life, 
however, was devoted to agricultural pursuits. 
Ill politics, lie was a Republican and lie filled 
most acceptably some of the township offices. 
Fraternally, he was a Royal Arch Mason. 

Mr. Smith died Februaiy 13, 1892, after a 
life of useful activity, and was buried by the 
Masons, the order he loved and of which he was 
an honored member. 



JOHN BUSCH, a well-known farmer of 
Brooklyn township, Cuyahoga county, 
Ohio, was born in Darmstadt, Germany, 
July 24, 1837. 

Detrich Busch, his father, also a native of 
Darmstadt, Germany, emigrated to America in 
1840 and came direct to Cleveland. He was a 
tailor by trade, which he followed for a number 
of years in the old country and for three years 
in Cleveland. After that he located on a farm 
in Brooklyn township, this county, and devoted 
the rest of his life to agricultural pursuits. 
He died there at the age of sixty-one years. 
The mother of our subject, nee Catherine 
Reidle, a native of Germany, died in 1845. 
They had a family of three children, one son 
and two daughters, the daughters, Catherine 
and Rachel, being deceased. Thus John Busch 
is tiie only member of the family now living. 
He was three years old when he came with his 
parents to America, and much of his youth was 
spent on a farm in the township in which he 
now lives. His education was received chiefly 
at what is now South Brooklyn. All his life he 
has been engaged in general farming, and in 
this occupation has been very successful. He 
owns sixty-one acres of land in Brooklyn town- 
ship. He has one of the most pleasant and at- 
tractive residences in the neigliborhood, it hav- 
ing been erected in 1891, at a cost of about 
$2,000. 

Mr. Busch was married in 1839 to Hellen 
Braun, who was born in Lorain county, Ohio, 



September 29, 1839, daughter of Lewis and 
Catharine (Henninger) Braun, both natives of 
Germany. Mrs. Busch was the third born in 
the family of seven children — five daughters and 
two sons — and was left an orphan when she was 
about ten years old. She was reared in Cleve- 
land. Mr. and Mrs. Busch have five children, 
two daughters and three sons, namely: John H., 
Gustave H., Lewis E., Emma and Clara. Emma 
is the wife of Jacob Hoehn, and resides in 
Cleveland. 

In national politics Mr. Busch votes with the 
Democratic party, but at elections for local 
officers he usually votes for the best man regard- 
less of party lines. A friend to education and 
religion, he has given liberally to the support of 
both. He is a member of the Evangelical 
Church, and has held various official positions 
in the same. He is also a member of Glenn 
Lodge, No. 362, I. O. O. F. 



djAMES H. CLARK, of Cleveland, was 
born in England, in 1832, a son of Robert 
and Eliza (Neat) Clark, natives of Malmes- 
bury, Wiltshire, Engtand, the former born in 
1802, and the latter in 1803. They were 
brought to Cleveland, Ohio, by our subject and 
his brother in 1860. The father followed agri- 
cultural pursuits. Both he and his wife were 
members of the established Church of England. 
Mr. Clark died in 1887, at the age of eiglity- 
five years, and his wife survived until 1890, dy- 
ing at the age of eighty-seven years. They were 
the parents of ten children, namely: Charles, 
M. B., Alfred and Eliza, deceased; Alfred, 
James H., the subject of this sketch; Eliza, 
now Mrs. Miller, and resides in California; 
Fanny, now Mrs. Reynolds of this city, whose 
husband is a State Senator; William T., of 
Cleveland; and Worthy, of Chardon, this State. 
James H. came to America in 1852, locating 
in this city and began the oil business on a 
small scale in 1862. He has continued that oc- 
cupation through his career of business life. 



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CUYAffOGA COUNTY. 



His first partners in tlie business were John D. 
Rosafellow and Samuel Andrews, and his 
brotiiers M. B. and Richard are members of the 
firm of Andrews, Clark and Company. The 
firm was later known as Clark Brothers and 
Company, consisting of Richard Clark (now de- 
ceased). Worthy Clark and II. W. Payne, but 
no relation of Colonel Payne. Colonel Payne 
subsequently became a member of the firm, 
which was then known as, Clark, Payne and 
Company. In 1872 the firm consolidated with 
the Standard Oil Company, but of which organi- 
zation he took no active part. In 1879 the 
partnership of Clark, Childs & Company was 
organized, which was later merged into Clark 
Brothers & Company, consisting of the same 
members as before with the exception of a son 
of our subject. The business was bought by 
the Standard Oil Company in 1886. Since then 
Mr. Clark has been in no active business. He 
has had a large and varied experience in the oil 
business, in which he still owns large interests. 
He was engaged in that occupation before the 
days of cars, wlien the oil was moved by "pond- 
fiuods." In addition to his other interests, Mr. 
Clark was also formerly engaged in the hard- 
ware and copper ore biwiness. He handled 
masses of copper which weighed from seven to 
nine tons, and which would render from eighty 
to ninety per cent, of pure copper. It was 
mined from the National and Cliff mines, of 
Lake Superior. 

In 18G7 he bought eighteen acres of land on 
('edar street in East Cleveland, for a home for 
his parents. This property has proved a splen- 
did investment, being located in one of the most 
beautiful parts of the city. The parents had a 
happy home there for many years, and cele- 
brated their golden wedding in 1872, and kept 
np the celebrating for thirteen years annually. 
The streets Harriet and Eliza were laid out on 
this tract of land, the latter named in honor of 
Mr. Clark's mother, and the former for his wife 
llirriet. James street, named in honor of him- 
self, had to be changed, as there was one in 
ani>ther part of the city of that name. 



Mr. Clark has invested in many other enter- 
prises of the city, and has been very successful 
in all his ventures, which is due to his great 
energy and good business sagacity. Both as a 
business man and citizen he is widely and favor- 
ably known for his energy, generosity, up- 
rightness, enterprise and public spirit. 

In 1855 Mr. Clark was united in marriage 
with Miss Harriet Lancaster, a daughter of 
William Lancaster, of Cleveland. They have 
had seven children, viz.: William E., who mar- 
ried a Miss Foljambe and resides in this city; 
Charles A., a resident of Elyria, married Miss 
Landon; James H., of Cleveland, married a 
Miss Clark, but no relative; Wallace N., of 
this city, has just returned from Germany, 
where he was pursuing a course in chemistry; 
and Hattie and Jennie, twins, the former the 
wife of Dr. Foljambe, of this city, and the 
latter the wife of G. W. Gender. The wife and 
mother died in March, 1892, at the age of sixty 
years. 



Ei LI FAY.— The grandfather of Ely Fay 
was the late Benajah Fay, who came from 
1 Lewis county, New York, with his fam- 
ily, to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, in 1810, and 
settled in Parma township, where he died when 
about eighty-five years old. The father of Eli 
Fay was Benajah Fay, Jr., who was born in 
"York State" in 1806, and consequently was 
ten years old when he came with his father and 
the family to Cuyahoga county. His youth was 
spent in Parma township, and here he was mar- 
ried to Miss Lois Hodgman, who was born in 
Board man, Lincoln county.a Mine, in 1808. 
They first settled in Parma township, where 
they lived for some time and then removed to 
Brooklyn township, where they resided till their 
death. The father died with the cholera in 
18-19. The mother lived until November 27, 
1877. Tlu'y had a family of four sons and one 
daughtfr. 

Our subject was the eldest of the family. He 
was borii in Parma township, April 22, 1828. 




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He was quite young when his parents moved to 
Urooklyn township, where he grew to manhood 
and remained till he came to Middleburg town- 
ship. He was married in Middleburg township 
to Mrs. Huldah Taylor. She died in Middle- 
burg township in 1865. Mr. Fay was married 
to his second wife, Miss Betsey E. Dunham, 
April i, 1866, in Rockport township, this 
county. She was born in Middleburg township 
April 2, 1842, as a daughter of Almond and 
Eunice (Corbin) Dunham. Mr. Dunham died 
in Middleburg township May 20, 1892. His 
wife died in Rockport township, November 24, 
1876. Mr. and Mrs. Fay liave one son, Ira E., 
wiio married Ida West. 

Mr. Fay has not been an office seeker. In 
1847 he went to Cleveland and learned the 
blacksmith's trade, which he has followed in 
connection with farming. He owns fifty-si.K 
and a half acres, which he has improved, and 
whereon he has erected good buildings. Mrs. 
Fay is a lady of education and intelligence, a 
member of the Congregational Church. 



CAPTAIN WILLIAM G. JONES, whose 
name is inseparably associated with those 
brave and stalwart masters who have 
sailed through the storms and calms of the 
Great Lakes for more than three decades, is a 
native of the State of New York, born at Or- 
leans, Jefferson county. May 15, 1828. His 
parents, Gardner and Eunice (Thompson) Jones, 
were natives of Massachusetts and New Hamp- 
shire respectively; the maternal grandfather 
was William Thompson. After his marriage 
Mr. Jones removed to New York State, where 
he followed agricultural pursuits and carpentry. 
Here he died at an advanced age; his wife sur- 
vived him, passing away March 11, 1894, in her 
ninety-ninth year. William G. Jones is one of 
a family of seven children, si.x of whom are 
living. He spent his boyhood and youth on 
the old homestead, taking advantage of the op- 
portunities that were offered him for acquiring 
an L'(hicali(in. 



At the age of eighteen years his career as a 
sailor began on Lake Ontario. He was a sailor 
before the mast on the schooner E. G. Mulich, 
with a cargo of merchandise from Oswego, the 
first vessel that ever entered Milwaukee harbor, 
and was in the same schooner at Chicago when 
there was but one hotel there, the Lake House, " 
on the north side of the river. They had to 
wait three weeks for 1,500 bushels of wheat to 
be hauled in by the farmers. Showing great 
reliability and steadfastness of character, he was 
promoted from time to time until he was made 
master of a vessel, the brig Powhatan, on Lake 
Erie; he afterwards commanded the brig Ram- 
sey Crooks, the schooner Whitney, the brig 
McBride, the steamer Diamond, the Grace 
Greenwood, the brig General Worth, the 
schooner George Washington, the schooner S. 
G. Andrews, the schooner Wild Rover, the C. 
II. Johnson, and the bark Vanguard. During 
a period of thirty-five years he sustained with- 
out wavering a reputation for fidelity and cour- 
age that will ever be a source of pride to pos- 
terity. 

In 1876 Captain Jones left the water and 
came to Glenville, where he embarked in mer- 
cantile pursuits. He has conducted a very suc- 
cessful trade in groceries, flour and feed, additig 
materially to the competence he accumulated as 
a seaman. 

He was united in marriage in 1846 to Miss 
Chloe Gore, of Cape Vincent, New York, and 
of this union one child was born, Mrs. Isabelle 
C. Winter, wife of John P. Winter. Mrs. 
Jones died in June, 1889, and since that time 
the Captain has made his home with his 
daughter. 

In politics our worthy subject gives his alle- 
giance to the Republican party; for six years 
he has been a member of the Town Council, and 
for two years filled the office of Mayor, dis- 
charging his duties with a promptitude that has 
won the confidence of all classes of citizens. In 
1848 he became a member of Erie Lodge, No. 
27, I. O. O. F., and afterward one of the char- 
ter members of Mayflower Lodge, No. 679. He 



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aud his wife have been associated with the 
Christian Church for many years: they donated 
the lot on whicli the church is bnilt, and con- 
tributed liberally to its construction. 



flOHN W.SPENCER, a prominent member 
k> Y of the Board of Trustees of Rocky River 
^^ Ilamlet, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and one 
of the representative farmers of that section of 
the State, was born in Rockport township, June 
30, 1841. His parents were John P. and Electa 
M. (Beach) Spencer, the former of whom was 
born in Brookfield, Madison county, New York, 
May 24, 1805, and the latter in Norfolk, Litch- 
field county, Connecticut, May 21, 1811. The 
father came to Cuyahoga county about the year 
1829, and the mother had come to Lorain county 
with liei- parents when she was but a child, lier 
fatlier, tlie late Junia Beach, having been one of 
tiie pioneer settlers of Lorain county. The mar- 
riage of John P. Spencer and Electa M. Beach 
was consummated in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, 
March 13, 1832. They settled in what is now 
known as Rocky River Hamlet, and there passed 
the residue of their lives, her death occurring 
February 24, 1890, and that of her venerable 
liusband only a few months later, August 12, 
of the same year. They had six children, four 
sons and two daughters, of whom we make record 
as follows: Henry B.; Mary R., who was the 
wife of James A. Potter, died in Rocky River 
Hamlet, November 7, 1890; Hannah is the wife 
of Frank W. Mastick, of whom personal mention 
is made elsewhere in this volume; Amos B. ; 
John W. and Frank J. 

Our subject was born and reared on iii.s fath- 
er's farm, and remained at home until tiic out- 
break of the late civil war, when he was moved 
with patriotism and determined to take up arms 
in defense of his country's cause. Accordingly, 
on the 22d of January, 1801, he enlisted in the 
Fifteenth Ohio Independent Battery, with which 
he served three years and five months. After 
serving for two years he re-enlisted as a veteran 



and as such retained his active connection with 
the Union forces until the close of the war. 
He then returned to the parental home and once 
more became concerned with the peaceful pur- 
suits of the farm. He continued his residence 
at the old homestead until the time of his mar- 
riage. This important event was celebrated 
December 24, 1866, in Hinckley, Medina 
county, Ohio, when our subject wedded Miss 
Deborah Goldwood, who was born in Coeymans, 
Albany county. New York, November 25, 1840, 
the daughter of John and Julia A. (Brown) 
Goldwood. The parents emigrated from their 
home in the State of New York and settled in 
Medina county, Ohio, where they passed the re- 
mainder of tiieir lives. Tiie mother died in 
April, 1842, and the father July 12, 1885. Mr. 
and Mrs. Spencer have one child, Charles H., 
who married Sophia A. Whitmore, of Cleveland, 
December 16, 1890. 

Prior to 1872 Mr. Spencer was engaged ex- 
clusively in farming, but in the year noted he 
entered quite extensively in the manufacture of 
tile and brick, which enterprise he still continues 
very successfully in connection with his farm- 
ing operations. 

He was elected as one of the Trustees of 
the hamlet in the spring of 1892, and has 
proved a most discriminating and capable ofMcial, 
discharging the incidental duties to the satisfac- 
tion of all. 

In the line of fraternal associations Mr. Spen- 
cer is one of the active and prominent members 
of Olmsted Post, No. 634, Grand Army of the 
Republic. 



EORGE GOODING, who is engaged in 
wi gardening in Gleuville, Ohio, and is one 
J of the prosperous and substantial men of 
the town, was born in England, March 
14, 1841, and when seven years of age came to 
Cleveland, Ohio, with his parents, Esau and 
Mary Gooding, both natives of England. Esau 
Gooding was by trade an engineer, and wiiiie in 



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the old country iiad charge of a stationary en- 
gine. After coming to America he first worked 
at boiler making and later was employed by the 
King Bridge Company, superintending the 
erection of bridges, and being with that com- 
pany for a number of years. He served one 
term as Councilman of Glenville, and for many 
years was identified with the Methodist Episco- 
pal Cliurch, in which he was a Trustee and 
Class Leader. His religious life was well 
rounded, never demonstrative, but constant and 
firm; and all who knew him valued him for his 
sterling character. He died March 5, 1888, in 
his sixty-ninth year. His wife had died when 
our subject was twelve years old. They had 
four children, namely: George; Sarah, wife of 
Henry Boneham ; Martha; and Charles, who 
married Fanny Hicox. 

George Gooding early in life turned his at- 
tention to gardening, and in this business he 
has been engaged ever since. He first began 
on Wilson avenue, Cleveland, with Mr. G. H. 
Ijodge, and after working there for three sea- 
sons came to Glenville, where he has remained 
since 1863. At one time he cultivated as much 
as fifteen acres, but at this writing his garden 
covers only seven and a half acres. He raises a 
great variety of garden produce aud some fruits, 
all of which are of the best quality and bring 
the highest market prices. His home is beau- 
tifully situated and is indeed one of the most 
deliglitful places in Glenville, its surroundings 
giving every evidence of taste and refinement. 

Mr. Gooding was first inarried, in Glenville, 
in 1870, to Miss Marietta Ladd, daughter of 
Ezekiel H. Ladd. She died November 29, 1874, 
and in 1883 he married Miss Victoria Shotwell, 
a native of Harrison county, Ohio, and daughter 
of Arrison and Mary (Dickerson) Shotwell, of 
Glenville. Her father died June 26, 1893, 
aged eighty-one years. She is one of a family 
of six children, namely: Lizzie; Victoria; A. 
J., a resident of Colorado; J. T., of Deadwood, 
South Dakota; Austin, of Boulder, Colorado; 
and Fromrwit, ..f Glenville. Mr.-^. Gooding was 
reared in the Bnptist faith, her parents being 



members of that church, but she and Mr. 
Gooding belong to the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, he being Trustee, Steward and Treas- 
urer of the same. Politically, he is a Prohibi- 
tionist. 



JOHN H. TONSING, whose name is prom- 
inent among the agriculturists of his com- 
munity, was born in Independence town- 
ship, Cnyhoga county, Ohio, January 4, 1855. 
His father was Frederick Tonsing, one of the early 
settlers of this county: he was a native of Han- 
over, Germany, and was a youth of sixteen years 
when he Itade farewell to his Fatherland and 
crossed the seas to America. He married Elea- 
nor Bochning, also a Hanoverian by birth, who 
was a lass of fourteen when she came to this 
country. He was a shoemaker by trade and 
followed this occupation several years in Cleve- 
land. When he had saved sufficient means he 
invested in land and turned his attention to 
farming. He had a tract of 126 acres under ex- 
cellent cultivation and all the surroundings in- 
dicated the thrift and prosperity of the proprie- 
tor. Mr. and Mrs. Tonsing had thirteen chil- 
di-en, four of whom are now living: Frederick, 
who remains upon the old homestead: John H., 
the subject of this notice; Anna, who is the wife 
of John Meilander; Marie, who married Mi- 
chael Manke; Henry, a popular teacher educated 
at Oberlin College, who died at the age of 
twenty-seven years; Louis, who died at the age 
of twenty-seven; William, who died at the age 
of nineteen; Martin, who was sixteen years of 
age when the Pale Visitant again entered the 
household; the other children died in infancy. 
The father passed away at the age of sixty-one 
years, in November, 1886. He was a most ac- 
tive member of the Lutheran Church, to which 
he gave a liberal support. In politics he ad- 
hered to the Democratic party. Mrs. Tonsing 
survives her husband, and still resides at the 
farm. 

John H. Tonsing passed an uneventful youth, 
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and assisting in the work of the farm. At the 
age of twenty-four years lie married Elizabeth 
Schreiber, a daughter of Carl Schreiber, who 
was also born, reared and educated in New 
burg township. Mr. and Mrs. Tonsingare the 
parents of six children: Arthur, Laura, Rose, 
Walter and May, twins, and Viola. 

Tiie farm on which Mr. Tonsing resides with 
his family is well improved, the buildings being 
of modern style and conveniently arranged. He 
is one of the most reliable men of the township, 
and employing only the most correct methods 
in all his business operations commands the con- 
fidence and respect of all with whom he has any 
dealings. 

Politically he gives his allegiance to the 
Eepublican party. He is an active member of 
the Lutheran Church, being one of the Dea- 
cons. 



jARNUM R. GRAY, one of the most 
highly respected citizens of Middleburg 
township, was born in this township, Sep- 
tember 10, 1845, where he passed the early years 
of his life. His father was Hosea Morgan Gray, 
who was born in Euclid, this county. His mother, 
Helen Gray, died about 1850. The father of 
Hosea Morgan Gray, was William Gray, who 
was born in Jamestown, Virginia, and removed 
from Kentucky to Ohio, settling in Cuyahoga 
county, first in Euclid, then in Rockport, and 
finally in Middleburg township. He died in 
Berea early in the '70s, at an advanced age. He 
was a direct descendant of the"F. F. Vs."(First 
Families of Virginia), as their ancestor, it is 
said, came over from England with Captain John 
SmitJi, settling Jamestown, Virginia, the first 
permanent settlement in America. 

Hosea Morgan Gray spent his early life in 
Euclid, and for ten years followed the lakes; he 
then purchased a farm in Middleburg townsliip, 
where he erected a sawmill, which lie operated 
in connection with his farm until the most val- 
uable part of the timber on his land was ex- 
hausted. He then '<-a\c his attention to farming 



until his death, which occurred in Middleburg 
township in June, 1889. Hosea Morgan Gray 
was the father of two children by his first wife: 
a daughter, who died when five years old, and 
the subject of this sketch. 

At the breaking out of the war, Varnum R. 
Gray, although young, enlisted, in May, 1861, 
in the Twenty-third Ohio Regiment, but served 
only a short time when he was discharged on ac- 
count of sickness. In July, 1862, he again en- 
listed, in Battery A, First Ohio Light Artillery, 
and served till August, 1865, when he was mus- 
tered out of service. At Lawrenceburg, Ken- 
tucky, he was taken prisoner, but was soon after- 
ward paroled. He was engaged in nineteen bat- 
tles and skirmishes. Somewhat broken in health, 
he now resides with bis family near the farm 
where he was born. On leaving the army he 
returned to Middleburg township, and soon after- 
ward was employed by the Lake Shore Railroad 
Company for about one year. He then pur- 
chased a farm in Lenawee county, Michigan, 
where he lived for nearly fourteen years, when 
he returned to Middleburg towship, where he 
has since resided. 

He was married in iliddlebnrg township, Ju- 
ly 7, 1868, to Miss Emma Pilgrim, daughter of 
the late Robert Pilgrim, an old resident of this 
townsliip. Her mother was Hannah (Rider) 
Pilgrim, who survives. These parents were na- 
tives of England. The father died June 4, 1893. 
They had nine children, four of whom are living. 
Mrs. Gray is the second of the family, and was 
born in Attleboro, Norfolk county, England, 
January 3, 1848. Robert Pilgrim was born in 
Besthorpe, Norfolk county, England, December 
17, 1820. was married October 23, 1845, came 
to America in June, 1855, lived in Rockport till 
1858, and finally moved to Middleburg town- 
ship, where he died. Mr. and Mrs. Gray are 
the parents of five children: Florence G., wife 
of John Wooldridge; Morgan J., Robert V., 
Hannah E. and Helen Blanche. 

Mr. Gray takes an active part in local affairs: 
is a Trustee of his townshij), and in 1890 was 
Census Enumerator for the district where he 



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lives. In politics Mr. Graj has taken a promi- 
nent part, as a Republican. Both himself and 
wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church of Berea. Fraternally Mr. Gray is a mem- 
ber of the G. A. Ft., Fost No. 543, of Berea; the 
Knights of Pythias, Berea Lodge, No. 276; the 
Good Templars, Berea Lodge, No. 73, and the 
Ohio, No. 3105, F. of L He is a Fast Chancel- 
lor Commander in the Knights of Pythias, and 
has lilled several of the offices in the G. A. B. 
He has filled many positions of trust both in 
military and civil life, and in all, it can be truth- 
fully said that he lias endeavored to do his 
duty. 



EiDWAFtD KING BRECK, deceased, for 
many years a prominent farmer and 
1 stock raiser of Brecksville, Cuyahoga 

county, Ohio, was born in Huntsbnrg, Geauga 
county, this State, in 1834, son of Dr. Edward 
and Clarissa (King) Breck, natives of North- 
ampton, Massachusetts. His parents came to 
Ohio at an early day and were among the pio- 
neer settlers of Geauga county. Dr. Breck was 
for some years a prominent physician of Hunts- 
burg, later of Detroit, Michigan, and still later 
of Brecksville, Ohio, the last town having been 
named in honor of our subject's grandfather, 
John Breck, who, with his three sons, one of 
whom was the Doctor, came to Ohio at an early 
day. The other two were Theodore and John 
Adams. Theodore did the most work for the 
town and is still living there. After a useful 
and active life. Dr. Breck passed away in 1866. 
Edward K., the subject of this article, spent 
his whole life in the country, and gave much 
of his attention to the stock business, making a 
specialty of horses and cattle. His operations 
were for the most part attended with success. 

He married Miss Mary Louisa Oakes, daugh- 
ter of Francis and Lois (Church) Oakes, na- 
tives of Massachusetts. Her father came with 
his parents, Gary Oakes and wife, to Ohio when 
he was three months old, and was reared 
on a farm in the vicinity of Brecksville, where 



he died in 1887, aged sixty-five years. His 
wife died in 1876. Mr. and Mrs. Breck be- 
came the parents of two children, Theodore and 
Alice. The latter died November 6, 1866, aged 
seven years. Theodore was born December 1, 
1867,' is a graduate of Amherst College, Massa- 
chusetts, class of 1891, and also of the medical 
department of Wooster University, Cleveland, 
Ohio, class of 1894, and is now practicing at 
Brecksville. 

Edward K. Breck died August 15, 1876, at 
the age of forty-two years, and his wife passed 
away October 8, 1876, aged thirty- three. His 
life was one characterized by honesty and in- 
dustry. He had a wide acquaintance not only 
in the vicinity where he lived but also through- 
out many different localities, and by all who 
knew him he was held in high esteem. Politi- 
cally, he was a Republican, as also is his son. 



rRANK P. BELLE, one of the oldest 
market gardeners of Cuyahoga county, 
— was born in Bavaria, Germany, near the 
river Rhein, December 14, 1836. Peter and 
Barbara Belle, his parents, emigrated .to the 
United States in 1846, arriving in the city of 
Cleveland on the 8th of August of that year; 
they were accompanied by four sons and one 
daughter. Mr. Bell purchased a tract of land 
in Independence township, consisting of fifty- 
six acres which he placed under excellent culti- 
vation. He had crossed the sea to a strange 
country and a strange people hoping to make 
life an easier thing to himself and children, and 
in this aml)ition he was wholly successful. He 
and his wife are members of the Roman Catho- 
lic Church. His father was a Roman Catholic 
while his mother was a Protestant; they had 
three sons and three daughters; the sons em- 
braced the religion of their father, the daugh- 
ters that of the mother, all living in peace and 
harmony. Each accorded the privilege he 
asked, the right of choice in his faith. Peter 
Belle died in 1879 at the age of seventy-seven 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



years; his wife died in 1857, aged fifty-two 
years. They were the parents of five children: 
Adam, who died soon after coming to America, 
Frank P., Peter, deceased, John, and Elizabeth, 
wife of Paulus Keck. 

Mr. Belle came to East Cleveland township 
in 1861, and for thirty-three years has been en- 
gaged in market-gardening, raising all fruits 
that grow in this latitude and many varieties of 
vegetables. He has served four terms as a 
member of the village council, devoted to tlie 
highest interests of the citizens and good 
government. Possessing many admirable quali- 
ties of both head and heart, he has won the 
highest regard of his fellow-townsmen. 

He was married the 26th day of May, 1863, 
to Miss Sophia Murman, a daughter of Jonas 
and Mary Ann Murman. They have had born 
to them three daughters and three sons; John 
and Frank P., Jr., deceased; Elizabeth, wife of 
J. N. Wagner, is the mother of four children, — 
Frank, Matthias, Joseph and Irene; Rosa, John 
F., and Anna. The family are devout members 
of the Roman Catholic Church. 

Jonas Murman emigrated to America in 
1859. He is the father of six children: Mar- 
garet, a Sister of Charity; Mrs. Belle; August; 
Rosa, wife of Frank Andrus; Michael; and 
Josephine, wife of Louis Tinger of Cleveland. 



ODNEY J. HATHAWAY, one of the 

substantial and highly respected citizens 

1 of Bedford, was born in Independence 

township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, April 
30, 1886. Silas Alden Hathaway, his father, 
was a native of Vermont and a son of Zeph- 
aniah Hathaway, a native of Taunton, Mass- 
achusetts, of English descent. The grandfather 
emigrated from New England to Independ- 
ence township at a very early day, and here 
passed his life, which closed at the end of ninety- 
four years. Silas A. Hathawaj^ was but a boy 
when he came to the new home on the western 
frontier; here he grew to manhood, rt'ceiving 



only that education which came to him by be- 
coming inured to the heavy labor incident to 
placing wild land under cultivation. At the 
age of twenty-seven years he was united in 
marriage to Anna Varney, a native of Ver- 
mont. To them were born five children: La 
Fayette, deceased; William, a resident of Inde- 
pendence township; Annette, wife of L. I). 
Benedict, of Cleveland; R. J., the subject of 
this biography; and Edwin, deceased, a mem- 
ber of the Sixty-seventh Ohio Volunteer In- 
fantry. The father died at the age of sixty-one 
years, and the mother survived to the age of 
seventy- one. Mr. Hathaway was a consistent 
member of the Disciple Church, of which he 
was an official. Politically he was an Aboli- 
tionist, and later affiliated with the Republican 
party. 

Rodney J. Hathaway passed his boyhood in 
Cuyahoga county, but enjoyed educational ad- 
vantages superior to those afforded his father, 
beginning in a logschoolhouse. In 1855 he en- 
tered the Michigan State University and was 
graduated at that well known institution with 
the class of 1859. This course finished, he en- 
gaged in teaching, but when the war broke out 
he sacrificed his personal ambitions, enlisted in 
theSixty-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Com- 
pany G, and in September, 1861, went to the 
front. He continued in the service three years, 
participating in many of the noted engagements 
of the war. July 19, 1863, he received a Lieu- 
tenant's commission, and afterward was made 
Adjutant of his regiment, a well deserved honor. 
He was slightly wounded in the service, but 
was never disabled. When the war was closed 
and peace was declared, Mr. Hathaway turned 
his attention to agricultural pursuits, giving 
especial attention to the culture of fruit. He 
has one of the finest orchards in northern Ohio, 
consisting of twenty-one acres in apples with 
one thousand bearing trees; eight acres in pears, 
two acres in peaches and one in plums. One 
season he harvested 7,000 bushels of apples. 

October 4, 1865, Mr. Hathaway was united 
in marriage to Miss Albina I). Diiuhaui, a 



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daughter of Ambrose and Susan (llollisler) Dun- 
liain, natives of New Hampshire and Ohio re- 
spectively. The paternal grandfather was John 
Dunham, who emigrated to Cuyahoga county 
in 1S18. Mrs. Duidiam was a daughter of 
Enos and Elizabeth (Bidwell) Hollister, natives 
of Connecticut. Mrs. Hathaway is one of a 
family of seven children: Hon. Fred Dunham 
is a resident of Kansas; Mary Eathbnrn also 
resides in Kansas; Estelia Lyle lives in Port- 
land, Oregon; and Maria, Levi and Royal are 
deceased. The last named was a soldier of the 
Rebellion, a member of the Forty-tirst Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry, and lost his life in the ser- 
vice. The Royal Dunham Post, G. A. R., of 
Bedford, is named in his honor. Mr. and Mrs. 
Hathaway are the parents of three children: 
Oriana, wife of C. L. Hoover; Adda M., a 
teacher of music in Southern Christian Insti- 
tute; and Fanny A., a student at Hiram Col- 
lege. 

Politically our subject is an ardent supporter 
of the Prohibition party, and has been an in- 
defatigable worker in the ranks of this organi- 
zation. He is a consistent member of the Dis- 
ciple Church, and in this cause has also labored 
with characteristic zeal. 



rjl ON. THEODORE E. BURTON, an em- 
p^l inent lawyer of Cleveland, is a native of 
Jj 4l Jefferson, Ohio, born December 20, 1851, 
'^ a son of AVilliam and Elizabeth (Grant) 

Burton. His father was a native of Orange 
county, Vermont, and his mother of Holbrook, 
Litchfield county, Connecticut. It is supposed 
that the Burton family is of English origin; 
the parent tree of the family came from Eng- 
land and settled in New London, Connecticut; 
while the Grant family from which Mr. Burton 
descends traces its origin to Matthew Grant, 
a native of England who came to that State as 
early as 1637. 

Rev. William and Elizabeth Burton were re- 
markable characters. They were married in 



1836, in Ohio. He graduated at Dartmouth 
College in 1815, and came to Ohio in 1825, a 
Presbyterian clergyman, and preaclied at Circle- 
vilie, Jefferson and other places in this State. 
He finally died at Austinburg, Ashtabula coun- 
ty, Ohio, at a ripe old age, in 1858. He was a 
briglit scholar, a devout Christian and able di- 
vine, still well remembered as a good man and 
consistent minister of the gospel. His wife, a 
college graduate of Ipswich, Massachusetts, 
came to Ohio in 1833 for the purpose of teach- 
ing school, and while engaged in her profession 
here she married Mr. Burton. 

The youngest of their ten children was sub- 
ject of this sketch, the greater part of whose 
early childhood was spent in the village of Aus- 
tinburg. At the age of thirteen years he went 
to Grinnell, Iowa, where two of his brothers were 
residing, and attended Iowa College to the end of 
the sophomore year, and then went to Oberlin, 
where he graduated in 1872, and afterward was 
a teacher for two years in the same institution, 
his specialty being Latin. Next, he went to 
Chicago for the purpose of studying law, under 
the guidance of the noted Lyman Trumbull, 
once one of the most prominent United States 
Senators. In due time he was admitted to the 
bar and at once began the practice of law at 
Cleveland in 1875. His career as an attorney 
and counselor has been marked by phenomenal 
success; in the law he is an adept; as an advo- 
cate he is persuasive and eloquent; and for the 
last several years he has been prominent in the 
the arena of politics, as well as in the profes- 
sion of law. 

The first elective office which he held was that 
of City Councilman, elected by the Fourth ward, 
and served 1886-"88, accomplishing some of 
the most important work concerning public 
measures that he has ever done, and, as the an- 
nals of the political history of tlie city of Cleve- 
land give ample evidence, gaining popularity 
as his work became known. Being a Republi- 
can, he was selected by his party to represent 
this (the Twenty-tirst) district at Washington, 
and accordingly he was elected, in November, 



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1888. During his term of service he met the 
most sanguine hopes of many stanch friends. 
In 1890 he was renominated, but by this time 
the State had been so re-apportioned that his 
district was made Democratic, and he was con- 
sequently defeated. 

Mr. Burton is a very pleasant-mannered and 
affable gentleman, communicative, modest and 
dignified, is a close student of works of high 
literary character, being especially fond of the 
classics. He is a member of several literary as- 
sociations of high order, and upon certain sub- 
jects he has delivered several well received lec- 
tures. 



DR. HORACE BLACK VAN NORMAN, 
289 Pearl street, Cleveland, Ohio, is one 
— - of the eminent physicians of the city. 

He was born in Nelson township, Halton 
county, Canada, March 11, 1834, son of Will- 
iam and Gills (Black) Van Norman. His 
father, a native of Canada, and a prosperous 
farmer, died February 8, 1849, while in the 
prime of life. The mother of our subject, a 
native of New Brunswick and a daughter of a 
Scotchman, William Black, lived to the age of 
seventy-three years, her death occurring in 1885. 
Both were active members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, and Mr. Van Norman served 
as an officer in the church and as Sunday-school 
superintendent for many years. The Doctor is 
the oldest of their nine children and is one of 
the six who are still living, the other five being 
as follows: Minerva, wife of B. W. Wetmore, 
Geneva, Ohio; Dr. E. V. Van Norman, San 
Diego, California; Elvinda, widow of B. W. 
Sabin, Berea, Ohio; Marinda, wife of Dr. H. H. 
Bartlett, Orange, California; and Bertha, wife 
of Dr. E. B. Sabin, Church's Corners, Michigan. 

Dr. H. B. Van Norman obtained his literary 
education in Baldwin University, at Berea, Ohio, 
receiving the degree of A. B., and subsequently 
that of A. M. He began the study of medicine 
in Cleveland, studying under Drs. Sanders, 



Wilson and Boynton, and entered Cleveland 
Homeopathic Hospital College, of which insti- 
tution be is a graduate with the class of 1864. 
Having completed his medical course, he en- 
tered upon the practice of his profession in 
Warrensville, Ohio. In 1866 he removed to 
Ashtabula, Ohio, in 1871 came from there to 
Cleveland, and here he has since conducted a 
successful practice. Both as a citizen and a 
physician, he occupies a leading place. He was 
elected to the professorship of the Theory and 
Practice of Medicine in the Woman's Homeo- 
pathic (college, in which capacity he served for 
some time. Afterward he was employed as lec- 
turer on Sanitary Science and Hydropathy in 
the Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital College. 
He was Curator of this college for several years. 
The Doctor, besides having written numerous 
articles for medical journals, reported on bureaus 
and read many papers before the ditferent so- 
cieties of which he is an honored member; he is 
a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medi- 
cine, the East Ohio Medical Society, of the 
American Institute of Homeopathy, and the 
Medical Society of the State of Ohio, being vice- 
president of the last named organization, lie 
is also a member of the Masonic order, the I. 
O. O. F., Royal Arcanum, Chosen Friends and 
Royal Templars of Temperance. Both he and 
his wife are members of the Methodist Episco- 
pal Church. 

Dr. Van Norman was mariied in 1855 to Miss 
Jane R. Hoadley, and, while they have had no 
children of their own, an adopted daughter was 
for many years the light and joy of their home. 
This daughter is now the accomplished wife of 
Dr. W. E. Wells, of Cleveland. 

Mrs. Van Norman was born in Lorain county, 
Ohio, May 21, 1836, daughter of Samuel B. 
and Jemima R. (Hickcox) Hoadley, natives of 
Connecticut. Samuel B. Hoadley came to Ohio 
as early as 1826, and settled in Lorain county, 
where he was a merchant and farmer. He died 
in 1847, aged thirty- seven years. In 1831 he 
married Miss Jemima R. Hickcox, daughter of 
Eri Hickcux, whose father, Jared Hickcox, and 



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his family, were the first to settle in Middle- 
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Coiiiieeticut with teams, and having remained 
in their wagons until the first house tiiere was 
hiiilt. Eri Ilickcox was born in 1790, and died 
January 21, 1804; and his wife. Alma Hoadley, 
whom he married February 22, 1813, was born 
in 1795, and died February 27, 1864. They 
had six children, two of whom are still living — 
Mrs. Iloadley and Alma H., wife of Dr. D. G. 
Wilder, Oberlin, Ohio. Mrs. Hoadley has been 
a resident of Cleveland for the past twenty-two 
years, her home being with her only child, Mrs. 
Van Nornian. She is a member of Franklin 
Avenue Metliodist Episcopal Church. 



"^IIOMAS BIDDULPPI, deceased, was an 
11 early settler and prominent farmer of 
Jj Brooklyn township. Born in England, 
V March 17, 1821, he was brought to Cuy- 
ahoga county by his parents in 1833, in their 
immigration to this country, locating upon un- 
improved land in this township. He was an in- 
dustrious farmer, a good citizen and became 
well known in the county. Politically he was a 
Republican. He died August 25, 1889, and 
his son Joseph E., yet unmarried, now carries 
on the farm, residing with his mother on the 
old homestead, which comprises sixty-five acres. 
The son aho is a zealous Republican in his po- 
litical principles and a highly respected young 
man. 

He was married at the age of nineteen years, 
in 1840, to Miss Hannah Dutton, who was born 
in England, August 2, 1819, and came to Cleve- 
land at the age of thirteen years, and still re- 
sides on the old homestead. Her father, Ed- 
ward Dutton, a native also of England, settled 
in this county in early times, and remained a 
resident here' until his death. Mr. and Mrs. 
Biddulph were the parents of eleven children, 
ten of whom grew np to the age of maturity. 
The names of all are: Emma, deceased; Stephen 
W.; Mary .\., the wife of Thomas Heffron; Har- 
riet, deceased; Belle, the wife of Joseph Sarver; 



Joseph E.; Maria, who married Warren Herring- 
ton; Lina, the wife of Levi Meacham, who is the 
County Clerk of Cviyahoga county; Ella, who 
married Hiram Goodale; Thomas, Jr., and Ma- 
tilda, the wife of William Langrcll. 



T) EV. GEORGE W. PEPPER, ex Chap- 
' in, ex-Consul to Milan, author, lee- 



ID 

11 "^ turei-, etc., resides at 1021 East Madison 
V avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. He is a na- 

tive of Belfast, Ireland, horn November 25, 
1836. His parents were Nicholas and Rachel 
(Thornburg) Pepper, natives of county Down, 
Ireland. He was educated at a royal academic 
institution in his native city. While still a 
resident there, he wrote to the celebrated Neal 
Dow of Maine, inquiring into the particulars of 
the new liquor law introduced by him, and after 
obtaining them attended as a delegate a con- 
vention of leading temperance reformers at 
Manchester, England. On his return home he 
wrote a series of letters for the Belfast papers, 
explaining the temperance movement then in 
progress, and urging the propriety of introduc- 
ing something like the " Maine liquor law " in 
his native city. At length he called a public 
meeting, which was addressed by leading mem- 
bers of the different churches, and this laid the 
foundation for the United Kingdom Alliance, 
for the suppression of the liquor traffic, which 
became the nucleus of the greatest temperance 
organ in northern Europe. 

Mr. Pepper came to the United States in 
1854, attended Kenyon (Ohio) College a 'year, 
and then entered the North Ohio Conference of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he 
is still a minister. His " circuits," or fields of 
service, in succession were; Mohawk Valley, 
Coshocton county, one year; Chesterville, Mor- 
row county, three years; Wellington, one year; 
and then for three years he was Chaplain of the 
Fortieth Regiment of United States Infantry, 
under General Nelson A. Miles, now command- 
ing at Chicago. While serving in this capacity 
he was appointed by General Howard to visit 



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every comity in the State of Xorth Carolina, to 
look after the freedmeii and establish schools 
for them. In July, 1867, he accepted an invi- 
tation from the citizens of Raleigh, that State, 
to deliver the Fourth-of July oration for that 
year, in which he pleaded for the Southern 
soldiers, now that the war was over, and that 
the Xorth and the South should be bound to- 
gether in the bonds of everlasting brotherhood. 
The Southern press si)oke very kindly of the 
address. 

When passing through Iiichinond with Siier- 
man's army, he had an interview with General 
Lee, in which that noted Southern general re- 
lated the following incident of the surrender of 
the Confederacy to General Grant: He, General 
Lee, had ordered his adjutant-general to sur- 
render the horses as well as the munitions of 
war; whereupon General Grant turned immedi- 
ately and said, " No, General Lee; keep the 
horses; the poor people will need them to tend 
the spring crops." General Lee shook like a 
leaf and wept. '-General Grant," said he to 
Mr. Pepper, " instead of thinking of his vic- 
tory, was thinking of the poor people of the 
South." 

One of the proudest recollections of his life, 
is that wiien the Union was threatened by its 
own ungrateful children, and the sceptered 
tyrants of the Old World were rejoicing in the 
prospective overthrow of the American Govern- 
ment, on the first Sunday after the firing on 
Fort Sumter, at Keene, Coshocton county, 
Ohio, Mr. Pepper preached on the national 
struggle, its sanctity and grandeur, from the 
text, " Out of the South cometh a whirlwind." 
At the conclusion of the service, while singing 
the "Star-spangled Banner," he recruited 100 
men, of which company (II) he served as 
Captain. 

After the close of the war, Mr. Pepper wrote 
" The personal llecollections of Sherman's 
Campaigns," with reference to which General 
Sherman afterward wrote him a letter saying 
that it was the best work of tlie kind that had 
been written. 



In 1870, Mr. Pepper resumed the pastorate. 
His first staticm then was Wooster, Ohio, where 
he remained three years, the extreme limit 
as yet allowed by the general law of the church; 
then in succession Gallon three years. Mount 
Vernon three years, Bellevue three years and 
Sandusky one year. Then he made a tour abroad 
visiting L-eland, France, Germany and Italy. 
In 1882 he was returned to Wooster, where he 
again served three years, after which, in 1884, 
he participated in the campaign for Blaine for 
President of the L'nited States, making his first 
speech in Cooper's Institute, New York city. 
This speech was occasioned by an incident of 
his visit to Ireland. While in that country he 
delivered a speech in his native city, wherein 
he spoke of the queenly position of women in 
America, stating that every mother who rocked 
the cradle was a queen, and that they were more 
refined in their feelings than any queen who 
ever swayed the English scepter; that he had in 
his congregations in Ohio, more tiian 500 such 
queens, any one of whom could run the govern- 
ment of England, for S500 a year, as well as 
Queen Victoria, who filched from the people 
$2,500,000 a year. The policemen who were 
there and other detectives informed the chief of 
police of this " disrespectful reference to the 
queen," and the next day two policemen went 
to tiie place where Mr. Pepper was stopping 
and threatened to arrest him; whereupon he 
presented his passport signed l)y James G. 
Blaine, Secretary of State, and .said to the gen- 
tlemen, " If you arrest me, I will cable ilr. 
Blaine, and in forty-eight hours he will hold 
the British ambassador a hostage until my re- 
lease." The policemen immediately apologized 
and departed. !Mr. Pepper then said, " If Mr. 
Blaine ever becomes a candidate for President 
of the United States I will lake the stump;" and 
this he did, in 1884. This story he related in a 
public oration at Mansfield, Ohio, when Senator 
Sherman presided, and presented that city with 
seventy acres of land for a park. 

After the conclusion of that political cam- 
paign, Mr. Pepper was stationed at Ashland, 



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Ohio, wliere he remained four years, the general 
rule of tlie cliiircli allowing a longer pastoral 
period than formerly. A year later he was visit- 
ing his daughter at Washington, District of 
Columbia, on whose invitation he called upon 
Mr. Blaine. The latter asked, " "Why were you 
not here sooner? What country do you want to 
go to?" Mr. Pepper replied, " I want nothing, 
have asked nothing, and expect nothing. I 
have no letters or recommendations from any 
one." Mr. Blaine, insisting, offered him the 
consulate at Milan, Italy, adding that he was a 





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minister and needed rest and a change, etc. Tiie 
daughter desiring to go abroad, Mr. Pepper, in 
order to gratify her, accepted the position, and 
set sail in April, 1889, and returned in January, 
1893, and now, at this writing, he is engaged in 
the lecture Meld, which he will continue until 
next fall, when his conference meets, to whose 
advice he will be subject. Mr. Pepper is a 
member of the Grand Army of the Eepublic. 

In Ireland, in 1853, Mr. Pepper married Miss 
Christiana Lindsey, daughter of Samuel Lind- 
sey, Esq., and by this marriage there were six 
children, namely: George, who is superintend- 



ent of the Ninth Railway Mail Division, from 
New York to Chicago; Samuel Arthur, who is 
superintending a ranch and mine, at Miles City, 
Montana; Charles M., who for seven years has 
had charge of the Chicago Tribune, Washington 
correspondence; Lena, an artist, who pursued 
her studies at Milan; May, a writer for maga- 
zines and a correspondent of the press; and 
Carrie, who lived in Washington and was a brill- 
iant writer and correspondent for a syndicate 
of newspapers; her death occurred in 1889, 
when she was aged twenty four years, at the 
home of her brother in AVashingtori. She was 
frequently a guest at the White House, and 
Mre. Harrison paid a handsome tribute to her 
memory. Mrs. Senator Ingalls, from Kansas, 
sent a letter of condolence, in which among 
other things she said that Carrie was her" ideal 
of a perfect lady." All the children living are 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
and all graduates of the University of Wooster 
excepting the eldest. 

After the death of his daughter, Mr. Pepper 
returned from Italy, to visit the heart-liroken 
mother, who returned with him to the land of 
sunshine, art and song, and died there in 1891, 
of typhoid fever. She had been a life- long 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
Her remains were brought to America, and 
buried beside her daughter in Lakeview ceme- 
tery. 

Mr. Pepper was in Italy during the excite- 
ment caused by the Italian massacre at New 
Orleans, Louisiana, and he reports that the 
citizens of northern Italy generally approved of 
Mr. Blaine's disposition of that unpleasant 
affair. His popularity in Italy was very great. 
The leading papers there said little or nothing 
about the New Orleans trouble, knowing, per- 
haps better than the Americans themselves, 
what kind of desperadoes those Italians at New 
Orleans were. As a consul, Mr. Pepper was 
diligent in looking after the interests of his 
people. Milan, as is well known, is the musical 
center of the world, attracting thither many 
young ladies from America. While abroad, 



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Mr. Pepper made a tour through Egypt, tlie 
Holy Land, Turkey, Greece and other countries 
of Asia and Europe. 

Chaplain Pepper is an orator of national 
fame. The titles of his lectures are: Sherman's 
March to the Sea, England and the English, 
Old Rome and New Italy, Labor's Problem 
(Communism or Monopoly?), Orators and Ora- 
tory, Froude's Ireland from a Protestant Stand- 
point, The Humors of the Pulpit and the Pew, 
Curran and Irish Elocjuence, O'Connell and his 
Time.s, The Slaughtered (Temperance), Luther 
and the Reformation, George Stephenson 
(Father of Railways), Home, Marriage and 
Divorce, Ireland and the Irish, America and 
the Americans, The Ireland of To-day, Italy, 
Egypt, Constantinople, Greece, etc. 

Concerning Mr. Pepper's lectures, we have 
before us hundreds of favorable press notices, 
from which we quote a few, as specimens: " The 
Rev. George W. Pepper delivered a lecture last 
evening in Music Hall before a large audience. 
In closing the reverend gentleman eloquently 
urged his hearers to unite." — P>oston Herald. 
"Straight and wiry, eagle-eyed and sharp- 
featured, Mr. Pepper speaks with a force and 
earnestness that rarely fails to carry conviction. 
He spoke nearly two hours, ably and eloquently, 
and created a most favorable impression." — New 
Haven Union. " The second lecture tilled every 
seat in the spacions building. Earnestness is a 
marked feature of his eloquence, which, how- 
ever, is set off with ornate and studied phrase- 
ology, a fine voice and a good presence." — San 
Francisco Chronicle. " The lecturer possesses 
rare forensic powers. The lecture was replete 
witli historical events, biographical sketches, 
etc. The eulogium upon Robert Emmet was a 
rare piece of word-painting, and the peroration 
was full of genuine Celtic fire." — Virginia City 
(Nevada) Enterprise. "Rev. G. W. Pepper 
lectured last evening at Mercantile Hall. About 
500 persons were present, including many of 
the wealthy and influential citizens of the city. 
For nearly two hours the lecturer kept the 
audience spell-bound by his eloquence. Any- 



thing short of a verbatim report would fail to 
do justice to the lecture. He concluded with 
an eloquent peroration. The lecture was fre- 
quently applauded, and will long be remembered 
by those who were present."— St. Louis Re- 
publican. " Rev. George W. Pepper, of Ohio, 
lectured last evening at Guard's Hall before a 
large and enthusiastic audience. His stage 
appearance was good, his command of language 
ready almost to a fault." — Denver Tribune. 
" Never before in the history of Lincoln, was 
there an audience assembled which contained 
citizens of more distinguished and higher stand- 
ing than the one gathered last night. We give 
a verbatim report of Rev. Mr. Pepper's eloquent 
lecture. As the speaker finished, the applause, 
which had been frequent and extended through- 
out the evening, broke forth in deafening 
rounds, forcibly expressing the audience's ap- 
preciation of the logical and eloquent address." — 
Daily State Democrat, Lincoln, Nebraska. " In 
a captivating and thrilling strain did he dwell 
on the career of O'Connell and his contem- 
poraries. With a pathos so deep and effective 
did he picture the dark shadows which sur- 
rounded his life and beset his path that the eye 
moistened at their recital; and when the chains 
of young Emmet were made to clank, and the 
murderers of Ireland, their hands reeking with 
blood, were held up to the execration of man- 
kind, the audience burst by common consent 
into long and loud continued cheers at the 
names of those who had offered themselves as 
a holocaust on the altar of their country; and 
louder and louder became the enthusiasm as the 
lecturer related a standing toast in the Shears 
family, ' May Ireland never want a Shears to 
clip the wings of tyrants!' We never had the 
pleasure of listening to a more fitiishod oratori- 
cal effort." — Irish Canadian. " The Rev. Cap- 
tain Pepper delivered his popular lecture in this 
city on Tuesday evening last. The lecturer met 
us in that free and easy manner that generally 
pleases and wins our sympathy at once. He 
gave a clear and interesting description of the 
Irish character, as being earnest, impulsive, 



CUTAHOOA COUNTY. 



witty, patriotic and eloquent. At times the 
eloquence of the lectiirei- was extraordinary." — 
College Transcript, Delaware. 

Concerning Mr. Pepper's personal character 
and his book, '• Sherman's Campaigns," we add 
the following testimonials: " George W. Pep- 
per, Captain Eightieth Ohio Volunteers, en- 
gaged at the battle of Farniington, luka, 
Corinth; Chaplain of the same regiment; en- 
gaged at the battles of Chattanooga, Mission 
Ridge, Resaca, Kenesaw mountain, Atlanta, 
Sherman's Georgia and Carolina Campaigns; 
Aid-de-camp in the above engagements; Chap- 
lain Fortieth United States Infantry; in the 
Freedmen's Bureau, and Assistant Superin- 
tendent of Education." — Colonel Henry, in his 
" Military History of Civilians in the Regular 
Army." " For gallant and meritorious con- 
duct in the war, I recommend Chaplain George 
W. Pepper, formerly Captain Eightieth Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry, for brevet promotion." — 
E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War. ■' I am well 
pleased with your book. Hundreds of officers 
and soldiers will prize it, and peruse it with 
pleasure, because it groups all those events in 
an interesting and attractive style, easy of 
reference and intelligible to all." — W. T. Sher- 
man, General. 







^SWALD KAMM, Treasurer of Rockport 
hamlet, and Postmaster of Kanims post- 
office, was born in Switzerland in Septem- 
l)er, 1845. There he grew to manliood and lived 
till February, 1867, when he came to America. 
His parents were Jacob and Mary Ivamm. The 
father was a school teacher for thirty years, 
and was also in the employ of the Government 
for many years before his deatli, which occurred 
in Switzerland July 4, 1888. 

Of a family of twelve children our subject 
was the second. On arriving in America in 
February, 1867, he canie direct to Cleveland, 
where he lived about eight years, and then re- 
moved to Rockport hamlet, where he has since 



been a resident. He was engaged in the grocery 
business in Cleveland, and has followed the same 
business in Rockport. He was appointed Post- 
master of Kamms postoffice under President 
Cleveland's first administration and has held the 
office since. 

He was married in Cleveland, Ohio, Septem- 
ber 25, 1873, to Miss Lena Klaue, daughter of 
Charles and Adelaide (Colbrunn) Klaue. Mr. 
Klaue died in Cleveland, Ohio. Mrs. Lena 
Kamm was born in Rockport township, January 
16, 1853. Mr. and Mrs. Kamm have had six 
children, — Jacob, Frederick, Louisa, Lena, Os- 
wald and Dora. Dora died when about two and 
a half years old. 



SR. HAYES. — It has been said that he is 
^ handicapped who is the son of a dis- 
— tinguished man, from the fact that during 
his career invidious comparisons will be drawn. 
The subject of this sketch, who is the son of 
President Rutherford B. Hayes, needs, however, 
fear no comparison, for in the field of usefulness 
to which he has turned his attention and effort 
he has met with unqualified success. 

( )ne of five children, S. R. Hayes was born in 
1871, at the family homestead in Columbus, 
Ohio. He received a thorough education, and 
upon completing his studies at once entered 



upon 



an active business career. 



From 1889 until 1892 he held a position in 
the counting-room of the First National Bank 
of Fremont, Ohio, after which he accepted a 
position with the Thompson-Houston Electric 
Company at Cincinnati, Ohio, which incumbency 
he resigned to accept the office of manager of 
the Cleveland offices of the General Electric 
Company, of Boston, assuming the duties of the 
responsible office in 1893. March 1, 1894, he 
resigned his position with tiie General Electric 
Company to accept a position as traveling sales- 
man for the Sperry Electric Railway Company, 
of Cleveland. 

Mr. Hayes is a member of the Greek college 
fraternity, the Delta Kappa Epsilon, and has 



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also been proiniiieiitly identified witli tlie order 
of Sons of Veterans, in which organization he 
lield lor some time the position of Captain. 

Enjoying a marked popularity in both busi- 
ness and social circles and recognized as a 
capable, discerning and conscientious young 
business man, Mr. Hayes well merits the atten- 
tion accorded him in this connection. 



ENRY I'AltKER, M. D.— We are now 
])ermitted to direct attention to one of 
41 the most widely known and popular res- 
idents of Berea, a man held in tlie 
highest estimation for his marked professional 
ability as well as for his his character and bear- 
ing as an individual. Dr. Parker was born in 
Brunswick, Medina county, Ohio, April 8, 1824. 
Ilis father was the late Henry Parker, a native 
,of Wallingtbrd, Connecticut, where he was 
born June 4, 1792, and where he lived until 
1815, when he emigrated to Ohio and settled in 
Brunswick, Medina county. On the 16tli of 
March, 1816, he was married to Miss Malinda 
Harvey, and they are said to have been the first 
white couple to wed in the town of Brunswick. 
Henry Parker, Sr., died about the year 1820, 
when the subject of this review was about two 
years of age. The mother was afterward mar- 
ried to Abraham Conyne, of Strongsville, Cuy- 
ahoga county, a miller by trade and occupation. 
The family removed to Strongsville in 1830. 

Dr. Parker's early life was passed chiefly in as- 
sisting his stepfather in his mill and he received 
a somewhat limited common-school education. 
He continued to live in Strongsville until 1844, 
when he left home and went to La Porte, Indi- 
ana, where he followed the occupation of a 
painter about one year and then returned to 
Cuyahoga county, finding employment at mini- 
nium wages in a woolen mill at Berea. The 
young man was ambitious and asjjiring and had 
formulated plans for the directing of his future 
lifi; upon a broader jjlane of thought and ac- 
tiiiii. Accordingly in ls4(j he began the study 



of medicine, and in 1S54 graduated at the 
American Medical College, at Cincinnati, Ohio. 
He then located in Berea, March 10, 1849, 
where he has since enjoyed an extensive and 
representative practice, not only in the city 
but in a wide extent of country adjacent. Since 
1871 helms been a member of the Ohio State 
Medical Association and has held the honorable 
preferment as president of that organization, 
and in 1872 became a member of the National 
Eclectic Association. 

November 23, 1874, Dr. Parker was united 
in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Sherwood, daugh- 
ter of Solomon and Aurilla Sherwood, of lloy- 
alton, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, who were among 
the early settlers of that town. Mrs. Parker 
was born August 18, 1824. Dr. and Mrs. 
Parker became the parents of four children, 
one of whom died in infancy. Henry E. was 
born November 20, 1851, and is now a physi- 
cian in practice at Lorain, Lorain county, 
Ohio; he was married at Montville, Medina 
county, Ohio, March 15, 1878, to Miss Cora 
McConnell. James M. was also a physician 
and was engaged in practice at Vanlue, Han- 
cock county, Ohio, where he died on Janu- 
ary 21, 1888, soon after locating there; he was 
born in Berea October 13, 1853, and was mar- 
ried, at Attica, Seneca county, Ohio, September 
2, 1880, to Miss Hittie Gilmer, who, with one 
child, survives him. Charles W., the youngest 
son, was born August 22, 1860, and was mar- 
ried, in Chicago, Hlinois, December 15, 1885, 
to Miss Fannie Frayer. 

Dr. Parker was one of the orginators of the 
Berea Savings & Loan Association. He has 
never been a seeker after public or official pre- 
ferments, although he has been elected to fill 
various township and village offices, tJie duties 
of which he has discharged to the satisfaction 
of all. Li 1862 he was appointed by Dr. J. S. 
Newbury, of Cleveland (who was general man- 
ager of the Western Sanitary Commission) to 
perform the duties of Camp and Hospital In- 
spector, receiving his commission from the Sec- 
i'ot!ii-y of War, Edwin ^f. Stanton, and Surgeon- 



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General Hammond. He served in this capacity 
two and one-half jears, until Siiennan's cam- 
paign to Atlanta, to the satisfaction of the 
Government and the soldiers as well. He was 
located during the service in West Virginia, 
with the Army of the Cumberland and the 
Fourteenth Ai-my Corps, undei- General Sher- 
man. 

The Doctor stands forth pre-eminently as a 
type of the self-made man, has achieved dis- 
tinctive success and honor in his life work and 
is one who is most clearly entitled to represent- 
ation in this volume, which has to do with 
the leading citizens of that portion of the State 
of Ohio in which he has so long lived and 
labored. 



'Jr^i EV. THEOPHIL LEONHARDT, pas- 
k^ tor of the United Evangelical Zion's 
11 ^ Church of Cleveland, was born in Wur- 
V temberg, Germany, February 8, 185.3. 

His parents were Louis and Barbara (Boeh- 
ringer) Leonhardt. His father, a merchant, 
died in 1873, aged seventy-three years, and his 
mother died the same year. Both were life- 
long members of the Evangelical Church. 

The subject of this sketch is the third in a 
family of foiir children, all living, namely: 
Mary, wife of David Miiller; Louis; Theophil 
and Catherine, wife of Christian Seitz. Mr. 
Leonhardt was educated in the Mission College 
at Basel, Switzerland, in the Seminary at Niir- 
tingen, Germany, and in America spent two 
years in a theological course in Marthasville, 
Missouri. Before coming to America young 
Theophil was in the Servian army — in 1876- 
1877 — for thirteen months, in a war with Tur- 
key. He came to America in 1880, and was in 
the orphan asylum a few months as teacher, 
until the next school year began, when he be- 
gan his studies in Marthasville, Missouri. He 
was ordained in Cleveland in the chuich where 
he now has charge, in the year 1883. He was 
here first as vicar, then was made the pastor, in 
March, 1884, and has served as such since that 
time. 



Under Mr. Leonhardt's care the church has 
increased one hundred per cent, in numbers, 
having now 300 active and 400 passive mem- 
bers. The Sabbath-school numbers over 900. 
The small building in which the congregation 
worshiped is now used for a school and a beau- 
tiful and commodious edifice has taken its 
place. This has sittings for 1,500 people, and 
is sometimes filled so that extra seats have to 
be provided. The congregation is made up of 
good and appreciative German people. 

Mr. Leonhardt is a very hard worker, adding 
to his other duties the superintendency of the 
Sabbath-school. His well directed efforts have 
been a great benefit to the church and com- 
munity. The church has been most fortunate 
in his pastorate. 

Mr. Leonhardt was married September 30, 
1884, to Miss Anna Remelius, daughter of 
Daniel and Elizabeth (Bower) Remelius. Her 
father was born in Germany and came to Cleve- 
land in 1848, where ho has since resided. He 
is a car inspector at the Union depot, and is 
sixty-three years of age. His wife died April 
14, 1890, aged fifty- nine. She, with her hus- 
band, was a member of their son-in-law's church. 
Mr. and Mrs> Remelius had seven children, 
three dying in early childhood. The living 
children are these: Louis, residing in the West; 
Louisa, wife of Gordian Duffiier, residing on 
Lorain street, Cleveland; has three children, — 
Frederick, Alma and Elmer; Mrs. Leonhardt; 
Charles, residing in Cleveland, a machinist in 
the electric power house; married Mary Clark. 
Mrs. Leonhardt is a lady of culture, easy and 
pleasing manners, and a great help in the arduous 
and important labors of her husband. They 
have five children, viz.: Theophil D., Louis C, 
Thusnelda E., Carl F. and Armin E. Mrs. 
Leonhardt and the children are members of the 
Zion Church. 

Mr. Leonhardt, while in Germany, was a 
teacher for three years and a half in a school 
founded by Gustav Werner. Here 1,300 chil- 
dren and old people of various classes — the 
poor, the vicious, the crippled — have been 



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taught and cared for. Tliis was one of the noted 
institutions of that part of Germany. Mr. 
Werner originated the plan, collected the 
money and brought about the organization of 
the institution. He died in 1886, at seventy -six 
years of age. His death was greatly lamented. 

While in the war Mr. Leonhardt was in 
eight battles, and ten or twelve dangerous 
skirmishes. In 1876 he was wounded by the 
bursting of a shell, a flinder of which struck 
him on the left side of his face, knocking him 
senseless. He was carried to the hospital, 
where he remained three weeks, and then re- 
turned to iiis command. From that wound he 
will carry, while he lives, a large scar on his 
neck and face. He held the commission of 
Second Lieutenant, which he was afterward 
obliged to resign on account of impaired health, 
the result of a prolonged attack of yellow fever. 
On leaving the army he returned to his home, 
and came to America in 1880. 

Mr. Leonhardt is a man of fine personal ap- 
pearance and of easy, pleasing manners. His 
tine scholarship and extended acquaintance with 
the world, his generous and affable ways, added 
to a pleasing presence? have ever been helpful 
ill his church work. He is an honored citizen 
of wiiom his community may be proud. 



T. MITCHELL, a leading business man of 
Newburg, Ohio, and a member of the pop- 
ular tirm of Mitchell Brothers, dealers in 
hardware, was born in Ravenna, Portage 
county, Ohio, November 22, 1856, and removed 
to Newburg, Ohio, with his parents in 1860; 
was educated in the grammar and high schools 
of Xewburg, and on leaving them, in order to 
bciwjme more familiar with business forms, en- 
tered the Spcncerian Business College, and took 
his diploma in 1874. He then launched out 
on his successful career, first as an employee of 
of iiis father, and soon afterward as a member 
of the tir.n of 11. Mitchell & Son. This iirm 
cotitinu.;il in Inwiness until K. Mitchell reached 



his sixtieth year, when upon his desire to retire 
a reorganization was effected, and the firm of 
Mitchell Brothers came into existence, com- 
posed of A. T. and R. T. Mitchell. 

In its infancy this business was cooped up in 
one end of a dwelling with a capacity of about 
500 square feet, with a tinshop as the chief at- 
traction; now two buildings are required to ac- 
commodate their immense stock of hardware, 
stoves, implements, tiling, etc.,— one 100x21 
feet and two stories high, and the other 50 x 100 
feet, a wareroom, besides a large storeroom in 
the yard. This popular house was founded in 
1860 by R. Mitchell, the venerable father of 
the subject of this sketch. He is the pioneer 
hardware merchant of Newburg. His first 
business in this State was in Ravenna, where he 
located in 1856 and became a member of the 
firm of Beckley & Mitchell, for four years. 
His first attempt at business in the West was 
in Beloit, Wisconsin, where he was employed 
as foreman of a tinner's shop for two years. 

He was born in Washington county, New 
York, thirty miles north of Troy, January 30, 
1827. His ancestors on the father's side were 
of Scotch origin: his grandfather, John Mitch- 
ell, emigrated from Scotland to America dur- 
ing the last years of the eighteenth century. By 
trade he was a slater, and while engaged at this 
vocation in New York city, he fell from a build- 
ing and died from the effects of the injuries. 
He left only one child, a son, John, the grand- 
father of A. T. Mitchell, who remained with 
his mother in New York city till he was fifteen 
years of age, when he and his mother and step- 
father moved to Washington couuty. There 
young John learned the trade of carpenter and 
builder, married and became a contractor of 
some note. In 1833 he moved to Oswego 
county, where he was an active business man, a 
m-inufacturer of stoves, being the first to turn 
out the Hathaway cookstove, with a descend- 
ing flue, producing an article equal almost to the 
more modern stove. He made also the Clnte 
iron-niolilboard plow, among the first in exist- 
ence with a metal moldbuanl, and contin- 



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lied to prosecute his business to the time of 
his death, in July, 1853. His affliction was 
cancer of the stomach, and he was taken away 
prematurely, being only fifty-nine years of age. 
He married Lois Hall, a New England lady, a 
native of Connecticut, who died in 1881, leav- 
ing four children, as follows: Thomas, who died 
in 1891, in St. Joseph county, Michigan; Abi- 
gail, w.ho married a Mr. Row and secondly a 
Mr. Coats, and is now a widow residing in 
"Wayne county, New York; Nancy, now Mrs. 
Shaver, also a rgsident of Wayne county; and 
Robert. 

The last named was "bound out" in the old- 
fashioued way, at ten years of age, to Daniel 
G. Merriraan, a tinner of New Haven, Oswego 
county, where he was to serve an apprentice- 
ship of eight years at the tinner's trade, receiv- 
ing three months' schooling each winter, his 
board and clothes and his usual two suits of 
clothes on becoming twenty-one; but his health 
failed because of the coniinement, and he was 
released from the trade at the end of three 
years. He returned to his father and remained 
with him till he reached his majority, engaged 
in farm work. At twenty-one he renewed his 
acquaintance with his half completed trade and 
made it his business ever after. 

He married, in Ontario, New York, October 
29, 1853, Catherine Melissa Cain, a native of 
the Isle of Man and a daughter of AVilliam 
Gain. The children by this marriage were: 
Mary Eliza, who died in 1888; A. T., the sub- 
ject of this sketch; Robert T., and Kate Lois. 

Mr. Mitchell schooled his sons in the busi- 
ness to which he gave the best years of his life 
to establish, and at sixty years of age turned it 
over to them and retired from active business 
pursuits. 

Mr. A. T. Mitchell is a director in the South 
Cleveland Banking Company, in llie Ohio Na- 
tional Building et Loan Company, and, in con- 
junction with H. Nason, was one of the origin- 
ators of the latter. He is secretary of the 
Me.ale Liim'.ier Coiupiny, and prosidrn; nf tli,> 
Mitchell L).(itlier.-> Comjiany, who were incor- 



porated on April 5, 1894, for the purpose of 
conducting a general hardware, stove, tinware, 
etc., business, with a capital of $15,000. He 
has passed the chairs in the local lodge of 
the I. O. O. F., and is a trustee of that lodge. 
He was married June 12, 1890, to Jane E. 
Corlett, a daughter of Daniel Corlett, a history 
of whom will be found in this volume. 



dfOHN CARLISLE. — Conspicuous among 
1 the men of prominence in Cleveland, 
whose enterprise, business sagacity, up- 
right methods, liberality and public spirit iave 
contributed to the growth of Ohio's metropolis, 
rendering it a leading factor in the advance- 
ment of the State and county, stands the name 
of the subject of this sketch, who, although 
having gone to his reward, has left a legacy rich 
in good influences which will endure for many 
years to come. 

Mr. Carlisle was a native of Chillicothe, 
Ohio, born October 29, 1807. Plis parents 
were John and Betsy (Mann) Carlisle, the father 
a native of county Tyrone, Ireland, and the 
mother of Pennsylvania. Our subject made 
the most of limited educational advantages, 
such as were afforded in the schools of those 
early days. He began for himself as a shoe 
merchant, under the firm name of "Carlisle & 
Fisk." At a later date he sold out to Mr. Fisk, 
and Mr. Carlisle was appointed toll collector on 
the Ohio canal at Chillicothe, which position he 
held for some years. Subsequently he was en- 
gaged in pork-packing, the firm being "Carlisle 
& Reid." Their brand of pork and hams was 
well established throughout many of the States. 
Ilis next adventure was in coming to Cleveland 
in 1850. This city about that time was con- 
sidered a fine opening for business ventures, 
being then, as well as since, the commercial 
center of a large and attractive territory. 

Accordingly he, with others, took toward 
Cleveland. Arriving siifely, he esfablishe.l 
himself in the forwardino- and commission busi- 



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ness. His location was on Merwin street, near 
tlie I)usines8 place of R. T. Lyon, who was 
among the early few who are still left. Mr. 
Carlisle was a man of good business methods, 
of strict integrity and great industry. His 
generous impulses and kind heart induced him 
to keep himself back in trying to help others 
along. He did an extensive business and suc- 
ceeded well. 

He was married in Gloucester, Massachusetts, 
October 29, 1835, to Miss Mary Beach, daugh- 
ter of William and Mary Beach, all natives of 
Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Carlisle had nine 
children, viz.: William B., who died August 9, 
1883, at the age of forty-seven years; John, 
who died December 17, 1885, at the age of 
forty-six years; Andrew, born in 1841; Amelia 
B., born in 1843; Henry X., who died March 
14, 1857, aged ten years and six months; Ger- 
trude A., born in 1849; Mary Belle, who died 
September 27, 1852, aged one year and three 
months; Irwin C, born in 1853; and Charles 
F., born in 1856. 

Dr. Irwin Carson Carlisle, the eighth child 
of John and Mary (Beach) Carlisle, was born in 
Cleveland, Ohio, February 28, 1853. He was 
educated in the Cleveland public schools, read 
medicine under Prof. H. W. Kitchen, and 
graduated in the medical department of the 
Wooster University, class of 1875. Since 1876 
he has been a continuous practitioner in Glen- 
ville, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Car- 
lisle has been the attending physician to the hos- 
pital for convalescent children — "Kainbow Cot- 
tage", — from its organization in 1891. He has 
been a member of the Board of Health since 
its organization in the village of Glenville. 

Careful judgment and integrity of purpose 
have characterized his professional career, and 
he has been eminently successful, and has 
gained not only financial prosperity but also 
that other most valuable and necessary require- 
ment, the respect and esteem of his fellow-jnen. 
The Doctor is prompt to aid any enterprise 
lending to benefit his community and is justly 
recoirnizcd as a liberal-mindeil and uiDirressive 



citizen. He was married December 20, 1880, 
to Miss Ella, daughter of William and Lydia 
A. (Barber) Phillips, of whom see elsewhere in 
this volume. The home of the Doctor and 
wife has been blessed in the birth of one child, 
Mary Antoinette. Dr. Carlisle and wife are 
members of the Presbyterian Church. His 
parents were members of tlie Presbyterian 
Church for more than a generation, his father a 
Deacon in his church (the Westminster) fur 
many years. 

The Doctor is a member of. the Cleveland, 
the Cuyahoga County, and the Ohio State Medi- 
cal Societies. He is also a frequent contributor 
to the medical journals of the day. In politics 
Dr. Carlisle is an ardent Republican. 

Mr. John'Carlisle's death occurred December 
28, 1868. His wife is still living, with her son, 
in St. Louis, Missouri, at the advanced age of 
seventy-eight years. As mother, companion, 
Christian and friend, no language can speak 
her praise too warmly. She is all these fine 
words imply. Mr. Carlisle was for many years 
a citizen of Chillicothe, Ohio, and the following 
tribute from the Cleveland Leader attesting his 
worth as a husband, a father, and a citizen will 
find a responsive echo from all who knew him 
here. The Leader says: 

" We have to record the death of another 
prominent citizen of Cleveland, John Carlisle, 
Jr., who was during the early part of his busi- 
ness life a resident of Chillicothe, where quite 
a number of his relatives still reside. For 
some eighteen years past, with but a brief inter- 
val of absence, he has been well known in the 
forwarding and commission business in Cleve- 
land, Ohio. After forty years of more or less 
active business life, marked by industry, fidel- 
ity and honesty, he has departed from the 
scenes of his business associations and from the 
midst of his many friends in private life at the 
still prime age of sixty-one. 

"Few business men in our country were 
better known for simplicity of character, single- 
ness of purpose, or sterling honesty in dealing. 
He was too modest to claim distinction, and too 



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conscientious to take advantage of circumstances 
tiiat miglit iiave led him on to fortune. In his 
public and private life he was, perhaps, without 
exception respected and beloved. While in his 
religious convictions he was sincere and decided, 
he was without bigotry and far removed from 
Phariseeism. In politics he was most earnestly 
patriotic and keenly alive to the hest interests 
of his country. 

" But it is in tliat dearest and most sacred of 
earthly circles, the family home, that he will be 
most missed. Among his children he was the 
companion and confidant, always interested in 
what grieved or gratified them, and with the 
little ones a child in full and cordial sympathy. 
His family and friends have the supreme satis- 
faction of a full assurance that to the very best 
of his knowledge and ability he did well the 
work that was given him to do and has thus left 
an example well worthy of imitation. Like 
these, may we well exclaim with the poet: 

'Leaves have their time to fall, 

And flowers to wither in the north wind's blast, 

And stars to set ; but all, tbou hast 

All seasons for thine own, O Death.' " 

To know John Carlisle was to respect and es- 
teem him. Indeed, few men in the country had 
more friends than he. Mr. Carlisle's memory 
will live in the hearts of the people where he 
was known long after that of less important 
personages shall have passed away, and his name 
will be handed down to future generations as a 
synonym for all that is good, pure and upright. 



fj^i EUBEN HALL, one of the well-to-do 
y^^ farmers and leading citizens of Dover 
II 1^ towi.ship, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, is a 
' son of Charles Hall, one of the pioneers 

of the county. 

Charles Hall was born in Lee, Berkshire 
county, Massachusetts, in 1798. In 1811 he 
came from Massachusetts to Ashtabula county, 
Ohio, with his father, Mos -s Hall, and in that 
county was reared. He was married there at 



the age of twenty-two to Lucy Seymour, who 
was born in Plymouth, Connecticut, in 1800, 
and who had come to Ohio with her father, 
Ziba Seymour, and family. Soon after their 
marriage Mr. and Mrs. Hall came to Cuyahoga 
county and settled in Dover township. That 
was in 1821. Here they continued to reside 
the rest of their lives. Mrs. Hall died in Con- 
necticut, whither she had gone in quest of 
health in 1844. Mr. Hall survived her a num- 
ber of years. He was a farmer by occupation, 
and was prominently identified with local afl'airs. 
He was one of the first members of the Episco- 
pal Church in Dover township. They had a 
family of five children, viz.: Eliza, who became 
the wife of George Porter, died in Dover town- 
ship, December 27, 1841, at about the age of 
twenty years; Mary Ann, who died December 
5, 1841, aged about seventeen; Reuben, Ziba 
S. and James. 

Reuben Hall was born in Dover township, on 
his father's farm, June 18, 1827. Here he wa.s 
reared, and here he has always resided. His 
early life was not unlike other farmer boys of 
that period. He remained a member of the 
home circle until after his marriage. Then for 
five years he rented his father's farm. At the 
end of that time he purchased seventy acres of 
land from his uncle, Edwin Hall, and upon this 
place he has since resided. He has been suc- 
cessful in his undertakings. By honest indus- 
try and good management he has accumulated 
considerable property, being now the owner of 
174 acres of land, on which he has erected a 
set of good buildings. 

Mr. Hall was married March 26, 1850, to 
Miss Rebecca Smith, a daughter of the late 
Hirain Smith, one of the early pioneers of 
Dover township. Mrs. Hall was born in this 
township, June 6, 1827, and died here in Janu- 
ary, 1861. In August, 1861, Mr. Hall was 
again married in this township, this time to 
Miss Matilda Lilly, who was born here in 1829, 
daughter of Abinus Lilly, who was drowned 
while crossing the Rocky river, about 1840. 
Mr. Hall and his present wile are the parents 



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of three children: Clara E., wife of George L. 
Cooley; Charles E.; and Lucy S., wife of Eev. 
C. A. Vincent, of Boston, Massachusetts. 

Enterprising, and public-spirited, Mr. Hall 
has all his life taken a deep interest in local 
affairs. He has tilled various township oftices, 
among whicli are those of Assessor, Township 
Trustee, etc. During the war he enlisted, May 
2, 1864, in Company I, One Hundred and Fif- 
tieth Ohio National Guards, and was in the 
100-day service. He is a member of the G. A. 
R., Olmsted Post, No. 634. Both he and his 
wife are members of and active workers in the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. 



'Jr^; EV. THOMAS MISICKI, D. D., pastor 
11?^ of the St. Adalbert parish atBerea, Ohio, 
11 Vi was born in Przeworsk, Galicia, Austria, 
■^ December 31, 1866. His father is An- 

drew and his mother Veronica (Chmurowicz) 
Misicki. His father is a contractor and builder 
in Przeworsk. In 1893 his age is sixty-nine 
years. The mother died in 1893, at the age of 
sixty-seven j-ears, a life-long member of the 
Catholic Church and an excellent woman. 
There are only two brothers who comprise the 
children of these parents, namely: Ignatius, 
the older, born July 31, 1863; and the subject 
of this sketch. Ignatius has been professor in 
a college in the city of Jaroslau for the past 
four years. 

The subject of this sketch, Ilev. Thomas 
Misicki, received his primary education in his 
native city. Later he attended a high-school 
in Crakow. He was there eight years, and 
passed his examinations, giving evidence of ex- 
cellent scholarship. He then attended the 
seminary in Crakow, where also at a later date 
he attended the university, at which he gradu- 
ated in February of 1889. He was ordained 
priest May 19, 1889, and then took a special 
course of two years, at the close of which he 
received the degree of Doctor of Divinity. He 
studied Hebrew, Syriac and Arabic, in which he 



became accomplished, as he is also an adept in 
Latin and Greek. By special permission he 
taught these languages in the seminary, and 
was teaching the Latin and Greek languages in 
the Seminary of St. Vincent of Paula, Just be- 
fore he embarked for America, March 1, 1893, 
having obtained first permission from his su- 
perior cardinal, his object being to simply visit 
America. He was for three months in Winona, 
Minnesota, as an assistant in St. Stanislaus 
(Polish) Church. He was received into the 
diocese of Cleveland by Right Rev. Bishop 
Horstmann and stationed in Berea as pastor of 
St. Adalbert's Church, a few months since. 
Here he has under his charge 350 Polish fami- 
lies and thirty German families. He also at- 
tends missions at Grafton, at Lorain and at 
other places. In Berea he has a large school 
taught by four sisters of St. Felix from Detroit. 
Here are taught 300 children. Rev. Misicki is 
an accomplished scholar, able as a speaker and 
as an organizer is equally skilled. As a singer 
he is of marked ability, having one of the finest 
of tenor voices. He speaks Polish, German, 
French and English, his special studies being 
oriental languages. He is a writer of note, con- 
tributing many valuable articles to the Polish 
papers in America. 



SHERP.IJRN HENRY WIGHTMAN, of 
Cleveland, was born in this city, August 
— 28, 1819, a son of John J. and Deborah 
(Morgan) Wightman. John Wightman was a 
descendant of Elder Valentine AV^ightman, the 
founder and father of the first society of Bap- 
tists in Groton, first exercising his gifts among 
a few willing iiearers, and afterwards gathering 
a church, of which he was the pastor, from 1710 
to his death, June 9, 1747. His son, Rev. Tim- 
othy Wightman, occupied the same pulpit and 
ottice after him for 49 years, and until his 
death, Nov. 14, 1796, in his 78th year, and was 
succeeded by his son, Kev. John Gano Wight- 
man, who tilled the same office for nearly forty- 



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five years, and until his deatli, July 13, 1841, 
aged seventy-four. Such a period of ministry 



over tlie 



church held in succession h 



fiither and son and grandson for a jteriod of a 
hundred and thirty years is helieved to be with- 
out parallel in the history of American churches. 
Uev. Palmer G. Wighttnan, a grandson of Rev. 
John Gano Wightman, is still pastor of this 
same church, but did not immediately succeed 
his grandfather, a period of three or four years 
intervening. Many of the descendants of Elder 
Valentine Wightman liave tilled tlie pastoral 
office. 

Jolm J. Wightman was born and reared in 
Connecticut, l)ut came to Cuyahoga county, 
Ohio, in 1811, locating on ten acres of land in 
the Woodland Hills. The county was then a 
part of Trumbull county, and they were obliged 
to go to Warren to pay taxes. He took part in 
the Indian wars, was at the battle of FortMeigs, 
and participated in many other engagements. 
Although reared in the Baptist faith, Mr. 
Wightman became an active worker in the Dis- 
ciple Church, and the late Rev. Alexander 
Campbell was often a guest at his home, as was 
also Garfield's father and mother. His death 
occurred in 1837, at the age of forty-nine years. 
His wife departed this life in September, 1827, 
at the age of thirty-two years. She was a mem- 
ber of the Baptist Church. 

Slierburn H. Wightman, the fifth in a family 
of eight children, and the only one now living, 
was seriously injured by falling from a horse 
when eight years of age, and has only partially 
recovered from its effects. He is now engaged 
in the real-estate business. He has also served 
sixteen years as Deputy County Tax Collector, 
having held that office under four diflPerent 
county treasurers. Mr. Wightman has lived 
\yhere he now resides. No. 169 Union street, 
since 1875. 

December 2, 1844, he was united in marriage 
with Miss Sarah L. Warner, who was born in 
Newburg, Ohio, August 16, 1824, a daughter 
of Darius and Delilah J. Warner, formerly of 
Cuyahoga Falls. The mother was born in Yir- 



ginia, in 1796, came to Ohio at the age of ^va 
years, and her death occurred August 27, 1863. 
The father, born in New York, January 20, 
1798, came to Ohio in 1809, and died in 1872. 
Mr. and Mrs. Warner had three children. The 
eldest, Lydia, married James Skinner, and both 
are now deceased. They had two children: 
Laura, born in 1840, married William Belden, 
who died at Atlanta, Georgia, while serving in 
the late war, at the age of twenty-seven years; 
and Jared, born in 1860. Their second child, 
Ezra G., married Rachel Burgess, and resides 
at Byron Center, Michigan. They have had 
four children, — Jeflferson (deceased), Charles, 
AVilliam and George. Mr. and Mrs. Wight- 
man have had five children, namely: Adelaide, 
deceased October 2, 1891, at the age of forty- 
six years; Albina D., wife of Michael Williams, 
of Cleveland, and they have two children, — 
Sarah, wife of Harl Benethum; and Sherburn 
Herman; Avery J., of California, married 
Elizabeth Ringen, who died January 17, 1891, 
and their four children are: Zetta A., Sherburn 
Henry, Marion and Agnes M.; Herman, de- 
ceased at the age of one year; and Sarah, at 
home. Mr. and Mrs. Wightman are members 
of the Christian Church, in which the former 
has served as Elder for many years. In politi- 
cal matters, he was formerly a AVhig, and now 
affiliates with the Republican party. Wight- 
man street of Cleveland is named in honor of 
the family which our subject represents, and is 
said to run through his father's farm. 



CHARLES A. POST, secretary and treas- 
urer of the East End Savings Bank Com- 
pany, began in banking business in this 
city in 1869, with Everett, Weddell & Com- 
pany, as a bookkeeper, remaining with them 
until 1883, and retiring as a teller in their con- 
cei-n. His resignation was caused by ill health, 
and in order to recuperate he went to the sea- 
board at New York city, and engaged in other 
pursuits until July, 1886, when he returned to 



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Cleveland restored to normal health. He assisted 



in organizing 



the East End Savings Bank Com- 



pany, which was chartered in Angust, 1886, 
with J. H. McBride as president, V. C. Taylor 
and Thomas Jopling as vice-presidents, and 
Charles A. Post as secretary and treasurer. The 
capital stock at the commencement, Decemlier 
18, 1886, was placed at $100,000; now it is 
$200,000, and the deposits amonut to $900,000, 
with a surplus of §60,000. 

Mr. Post was horn in East Cleveland-October 
28, 1818, educated in the public schools, and 
was a clerk in a merchandising establishment 
at different times before going into the Bank of 
Everett, Weddell & Company. He was elected 
to the City Council in 1880, and re-elected in 
1882, serving until he determined to goto New 
York in 1883, when he resigned. He is treas- 
urer of a number of corporations besides the 
East End P>ank, — the National Electric Valve 
Company, of the Maple Grove Dairy Company, 
and of the Casino Mine Company. 

As to the fraternal orders, Mr. Charles A. 
Post is a Master Mason and Knight Templar, 
and a member of the order of Iv. of P. He is 
also a member of the Union Club, treasurer of 
the llowfaut Club, and president of the Twilight 
Club. His greatest recreation being tennis- 
playing, he is president of the East End Tennis 
Club. Ill religion he is an active member of 
the Euclid Avenue Congregational Church. 

His father, Nathan Post, a native of Burling- 
ton, Vermont, came to East Cleveland in 1848, 
antl purchased property on Euclid Avenue, the 
site of a well-known hotel in early times. 
lie was a harness-maker by trade, and the inven- 
tor and patentee of many articles of harness and 
saddle ware. He was also interested in thetirst 
malleable iron foundry established in this city, 
and induced skilled foreign labor to locate here 
to aid in operating the plant. For his wife he 
married Miss Laura J. Lord, of Madrid, New 
York, whose ancestors were pioneers in New 
England. Mr. Nathan Post died in 1869, aged 
sixty-nine years, and his wife died in 1875. 
Their children were Helen E. ; Sarah M., who 



died in 1875, the wife of L. J. Wadsworth; 
Nathan L., who died in October, 1893; Mary 
R.; Laura J., who died in 1885, the wife of Dr. 
G. C. Ashmun; Francis W., Charles A., and 
James K. The last named was educated in this 
city, and when he engaged permanently in busi- 
ness he entered the employ of Root & McBride 
Brothers, where he still remains. January 1, 
1879, he married, in Manchester, Iowa, Miss 
Mary A. Roe, and their only child is Bessie 
May. He is a prominent member of the Euclid 
Avenue Congregational Church, and is most 
active in promoting the interests of the Young 
Men's Christian Association of this city, of 
which he has been a director for many years, 
and was especially active in the erection of their 
new hall. 



1(1/ T. ANURUS, freightagent of thePenn- 
Ir^l sylvania Company in Cleveland and a 
Jl t veteran in railway service, was born in 
^ Anstinburg, Ohio, December 2S, ls39. 

In 1850 his father, Marvin T. Andrus, moved 
to Ridgeville from Austinburg, and in 1857 to 
Cleveland from Ridgeville, and entered into 
commission business, and later on railroad ser- 
vice, retiring to private life in 1887. Mar\in 
T. Andrus was born in Morean, New York, his 
ancestors coming from Burlington, Connecticut. 
He learned blacksmithing and followed it to- 
gether with farming until his removal from 
Eagleville in 1850, having resided there twelve 
years. He died in Cleveland in 1891, at 
eighty-three years and nine months of age. He 
married Amanda, a daughter of George Calkins, 
a farmer. The Calkins family came from 
Waterburg, Vermont, and are of Welsh de- 
scent. The children of this union are: (Tcorge 
W.; Emmet H., deceased; II. T.; Helen, de- 
ceased; Emma, deceased; Frank; and Minnie, 
wife of A. W. Strong, a Cleveland broker. 

H. T. Andrus was educated in the public 
schools of Cleveland, and in 1857, on assuming 
the duties of real life, entered the employ of 



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the Pennsylvania Company as errand buy iu tbj 
freight office, and in 1861 was made cashieri 
which important position lie filled continuously 
till 1888, when he received his appointment as 
agent. 

Politically Mr. Andrus is a Republican, ally- 
ing himself always on the side of true Ameri- 
canism. In lodge circles Mr. Andrus is a Royal 
Arch Mason. 

Mr. Andrus has been twice married, first in 
1863, at Norwalk, Ohio, to Gertrude Adelade, 
a daughter of Elias Harris, of Seville, Ohio, 
Mrs. Andrus died without issue in 1869. In 
1872 Mr. Andrus married Ellen Melancia, a 
daughter of Edwin Hill, of Gardner, Massachu- 
setts. Of this union are born Harry L., Clar- 
ence M., Alice H., Carl E. and Paul W. 



II. STEWART, the subject of this 
sketcli, was born at Crossreagh, near 
Coleraine, county Londonderry, Ire- 
land, June 3, 1855. His parents, Samuel and 
Alice Houston Stewart (the latter of whom still 
lives in Ireland), were of Scotch Irish ancestry, 
and Mr. Stewart's life has been characterized by 
the enterprise of the sturdy race from which he 
sprung. 

Mr. Stewart received his early education in 
his native land. At the age of fifteen he came 
to the United States, and, finding in the Western 
Reserve surroundings congenial to his tastes, 
located in Cuyahoga county. In 1883 he was 
married to Miss El ma J. Burgess, a lady of 
intelligence and good family, daughter of J. M- 
Burgess of Orange township. 

In politics a staunch Republican. Mr. Stew- 
art filled acceptably for six years the office of 
township Trustee, and served for two terms as 
a member of the Board of Education. In 1892 
he was appointed by Dr. McNeal as Assistant 
Dairy and Food Commissioner, which position 
he still holds. He is a member of Golden Gate 
Lodge, No. 245, F. & A. M., Chagrin Falls 
Chapter, No. 152, and Oriental Commandery, 
No. 12, K. T. 



Mr. Stewart has been a resident of the town 
of Solon since 1880, and at present owns one of 
the finest farms in the township. Socially 
frank and genial, and carrying into his business 
life, energy and integrity, Mr. Stewart, although 
comparatively a young man. is recognized as a 
prominent citizen of the place. 



El P. WILMOT, attorney at law. Chagrin 
Falls, Ohio, is a native of this State, 
1 born at Mantua, Portage county, March 

11, 1851. His father, Amzi Wihnot, was also 
born at Mantua, in the year 1823; he was a son 
of Ella and Lucretia (Blair) Wilmot, who emi- 
grated to the western frontier from New En- 
gland in 1810. The grandfather of our subject 
bore arms in the war of 1812. serving as captain 
of a company. Amzi Wilmot married Minerva 
S. Dudley, a native of New York and a member 
of one of the oldest families of the Empire 
State. He died in 1889, while she survived 
until only 1864. They were the parents of a 
family of four children: E. P., the subject of 
this biography; Addie S., one of the most suc- 
cessful teaciiers in the public schools of Youngs- 
town; Carrie E. Spray, a resident of Mantua, 
Ohio, and Amelia M., who was for several years 
prominently known as a teachei- of the Lima 
(Ohio) schools. The father was a farmer by 
occupation, and through many seasons tilled 
the soil that has been in the family over eighty 
years. Politically he gave his allegiance to the 
Republican party, and was a warm friend of the 
lamented James A. Garfield. 

Young Wilmot enjoyed superior advantages 
to those which were afforded his father; the 
common-school system had been established, 
and he was also a student at Hiram, which had 
become a centei*- of learning for the Western 
Reserve. Having determined upon the law as 
his vocation, he began to read in 1874 under 
the guidance of Judge Henry C. Raney; later 
he was associated with Judge Luther Day and 
Judge George F. Robinson. In 1876 he was 



COTABOGA COUNTY. 



aduiitted to the bar. Y* 



;peribiictj 



uninterrupted devotion to his profession have 
won a place in the front ranks of Cuyahocra 
county's leading lawyers. For nine years he 
served as Justice of the Peace and discliarged 
the duties of that office with unswerving lideiity. 
Politically he adheres to the principles advo- 
cated by the Republican party. He is a mem- 
ber of Golden Gate Lodge, No. 245, F. & A. M., 
and of Chagrin Falls Chapter, Xo. 152, R. A. M. 
Mr. Wilmot was united in marriage in 1884 
at Chagrin Falls to Emma J. Waterman, a 
native of the State of New York, and a 
daughter of John "Waterman. They have one 
son, Virgil P. ifrs. Wilmot is an active mem- 
ber of the Methodist church. 



ILLIAM FREDERICK FIEDLER, 
WW/ Prosecuting Attorney of the City Po- 
^ ^ lice Court of Cleveland, Ohio, and one 
of the best known and most j)romising young 
members of the Cleveland bar, is a native of 
the Forest City, having been born in the old 
Sixth Ward on October 8. 1862. His father 
was Conrad F. Fiedler, who was one of the old 
and well-known citizens of Cleveland, he hav- 
ing during his life been an active man and for 
a number of years an official. He was a native 
of Wurtemberg, South Germany, where he was 
born in 1818. He finished his schooling and 
learned the trade of mason and was married be- 
fore leaving the old country. In 1850 he ar- 
rived in the United States and came direct to 
Cleveland, where he continued to reside until 
his death in September, 1887. lie was engaged 
e.xtensively as a mason contractor for many 
years, and for a number of years was the 
city's Inspector of Sewers, Culverts and Pave- 
ments. During the cholera epidemic in this 
country his wife died, leaving two out of three 
children. The children are: Mrs. Catherine 
Becker and Mrs. Annie Renner, both of Cleve- 
land. In 1854 he was married to Mary Agnes 
Zipperlen, who was born in Wurtemberg, Ger- 



many, and survives her husband. Five chil- 
dren were born by this union, three of whom 
died in infancy, leaving two sons, our subject 
and liis elder brother, Conrad E., who is a citi- 
zen of Cleveland. 

The immediate subject of this sketch lias al- 
ways resided in Cleveland. He attended first 
the public schools of the city, passing through 
them all and graduating at the high school in 
1882. He then took a post graduate course in 
the Central high school in order to prepare 
himself for college, and in 1883 entered Adei- 
bert College, and taking a classical course grad- 
uated with honor in 1887, standing fifth in a 
class of seventeen. One year was then spent 
in the office of F. C. Friend, in Cleveland, in 
preparation for the Cincinnati Law School, and 
in the fall of 1888 he entered that excellent in- 
stitution, at which he graduated in 1889 with 
the degree of LL.B., and in the following June 
Adelbert College conferred upon him the degree 
of A. M. He then entered the practice of law 
in Cleveland. 

In 1890 Mr. Fiedler was an unsuccessful can- 
didate for Councilman from the Seventeenth 
W^ard of Cleveland on the Republican ticket, 
and in 1891 was one of tlie four candidates for 
the nomination before the Republican Conven 
tion for the office of Prosecuting Attorney for 
the City Police Court, and receiving the nomi- 
nation was at the coming election chosen to 
that important position by a majority of over 
1,500 votes; and so successfully did he dis- 
charge the duties of the office that in 1893 ho 
was nominated without opposition and re- 
elected by a majority of almost 3,000 votes. 

Mr. Fiedler has fulfilled the duties of his of- 
fice in an able and conscientious manner, win- 
ning the admiration of the court and bar, and 
has won lasting laurels as a public officer. As 
a lawyer he has for some time been recognized 
as one of the most brilliant and promising of 
the younger members of the Cleveland bar. 

In politics 3i[r. Fiedler is an uncompromis- 
ing Republican, yet at the same time is broad 
and liberal in his views, and his tolerance has 



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531 



won him many friends even among the opposi- 
tion. It is tlie opinion of liis many warm 
friends that higher and more important ofRcial 
honors await Mr. Fiedler, and they expect to 
have tlie pleasnre at no distant day of seeing 
him on the bench. He is a Knight of Pytliias 
and a member of the Tippecatioe Club. 

He was married on August 23, 1893, to Miss 
Clara E. Woldmann, of Cleveland, who at that 
time was one of the etiicient teachers in the 
Fowler public school, and who is the daughter 
of Professor Hermann Woldmann, one of the 
oldest and lle^t known of Cleveland's educators, 
who is at present a prufessoi' at the Central 
hi<;h sclinul. 



lllljASlIINGTON 
\PU 'er known as 
■1 "l Mi(.)iidina seer' 



IPtVING POPE (het- 
" I. W." Pope), corre- 
-ponuing secretary of the Cleveland 
Window SliaiJe Company, was born in Otsego 
county. New York, near fUirlington Flats, 
September 14, 1834. His father, Liwis S. 
Pope, w:.,s a native of Fairfield county, Con- 
necticut, ai.d was a farmer in early life and later 
a shoemaker by trade. After his marriage he 
located in Monroe township, Fairfield county, 
and about 1823 moved to Otsego county, New 
York, locating at Burlington Flats, where he 
engaged in farming. In 1835 he emigrated to 
Geauga county, Ohio, settling in Auburn town- 
shij), on a farm; in 1839 moved to Troy town- 
ship, where he lived till 1869, when he changed 
his residence to Chagrin Falls, where he died, 
in 1875, a member of the Masonic fraternity 
and a Spiritualist, although in earlier life he 
was a " materialist." In politics he was at first 
a Democrat, then Whig, Free Soil and Repub- 
lican. For many years he was Justice of the 
Peace in the township of Tro}', Geauga county. 
He was well known as a speculator in live 
stock, and was the first man in his vicinity to 
agitate the question of not pasturing cattle or 
other live stock at large in the public highway. 
While positive in his views and radical for re- 
forms, he was liberal, as any one is inclined t-o 



be who is well posted in the rights of man and 
in the doctrinal issues of the parties. 

Lewis Pope, grandfather of I. W. Pope, was 
also a native of the " Land of Steady Habits." 
The line comprises descendants of Thomas 
Pope, who emigrated from England in 1627, 
binding himself out for seven years' service in 
order to pay for his passage to America. lie 
first settled in Massachusetts, and afterward in 
Connecticut, in both of which States he fol- 
lowed the vocation of an agriculturist. At his 
death he left an estate of £5,000. 

Lewis S. Pope married Miss Charry Smith, 
wlio also was a native of Connecticut, born and 
reared near Milford, New Haven county, and 
died in Chagrin Falls, at the age of eighty- 
eight. Her father, David Smith, a blacksmith 
by trade and of Scotch and Irish descent, is 
supposed also to have been a native of Con- 
necticut. He participated in the Hevohuionary 
war, and died in his ninety-third year. He had 
but one son, David Smith, Jr., who died in 
Chagrin Falls, in his eighty-seventh year; was 
an early settler of the Western Eeserve and 
well known. In the family of Lewis S. Pope 
were four sons and four daughters, namely: 
Lines S., Lucy A. and Andrew D.,all deceased; 
Cornelia T., widow of Miles Punderson and re- 
siding in Hiram, Portage county, this State; 
David L., a prominent and influential farmer of 
Troy township, Geauga county; Charry M., 
wife of II. M. Hervey, of North Madison, 
Lake county, Ohio; Mary J., widow of Charles 
Onderdonk, of the same place; and I. W., 
whose name heads this sketch. 

The last mentioned was one year old when 
his parents settled in Geauga county. He 
completed his school days by attending two 
terms at the Hiram Institute (since College). 
At the age of nineteen years he married and 
commenced housekeeping. A few years after- 
ward he purchased his father's farm in Troy 
township, and followed agricultural pursuits 
there until the autumn of 1864, when he moved 
to Chagrin Falls. The next year he bought 
the Union Hotel property, and conducted hotel 



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business there about two years, when he bought 
the Eggleston House, now the Hotel Irving, 
named in his honor, and remodeled and added 
to it. In 1868, in partnership with Messrs. 
Parker and Pratt, he bought an interest in the 
old Lower paper mill, then devoted to the man- 
ufacture of straw paper, with a tliirty-four-inch 
machine, became the business manager and re- 
built the structure and added to its capacity, 
enabling the company also to manufacture 
manila and flour- sack paper. In 1869 or 1870 
Mr. Pratt sold his interest to John Bleasdale, 
and the firm name became Parker, Pope & 
Company;' in 1871 Mr. Parker sold his inter- 
est, and the company's name became Pope & 
Bleasdale. This company increased the volume 
of production from 1,500 pounds a day to 
5,000, and made paper bags. In the spring of 
1875 Mr. Pope sold out to Mr. Bleasdale, who 
operated the mill until the following autumn, 
when he made an assignment to E. W. Force. 
Mr. Pope, being the principal creditor, organ- 
ized a joint-stock company known as "The 
Chagrin Palls Paper Company," and they pur- 
chased the property. In the same year Mr. 
Pope, witli partners, erected a large paper-mill 
at New Castle, Pennsylvania, of a capacity of 
about 8,000 pounds a day, and he had the su- 
perintendency of the mill, meanwhile having 
also the management of the old Chagrin Falls 
establishment. In 1879, in company with ten 
other men, he l)uilt the railroad from Chagrin 
Falls to Solon, he becoming chairman of the 
constrnction compatiy. In 1880 the president, 
Mr. Reid,and General Manager "Waddell of the 
railroad company undertook to take possession 
of the road without fulfilling their contract, 
when Mr. Pope discovered the movement and 
" threw himself into the breach," taking posses- 
sion of the locomotive and control of the en- 
gineer and holding the train until his associates 
and other trustworthy men came to his assist- 
ance; and the train was put upon its regular 
run. President Keid and Manager Waddell 
were ejected until they should pay their fare; 
an appeal was taken to the courts by the presi- 



dent, and after some months Mr. Pope pur- 
chased the stock of the original railroad com- 
pany and its bonds for himself and associates, 
and was elected president. He had the prop- 
erty sold at public auction, and in the interest 
of himself and associates purchased it, they 
having organized the Chagrin Falls and South- 
ern Railroad Company. Mr. Pope was presi- 
dent until 1885. 

His business enterprises were generally suc- 
cessful; but the mill at New Castle was burned 
in the fall of 1883 with all its contents, with 
but little insurance. At the close of the year 
it was found that the business at Chagrin Falls 
was unsuccessful, and Mr. Pope placed his en- 
tire property in the hands of a committee of 
three of his creditors for the protection of those 
who had befriended him and tlie Chagrin Falls 
Paper Company. This was done during the 
first part of January, 1884. 

After being thrown out of business Mr. Pope 
started out on the road for the Cleveland Win- 
dow-Sliade Company, well knowing that the 
lack of employment would injure the useful- 
ness of any man. In July of the same year he 
met the president of the Marietta & North 
Georgia Railroad Company, wiio made him an 
offer to handle their securities in the markets, 
which was accepted, and he commenced opera- 
tions in September. Associating himself with 
a number of gentlemen, he repaired to New 
York city to negotiate the securities, and witiiin 
a year arranged for the sale of the entire railroad 
property, and it passed into other hands; but 
during this time he also secured the l)usiness of 
handling the property of two other roads, — one 
in Ohio and one in Virginia, effecting con- 
tracts between the presidents of the two com- 
panies and representatives of London capital- 
ists. For that purpose he went to New York 
city to arrange for the construction of over 500 
miles of track, the contracts amounting to 
about §13,500,000; but the contractors from 
London failed to carry out their agreements: 
after about two years" lalxn- they failed for 
about $250,000. 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



Although Mr. Pope's labors in this direction 
were lost, he was not idle, meanwhile finding 
other channels of work. In company with 
other gentlemen he purchased some real estate 
in East New York, platted, graded and sold it, 
settling up all matters within one year, thus 
furnishing him enough to support himself and 
family; hut he concluded that life would be 
pleasanter to be associated with his family 
again, and accordingly, in December, 1888, he 
returned to Cleveland, and has since been asso- 
ciated with his son. Lines Irving, in connection 
with the window-shade company. He, Lines 
Irving Pope, is now president and general 
manager, and also acting treasurer, of the com- 
pany, and also of the Falls Hotel Company in 
conducting the Hotel Irving, where the sub- 
ject of this sketch now makes his home. On 
one occasion he was employed by a company to 
go to Arizona and buy the petrified forest there, 
but, finding the title to the property imperfect, 
declined to make the purchase. 

As to his views on national questions Mr. 
Pope is a Republican. Early in life he was 
prominent in local politics. In 18G0 he was 
elected Trustee of Troy township, Geauga coun- 
ty; about. 1868 he was elected a member of the 
Council of Chagrin Fall.s; and in 1874 Mayor 
of the village of Chagrin Falls, in which office 
he served for four years. 

He was initiated into the order of Odd Fel- 
lows in 1855, in which he has passed all the 
chairs, as well as in the Encampment; has been 
a member of the Masonic order since 1865, in 
which lodge he has been Secretary; and he was 
a member of the order of Knights of Pythias 
for many years. He is a zealous and able ad- 
vocate of the public-school system and of our 
form of government. As to the religions he 
is liberal in the widest sense. In psychologi- 
cal science he is a Spiritualist; is now filling 
the position of second vice-jtresident and secre- 
tary of the Lake Brady Association of Spiritu- 
alists. 

Mr. Pope was married January 15, 1854, in 
Ti-oy, Geauga county, tO Miss Rebecca A. 



Whitcomb, a native of the same township, born 
September 9, 1827. Her father, Israel Whit- 
comb, a native of Massachusetts and of Scotch 
ancestry, came to Ohio about 1809, and was a 
blacksmith and farmer. Her mother, whose 
maiden name was Abigail Holman, was also a 
native of the Bay State, of English descent. 
Mrs. Pope is the seventh and youngest child in 
their family. Mr. and Mrs. Pope have 'a son 
and a daughter; Lines Irving, was born in 
Troy, above mentioned, September 12, 1856, 
graduated at Chagrin Falls high school, at- 
tended Buchtel College at Akron, this State, 
two and a half years, and has been manager of 
the Cleveland Window Shade Company from 
its first establishment, and is now its president 
and treasurer. He came to Cleveland in 1880, 
where he still resides, a successful business man. 
He married Aurelia Douglass September 25, 
1877, and has one daughter, Eleanor, born June 
8, 1890. He is a member of the Masonic or- 
der, was a Councilman for the Thirty-seventh 
ward of Cleveland in 1890-'91; is a public- 
spirited man, and is now vice-chairman of the 
relief committee of the sixth district of this 
city. His sister, Gertrude A., was born in Cha- 
grin Falls, April 3, 1870, and is now the wife 
of Ralph W. Hayes, city editor of the Joliet 
(Illinois) Republican. She is a graduate of 
Oberlin (Ohio) College, and was married Octo- 
ber 27, 1892, and now has a son, born August 
15, 1893, and named Everett Pope Hayes. 



ff^jEV. D. HENRY MULLER, D. D., 
h^ the Presiding Elder of Cleveland Dis- 
11 »i trict of the East Ohio Conference of the 
V Methodist Episcopal Church, is a native 

of Baltimore, Maryland. His ancestors gener- 
ally have been members of this church. When 
a young man he left the city of Baltimore, be- 
gan his ministerial work very early in life, 
served one year in the Baltimore Conference, 
and in the Wisconsin Conference for five years, 
being stationed at Oshkosh and Milwaukee. 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



For his ministerial work he was prepared at the 
theological school at Evanston, Illinois, having 
previously graduated at an academy in the city 
of Baltimore. He came into the ministry with 
a liberal education and with a mind and char- 
acter well suited to the calling, and to all this 
has been added a devont religious nature. In 
1866 he was transferred to the Genesee Con- 
ference and was in Buffalo and Kochester, New 
York, for twelve years. From 1875 to 1877 he 
was pastor of Union Church in Covington, Ken- 
tucky. In 1879 he was transferred to the Erie 
Conference and served the First Methodist 
Episcopal Church at Erie for three years. In 
1882 he was transferred to the East Ohio Con- 
ference, in which he preached live years, 
preaching at the Scovill Avenue and Central 
Churches in Cleveland. He was also located 
for four years at Canton, Ohio, where he 
preached in the First Methodist Episcopal 
Church. In 1891 he was appointed Presiding 
Elder of the East Ohio Conference and in this 
work he is still engaged, residing in Cleveland, 
Ohio. 

The Illinois Wesleyan University, in 1875, 
conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of 
Divinity, and in 1SVI3 the Mt. Union College 
conferred u])on him the degree of Doctor of 
Laws, (ireat success has attended all his la- 
bors as a minister. He is a preacher of elo- 
quence and learning, carries conviction and en- 
kindles interest and enthusiasm. 



ILLIAM W. CALHOUN, whose name 
%f/tf/ '® ^^'' ^"O"''^ '" connection with the 
^ ^ horticultural interests of Cuyahoga 
county, was born at Beaver Dam, Erie county, 
Pennsylvania, January 10, 1838. His parents;, 
John C. and Polly (Conn) Calhoun, were natives 
of New York and Pennsylvania respectively; 
the father was a carpenter and joiner by trade, 
and followed this vocation all his life. He was 
a soldier in the war of 1812, and was discharged 
in Buffalo after that city had been burned. In 



1844 he removed to Ohio, and there died at the 
age of eighty-two years; his wife is also de- 
ceased. They reared a family of nine children, 
seven of whom still survive. 

Our subject was engaged in gardening and 
huckstering in this county when there was a call 
for men to go to the front in defense of the 
Nation's flag. Responding to that call he en- 
listed in I'attery I, First Ohio Light Artillery. 
His first engagement was at Fredericksburg; 
later he was at the extreme right at Chancellors- 
ville, where he loaded the first piece fired there. 
He was transferred to the Twentieth from the 
Eleventh Army Corps, and was afterward in the 
siege of Chattanooga and the Atlanta campaign. 
He left Sherman before the famous march to 
the sea was begun, as he was in another wing of 
the army. When hostilities ceased he was at 
Dal ton, Georgia; he was honorably discharged 
at Chattanooga in June, 1865, and soon after- 
ward arrived home. He was twice wounded 
with bullets, but received a more serious injury 
from a falling cannon. Battery I was said to 
be the only battery that dismounted their 
cannon in drill. This greatly pleased Genei-al 
Schurz, and he promised the battery a great 
honor. This honor later proved to be the privi- 
lege of firing the salute to President Lincoln 
when he viewed the troops of the army of the 
Potomac. Prior to the campaign of Gettysburg 
the troops were called out for inspection by 
General Schurz. No. 1 piece, weighing 1,240 
pounds, was attended by W. W. Calhoun and 
Morris Porter. While holding the piece in a 
perpendicular position, waiting for the order to 
dismount, the cannon tipped and doubled Mr. 
Calhoim to the earth. He was then sent to the 
hospital at Frederick City, where he remained 
several days. The injury to his back which he 
then received is said by doctors to be the cause 
of locomotor ataxia, from which he now greatly 
suffers. After his return home he resumed his 
old occupation of gardening. 

Mr. Calhoun was married in the autumn of 
1860 to Miss Helen Bosley. who died in 1872, 
the mother of three children: Alice Myrta, 



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Sterling "Wallace and Louis Byron. His secoud 
union was to Julia Berglioff, a daughter of 
Nicholas and Ellen Bergholi": one child has been 
horn of this marriage, Anna Ellen, who is still 
a student; Sterling "VV. and Louis B. are engaged 
as traveling salesmen: Alice has won an envi- 
able reputation as a teacher. 

In politics Mr. Calhoun is an ardent Repub- 
lican; he has been a member of the G. A. R., 
and was Colonel of the Ellsworth command; 
he was also Inspector General of the Union 
Veterans of Ohio and Indiana. He has au 
attractive home in East Cleveland and lives for 
the comfort and happiness of his family, of 
whom he is justly proud. Mrs. Calhoun is the 
third of a family of five children: Anna, wife 
of John Hess; Josephine, deceased, was the wife 
of Nicholas Hess; Frances and George. The 
father is still living, at the age of seventy-six 
years; the mother died i?i 1865, aged thirty- 
three years. 



PEV. ANTHONY HYNEK, pastor of 
the St. Wenceslas Catholic Church, Bo- 
^ hemian, on Arch street, in the city of 
Cleveland, was born in Seez, Bohemia, 
in 1839, the only child of Peter and Catherine 
Hynek, who died when he was a mere child. 
He pursued his school studies in the gymna- 
sium at Komotan, Bohemia, for eight years, 
then at the University of Prague, and next 
studied theology in the Episcopal Seminary in 
Leitmertz, where he was ordained priest in 
1865. For three years he was then assistant 
pastor or chaplain in Radonitz, and for an ad- 
ditional period of three years he Ijeld a similar 
position at Gartitz, and in 1871 came to 
America. 

For nearly a year after coming to this coun- 
try he was an assistant priest in Allegheny 
City, of the Pittsburg diocese; then he came to 
Cleveland, where he organized and became pas- 
tor of the congregation (Bohemian) of St. Pro- 
kop (in Latin, Procopius). Purchasing four 



lots, 140 X 160 feet, he had the plan devised and 
executed for the church edifice. He prosecuted 
his work here with success until 1873, when he 
became pastor of the St. Wenceslas, which posi- 
tion he is now filling with acceptable fidelity. 
For the first two years in the last relation ho 
remained also the pastor of St. Prokop's Church. 
For his present charge he has succeeded in 
building two very nice schoolhouses, with rooms 
sufticient to accommodate about 400 pupils, 
and he has also succeeded in building a hall 
and a jjarish home (parsonage]. Besides, he 
has inaugurated eight benevolent societies and 
done much other work too tedious to describe 
in this connection. His congregation grew so 
lai-ge that in 1882 he had to divide it, organiz- 
ing the congregation of St. Mary's of Our Lady 
of Lourdes, Bohemian, on Hani street, for 
which he bought six lots and erected a tempo- 
rary church building. Also in 1883 he origin- 
ated St. Adalbert Church, Bohemian, on Lin- 
coln avenue, buying four lots, 178x200, build- 
ing and enlarging a few years later a tempo- 
rary church edifice, which is also used for a 
school. 

Under his charge Mr. Hynek has 400 fami- 
lies. His old church is nicely furnished, hav- 
ing stained-glass windows and frescoed walls, 
while outside the best improvements appear; 
but it was so small and far from the center of 
the parish that in 1886 he bought from O. M. 
Stafford five lots on Broadway, for $10,250, and 
thereupon has now built a new house of wor- 
ship, in Gothic style, which when com})leted 
will have cost about $80,000, and will be one of 
the largest and finest churches in the beautiful 
city of Cleveland; the architect is Mr. Van 
Deodde. This church has six bells, costing 
$2,400, tlie weight of the largest one being 
7,000 pounds. The front of the building and 
the two towers are of stone; the other walls, of 
brick. The dimensions of the building are 
90x175 feet; and the height of the principal 
tower is 228 feet. 

Id 1890 was celebrated Father Hynek's sil- 
ver jubilee of twenty five years of successful 



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priestliood. Uis congregation and associates 
made him donations of clmrcli ornaments, 
clialices, pictures, etc., the cost of all whicli 
probaldy reaching §1,500. 

A review of Father liynek's work is of inter- 
est, and the success that he has achieved in 
building up the several congregations with 
which he has been connected as pastor and or- 
iginator, marks him as one of the strongest or- 
ganizers and enthusiastic workers as a pastor; 
an<l, being a man of a high order of education 
and a sjieaker of power and eloquence, his in- 
flut;nce is perceptibly felt among his people, 
who liave unlimited confidence in him, and re- 
pose in him great deference. 



DM. JONATHAN MACK VAN NOR- 
, MAN, 289 Pearl street, Cleveland, Ohio, 
dates his birth in Canada, September 1, 

1823. His parents were Isaac and Catherine 
Van Norman, natives respectively of Pennsyl- 
vania and New Jersey. Isaac Van Norman 
was a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, was by occupation a farmer and mill- 
wright, and was a man of more than ordinary 
genius. He was in his ninety-third year at the 
time of his death. His wife lived to be seventy. 
She was a remarkably sweet singei-, and her life, 
like that of her worthy husband, was adorned 
with rare Christian graces. They had ten chil- 
dren, Jonathan M. being the ninth born. Out 
of this family of four sons and si.x daughters, 
only the Doctor and three sisters remain. They 
are as follows: Betsey, wife of Ira Bullock, In- 
gersoll, Canada; Sarah Ann, widow of C. M. 
Luke. Toronto, Canada; and Jare Mack, widow 
of A. D. Emory, Burlington, Ontario. 

Dr. Jonathan M. Van Norman received his 
classical education in Victoria College, at Co- 
burg, but graduated in medicine at McGill Uni- 
versity, Montreal in 1^50. Immediately after his 
graduation he began the practice of his profes- 
sion at Burlington, Ontario. He spent about 
one year there, then about two years in Hamil- 
ton, Ontario, and from there removed to De- 



troit, Michigan, where he remained for twenty- 
nine years, meeting with eminent success. At 
the end of this time overwork and ill health 
compelled him to seek a change of location, and 
he spent one year among friends in Hamilton, 
Ontario. October 19, 1889, he took up his abode 
in Cleveland, with his nephew, Dr. U. B. Van 
Norman, and here he has since remained, not, 
however, in active practice. 

While a resident of Canada, the Doctor was 
commissioned Coroner of the counties of Went- 
worth and Halton, in which capacity he served 
seven years, resigning when he came to the Uni- 
ted States. This was a life appointment, was 
made by the Crown, and was unsought and un- 
expected by him. 

Dr. Van Norman was married in the spring 
of 1850 to Miss Sarah Eliza Emory, daugiiterof 
A. D. Emory. She died April 11, 1891, aged 
sixty-one years, and without issue. She was a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and 
hers was a beautiful Christian character. The 
Doctor is also a member of this church, and 
both he and his nephew are earnest temperance 
workers. The elder Doctor has since its or- 
ganization occupied the position of Grand Sec- 
retary of the Ohio jurisdiction. Royal Teiuplars 
of Temperance, and is also Associate Supreme 
Medical Examiner for the Royal Templars of 
the United States. While he takes pleasure in 
administering to the temporal wants of the sick, 
his greatest delight is in administering to their 
spiritual wants, and much of his time is spent 
in talking, singing and praying with the sick 
and alHicted. 



TIS HARRISON GOULD, one of the 
j prominent pioneers of Cuyahoga county, 
is a native of New England, born in 
Hampshire county, Massachusetts, November 
15, 1815. Uis father, Daniel Gould, was 
born in the same place, November 11, 1780; 
he was a carpenter and tanner by trade. 
In 1817 lie emigrated to Delaware county, 
Ohio, and two years later removed to Sum- 



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luit county, Ohio, where lie resided three 
j'cars, working at his trade. In December, 
1825, he came to Cuyahoga county and took up 
his ahode in a log house on land in Bedford 
townsliip. In January, 1826, lie brought his 
family to tlie present site of the village of Bed- 
ford, and there erected the second frame house 
in the settlement. Here he remained the re^t 
of his life, which ended after eighty-four years. 
He was a member of the Disciple Church, and 
was a deacon of that society. He was a mem- 
ber of the Whig, Free Soil and liopublican 
parties successively, and served as township 
trustee and as school director; he was the first 
mayor of the village of Bedford. He married 
Mary Snell, a native of Massachusetts and a 
daughter of Isaiah SnclI, who was also born in 
Massachusetts of English lineage. The paternal 
grandfather of our subject was Daniel Gould, 
Sr., a native of Massachusetts and a descendant 
of English ancestors; he lived to the age of 
eighty-six years. Mary Snell Gould died at the 
age of seventy-eight years. Otis Hari'ison 
Gould is the eldest of a family of five children: 
Laura S. Remington died November 14, 1893; 
her husband Stephen G. Remington, was promi- 
nently and favorably know as one of the early 
educators of this county; he died July 2, 1890; 
Orris P. was born in 1819; Dr. Charles L. was 
born in 1825 and died in 18G1; Ralph E., born 
in 1828, died in 1835. Otis H. was an infant 
of two years when his parents came to Ohio. 
He received iiis education in the log schoolhouse 
with its primitive furnishings and yet more 
primitive instruction. Wiien he had grown to 
manhood he began to learn the carpenter's trade, 
and incidentally chopped a good deal of cord- 
wood, and assisted in the erection of sawmills 
in different localities. 

In 18-42 Mr. Gould went to Stcuiien county, 
Indiana, and remained there three years during 
which time he served as minister in the Dis- 
ciple Church. Upon his return to Bedford 
township he purchased the farm on which he 
still lives, having disposed of a tract of 1(50 acres, 
which he had previously bought. 



lie was first married at Cleveland, Ohio, in 
1867, this union being to Elizabeth Prestage, 
who bore three children, all of whom died in 
infancy. The mother is also deceased. Mr 
Gould was married a second time, July 25, 
1871, to Margaret Whiteside, who was born in 
county Monaghan, Ireland, October 29, 1847. 
She came to this country with some relatives in 
1867. Her parents are Michael and Nellie 
Whiteside, natives of Ireland; they crossed the 
sea to the United States of America in 1881, 
and settled on an improved farm; the father 
died at the age of eighty-four years; the mother 
survives at the age of seventy-eight. Mr. and 
Mrs. Gould have a family of six children: 
Mamie E., born May 26, 1872, is a graduate of 
Hiram College; Charles J., born October 1, 
1873, is a student in the Western Reserve Uni- 
versity in Cleveland; Annie L., born May 8, 
1875, is a student in Hiram College; D. Lewis 
was born November 18, 1878; Ilattie B. was 
born January 5, 1881; and O. Edward, born 
January 6, 1885. 

Politically Mr. Gould acts with the Repub- 
lican party, and has represented that body in 
several local ofKces, discharging his duties with 
ability and fidelity. He and his wife belong 
to the Disciple Church, in which they are un- 
tiring workers. 



CHARLES YARIIAM, Middleburg town- 
ship, was born in Norfolk county, Eng- 
land, November 12, 1820, a son of Will- 
iam and Mary (^W^illiamson) Yarhatn. When 
he was thirteen years old he came with his 
parents to Canada, where they died. In 1843 
he removed to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and set- 
tled in Rockport township, where he lived two 
years, in 1845 removing to the farnx in Middle- 
burg township, where he lias since lived. This 
farm comprises fifty-eight acres, and he has 
added to its value by improvements. 

He was married in Canada. May 31. 1842, to 
Miss Jane Tudhope, who was born in Lanark- 



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shire, Scotland, June 11, 1820. She came to 
Canada with her fatlier and the family, the 
motlier having died in Scotland. Her father, 
William Tudhope, died in Canada; lier mother 
was Agnes Cadso. Mr. and Mrs. Yarliain are 
the parents of two sons: William J., the eldest, 
was a member of the sixty-fifth Ohio Light In- 
fantry, and was a prisoner of war contined in 
Libby prison, where he contracted small-pox 
and was taken to the hospital at Danville, North 
Carolina, where he died, in January, 1863; 
Walter, the second son, was a soldier in the 
army — a sharpshooter — and was shot at the 
capture of the Weldon Itailroad, in Virginia, 
in August, 1864. Mr. and Mrs. Yarham have 
one adopted daughter, Bessie J. Yarham. 

Mr. Yarham tilled some of the minor offices 
of the township in an early day, and was School 
Director for sixteen year.-;. 



L EVERETT H. JOHNSON, a worthy 
I citizen of Dover township, Cuyahoga 
-i county, is the son of Hon. Leverett 

Johnson, who was born in WooJl)ury, Connec- 
ticut, July 17, 1797; and his wife, nee Abigail 
Cahoon, was a native of Vergennes, Vermont, 
born May 6, 1796. They arrived in Cuyahoga 
county in October, 1810, and were married in 
Dover township, where they passed the re- 
mainder of their lives. They had reared nine 
children, of whom the subject of this brief 
sketch was the seventh. 

He was born September 17, 1827, in Dover 
townshi]), where he has always resided. No- 
vember 14, 1852, he married Miss Marietta 
Reed, who was born in Conneaut, Ashta- 
bula county, this State, December 15, 1835, a 
daughter of Benjamin and Maria (Batterson) 
Reed. They had seven children who grew up, 
of whom Mrs. Johnson was the eldest. Mr. 
and Mrs. Johnson have had live children, two 
of whom died in childhood. 

Mr. Johnson has been a Notary Bublic since 
1872, was Justice of the Beace twelve years. 



and has held all the township offices with the 
exception of Treasurer. He has always taken 
an active part in the public welfare, taking a 
zealous interest in the cause of the Republican 
party ever since its organization. He and his 
wif3 have taken an active and efficient part in 
religious work, and for many years, Mr. John- 
son has been a Deacon of the church. 



FRED MORWICK, a passenger conductor 
on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & 
— St. Louis Railroad, and an efficient and 
faithful employee, began braking for the com- 
pany in 1869. Within three years he was put 
upon a stone train as conductor, and in time 
reached higher grades of service, by degrees, 
being given, in 1887, a passenger run. 

Mr. Morwick was born in Cleveland, Febru- 
ary 27, 1850, attended public school, St. Mary's 
Catholic School and the Cleveland Institute, 
under Brofessor Humiston. Then he was clerk 
for R. M. N. Taylor in his grocery house, next 
was two years with William H. Sholl in the 
beef and pork packing iiusiness, and then com- 
menced railroading as brakeman on the Lake 
Shore road about two years, starting in 1867. 
In 1809 he commenced for the Big Four Com- 
pany as brakeman, and later worked up to be 
freight conductor, which position he had from 
1873 to 1888, since which time he has been 
passenger conductor for the same company. He 
is a member, and has been secretary, of the 
Order of Railway Conductors, Cleveland Divis- 
ion. During the war he was employed by the 
Government about three months, but not as an 
enlisted man, in taking care of stock. 

He was married April 13, 1874, to Miss 
Lottie Geigcr, daughter of Michael Geiger, of 
Cleveland, and Mr. and Mrs. Morwick have two 
children, — Jennie L. and Freddie T. Both the 
parents are members of the Catholic (!hurch. 

John ^Morwick, father of the subject of this 
sketch, came from Ontario to Cleveland in 1849, 
and was employed as u laborer in the construe- 




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OUrAlioCU COUNTY. 



tiou of the Cleveland, Ciiiciuiiati & Chicago 
Eailroad, and died here, February 27, 1888 
(subject's birthday), aged sixty-nine years. lie 
was married in Germany, his native land, and 
had one child, Theodore; and was married a 
second time, in Austria, by which marriage there 
were five children: Fred, the subject of this 
sketch; Mary, who married George Roth; Kate, 
wife of Matthew Darmstadt; Amelia, now Mrs. 
Sherer; and Jane, who became Mrs. John 
Smith, of Detroit. The mother of these chil- 
dren is still living, aged seventy-two, and is an 
honored resident of Cleveland. 



/George C. JULIER.—rromlnent among 
II ¥/■ the successful and representative business 
S:^ men of Cleveland is Mr. G. C. Julier, 
proprietor of the Excelsior Bread, Cake 
and Cracker Works at Nos. 861-8G9 Wilson 
avenue. 

Mr. Julier served an a])prenticeship at the 
baker's trade, and came to Cleveland in ISGO to 
follow the same. He was a first-class baker and 
readily found employment at remunerative 
wages. He worked for different firms until 
187y, when, having a limited capital only, but 
being ambitious, he founded his present busi- 
ness. He first located in a small building on 
Euclid avenue, near Wilson, and began by doing 
all his own baking. His goods were his adver- 
tisement, and his business improved from the 
very first, and in a few years had outgrown the 
accommodations of his small establishment. In 
1883 he was able to erect a building of his own, 
and the present handsome and spacious struc- 
ture on Wilson avenue was completed. This 
building is of brick, two stories in height, with 
a frontage of 120 feet and a depth of 220 feet. 
The plant is equipped with the latest and most 
modern improved machinery, ovens and appli- 
ances, and the establishment is one of the largest 
in the West and a pride to Cleveland. One 
hundred and twenty-five car loads of fiour are 
consumed auniuilly by tbe works, seventy-live 



people, of both sexes, are employed, and twenty 
delivery wagons are required for the city trade. 
Mr. Julier personally superintends all the opera- 
tions of his works, and uses only the finest 
grades of flour and materials, and hence the 
secret of his remarkable success. The princi- 
pal products are bread, rolls, Vienna bread, 
cakes, crackers, biscuits, ginger snaps, etc., and 
his goods are standard in the market for quality, 
purity and uniform excellence. 

Mr. Julier is a live, wide-awake and pro- 
gressive citizen. He takes an active interest in 
piublic affairs, and is an ardent member of the 
Republican party. He is and has l)een for some 
time an active member of the Chamber of 
Commerce. He is kind and courteous to all 
alike, and is charitable alike to individuals and 
institutions. 

Considering the brief time that has elapsed 
since Mr. Julier was an employee, his success 
has been remarkable, and shows that he is pos- 
sessed of more than average business talents 
and judgment and executive ability. In 1879 
he began business on a very limited scale with 
less than |200 capital : to-day he is at the head 
of the largest establishment of its kind in a city 
of over 300,000 people, and all this has been ac- 
complished by his own efforts, unaided by out- 
side influences. Truly, he is a self-made man, 
and his family and friends have just cause to be 
proud of his career. 



f^JI RS. CAROLINE BROWN, relict of 
I \^l the late Peter Brown, is a well-known 
J -1 and popular resident of West Cleve- 
'^ land, where she now holds a conspicu- 

ous preferment as matron of that noble institu- 
tion for the care of the aged infirm, namely, the 
Altenheim. 

Mrs. Brown is of German nativity, as was 
also her husband, and both were descendants of 
prominent and influential families. The parents 
of our subject were Mr. and Mrs. Daniel 
Mayer, and she was one of their six children. 



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lite date of her birth beiug January 14, 1835. 
Daniel Mayer emigrated with liis family to 
America wiien the subject of this sketch was 
thirty years of age, and they settled in Cleve- 
land, where the father was acti^ly engaged in 
the coopering business for a number of years. 
He died in 1863 and the demise of his widow 
occurred six years later. 

The late Peter Brown was born in Germany, 
November 28, 1829, and came to the United 
States when he was eighteen years of age. He 
was a shoemaker by trade and followed that line 
of business successfully for a number of years 
in West Cleveland, attaining a marked popu- 
larity in the community and accumulating a 
very considerable property. He was married to 
Caroline Mayer in 1852 and they became the 
parents of twelve children, only four of whom 
are living at the present time, namely: Paul, 
John, Peter and William. Mr. Brown was a 
Republican and took quite an active interest in 
the political issues of the day. He was a mem- 
ber and zealous supporter of the First Reformed 
Church, on Penn street, with which Mrs. Brown 
is devotedly identified. He died November 28, 
1873, deeply regretted by a large circle of ap- 
preciative friends. 

Mrs. Brown is a woman of education and re- 
finement, having received her educational train- 
ing in Germany, whose schools are celebrated 
for their thorough discipline and advanced 
standards. August 21, 1893, our subject ac- 
cepted the position as matron of the Altenheim, 
of West Cleveland, taking the appointment 
more for the love of being of service to the 
afflicted and infirm than for the incidental pe- 
cuniary returns. She is a most capable nurse, 
having had a practical e.xperience of nineteen 
years, and her particular fitness for the position 
she holds was thoroughly realized by those 
through whom came the preferment. Her un- 
swerving and kindly devotion to those under 
her care lias gained her the love of all thus 
ministered to, while the officials of the institu- 
tion may well felicitate themselves upon having 
secured so excellent an incumbent. 



A woman of wide sympathies and true noble- 
ness of character, Mrs. Brown stands ever ready 
to extend a helping hand to those in afliiction, 
and her name will ever be held in grateful 
memory by many who have been the recipients 
of her unostentatious aid and sympathy. 



rREDEPJCK GROBE, one of the leading 
market gardeners of Cuyahoga county, is 
— a native of Germany, born in 1837. His 
parents, John and Mary (Smith) Grobe, were 
also natives of the " Fatherland," but both are 
now deceased. They reared a family of five 
children, two of whom survive — Hanna, the 
wife of Frank Miller, and the subject of this 
notice. At the age of twenty-four years ilr. 
Grobe was united in marriage to Miss Henrietta 
Hartwig, the daughter of Fred Hartwig, de- 
ceased; the mother of Mrs. Grobe lived to the 
advanced age of eighty years. 

In the spring of 1861 Mr. Grobe emigrated 
to the United States, and settled in Cleveland, 
Ohio. The first two years he was engaged in 
market gardening, and the next two years he 
was employed in a brick-yard. By that time 
he had accumulated sufficient means to start an 
independent business, and he accordingly rented 
a piece of land, which he cultivated thirteen 
years. He then bought a tract of six acres, to 
which he added five acres, both places being 
well improved with substantial buildings; the 
sum of §6,000 was considered an exorbitant 
price for the first tract, but the results have 
quite justified the outlay. He makes a specialty 
of berry culture, producing some of the finest 
varieties grown in this latitude; he also raises 
early vegetables, which command a ready sale in 
Cleveland. His success in life is due solely to 
his own untiring efforts, his industry and strict 
integrity. 

Mr. and Mrs. Grobe are the parents of four 
children: Minnie, a member of her father's 
household; Mary, the wife of J'ames Battles, 
whose history will be found elsewhere in this 



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volume; Charles Christopher, who died April 
21, 1889, was a most promising young man, 
greatly beloved and admired by a wide circle of 
friends: the date of his birth was February 8, 
1865; Katie, born February 22, 1870, died 
January 8, 1878. Mr. and Mrs. Grobe are con- 
sistent and zealous members of the Lutheran 
Church. Although a loyal son of his adopted 
country, our subject takes little interest in 
politics, but casts his suffrage with the Repub- 
lican party. 

Mrs. Grobe is one of a family of seven chil- 
dren: John Hartwigand Hannah Stratman, the 
widow of William Sti-atraan, reside in this 
country; Sophia, Caroline, Dorothea and Wil- 
helmina are all married, and have remained in 
their native land. The voyage of our subject 
and family to America was attended with many 
privations, and when they arrived their funds 
were almost exhausted. During two winters 
Mr. Grobe cut cord-wood at forty cents a cord, 
and was glad of the opportunity. His years of 
patient toil have been rewarded, and heis now in 
the possession of a competence for his declining 
years. 

Christopher Grobe, brother of Frederick 
Grobe, was a soldier in tiie late civil war, a 
member of the Twenty-fourth Ohio Volunteer 
Infantry; he served until his death, which 
occurred at Chattanooga, at the age of eighteen 
years. 



FB. McCONNEK, one of the most worthy 
citizens of Bedford township, Cuyahoga 
-» county, Ohio, was born in Goshen, 
Columbiana county, this State, April 10, 1836, 
son of Samuel and Clarissa (Wright) McCon- 
ner, natives of New Jersey and Pennsylvania 
respectively. The father emigrated to Ohio in 
1806 and settled in Salem, Columbiana county, 
and was one of the sturdy pioneers who paved 
tile way for the onward march of civilization. 
The paternal grandfather of our subject was 
John McConner, also a native of New Jersey. 



It was in 1840 that the family moved to Bed- 
ford and settled on a farn), where the father 
and mother passed tlie rest of their days. Tlie 
former survived to tlie age of eighty-four years, 
and the latter to the age of seventy-six. There 
were eleven children in the family, namely: 
Mareba, Esther, Hannah, Susan, William, Mary, 
Tamson, Matilda, Eliza, John and F. B. Mr. 
McConner affiliated with the Democratic party 
in his younger days, but during the last twelve 
years was independent in politics. His re- 
ligious convictions were those of the Agnostic, 
and at the same time he was liberal and tolerant 
toward all whose views differed from his. 

F. B. McConner was reared to the life of a 
farmer and attended the common schools of the 
neighborhood. Arriving at years of maturity, 
he continued the occupation to which he was in- 
clined in his youth. He owns an excellent 
tract of land, three miles from the village of 
Bedford, where he settled with his parents in 
1840, which land is well improved with sub- 
stantial buildings and all the necessary ma- 
chinery for carrying on agriculture by the most 
approved methods. For seven years Mr. 
McConner was traveling salesman for an agri- 
cultural implement firm, his familiarity with 
the demands of the trade assuring his success. 
He is a memlier of the Farmers' Club and was 
an active worker in the Grange for ten years. 
He was Master of the subordinate grange to 
which he belonged, and also Deputy State Mas- 
ter for Cuyahoga county. He has always been 
interested in the education of the young: 
served the greater part of his life as member of 
the Board of Education, and was several times 
elected Township Assessor. 

At the age of twenty-six years our subject 
married Mary E. Trowbridge, who was born in 
Cuyahoga county, Ohio, daughter of S. D. and 
Mehitable (Garfield) Trowbridge. Mrs. Trow- 
bridge is a sister of the lamented James A. 
Garfield. Mr. and Mrs. McConner iiave had a 
family of five children, viz.: Maude, who died 
at the age of two years; M. G., who died at the 
age of twenty-two ye-Ar9\ Mary Mehitable; 



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CUYABOOA COUNTY. 



Clarissa, who died at tlie age of eight years; 
and Harriet Estelle. M. G. was a popular 
teacher, following that occupation during the 
winter and in the summer being employed as 
ticket agent for the Detroit & Cleveland Steam 
Navigation Company. Capable and honest, 
and always rendering satisfaction to his em- 
ployers, he gave promise of much more than an 
oiilinarv future. 



JOSEPH A. DAY, an honored resident of 
Euclid township, was born April 11, 1843, 
in Collinwood, on the place he now oc- 
cnpies. Plis grandfather, Benjamin Day, was 
born in New Jersey, and moved to Van Bnren, 
Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he 
followed agricultural pursuits and in connection 
ran a small distillery. In June, 1811, he came 
to Cuyahoga county, in advance of his family, 
and took 300 acres of land from the Coimecticut 
Lund Company. He also took a lot at the cor- 
ner of Seneca and Superior streets, in Cleve- 
land, when there were only three houses in the 
place. The latter he sold, to aid in payment 
for the 300-acre purchase. He then had no 
tiiought of the great future of Cleveland, as the 
lake usually kept the sand drifted into the 
mouth of the river to so great an extent that no 
harbor facilities could reasonably be hoped for. 
It is related that he, in company with William 
Hale and Thomas D. Crosley, hearing on Sep- 
tember 10, 1813, a noise as of the firing of 
heavy guns, went to the lake and heard the roar 
of the famous battle of Lake Erie, where Perry, 
with an almost insignificant force, drove the 
enemy, formidable in numbers and equipment, 
from the field. Considering the forces brought 
into action, it seemed lieforehand to be a cer- 
tainty that the British would be victorious, in 
which case the settlers in Cuyahoga county 
would leave their new homes. 

A year later Mr. Benjamin Day brought his 
family from Pennsylvania. The first year his 
tax on the 300 acres was $1.20, and he often re- 



marked in later years that it cost him a greater 
effort to raise that amount than any tax he ever 
paid. This he raised by reducing the forest to 
black salts, this being the only product that 
would command cash, and he iiad to market it 
at Buffalo. At an early day he built a small 
sawmill on his place, the iron for which he 
hauled with an ox team from Pittsburg. He 
walked all the way from Pennsylvania, carrying 
upon his back the grafts for the first orchard 
planted in this section. One variety is now 
known as the " Day Harvest." The fruit from 
this orchard he used to sell at Cleveland, by the 
dozen. 

He married Nancy Andrews, a native of Wash- 
ington county, Pennsylvania, and they had 
three sons and four daughters, namely: Rob- 
ert, Hiram, Floris, Phoebe, Catherine, Margaret 
and Delilah. Phoebe married first a Mr. Hanna 
and secondly a man named Wier; Margaret 
died when a young woman; Delilah married 
first Samuel Cunningham, of Wayne county, 
and secondly D. C. McFarland, of the same 
county, and is now a widow living in Cleve- 
land; Catherine married Hiram Mcllrath; 
Hiram, the father of our subject and the only 
son of Benjamin Day now living, is now re- 
siding on the old homestead. 

September o, 1861, Mr. Joseph A. Day, 
whose name heads this sketch, enlisted in Bat- 
tery B, First Ohio Artillery, and served until 
November 14, 1864. This battery fired the 
first Union gun in Kentucky, at Wildcat moun- 
tain, and then at Mill Springs, where Zollicoffer 
was killed. It was afterward taken on to Nash- 
ville, Stone river, and Cripple creek, where Mr. 
Day was taken sick, and he returned to Nash- 
ville. Subsequently he rejoined his battery at 
Louisville, and, going out against Bragg, en- 
gaged in the battle of Perryville, Kentucky, 
Bridgeport, Alabama, etc. Returning to Nash- 
ville he was mustered out of service, after 
having been three years and two months in tbe 
war. He was never wounded. He was dis- 
charged November 14, 1864, as above stated, 
at Nashville, and returned home. 



GUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



He was married in December, 1866, to 
Elizal)eth Watterman, at Napoleon, Jackson 
county, Michigan. Tlieir children are Ida, 
Catherine, Nellie, Hiram, Lizzie and Ethel. 

Mr. Day was a farmer until about twelve 
years ago, since which time he has been a 
postal clerk. He is a Republican, and, with 
his wife and three eldest daughters, is a mem- 
bur of the Pi-esbyterian Church. He owns 
thirty-three and one-half acres of the old home- 
stead, good farm land, besides eight and one- 
half acres which he has to show for liis war 
record, as he saved his earnings instead of 
spending them foolishly. 



Q 



EORGE WESTON, one of the well-known 
citizens of Dover township, Cuyahoga 
|i county, Ohio, is a man whose honorable 
and upright life entitles him to biograph- 
ical mention among the representative men of 
his community. 

Mr. Weston's father, Asa Weston, was born 
ill Pittsfield, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, 
July 27, 1793, and his mother, nee Thankful 
Ilobbins, also a native of that county, was Ijorn 
Octolier 15, 1797; they were married in Massa- 
chusetts, January 7, 1817. In February of the 
same year of their marriage, Asa Weston and 
Iiis wife started for Cuyahoga county, Ohio, 
where they landed after twenty days of travel 
over bad roads and with horse teams. He pur- 
chased a tract of land in Euclid township, upon 
which lie settled and where he resided for a 
numlier of years. There his wife died October 
21, 1852. In 1855 he removed to Dover town- 
ship, where he remained for several years. The 
last year of his life was spent with his daughter 
in Sheffield, Lorain county, Ohio, where he died 
in 1878, after he had passed his eighty-fifth 
milestone. He and his good wife were the par- 
ents of seven children, namely: Elvira, George, 
Mary Ann, Harriet, Celia, Thomas G. and 
Asa M. 

George Weston, the oldest son in the above 
named family, was born in Euclid township. 



Cuyahoga county, Ohio, October 8, 1819, and 
there he was reared to manhood. He lived on 
the farm with his father until he reached his 
twenty-fourth year. Then he went to Medina 
county, Ohio, and rented a farm, which he op- 
erated for seven years. In the meantime he 
purchased a tract of wild land in that county, 
which he 8ubseo[iiently developed into a fine 
farm. He resided in Medina county until 1855, 
when he removed to Dover township, Cuyahoga 
county, and here ho has since made his home, 
he being the owner of a hundred acres of well 
improved land in this township, on which his 
three sons are settled, prospering in the culture 
of small fruit. 

While living in Medina county, Mr. Weston 
was married, January 1, 1810, to Miss Rhoda 
AUis, of Chatham, that county, who was born 
in Plainfield, Hampshire county, Massachusetts, 
September 28, 1822. Pier father, Lemuel Al- 
lis, was born in Massachusetts, July 9, 1784; 
and her motlier, nee Rhoda Eurroughs, in the 
same State, November 6, 1783. The latter 
died in Plaintield, Massachusetts. Her father 
came to Ohio and settled in Chatham, Medina 
county, about 1832, where he died October 20, 
1855. Mrs. Weston was the third of their 
four children. Mr. and Mrs. Weston have had 
five children, viz.: Asa L., who married Almira 
Need, of Medina county, for his first wife, and 
after her death wedded Ida Fields; Inizetta, 
who died at the age of two years; Arthur E., 
who married Clara Erown; George, who died in 
infancy; and Frank A., who married Iiia Allis. 

Mr. and Mrs. Weston and family are mem- 
bers of the Congregational Church, and zealous 
for temperance. 



IfJfENRY S. FULLER, of Middleburg 
Ip^ township, was born in Strongsville, this 
Jj 41 county, August 28, 1832. His father 
'^ was the late Samuel Fuller, who came 

from Vermont in an early day, about 1829. His 
mother was Lorinda Doty, also of the Green 
Mountain State. They settled in Strongsville 



CUTAHOGA COUNT r. 



township, but afterward removed to Middle- 
bur^ township, wliere they died, he in 1834 and 
slie at the age of tifty-eight years. They had 
two children, George D. and Henry S. George 
I), removed to Huron county, Ohio, and en- 
gaged in farming, and died there in April, 
18'J3, at the age of sixty-two years, a much re- 
spected and prosperous farmer. 

Henry S. Fuller was reared in Middleburg 
township, where he has always resided. He 
was married in Titusville, Pennsylvania, in 
185U, to Electa D. Fairbanks, a native of Chau- 
tauqua county, New York, who died in Mid- 
dleburg, April 3, 1881. They had three chil- 
dren: Charlie, who died in April, 18S1, when 
twenty-one years old; Rinda, wife of F. M. 
Hauserman; and Henry L., who married Ger- 
tie Scrivens, daughter of Edwin Scrivens, of 
Middleburg township. 

The respect and confidence which Mr. Fuller 
commands in his community is evinced by his 
election to the office, which he now holds, of 
Trustee of tiie township. He is a member of 
the Preshyterian Church, in which he serves as 
an Elder. He has always been engaged in 
farming, thus belonging to a class which in our 
country is highly honored, and is constantly 
sending forth throughout the land strong and 
noble sons to be its preachers, statesmen and 
leaders in commerce. 



LBERT E. AKINS was born in Royal- 
ton township, Cuj'ahoga county, Ohio, 
ii ifareh 1, 1847, one of a family of nine 
children, seven of whom are living. His 
parents. Henry and Mercy M. ("Wilkinson) 
Akins, were among the pioneers of Cuyahoga 
county, and are worthy a place in history as 
such. Henry Akins was born in Connecticut 
in 1814, a son of John Akins. AVhen he was 
a child of si.x years his father emigrated to the 
West and settled in Euclid township, Cuyahoga 
county, Ohio; here lie grew to manhood and in 
his youth learned the trade of a shii)-carpenter, 



which occupation he followed for a number of 
years. In later life he turned his attention to 
agricultural pursuits in Royalton township, and 
became a very successful farmer. He was a 
man of broad, progressive spirit, and took a 
deep interest in local politics and all measures 
pertaining to the public welfare. He was a 
zealous supporter of the issues of the Abolition 
party, and when the Republican party was or- 
ganized gave it his allegiance. He would gladly 
have gone to the front in battle when the great 
Civil war broke out, but advancing years for- 
bade. His two older sons were fired with tiie 
same patriotism that moulded the sentiments of 
the father, and enlisted m defence of the Union. 
Mr. Akins lived to the age of sixty-three years, 
his death occurring in 1877. His wife survives 
him, one of the oldest inhabitants of the county. 
She was born in the State of New York in 
1818, and was brought in her childhood to 
Ohio, her parents settling in Huron, Erie 
county. Mr. and Mrs. Akins united in early 
life with the Methodist Episcopal Church, and 
consistently ordered their ways according to the 
precepts of that church. Albert E. Akins was 
reared to the occupation of a farmer. He was 
a youth of fifteen when his two older brothers 
forsook husbandry for the battle-field, adding 
to the responsibilities which he had already 
assumed in the management of the farm. These 
were trying years when warfare absorbed every 
thought of men, and education became of 
secondary importance. During this period 
young Akins had few opportunities of fitting 
liimself for that individual battle which every 
man must fight with his own weapons, but after 
peace had been declared he entered Baldwin 
University at Berea, where he pursued a course 
that enabled him to engage in teaching. For 
eighteen years he held a leading place among 
the successful educators of his county, with- 
drawing from the profession in the fall of 1880. 
It was at this time that he accepted a posi- 
tion in the County Treasurer's oftice as deputy, a 
position he tilled nine years. At the end of 
this period the Republican party nominated 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



543 



liim for County Auditor, and September, 1890, 
saw liiin in ciiHrgc of tliis office. He discliarged 
liio duties witii marked aijility and strict fidel- 
ity, assuring liis nnanimous second nomination; 
tliis was a year of defeat to tlie Republican 
party, and Mr. Akins was one of the victims, 
;iltiiough he ran ahead of his party 1,000 votes, 
lie is an active Republican and believes that it 
is the duty of every citizen to take part in 
political affairs, being the present president of 
the Tippecanoe CInl), one of the most active 
p'jlitical organizations in the State. He is a 
member of the Masonic order and the Knights 
of Pythias. 

In 1871 he was imited in marriage to Miss 
Linnic D. Meachain, of Strongsville, Ohio. 
There have been born to thein two children, 
both of whom arc deceased. 



f^RLIN T. BATTLES, a prominent farmer 



and fruit-grower of Euclid township, was 
■•^ Iwrn in May Held township, this county, 
February 1, 1848, the eldest child of E. D. and 
Harriet (Brainerd) Battles. He was brought 
up in his native township, attended Oberlin 
College and obtained a good business education. 
He was first married in East Cleveland town 
ship, to Fernandes Stone, a native of this 
county, who died October 17, 1872. For his 
second wife Mr. Battles married Sabra Covert, 
in 1875, in Mayfield township. 'She is a daugh- 
ter of (ieorge and Margaret (McDowell) Covert, 
her father a native of the same township, to 
which j)lace his father had come as early as 
1800. Mrs. Battles was born in this township, 
June 17, 1853. 

The year 1877 Mr. Battles was engaged in 
the milk business in Cleveland, and the next 
year located upon the farm where he now re- 
sides, comprising 100 acres with good improve- 
ments. The present buildings were all erected 
by iiim, and here he conducts a good farm with 
system and industry, and is accordingly pros- 
pering. 



He has six children, viz.: Charles E., who is 
now preparing for college; Melvin L., also 
attending school; Luella M., Orlin T., Lottie 
W. and Francis M. 

Mr. Battles, a strong Rf 



ipu 



has held 



several township offices: was president of the 
School Board in 1888-'89. He is a member of 
Erie Lodge, No. 124, K. of P., and of the 
Methodist Episcopal Churcli. All the fore- 
going facts, taken together, indicate that Mr. 
Battles is a prosperous farmer and a good 
citizen. 



ERNST J. SILLER, one of the well-known 
and representative citizens of Cleveland, 
■> Ohio, is the treasurer of the Weideman 

Company, one of the leading wholesale grocery 
and liquor houses in the State of Ohio. He is 
a native of Wurtemberg, Germany, born in 
1847, and was educated in the Fatherland, at- 
tending school until he was fourteen years of 
ao-e. He then entered a mercantile establish- 
ment as clerk, wliere be remained until 1806. 
when he emigrated to the United States. Land- 
ing in New York city in July, he continued his 
journey to Tuscarawas county, Ohio, where he 
had relatives. Here he secured a position as 
clerk in a grocery store in New Philadelphia, 
where he remained eighteen months. On the 
first day of the year 1808 he came to Cleveland 
and took the position of porter with the Weide- 
man Company, which was then known by the 
firm name of Weideman, Teidman & Kent; with- 
in six months' time he had advanced to an office 
position, and after a few months his ability was 
acknowledged and his industry rewarded by 
promotion to the place of bookkeeper and 
cashier to the firm. He continued with the 
house under its various names and different 
managements until January 1, 1874, when he 
was admitted a member of the firm then known 
as Weideman, Kent & Company. As the co- 
partnerships were renewed from time to time 
he increased his interest in the business, and in 



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CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



1886, when Messrs. Kent and Hasbrook with- 
drew, jVIr. Weideniaii, Jr., J. C. Weideman, 
Christian Xarten and Mr. Siller heeaine the sole 
owners. In 1889 the firm was incorporated as 
The Weideman Company. 

In reviewing tlie life of this adopted son of 
our Xation, one cannot fail to be impressed 
with tlie fact that industry, energy and perse- 
verance claim their reward. Coming to this 
country without means or friends, he grappled 
manfully with the obstacles that presented them- 
selves to him, and raised himself to his present 
enviable position unaided, owing no fealty to 
any man, a debtor only to his own unflinching 
courage and steadfastness of purpose. 



SAMUEL W. BUEROWS, a hardware 
merchant at No. 1222 Euclid avenue, 
Cleveland, was born in Deposit, Dela- 
ware county, New York, in 1840. His father, 
Palmer L. Burrows, was born in that town in 
1812, and is still engaged in farming in Dela- 
ware county. He was Captain of a militia com- 
pany in New York, which was called out to 
quell the disturbance arising from rent collec- 
tions in that State in the '30s. He was also 
elected Captain of the One Hundred and Forty- 
fourth Kegiment, of New York Volunteer In- 
fantry during the late war, but after eiglit 
months of service was injured by jumping a 
ditch, and was discharged. Since that time he 
has been engaged at his farm duties. Mr. Bur- 
rows' father, Peris Burrows, was a soldier in 
the Revolutionary war, as was also liis grand- 
father. The latter was killed at the battle of 
Stotiiiigton, Connecticut, and his name appears 
on the monument at that place, which contains 
the names of the heroes who fell at that battle. 
Peris Burrows' father was a farmer of Connect- 
icut. The mother of our subject, weeSophronia 
Shaw, is a daughter of Ansel Shaw, a native of 
Bennington, Vermont. He was a soldier in the 
war of 1812, afterward resided at Delhi, New 
York, and his death occurred at the awe of 



eighty-six years. Ansel Shaw married Lavina 
Phillips, a daugliter of General Phillips, of 
Ilevolutionary fame. He was a descendant of 
Baron Steuben, after wliom Steuben county, 
New York, is named. Palmer L. Burrows, 
father of our subject, was one of ten children, 
all of whom grew to mature years, and eight 
lived to raise families. Palmer L. and Sopliro- 
nia Burrows had six children: Charlotte L., 
wife of John Sumner, of Arrat, Pennsylvania; 
Samuel W., our subject; Lymus P.; Oceanna 
A., wife of Earl Smith, of Deposit, New York; 
James F., a resident of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and 
Orin P., of Washington. Mrs. Burrows is still 
living. 

Samuel W., the subject of this sketch, at- 
tended the public schools of his native place, 
and afterward entered the Deposit Seminary. 
While there the Civil war burst upon the 
country. July 9, 1861, at Elmira, lie entered 
the Twenty-seventh New York Volunteer In- 
fantry, under Colonel Slocum. The regiment 
was immediately sent to Washington, District 
of Columbia, and on the 21st of the same month 
took part in the battle of Bull Run. Mr. Bur- 
rows' first heroic adventure in that engagement 
was tlie saving of the life of Henry O. Wheeler, 
a former schoolmate and friend, who enlisted at 
the same time as our sul)ject. He carried the 
wounded man some distance, when he discovered 
an artillery horse tied to a rail. Placing the 
wounded man on the horse, they embarked for 
Washington, arriving at that city at seven 
o'clock on the following morning, and thirty 
years afterward they held a reunion at the old 
homestead at Deposit. It is needless to say that 
Mr. Wheeler has ever kept a warm place in his 
heart for the memory of his old comrade, who 
came to his rescue on that terrible liattle field. 

The regiment returned to Washington, where 
they were drilled until the winter of 1862, and 
the array was then reorganized by General Mc- 
Clellan. February 22, of that year, they moved 
to Manassas Junction. While in McClellan's 
army, Mr. Burrows took part in the battles of 
Yorktown, Gaines' Mills, Charles City Cross 





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GUTAHOGA COUNTY. 



Iloads and Malvern Hill; under General Burn- 
side, was in the ])attleof Fredericksburg; under 
General Pope, the second battle of Bull Kun; 
again under McClellan, the battles of Compton 
Pass and Antietain; under General Hooker, 
Chancellorsviiie. Mr. Burrows was honorably 
discharged in July, 1863. 

After returning home he assisted in raising 
a company of cavalry, afterward known as 
Company H, First Veteran New York Cavalry, 
under Colonel J. F. Taylor. Thej were mus- 
tered into service in September, 1863, and were 
stationed in the Shenandoah valley, under Gen- 
erals Sigel, Hunter and Sheridan. As a 
cavalryman, Mr. Burrows took part in the bat- 
les of New Market, Cedar Creek and Piedmont. 
He was taken prisoner at the latter place, and 
during liis eight months of confinement was in 
tiie following prisons: Danville, Salisbury, 
Macon, Savannah, Charleston and Columbia. 
With twenty-one others he made his escape 
from the latter place, and in twenty-seven days 
covered a distance of 300 miles. They received 
provisions from farmers and negroes sufficient 
to last them over the Smoky mountains. In 
the attempt to get through the mountains the 
guide employed lost his trail on account of 
snow, and they wandered about for three days 
without provisions. When witliiu one-half 
day's walk of the Federal lines they came to a 
pass in the mountains which was guarded by 
by Southern soldiers. They were easily cap- 
tured, taken to Danville prison, afterward to 
Libby prison, and from there, on February 22, 
they were exchanged. Mr. Burrows returned 
home on a leave of absence of one montii, and 
ia April, 1865, joined his regiment in West 
Virginia. He was mustered out of service in 
June, of the same year. 

After returning home our subject was en- 
gaged in different capacities with the Wheeler- 
Dusenljury Lumber Company, of Pennsylvania, 
for nine years. In 1874 he came to Cleveland 
and entered the employ of A. Teachant & Com- 
pany, for one year; for the following seven 
years was a member of the hardware firm of 



Burrows & Moore, after which Mr. Moore sold 
his interest to Mr. N. C. Bosworth. The com- 
pany's name then was Burrows & Bosworth. In 
March, 1889, it was incorporated under the 
firm name of the Burrows-Bosworth Hardware 
Company, with our subject as president. The 
business was first carried on in a small frame 
building, and they now occupy two floors in a 
beautiful and commodious block. They carry 
a general line of hardware, stoves, ranges and 
furnaces. 

In May, 1870, Mr. Burrows was united in mar- 
riage with Miss Jennie M. Ehodes, a native of 
Akron, Ohio. She is a daughter of Jacol) 
Ehodes, and a sister of J. H. Ehodes, now de- 
ceased, at one time President of Hiram College. 
Our subject and wife have had five children: 
Fred E., Louie W., Mary S., Harry G. 
(deceased), and Carl P. Mr. and Mrs. Burrows 
are members of the First Baptist Church of 
Cleveland, in which the former holds the office 
of Deacon. Socially, he is a member of the G. 
A. E., and the Loyal Legion, and politically, is 
a stanch Eepublican. 



|V^I EWTON WILLIAM TAYLOE, a native 
I \l of Madison county, New York, was born 
Jj li July 12, 1823, the son of George T. and 
V Mary (Hubbard) Taylor, and was the 

eldest of a family of four children. Of Eng- 
lish descent, he traces his paternal ancestry 
back through many generations of sturdy Eng- 
lish yeomanry. For more than 300 years suc- 
cessively some of his ancestors have occupied 
"Little Baddow Hall" in Essex county, Eng- 
land. His paternal grandmotlier was a direct 
descendant of the Earl of Mar, a Scotch noble- 
man. His grandfather, Thomas Taylor, emi- 
grated ft-om England in 1795, landing on the 
6th of July at Marblehead, Massachusetts, 
whence he soon afterward went to AVindisor, 
Connecticut, and in 1812 settled at Madison, 
•New York. 

Our subject's father, George T. Taylor, was 
born at Windsor; Connecticut. He was a farmer 



GUTAHOOA OOUNTT. 



in early life, but in after years became a pros- 
perous wool merchant. lie was a man of con- 
siderable local prominence in his community, 
and was highly esteemed by all who knew him. 
He was for several terms a member of the New 
York General Assembly, and also held the office 
of Town Supervisor. He was a Presbyterian 
in his religious faith, and was prominent in re- 
ligious and benevolent work, and was widely 
and familiarly known as " Deacon Taylor.'' He 
became a resident of Cleveland in 1855, and 
died there in 1870, at the age of seventy-two 
years. Our subject's mother was a native of 
Massachusetts, and died about 1828. Of his 
brothers, Albert H. Taylor, who went to Cali- 
fornia during the "gold fever" of 1849, died 
there, at the age of twenty-seven: Horace Tay- 
lor died at Cleveland, aged about thirty years. 
His only sister is Mrs. Henry W. Whittlesey, 
of Cleveland. 

Newton passed his lioyhood on the old home- 
stead in Madison county, attending the district 
school and assisting in the farm work. At the 
age of fourteen he became a clerk in the village 
store, and after five years of service in that 
capacity he was made a partner in the business. 
He was a young man of clear foresight in busi- 
ness afl'airs, of sound judgment and trust- 
worthy, and when but eighteen years old was 
sent to New York city to purchase goods for 
the firm. That copartnership continued some 
three years, and then young Taylor removed to 
Buffalo and for a short time engaged in the 
produce business on his own account, after 
which he was associated with his father a few 
months in Oiiio, in the purchase of wool for 
eastern manufacturers. 

During this last employment his business 
called him to (Mevelaiid. Tlie favorable busi- 
ness outlook there so impressed him that he at 
once resolved to make it Iiis future home. That 
was in 1849. He first engaged as a dry-goods 
clerk for A. D. Cutter, and at the expiration of 
six- months became a partner in the business, a 
relation which he sustained until the decease of 
Mr. Cutter, in 1851. The business was after- 



ward continued under the name of Taylor, 
Griswold & Company till 1855, when Mr. Tay- 
lor withdrew from the firm as an active part- 
ner, though still retaining an interest in its 
affairs. His careful management had enabled 
him to amass capital sufficient for larger enter- 
prises, and, in connection with other Eastern 
capitalists, he purchased a large tract of timber 
land in Ionia county, Michigan, and there 
erected sawmills, flouring-mills and other build- 
ings necessary for the conduct of the lumber 
trade. That was the beginning of the now 
prosperous town of Hubbardston. With a view 
to furnishing a market place for the products 
of these mills, Mr. Taylor, during the same 
year, opened a lumber yard at Chicago, and re- 
mained there in charge of it for one year, until 
the enterprise was firmly established, and then, 
retaining his interest in the business, re- 
linquished its active management to his part- 
ners. 

Ileturuing to Cleveland in the fall of 1856, 
he organized The Lake Erie Paper Company, 
which built and equipped a large plant at Cha- 
grin Falls, that was successfully operated until 
it was burned in 1857. The company then 
transferred its operations to Cleveland, erecting 
the paper-mill on Forest street, and conducted 
it until in 1859, when the business of Messrs. 
Younglove & Hoyt was purchased, and the 
company reorganized under the name of The 
Cleveland Pajjer Company. Four years later, 
in 1863, tiie company bought the Monroe Falls 
Paper-Mill, in Summit county. In all these 
vast enterprises Mr. Taylor was the guiding 
spirit, and he at the same time was a stock- 
holder in and president of the Massillon Paper 
Company, and owned a large interest in the 
pajier-mill at Canton; also, he was the princi- 
pal stockholder in the New Philadelphia (Ohio) 
Paper Company. The Cleveland Paper Com- 
pany have had extensive warehouses in both 
Cleveland and Chicago since 1866. He was 
also president of the Forest City Insurance 
Company from its organization, for fifteen 
years, when its business was transferred to the 



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Factory Mutual of New England. In 1880 
Mr. Taylor built the only wood-pulp mill in 
Ohio, and also erected a third mill for the 
manufacture of paper. At the present time 
(1894) he is the principal stockholder in the 
Eastern Paper- Bag Manufacturing Company of 
Boston, controlling numerous and valuable 
patents for making paper bags and flour sacks, 
and also owns large interests in the Indiana 
Paper Company of Indianapolis, with mills at 
South Bend and Mishawaka. lie was also a 
director of the paper mills at New Castle, Penn- 
sylvania, and president of the Cleveland Win- 
dow-Shade Company. 

As a business man Mr. Taylor is prompt, far- 
sigiited, energetic and reliable. Comprehensive 
in his plans, he has executive and financial 
ability of a high order, and seldom, if ever, fails 
in the realization of the highest and best results. 
He is public-spirited, decidedly a man of affairs, 
and from his abundant means liberally supports 
all worthy enterprises. He has traveled exten- 
sively, visiting the principal places of interest 
in foreign lands, and from his constant reading 
and study of men and affairs keeps himself in 
touch with current events. He is a Republi- 
can in political sentiment, and during the Civil 
war made large donations to the support of the 
Union cause. Though often solicited to accept 
pul)lic office, he has uniformly declined, owing 
to the demands of his extensive business affairs. 
His broad sympathies prompt him to many 
benefactions and bring him into the most 
friendly relations with all who come in range 
of his influence. This is especially true of his 
numerous employes, for whom he has a deep 
solicitude and almost paternal care. 

In December, 1849, Mr. Taylor married Miss 
Mary Thompson, of New York city, and by her 
has one son and one daughter. With his fam- 
ily he attends the services of the Episcopal 
Church. Mrs. Taylor's grandfather, Nehemiah 
Thompson, was a soldier in the Revolutionary 
war, and had six sons and three daughters. He 
was one of the first settlers of Madison county, 
New York, was a pious man and one of the 



founders of the Congregational Church in Madi- 
son. His second son, Charles, was a soldier in 
the war of 1812, and was the father of Mrs. 
Taylor. He was born in Stratford, Connecticut, 
emigrated to New York when twenty-one years 
of age, and died there in 1842. 



rj. BARTLETT, proprietor of the Cedar 
Mills at Cedar Point, North Olmsted, 
^ has been engaged in the milling business 
since 1887. He was an infant when he was 
brought to Cleveland by his parents in 1836, 
from New York city, where he had been born 
in 1832. His father, F. R. Bartlett, was a 
native of Devonshire, England, and his mother, 
whose maiden name was Elizabeth Brown, was 
a native of London, same country. They were 
married in 1831, and came direct to New York 
city, in 1836 to Cleveland, and in 1840 to 
Liverpool, Medina county, this State, settling 
upon a farm. In 1846 they removed to a farm 
near Strongsville, where Mr. Bartlett died in 
1862, and Mrs. Bartlett in 1882. Of their six 
children four are yet living, namely: F. J., the 
subject of this sketch; William, married and 
residing in Strongsville; Edward, who enlisted 
in 1862, in Company A, One Hundred and 
Twenty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for 
three years, and died at Nashville, Tennessee, 
of wounds he had received at Chattanooga, in 
1864: John enlisted in the same regiment, and 
died at Franklin, Tennessee, in 1863; Elizabeth, 
who is the widow of Simeon Kenniff, and is 
Postmistress at Strongsville; James, Jr., is 
married and lives at Strongsville. 

Mr. Bartlett, whose name introduces this 
sketch, resided in Liverpool six years, and six 
years also in Brunswick, Medina county, this 
State. He completed his school life at Berea 
College, attending there three terms, next fol- 
lowed teaching for several years, and then en- 
listed in the army for the Union, in Company 
A, One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Ohio Vol- 
unteer In-fantry, at Strongsville, and was 



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assigned to the Army of the Cumberland. At 
first his company was stationed near Franklin, 
Tennessee. In 1864 be was promoted to the 
position of First Lieutenant, tiien to tliat of 
Captain of Company I), Twenty seventh Kegi- 
ment of United States Colored Troops, and 
served to tbe end of the war; was in General 
Grant's command from Washington to Eich- 
mond, and was mustered out of service at Wil- 
mington, North Carolina, and honorably dis- 
charged in October, 1865, at Columbus, Ciiio. 

Returning to Strongsville, he engaged in 
farming and shoemaking. He now owns the 
old homestead of fifty-four acres at Strongsville. 
In politics he is a Ilepublican and takes an 
active interest in national questions. For twelve 
years lie was Justice of the Peace in Strongs- 
ville, and he has now been Justice in Olmsted 
tojvnship two years. He is a member of Olm- 
sted Falls Post, No. 634, G. A. R., and has 
been Commander of the post; is also a member 
of Rocky River Lodge, I. O. O. F. Both him- 
self and wife are members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church at Olmsted Falls, and he is 
one of the Stewards of tbe society there. 

He was married in 1854, at Berea, to Miss 
Jane T. Foster, a daughter of Nathan and 
Betsy (Hulet) Foster, now residents of Berea. 
Her father was a native of Connecticut. Mr. 
and Mrs. Bartlett have three children, as fol- 
lows: Myrten M., wife of Stonesbury McKee, 
and residing in Olmsted township; Mina A., 
now Mr.s. Charles Ashlin, of Brooklyn, who is 
an official of the Treasury Department; and 
Uallie, at home. 



SHERLOCK S. GREGORY, one of the 
\ pioneers of Middleburg township, Cuya- 
- hoga county, Ohio, was the eon of Uriali 

and Lncretia (Ely) Gregory, of Sandiake, Rens- 
selaer county. New York. He was born in 
Albany, January 11>, 1802, and spent his early 
life at iiome with six brothers and three sisters. 
His parents were of English Puritan ancestry. 



his mother a daughter of Colonel John Ely, an 
officer in the Revolution. The mother of S. G. 
Goodrich (Peter Parley) was another daughter, 
and Mr. Goodrich in his " Recollections of a 
Life Time," mentions the Gregory family. 

Mr. (iregory's father was a physician in ex- 
tensive practice; he had also a farm, a store, 
the post office and a trading sloop on the Hud- 
son. Thus, without having inherited wealth, he 
was able to bring up his numerous family in 
comfort and refinement, and give all his chil- 
dren a good education, and several of his 8ons a 
college education. He was a man of stanch in- 
tegrity and uprightness. 

Sherlock S., who was the fifth in the family, 
assisted his father in the store and on the farm; 
emigrated to Ohio about 1845, and purchased a 
small farm in Middleburg township, Cuyahoga 
county, Ohio. He took much interest and 
pleasure in raising choice fruit and vegetables. 
He remained on this little farm until his death, 
September 25, 1885. He lived to see many 
changes around him. The beautifully cultivated 
farm of 300 acres of J. B. Perkins, adjoining 
his was, when he first came, mostly woodland, 
with clearings here and there occupied by eight 
or ten families of poor people, many of them 
negroes. 

S. S. Gregory was a very conscientious man. 
He " set the Lord always before him " in all he 
did. His daily work was done unto the Lord, 
and he considered it his duty to work some and 
rest some every day of the week, endeavoring 
to live to the Savior, and look upon Him as the 
rest — the true Sabbath of the Christian. He 
never sought wealth, l)ut was careful to provide 
so as to be independent, and was scrupulously 
careful never to remain in debt a day. His dis- 
position was retiring, and he was very careful 
in conversation, and avoided saying anything 
about a person in his absence that he would not 
say if he were present. He never voted, be- 
lieving a Christian could not take part in a 
government that depended on the support of 
war. He took much iiitci-cst in the aborigines 
of this country, and found much to convince 



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hi 111 tliat they were the descendants of the 
" Ten Tribes of Israeh" Pie spent many years 
in collecting hundreds of proofs in support of 
this theory, and left a work of valuable com- 
pilations on this subject, but did not get it pub- 
lished. 

In his youth, he vieited Europe, and was in 
England and Portugal, in California about 1851, 
but, finding his health fail there, he only re- 
mained a sliort time, and went thence to the 
Sandwich islands. He spent some time there, 
and enjoyed his visit there very much, so that 
in after years he often spoke of wishing to go 
there to live. He made the trip to California 
and back in sailing vessels, around Cape Horn. 

lie had suffered much from ill health in his 
youth, but a temperate and self-<lenying life 
enabled him to reach old age in comparative 
comfort. 

He was married to Hannah Yarnal Meredith, 
of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, whose ancestors 
were mostly English Friends, among the first 
settlers of Pennsylvania. He leaves one son. 
Dr. William Meredith Gregory, of Berea, Ohio. 



d( F. IIAIIPER, treasurer of the Chagrin 
Falls Banking Company, is one of the well 
— known men of Chagrin Falls and has been 
connected with the bank for several years, first 
being a member of the banking firm of Rodgers 
& Harper, which was organized in 1885, and 
did a good business. Its stock was sold to the 
Chagrin Falls Banking Company in 1893. Mr. 
Harper's experience and ability and extensive 
accjuaintance makes his eonection with the bank 
of great value and importance. 

The subject of this sketch was born in Orange 
township, October 10, 1858, as a son of Hector 
and Margaret Harper. The faiher was a well 
known and respected citizen of Orange town- 
ship, where he lived many years. He died No- 
vember 30, 1881. 

The youth of J. F. Harper was spent on his 
father's farm and he received his education at 



Baldwin University, Berea, Cuyahoga county, 
Ohio. He was married at the age of thirty, in 
Bainbridge township, Ohio, to Miss Jessie B. 
Kent, a daughter of G. H. Kent, of Bainbridge, 
a respected citizen of that place. Two children 
have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Harper, — Win- 
ifred and Lawrence. 

In politics Mr. Harper is a Democrat. He is 
a member of the town Council and has been 
Treasurer of the town. Fraternally Mr. Harper 
is a member of the Golden Gate Lodge, No. 
24:5, Chagrin Falls Chapter, and Oriental Com- 
mandry of Cleveland, No. 12, F. & A. M. 
Though but a young man Mr. Harper has 
gained an enviable position in the town, both 
socially and financially. 



LUTHER BRAINERD, a well-known 
I farmer and highly respected citizen of 
i Brooklyn township, Cuyahoga county, 

Ohio, was born in this township, February 6, 
1820. His father, Demas Brainerd, a native of 
Connecticut, came out West to Ohio in 1815, 
coming with his father, Amos Brainerd, also a 
native of Connecticut, and settling in Cuyahoga 
county. A few years after his arrival here, 
Demas Brainerd was married to Nancy Brain- 
ard, their marriage occurring in Newbnrg town- 
ship, this county. Mrs. Brainerd, too, was a 
native of Connecticut, and had come out here 
with her parents not long after the other family 
of Brainerds had located in this county. After 
their marriage they settled on a farm in Brooklyn 
township, which they cleared up and improved, 
and on which they spent the rest of their lives. 
She died at the age of sixty-six and he died in 
his ninety -first year. They were the pai-entsof 
four children, three daughters and one son, the 
subject of our sketch being the oldest. 

Luther Brainerd grew up on his father's 
farm, attended school in the log schoolhouse 
near his home and also took a course in the 
academy at Brooklyn village. He has been en- 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



gaged in general farming all his life. Heowna 
fifty acres of good land and is comfortably 
situated. 

Mr. Brainerd was first married in 1841 to 
Marcia Sprague, a native of New Hampshire, 
who died some years later, leaving him with a 
family of three children, Nancy A., Lewis A. 
and Frank L., all of Brooklyn township. He 
was married in 1881 to Ann J. Sprague, a na- 
tive of Oliio, and a sister of his first wife. 

Mr. Brainerd takes a commendable interest 
in the local affairs, and has held several of the 
school offices. Formerly he affiliated with the 
Republican party, but of recent years he has 
been a Prohibitionist. For many years a mem- 
ber of tiie Methodist Episcopal Church, he has 
served in it as a Trustee, Steward and Treasurer. 



F 



W. CARLISLE, merchandise broker 
and manufacturing agent, residing at 
1289 Cedar avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, 



was l)orn in Chiilicothe, Oiiio, October 
20, 1S28. His parents were John, Sr., and 
Elizabetli Carlisle, of whom see elsewhere in this 
volume. He was educated in the common 
schools of Chiilicothe, and in the Chiilicothe 
Academy. Li the latter, for many years, his 
instructor was William 1). Wesson, one of the 
noted and highly accomplished educators of that 
part of Oliio. 

After school days he engaged in the lumber 
business, owning a sawmill at the mouth of 
Sunfish creek in Bike county, Ohio, on the Ohio 
canal. He owned then about 5,000 acres of 
well timbered land. He turned the timber into 
lumber, and after the great fire in Chiilicothe 
of 1852 ho sold a large amount of lumber for 
rebuilding the houses of the city. It was a 
splendid business at that time. He sold the 
sawmill in 1855, and then wont West to Illinois 
and traveled sevei-al years prospecting. He was 
appointed during the late war by Governor 
Dennison as sutler for the Thirty-firSt Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry, and continued as sutler for 
that regiment until the war closed in 1865. 



After the war he engaged in the wholesale gro- 
cery business in Chiilicothe, Ohio, under the 
firm name of Allston & Carlisle. In this he 
continued for two years, then fjold out and went 
to Cincinnati, Ohio. He also engaged in the 
same business there, and had a branch house in 
Memphis, Tennessee, where they supplied the 
five government hospitals with all kinds of food. 
In tliis they were prospered. He closed that 
business out in the fall of 18f55, then managed 
tlie Cincinnati (Ohio) house until 1866, when 
he sold that out too, and returned to Chiili- 
cothe, where he remained some time. In 1876 
he engaged in the flouring business in the town 
of Worthington, Nobles county, Minnesota, 
which he conducted for two years, afterward 
selling out and returning with his family to 
Chiilicothe, where he remained until he came to 
Cleveland, Ohio, in 1883. He has been engaged 
in his present business ever since. 

He was married to Miss Emma V. Barr, 
September 1, 1859, in Chiilicothe, OJiio, daugh- 
ter of John II. Barr, an editor at Wilmington, 
Delaware. Following were Mr. and Mrs. 
Carlisle's children : Henry Nelson, Jr., who died 
at six years of age; William Woodson, manu- 
facturer of varnishes and chemicals in Chicago, 
Illinois; Charles Arthur, residing at South 
Bend, Indiana, and is a member of the cele- 
brated and world renowned Studebaker Broth- 
ers Manufacturing Company, the largest and 
wealthiest concern of its kind in the world: 
September 17, 1891, he married Anne, only 
daughter of Hon. Clem Studel)aker, the presi- 
dent and founder of the Studebaker Company; 
Isabella Barr, only daughter, resides with her 
parents; John Andrew, Harvard student; Addi- 
son Alexander, electrical engineer, who was in 
charge of an extensive and important division 
of the electrical lighting of the World's Colum- 
bian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, in 1893, in- 
cluding the famous Peristyle, Casino, Music 
Hall and the Grand Basin ; Meade II. and Mc- 
Lain D. (twins), who both died in infancy; 
Robert S., a student in tlio public schools of 
Cleveland. 



CUTAHOGA COUNTY. 



Both our subject and wife are members of 
tlie Presbyterian Clnirch. In the commnnion 
of this clinrcli they have been faitliful and de- 
voted for many years. Upright and honorable 
in all his dealings, Mr. Carlisle conducts his 
business by methods which commend him to the 
favor and confidence of the trade, and he is 
justly regarded as one of Cleveland's most 
worthy and iniluential citizens. 

John Carlisle, Sr., was a native of Ireland, 
who came to America in the latter part of the 
eighteenth century, and it is presumed settled 
in Pennsylvania. He came to Chillicothe in 
1798, while this State was yet one of the Ter- 
i-itories, and settled there. lie was a pioneer 
merchant, having a main store in Chillicothe, 
aud branch stores in surrounding towns. He 
obtained all his goods from Philadelphia over 
the mountains, and in his trips back and forth 
he traveled on horseback. He did an extensive 
iKisiness for that day, and toward the close of 
life for a number of years was elected and re- 
elected to the important office of Commissioner 
of Ross county, Ohio. His re-election for sev- 
eral terms speaks in unmistakable terms of the 
high esteem in which he was held for his official 
services well rendered in a place of public trust. 
He was well and favorably known for many 
years over the southern portion of Ohio. In 
the matter of dress, he loved the fashions of 
other days, etc., wore knee buckles of pure 
silver, as were worn in Colonial times. These 
knee buckles are still in possession of the fam- 
ily. The P'irst Presbyterian Church of Chilli- 
cothe, Ohio, had a debt hanging over it for 
many years which the society could not liqui- 
date. Mr. Carlisle paid the debt from his own 
purse, and presented the same free of debt to 
the Presbyterian Church members of Chilli- 
cothe. He was for many years a member of 
the Presl)yterian Church. His wife, too, was 
one of the pillars of the same church. She was 
a generous, kind-hearted, charitable Christian 
woman, fully living up to the precepts of the 
gospel and possessing all the qualities of noblest 
womanhood. She was highly esteemed and 



loved by a large circle of acquaintances. The 
John Carlisle pew in that church was reserved 
for them for many years in token of his many 
kind and courteous services rendered. 

The nine children born to John Carlisle, Sr., 
and wife are as follows: Andrew, deceased; 
William, deceased; John, deceased; Eleanor 
Ann, deceased; Henry Nelson, deceased; Eliza- 
beth, widow of the late liev. Irwin Carson, for 
many years pastor of the Presbyterian Church 
of Chillicothe, Ohio; Lucy, an invalid for many 
years; Julia, deceased, who was the wife of 
Samuel P. Officer: she died in the twenty-third 
year of her age; Meade Woodson, the youngest. 

M. W. Carlisle's father was an ardent poli- 
tician and a great admirer of Henry Clay, with 
whom he was intimately acquainted, and our 
subject has in his possession, signed by Henry 
Clay, Secretary of State, a passport dated Jan- 
uary 25, 1827, also a letter to an influential 
friend, highly commending him as a friend and 
an acquaintance of many years' standing, when 
Mr. Carlisle visited Mexico. On April 4, 1807, 
the fifth year of the independence of Ohio, he 
received a commission as Captain of Ohio mili- 
tia. Said document is yet well preserved and 
in the possession of our subject. John Carlisle, 
Sr., died in Chillicothe, Ohio, July 19, 1847, at 
the ripe old age of seventy-six years. His wife 
died January 28, 1849, aged sixty-two years. 
The lives, influence and example of this aged 
couple are an endearing heritage to the family, 
the community in which they lived, and the 
church of their choice. 

Charles Arthur Carlisle, assistant general 
manager and purchasing agent of the Chicago 
& South Bend Eailroad, with office at South 
Bend, Indiana, was born May 3, 1864, at Chilli- 
cothe, Ross county, Ohio, being the son of 
Meade Woodson and Emma O. Carlisle; was 
educated by a private tutor, and entered railway 
service in 1883, since which time he has been 
employed as follows: 1883-'84, messenger for 
the Marietta & Cincinnati Railway, now the 
Cincinnati, Washington & Baltimore Railway; 
1884-'85, with the Ohio State Journal at Co- 



CUTAHOOA COUNTY. 



lumbus, Oliio; 1885-86, bill and freight clerk 
for local freight of the Nickel Plate Railway at 
Cleveland, Oliio; 1886-'87, assistant chief clerk 
in local freight and cashier of the same road; 
1887-'88, cashier of joint stations of the same 
road at the same place: 1888-'89, private secre- 
tary to the general manager of the Toledo «fe 
Ohio Central Railway at Toledo, Ohio; 1889- 
'90, private secretary and purchasing agent of 
tiiat road at the same place; 1890-'91, purchas- 
ing agent of the Toledo & Ohio Central and 
Toledo, Columbus & Cincinnati Railways, at 
Toledo; 1891-'92, purchasing agent of the 
Toledo & Ohio Central, Toledo, Columbus & 
Cincinnati and Kanawha it Michigan Railways, 
with head(piarters at Toledo; and 1892 to the 
present, the office already mentioned; and he 
was chosen treasurer February 1, 1893. 



V A . SPILKER, manager of the National 
Furniture Company of Cleveland, was 
born in Cuyahoga county, Deceniber 
29, 1857. His father, Henry Spilker, was born 
in Prussia, in 1822. lie left his native land in 
1848 and came to Cleveland, where he was en- 
gaged as a well-digging contractor so long as he 
was in active business. He married in Cleve- 
land, Annie Schriber, a lady of Swiss birth. Of 
this- union eight children were born, si.x of 
M'liom are now living. W. A. is the eldest and 
lie received his education from the city schools. 
In 1870 he left school and entered on a three- 
years term as an apprentice at upholstering. 
On the completion of his apprenticeship he was 
engaged by James Moriarity, a well known 
dealer, now on Euclid avenue, with whom he 
remained eight years, lie then took the manage- 
niiMit of Herman Junge's furniture estabiisii- 
nicnt and conducted it successfully ten years; 
and in January, 18X9, Mr. Spilker was a prime 
mover in the organization of the National Furni- 
ture Company, of which he is a stockholder, 
director and manager. 



Mr. Spilker evinced a liking for political 
l)Outs, and demonstrating his strength as an 
organizer of political forces he soon became a 
party leader. In 1890 his party put him forward 
as a Republican candidate for Councilman from 
the Thirty-fifth ward. Tiiis ward was very 
strongly Democratic, but Mr. Spilker's personal 
popularity carried him through with a safe 
majority. Upon districting the city Mr. Spil- 
ker was thrown into the Ninth district, with a 
Democratic majority of 1,300 to face. He made 
the race again in 1892, and was elected in the 
face of these great odds, coming out of the fight 
with a majority of 57 votes. 

On the organization of the Council Mr. Spil- 
ker was chosen its Vice President. He is 
chairman of the committee on Fire and a mem- 
ber of the committee on Police and Dejiartment 
Examination. 

June 6, 1879, Mr. Spilker married Lottie 
Unkrich, of German birth, and a daugliter, 
Eima, twelve years old, is their only child. 

Mr. Spilker has been prominently connected 
with the bowling fraternities of Cleveland for a 
number of years. He was active in the organ- 
ization of the old Forest City Club, and was 
many years its president. He is a Kniglit of 
Pythias, and was First Lieutenant of the Red 
Cross Division till his election to the Council. 



STEPHEN R. SQUIRE, of Berea, was 
born in Addison, Vermont, July 18, 
~ — 1814, where he spent the first sixteen 
years of his life. His father, Rev. Jesse Squire, 
a Methodist preacher, married Mary Roscoe, 
and in 1833 he brought his family to Ohio, set- 
tling in Elyria. He died at the residence of his 
daugliter in Cuyahoga county, about 1854. 
Stephen R. came to Ohio with his father and 
learned the blacksmith's trade, serving an ap- 



prenticeship of ti 
trade for many yean 
and in 184s came to Bei 
till about ls87, when lu 



years. He followed his 

in different places, 

la, where he remained 

moved to his farm in 



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555 



the vicinity of that village. xVfter spending 
three years on the farm he returned to town, 
wliere he lives a retired life. 

He was married in Lorain county, Ohio, 
April 22, 1849, to Mrs Julia Porter Hoadley, 
widow of James Hoadley, who died in Colum- 
bia in 1844. She had one son by this marriage, 
Kev. B. J. Hoadley. Mrs. Squire was born in 
Strongsville, Cuyahoga county. May 15, 1826, 
where she was reared. They have had two 
children: George, who died when about four- 
teen years old; and Frank, who married Lula 
Richards, and is a farmer by occupation. Mrs. 
Sqiiire's father was Chipman Porter, and both 
her parents were natives of Massachusetts, who 
came to Berea in its early days and lived there 
until their death. 

Mr. Squire was a member of the Berea School 
Board for a long term of years. Mr. and Mrs. 
Squire have been members of the Metiiodist 
Ej)iscopal Church for many years, in whicii ic- 



l)ody he 



held numerous offic 



d'AMES ALBERT ANDERSON, late of 
' Bedford, Ohio, was one of tiie most active 
— ' business men of the place. He was born 
in Trumljull county, Ohio, August 24, 1834, a 
son of William Anderson, an early settler of 
the county, who had charge of the infirmary 
there for some time. He was a native of Ohio, 
and died in early life, leaving a widow and two 
children. 

James A. was educated at Mt. Union College, 
(^hio. Later he went to Rockford, Illinois, 
where he clerked in a store for some time. 
Afterward he went to Charles City, Floyd 
county, Iowa, where he resided for some time 
on a farm. From tiience he returned to Ohio, 
and started in the coal business with his step- 
father, William Cranage. They carried on an 
extensive business in coal in Columbiana county 
for many years. Mr. Anderson settled in Cleve- 
land, where he lived for over thirty years. He 



moved to Bedford in 1889, laid out Glendale 
and made the allotment to Bedford. He also 
put in the electric lights at Bedford and was 
most active in the improvement of the town. 

Mr. Anderson was married June 23, 1881, to 
Miss Kate Kuhn, a lady of education and good 




family, a successful tt-aclier before her marriage, 
teachino- for seven years in the grammar school 
at Salineville, Ohio. She was born in Indiana 
county, Pennsylvania, as a daughter of Rev. 
Samuel Kuhn, a prominent United Presbyterian 
minister. 



f[J ENRY M. MATHEWS, an auctioneer 
IrM and the proprietor of a livery, feed and 
11 *i sale stable in South Brooklyn, Ohio, is 
'^ prominently identified with the progress 

and development of this town. 

Mr. Mathews was born in Brecksville town- 
ship, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, September 3, 
1850. He is a son of George Mathews and a 
grandson of Moses Mathews, the former a 
native of New York and the later of Vermont. 
Moses Mathews emigrated with his family to 



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Oiiio at an early day and settled on a farm in 
Parma township, Cuyahoga county, George 
Mathews at that time being a mere boy. George 
grew up on his fatlier's farm, and was engaged 
in farming for many years. He was married in 
Brecksville township to Clementina Righter, a 
native of Xewburg township, this county. Her 
father, John Eighter, was born in Pennsyl- 
vania, and was one of the first settlers of New- 
burg township. lie served in the war of 1812. 
From Brecksville township George Mathews re- 
moved to Royalton township, this county, wliere 
he still lives. He and his wife had a family of 
three children, two sons and one daughter. 

The subject of our sketch attended the dis- 
trict school at Wallings Corners until he was 
eighteen years of age. Early in life he dis- 
played a fondness for stock, and when he was 
only fifteen years old commenced speculating in 
cattle and hogs. When he was eighteen he be- 
gan business for himself, farming and buying 
and selling stock, and at the age of twenty he 
launched out as an auctioneer, responding to 
■ calls from various places throughout the county. 

November, 23, 1876, he married Miss Tamer 
Oakes, who was born in Royalton township, 
this county, daughter of Henry and Hannah 
Oakes, early settlers of Cuyahoga county. Mr. 
and Mrs. Mathews have one son, Mort H., born 
June 21, 1879. 

After his marriage Mr. Mathews removed to 
West Richfield, Summit county, (Jhio, where he 
lived two years, engaged in auctioneering and 
stock dealing. Since 1878 he has been a resi- 
dent of South Brooklyn. For four years he 
was landlord of the old Fuller house which 
stood on the present site of the Johnson house. 
After his hotel experience he devoted his time 
wholly to the buying and selling of stock and to 
auctioneering, and ere long gained a reputation 
for being tlie most successful auctioneer in the 
county. His stock business increased to such 
an extent that in 1890 he found it necessary to 
build his present stables. These stables have a 
capacity of forty head of horses. He annually 
handles no less than twenty car-loads of horses. 



When the village of Brooklyn was incorpo- 
rated Mr. Mathews was one of its first council- 
men, and so well did he serve the people that he 
was elected for a second term. He is a member 
of Riverside Lodge, No. 346, K. of P., and of 
Empire Lodge, I. O. O. F., at North Royalton. 
A self-made man, and one of the strictest in- 
tegrity whose word is as good as his bond, Mr. 
Mathews is deservedly popular among his fellow 
citizens. 



y\y|[ ARCUS A. BROWN, deceased, was for 
many years a respected citizen of Parma 
township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and 
as such it is appropriate that personal 
mention be made of him in this work. Follow- 
ing is a brief sketch of his life: 

Marcus A. Brown was born in Waterbury, 
Vermont, July 28, 1818, and in his native place 
his boyhood days were spent. In 1833 he left 
the Green Mountain State to seek a home in the 
AVest, in tiie fall of that year landed in Cuyahoga 
county, Ohio, and in Parma township pur- 
chased a tract of land, which, ere long, he 
developed into a fine farm. This farm com- 
prised 242 acres, its location being in the center 
of the township. In this county, December 28, 
1843, he married Miss Artemesia Burnliam, a 
native of DeKalb, New York, born October 19, 
1823. As the years passed by sons and 
daughters grew up around them, and some of 
the little ones who came to bless their home 
were taken away in infancy. Of their family of 
twelve children we make record as follows: 
Francis W. is a resident of Cleveland, Ohio; 
Henry E. resides in Toledo, Ohio; Washington 
I. lives in Cleveland; Agnes L. is the wife of 
C. H. Stearns, Cleveland; Nora A. is the wife 
of A. W. Parschen, Cleveland; Albert, Alice 
and Emma died in infancy; George A. also 
makes his home in Cleveland; Edgar N. is a 
resident of Parma, Ohio; Marcna E. lives in 
Parma township, Cuyahoga county: Hattie H. 
is the wife L. D. Klein. The parents of this 



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large and highly -respected family have both 
passed away, the mother having died November 
20, 1888, and the father October 9, 1893. The 
former was a member of the Presbyterian 
Church, and both by their many estimable 
traits of character won the respect and esteem 
of all who knew them. 

Their son Marcns E. was born in I'arma 
township April 19, 1860, and in Cuyahoga 
county was married May 30, 1888, to Miss 
Mamie A. Putnam, a native of Platteville, Wis- 
consin, born August 30, 1868. They have 
three children, Grace A., Fred I. and Ethel M. 



EN. GATES, a prosperous farmer and 
dairyman of Brooklyn township, and a 
1 soldier of the last war, was born on the 

farm where he now lives, December 14, 1841. 
llis father, Clark S. Gates, was born in Delhi, 
New York, and came to this county in 1824, 
locating upon this place with his father Na- 
thaniel Gates, a native of Connecticut. At that 
early day they came with ox teams, much of 
the way on unimproved roads and fording un- 
l)ridged streams. Arriving here they found 
plenty of work to do in the way of clearing land 
and placing the necessary improvements upon 
it. Mr. Clark S. Gates did most of the work in 
improving the homestead. He was well and 
favorable known throughout the county. His 
father built a saw-mill, which he ran many 
years. Was a Republican in his political views, 
and Assessor of his township many years, and 
Trustee. He was a member of Glenn Lodge, 
No. 263, I. (). O. F., and of Brooklyn Post, No. 



368, G. A. R., havi 



the 



war been the 



Major of the First Ohio Battery of Volunteers. 
For his wife he married Sarah A. Hinkley, a 
native of Connecticut, who was a young girl 
when brought by her father, Isaac Hinkley, to 
this county, and she died at the age of sixty-two 
years; and Mr. Gates, to whom she was married 
in this township, died in his seventy-third year, 
highly respected by all who knew him. His 



children are: George H., of Cleveland; Walter 
H., of Brooklyn township; Edwin N., whose 
name heads this sketch; Charles S., who died 
when young; Cynthia M., deceased; and Cap- 
tain Alvin S., on the Cleveland police force. 

August 3, 1862, Mr. E. N. Gates enlisted in 
Company A, One Hundred and Twenty-four 
Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, as a 
private, under Captain William Wilson, and 
continued in the service of his country until the 
close of the war in 1865, participating in some 
heavy battles, as Chickamauga, September 19, 
1863, where he was wounded in the hand by a 
minie ball. He was taken to the hospital at 
Nashville, Tennessee, and afterward transferred 
to other places. He had charge of 150 men at 
Tod Barracks, Columbus, Ohio, for ten months. 

In 1863 he married Mary E. Styer. For his 
second wife he wedded, in 1872, Ellen C. Prindle, 
a native of Lorain county, this State, reared in 
Cuyahoga county. Mr. and Mrs. Gates have a 
daughter and a son, — Amy A. and Harry L. 

For many years after the close of the war Mr. 
Gates was engaged in various kinds of busi- 
ness, in Cleveland, — the milk trade for eleven 
years. In 1886 he located upon the farm where 
he now lives and farms ninety acres of land, of 
good quality, and is prosecuting the dairy busi- 
ness. He is a member of Glenn Lodge, No. 
263, I. O. O. F., of Brooklyn Lodge, No. 163, 
K. of P., and of Brooklyn Council. Politically 
he is a staunch Republican. 



W^ 



|\ILLIAM J. ROBERTSON, caraccount- 
'' ant of the New York, Chicago & St. 
Louis Railroad Company, was born 
September 7, 1864, at Oswego, New York, a 
son of Andrew and Ruth (Glassford) Robert- 
son. Until he was fourteen years old he at- 
tended the public schools at Oswego. At that 
time he entered the employ of the Western 
Union Telegraph Company as messenger, and 
later was employed in the office of J. B. Don- 
nelly, retail coal dealer. Leaving Oswego in 



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the summer of 1883, be located at Chicago and 
secured employment as clerk in the car ac- 
countant's office of the Chicago and North- 
western Railroad Company, where he remained 
until 1886. He then went to St. Paul, Minne- 
sota, as chief clerk, and later as acting car 
accountant of the Minnesota & Northwestern 
Railroad Company, and in 1888 came to Cleve- 
land to accept the position of chief clerk of the 
department over which he now presides, having 
been promoted November 15, 1891. 

Mr. Robertson was married July 28, 1891, in 
Chicago, to Josephine Augusta, daughter of 
Dr. Augustus Pool, of Oswego, New York. 



ffjf R. MOORE, the general freight agent 
Ipn of the Cleveland, Canton & Southern 
II 4i Railway Company, entered the railroad 
' service in Cleveland, in 1872, in the 

capacity of clerk, in the local office of the Lake 
Shore & Michigan Railroad Company. lie 
continued with that company in various clerical 
positions, sixteen years, when he was made the 
company's contracting freight agent, serving 
until January, 1890, when he was tendered and 
accepted the office of general freight agent of 
the Cleveland, Canton A: Southern Railroad 
Company. 

, Mr. Moore was born in Cleveland, February 
IG, 1856, and received a liberal education, 
graduating from the High School in 1872. 



LEWIS B. HERRINGTON.— A descend- 
I ant of one of the pioneer families of Cuy- 
1 ahoga county, and himself a native of this 

county, where his entire life has been passed, it 
is certainly most congruous that special men- 
tion of Mr. Herrington be made in this con- 
nection. He is now a prosperous farmer and 
well-known resident of Rockport hamlet, his 
birthjilace having been in Middleburg town- 
sliip, whore he was ushered into the world 
August 5, 1823. 



The father of our subject, the late David 
Herrington, was a native of Otsego county. 
New York, whence he came to Ohio in the fall 
of 1820. This long and wearisome journey to 
the new and slightly developed section of the 
Union was made on foot, and in the light of the 
conditions prevailing in that same section to-day 
it is almost impossible to imagine the scene 
which must have presented itself to this en- 
ergetic and courageous pioneer. He reached 
Cuyahoga county in due time and there he re- 
mained during the following winter. In the 
spring he returned to his home in Otsego 
county, but in 1822, with his wife and oue 
child, he again set forth for the Western Re- 
serve, tliis time with the intention of settling 
permanently and establishing a new home in 
Cuyahoga county. The trip on this occasion 
was tedious in the extreme, being made with 
ox teams, which transported the little family 
and all their worldly possessions. They were 
compelled to ford or swim the swollen streams 
along the route, and through the wliole dis- 
tance they found only two streams which were 
spanned by bridges. Arriving at their desti- 
nation they settled in Middleburg township, 
where they remained until the early spring of 
1824, when they removed to Rockport town- 
ship and settled on the farm where our subject 
now resides. The maiden name of David Iler- 
rington's wife was Alma Card. These honored 
pioneers both passed their remaining days in 
Rockport township, where the father's deatii 
occurred September 21, 1849, and the mother's 
April 12, 1881. They had seven children, 
namely: William, Lewis B., Elijah D., Daniel, 
Lucy, Horatio and ]\Iartiii. 

When Lewis B. was about six months old his 
parents removed to Rockport township, and here 
he grew to manhood, receiving his educational 
training and assisting in the routine duties of 
the farm which has always been his home, and 
to whose cultivation and improvement he has 
devoted himself for many years. He owns 
ninety-three acres of land, the place being one 
of the most attractive and productive in the 



GUTAHOOA COUNTY. 



vicinity. For about eighteen years Mr. Her- 
rington was proprietor of tlie Lorain Street 
House in Kockport, conducting tliis enterprise 
in connection with his farming operations. 

He was married, in Warrensville, Cuyahoga 
county, August 5, 1845, to Miss Ilariiet L. 
Tliorpe, a native of that place, where she was 
liorn February 27, 1828, a daughter of Warren 
Thorpe, who was one of the old residents of 
Cleveland, where he was born April 12, 1801. 
Mr. and Mrs. Herrington became the parents 
of five children, and we introduce a brief record 
in regard to them: Hannah A., who married 
George Winter, died in Rockport October 21, 
1869; Clara J. is the wife of George Hardy; 
Warren D. married Maria Biddolph; Ells C. 
married Etta Eayner; Alplieus J. married Anna 
Rayner. Mrs. Herrington passed to the life 
eternal April 15, 1891, her death being sin- 
cerely mourned by a large circle of appreciative 
friends, aside from the members of the afflicted 
family. She was a devoted member of the Bap- 
tist Church, of which her husband has ever been 
a liberal supporter. 

In politics our subject takes no active part, 
though he is tlioroughly enlisted with the Re- 
publican party, of which he has been a member 
since the time of its organization. 



Ill MOS SPERRY, one of the respected 
ll_\ farmers of Dover township, Cuyahoga 
1/ *\ county, Ohio, is a son of pioneers of this 
' place. His parents, Amos R. and Ruth 

(Smith) Sperry, both natives of Connecticut, 
were married and settled in Dover township at 
an early day. Here they spent the rest of their 
lives, and died, his death occurring September 
8, 1859; hers, June 30, 1861. They had four 
children, namely: Abner, who died in Wiscon- 
sin, July 27, 1857; Sheldon, who died in 
Hliuois, September 11, 1872; Rais, who is en- 
gaged in farming in Nebraska; and Amos, the 
subject of this sketch, and the only member of 
the family now in Cuyahoga county. 



Amos Sperry was born in the township in 
which he now lives, April 16, 1830, was reared 
to manhood here, and here, with the exception of 
four years spent in Wisconsin, he has resided all 
his life. Reared to farm life, he has continued 
in this occupation, and is the owner of 181 
acres of fine farming land, well improved, and 
under a high state of cultivation. 

Mr. Sperry was married in Sandusky, Huron 
county, Ohio, February 23, 1859, to Miss 
Rachel Noble, who was born in England, May 
i, 1832. Their five children are as follows: 
Eliza P., wife of Jabez Mitchell; Annie M., 
wife of Alva Tanner; Augusta, *rife of Frank 
Laughlin; Sherman A., and Alfred. 

All his life, Mr. Sperry has taken a com- 
mendable interest in public affairs. May 2, 
1864, he enlisted in Company I, One Hundred 
and Fiftieth Ohio National Guards, and served 
one hundred days. He is a member of Olmsted 
Post, No. 634, G. A. R., and of Dover Lodge, 
I. O. O. F. 



^\][\A^ILLIAM BIDDULPH, Justice of the 
fj Peace for Dover township, Cuyahoga 
^ county, Ohio, was born in Brooklyn 
township, this county, December 24, 1848. 
His parents, John and Christina (Bleichert) 
Biddulph, were born in England and Germany, 
respectively, and after their marriage settled in 
Brooklyn township, this county. While they 
did not remain long in that township, they con- 
tinued to reside in Cuyahoga county. She is 
still living here. He died in the village of 
Brooklyn, December 31, 1890. They had five 
children, of whom William is the eldest. 

William Biddulph remained under the par- 
ental roof until his marriage, after which he 
settled in Olmsted township, Cuyahoga county, 
a year later removed to Brooklyn township, 
and after residing there a year located in Cleve- 
land, where he spent three years engaged in 
teaming. Then followed three years in Brook- 
lyn, this county, during which time he was 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



engaged chiefly in the same business. In the 
spring of 1880, he settled in Dover township, 
and here he has since given his attention ex- 
clusively to fanning. He owns seventy-two 
acres of land. 

Mr. Biddnlph was married in Berea, Ohio, 
March 20, 1872, to Miss Thirza Hubbard, who 
was born in Olmsted township, Cuyahoga 
county, Ohio, January 1, 1850, daughter of 
Mark and Maria (Minard) Hubbard, natives 
respectively of England and Canada. They 
were among the early settlers of Olmsted town- 
ship, where he died December 27, 1892, and 
where she is •still living. They had five chil- 
dren, Mrs. Biddnlph being the fourth born. Mr. 
and Mrs. Biddulph are the parents of tour 
children: John, Frank, Neva and Ralph. Mrs. 
Thirza Biddulph died December 14, 1893. 

rolitically, Mr. Biddulph votes with the Re- 
publican party, and takes an active interest in 
local affairs. He was elected Justice of the 
Peace in 1888. Fraternally, he is identified 
with the I. O. O. F. 



ALPH A. JAMES.— The early history 
of the New England States develops the 
fact that the James family was one of 
much prominence, its representative 
members having been conspicuous for their high 
attainments, their social position and their 
power as factors in various governmental func- 
tions. Of the New York branch of this family 
tlie subject of this review is evidently a de- 
scendant, and as a representative resident of 
Parma township, where his entire life has been 
passed, it is most congruous that he be ac- 
corded particular attention in this connection. 
He is a son of the late Matthew James, who, 
with his family, emigrated to Ohio from Staten 
Island, New York, in the spring of 1841. The 
maiden name of our subject's mother was Mary 
Moles. After reaching Ohio the parents settled 
in Parma township, Cuyahoga county, where 
they passed the remainder of their lives, de- 



veloping a fine farm and gaining the highest 
measure of respect and esteem in the com- 
munity in which they were permitted to attain 
to venerable age, the demise of the father oc- 
curring April 28, 1875, and that of tlie mother, 
November 13, 1877. Tliey had a family of ten 
children, six sons and four daughters, of whom 
the subject of this sketch was the youngest. 

Ralph A. James was born on Staten Island, 
New York, April 12, 1841, and was but three 
months of age when his parents started on their 
long and weary journey to Ohio. He grew to 
manliood on the old farm in Parma township, 
and to farming operations his time has been de- 
voted from his youth up. During the progress 
of the late civil war be was for several months 
in the employ of the Government as a mechanic. 

Mr. James was married December IB, 1877, 
to Miss Carrie Biddulph, who was born in 
Cleveland, Ohio, January 3, 1856. They have 
four children, Addie C, Ralph A., Neva L., and 
Oliver J. James. 

The fine farm owned by Mr. James comprises 
100 acres of most fertile and desirable land, the 
same being under a high state of cultivation 
and supplied with convenient and substantial 
buildings. The present handsome residence 
was built to replace the one which was destroyed 
by fire March 31, 1890, entailing a loss of 
several thousand dollars. 

In his political proclivities Mr. James is a 
staunch Republican, and in local affairs of a 
political and general public nature he has been 
closely identified with the progressive element, 
having been called upon to serve as Trustee and 
to hold other township offices of importance. 
Possessed of excellent executive ability and 
manifesting the closest fidelity to all trusts im- 
posed, it is needless to say that he has proved a 
popular official in such capacities as he has 
acted. 

A memlier of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church by baptism, he has not neglected the 
fulfillment of the vows made for him, having 
been duly confirmed and being a member of the 
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GUTAHOOA COUNTY. 



avenue, Cleveland. He has been a member of 
the vestry of this church for several years, 
being devoted to its cause and to tliat of the 
church at large. 

A man of much discernment and ability, 
strong in his rectitude of character, genial and 
courteous in his intercourse with his fellow- 
men, it is but natural that he enjoys a dis- 
tinctive respect and popularity in the com- 
munity where he lives. 



ri( M. PARRISH, Steward at the Cleveland 
i/l\ State Hospital, is a native son of the 
ly *i Buckeye State, being born at Columbus 
/ Grove, June 6, 1846. Sixteen years be- 

fore this date, his father, George Parrisii, cast 
his fortunes with the pioneers of Putnam 
county, among whom were a considerable num- 
ber of Indians. He selected a farm near the 
Grove, opened it up, improved it, and when age 
and its attendant infirmities overtook him and 
his faithful companion they retired to the vil- 
lage, content to spend their few remaining 
years free from business and at rest. 

George Parrish was born in Virginia in 1813. 
His ancestors were of French origin, who fell 
out of the ranks of the Revolutionnry armies, 
and became settlers, and consequently are un- 
numbered among the first families of the Old 
Dominion State. Among this band of hardy 
Frenchmen, was a Parrish, the paternal ancestor 
of our subject. One of his descendants, prob- 
ably a son,. John Parrish, served under General 
Hull in the war of 1812, and was surrendered 
by that cowardly otticer, with his whole army at 
Detroit. When the war closed this sturdy 
patriot returned to Virginia, and there pursued 
his favorite vocation, that of farming. He 
married a Miss Brown while at home on a fur- 
lough from the army. By this union twelve 
children, eight sons and four daughters, were 
born, George, our subject's father, being the 
eldest. 



George Parrish married, in Putnam county, 
Miss Barbara Moneysmith, a daughter of 
Samuel Moneysmith, of German origin, who 
came from Pennsylvania to Ohio. Their chil- 
dren were: D. B., deceased, who was in the 
Fourteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was 
the eleventh man disabled while supporting the 
colors at Chickamauga, dying from the effects of 
his injuries in 1866; William B., killed at the 
second battle of Corinth; A. M.; and Mrs. 
P. E. Helpman of Defiance, Ohio. 

A. M. Parrish was kept at farm work until 
he was fourteen years of age, when he acted on 
the advice of Horace Greeley, and went West, 
spending one summer on the plains. In 1869, 
Mr. Parrish engaged in the boot and shoe busi- 
at Kansas City, Missouri, the style of the firm 
being A. J. Norman & Company. This firm 
existed until 1873, when Mr. Parrish retired 
and became a commercial traveler, with head- 
quarters at Rochester, New York, his house 
being Behn & Young, manufacturers of boots 
and shoes. His wanderings as a " Knight of 
the Grip " covered a period of eleven years, ex- 
tending over Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Mis- 
souri. February 1, 1884, he resigned his posi- 
tion, and was married on the 6th of the following 
month to Mrs. Malinda Conelly, of Wooster, 
Ohio, the builder and proprietor of the Archer 
House, the leading hotel of the city. Mr. Par- 
rish, as a natural consequence of the marriage, 
became a partner in the management of this 
popular resort, and by reason of his genial and 
afl"able nature, and his extensive acquaintance 
among commercial men, he was a most valuable 
acquisition to it. December 1, 1889, Mr. and 
Mrs. Parrish decided to retire from active busi- 
ness, and live in the enjoyment of their years of 
rewarded labor. June 1, 1892, Mr. Parrish 
accepted his present position, merely as an op- 
portunity for engaging something to absorb 
attention from passing time. 

Politically, Mr. Parrish is a Republican, and 
was president of the Wooster Council four years. 
He is a prominent and active member of the 
A. F. (fc A. M., Wooster Chapter and Com- 



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inandery, and was in a measure responsible for 
the establishing of a Commanderj at Wooster. 
He has one child, the daughter of a former 
wife, who is married to Mr. E. Tliomon, and 
lives in "Wooster, Ohio. By a former husband, 
the present Mrs. Parrish had one son. Archer 
('onelly, a very bright and promising boy who 
lived to the age of sixteen years, and after whom 
the Archer House was named by his mother. 



/^EOIIGE AUGUST TINNERMAN, pro- 
I y^ prietor of the Tinnerman Steel Range 
>^ Company, and one of the representative 
business men of the West Side, Cleve- 
land, was born in Gernaany April 10, 1845. 
He is the son of Henry F. and Sophia (Dryer) 
Tinnerman, both natives of Prussia. The Tin- 
nerman family came to the United States in 
1847, first locating on a farm in Cuyahoga 
county, Ohio, at Rockport, now known as Linu- 
dale. Three years later they removed to Ohio 
City, now the West Side, and Henry Tinnerman 
opened a blacksmith and wagon shop on the 
corner of Lorain and Fulton streets, which in 
all probability was the first one on the West 
Side. He continued in the business until about 
1858, when he purchased a farm at Rockport, 
and returned to that locality with his family. 
About 1860 or 1861 he returned to the city, 
where he resided until his death in 1880, at the 
advanced age of over eighty-three years. His 
wife died in 1888, at the age of sixty-eight years. 
They were members of the First German Re- 
formed Church. Two sons were born, — George 
August, and his younger brother, Henry, who 
is a resident of Cleveland. 

Mr. Tinnerman was reared in Cleveland. His 
first public schooling was received in the old 
school on Penn street, corner of Lorain. Fol- 
lowing that he attended the Hicks Street 
school. Wiien sixteen years of age he began to 
learn the tinner's trade, and, after serving about 
three years as an apprentice, worked at the trade 
until 1867, when he engaged in business for 



himself at his present place, on Lorain street, 
corner of Fulton. In 1885 he began, on a small 
scale, the manufacture of steel ranges, manufac- 
turing one of his own patent, known as the 
" Ohio Steel Range." His business has im- 
{)roved and expanded from year to year until it 
has reached a most gratifying and successful 
point. In 1887 he erected a large building, 
70x125 feet, three floors, situated at Nos. 11 
to 21 Willett street. He was one of the incor- 
porators of the Lorain Street Savings Rank, of 
which he is second vice-president. 

Mr. Tinnerman was married in January, 
18G8, to Caroline Ruley, who was born in Cleve- 
land. To this union six children have been 
born, four of whom are living, namely: Emma, 
Frank, Albert and Lillian. Mr. Tinnerman and 
family are members of the First Reformed 
Church. In politics Mr. Tinnerman is a Re- 
publican. 



llACOB SCHAAF, a well-known farmer of 
K r Parma township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio- 
^^ was born in Brooklyn township, this coun- 
ty, November 4, 1841, son of Conrad and Phil- 
lepina (Schwiud) Schaaf and brother of Michael 
Schaaf, the latter a resident of Middleburg town- 
ship. Jacob is one of the younger members of 
his father's family. He was reared in his na- 
tive township, and resided there until 1876. 
That year he settled in Parma township, and 
here he has since resided, having all his life de- 
voted his energies to agricultural pursuit.s and 
having improved a fine farm. He has erected a 
line modern residence, one of the most attractive 
ones in the vicinity. Recently, however, he has 
practically retired from the active duties of the 
farm. 

Mr. Schaaf was married in Parma township, 
October 28, 1868, to Miss Louisa M. Hen, 
ninger, a native of this township, born January 
5, 1847, daughter of Philip G. and Sophia (Orth) 
Ilenninger. Her parents were both boi-n in 
Germanv, her father Octol)i'r 20, 1813, and her 




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CUTAIIOGA COUNT r. 



mother May 9, 1823. The former passed away 
July 15, 1892. They had eight children who 
reached adult years, Louisa M. being the fourth 
born. Mr. and Mrs. Schaaf have an adopted 
son, Arthur Coleman. 

Mr. Schaaf is a generous and public-spirited 
man, ever taking a commendable interest in, and 
contributing liberally to, any movement or enter- 
prise that has for its object the welfare of his 
community, his county or his country. For 
eleven years he has served as Township Trustee. 
Both he and his wife are members of the Pres- 
byterian Church at South Brooklyn. 



I( DAM M. WAGAE, the subject of this 
A\ sketch, was born at Farmington, Ontario 
^ county, New York, February 25, 1818, 
the eldest child of Mars and Keturah 
(Miller) Wagar, natives of New York and New 
Jersey respectively. In 1818 the parents emi- 
grated to Cleveland, Ohio, and with courage and 
bravery took up their life upon the frontier. 
After living in different localities about two 
years, they settled in East Rockport, now Lake- 
wood, where the family has remained ever since. 
The father died in 1841, aged fifty years; the 
mother survived until 1879, when she passed 
away at the advanced age of eighty-six years. 
They reared a family of six children: Adam 
M., the subject of this notice; Israel D.; Albert, 
deceased in 1861; Matilda, the wife of Henry 
"Wade, died in Canal Dover in 1848; Francis 
H., whose history will be found on another 
page of this volume; and Anna H., wife of A. 
W. Brown, who died at Lakewood hamlet in 
September, 1856. 

Adam M. Wagar grew to manhood in Rock- 
port township, Cuyahoga county: he acquired 
a practical education in the primitive log 
sclioolhoiise of the district, and received a 
training no less practical in the art of husband- 
ry. He has devoted his mature years to agri- 
cultural pursuits and has met with the success 
that invariably crowns untiring eflfort. He 



owns a valuable tract of land, 170 acres, in the 
suburbs of Cleveland, where the family resi- 
dence, a handsome place, is situated at the cor- 
ner of West Madison and Hilliard avenues, 
Lakewood. 

His marriage to Miss Margaret Kyle occurred 
at Steubenville, Ohio, March 9, 1848. Mrs. 
Wagar is a native of Scotland, born at Kilbride, 
July 25, 1818, and came to America in 1843. 
Her parents were Andrew and Barbara (Morri- 
son) Kyle. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Wagar's family 
consisted of Anna M., Malanthon, Irwin, Min- 
erva, Carrie, Nettie and Stella. Malanthon and 
Irwin died in childhood ; Stella A., the wife of 
John M. Bachert, died in Cleveland, in Febru- 
ary, 1893: she was the mother of two children, 
Earl and Margaret; and Nettie, the wife of Ar- 
thur R. Bailey, has one child, Morrison Wagar. 

The family is prominently identified with the 
New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian) Church, to 
whose support they contribute most generously 
of their time and means. 

Mr. Wagar began life as a schoolteacher. 
Perhaps the most valuable efforts he has made 
have been in behalf of education for the masses. 
Realizing the increasing demands that were be- 
ing made upon the coming generation, he has 
strongly favored elevation of the standard, and 
has encouraged every advance movement that 
has been made in intellectual circles. For eight 
years he was School Treasurer, and during this 
time gave special attention to the subject ot 
education in all its phases. 

Adhering to the principles of the Demo- 
cratic party, Mr. Wagar has taken an active in- 
terest in local politics, and has been called to 
serve in various offices of trust and responsibil- 
ity. He has been Justice of the Peace for four 
terms, or twelve years, and during five years 
was a member of the Township Board of Trus- 
tees. For an equal period of time he held the 
office of Township Clerk, and for several years 
he was the Postmaster of East Rockport (Lake- 
wood), prompt, faithful and indefatigable in 
the discharge of his duties, he has won the con- 
fidence and regard of all classes of citizens. 



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A man of ability and deep integrity, he has 
made an indelible impress upon the history of 
the community with which he has been so 
closely identified, an impress which is alike a 
credit to his ancestors and a precious legacy to 
his prosperity. 



BAETPIOLOMEW STOCKER.— Thesub- 
ject of this sketch has had a somewhat 
varied experience, and to enter into the 
minutiii? of his life history would render interest- 
ing results, his experience having been quite 
outside the ordinary and prosaic lines. We are 
permitted, however, to merely touch upon the 
more salient points in biography within the 
conlines of a work of this sort and in the case at 
hand no exception can consistently be made, no 
matter how strong the inclination. Mr. Stocker 
stands to-day as one of the substantial and pros- 
perous farmers of Rockport Hamlet, a man re- 
spected and esteemed in the community, where 
he has resided for so many years. 

Our subject was born in Switzerland, Janu- 
ary 2, 1833, and in his native land he passed 
the first nineteen years of his life, having de- 
voted his youthful years to the dairying busi- 
ness, in which line of occupation he has con- 
tinued, with certain intermissions, until the 
present time. A young man of much vitality 
and ambition, he early became imbued with a 
spirit of adventure, — a spirit tempered, how- 
ever, with excellent judgment. In 1852 the 
young man left home and friends and set boldly 
forth to try his fortunes in the New World. 
Ujion his arrival in America he proceeded at 
once to Ohio, remaining for one year in Colum- 
biana county, and then came toGuyahoga county, 
locating at Brooklyn, where he was employed in 
the dairy business for two and one-half years. 
Still looking for new fields of experience and 
adventure, he then went to the State of Michi- 
gan, wliere he found employment on a farm for 
a period of about eight months. After this 
time had elapsed he continued his journeying to 



Wisconsin, working in the pineries for about 
one month, and then engaging in the soraewliat 
hazardous business of rafting logs and lumber 
on tiie Mississippi river. In this occupation 
and in steamboating he found employment un- 
til the outbreak of the civil war, when with a 
true loyalty for his adopted country, he enlisted 
for service at St. Louis, Missouri, as a member 
of the Third Missouri Regiment of Volunteer 
Infantry. He remained in the ranks until his 
three months' term of enlistment had expired, 
when he again enlisted in a company of Mis- 
souri cavalry, but was transferred a month later 
to the gunboat Pittsburg, which was in service 
on the Mississippi river. On this boat he 
served for one year, after which he was honor- 
ably discharged. 

His war experience ended he returned to 
Cuyahoga county and turned his attention once 
more to peaceful occupations, being employed 
at dairy work in Brooklyn for about two and 
one-half years. He then effected the purchase 
of the farm where he now lives, in Rockport 
Hamlet. Under his careful supervision the 
place has been brought into a high state of cul- 
tivation, while convenient and substantial build- 
ings have been erected, the appearance of the 
farm betokening thrift and prosperity on the 
part of the proprietor. The farm comprises 
forty-nine acres and very naturally Mr. Stocker 
devotes the major portion of his time and atten- 
tion to that business with whose details he is 
thoroughly familiar and for whose successful 
conducting no man could be better qualified, 
namely dairying. 

Mr. Stocker's marriage was consuminated on 
on the 10th of May, 1860, in Brooklyn town- 
ship, Cuyahoga county, when he was united to 
Miss Mary Krumweide, a native of Hanover, 
Germany, where she was born March 21, 1S48, 
They have ten children, as follows: William, 
born August 6, 1867, and married Sarah Feuch- 
ter; Lizzie A., born May It), 1869, is the wife 
of Christopher Nyland; Sarah A., born October 
10, 1870; Mary J., March 10, 1872; Emma M., 
December 5, 1873; Frank L., July 29, 1875; 



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Eosa M., August 21, 1879; Lillie K., August 8, 
1881; Samuel E., February 11, 1886; and Alice 
B., July 22, 1888. 

Mr. and Mrs. Stocker are prominently iden- 
tified with the German Methodist Church, of 
which they are zealous members and liberal 
supporters. 



FJ P. SIIIIMAKER, superintendent of the 
public schools at Chagrin Falls, Ohio, is 
— a native of this State, born near Galion, 
Crawford county, December 20, 1858. His 
fathei", Joseph H. Shnmaker, was born in 1814, 
in Berks county, Pennsylvania, one of a family 
of four sons and thi-ee daughters of John and 
Catharine Shnmaker. He married Susan 
Walton, a daughter of James and Catharine 
Walton, October 17, 1836; Susan Walton was 
born in 1818, in Lycoming county, Pennsyl- 
vania, one of a family of three sons and four 
daughters. They removed to Fairfield county, 
Ohio, in October, 1844, and in September, 1858, 
they went to reside on a farm near Galion. Ten 
children were born to them, four sons and six 
daughters, and nine still survive. The father 
was a shoemaker by trade, and followed this 
calling in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, for a 
number of years; he died in 1886. The mother, 
wlio is still living, a resident of Galion, Craw- 
ford county, Ohio, was reared a member of the 
Society of Friends. The youngest of the family 
is the subject of this sketch. He received a 
fair education in the district schools and con- 
tinued his studies at Mount Union College, 
Alliance, Ohio, where he was graduated with 
honors in 1886. 

At the early age of seventeen years he began 
teaching, and after finishing his course at 
Mount Union College, took charge of the 
Mount Union public schools. There he did 
most efficient work for two years, and at the end 
of that time was invited to take the position of 
superintendent of the Chagrin Fails public 
schools. The attendance of these schools num- 



bers 400 pupils, and fifty-three have been 
graduated under Mr. Shnmaker. Under his 
management the schools have been carefully 
graded and the standard materially elevated. 
Years of serious and unremitting labor have 
given him a place in the front ranks of the ad- 
vanced educatoi's of the State. 

Although devoted to his profession our sub- 
ject finds time for other associations; he is a 
member of Golden Gate Lodge, No. 245, F. & 
A. M., of Chagrin Falls Chapter, No. 152, R. 
A. M., and of the I. O. O. F., Lodge No. 290. 
He is an active worker in the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church, and has done most excellent ser- 
vice for six years as superintendent of the 
Sabbath-school. In 1886 Mr. Shnmaker re- 
ceived a Life High School State Teachers' 
Certificate. He is president of the Cuyahoga 
County Teachers' Institute, in which organization 
his excellent judgment and wide experience are 
invaluable. 

Mr. Shnmaker was united in marriage June 
18, 1889, at Alliance, Ohio, to Miss Maggie 
Atwell, a daughter of John Atvvell, deceased, 
who was one of the most prominent members of 
banking circles in the State. Two children have 
been born to Mr. and Mrs. Shumaker: Howard 
Atwell, born October 23, 1890, died October 
17, 1891; and Grace Marie, born September 23, 
1892. 



ARTIN L. HULL, who has been a res- 
ident of Cleveland since 1859, is one of 
4i the oldest citizens. On his first coming 
here he engaged in truck gardening 
and the raising of fruits, buying eleven acres 
of land in the vicinity known at that time as 
Doan's Corners, whicli was afterward incorpor- 
ated as East Cleveland, and still later taken into 
the Cleveland corporation. The value of Mr. 
Hull's eleven acres had so increased up to 1870 
that in that year he divided it into allotments 
of one acre each: nine acres he sold at $1,200 
each; two acres and the dwelling house he re- 
tained as a residence. 



CU YAHOO A COUNTY. 



About this time Mr. Hull embarked in the 
gasoline business. Being somewhat of a "gen- 
ius" lie invented a gasoline burner for heating 
purposes; but, not being a practical mechanic, 
he employed one C. H. Prentice, a machinist 
who had a shop near his office, and he and Mr. 
Hull put the invention into practical use; and 
thus was made the first gasoline stove, in 1873. 
Mr. Prentice was a poor man, and during the 
time of e.xperiment in developing the stove Mr. 
Hull supported him and furnished material for 
the experiments. AVhen a patent for this stove, 
was sought Mr. Prentice showed his ingratitude 
by inducing Mr. Hull to allow him, inasmuch 
as he knew how to proceed, to make application 
for the patent, which he did in his own name 
and when granted made Prentice the sole paten- 
tee! Hence the Hull vapor stoves, which have 
since become famous, have been called by some 
the " Prentice " patent. The same year, how- 
ever, Mr. Hull purchased Mr. Prentice's inter- 
est, for $500, went to New York and ordered 
2,000 stove burners. Returning home, he 
manufactured and sold his invention alone up 
to 1879, in which year a stock company was or- 
ganized, under the firm name of "The Hull 
Vapor Stove Company," with D. A. Dangler 
as general manger, M. B. Clark president, and 
Mr. Hull as mechanical superintendent. "With- 
in eighteen months $0,000 was declared in div- 
idends, but how these dividends should be dis- 
tributed among the stockholders became a seri- 
ous question, and the dispute arising therefrom 
caused the dissolution of the company. Then 
a new company was formed, with the same name, 
with Mr. Hull as owner of one quarter of the 
stock; but this company was not successful, and 
in 1886 Mr. Hull sold his interest. Since then 
he lias continued alone in the manufacture of 
gasoline stoves and other kinds of gasoline 
goods, with success. 

Mr. Hull was born in the town of Lititz, 
Lancaster county, Penn.-^ylvania, January 25, 
1823, a son of Daniel Hull, who spelled his 
name Holl, and who was born in Pennsylvania 
in 1795. of Swiss ancestry. The first of tlie 



family came to America in 1734 and settled in 
Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. Our subject's 
mother's name before marriage was Barbara 
Leib, and she also was born in the Keystone 
State, in 1803, of German ancestors. In 1832 
Mr. Hull's parents removed to Stark county, 
Ohio, settling on a farm, where their sou, our 
subject, grew to Jiianhood. The father died in 
1871, and the mother in 1881, both living to a 
ripe old age, highly respected as good citizens. 

At the age of twenty-one Mr. Hull, whose 
name heads this sketch, left his parental home 
and attended an academy in his native town. 
Returning to Ohio, he was for a few years en- 
gaged in teaching school. Later he became a 
clerk in a general store at Uniontown, Stark 
county, and then partner in the store until he 
caine to Cleveland. 

His first trip to this city, in 1840, was at- 
tended by an interesting experience. He came 
here accompanied by a neighbor's son, on horse- 
back, the journey requiring about all of day- 
light for one day. On arriving here they Itegan 
to look for a swinging signboard with the pic- 
ture of George Washington upon it, or that of 
Thomas Jefferson, with the word " tavern;" but, 
failing to find such a signboard, they finally 
arrived at the east side of the square, where now 
stands the post office. They had got through the 
town, was and the land covered with timber and 
hazel brush. Meeting a man, they inquired of 
him where they could find a tavern. He pointed 
to one, which stood where now stands the For- 
est City House. Here they secured lodging for 
themselves and stabling fur their horses. 

As their trip was made purely for the pur- 
pose of sight-seeing, the next morning they 
started out to see the town, first going, however, 
to the lake to see that broad expanse of water 
and the boats landed there and in motion. Then 
they went all around town, finishing the tour 
by two o'clock in the afternoon, having seen 
about '-all that there was worth seeing." They 
left for their homes, filled with pride, and 
thoughts how they would make the other boys 



open 



their eyes with wonder ami tjieir hearts 



CUYAEOOA COUNTY. 



feel envious when the adventures, experiences, 
etc., of their trip to the " Forest City" were 
related. They saw the first street railroad in 
Cleveland on that occasion. It then extended 
from the square out on. Euclid avenue to East 
Cleveland, and on it stone was transferred from 
the quarries at the latter place; passengers were 
also carried. The track consisted of wooden 
rails overlaid with strap iron. 

Mr. Hull lias ever Leen an honored resident 
of Cleveland, successful in business. He has 
never sought political preferment, but in poll-' 
tics was originally a Whig, and since early day 
a steadfast Republican. He is now living with 
his fourth wife, nee Jennie Johnson, whom he 
married in 1890. His first wife was Matilda 
Hoover, a daughter of Jacob Hoover, an old 
settler of Buffalo, New York. Her he married 
in 1847, and they had two sons — Arlington and 
Fillmore. She died in 1851, and in 1852 Mr. 
Hull married Mrs. Mary Bowers, and by tJiis 
marriage there were three daughters: Ida, Car- 
rie and Minnie. This Mrs. Hull died in 1869, and 
in 1871 Mr. Hull married Mrs. Sarali Greeves, 
but this marriage was not a- fortunate one, and 
after living together nine years it was agreed 
between them that she join her children in 
Missouri. Mr. Hull's present wife is an excel- 
lent lady, and adds comfort and cheer to the 
life of her husband in his declining years. 



C^' ODALPHUS EDWARDS, deceased, was 
r?^ a son of Rodalphus and Anna Edwards, 
Jl ^ the latter a native of Erie, Pennsylvania. 
^ Rodalphus Edwards, Sr., was a member 

of the surveying party in the Western Reserve 
in 1798. In that year he arrived in Cleveland, 
in company with Nathaniel Dan, his wife, one 
son and three dauorhters: Samuel Dodire, father 



JUg 



ge, 



of the late Henry Dodge; Nathan Chapman; 
Stephen Gilbert and Joseph Sandon. The eleven 
persons were the total permanent additions to 
the population of Cleveland during the year 
1798. Mr. Edwards had followed surveying 



previous to coining to this city, and the com- 
pass used by him from 1792 to 1798 may be 
seen in the rooms of the Historical Society, to 
which it was donated by our subject. Dni-ing 
his first year in Cleveland, Rodalphus Edwards, 
Sr., built a log cabin at the foot of Superior 
street, but on account of malaria at the mouth 
of the Cuyahoga he moved after about two years, 
with three other families, to the high lands 
running from Doan's Corners to Newburg. He 
was a man of a high order of intelligence and 
good judgment, and was very useful in the early 
days of the Reserve. Mr. Edwards was chair- 
man of the first town meeting held in Cleve- 
land, April 5, 1802, at the house of James 
Kingsbury. 

Rodalphus Edwards came to this State from 
Chenango county, New York, but the family is 
of Connecticut origin, the grandfather of our 
subject, Adonijah Edwards, having been born 
in Tolland county, that State, in 1789. He 
afterward came to Cleveland, Ohio, and died at 
the home of his son, in 1831, at the age of 
ninety-two years. He was a soldier in the 
Revolutionary war, under General Stark, who, 
as he drew up his forces to attack Burgoyne, 
said to his men: "Fellow soldiers, there is the 
enemy. If we do not take them Molly Stark 
will be a widow tonight." Rodalphus Edwai'ds, 
Sr., heard from the lips of his father, Adonijah, 
much of the history of that great war for the 
independence of this country. In memory of 
the gallant and brave general under whom his 
father served, he named his'eldest sou Stark, 
who was born December 6, 1808, and died June 
19, 1877. His second son, Rodalphus, Jr., was 
born July 15, 1818. A daughter, Sally, mar- 
ried Patrick Thomas, a son of William Thoma.«, 
who was an uncle of Major-General (reorge II. 
Thomas. 

The branch of the Edwards family tiom 
which our subject descended was one of con- 
siderable prominence in Connecticut, and gave 
to that State and country many distinguished 
men. Among them may be mentioned Jonathan, 
who graduated at Yale College in 1720, after- 



CU YAHOO A COUNTY. 



ward became President of Hassan Hall College, 
and is mentioned as one of the most celebrated 
orthodox divines in New England. His son, 
.lonatlian, was President of Union College at 
Schenectady, and vvas noted for great reasoning 
power and strengtli of mind. 

Rodalphus Edwards, Jr., was a memlier of 
the Early Settlers' Association, and took great 
satisfaction in talking about the early days of 
Cleveland. He was well known in the eastern 
part of the city, and had the respect and esteem 
of the community through a long and active life. 
His father bought a tract of land on what is now 
known as Woodland Hills, where he conducted 
a liotel for many years. A large part of the 
property still remains in the possession of the 
family, and there the subject of this memoir 
died, August 21, 1890, at the age of seventy- 
two years. 



DR. WILL. H. WHITSLAR, a dentist of 
I Cleveland, having an office in Room 26, 
— - Benedict Building, was born in Youngs- 
town, Ohio, June 14, 1862. His parents are 
Dr. F. S. and Matilda (Fox) Whitslar, natives 
respectively of Pennsylvania and Maryland. 
The father is one of the oldest dental practition- 
ers of Youngstown, where he is well and favor- 
ably known. He is highly respected by his 
brethren in the profession, and enjoys the con- 
fidence of the entire community. He has 
reached the age of seventy years, and his wife is 
sixty-five years of age. Dr. and Mrs. AYhitslar 
have three children, — Allie, wife of H. J. Carr, 
of Chicago; W. H., the subject of this sketch; 
and Grant S., general passenger agent for the 
Graham & Morton Transportation Company, 
and a resident of Chicago. 

W. H. Whitslar received his education in 
Youngstown. He studied dentistry first under 
his father, afterward, in 1885, graduated in tiie 
University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, and in 
the following year received the degree of M. D. 
in tiie Rush Medical College of Chicago. From 



1886 to 1891 he followed the practice of den- 
tistry in Youngstown, and since tlie latter year 
has been a continuous practitioner of Cleveland. 
After coming to this city, Dr. Whitslar organ- 
ized the Dental Department of the Homeo- 
pathic Hospital College, in which he held the 
position of Dean one year. He also held the 
Professorship of Principles and Practice of 
Dental Surgery in that college. At the end of 
his term of service, the Doctor received a call to 
help organize the Dental Department of the 
Western Reserve University, and accepted the 
position of Secretary of the Faculty, as well as 
the Professorship of Anatomy and Pathology. 
He is still holding both positions. He is also 
Professor of the Operative Clinics of the same 
department in Western Reserve University. 
Dr. Whitslar is associate editor of the Dental 
Register, a monthly published in Cincinnati, 
and the second oldest dental journal now pub- 
lished. Socially, he is a member of the Ameri- 
can Dental Association, the Ohio State Dental 
Society, was President of the Northern Ohio 
Dental Association during the past year, is now 
filling that position in the Cleveland Dental 
Society, and was Secretary four years of the Ma- 
honing County Medical Society. In his various 
relations of professional life, he has always been 
the same earnest, upright, capable and courteous 
gentleman, winning and holding the confidence 
and esteem alike of all who know him. 

Dr. Whitslar was married June 27, 1888, to 
Miss Nellie M. Chisnell, a native of Akron, 
Ohio. They have one child, Helen Alice. The 
Doctor is a member of the Euclid Avenue Dis- 
ciple Church. 



LLIAM T. HOLMES, of the firm of 
Holmes & Johnson, dealers in lumber, 
lath, shingles, etc., Berea, was born 
October 11, 1839, in Hinckley, Medina county, 
Oliio, where also he was reared, engaged in 
agriculture with his father until he was seven- 
teen years of age, when he was apprenticed for 
three years to learn the carpenter's tiade, work- 



CUTAHOGA COUNTY. 



ing two years for his board. He followed his 
trade in Medina county until 1865, wlien he 
came to Berea, continuing in the same occupa- 
tion. About 1878 he engaged in the lumber 
business, carrying on building in connection 
with it, till 1885, since which time he has been 
engaged solely in the lumber business. In the 
fall of 1880 he formed a partnership with 
James Johnson and C. C. Hulet. They con- 
tinued together till 1891, since which time the 
business has been carried on by Holmes & 
Johnson, Mr. W. T. Holmes being the senior 
partner. 

Mr. Holmes was married in Hinckley, May 
1, 1864, to Miss Elizabeth Searles, who was 
born in New York, coming when a child with 
her parents to Medina county, where she was 
reared. Mr. and Mrs. Holmes have one child, 
Carrie M., who is the wife of Eugene Flint. 

Mr. Holmes has taken an active part in all 
local affairs, and has been a member of the Be- 
rea Council for eight years. City Treasurer. for 
five years, and a member of the Board of Health 
for several years. He has been connected with 
the Methodist Episcopal Church since his 
youth, and in all religious work he lias taken a 
zealous and ethcient part. For several years he 
was superintendent of the Sunday-school and 
has held various important offices in the church. 
He has had a part in all efforts for the good of 
the community in which he has resided so 
long. 



ffff ENKY W. MEREICK, one of the repre- 
IrMJ sentative farmei-s of Strongsville town- 
11 -i ship, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, is a son of 
^ the late Edgar M. Merrick, of this town- 

ship, and was born here July 28, 1846. In this 
township he was reared to manhood, and has 
spent the whole of his life here. His chief occupa- 
tion has been that of farming. He owns and 
operates 107 acres of line land. To him be- 
longs the distinction of having run the first 
steam threshing machine ever operated in this 
section of the country. 



Mr. Merrick was married in Brunswick, Me- 
dina county, Ohio, August 17, 1867, to Miss 
Harriett D. Judson, a native of that county, 
born March 12, 1847, daughter of Charles and 
Polly Ann (Safford) Judson. Her mother is 
still a resident of Medina county, but her father 
died in Iowa some years ago. Mr. and Mrs. 
Merrick have two children: Lucy E., wife of 
W. F. Lyons, and George R. 

For twelve years Mr. Merrick has held the 
office of Justice of the Peace, and as Township 
Trustee he served one term. In all local af- 
fairs he takes a prominent and active part, his 
political affiliations being with the Democratic 
party. He is ranked with the leading men of 
the community in which he resides. 



IjOHN HIRSIUS, a prominent cooper and 
K l| a director and stockholder in the Broadway 
''^ Savings & Loan Company, Cleveland Ohio, 
was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, Sep- 
tember 29, 1843. He is a son of John Hirsius, 
who was a farmer in Europe, and in 1856 took 
up his abode in Cuyahoga county, Ohio. Here 
he remained a hard-working, honest citizen up 
to the time of his death, which occurred in 1867, 
in the fifty-eighth year of his age. His otiier 
children are Jacob Hirsius, of Cleveland, and 
two daughters in Germany. 

The subject of our sketch crossed the Atlantic 
on the sailing vessel Olean from Havre de Grace 
to New York, from which port they came direct 
to Cleveland. When he was sixteen years old 
he began to learn his trade under the instruc- 
tions of Felix Woldek, having for a brief period 
previously been a work hand on the farm of Mr. 
Shuman, near this city. In 1862, and before he 
had thoroughly mastered his trade, Mr. Hirsius 
enlisted his services in the Commissary Depart- 
ment of the Federal army. He was with the 
Ninth Army Corps for three and a half years, 
traversing Kentucky, Tennessee and West Vir- 
ginia,^ and at the time of Lee's surrender was 
stationed at Camp Nelson. 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



Leaving the army iu December, 1865, he re- 
turned to Cleveland and re-engaged in the cooper 
business. He worked for wages until 1878, 
when he established himself permanently in an 
independent busineis, and since then has grown 
to be a competitor of no small concern. Mr. 
Hirsius also operates a dray line, engaged in 
transporting the product of several Cleveland 
oil refineries to and from car tanks, employ- 
ing about twenty teams. He is interested as 
a stockholder in other financial institutions, 
besides the Broadway and Woodland Avenue 
banks, and is a member of the finance com- 
mittee of the first named. 

Mr. Hirsius was married in this city, in the 
fall of 1806, to Miss Caroline Meehl. Their 
children are: Caroline, Lizzie, William, Edward, 
Otto, Olga and Manda. They lost five children 
in childhood. 

Mr. Hirsius was one of the organizers of the 
Harmonic Society, and is an honorary member 
of the same. He has been a Mason since 1869. 



THOMAS WOOLDRIDGE, a farmer of 
Middleburg township, was born in Devon- 
shire, England, February 25, 1822, where 
he grew to manhood and took up the busi- 
ness of farming. When he was twenty-five 
years old he left England and came to Amer- 
ica, settling first in Cleveland and then for a 
time in Ravenna, Ohio. After a lapse of five 
and a half years he returned to England, re- 
maining eighteen months, and while there, in 
February, 1854, he was married to Mrs. Su- 
sanna Geary, whose maiden name was West- 
lake. In the spring of 1854 he returned to 
America and lived in Cleveland about two 
years, and then bought a tract of land in Mid- 
dleburg township, where he has since been a 
resident. Mrs. Susanna Wooldridge died May 
y, 1891, aged seventy years, one month and 
thirteen days. They had six children: Will- 
iam, who married Mary A. Luck; Edmund H., 
who manii'il Aliiieda Gray: Susanna A., the 



wife of J. M. Gray; Harlan, who died when 
sixteen months old; Harlan Edward, who mar- 
ried Rose A. Bell; and John, who married 
Florence G. Gray. 

Mr. Wooldridge is a member of the Method- 
ist Episcopal Church, of which church his 
wife also was a member. He has held some of 
the minor ofiices in the township. 

Mr. Wooldridge owns seventy-five acres of 
land, upon which he has made improvements. 



EDGAR M. MERRICK, deceased, was for 
many years a well-known and highly re- 
1 spected citizen of Strongsville township, 

Cuyahoga county, Ohio. 

He was born at Sand Lake, Xew York, June 
23, 1806. In Sand Lake he spent the early 
part of his life, from there went to Buffalo and 
worked at the carpenter's trade, and several 
years later went to Mississippi, where he fol- 
lowed his trade for some five or six years. In 
the meantime his father, Justus Myrick, had 
moved from New York State to Cuyahoga 
county, Ohio, and had settled on a farm in 
Strongsville township. And here we pause to 
state that Edgar M. was the only one of that 
family who spelt his name Merrick. So when 
the subject of our sketch left Mississippi he 
came to Strongsville township, where his father 
had located. That was about 1840. Here he 
purchased a tract of laud and engaged in farm- 
ing operations in connection with his carpen- 
tering, and these occupations he followed dur- 
ing the rest of his life, with the exception, how- 
ever, of his last few years, when he was practi- 
cally retired. His death occurred September 
25, 1889. 

September 23, 1839, Mr. Merrick was mar- 
ried iu Brunswick, Medina county, Ohio, to 
Miss Lucianna G. Whitman, who was born in 
East Haddani, Connecticut, October 19, 1817. 
Her parents, Henry and Harriett (Phippeny) 
Whitman, came from J^ew York State to Me- 
dina county at an early day, and here made their 




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home until tlie mother's death, in May, 1846. 
The father tiien returned to New EogLand. His 
death occurred in Rhode Island during the lat- 
ter part of the '60s. Mr. and Mrs. Merrick 
became the parents of two ciiildren, Joseph E. 
and Henry W. 

Politically, Mr. Merrick acted with the 
Democratic party, and during his active life 
took a deep interest in local affairs. For a 
number of years Mr. Merrick has been a mem- 
ber of the Congregational Church. 



SRAEL D. WAGAR, son of Mars and 
Keturah Wagar, was born February 21, 
1820, in Avon, then called Troy, Lorain 
county, Ohio, in a log cabin surrounded by a 
dense forest and within a stone's throw of the 
l)lue waters of Lake Erie. When Israel was less 
than a year old the family moved to East Rock- 
port, now Lakewood, where he has lived the 
most of his life. 

His early life was spent like most of the sons 
of pioneer families, in assisting to clear off the 
heavily timbered land, in order to convert it 
into a productive farm. His educational ad- 
vantages were restricted to the district school, 
together with an academic course, but his 
natural love of learning, ambition and wonder- 
ful memory enabled him to surmount almost 
any difficulty. He taught several terms of 
school, when a young man, and gave good satis- 
faction as a thorough and interested teacher. 
Born of intellectual parents, his father being an 
able mathematician and distinguished linguist, 
his mother a woman of unusual intelligence 
and fortitude, he inherited an ardent love for 
knowledge and investigation of the natural 
sciences. He takes a lively interest in all the 
vital questions of the day and is a great reader. 

On the first day of the year 1843, he was 
united in marriage to Elizabeth, daughter of 
Michael and Isabella Pyle, who was born in 
"Wayne county, September 7, 1822. A woman 
possessing beautiful traits of character, unself- 
ishness and true Christian fortitude, slie has 



endeared herself to the whole community in 
which she lives, and " her children arise up and 
call her blessed; her husband also, and he 
praiseth her." 

After his marriage, Mr. Wagar settled on the 
land on which he now resides, and which after 
fifty years of cultivation, has been changed from 
wild forest to fertile fields, verdant meadows 
and fragrant vineyards. He has given his at- 
tention mostly to farming and fruit-growing, 
and has dealt extensively in real estate. In 
business he is practical, conservative, far-seeing 
and seems to know when to buy and when to 
sell: people call him lucky. His dwelling is a 
spacious stone edifice of a pleasing architectural 
design. 

He has reared an interesting family of eight 
children, five daughters and three sons, all liv- 
ing at this time, namely: Lura M., wife of 
Dr. 0. D. Ashley, of Cleveland; Adah I., wife 
of M. G. Browne of Cleveland; John M., mar- 
ried to Harriet Hotchkiss and living on a wheat 
farm in North Dakota; Jessie A., wife of G. E. 
Loveland of Cleveland; George E.,of Montana; 
Caroline D., wife of Dr. D. F. Baker of Cleve- 
land; and Alta E. and Charles W., both of 
whom reside at the old homestead. 

Born and reared in loyalty to tlie Whig party, 
Mr. Wagar cast his suffrage with that organiza- 
tion until 1856, when he transferred his allegi- 
ance to the Democratic party. His counsel and 
advice are sought after in matters of importance, 
and he enjoys the respect and confidence of his 
neighbors. He has served most acceptably as 
Justice of the Peace. 

In 1876 he spent several months in travel 
through Great Britain and the continent. Being 
a close observer of men and affairs, the trip was 
fraught with the most valuable and interesting 
experiences. 

His religious faith is broad and liberal. He 
believes that all men will in the end be saved; 
that the eternal purposes of the Almighty will 
never be thwarted or turned aside by his crea- 
tures; that "He is good to all and His tender 
mercies are over all his works;" that the 



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human mind is so organized that it will yield 
to treatment; that the wicked by association, 
discijjline and punishment, under the guidance 
of the Divine Wisdom, will in the end be saved. 
It is a dim subject, but any other conclusion 
fails to satisfy the inquiring and intelligent 
mind. " If thou shouldst mark iniquities, who 
could stand?" Self-denial under God is the 
great power to reform the world, and all creeds 
and doctrines that do not teach and enforce this 
will prove a failure. Second probation is a 
thing to be hoped for in keeping with the 
eternal fitness of things. 

Mr. Wagar ascribes to ambition, industry, 
contentment and a firm reliance on the Divine 
guidance to carry out the destiny that is as- 
signed to every one to perform with fidelity and 
to honor our calling. 

Mr. Wagar has always enjoyed good health, 
never having called a physician, and is still 
bright and vigorous in his old age. He is one 
of the very few who remain that connect the 
early pioneer days with the present. He has 
witnessed the wonderful changes that have taken 
place. A dense forest, where the howl of the 
wolf and the screech of the panther have been 
heard, is now supplanted by the hum of the 
electric cars that pass by his door. He has seen 
Cleveland grow from a small village with a few 
hundred inhabitants to a large city with over 
300,000 inhabitants. 

After fifty years of the closest and holiest 
associations, Mr. and Mrs. Wagar celebrated 
the anniversary of their marriage with a golden 
wedding, to which relatives and cherished 
friends were bidden. Such happy privileges 
come to few in life. May the touch of Time 
rest lightly upon their venerable heads and the 
shadows fall gently on their declining days! 



CAPTAIN JOHN B. HALL, one of the 
oldest navigators living in the city of 
Cleveland, was born in Sackett's Harbor, 
Jefferson county. New York, in April, 1838. 
His parents were John and Carrissa A. (Waldo) 



Hall. The father came from Alnwick, North- 
umberland, England, the family removing to 
this counti'y about the close of the war of 1812. 
The greater part of his early life was spent in 
the business of rope-making, wliile his later 
days were spent on a small farm in Oswego 
county, New York. Carrissa A. Waldo was a 
native of Champion, Lewis county, that State, 
and she bore her husband two children, namely: 
John B. and Margaret. 

The subject of this sketch began the life of a 
sailor in 1855, on a tug boat. He was commis- 
sioned pilot in 1861. The first vessel he com- 
manded was the Olean. He has sailed upon all of 
the five great lakes, e.xcept Lake Ontario, with the 
following vessels: the Newburg, the Blanchard, 
the Dean Eichmond, the St. Louis, the New 
York, the Toledo, the Havana, and for the last 
five years, ending in 1892, commanded the 
Corrona for the Mutual Transportation Com- 
pany of the city of Cleveland. It is worthy of 
note that during the whole of his life as a navi- 
gator he has never lost a vessel. 

In 1892 he permanently located upon terra 
ilrma. He then accepted the position of agent 
for the American Steel Barge Company at Cleve- 
land, which position he now holds. 

Captain Hall is a man of fine physique, and 
is well preserved both in body and mind. He 
is a man of pleasing appearance and genial dis- 
position, and is very popular wherever known. 



|ILLIAM SIXT, of Eockport Hamlet, 
Ohio, was born in the kingdom of 
Wurtemberg, Germany, January 13, 
1823, was brought up and educated in his na- 
tive country, and, leaving school at fourteen 
years of age, learned the business of butcher- 
ing, which he followed for two years in Wur- 
temberg, and for eight years in Holland, emi- 
grating from Holland to America in 1847. He 
came to Cleveland, Ohio, where he kept a meat 
market and continued to do butchering till 
1852, when he removed to Middleburg town- 
ship; there he followed his trade for three 



CUTAirOGA COUNTY. 



years, after which he returned to Cleveland, 
where he remained till 1857. He then removed 
to Rockport township, locating in that part now 
known as "Rockport Hamlet," and here he 
added to his regular trade the business of a sa- 
loon. In 1867 he relinquished the business of 
butchering and built the hotel known as The 
Sherman House, in Rockport Hamlet, the keep- 
ing of which has since occupied his attention. 

Mr. Si.xt was married in Cleveland, Ohio, in 
March, 1850, to Miss Barbara Ifoderer. Tliey 
had four children, namely: Matilda; Edward 
(who receives personal mention elsewhere in 
this volume); Lorinda and Emma. Mrs. Bar- 
bara Sixt died in Rockport in 1859. Mr. Sixt 
was again married, in Liverpool, Medina coun- 
ty, Ohio, to Johanna Hoeing. They have seven 
children, namely: Mena, Lydia, Wm. D., Emma, 
George, Charles and Herman. 

Mr. Sixt has held the office of School Direc- 
tor and of Township Treasurer for sixteen years. 



SOLON WRIGHT SMITH was born in 
South Amherst, Massachusetts, February 
— - 21, 1816, where he lived the first twelve 
years of his life. He then removed with his 
father's family, of which he is the eldest child, 
to Marion, Wayne county. New York, where 
they remained four years. In the spring of 
1832 the family emigrated to Ohio and settled 
in Middleburg townsliip, this county, on the 
farm where the subject of this sketch still re- 
sides, he having been at the time sixteen years 
old. For fourteen years they lived in a log 
house, which, in 1847, gave place to a commo- 
dious frame dwelling. 

The country at that early date was covej-ed 
with an almost unbroken wood, with but few 
roads laid out. The Bagley road was not 
chopped out, and was not made passable for 
teams until some years afterward. Mr. Smith 
helped to cut out and open up all the roads in 
the east part of the township, where he lives, 
running from the pike, the latter of which he 
has lived to see a fine paved avenue. He car- 



ried surveyor's chain and ax in the surveying 
of lots on each side of the pike, from the Parma 
line to the home of the late Ami Lo%-ejoy. This 
was in the year 1833, the lots having previously 
all been taken up. On the street were then lo- 
cated Messrs. Lebbeus Pomeroy, Daniel Smith 
with his seven sons, Charles Peebles, Major 
Bassett, Andrus Green, the Hutchinsons, Ful- 
lers and others, who soon gave to that part of 
the township quite a cultivated appearance, 
transforming the dense forests into a beautiful 
land of smiling meadows and fields of waving 
grain. 

The country abounded in game. Mr. Smith 
was a good marksman and was one of the 
famous hunters of those early days, having 
brought down a large number of deer, turkey 
and other game. One time he had been gone 
from the house only thirty minutes when he re- 
turned having shot and secured two large deer. 
He is acquainted with much interesting general 
history of the early settlement of the township. 
As a resident of sixty-two years, he has wit- 
nessed the great changes transpiring in that 
time. He was a Trustee of the township six 
years, until he declined to serve longer. Has 
been a life-long and successful farmer, has al- 
ways been a stanch Republican, his first vote 
for president being cast for General William 
Henry Harrison. 

His mother, whose maiden name was Nancy 
Williams, was born in Easton, Massachusetts, 
May 80, 1794, and died in Middleburg, Ohio, 
March 24, 1890. She was remarkable for her 
healthful life and for her pleasing, happy dis- 
position. Although nearly ninety-six years of 
age, she passed away while yet in the height of 
her beauty and loveliness. 

His father, Daniel Smith, was born in Am- 
herst, Massachusetts, November 15, 1791, and 
died in Middleburg, July 17, 1866. He was a 
noted musician, was fife Major in the war of 
1812, also a well-known and popular shoe- 
maker in the early history of the township. 

The parents were both members of the Pres- 
byterian Church. They had nine children: 



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Solon W. ; Emeliiie E., wife of Charles W. Bailey, 
died in Middleburg; D wight C, who died 
in Middleburg; Daniel W., a resident of 
Delta, Ohio; (3rman L., of Middleburg; Orus 
F., died in Mineral Ridge, Ohio; George E., 
died in Middleburg: Ljnian J., of Toledo, 
Ohio; and Charlotte E., of Middleburg, Cuya- 
hoga county, Ohio. 



CHARLES W. DAVIS, a young and pro- 
gressive man of business enterprise, was 
born in the city of Cleveland, June 30, 
1867, a son of Dr. E. ¥. Davis, mentioned fur- 
ther on. 

Mr. Davis is engaged in the real-estate and 
insurance business (office at 462 Pearl street), 
in which he has given evidence of ability and 
has been successful. He has had a systematic 
business education, having graduated at the 
Spencerian Business College, after having at- 
tended the high-school of the city of Cleveland. 
He is a gentleman of easy manner, is a pleasant 
converser, and, although a young man, evinces 
extraordinary business tact. He is a director 
of the Ohio Savings Building and Loan Associ- 
tion. Politically he is a Republican, and takes 
a decided interest iu the issues of the day. 

In 1891 he married Mies Pauline R. Fetter 
man, of Cleveland, and both himself and wife 
are members of the Disciple Church, in which 
field they take an active and efficient part. 
Their residence is at 1328 Detroit street. 

Dr. E. F. Davis, father of the preceding and 
a prominent physician of Cleveland, was born at 
Poland, Ohio, in 1829, a descendant of an early 
family in the settlement of this country. His 
ancestors were of Welsh origin, and among 
them there were several who were participants 
in the Revolutionary war as Colonial soldiers. 

Dr. Davis graduated at the Eclectic Medical 
Institute at Cincinnati, Ohio, and has been 
in the active practice of medicine for forty 
years. Twenty-three years ago he came to Cleve- 
aud, and has since been prominent iu the medical 

1 



profession at this place. He is an old practi- 
tioner, thoroughly well up in his profession, 
never having much love for politics, though a 
zealous Republican. 

Besides being prominent in his profession he 
sustains important business relations, being 
president of the Ohio Savings Building and 
Loan Association, and connected with other 
business enterprises. In these relations also he 
shows that he is a man of shrewd judgment. 
Fraternally, he is a member of the Order of 
Odd Fellows. His residence is at 1330 Detroit 
street. 



J. MILZ, president of the Bedford Chair 
Company, has been identified with the 
manufacturing interests of this place 
since his youth. He was born at Wheeling, 
West Virginia, December 11, 1858, a son of C. 
J. and Margaretha (Kloz) Milz; the fathei- was 
born in Bavaria, Germany, and was a marble- 
cutter and s»ulptor of some ability. There 
were four children in the family: Mary Wilson, 
who resides in Chicago; Louis and Philip, citi- 
zens of Bedford; and C. J., the subject of this 
notice. Young Milz was reared and educated 
at Bedford, and at the age of sixteen years se- 
cured a position with the Taylor Chair Com- 
pany; he remained with this firm until 1890, 
when the Bedford Chair Company was orga- 
nized with Mr. Milz as president; G. L. Bart- 
lett, vice-president; George McFarland, secre- 
tary; W. O. Gordon, superintendent. 

The plant belonging to this corporation con- 
sists of a number of substantial buildings fitted 
with all modern mechanical appliances. Thirty- 
five men are employed. 

Mr. Milz was united in marriage December 
25, 1882, at Bedford, Ohio, to Miss Adelle 
Lamb, who was born in the State of Minnesota, 
the daughter of Hudson and Sylvia (Ciiamber- 
lin) Lamb, pioneers of Minnesota. Mr. and 
Mrs. Milz are the parents of two children: Ivan 
J. and Eva. 



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Mr. Lamb died in his frontier home, but bis 
wife survives him and is now a resident of Bed- 
ford. 

In politics our subject affiliates with the 
Democratic party. He has always been inter- 
ested in broadening tiie opportunities offered 
the youth of this republic for acquiring an edu- 
cation, and at one time served very acceptably 
as a member of the School Board. He belongs 
to the Masonic order, being a member of Bed- 
ford Lodge, No. 375. 



JS. EVANS, superintendent of telegraph of 
the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Rail- 
road Company, entered the service of the 
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad Com- 
pany as extra operator, having just completed 
his preparations at Columbus Grove, Ohio. His 
iirst permanent position was at Tontogany, Ohio. 
He remained with this company until 1879, be- 
ing located at Tontogany, Perrysburg, and lastly 
at Deshler, before joining the Baltimore & Ohio 
Company at Garrett, Indiana. He was stationed 
there two years, when an order transferred him 
to Chicago, concluding his service with them 
one year afterward. His next work was for the 
Chicago, Pekin & Southwestern, stationed at 
Streator, Illinois, but he remained only six 
months, when he returned to Chicago for the 
New York, Chicago & St. Louis Company, as 
operator in the local office, in 1883. In the fall 
of 1884 he was removed to Fort "Wayne, Indi- 
ana, as trian dispatcher, performing these duties 
till June, 1S92, when his service was again re- 
warded by another promotion, being made sup- 
erintendent of telegraph with headquarters in 
Cleveland. 

Mr. Evans was born in Putnam county, Ohio, 
November 3, 1862. His father, D. W. Evans, 
was a farmer, a Welshman by nativity. He lo- 
cated in Eastern Ohio in 1833 and devoted his 
lifetime to farming. He married, in Portao-e. 
county, Ohio, ]\[argarct Price, who died in 1870. 
Mr. Evans died in IS'JI, at the age of seventy- 



even years. They had six children, five of 
whom are now living. Of the three sons 
two of them are mechanics: one John D. Evans, 
in Columbus, Ohio, and the other, E. D. Evans, 
in Chillicothe, Missouri. 

J. S. Evans married, September 28, 1887, at 
Fort Wayne, Indiana, Miss Jennie Shoafl", and 
they have one child, Margaret, born March 22, 
1890. 

Mr. Evans is a member of the Association of 
Train Dispatchers of America, with the Tele- 
graphers' Mutual Beuefit Aassociation, Rail- 
roaders and Telegraphers' Aid Society, and of 
the Railway Telegraph Superintendents' Associ- 



OBERTFINDLEY PAINE was born in 
^ Connecticut, May 10, 1810. His ances- 
^ try can be traced back to Robert Treat 
Paine, a signer of the Declaration of In- 
dependence. When he was two years of age, 
his parents moved into New York State and 
very soon came West, settling in Portage 
county, Ohio. 

Young Paine educated himself, as it were, 
his parents being too poor to send him even to 
the district school. While clerk at a cross- 
roads store he read law and was admitted to 
practice. In 1848 he was elected to the State 
Legislature, being compelled to go to Columbus 
on horseback, there being then no railroads. In 
the Legislature he secured the passage of the 
first law giving woman rights in property. 

At the expiration of his term in the Legisla- 
ture, he resumed the practice of law, in Cleve 
land, and during the war was United States 
District Attorney for the Northern Ohio Dis- 
trict. Later he was elected to the Common 
Pleas Bench of Cuyahoga county, on which he 
served with distinction, retiring in 1874. 

Judge Paine died September 23, 1888, leav- 
ing three children, all of whom are now living. 

Robert F. Paine, Jr., was born in Cleveland, 
March 8, 1856, -being the eldest son of Judge 



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R. F. Paine. Eobert Jr., received a common- 
school education. In 1879 he squeezed his way 
into journalism, securing a position as reporter 
on the Penny Press, a paper just started in 
Cleveland by the Scripps brothers, of Detroit, 
Michigan. At twenty-five years of age young 
Paine was the editor-in-chief of a daily news- 
paper that was already on a prosperous basis, 
and this position he is still holding, the title 
of the paper, however, having been changed to 
The Cleveland Press. 



Si J. HENSEY, vice-president of the Taylor 
i\ Chair Company, is one of the progressive 
and energetic business men of Bedford. 
He is a native of Ohio, born at Solon, 
Cuyahoga county, August 28, 1846, a son of 
Kobinson W. and Lucinda (Brown) Hensey, na- 
tives of New York and Connecticut respectively. 
The father emigrated to Cuyahoga county in 
1840, and at the end of eight years returned to 
New York. He came again in 1877 and here 
passed the remainder of his days, his death oc- 
curring in May, 1891, at the age of seventy-four 
years. The mother died in 1888, aged sixty- 
nine years. Young Hensey was reared and 
educated in Jefferson county. New York. His 
first e.xperience with the world was as fireman 
in the employ of the Rome, Watertown & Og- 
densburg Ilailroad Company; he was promoted 
to the position of engineer, and served in this 
important capacity four months. He then went 
to the oil region of Pennsylvania, where he re- 
mained until 186."3, coming in that year to 
()lii,i. 

^ir. Ilensey was united in marriages in 1872 
to Caroline Taylor, daughter of W. O. and Har- 
riet M. Taylor, of Bedford. There were born to 
them six children: Joseph William, Ilattie L., 
Andrew F., Otto K., Vincent B. and Ada May. 
The motiier died October 28, 188s. Mr. Hen- 
sey was married a second time in 1891, to Mag- 
gie Gallagher, a daughter of Anthony and 
Elizabeth (Kavanangh) (iaiiaglier, residents of 
Newbnrg, Ohio. 



Politically our subject is identified with the 
Republican party. He was Mayor of Bedford 
in 1885 and 1886, and for two years was a 
member of the City Council; he has also served 
very acceptably as a member of the School Board. 
He belongs to Bedford Lodge, No. 375, A. F. 
& A. M., to Summit Chapter, No. 74, R. 
A. M., and to Holyrood Commandry, No. 32, 
K. T., having been made a Mason at Conneaut, 
Ohio, in 1868; he has a high standing in the 
order, and during two terms has been blaster of 
his lodge. 



LEWIS A. FOWLES, of Middleburg town- 
I ship, Ohio, was born in this place Feb- 
1 ruary 6, 1823, a son of Abraham and 

Rachel A. (Hickox) Fowles, natives of Water- 
bury, Connecticut, where the father was born in 
1790, and the mother in 1797. She came with 
her parents to Cuyahoga county in 1809, and 
he in 1811. They were married in Middleburg 
township, and there made their home until 
their death, the mother dying February 11, 
1846, at forty-nine, and tiie fatiier November 
28, 1848, at fifty-eight years of age. They had 
a family of ten ciiildren, two sons and eight 
daughters. 

Lewis A., the fifth child of the family, has 
always lived in his native place. He was mar- 
ried in Brooklyn township, Cuyahoga county, 
Ohio, March 26, 1845, to Miss Hannah Fish, 
who was born in Stonington, Connecticut, 
December 13, 1825. Her father was Ebenezer 
Fish, and her mother Joanna (Stanton) Fish, 
both natives of Connecticut. He came to 
Cuyahoga county prior to the war of 1812, in 
which he served, returning afterward to Con- 
necticut, where he was married and lived for 
some years, and then returned to Cuyahoga 
county, settling in Brooklyn village, where he 
died in 1880, his wife dying in 1849. 

Wlien our subject was married he settled on 
the farm where he now lives in Middleburg 
township, and has been engaged chiefly in farm- 



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577 



ing. He owns a fine farm of some 115 acres, 
on which he has erected good buildings and 
made valuable improvements. 

Mr. and Mrs. Fowles are parents of five 
children, viz.: Joanna, the wife of F. M. Eoot 
(whose biographical sketch appears in this 
volume); Helen M., the wife of Thomas C. 
Mattison; John L., who married Julia Lyman; 
Arthur S., who married Adeline Ody; and Cora 
E., the wife of Luther Lyman. 

Mr. Fowles has held the office of township 
Trustee for five years and that of township As- 
sessor one year. He has taken an active part in 
local affairs and also in political matters, as a 
Democrat. 



EORGE N. AVATSOj^, M. I)., a success- 
ful practitioner of medicine at Brooklyn 
1| village, where he has practiced for five 
years, is a native of Cuyahoga county, 
being born at Berea, February 22, 1853. His 
parents are James M. and Mary (Burton) Wat- 
son, and they now reside at Brooklyn village. 
At Berea Dr. Watson first attended school, and 
he graduated at Baldwin University of that place 
in the year 1881, completing a scientific course. 
His tastes and inclinations invited him into the 
medical profession, and he entered the Missouri 
Medical College at St. Louis, Missouri, at which 
institution he graduated, and then immediately 
he entered upon the practice of his profession 
in the city of St. Louis, afterward practicing at 
Carlisle, Illinois. Some five years ago he located 
at Brooklyn village, and since that date he lias 
been one of the most prominent, active and 
progressive of his profession. 

He is a member of tiie Cuyahoga (bounty 
Medical Society, also of the Cleveland Medical 
Society and the Ohio State Medical Society. 
He is also an enthusiastic member of several 
fraternal associations, being a Past Master of 
Brooklyn Lodge, F. t'v: A. M., Past Chancellor 
of the Kniglits of Pythias, and is also a member 
of the Independent Order of Foresters. 



In 1885 the Doctor was fortunate in secur- 
ing in matrimony the hand of Sarah A. Davies 
of Berea, Ohio. He and his wife sustain happy 
and pleasant social relations and are favorably 
regarded by many stanch friends as leading and 
representative citizens. 



T' B. CUYLER, round-house foreman of 
the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad Com- 
pany of Cleveland, is now entering on 
his twenty-ninth year in his present posi- 
tion, and many and gi-eat are the changes he 
has witnessed in those years. He has in -reality 
lost only two weeks from cause, though he has 
lost six weeks by absence from the city, two of 
which were spent in visiting the Centennial 
and two in visiting the World's Fair. 

He entered tlie shops of the New York Cen- 
tral Railroad Company at Rochester, New York, 
as an apprentice and remained with the com- 
pany four years, when he was made an engineer 
on the Great Western Railroad, now the New 
York, Pittsburg & Ohio, doing duty there two 
years, at the end of which time he came to the 
Cleveland & Pittsburg at Cleveland. Politically 
he votes for the "best man." 

INIr. Cuyler was born at Rochester, New 
York, November 1, 1842. Lie received his 
education in the public schools of that city, go- 
ing into the railroad shops in 1858. His father, 
Cornelius Cuyler, was a stone cutter by trade, 
born in Rochester in 1797, and died there in 
1873. Ogdensburg, New York, was the origi- 
nal home of the family. It was there that our 
subject's grandfather, Thomas Cuyler, was born. 
He settled in Rochester when there were so 
few houses it could hardly be called a village. 
The Cuylers came from the south of Ireland to 
Nova Scotia when all America was subject to 
the British crown. From Nova Scotia a branch 
of it drifted into New York. Hence the Ameri- 
can existence of our subject. 

Cornelius Cuyler married .lulia Blake, born in 
Limerick, Ireland, in 1811. Their six children 



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are all living, viz.: Margaret, now Mrs. Cor- 
nelius Shahen; Catherine, wife of James Barr, 
of Philadelphia; T. B.; William Henry, in 
Philadelphia; and Mary, now 3[rs. Burrows 
Dalbrow, of the Quaker City. 

January 18, 1865, Mr. Cuyler married, in 
Cleveland, Maria J. Shannon, a daughter of 
John Shannon, an old resident of Cleveland and 
a mechanic. Twelve children were born to Mr. 
and Mrs. Cuyler, six of whom are living: 
Charles, Gertrude, William, George, Frank and 
Blanche, all unmarried. 



djEHIEL H. DUNHAM, one of the suc- 
cessful farmers of Strongsville township, 
Cuyahoga county, Ohio, has been a resi- 
dent of this township all his life. 

Mr. Dunham is a son of John and Elizabeth 
(Hungerford) Dunham, natives of Herkimer 
county. New York. They emigrated from that 
county to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, prior to 
1820, and first settled in Independence town- 
ship. From there they removed to Bedford 
towhship, same county, where they spent the 
rest of their lives and died, his death occurring 
in 1847, and hers during the latter part of the 
seventies. 

Jehiel H. was born in I'.edford township, June 
20, 1S2G, was reared there on his father's farm, 
and continued to live in that township until 
1856, when he settled in Strongsville township. 
Here he has since made his home and farming 
and dairying have been his chief occupations. 
He owns 274 acres of land, most of which is in 
Strongsville township, and on his farm he has 
erected a nice set of buildings and has other- 
wise made valuable improvements. He is a 
charter member of tlie Strongsville Grange. 

Mr. Dunham was first married in Ossian, 
New York, June 1, 1854, to Mary E. Osborn, 
a native of the Empire State. She died in 
Strongsville townsiiip. August 12, 1875. His 
second marriage occurred February 22. 1877, 
the lady of liis choice being Miss Mary A. 



Hanchett, a native of Erie county, Pennsyl- 
vania, born December 13, 1845. Her parents, 
Cyrus and Mary (Reed) Hanchett, both na- 
tives of New York, settled in that State after 
their marriage, removed from there to Penn- 
sylvania, and in Erie county of the latter State 
her father was killed while cutting down a tree. 
That was some time in the '5Us. Her mother 
died in Strongsville township, Cuyahoga county, 
August 26, 1890. Mr. and Mrs. Dunham have 
three children, — Brayton G., Ida E. and Ola A. 
Mr. Dunham afiiliates with the Republican 
party, takes an active part in local affairs, and 
for two years has filled the oflice of Township 
Trustee. He is a believer in the doctrines of 
Christianity and is a church goer and sup- 
porter. 



LOUIS HARMS, deceased, an eminent 
j viticulturist of Euclid township, was born 
i November 11, 1823, in Holstein, Ger- 
many, and came to America in 1848, first set- 
tling on Kelly's Island, in Lake Erie, where he 
was instrumental in introducing grape culture 
and the wine industry. Moving to Put-in-Bay, 
he introduced grape culture there also. In this 
business he prospered at both places. In 1864 
he bought land in Euclid township, where also 
he surprised the people by his introdnction of 
his favorite industries, which proved far more 
profitable than the crops the settlers had been 
raising, and since then they have arisen from 
poverty to conditions of comfort. At first Mr. 
Harms purchased only forty acres in this town- 
ship, and afterward continued to add to it from 
time to time until he had 200 acres. As to 
kinds of grape, he at first commenced with 
about 200 varieties, for trial, and at length 
found the following to be the most profitable: 
For white wine — Catawba, Delaware, Brighton 
and Pocklington; and for red wine — Norton, 
Montetiore and Concord. 

For his wife, Mr. Harms married, on Kelly 
Island, Miss Judith Smith, who died in 1870; 



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and May 21, 1872, he married Ilulda Steuk, of 
Sandusky, and of German descent. Her father, 
William Steuk, died in 1876, and her mother is 
still living, at Sandusky. Her parents were old 
settlers there. Her brother, E. L., is now en- 
gaged in the wine business. She has one brother 
and two sisters. Mr. Harms' children were: 
Carl, born on Kelly Island; Louis, Julia and 
Richard, born at Put-in-Bay; and Hulda and 
Irma, born in Euclid. The whole family reside 
in and around the old homestead. 

Mr. Harms was an industrious worker, and 
his sons now carry on the wine business. He 
died August 21, 1888, after a short Illness. 
He was an enterprising man, e.xhibiting great 
interest in railroad extension and public educa- 
tion, but refused public office. He was the first 
to sink a well for natural gas in his vicinity, 
boring to the depth of 855 feet, just before his 
death. His children were educated at home, 
by private tutors, until prepared for college. 



ON. STEPHEN BUHRER.— Emigra- 
tion from the place of one's nativity is a 
subject of interest hardly less than the 
migration of ancient nations. Individual 
life is a perpetual struggle in the dark. One 
may know his birthplace, but no step in the 
pathway of life is the subject of foreknowledge, 
nor is the place of his grave prophetically re- 
vealed. 

In 1817 there landed in Philadelphia as im- 
migrants Johann Casper Buhrer from the prov- 
ince of Baden, and Anna Maria Miller from 
Stuttgart, Germany. They immediately re- 
paired to Greensburg, Pennsylvania, where he 
had relatives, and were there married. They 
lived there something over a year, in which 
time they had a daughter, whom they named 
Catherine. In their passage across the ocean 
Mrs. Buhrer had made the acquaintance of some 
of her German sisters, for whom she entertained 
an affectionate attachment, who were afterwards 



residents of Zoar, Ohio, and near whom she de- 
sired to live. Zoar was then and ever has been 
famed for its Society of Friends, called Separ- 
atists. To this place went Buhrer with his 
wife and child, and settled upon a farm near by, 
and hero their third child, Stephen Buhrer, the 
subject of this sketch, was born, December 26, 
1825. 

Seventy years and more ago, Zoar with the 
region round about was wild, rough and cheer- 
less, but the industrious and thrifty German 
population by which it was mainly settled have 
changed its once gloomy aspects, and now it is 
among the fairest and wealthiest agricultural 
towns of the State. But the father of Stephen 
Buhrer did not live to see this triumph of Ger- 
man industry, he having died in the late fall of 
1829, leaving his widow and two young chil- 
dren to make their way alone in the world. 
Two years before his death he had removed 
from his farm and lived in the village of Zoa.r. 

After his death his two children were bound 
to the Society until their majority. They were 
subjected to very severe discipline, as this ven- 
erable religious community exemplified their 
faith in the ancient adage of not spoiling the 
child by sparing the rod, and enforced the maxim 
with the utmost patriarchal severity upon the 
unhappy and helpless children. At this early 
age the child Stephen was put to work ou the 
farm and in factories, and made to do such other 
work as he was scarcely able to perform, and so 
continued until his ninth year, when he was 
made to attend sheep in the vast pasture ranges 
of Zoar. For three years, in summer's heat 
and winter's cold, the youthful shepherd of Zoar 
watched the fiock by day and night also, when 
the stars twinkled, but no angelic glory shone 
around to cheer the lonely boy. 

At the age of twelve years he was placed in 
the Society's cooper shop, ostensibly to learu 
the art and mystery of coopering; at the same 
time, however, and at different periods and times, 
he did almost every other kind of work incident 
to the company's various industries, such as 



helpinc 



in the brewintr and slaughter 



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partment, doing a man's work therein, and often 
snppleiDenting the same !>}' serving in the ca- 
pacity of hostler at the Zoar tavern and driving 
horses on the Ohio canal. This exacting and 
unrewarded service was endured and performed 
for six years, and consequently to the neglect 
of the schooling that was due him from such 
guardian religions institution. He does not 
remember that he was privileged to attend any 
scliool except Sunday-schools and evening 
schools after his tenth year, and after his hard 
day's work was done. Notwithstanding hard 
work, tailing health, loneliness, discouragement 
and mental depression, the noble inheritance of 
the German blood and brain enabled liini at 
last to assert the rights of nature, and in 1844, 
at the age of eighteen, he left the Society and 
came to Cleveland. 'Here for something over a 
year he worked at coopering, but was so physi- 
cally enfeebled that he could hardly earn enough 
to pay his board. 

Finally, in 1846, he engaged himself to a 
business lirm as a traveling man, and as such 
he traveled through western Ohio, Indiana and 
Michigan, whereby he was impressed with the 
reality that the Zoar of his infancy and youth 
w-as not all of the earth, not all of Christian 
humanity, and but a dim semblance of heaven 
for fatherless cliildren. His travels in the West, 
however, were cut short by the prevailing ma- 
larial fever of that early day. He retraced his 
steps by rail as far as Detroit, which exhausted 
his last dollar, and he was necessitated to sell 
some article of wearing apparel to pay deck pas- 
sage on a steamboat for Clevelan<l, which he re- 
garded as his home. For two months he was 
sick and wholly incapacitated for labor, and, 
being without money, was about to be sent to 
the poor-house, when the only friend he had in 
tlie city came forward and spoke words of encour- 
agement and hope, and, moreover, guaranteeing 
the payment of his board bill till his death or 
recovery. The inspiratioii of such friendsliip 
was medicine alike to body and mind, and he 
was soon enabled to work at his trade, which he 
did for a year, blessed with health and pros- 



perity. In the winter of 1847 he worked in 
the shijiyard for a time, i)Ut soon returned to his 
occupation as a cooper. 

In 1848 he was united in marriage with Miss 
Eva Maria Schneider. They had three children, 
one son and two daughters, John, Mary and 
Lois, all now (1894) living. Early in 1850, he 
engaged, with a partner, in the coopering busi- 
ness, whicli they conducted three years, when 
he sold his interest to his partner. In 1853 lie 
engaged in the business of rectifying and puri- 
fying of spirits, which from that time has been 
the business of his life. 

Something may be justly inferred regarding 
the public estimation of the personal character 
and business capacity of Mr. Buhrer when con- 
tem])lating the eighteen years of Iiis unblessed 
childhood and youth in the fields of Zoar, that 
at the age of twenty-nine years, and after only 
eleven years' citizenship in his adopted city, he 
was. in 1855, elected to the Council from one 
of the most populous wards for the full term of 
two years, and twice thereafter, in 1863 and 
1865, elected to the same office, — the last time 
without political opposition. 

During his second Councilmanic term the 
gloomy cloud of the civil war was on. In this 
Mr. Buhrer was an earnest advocate of the one 
and inseparable Union, and an active participant 
in every movement to advance the cause, and 
but for a physical infirmity which precluded 
would have served in the ranks of the Union 
army on Southern battle-fields. Moreover, his 
duties as Councilman required his constant at- 
tention, and especially was his presence needed 
in his own ward, where a multitude of women 
and children whose husbands and fathers had 
early volunteered, or later been drafted, some of 
whom had already fallen in battle, required iiis 
friendly care and helpful hand. Twice was his 
ward subjected to draft, and would have had to 
submit to a third but for the energetic action 
of Councilman Buhrer to prevent it, by largely 
contributing to the payment of bounties to vol- 
unteers. His disbursement of money for the 
domestic relief of soldiers' families, and the 



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thousand and one other necessities incident to 
the civil war, were alike judicious and generous. 
In all this he served the cause infinitely more 
effectually than he could by bis single musket 
on the battle-field, — like the blast upon the 
Highland bugle, " worth a thousand men." It 
was doubtless in recognition of his important 
services in his ward and iu the city during ihe 
most gloomy days of the war, in his capacity as 
Trustee, that he was again returned for the third 
term, with unprecedented unanimity. The war 
had ceased, peace was restored, and his ward 
expressed its grateful sense of benefits received 
at his hand during the four years' struggle. 

Hardly had his third Councilmanic term ex- 
pired, when, in April, 1867, he was nominated 
and elected Mayor of Cleveland by a very large 
majority, notwithstanding he did not belong to 
the then usually dominant political organiza- 
tion. His administration was eminently satis- 
factory, as conceded by all. He was devoted to 
and zealous in his public duties, of which there 
have been no superior examples. Unlike the 
present system of municipal management, with 
directors in charge of the several departments 
of the public business, the Mayoralty was then 
no sinecure, nor was the official chair a seat for 
elegant lounging. The ouly official colleagues 
of the mayor then were the city clerk — who was 
also auditor — and a treasurer, and a board of 
city iraprovraents,of which the mayor was chair- 
man, having in charge public works of great 
magnitude, and including large expenditures of 
money. He was intrusted with the sole control 
and management of the large police force, and 
therefore made responsible for its fidelity and 
efficiency, besides exeicising a careful and con- 
stant supervision over fire and water, and every 
other department of the city government, with 
a view to the promotion of financial economy. 
The rigid discharge of duty which he had re- 
quired of the police, and the avoidance at the 
same time of everything oppressive, or of the 
exercise of a seemingly undue official severity, 
won alike their regard and the public approba- 
tion. 



It was during this term that the Cleveland 
House of Correction and Work House was com- 
pleted and put in successful operation, which 
was humanely intended to reform and reclaim, 
as well as to punish the vicious and the crimi- 
nal. In this Mayor Buhrer took an active and 
leading part, as likewise he did in all good en- 
terprises of a public nature. Among the most 
honorable and distinguishing traits of his official 
character and conduct was his impartiality, 
freedom from favoritism and bigoted partisan- 
ship in the discharge of a public trust. Es- 
pecially was this characteristic manifested in 
his well-remembered hostility to those geniuses 



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leir issues in 



cliques ' 



rings 



to develop the rich "placers" within the limits 
of the corporation, and seek to have their drafts 
honored at the municipal treasury. 

At the expiration of his otiicial term it was 
his earnest desire to be relieved from public 
care, that he might resume his private business, 
already too long neglected, and which he confi- 
dently expected to do, as no one of his prede- 
cessors had ever been re-elected, but being 
renominated he felt it wouid seem ungrateful 
to decline; so in April, 1869, he again was 
elected Mayor, and this time by the unprece- 
dented majority of nearly 3,000. This public 
endorsement, especially at a time when his party 
was generally in the minority throughout the 
State, was to him alike gratifying and surpris- 
ing as it was to his neighbors and friends. This 
election made his name familiar throughout the 
State, and the Democratic party sought to avail 
itself of his local popularity. Therefore, in 
the autumn of the same year, Mr. Buhrer's 
name was placed on the ticket for State Treas- 
urer, which bore at the head the name of George 
H. Pendleton for Governor. History records, 
however, that neither of these gentlemen re- 
ceived a majority. 

Again, in April, 1871, weary and enfeebled 
by official service, and feeling that he had had 
more than the usual share of the public consid- 
eration and political favors awarded to any citi- 
zen, he longed for retirement; but, solicited to 



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enter the Mayoralty race fur a third term, he 
luosl respectfully and emphatically declined. 
Notwithstanding his protest he was nominated; 
and now the Republican party determined to 
resume its ancient prerogatives and power. 
Twice, they said, they had let the Democrats 
defeat the " grand old party," by reason of the 
personal popularity of their candidate. Besides, 
it was Presidential year and they must this time 
have a Republican mayor, cost what it would. 
So they buckled on their armor, and with the aid 
of a few mercenary troops, deserters, and disap- 
pointed contractors, ever incident to municipal 
politics, Mr. Buhrer lost in his third campaign 
by a small majoi'ity. 

Still his party would not let him rest. Twice 
they nominated him for County Treasurer with- 
out his knowledge, and kept his name upon the 
ticket notwithstanding his protest. The ticket 
of course was but a mere formality in the county, 
where the majority of the dominant party was 
ordinarily from four to seven thousand. 

In 1874 he was again returned to the City 
Couucii, though his ward was largely Republi- 
can, for the reason mainly that some very 
important measures were pending which his 
presence there would promote. The Finance 
Committee and the Board of Improvements ab- 
sorbed almost liis entire time during the two 
years' service. Some time thereafter he re- 
ceived the appointment and served with public 
satisfaction on the Board of Work-House Di- 
rectors. He was ever in advance in the advo- 
cacy of beneficial measures. Among such was 
a Home for Wayward Children, who needed the 
care and protection of the public. He was the 
first who officially recommended the high level 
bridge, the mighty structure that spans the 
valley of the Cuyahoga river, known as the 
Superior street viaduct. 

During both terms of his mayoralty, Mr. 
Buhrer strove to make a model police force. 
There was then no police board, and the force 
was left on his liands and under his undisputed 
control. He laliored to secure tiie public con- 
fidence in the working force, and succeeded. 



To promote social intercourse and cheer their 
manly spirits. Mayor Buhrer annually gave, at 
his own expense, to the entire force, on Xew 
Year's Day, a public dinner. Between the 
Mayor and his men mutual good will ever pre- 
vailed, and many of his best officers and veterans 
are still (1894) on the force. 

It is a subject worthy of remark, as being 
quite unusual in modern political life, that Mr. 
Buhrer never in his life solicited a nomination 
to an oftice, while many offices have sought hira 
and some with success. He is a gentleman mod- 
est and unassuming while efficient and forceful, 
in affairs of business or public duties. His 
wife, who iiad long been an invalid and a subject 
of his tenderest care, died in the early spring- 
time of 1889. One year later he married Mar- 
guerite Paterson, a lady of Cleveland, whose 
birth place was New York. 



'J^jEV. E. M. O'CALLAGHAX, who is 
V^^ pastor of St. Colman's Catholic Ciiurch, 
11 *^ on Gordon avenue, Cleveland, was born 
' in county Cork, Ireland, May 4, 1831. 

His parents were Timothy and Julia (Foley) 
O'Callaghan, both natives of Ireland. The 
father, a farmer by occupation, in 1854 re- 
moved to America and located in Detroit, Mich- 
igan, where he soon afterward died, at the age 
of about seventy years. The mother died in 
1839, in Ireland, at the age of about fifty 
years. 

The subject of this sketch, the youngest of 
six children, of whom three are living, was edu- 
cated in Ireland, and at the age of twenty years, 
in 1851, he came to America, stopping in De- 
troit. He continued his studies at the Uni- 
versity of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, 
and was ordained priest in Cleveland, in 1859, 
by Bishop Rappe. His labors continued in 
Cleveland until 1862, when he went to Youngs- 
town, Ohio, wiiere he built St. Colnmba's 
Church on Wood street, and began the school- 
house there, but did not complete it, before he 



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left Youngstown, in 1870, to go to Fremont, 
Oliio, where he remained until 1877, when he 
becanie pastor of St. Patrick's Church at Cleve- 
land, remaining pastor of tiiis church until 
1880. He then became pastor of St. Col man's 
Church, remaining as such until this date, 1893. 
This congregation, St. Colman's, was a part of 
the St. Patrick's and was established in 1880. 
In his charge he has about 500 families, and 
his work necessitates an assistant, who is now 
Rev. I. Hannan, an efficient laborer in the Mas- 
ter's vineyard. The school belonging to this 
church is one of importance, being attended by 
about 400 pupils, who are taught by six 
teachers. 

While in Youngstown, Kev. O'Callaghan es- 
tablished a church and erected a church build- 
ing at Hubbard, Ohio, also in Niles, Ohio; and 
in Warren, Ohio, he purchased an Episcopal 
Church building and organized a congregation. 
In Fremont he not only succeeded in the up- 
building of a congregation from a small nucleus 
but also in erecting for them a good brick 
schoolhouse. 

In all of his charges Rev. O'Callaghan has 
been active in the upbuilding of his churches 
and the providing of buildings for them. He 
is an energetic, enthusiastic worker and with 
much zeal and earnestness accomplishes great 
good. 



[[ J f AERY L. VAIL, Clerk of the Common 
|p1| Pleas Court of Cuyahoga county, and for 
II 4i some years a practicing attorney at the 
^ Cleveland bar, was born at what is now 

No. 331 Central avenue, this city, in 1858. His 
ancestors are of good old Revolutionary stock, 
he being a descendant of one of Washington's 
most able generals. Harry's father was Judge 
Isaac Carpenter Vail, deceased, born at White 
Plains, New York, in 1830. Judge Vail se- 
cured a liberal education in the State of his 
birth, and when a youth of eighteen found his 
way into Cuyahoga county, and for a time was 



employed in teaching school at Royalton, this 
county. He studied law and was admitted to the 
bar in 1852. He was a good lawyer and gained 
popularity rapidly. 

In 1858 was elected Police Judge of the city, 
and was re-elected in 1860, and had not jet 
completed his second term when his patriotism 
prompted him to resign his office and offer his 
services to the Federal Government. He was 
commissioned Captain of Company A, One 
Hundred and Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 
his command being afterward a part of the 
Army of the Cumberland. He died at Dan- 
ville, Kentucky, August 10, 1863. 

Judge Vail was a gentleman of much native 
ability. In his training for the bar he developed 
a splendid judicial mind. He sympathized with 
the unfortunate, but not to the extent of met- 
ing out to them anything short of exact justice. 

Judge Vail's father was Isaac Vail, a mer- 
chant of White Plains, New York, who married 
Ann Green Graham, born at Somerstown, West- 
chester county. New York, June 10, 1802. 
Her father, Robert Graham, married Mary, a 
daughter of Benjamin Greene, a son of General 
Nathaniel Greene, the hero of many Revolu- 
tionary battles. Isaac Vail had an only child 
at his death, Judge I. C. Vail, father of our 
subject. Judge Vail married, in this county, 
Barbara, a daughter of John Van Huseu from 
the Mohawk Valley, of New York. The Van 
Husens descended from the Holland Dutch who 
settled in New York when it was called New 
Netherlands. Two children were born in the 
family of Judge and Mrs. Vail: Iza, now Mrs. 
Dr. S. W. Fowler of Delaware, Ohio; and 
Harry L. 

Harry attended Brownell street school in 
Cleveland, and the high school, preparing him- 
self for entrance into the Ohio Wesleyan Uni- 
versity at Delaware. His first appearance in 
the University was in 1875. On account of his 
limited means he was compelled to work his 
way through college, which he did, graduating 
in 1879 as valedictorian of his class. About 
six montiis hiter he came to Cleveland and be- 



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caine a reporter on Tlie Herald, wliere he re- 
mained two years and a half, and deciding to 
study law lie made the necessary arrangement 
■with Judges Stevenson Burke and "W. B. 
Sanders to study in their office. He continued 
to do newspaper work, being city editor of the 
Sun and Voice. In June, 1885, Mr. Vail was 
admitted to the bar, and after a year's rest 
opened an office, and has since been a practicing 
attorney. 

Mr. Vail has always been an ardent Republi- 
can and quite active in behalf of his party 
ca ididates. In 1893 he became a candidate tor 
the office of Clerk of the Court of Common 
Pleas, was nominated and elected. He is a 
Mason, Knight of Pythias and member of the 
Loyal Legion. 



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^ EV. PATRICK JOSEPH SHEA, as- 
■j-^ sistant to the Rev. A. R. Sidley, pastor 
I ^iv of the Church of the Immaculate Con- 
^ ception of Cleveland, was born March 

19, 1844. His parents were John and Marga- 
ret (Dalton) Shea, both natives of Ireland. The 
father died November 1, 1860, aged sixty-two 
years, and the mother died July 13, 1892, aged 
sixtj-two years. They were life-long members 
of the Catholic Church. 

In 1852 these parents, with their entire fam- 
ily of eight children, came to the United States 
and settled in Cleveland, Ohio, where occurred 
the death of the parents and that of three of 
their sons and three daughters. Of the cliil- 
dren tiiere are now (1893) two sons living, of 
wiiom the subject of this sketch is the elder. 
The younger is Edward Siiea, a resident of 
Cleveland. 

At St. Mary's Seminary Rev. Shea received 
both his literary and theological education, 
under the instruction of Rev. Sanln. He was 
ordained priest at London, Ontario, Canada, in 
1868, by Bishop Walsh, now Archbishop of 
Ontario, Canada. In London, Rev. Shea re- 
mained twenty-three years as priest, serving 



ot)ly two different churches, namely, Sts. Pe"er 
and Paul in Goderich and St. James in Seafort, 
the latter church being about twenty miles 
from Goderich; and here was spent the last ten 
years of his church work, prior to his coming 
to Cleveland in 1891 to accept the position of 
assistant pastor to Rev. A. R. Sidley, — a posi- 
tion he has since filled with a marked degree of 
acceptability. 

Of the Church of the Immaculate Concep- 
tion there are 700 families. It has one school 
of six rooms, with 600 pupils, taught by six 
ladies, four Ursnlines and two lay lady teachers. 
The church is located at 1030 Superior street, 
and the building is 70 x 140 feet, with a seat- 
ing capacity for about 1,500 people. It is an 
English congregation, and here are attended 
three masses each Sunday, at 6, 8:20 and 10:20 
A. M.; vespers and benediction are at 3:30 p. m., 
and Sunday school at 2:30 p. m. 

Rev. Shea is an industrious and successful 
worker. Among his people he is extremely 
popular, and in him is reposed the utmost con- 
fidence, and for liis multifarious duties he is 
thoroughly qualified, being a man of a high 
order of education and thoroughly devoted to 
his work. 



PjHILIP MORRIS was born in Girard, 
Trumbull county, Ohio, June 15, 1855, 
a son of David Morris, who was born 
July 9, 1819. in Wales, arrived with his 
father's family in the United States, October 4, 
1839, and died February 15, 1862. In 1843 
he married Miss Dorothy Philpot, also a native 
of Wales and a daughter of William Philpot. 
They had six children, as follows: 

Mary, who married, June 8, 1863, A. V. 
Cannon, a native of Portage county, Ohio, born 
in 1834 and died July 10, 1867, leaving one 
child, Clara. Mrs. Cannon afterward married 
Captain Thomas Wilson, of the Wilson Transit 
Company, named for him; ho is now a resident 
of this city. By this marriage there were three 



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cliildren: Daniel Morris, who died at the age 
of twelve years; and Anna Belle and Mabel, 
now grown up. 

William, who died at the age of tliirty-one in 
San Antonio, Texas, in 1879. He married Miss 
Belle Wilbur and had three children,— Nellie, 
Alice and William, the last mentioned of whom 
died at the age of two years. 

John, engaged in thecoal business in Youngs- 
town, Ohio. He married Miss Elizabeth Bob- 
bins, of Niles, Ohio, and David is their only 
child. 

Dollie, now Mrs. F. M. Osborn, of Cleveland; 
Mr. Osborn also is engaged in the coal trade. 
In this family are five children. 

Lucy, now Mrs. E. G. Miller, of this city. 

Mr. Philip Morris, on approacliing the years 
of mauliood, engaged himself in the vessel busi- 
ness on the lakes, with Captain Wilson, for 
sixteen years. During this time he and his 
brother John purchased the coal interests of the 
estate of David Morris, and proceeded to mine 
what coal there was left in the mines. In 1891 
Mr, Philip Morris sold his vessel interest to 
Captain Wilson, and, entering partnership with 
Captain John Mitchell and others, formed what 
is known as the Mitcliell Steamship Company 
of ^entor, Ohio, of which Mr. Morris is vice 
president and director. 

He was married October 22, 1879, to Miss 
Sarah Elizabeth Lane, a native of Philadelphia 
and a daughter of William and Jane (Moore- 
head) Lane, of that city. Mr. Lane is a native 
of Philadelphia, and Mrs. Lane is a native of 
Bristol, Pennsylvania. Mr. Morris has four 
children: Elizabeth Dlsston, William Phil- 
pot, Harry Lane and Douglas. Tlie family are 
attendants at and supporters of St. Paul's 
Chnrch, Protestant Episcopal. 

Mr. Morris' grandfather, AVilliaui Pliilpot, a 
native of England, was at one time a partner of 
David Tod, once Governor of Ohi<i, in the coal 
business at Briar Hill, wliich is now a part of 
Youngstown. Moving to Youngstown in 1846, 
he endeavored to forma furnace company, asso- 
ciatinsr with himself Jonathan Warner and oth- 



ers in oi'ganizing the "Ohio Iron & Mining 
Company," now known as the •' Eagle Furnace 
Company." At that time Mr. Piiilpot opened 
and developed the Wertz and Manning Briar 
Hill coal mines. The furnace was built for the 
purpose of smelting iron ore with raw stone 
coal. The equipment was hazardous and was 



carried forward under 



lany 



difficulties, finan- 



cial and otherwise; but energy and enterprise of . 
Mr. Philpot triumphed over all; he is a man of 
resolute disposition and practical good sense. 
He always was successful, for he seemed to 
know exactly the right course to take; and his 
integrity has always been unquestioned, his 
word as good as a bond and his promises always 
reliable. He died in Liberty township, Trum- 
bull county, June 2, 1851. His wife died in 
Cleveland, in August, 1865. 

He has a most pleasant home, and at his 
home, with its charming surroundings, he finds 
his greatest pleasure. 

Concerning his father, David Morris, we 
should add that the memory of his noble and 
upright life will live in the hearts of those 
who knew him long after that of most person- 
acres of his time. His name will be handed 
down to future generations as inseparably asso- 
ciated with all that is noble. 



ST. VINCENT'S ORPHAN ASYLUM, 
\ Cleveland, Ohio, conducted by the Sisters 
. . of Charity of St. Augustine, was estab- 
lished in the year 1852, by Bishop Eappe, 
the first orphan being received on May 20, 
1853. A new building for the same purpose 
was erected on the same plat of ground, in 
1858. The building is large and commodious, 
accommodating at present over 100 orphans, who 
are trained and cared for by twenty-two Sisters 
of Charity. The orphans are kept until they 
reach their 13th year, when suitable homes are 
found for them. The asylum is located on Monroe 
street, near Willett. 



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The same Sisters have had also charge of Cliarity 
Hospital since its opening by Bishop Rappe, in 
1865. The hospital aflfords accommodations for 
about 100 patients, who are received without 
distinction as to creed or nationality. The in- 
stitution enjoys the confidence of the public 
and has its generous support, ranking among 
the best appointed hospitals of the country. 

In close proximity to said Charity Hospital 
is the Lying-in-Hospital, also under the charge 
of those Sisters. It was established by Bishop 
Gihnour in 1873, and since its opening has done 
untold good to the unfortunates seeking and 
receiving shelter and care. At present there 
are sixty foundlings and waifs receiving a 
mother's care. 

Tlie three above named institutions are the 
life's work of the Sisters of Charity in Cleve- 
land, and are most successfully managed by 
them. 

The superioress of tlieso Sisters of Charity is 
at present Mother Mary George, who was elected 
to her position on October 2, 1892, and lias the 
general supervision of the institutions in charge 
of the Sisters, but has her residence at the' 
mother-house of the community, located near 
Lakewood, a beautiful suburb of Cleveland. 



FHINEAS P. WRIGHT, Assistant Gen- 
eral Manager of the Lake Siiore & Mich- 
igan Southern Railway, was born in Her- 
kimer county, New York, February 12, 
1824. His father, a native of Keene, New 
Hampshire, was a saddler and harness-maker by 
trade: he died when Phineas P. was a mere lad. 
The mother, whose parents emigrated from 
Scotland to America, was married a second time, 
to Elias L. Rose of Niagara county. New York. 
The two families thus connected removed to the 
Territory of Michigan, and settled at Bronson, 
Branch county; there the children were reared 
upon a farm, enjoying sucli educational privi- 
leges as were afforded by tlie three months' 
of the district school. This was the ex- 



tent of Mr. "Wright's opportunities, excepting 
the six months spent as a student in the La 
Grange Collegiate Institute, Ontario, La Grange 
county, Indiana. 

Arriving at the age of maturity he secured a 
position in the dry-goods store of Asa T. Groen- 
dyke at Coldwater, Micliigan, where he contin- 
ued until his election to the office of County 
Clerk of Branch county; he filled this office, as 
well as that of Clerk of the Courts of Eecord 
and Register in Chancery, for six years, retiring 
January 1, 1855. He then resumed farming, 
and at the end of the next three years removed 
with his family to Linn county, Missouri. 
Tiiere he prepared a set of abstracts of title for 
the county, and embarked in the real-estate 
business, which he conducted until the com- 
mencement of tiie war of the Rebellion. He 
immediately thereafter resigned the office of 
Mayor of the town of Linneus to which he had 
been elected, and returned to Michigan, where he 
became the agent of the Michigan Soutiiern & 
Northern Indiana Railroad Company at Cold- 
water. In the fall of 1865 he took the position 
of track master of the La Porte division of said 
railroad. In the autumn of 1866 he was trans- 
ferred to the agency of the same company at 
Detroit. In January, 1870, he was promoted 
to the position of Superintendent of the Kala- 
mazoo division of the Lake Shore et Michigan 
Southern Railway. June 1, 1871, he was trans- 
ferred to the superintendency of the Buffalo 
division of the same railway. September 1, 
1873, he accepted the position of Superintend- 
ent of Transportation of the Erie Railway, with 
headquarters in New York city, serving in this 
capacity until October, 1881; he then I'eturned 
to the Lake Shore &. Michigan Southern Rail- 
way as General Superintendent, a position he 
held until January 1, 1892, when he was pro- 
moted to the position of Assistant General Man- 
ager, which he still fills. He has been in con- 
tinuous railroad service for thirty-three years, a 
record in itself that needs no commentary. 

Mr. Wright was united in marriage at Cold- 
water, Michigan, January 1, 1852, to Miss 



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Lovina A. Warner, wliose father, Judge Harvey 
Warner, was a pioneer of Branch county, having 
emigrated from Penfield, New York. Mrs. 
Wright was the second white child born in tiiat 
county. This marriage has been blessed with 
the birth of four children: Plomer, the eldest, 
died at the age of nineteen years; Lorene, the 
wife of Charles H. Dickinson, resides at Cold- 
water, Michigan; May is the wife of William 
Canby, and resides in St. Paul, Minnesota; 
Charles, a youth of sixteen years, is now a stu- 
dent in the Harvard School for Boys, at Chicago. 
Mr. and Mrs. Wright also reared from infancy 
an adopted daughter, May Warner Conger, an 
only child of Mrs. Wright's deceased sister; she 
is now the wife of Asa A. Davidson and lives in 
Chicago. 



IjOHN P. SPENCER.— In the decease of 
i^ I John P. Spencer, which occurred on Au- 
^^ gust 12, 1890, at his home in Kockport 
township, Cuyahoga county sustained the loss 
of one of its most worthy and respected citizens. 

He was a native of Brookfield, Madison 
county. New York, where he was born May 24, 
1805, to Jonathan and Molly (Jones) Spencer, 
the second of a family of eight children. Both 
his father and mother were natives of East 
Greenwich, Rhode Island, where the former was 
born December 6, 1778, and the latter on No- 
vember 27, 1781. Jonathan Spencer, the father, 
emigrated to Brookfield, Madison county, New 
York, in 1803, and settled on a farm. In early 
life he was a tanner and currier, and in later 
years engaged in shoemaking. In 1834 he re- 
moved to Olmsted Falls, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, 
where he died February 7, 1837. His wife's 
death occurred at the same place two years prior 
to his, namely, on February 10, 1835. 

Our subject passed his boyhood at home, 
assisting his father and attending the district 
school, where he received a good English edu- 
cation. Upon attaining his majority he started 
out on his own account to make his way in the 



world. He engaged in farm work during four 
seasons, and also during the winter months 
taught in the district schools of Brookfield 
township for two seasons. He was industrious, 
economical and ambitious to have a home of his 
own, and to this object bent all his energies. 
With a few hundred dollars saved from his 
earnings, he left his native place in 1830, and 
turning bis steps westward settled in Cuyahoga 
county, Ohio. There, in the southwestern part 
of Rockport township, he purchased a fertile 
tract of 125 acres, which at that time were 
covered by the dense forest, and began the work 
of making for himself a home. Two years 
later, on the 13tli of March, 1832, he married 
Miss Electa M. Beach, who was born May 21, 
1811, at Norfolk, Litchfield county, Connecti- 
cut, to Junia and Hannah (Ingraham) Beach. 
She was a woman of most estimable qualities 
and much force of character, and throughout 
their happy married life of fifty-eight years she 
was a worthy helpmeet of her worthy husband. 
Her decease occurred on February 24, 1890. 
After having lived together for fifty years, they 
celebrated their golden wedding on the 13th of 
March, 1882, and were the recipients of many 
beautiful and appropriate presents, as tokens of 
affection and esteem. 

Mr. Spencer was a man of clear foresight, 
energy and thrift. Independent, self-reliant 
and with a high sense of honor, he made his 
way from humble circumstances to a position of 
influence among his fellow-citizens. He was a 
man of domestic tastes, simple in his habits and 
-devoted to his family and friends. His chari- 
ties were bestowed with a generous hand. Un- 
der his hospitable roof were always help and 
good cheer for the needy, and no worthy person 
was ever turned from his door empty-handed. 
He was prosperous and by his thrift and indus- 
try accumulated an ample competency, which 
he used unselfishly. He at one time owned 
225 acres of land, but prior to his death dis- 
tributed all of it among his children. 

Mr. Spencer was a public-spirited man, and, 
in discharging the duties of the various posi- 



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tions to whicli he was called by his fellow-citi- 
zens, won the approval of all. He never sought 
political honors, for he found in his more mod- 
est sphere ample scope for the gratification of 
his ambition. To do good and help others was 
to him a noble end. Physically Mr. Spencer 
was a well formed man, and few would accom- 
plish more in his business at middle life than 
he; and he has related that until after the age 
of seventy years he had not called for the 
service of a physician on account of illness for 
himself. One of the traits of his character was 
his love for children; there were but few whose 
confidence he could not obtain, and made them 
feel that in him they had a friend. Also his 
love for domestic animals, who would come at 
his call, and showed by their looks the care they 
received. 

In his native State he was called to serve in 
the militia and served as an officer in his com- 
pany, and afterward received a commission as 
Ensign from the then governor of New York, 
Martin Van Buren, and held it until he re- 
moved to Ohio. In politics he was a Demo- 
crat until the time of the Civil war, when he 
identified himself with the Republican party. 
He had his choice wlio should hold office, and 
exercised his right by voting at each succeeding 
election for the person or principle that seemed 
best. It is not known that he ever missed 
Voting, after being of legal age, at a general 
election during his long life. His sound judg- 
ment and high sense of honor were prominent 
characteristics, so that his counsels were often 
sought by his neighbors and friends who hon- 
ored him in iiis lifetime and revere his memory. 
To these and to his family he left the best of all 
legacies, the influence and example of a noble, 
self-sacrificing life. 

There were born to Mr. and Mrs. Spencer six 
children. Of these Henry B., born June 24, 
1833; Mary R., born March 25, 1835, was 
married November 27, 1853, to James A. Pot- 
ter, and died on November 7, 1890; Hannah 
L., born January 17, 1837. was married Febru- 
ary 2, 1800, to Francis AV. Mastick; Amos B.. 



born January 21, 1839, married Miss Nellie 
Mastick on March 21, 1861; John AV., born 
June 30, 1841, married Miss Deborah Gold- 
wood on December 24, 1866; and Frank J., 
born September 16, 1849, married Miss Lou 
Palmer on November 25, 1872. John W. 
served as a volunteer in the Fifteenth Ohio 
Battery for three and a half years, during the 
war of the Rebellion. 

Mr. and Mrs. Spencer were both interred in 
Fairview cemetery in Rockport, where a suit- 
able monument marks their last resting place 
on earth. 



ffffENRY B. SPENCER.— One of the 
Ir^l substantial and representative citizens of 
II L Cuyahoga county, Ohio, is Henry B. 
^ Spencer, of Rockport township, and his 

life fitly illustrates what one may accomplish by 
persistently following a fixed and honorable 
purpose. He comes of sturdy New England 
stock and inherits the manly qualities and vir- 
tues that characterized his worthy father, the 
late John P. Spencer, whose biographical sketch 
appears on another p«ge of this volume. 

Henry B. Spencer was born on the 24th day 
of June, 1833, in Rockport township, in what 
is now known as " Rocky River Hamlet." He 
was reared on the old homestead, and received 
a thorough English education in the common 
schools of his township, whicli were of unusu- 
ally high order, and also studied for a time at 
Baldwin University at Berea. After attaining 
his majority, he took a course of lectures at the 
Ohio Agricultural College then located at 
Cleveland, and which he now looks l)ack upon 
with pleasure, and wishes that every young 
man could avail himself of the privileges and 
instruction which such a course affords. He 
has always been a man of affairs with an in- 
quiring turn of mind and has kept himself well 
informed on matters of popular and current in- 
terest. With him education never ceases. 
With nature's book opened out before him in- 




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h-eyn,QOl 



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vitiiig study, the days are too sliort to learn it 
nil. He occasionally contributes articles to 
some of the leading periodicals devoted to the 
subjects of agriculture, horticulture and science, 
which are the results of his observation, investi- 
gation and experiments. All his life he has 
had a fondness for fruit-growing, making grape 
culture a special feature, and is widely known 
as an authority in horticultural matters, as he 
has made numerous successful experiments in 
introducing new varieties of grapes. At the 
same time he gives general farming a full share 
of his time and attention. Following his agri- 
cultural and horticultural pursuits from an in- 
nate love of them, his constant study has been 
to secure the highest and best results from his 
work. His tinely improved and highly culti- 
vated lands bear ample testimony of the success 
of his methods. In acquiring the land he now 
owns he commenced in a small way with a few 
acres, and has added to them as conditions and 
circumstances seemed favorable until he has be- 
come the owner of one hundred and eighty 
(180) acres of tine land, forty acres of which 
lie in the townsiiip of Dover, in a beautiful and 
romantic situation on the south shore of Lake 
Erie, at a place known as Dover Bay Park, 
which has been found well adapted to growing 
the finest of grapes, to which a share of it is 
devoted. 

As a man and citizen Mr. Spencer has always 
held a high place in the esteem of all who have 
known him, and his fellow-citizens have hon- 
ored him with numerous positions of responsi- 
bility and trust, in all of which his conduct has 
been marked by the utmost fidelity, and he has 
acquitted himself with much credit and uni- 
versal satisfaction. He is a man of the highest 
integrity, prompt and careful; and in all his 
business transactions,. as well as in every thing 
else, he "seeks to do unto others as he would 
have others do unto him." His life has been 
one of unselftish devotion to his family and 
friends, and in all his social and other relations 
he bears himself as a high-minded gentlenian, 
whose chief desire is to make the world ijrighter 



and better. Warm-hearted, affable and genial, 
he attracts to himself many friends, and esteems 
it a pleasure to do for them. 

Mr. Spencer is an earnest advocate of all 
matters of public interest, and contributes gen- 
erously of both time and money to further all 
movements calculated to improve and benefit 
the community. He was one of the pioneer 
movers in organizing the Rockport and Dover 
Plank Road Company, and became one of its 
first stockholders and directors. He was after- 
wards Superintendent of the road for one year 
and treasurer for three years. This road was a 
great advantage to the people along the line 
and to the surrounding country by affording 
them better facilities for getting their produce 
to market. In yjolitical sentiment Mr. Speuoer 
is a zealous Republican and in his religious be- 
lief is liberal and broad-minded and cheerfully 
accords to others that independence of thought 
and action that he asks for himself. His has 
been an active life, full of good works, and none 
deserves more than he to be ranked among our 
influential and self-made men. 



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, ALTER PERCIVAL RICE, chief en- 
;ineer of the city of Cleveland, was 
^ born in this city, September 2, 1855. 
After taking a course iti the public schools he 
was prepared for a scientific course under the 
tutorship of John D. Crehore, a civil engineer, 
and then, entering the school of civil engineer- 
ing at the Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, he 
graduated in 1876, receiving the degree of C. E. 
Returning to Cleveland he was for several years 
engaged in street work, dredging and in the 
construction of the Superior street viaduct, 
under B. F. Morse and S. H. Miller. Then 
special practice, including bridge work, received 
his attention for a short time. Subsequently, 
under Colonel John M. Wilson, Mr. Rice served 
as United States Assistant Engineer for a period 
of six years, on harbors between Dunkirk and 
Detroit. Governor Iloadley appointed him Chief 



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of Engineers of the State of Ohio, and then he 
served tliree years as city civil engineer of 
Cleveland. Finally, after a lapse of time, he 
was, in 1893, appointed to the position he now 
holds. 

Among other works done by Mr. Rice, he 
designed the Brooklyn and Brighton viaduct 
and superintended the eonstrnction of the same. 
He was also consulting engineer for the Wheel- 
ing Arch, which is the third largest structure 
of its kind in the world. Mr. Rice has de- 
signed sewerage systems for several towns, was 
one of the founders of the Civil Engineers' 
Club of Cleveland, and is a member of the 
American Society of Civil Engineers. He has 
been a zealous worker in behalf of the National 
Public Works movement as represented by the 
McCuUom-Breckenridge bill, a piece of legisla- 
tion looking to the introduction of a system of 
internal improvements similar to other civilized 
nations. He is the author of several articles 
contributed to scientific journals and read be- 
fore the Engineers' Club of this city, also the 
Engineers' Club of Chicago. His statements 
in regard to the currents otf Cleveland and the 
final disposition of the city's sewage were favor- 
ably reviewed by one of the leading American 
experts. 

He is a son of Percy W. Rice, who was born 
in tiie State of Ohio. 



Kr\\ AW JACKSON, one of the well-known 
f^^ farmers of Orange township, Cuyahoga 
11 ¥i county, was born at Marrick, Yorkshire, 
V England, September 24, 1833, a son of 

Raw and Jane (Lonsdale) Jackson, also natives 
of that place, who were the parents of twelve 
children. They located on the farm where our 
subject now resides in 1835, where they re- 
mained until death, and were burled at this 
place. 

Raw Jackson, whose name heads this sketch, 
came to Orange township when two years of 
age. lie now owns a well improved farm of 



143 acres, where he has a good dwelling house, 
two good barns, one 34 x 44 feet, and the other 
30x40 feet, has all the other necessary farm 
improvements, and, in addition to general farm- 
ing, is extensively engaged in stock-raising. 

In 1865, at Mayfield, Ohio, Mr. Jackson was 
united in marriage with Maria Walkden, a na- 
tive of Warrensville, Cuyahoga county, and a 
daughter of James and Mary (Barker) Walkden, 
the former a native of Lancastershire, and ihe 
latter of Yorkshire, England. Both died at 
Warrensville, Ohio, at the ages of eighty-six 
and eighty-eight years, respectively. Mr. and 
Mrs. Walkden had seven children, — Robert, 
Mary, Amos, Moses, Martha and Maria (twins), 
and Lucy. Mr. and Mrs. Raw Jackson have 
three sons, — George V., Frank C. and Arthur 
W. Frank C. and George Veach have a farm of 
100 acres in Orange township. Mr. Jackson is 
one of the leading farmers of his community, 
and is a well known and respected citizen. 



F. HOPPENSACK, secretary and 
treasurer of The Savings, Building & 
Loan Company, of CleveknJ, was born 
in this city, July 17, 1859. His early educa- 
tion was received in the public schools of his 
native city, after which he entered Fort Wayne 
Theological Seminary, having for his object the 
better equipment of himself for a life of gen- 
eral usefulness. There, however, his studies 
were interrupted by sickness, and at the end 
of three years' work he was obliged to leave 
the institution. In the fall of 1878 he began 
the study of law under the instructions of Judge 
J. D. Cleveland, in whose office he remained 
nine years and four months, doing all the clerical 
work and much of the preliminary work in the 
preparation of court cases. He was never ex- 
amined for admission to the bar. In February, 
1887, County Recorder A. T. Anderson offered 
him a place in his office as deputy, which he 
accepted, entering upon his duties at once. He 
remained there four years and became a formi- 



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dable candidate for nomination for County Re- 
corder, but lost it in a convention held ou the 
old plan, by a small margin. January 1, 1892, 
he was appointed cashier of the Collector of 
Custums, receiving his appointment from Capt. 
M. B. Gary. This position he resigned the fol- 
lowing month in order to accept the place he 
now fills so creditably. 

Mr. Hoppensack is a son of H. F. Hoppen- 
sack, deceased, who was born in Prussia and 
who came to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1844. The 
other members of the family are as follows: 
Fred E., a carpenter; Frank F., shipping clerk 
for the American Lubricating Oil Works; Anna, 
wife of Edward Jordan; Kate E. ; Lillie, wife of 
Charles Lang; and J. F. W. 

The sul)ject of our sketch was married in 
Cleveland, to Miss Harm, daughter of Michael 
Harm, who was born in Germany. Her mother's 
maiden name was Crolly. Mr. and Mrs. Hop- 
pensack's children are Emma Loretta and Olga 
Bertha. 

In politics Mr. Hoppensack is a radical Ee- 
publican. He is a member of the Knights of 
Pythias, National Union, and Royal League; was 
one of the founders of the Tippecanoe Club. 



SAMUEL COZAD, Sr., the earliest rep- 
resentative of the family in Ohio, came 
to Cleveland in 1808, accompanied by his 
wife, Jane Mcllrath Cozad, and their eight 
children. He settled on a tract of land now 
crossed by Euclid avenue and partly occupied 
by the grounds of Adelbert College. His first 
purchase consisted of 100 acres, but before his 
death he and his si.K sons owned all the land lying 
between Doan brook and the Dugway which 
passes through Lake View cemetery. A typi- 
cal pioneer he knew no fear of hardship or 
privation and labored with untii-ing energy for 
the accomplishment of his ends. He was a man 
of the strictest integrity and worthy of the great 
respect in which he was held. The names of his 
children are: Jacob, Ellas, Anna, Samuel, Henry, 
Sarah, Andrew and Nathaniel C. 



Andrew Cozad, father of M. E. Cozad, of this 
city, was born in Washington county, Pennsy- 
lvania, November 7, 1801, and died May 20, 
1873, after a life of useful activity. A lad of 
seven years when his parents came to the west- 
ern frontier, he also tasted of the privations of 
pioneer life, and grew to manhood amidst the 
wildest surroundings. At the age of twenty- 
four, May 12, 1825, he was united in marriage 
to Sally Simmons, a daughter of Ephraim and 
Polly (Sparger) Simmons. Mrs. Cozad was 
born at New Hartford, Oneida county, New 
York, August 17, 1805, and died April 6, 1884. 
Nine children were born of this union: Jane 
Celestia, Mary Ann, Nathaniel C, Justice L., 
Charlotte, Andrew Dudley, Henry L-ving, Sarah 
L., and Marcus Eugene. As he grew to mature 
years he became deeply interested in public 
affairs, and tilled many of the local offices. He 
was also active in educational and temperance 
work, and from the founding of Shaw Academy 
until his death was a trustee of that institution. 
He was a faithful reader of the Congressional 
Globe, and was thoroughly posted upon all 
matters of national interest. His creed was, 
" He that feareth God and worketh righteous- 
ness is accepted." 

Justice L. Cozad was borti in Cleveland, Ohio, 
and grew to manhood upon his father's farm. 
He received his education in the public school 
with two years at Austinburg and one year in 
the Cleveland University. In 1852 he entered 
the employ of the Cleveland, Columbus & Cin- 
cinnati Railway Company, and three years later 
joined the Government survey in Kansas and 
Nebraska. In 1861 he went on the Bellefon- 
taine railroad as chief engineer and general 
superintendent, and also had control of the Bee 
Line and Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati 
Railway from Cleveland to St. Louis. He lo- 
cated and built the line between Indianapolis 
and Terre Haute, acting as chief engineer. In 
1875 he went into the abstract business under 
the firm name of Odell &, Cozad, this relation- 
ship existing nine years. At the end of this 
period he became a member of the firm of 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



Cozad, Beltz & Bates, who do a large and pros- 
perous abstract business. He was married iti 
1858 to Miss Artemisia Whitman, a native of 
this city and one of the teachers in the public 
schools. They are the parents of fuur children: 
Florence S. is at home; Olive is the wile of Mr. 
Bates of the abstract company; Jennie and 
Gertrude are missionaries to Japan, where they 
have been since 1888. Jennie was married in 
the "Flowery Kingdom " to the Rev. Horatio 
B. Newell, and they have two children. Before 
going to Japan thtse two daughters spent a year 
in preparation at Oberlin College. Their de- 
parture was the first break in the family circle, 
but they deemed their mission worthy of the 
sacrifice. Both are thoroughly well educated 
and accomplisiied, and they have made admir- 
able records. 

Modes of travel being yet quite primitive in 
Japan, Mr. Cozad sent his daughters each a 
wlieel, one a bicycle and the other a tricycle; 
these inventions of the nineteenth century iiave 
afforded them much comfort and pleasure in 
the far-distant land of the Mikado. 



P 



G. SIPHER. — America is so thoroughly 

cosmopolitan in the make-up of her popu- 

i lace, representing all sorts and conditions 

of men from all sections of the globe, that 



it would be difficult to determine 



ith 



any 



degree of satisfaction as to vvliich foreign nation 
has contributed the best element in onr con- 
glomerate national fabric. It is, however, safe 
to say that Germany has given us a large con- 
tingent of strong, honest, enterprising, intellect- 
ual and patriotic citizens, and that we owe 
much to the influence of this element. 

The subject of this brief sketch now holds 
the responsible preferment as Deputy Treasurer 
of Cuyahoga county, a position whose holding 
stands in unmistakable evidence of his character 
and ability. H. G. Sipher was born in the 
kingdom of AVurtemberg, Germany, September 
3, 1842, being a son of Gottlob and Retina 



Sipher. He passed his boyhood days in his 
native land, receiving his educational training 
in the public schools there. Finally, as his 
seventeenth birthday anniversary drew near, the 
young man prepared himself to emigrate to 
America. We can well imagine what must 
have been the hopes and aspirations of the youth 
at that time and how he must have been an 
object of solicitous care to the honest and faith- 
ful friends who assembled in the village street 
to wish him God speed on his eventful voyage 
and to extend the best wisiies for his success 
and happiness. To thus break away from home 
ties implies a courage and fortitude that few, 
perhaps, realize. In due time our subject was 
in transit on the deep, pissing his birthday 
anniversary, noted above, at sea. On reaching 
the United States he proceeded forthwith to 
Medina, Ohio, which place was the residence 
of an older brother. In that town he remained 
until 1871, being employed in the interim at 
the shoemaker's trade. 

In January, 1865, with a patriotic devotion 
for his adopted country, he enlisted for service 
in the late civil conflict, becoming a member of 
Company A, One Hundred and Seventy-sixth 
Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He had taken out 
his naturalization papers in the Xovember previ- 
ous and his first ballot for President was cast 
for Abraham Lincoln. His loyalty to the cause 
was firm and true and he serveij in tho war un- 
til its close, being mustered out at Nashville, 
Tennessee. 

In 1871 Mr. Sipher came to Cleveland and 
engaged to clerk in the dry-goods business of 
J. C. Spieth on Woodland avenue. Three years 
later he started a dry-goods establishment on 
Lorain street, West Side, and there carried on a 
successful business until 1888, when he disposed 
of the same, two years later accepting his present 
position as a deputy in the office of the County 
Treasurer. From 1881 to 1888 he was a mem- 
ber of the Board of Education; he was at one 
time Deputy Sheriff, and has held other posi- 
tions of public trust. In his political proclivities 
he has ever been strongly arrayed in line with 



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the Eepublican party, and he has been a member 
of tlie Republican Central Corn mitt ee for the 
past eight years. 

In the matter of fraternal affiliations Mr. Sipher 
retains a membership in the I. O. O. F., being 
connected with Amazon Lodge, No. 567; with 
North Wing Encampment, No. 88, and with 
Lakeside Canton, No. 29. He is Commissary 
of the Sixth Regiment, with the title of Captain. 
He is a trustee of the order, and has tilled the 
chairs of Grand Secretary of the Ohio Division 
of the Independent Order of Foresters, of which 
he has been a member for the past fifteen years. 
He is also a member of the G. A. R., Army & 
Navy Post. 

July 9, 18R5, he was united in marriage to 
Elizabeth Schmoltz, and their home has been 
brightened by the presence of three children, 
one of whom, Arthur, died at the age of twelve 
years. The two who remain are Cora L. and 
Charles F. The pleasant home of our subject 
is at No. 1007 Lorain street. 



AMFEL C. EVANS, M. D.— Occupying 
a position of unmistakable prominence 
among the members of the Cleveland 
medical profession, and recognized as a physi- 
cian of high attainments, there is signal consis- 
tency in according to Dr. Evans a place is this 
volume. He is the manager of the Evans Med- 
ical Dispensary, located at No. 43 Public Square, 
and is one of the most capable practitioners in 
the city, in his line. He is what is technically 
known as a specialist, giving his attention par- 
ticularly to the treatment of disorders of the 
skin and blood. The modern tendency to spe- 
cialize the different branches of medical science 
in reference to the treatment of specific diseases 
or maladies of allied order, is one that is to be 
louked upon with satisfaction and approval by 
all who understand the trend of the matter. It 
is simply an impossibility for a physician in 
general practice to keep himself tiioroughly in- 
formed, by either reading or personal investi- 



gation and experiment, as to tiie advances made 
in the treatment of the manifold diseases to 
which human flesh is heir. It is then expedi- 
ent that there should be pathological specialists 
or experts, men who have not covered the eutire 
realm of medical study but whose decisions in 
regard to certain lines of disease and their treat- 
ment may be considered as authoritative. 

Dr. Evans was born in the city of Cleveland, 
March 29, 1845, a son of William and Anne 
(Welch) Evans, both of whom were natives of 
Ireland. Their marriage occurred in New York 
city, and they came westward to Cleveland as 
early as 1826. The father was a contractor, 
having given special attention to railway con- 
struction. A noteworthy fact is, that he put 
in operation the first dray ever used in the city 
of Cleveland. He was a man of sterling integ- 
rity, and was held in iiigh esteem. He died in 
1874, at the advanced age of eighty-four years, 
his widow passing away Hve years later, at the 
age of seventy-eight. They had eleven chil- 
dren, of whom we make record as follows: 
James Evans, who was chief engineer of the 
ill-fated steamer Lac la Belle, — wiiich was run 
into by the steamer Milwaukee and sunk in 
November, 1866, — and thus lost his life while 
at his post of duty. Three years later the ves- 
sel was raised and once more put into service, 
only however to meet a similar disaster, going 
to the bottom while on the route between Grand 
Haven and Milwaukee, entailing the loss of 
many lives. The boat was again rai.-ed, re- 
paired and put into operation, and for the third 
time went down, with all on board! 

John W. Evans, the second son, is the pat- 
entee of the appliances utilized in extracting 
linseed oil by the use of napiitha, aud is the 
general superintendent of tlie Cleveland Lin- 
seed Oil Company, in which he is a large stock- 
holder. This company has two extensive plants, 
one located in Chicago and the other in Cleve- 
land. 

Willie, the third son, died when only a year 



and a iialf old. 
O'Brien, a retir* 



M:i 



the wi 



of P. 



nerchant of Cleveland: Eliz- 



CUTAEOOA COUNTY. 



abetli is the widow of J. X. Walsh, once a pros- 
perous grocer of the same city; Mary is the 
wife of John Welsh, of Cleveland; Joseph is a 
machinist of this city. He enlisted, in 1861, for 
service in the late war, in Company B, Eighth 
Ohio Volunteer Infantry, being onl^' seventeen 
years of age, and served continuously for three 
years and twenty -nine days, participating in 
nearly eighty general engagements. Being a 
member of the Army of the Potomac, he took 
part in nearly all its engagements. Was never 
wounded or taken prisoner. The seventh child 
is Kichard, who is now solicitor for the Manu- 
facturers' Record, of Baltimore, Maryland. He 
also saw active service on the field of battle, 
going out as a drummer boy at the age of four- 
teen years, in the same company which his 
brother Joseph entered. At length lie returned 
home, and afterward enlisted in the Sixty-first 
Ohio Volunteer Infantry as a private, was even- 
tually taken sick, sent to the hospital and finally 
discharged, by reason of disability. Frances is 
the wife of Frank Wagner, an old prominent 
funeral director of Cleveland; and George is 
agent for the Cincinnati Brewing Company, 
his territory embracing northern Ohio. 

Dr. Evans, the subject of this sketch, re- 
ceived his preliminary education in the public 
schools of Cleveland, and in 1886 took one 
course of lectures at the Western Reserve Col- 
lege, and completed his studies at New York in 
1887. He had gained a practical knowledge of 
medicine and had been in successful practice for 
years prior to entering a medical college, having 
from the beginning given special attention to 
skin and blood diseases. In those special lines 
he has treated many severe cases of chronic dis- 
ease, and has effected some really remarkable 
cures by reason of his thorough knowledge of 
the nature of the disorders and the most effec- 
tive remedial agents to be employed. 

In 1869 the Doctor married Miss Louisa An- 
toinette Weinstein, a native of New York city 
and of French extraction. They have had two 
children: Georgie, who died in early childhood; 
ami Samuel William, a member of the class of 



1895 in the medical department of the West 
ern Reserve University, and a young man of 
much promise. 

As to his political predilections Dr. Evans is 
an independent thinker and voter. In his per- 
sonal appearance he is prepossessing and of fine 
manner and address, genial and courteous, and 
is honored and esteemed professionally and eo- 
cially. He is a veteran of the war of the Re- 
bellion, having served as a member of Company 
E, of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Volunteer 
Infantry. 



ENERAL H. N. WHITBECK, of Berea, 
Ohio, was born in Columbia county. New 
li York, in December, 1836. When he was 
still a child his parents removed to Mon- 
roe county, that State, where he passed his boy- 
hood days until he was thirteen years old, when 
the family removed to Lorain county, Ohio. He 
acquired a good business education in Oberlin 
College, and was first employed as clerk in a 
store at Elyria, Ohio, and in 1858 came to 
Berea and engaged in mercantile business until 
October, 1861, when he recruited Company E, 
Sixty-fifth Ohio Regiment, being commissioned 
Captain of the company. He served in that 
capacity until December, 1862, when he was 
promoted Major; the following spring he was 
commissioned Lieutenant Colonel, and afterward 
Colonel, and still later brevetted Brigadier- 
General, serving till August, 1865. He was 
wounded three times: first at the battle of Stone 
river, slightly; next at Chickamauga, severely, 
the missile passing through the left arm, en- 
tered the left side, and was extracted from 
under the right shoulder blade; and lastly at 
Kenesaw mountain, severely, so that he nearly 
lost his life. For nearly a year ho served on 
court martial, at Nashville, Tennessee. 

On leaving the army he returned to Berea, 
and on account of ill health was unable to en- 
gage in active business. In the autumn of 1881 
he was elected Treasurer of Cuyahoga county, 




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CUTAHOGA COUNTY. 



on the Republican ticket, and at the end of two 
years was re-elected. He has done considerable 
work for his party. Fraternally, he is a mem- 
ber of the Masonic order, the Loyal Legion and 
the Grand Army of the Eepnblic. 

He was married in Lorain county, Ohio, to 
Miss Frances C. Perry, a native of Elyria, that 
county. She died in Berea, in August, 1886, 
after a short illness, leaving four children, as 
follows: Mary A., who became the wife of F. 
T. Poraeroy; Helen F., who is the wife of E. 
F. Schneider; Horatio N., the youngest son, 
died in Cleveland, at the age of twenty-one; and 
William P., who died at Berea, at the age of 
thirty-one years. 



EORGE CARLTON MAPES, one of the 
jf leading undertakers and furniture dealers 
4 of Collinwood, was born in Maylield 
township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, June 
29, 1844, a son of Hiel S. and Mary Jane 
(Field) Mapes, the former born in New York 
and the latter near Lake Champlain, Vermont. 
The father, a farmer by occupation, was Cap- 
tain of the first militia ever organized in this 
section. He came with his mother, Julia 
(Smith) Mapes, to Cuyahoga county in 1812, 
liis father, Seth Mapes, having arrived here a 
few days before, and was preparing a home for 
his family. Mrs. Mapes covered an ox cart 
with canvas, made such preparations as she 
could for the journey, and with her children 
started for Cuyahoga county. She cared for 
her little ones and drove the oxen the entire 
distance, arriving safely in due time, as much 
to the pleasure as to the surprise of her hus- 
band. She was a woman of wonderful courage, 
and was well and favorably known in her com- 
munity. She lived to the age of eighty-seven 
years. The farm on which the family located 
was contiguous to the Garfield place, and is 
still in possession of the Mapes family. When 
eighteen years of age Hiel Mapes, the father of 
our subject, cut thirty-two cords of wood, for 



which he received the first pair of boots he ever 
owned. In addition to his other interests, he 
served as Township Trustee nearly one-half of 
his life. He died at the age of sixty-seven 
years. His spotless life, fidelity and integrity 
will be cherished by all who know him, and to 
know him was to love and admire him for his 
many virtues and his good business methods. 
Mr. Mapes was three times married, and our 
subject is the seventh in a family of thirteen 
children, all of whom are living. Mrs. Mapes 
died in 1848, at the age of thirty-two years. 
She joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in 
early life, and lovingly continued in its commun- 
ion until her death. They soon became accus- 
tomed to the hardships, suffering and incon- 
veniences incident to Ohio pioneer life. 

G. C. Mapes, the subject of this sketch, at- 
tended the public schools, and later entered the 
academy at Mayfield. He was patriotic in 
spirit, and during the late war enlisted seven 
times, but was rejected on account of physical 
disability. He, however, spent a short time 
with the One Hundred and Third Ohio Regi- 
ment. In 1874 he opened a real-estate office in 
this city, which he continued until 1881, and 
since that time has been engaged in the under- 
taking and furniture busi)iess. His line of 
goods and equipments are the latest improved 
and in keeping with the best in any city. In 
1888 Mr. Mapes was elected Mayor of Collin- 
wood, and served in that position one term. He 
is a man of energy, enterprise and vim. His 
life furnishes a good example of what will and 
perseverance can accomplish when coupled with 
honesty and strict integrity of character. 

In 1863 our subject was united in marriage 
with Miss Henrietta, a daughter of Walter and 
Amanda Frissell, both now deceased. The 
father died at the age of eighty-two years, and 
the mother died at the age of eighty years. 
Mrs. Frissell came from Massachusetts, coming 
to Euclid township in an ox sled, covering the 
whole distance in six weeks in the dead of win- 
ter. Mr. and Mrs. Mapes have four children: 
Harry S., cashier and credit manager of the 



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CUTAHOOA GOUHTT. 



Sherwin-Williams house in Chicago; Carey, 
deceased at the age of four and a half years; 
Will Carlton, also deceased; and Harvey Guy. 
The eldest, Harry S., married Etta Florence 
Darby: Ralph C, their only child, died at the 
age of two and one-half years. 

Mr. and Mrs. Mapes are members of the 
Disciple Church, which was organized at their 
home in 1880, and the former has served as its 
Trustee since that time. He was also the first 
Superintendent of the Sunday-school. The 
church now contains a membership of 311, and 
the Sunday-school has over 200 members. In 
his social relations, Mr. Mapes has filled vari- 
ous chairs in the Odd Fellows order, and is 
also a leading member of the A. O. LT. W. 
Politically, he is a firm believer in the princi- 
ples set forth by the Republican party. 



r 



to S. JONES, deceased, president and 
treasurer of the Citizens' Savings and 
Loan Association of Cleveland, was 
born in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, April 13, 1837. 
In point of settlement this is not an old family 
in Ohio, or even in the United States. John 
Jones, our subject's father, was a poor, indus- 
trious English boy, having found his way to 
Cleveland in 1829. lie was born in Hereford- 
shire in 1812, and was only seventeen years of 
age when he cast his lot in the Forest City, 
friendless and practically penniless. He turned 
his hand to any legitimate labor that would 
yield him an honest dollar, and in a few years 
had earned and accumulated a sum sufficient to 
enable him to enjoy a good degree of financial 
independence. In middle and later life he en- 
gaged in the livery and transfer business in this 
city, meeting with his usual success, and leaving, 
at his death in 1873, a good estate. 

W. S. Jones was educated in the city schools 
of Cleveland, graduating at eighteen years of 
age. He entered tiie office of G. A. Hyde, of 
this city, for the purpose of accpiiring a practi- 
cal knowledge of civil engineering, which busi- 



ness he expected to engage in, but circum- 
stances controlled otherwise, and when he made 
a new business arrangement it was to enter the 
office of the county Auditor as draughtsman; 
later he became Deputy Auditor, and by reason 
of his popularity and etiiciency he succeeded to 
the Auditorship in the fall election of 1868. 
He was re-elected in 1870 and again in 1872, 
and closed his public service by resignation in 
January, 1875, to accept the position of vice- 
president and treasurer of the Citizens' Savings 
and Loan Association. Thenceforward he de- 
voted his time to the management of this insti- 
tution, keeping abreast of the times and main- 
taining for it a high standard, and a public con- 
fidence unsurpassed by any similar institution 
in the city. 

In 1892 Mr. Jones succeeded to the presi- 
dency of the bank. He had other interests in 
and out of Cleveland, and was officially con- 
nected as follows: For a number of years treas- 
urer of the C. W. & M. R. R.; treasurer oi 
Kalamazoo R. & G. R. R. ; director in the 
National Bank of Commerce of Cleveland, and 
a stockholder in manufacturing and other insti- 
tutions in this city; treasurer and trustee of the 
Children's Aid Society and Cleveland Bethel 
Union; director of the Valley Railroad, and 
vice-president of the American Casualty Com- 
pany. The several business positions are pointed 
out as evidence of the varied business relations 
he has long since sustained in the business 
world. 

As a business man, Mr. Jones was character- 
ized by sagacity, marked executive ability and 
shrewd commercial talent. Ilis success in the 
business world was due to untiring energy, to- 
gether with his ability to grasp a business situ- 
ation with a comprehensive idea of all its bear- 
ings and the probable outcome or result of any 
business course or plan of operation. He always 
maintained a strict character for probity, and 
always shared the confidence of those who were 
permitted to come in contact with him in the 
transaction of business. While in public office 
he was as efficient as in the business world, and 



CUTAHOQA COUNTT. 



was one of tlie most popular officials who had 
ever served iu a county office. Politically he 
was always a well pronounced Republican, hut 
after his resignation of the office of county Au- 
ditor he has never sought political preferment. 
However, he never grew less enthusiastic in the 
interests of the party to wliich he always be- 
longed. This respected and esteemed citizen 
was such by reason of having improved every 
opportunity of doing good which has been 
afforded him, and by living a moral, honest and 
active life. 

' He died November 29, 1893, after an illness 
of some six weeks, brought on by exposure at 
the AVorld's Fair. By his death the social cir- 
cles of Cleveland, as well as the business men, 
suffered a great loss. Resolutions to this effect 
were passed by the Board of Trade, Citizens' 
Savings and Loan Association, Children's Aid 
Society, Cleveland Clearing- House Association, 
and the Bethel Association. The Bankers' Re- 
view of December, 1893, says he was a leading 
man in Cleveland's banking business. 



I( V. KURTZ, a well known resident of 
Cleveland, occupies an important and 
responsible position as local manager of 
the Postal Telegraph Calile Company, 
and there are many points of interest to be noted 
in tracing his life history through its stages, 
taking cognizance of his rise as a result of na- 
tive ability and indefatigable perseverance. 

He was born in Cleveland January 13, 1852, 
and secured a high-school education, but it was 
not permitted him to be afforded those advanced 
educational opportunities which are so often of- 
fered and so often fail of appreciation. How- 
ever, there are more roads than one that "lead 
to Rome," and the boy set out to make his way 
in life and to attain suclf measure of success as 
it was in his power to gain. In 1869 he be- 
came messenger boy in the employ of the West- 
ern Union Telegraph Company, and it is in- 
teresting to note his progress along that line to 



which his earliest efforts were devoted after he 
had found it necessary to resign his studies in 
school and to turn his attention to undertakings 
that would yield immediate pecuniary returns. 
In time he mastered the science of telegraphy, 
and has been an operator for a full quarter of a 
century, and for eight years of this time he was 
in the employ of the same company over whose 
local interests he now presides. 

Through faithful service, close attention to 
business, and assiduous toil, he advanced step 
by step from one position to an other of greater 
trust and responsibility, being in turn an 
operator, clerk, bookkeeper, cashier and finally, 
in 1885, being appointed local manager of the 
Postal Telegraph Cable Company's offices, 117 
Superior street. In this position he has had the 
general supervision of thirty-one operators, who 
are under the direct charge of Mr. E. W. Col- 
lins, as electrician and chief operator; also of 
eleven branch offices in divers quarters of the 
city. He has six clerks and thirty-eight mes- 
senger boys, in chai-ge of B. J. Ross, chief 
clerk. The financial affairs are directed by the 
cashier, Mr. J. H. Matthias, who has two as- 
sistants. An idea of the responsibility involved 
may be gained from even these brief statistics 
in regard to the work over which he is placed 
in charge. 

His work in the interests of the company has 
been important, exacting and successful. He 
had the general supervision of the work of en- 
closing the trunk wires in conduits running 
through the fire limits of the city to the Cuya- 
hoga river at the Columbus street bridge, the 
work being accomplished at a cost of $15,000. 
Mr. Kurtz was for some time connected with 
the Union Building and Loan Association as 
cashier. 

Our subject was united in marriage, June 18, 
1878, to Miss Nettie Morse, a daughter of 
George W. Morse, an old resident of Asiitabula 
county, who at present is living in Cleveland, 
as a retired business man. Mr. and Mrs. Kurtz 
have three children: Grace, born in 1879; 
Haydn, in 1885; and Gaylord in 1892. 



CU YAHOO A COUNTY. 



As the name indicates, our subject is of 
German extraction, bis father, who was a na- 
tive of the Fatherland, having for many years 
been engaged in the business of carriage manu- 
facturing in Cleveland, wliere he died in 1876, 
at the age of sixty-eight years. 

In his political adherency our subject is a 
stalwart Republican, taking much interest in 
the issues of the day. He and his wife are 
zealous members of the Disciples' Church. 



djOHN T. R. McKAY, late general freight 
I agent of the Lake Shore et Michigan 
—-' Southern Railway Company, was born 
March 31, 1838, at Toronto, Canada. His 
father, Alexander McKay, was born in the north 
of Scotland. He came to North America in 
1826 and to Cleveland in 1847, and was en- 
gaged in merchandising here. The gold fever 
of 1849 took him to California and nothing was 
ever heard of him again. He married Miss 
Louisa R. Hamilton, of Toronto, Ontario, who 
died in 1892. Their children were: John T. R.; 
Captain George A., Deputy Revenue Collector; 
Fred A., who died in 1871, as a result of ex- 
posure while a soldier in our late war; and Belle, 
deceased. 

John T. R. secured his education principally 
in the public schools of this city. At fifteen 
he was office boy for one or two firms in this 
city, and the next year was given a clerkship in 
the office of the Cleveland & Toledo Railroad 
Company. He rose rapidly by promotion, pass- 
ing through the minor grades of clerkships. In 
1867-'68 he was general agent of the Merchants' 
Despatch Transportation Company at Cleveland. 
In 1869 he was appointed chief clerk of the 
general freight department. In 1877 he was 
appointed assistant general freight agent, and 
on April 28, 1885, succeeded to the office of 
general freight agent. His death, September 5, 
1893, the day of his wedding anniversary, closed 
a long and useful career, and in it the company 



lost a faithful and efficient officer whose services 
were in the highest degree satisfactory to the 
management. 

Mr. McKay married Melissa, a daughter of 
J. C. Black, of Saltsburg, Pennsylvania. Mr. 
Black was a contractor by occupation and came 
to Cleveland in 1849. He married Miss 
Katherine R. Davis, of Baltimore, Maryland, 
who bore him four children. 

To Mr. and Mrs. McKay were born: George 
P., September 27, 1861 ; Katherine, wife of 
Charles A. Akers; Ella M.; Charles E., in the 
general freight office of the Lake Shore & Michi- 
gan Southern Railway; E. W., clerk in the 
Merchants' Despatch office; John A. and Edith A. 

George P. McKay began business at eighteen, 
as a clerk in the general freight office of the 
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway. 
From September 1, 1881, to April 30, 1885, he 
was secretary to the general freight agent. 
May 1st of the same year he was made chief 
clerk of general freight department, and July 1, 
1889, division freight agent. 

June 8, 1886, Mr. McKay married Alice M. 
Watterson, a history of whose father, John T. 
Watterson, appears in this volume. Mr. and 
Mrs. McKay have no children. 



EC. SHELDON, the paymaster of the 
Lake Shore ic Michigan Southern Rail- 
■ ' way Company, for the Buffalo division, 

began railroading as early as 1861, as messenger 
boy in the office of Agent T. S. Lindsey, whom 
he now succeeds as paymaster. His first pro- 
motion placed him in the general freight agent's 
office as a clerk, where he remained until the 
consolidation of the roads forming the Lake 
Shore ct Michigan Southern system then enter- 
ing the local freight office. A year afterward 
he was transferred to the treasurer's office, 
where he remained until June, 1873, when he 
went with the late General J. II. Devereux, 
president of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



& St. Lonis Eailway Company, as private secre- 
tary, and in February, 1875, received the 
appointment of paymaster of the Cleveland, 
Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Eailway 
Company, and continued with that company 
untilDecember, 1886, when he became cashier 
for the local treasurer of the Lake Shore & 
Michigan Southern Railway Company, succeed- 
ing his father in this position. Upon the 
resignation of T. S. Lindsey, Mr. Sheldon was 
made his successor, January 5, 1894. 

November 22, 1846, Mr. Sheldon was born in 
Genesee county, New York. Not long after 
this date his father, Edward Sheldon, returned 
to his native town, Hartford, Connecticut, and 
engaged in railroading on the Hartford, Provi- 
dence & Fishkill Railroad, where for a number 
of years he was conductor. In 1852 he came 
to Cleveland, and as passenger conductor took 
the second train out of this city on the Cleve- 
land & Toledo Railroad. 

On retiring from the operating department 
of the road Mr. Sheldon entered the treasurer's 
office, and at his death in 1886 was cashier of 
that office. He was born in 1823, and in his 
youth was trained in his father's store for a dry- 
goods merchant, and engaged in that line for 
himself for some time, but at length preferred 
to turn his attention to something more excit- 
ing and less confining to a narrow rut. The 
Sheldons were originally from England, coming 
to America in Colonial times and probably 
making their settlement in Connecticut. The 
most remote ancestor of whom anything is 
definitely known was Charles Sheldon, the 
grandfather of E. C, our subject. He was born 
in or near Hartford, and was a merchant of the 
old capital town. He married a Miss Lawrence 
and died in 1S56, aged about sixty -five years. 
They had ten children, of whom four are now 
living, in their native State. Edward Sheldon, 
father of E. C, married Harriet Curtiss, whose 
father, Ichabod Curtiss, moved to Ashtabula 
county, Ohio, upon the settlement of the West- 
ern Reserve, and died there in 1865, aged sixty- 
eight years. Edward's children were: E. C. 



(our subject): and Harriet C, who married E. D. 
Wheelock, of Chicago; the other two died in 
infancy. 

Mr. E. C. Sheldon was married in Ashtabula 
county, Ohio, November 4, 1874, to Miss Ella 
S. Newton, whose father, H. P. Newton, resid- 
ing near Kingsville, is a farmer and a pioneer 
settler from the State of Massachusetts. Mr. 
and Mrs. Sheldon have the following named 
children: Harvey D., paymaster's clerk in the 
service of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern 
Railroad Company, and born in 1875; and 
Minnie E., born in 1878. 



Tl B. HANNA, the invincible and indefatig- 
i^ I able secretary and treasurer of the Cleve- 
^^ land City Railway Company, was born in 
Columbiana county, Ohio, near New Lisbon, 
August 26, 1854. He is a son of K. Hanna, 
born in the same county, November 7, 1824, 
whose business career has been as a merchant, a 
manufacturer and later a street-railway man, 
being now assistant treasurer of the Cleveland 
City Company. In 1861 he moved to Cleve- 
land, and in 1868 to Chicago, Illinois, where 
he resided till 1874, returning thence to Cleve- 
land. Mr. K. Hanna is a son of Benjamin 
Hanna, an uncle of M. A. Hanna, whose sketch 
appears in this work. K. Hanna married Mary 
Ann McCook, a daughter of Dr. George L. 
McCook, an uncle of the " Fighting McCook " 
of our Civil war. Five children are the result 
of this union, two sons and three daughters, the 
sous being J. B. and Edwin. 

J. B. Hanna secured a grammar-school edu- 
cation at the Clev^eland and Morrison (Illinois) 
pnljlic schools. He began his business life as a 
bookkeeper in Illinois, and four years later re- 
turned to Cleveland and entered the employ of 
Rhodes & Company, coal and ore dealers, etc. 
He was stationed at Ashtabula Harbor three 
years, looking after the receiving and shipping 
of this company's coal and ore. On leaving this 
company Mr. Hanna became interested in street- 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



railway work, being made secretary and pur- 
chasing agent of the West Side Street Railway 
Company in 1883. Upon its consolidation with 
the Woodland avenue line he was elected to the 
same office, and again succeeded to it upon the 
consolidation with the Cleveland City Cable 
Railway Company in 1893, forming the Cleve- 
land City Railway Company. In January, 1894, 
he was elected to the office of treasurer also. He 
is a stockholder in the road. Mr. Hanna has 
been treasurer of the Ohio State Tramway As- 
sociation since 1885, and secretary and treasurer 
of it since 1889, and has been active in the in- 
terests of street railroads throughout the State. 
He is a Republican in politics and is very 
active in local campaigns, but never has time 
to devote to politics as a business. He is un- 
married. 



Iff OX. RICHARD C. PARSOXS, a prom- 
rpl inent lawyer and citizen of Cleveland 
Jj 41 was born October 16, 1826, at Xew Lon- 
^' don, Connecticut, of distinguished Pur- 

itan ancestry. After having received a liberal 
education he began the study of law, in 1846. 
In 1845 he came to Ohio, and was admitted to 
the bar in Cuyahoga county in 1851. He was 
elected to the City Council in 1852 and in the 
spring of the following year was made presi- 
dent of that body. In this official capacity be- 
gan his public career, which has been distin- 
guished by earnestness, integrity and sincerity 
of purpose, and which has been so abundantly 
tilled with honor. In 1857 he was elected to 
the Legislature of the State of Ohio as a mem- 
ber of the newly founded Republican party, and 
was re elected in 1859, being chosen Speaker of 
the House of Representatives. He was scarcely 
thirty-three years of age when he was elevated 
to this responsible and distinguished position, 
where he acquitted himself as a legislator of 
marked ability and wisdom. When President 
Lincoln took liis office he appointed Mr. Par- 
sons as Minister to Chili, which appointment 



Mr. Parsons declined, and accepted the Cousul- 
ship to Rio de Janeiro, remaining in that capacity 
one year, when he resigned and soon thereafter 
was appointed Collector of Internal Revenue at 
Cleveland, and still later Marshal of the Su- 
preme Court of the United States, which posi- 
tion he held from 1866 to 1872. In 1872 he 
was tendered by President Johnson the position 
of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury or Gov- 
ernorship of Montana, both of which he de- 
clined. In the latter year another honor came 
I to Mr. Parsons in his election to Congress from 
j the Cleveland District. In Congress he dis- 
tinguished himself as one well fitted for the 
office he held. He was directly instrumental in 
securing the Life Saving Service at the Cleve- 
land port, also the lighthouse for the Govern- 
ment pier, and the commencement of the work 
of building the Cleveland breakwater. 

From early life Mr. Parsons has displayed 
remarkable literary taste and ability, and from 
1877 to 1880 was editor and principal owner of 
the " Cleveland Herald," but disposing of the 
same he resumed the practice of law, in which 
he has also gained an enviable reputation for 
himself. He has always been conspicuous as 
an active and progressive Republican in poli- 
tics, and was among the anti-slavery men of 
1848. in resisting the spread of slavery into the 
Territories of the United States. Some of his 
literary speeches and lectures have been gath- 
ered together and published, and iiave been read 
with unusual interest by a wide circle of readers. 



P^ROF. JOHX W. LAXGLEV, of the 
Chair of Electrical Engineering in the 
Case School of Applied Science at Cleve- 
land, is a native of the city of Boston, 
born in 1841, one of the three children of Sam- 
uel Langley, who was an active business man, 
as well as literary, and an early stockholder in 
the Boston Atheneum; he was also a collector 
of choice notable books. 



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601 



The subject of this sketch graduated at Har- 
vard in 1861, as a Bachelor of Science in chem- 
istry, and was a'tutor tliere for six months. He 
then entered the United States Navy as assist- 
ant surgeon, in° which position he continued 
until 1864, when^he resigned to travel and study 
his favorite branches in Europe, where he spent 
a profitable year. Next he was professor of 
chemistry and physical science at Antioch 
(Ohio) College until the reorganization of that 
institution in 1867. After further study in 
Boston and Cambridge he was appointed profes- 
sor of natural philosophy in the United States 
Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, where 
he remained two years, resigning in 1872 to 
take a business position; but after a short time 
he was appointed professor of chemistry and 
allied sciences at Western (Pennsylvania) Uni- 
versity, which place he held until 1875, when 
he was called to the chairs of chemistry and 
physics in the University of Michigan at Ann 
Arbor, in 1875. This place he resigned to be- 
come consulting electrician and metallurgist at 
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and thence he was 
called in 1892 to the chair he now occupies, 
mentioned at the introduction of this sketch. 
On his arrival liere the department of Electrical 
Engineering was created, which, by putting in 
an ample system of equipments, he has rapidly 
brought up to a standing equal to that of the 
other departments. 

From the University of Michigan Prof. Lang- 
ley has received the degree of Ph. D. He is a 
member of the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science, New York Academy 
of Science, is honorary member of the Society 
of Engineers of Western Pennsylvania, of the 
Society of Civil Engineers of Cleveland, of the 
Electric Club of Cleveland, and a correspond- 
ing member of the British Society for the Ad- 
vancement of Science, and is the author of a 
number of scientific papers. 

In 1871 he married Miss Martica, a daughter 
of Don Jose Carret, of Cuba, and has four 
children: Mary W., Martica J., Annie W. and 
Samuel P. The Professor's ancestry on the 



British side were participants in the war of our 
Revolution in 1776; his mother's father was 
engaged on coast defence during the war of 
1812; and his father died in Barton in 1888, at 
the age of seventy-seven years; his mother is 
still living. 



RION L. NEFF, a well-known member 
of the Cleveland bar, was born May 15, 
1848, at Winchester, Preble county, 
Ohio. (For history of the family see biography 
of W. B. Neff.) In August, 1861, at the age 
of thirteen years, Mr. NefF enlisted as a drum- 
mer boy in the Thirty-fifth Regiment, Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry. During his service in the 
war there were three generations of his family 
in the ranks, — himself, his father and grand- 
father. As a drummer boy he passed through 
the campaigns conducted by General Thomas 
against ZoUicoffer in Kentucky, and Generals 
Grant and Sherman in Mississippi and Tennes- 
see, in which the battle of Shiloh was fought, 
the siege of Corinth was conducted and the 
march from Corinth to luka, Mississippi, and 
Tuscumbia, Alabama, was made. After a serv- 
ice of thirteen months the young patriot was 
severely injured, and was discharged. 

In 1863 he entered Oterbein University at 
Wellsville, Ohio, and later was a student in 
Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio. After 
some time spent in the law office of I. N. 
Alexander at Van Wert, Ohio, he entered the 
Law School at Cincinnati, Ohio, as a member 
of the senior class, with which he was graduated 
in 1875, On the fifteenth of May following he 
came to Cleveland to engage in the practice of 
the law with his brother, W. B. Neflf; this part- 
nership was continued with success until the 
election of the brother to the office of prosecut- 
ing attorney in 1890, and since that time Mr. 
NefF has been practicing alone. 

He is a member of Brooklyn Post, No. 368, 
G. A. R., of which he has served as Commander 
for two years. To his exertions, as much as to 



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those of any other member, is due the success 
that attended the erection of a Memorial Hall, 
which was constructed at a cost of ten thou- 
sand dollars, and is without exception the 
tinest property owned by a G. A. R. post in the 
Western States. In politics Mr. Xeff adheres 
to family tradition and practice, givyig his un- 
divided support to the Republican party. But 
while he takes an active interest in affairs of 
State he has never sought nor held public office. 
lie was united in marriage July 3, 1877, to 
Miss Frances R. Dodge of Beverly, Mass., the 
daughter of Joseph Dodge, deceased. Two 
daughters and a son have been born of this 
union. Young Milton Dodge Neff has the 
proud distinction of having laid the corner- 
stone of the G. A. R. Memorial Hall, above 
mentioned, at the age of si.x years, and of hav- 
ing contributed the first money to the erection 
of this building. 



l( DELBERT N. RUSSELL, physician and 
A\ surgeon, Collinwood, Ohio, was born in 
^ the State of Xew York, at Toddsville, 
Otsego county. May 20, ISoO, a son of 
Levi N. and Philina (Joslyn) Russell, natives of 
J^^ew York State. The paternal grandfather of 
Dr. Russell was Gideon Russell, a native of 
Massachusetts, descended from English ances- 
tors; the great-grandfather was a soldier in the 
war of the Revolution and lost his life in the 
struggle. The maternal grandfather, Elezerian 
Joslyn, was also of Puritan stock. 

Dr. Russell is tiie oldest of a family of six 
six sons and one daughter. His youth was an 
uneventful one, the monotony broken only by 
the change of seasons which brought a change 
of occupation. He assisted his father in the 
cultivation of the farm, and attended the ses- 
sions of the seminary at Cooperstown until he 
finished the literary course of that institution, 
afterward following teaching for five years, and 
in the spring of 1871 he began the study of his 
profession. Dr. J. K. Lening acting as his pre- 



ceptor for three years. In the meantime took 
three winter courses of lectures in tlie medical 
department of the LTniversity of Xew York, 
and in the spring of 1874 was graduated with 
the degree of M. D. He immediately engaged 
in practice with his preceptor, and during the 
two years following acquired a valuable expe- 
rience. The next four years were spent in this 
vicinity, and in 1880 he came to Collinwood, 
where his efforts have met with most gratifying 
results in making many warm friends and 
building up a lucrative practice. 

Dr. Russell was married July 30, 1873, to 
Miss Anna Miller, who survived three years, 
her death occurring August 8, 1876. His sec- 
ond marriage was to Miss Anna Butler, a native 
of Otsego county, ^q\\ York, and a daughter 
of William and Vanchie Butler, who descended 
from English ancestors. One child has been 
born by this union, a daughter named May. 

The Doctor is a member of the Masonic 
order, belonging to Thatcher Lodge, No. 439, 
Webb Chapter, No. 14, and Oriental Com- 
mandery. No. 12, Cleveland; he is also a mem- 
ber of the Knights of Pythias, of Lakeside. 
The residence he occupies is fitted up with all 
modern conveniences, such as extensive water 
privileges, with power for extinguishing tires 
and irrigation of lawn, and natural gas from a 
private well on the premises for lighting and 
heating. The furnishings are most harmonious, 
showing the cultivated and refined taste of the 
family. 



Ml K. MORISON, brother of Honor- 
able David Morison, mentioned in an- 
other place in this volume, was born in 
this county July 8, 1846. He was 
reared and educated here and began life inde- 
pendently in 1871, when he purchased a tract 
of land at Put-in-Bay Island and was engaged 
for about three years in grape-raising and wine- 
making. Following his disposition of this 
property Mr. Morison returned to Cleveland and 




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OUYAHOOA COUNTY. 



has since devoted himself to speculative invest- 
ments in real estate. He is also employed by 
Morison & Massey, looking after their Glenville 
allotments. 

Mr. Morison's life has been very quiet and 
unpretending, having no ambition beyond that 
of being a patriotic and progressive citizen. 

He was married August 22, 1890, at Elyria, 
Ohio, to Miss Annie L. Sturdevant, a daughter 
of S. R. Sturdevant, of Eavenna, (Jhio. Mr. 
and Mrs. Morison have one cliild, Fanny 
Amanda, born February 2, 1892. 



F. GOLLING, M. D., is a native of 
the Buckeye State, born at Twinsburg, 
^ Summit county, July 21, 1860, the son 
of William M. and Anna Goliing. The Doe- 
tor's father, William M. Goliing, was born in 
the city of Muelburg, State of Baden, Ger- 



many, 



id served in the German Revolution of 



1848, being a Corporal in the Artillery Pioneer 
when lie was but eighteen years of age. He 
and his wife Anna landed in the city of New 
York in 1854, remained there two years, then 
removed to Ohio, where he has resided ever 
since, following his trade, blacksmithing. The 
Doctor's mother, Anna, was born in tlie town of 
Grosbeiberaw, State of Hessen. 

Dr. Goliing was two years old when his par- 
ents moved to Bedford, Ohio, and there he 
grew up to years of maturity, attending the 
public schools during the regular sessions, and 
being employed through the vacations in a 
chair factory, wliere he was well disciplined in 
habits of promptitude and industry. When he 
had begun the study of medicine in 1883 it was 
under the instruction of Dr. C. W. Hains, of 
Bedford, now a resident of Kent, with whom 
he continued a student three years. In the 
winter of 1884-'85 he took his first course of 
lectures in the Cleveland Homeopathic Hospi- 
tal College: this institution is now known as 
the Cleveland University of Medicine and Sur- 
gery. There Dr. Goliing was graduated, a 



member of the class of 1887, and immediately 
thei'eafter began his practice at Bedford. At 
the end of twelve months he went to Windham, 
Portage county, Ohio, where he resided until 
188y, returning tiien to Bedford. Here he has 
established a large practice, which has resulted 
satisfactorily, professionally and financially. 
Ambitious of attaining superior excellence in his 
profession, he has been a close reader of all the 
medical literature of the day, and is thoroughly 
well informed upon all the discoveries of science 
and the improved methods of the leading prac- 
titioners of the world. He also holds a certifi- 
cate of surgery granted him by the surgeons of 
Huron Street Hospital of Cleveland, Ohio. He 
prefers surgery rather than the general practice 
of medicine, and in a few years hopes to prac- 
tice it almost exclusively. His success in ob- 
stetrical surgery has been unparalleled by any 
young physician in this branch of the science, 
lie has a wide patronage, including a number 
of the surrounding towns and villages. Although 
deeply engrossed in liis practice, tlie Doctor finds 
time for social obligations, and is one of the 
honored members of Bedford Lodge, No. 375, 
F. & A. M., and Summit Chapter, No. 74, 
R. A. M. 

Dr. Goliing was united in marriage, Novem- 
ber 6, 1886, to Miss Etta M. Ozmun, a daugh- 
ter of Levi and Emily L. Ozmun, of Boston, 
Summit county, Ohio, the birthplace of Mrs. 
Goliing. The Doctor and liis wife liave a son, 
named Herbert F. 



FRANCIS M. CHANDLER.— In 1637 
William Chandler and his wife Annis 
came from England and settled in Rox- 
bury, Massachusetts. Their numerous descend- 
ants are to be found in all portions of the 
United States. Tlie names of many of them 
are prominent in the history of the country, 
among whom are numbered the late Hon. Zach- 
ariah Chandler, President Rutherford B. Hayes 



604 



CUYAHOGA GOUNTY. 



and Hon. George Bancroft, the maternal an- 
cestors of the two latter having descended from 
this puritan stock. 

Captain Thomas Chandler, son of William 
and Annis Ciiandler, married Hannah Brewer, 
of Andover, Massachusetts. Ensign Henry 
Chandler, son of Captain Thomas and Hannah 
Brewer Ciiandler, married Lydia Abbott of En- 
field, Connecticut. Nehemiah Chandler, son of 
Henry and Lydia Abbott Chandler, married 
Mary Burroughs, of Enfield, Connecticut. Hon. 
Joel (.'handler, ton of Xehemiah and Lydia Ab- 
bott Chandler, married Abigail Simmons of 
Alstead, New Hampshire. Captain Joel Chand- 
ler, son of Joel and Abigail Simmons Chandler, 
married Sophia Smith, at Alstead, New Hamp- 
shire. Joel Alonzo Chandler, son of Joel and 
Sophia Smith Chandler, was born in Alstead, 
New Hampshire, May 30, 1824, and came to 
Ohio in 1835 with his parents, who first settled 
in Cleveland but later moved to Richfield, 
Summit county, Ohio, where he was married 
to Martha M. Buck, daughter of Heman and 
Polly Buck, who came from New York State to 
Ohio in 1830. Of the seven children born to 
Joel Alonzo and Martha Buck Chandler, but 
three survive, the subject of this sketch, Francis 
M. Chandler, being the eldest, whose paternal 
ancestry is given above. Li 1888 Joel Alonzo 
Chandler returned to Cleveland, where he re- 
sided until his death, which occurred August 6, 
1893, leaving his wife, two sons and one daugh- 
ter surviving. Francis M. Chandler was born 
in Richfield, Summit county, Ohio, May 3, 
1851. He received an academical education at 
the Richfield Academy, and on leaving school 
engaged as a clerk in a store at "West Richfield. 
In the fall of 187-1 he came to Cleveland, where 
he has since resided. Two years later he was 
appointed a Deputy Clerk of the Cuyahoga 
County Court of Common Pleas, and held this 
position until he resigned in 1883. Meanwhile 
he read law under the tutorship of August 
Zehring, and in 1883 was admitted to the bar. 
In the same year he entered into a partnership 
in the practice of law with F. X. Wilco.x, which 



continued until 1886, when he was appointed 
Deputy County Recorder. In February, 1888, 
he resigned as Deputy Recorder to accept the 
appointment as Chief Clerk of the Probate 
Court. 

Mr. Chandler has twice been married. His 
first marriage was in 1876, to Effie M. Barney, 
who died in 1888, leaving a son, Clare DeForest 
Chandler. His second marriage occurred in 
1891, to Mary G. Mahon, by whom he has one 
son, Francis Mahon Chandler. 

In politics Mr. Chandler is a stanch Repub- 
lican and stands high in the local councils of 
that party. He is a pleasant, unassuming 
gentleman who enjoys a wide and favorable 
acquaintance throughout the city and county, 
and is a popular and highly respected citizen. 



EWYLLIS OSBORN, manager of tlie 
Cleveland Press, is a native of this city, 
1 born June 23, 1860. His parents, L. T. 

and Elizabeth Dane (Dodge) Osborn, were na- 
tives of Ohio. His mother's parents, Kerry 
and Angeline Dodge, were pioneers from New 
England to Ohio, where they brought up and 
educated their children, — five sons and one 
daughter. The daughter, now aged fifty-six 
years, is now residing with Mr. Osborn, the 
subject of this brief account, and is a devout 
Christian woman, a member of the Euclid 
Avenue Baptist Church. Mr. L. T. Osborn was 
the only son of Timothy Osborn, and settled in 
Cleveland many years ago. He had two chil- 
dren, namely: Angle, and E. Wyllis, above 
named. 

The latter was educated in this city, in the 
public schools, and entered business early in 
life, following various mercantile pursuits. In 
1879, being recommended for the position of 
general oflice man for the Britton Iron & Steel 
Company, of Cleveland, he was chosen for that 
place and soon became partner and director in 
the concern, and at length secretary and treas- 
urer, which position he resigned in 1886, after 



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a seven years service, to accept the business 
management of the Cleveland Press, an in- 
fluential newspaper. Since his connection with 
this paper it has more than doubled in size and 
circulation. 

Mr. Osborn is a member of the Chamber of 
Commerce and of the Union, Athletic and 
Roadside Clubs, and First City Troop Cavalry 
Company. It may be said that he is very fond 
of horses and is considered a good horseman. 
The mental equipment for the responsible posi- 
tion which Mr. Osborn now holds has been ob- 
tained by his own perseverance, in spite of all 
obstacles, and this fact shows that he has a 
strong mind and energetic disposition, inherited 
by nature. Having nothing to start in business 
life with for his own maintenance, he has 
honestly and industriously made his way to an 
intluential and responsible position, where he is 
giving satisfaction to all parties he serves. A 
greater future evidently awaits him. 



f\AVID S. BRAINARD, deceased, was 
for many years a well-known and highly 
respected citizen of Cuyahoga county, 
Ohio. 

He was born on the farm where his widow 
now resides, at the corner of Scranton and 
Brainard avenues, Cleveland, July 27, 1815, 
son of Ozias and Mary (Strong) Brainard, both 
natives of Connecticut. They were married in 
Connecticut, and all their family were l>orn 
there, with the exception of David S., whose 
birth occurred two years after their arrival in 
Cuyahoga county, Ohio. He was the second 
white child born in this township, Isaiah Fish 
lieing the first. In their large family five 
reached adult age, their names being as follows: 



Indiana, wife of Irad Akin; Betsey, wife of 
Marvin Brainard; Noah; Laura, wife of Will- 
iam J. Case; and David S. 

David S. Brainard was reared on his father's 
pioneer farm, and early in life proved himself 
to be the possessor of more than ordinary abil- 



ity. In addition to carrying on his farming 
operations, he also dealt in stock, and was in- 
terested in railroad and various other enter- 
prises. And whatever he undertook he gave to 
it his undivided attention, success in his enter- 
prise usually being the result. Aside from his 
own business affairs, he found time to fill the 
various local oflices to which he was called. 
For many years he served as township Clerk 
and Treasurer, and also as a member of the 
School Board. Indeed, few men in this part of 
the county were better known or more highly 
esteemed for their true worth than was he. 

Mr. Brainard was married in 1838, to Miss 
Catherine E. Frame, daughter of Henry and 
Elizabeth (Stisser) Frame, who were born, reared 
and married in New York, and who came with 
their family to Ohio in 1833, Mrs. Brainard 
at that time being sixteen years of age. Mr. 
and Mrs. Frame subsequently removed from 
this county to Wisconsin, where they died, she 
in 1845, aged sixty-six, and he in 1848, aged 
sixty-nine. Both were born in 1779, his birth 
occurring on the 27th of March, and hers on 
the 30th of the same month. They had a fam- 
ily of four, namely: Feter H. Frame, a mill- 
wright by trade, who died in Wisconsin, aged 
seventy-two years; Margaret, wife of James 
Starkweather, she and her husband both being 
deceased; Mrs. Brainard; and Reuben, who re- 
sides with his sister. Mr. and Mrs. Brainard 
had two children: Mary E. and Susan C. The 
latter was the wife of J. M. Curtis, of Clark 
avenue, Cleveland. She died, leaving an only 
child, Ruth. Mr. Brainard departed this life 
in 1880. 



fff/ONORABLE CARLOS M. STONE, 
Ipii Judge of the Court of Common Fleas, 
Jl 4i was born at Strongsville, Cuyahoga 
"^ county, Ohio, on March 27, 1846. He 

was educated at Oberlin College, graduated at 
the Ohio State and Union Law College at 
Cleveland, Ohio, in 1869. and was admitted to 
the bar in the same year. 



CU7AH00A COUNTY. 



He began to practice his profession in 1870, 
and in 1871 was elected Prosecuting Attorney 
for the city of Cleveland, for a term of two 
years. From 1873 to 1876 he was a member 
of the law firm of Brinsmade & Stone; from 
1876 to 1879, a member of the law firm of 
Stone & Hessenmueller. In the fall of 1879 he 
was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Cuyahoga 
county, for the term of two years, and in 1881 
re-elected to the same office, for a term of 
three years. 

Retiring from this office after five years' ser- 
vice, he again took up the practice of law, as a 
member of the law firm of Stone, Hessenmueller 
& Gallup. In the fall of the same year, 1885, 
be was elected Judge of the Court of Common 
Pleas of Cuyahoga county, for a term of five 
years, at the expiration of which he was re- 
elected, in the fall of 1889, for a second term. 

In polities Judge Stone has always been a 
llepul)lican. He was chairman of the County 
Republican Central Committee during the 
presidential campaign of 1884, but since his 
election to the judgeship in the Court of Com- 
mon Pleas, the etiquette, dignity and useful- 
ness of his position have not permitted him to 
take an active part in politics. 

In 1872, Mr. Stone and Miss Jeanette 
Follett, daughter of Eliphalet Follett, of Lick- 
ing county, Ohio, were united in marriage, and 
their children are Ruth F. and Katharine F. 



f|f L. SEXTOX, M. D., a resident pliy- 
p^ sician of West Cleveland, Ohio, was 
J] 41 born at Elsie, IVIichigan, a son of Charles 
^ and Nancy (Lewis) Sexton. His father 

is a native of Connecticut and his mother of 
New York State. They both reside in Michi- 
gan. In the common schools of his native 
town, Dr. Sexton received his early education, 
and for a time he attended Hillsdale College; 
leaving college he came to Cleveland, where he 
embarked in the drug business. lie acquired a 
thorough and practical knowledge of pharmacy. 



so indispensable to the successful practice of 
medicine. He took up the study of medicine 
in the Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital College 
and later continued his studies of medicine at 
the Cleveland Medical College, a diploma from 
which institution he holds. He gained con- 
siderable experience by practice in the Huron 
street hospital, from which he also holds a 
diploma. Here, under competent supervisors 
he was enabled to make practical application of 
his knowledge of medicine. 

He began the practice of his profession in 
West Cleveland, and has already gained a very 
desirable practice. He is a member of the 
Carroll Dunham Medical Association. He is 
progressive and active in his] vocation, and 
keeps abreast with the advance of his profession. 



djOSEPH E. STUBBS, D. D., LL. D.— 
Holding preferment as the official head of 
■^ a notable institution of learning, a man of 
erudition and ripe scholarship, honored alike 
for his ability and worth of character, it is 
manifestly most consonant that in this work 
there be incorporated a resume of the life his- 
tory of Dr. Stubbs, President of Baldwin Uni- 
versity, Berea, Ohio. 

The son of Colonel J. D. and Mary J. (Gray) 
Stubbs, the subject of this review was born at 
Ashland, Ashland county, Ohio, March 19, 
1850, being reared to man's estate in his native 
town. His father, who is now living a retired 
life at Ashland, was for many years a promi- 
nent business man of that place, where, in his 
declining years, he rests secure in the esteem 
and good will of the entire community to 
whose best interests he has ever been devoted. 
During the progress of the late war of the 
Rebellion Colonel Stubbs was very actively 
identified with the valiant work of the Union 
forces, having been in service for eight years 
and having served much of this time as a mem- 
ber of the staff of the late lamented General 
James A. Garfield. After the close of the war 



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his services were enlisted for some time as 
superintendent of the military railroads iti the 
South. The wife of Colonel Stubbs is a 
daughter of the late Rev. David Gray, a promi- 
nent figure in the early annals of Ohio church 
history. 

Colonel and Mrs. J. D. Stubbs had six 
children, concerning whom we offer the follow- 
ing brief record: Elizabeth, the eldest, became 
the wife of Jacob I. Dorland, of Ashland; 
David D. is secretary of the corporation operat- 
ing the Oriental & Occidental Steamship Line 
and has his headquarters at San Francisco, 
California; John C. is vice-president of the 
Southern Pacific Railroad Company and is also 
a resident of San Francisco; Joseph E. is the 
subject of this sketch; Mary N. is a teacher in 
the Ashland high school; William M. was the 
agent of the Standard Oil Company at Sacra- 
mento, California, where he died in 1886. 

Joseph E. Stubbs completed the work of the 
common schools in Ashland, and after graduat- 
ing at the high school entered the Ohio Wes- 
leyan University, at Delaware, Ohio, where 
he graduated in the class of 1873. The 
year prior to his graduation lie was elected 
as tutor in Latin and Greek at the university 
and filled that position most acceptably 
for three years, when he was obliged to 
resign, by reason of impaired health. He 
thereupon purchased the Ashland Times, of 
which he continued editor and publisher for a 
term of six years. Within this time he also 
held the incumbency as Superintendent of the 
Ashland public schools, manifesting marked 
business and executive ability. 

In June, 1886, Dr. Stubbs was elected to the 
important and exacting position which he now 
holds, — that of President of Baldwin Univer- 
sity. That he was ably qualified for the ef- 
fective discharge of the onerous duties of this 
office was a fact recognized by those through 
whom came the preferment, and his administra- 
tion of affairs has proved beyond cavil that the 
trust could not have been assigned to better 
keeping. The Doctor has spent one year (a 



portion of each 1890 and 1891) in Berlin, 
where he pursued a special course of study. 
April 26, 1894, he received and accepted an 
election to the presidency of the State Univer- 
sity of Nevada at Reno, Nevada, and he will 
retire from Baldwin University August 1, 
1894. 

He was united in marriage, at Ashland, 
Ohio, July 10, 1873, to Miss Ella A. Sprengle, 
eldest daughter of L. J. Sprengle, who had 
been editor and proprietor of the Ashland 
Times for more than a quarter of a century. 
Mrs. Stubbs is also a graduate of the Ohio 
Wesleyan University. The Doctor and Mrs. 
Stubbs are the parents of four children: Theo- 
dore AV., Elizabeth S., Ralph S., and Ruth G. 

Baldwin University, which, in its methods, 
discipline, facilities and corps of instructors, 
takes rank with the best of the modern institu- 
tions of higher education, was founded in 1846 
by the late John Baldwin, of Berea, Ohio, who 
has left this most noble monument to his 
practical philanthrophy and public spirit, — an 
enduring memorial and one that will cause his 
name to be held in perpetual honor. Mr. 
Baldwin was born in Branford, New Haven 
county, Connecticut, October 13, 1799, and his 
death occurred in Louisiana, December 28, 
1884. 

The present average number of students en- 
i-olled at the university is 220; the buildings, 
grounds and permanent improvements of the 
institution are valued at $125,000, and its 
maintenance is assured by an endowment fund 
of about $160,000. 



AJOR CYRUS H. de FOREST, as- 
sistant accountant for the Society for 
Savings, was born in Cleveland, May 
30, 1835, a son of a prominent pioneer 
of this city, the late Tracy R. de Forest, who 
cast his fortunes with the metropolis of Ohio as 
early as 1834. Tracy R. was born in Chenango 
county. New York, and was by trade a mill- 
\vrii;ht. 



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One of the first extensive manufacturing con- 
cerns in this city organized about that time was 
the Cuyahoga Steam Furnace Company, in 
which Mr. de Forest was employed as superin- 
tendent from its inception, and to the success 
of which his efforts were directed until the firm 
of Kennedy, De Forest & Kandall was organ- 
ized in 1867, being the successor of Parish & 
Knight, a well remembered and substantial con- 
cern. This new tirm and its successor, Ken- 
nedy, De Forest, Parsons & Company, did a 
large business in sheet-iron and copper work 
for boats, which business patronage was drawn 
largely by reason of Mr. De Forest's extended 
acquaintance among vessel owners and marine 
men generally, resulting from his long connec- 
tion with the Cuyahoga Steam P''urnace Com- 
pany and a service of many years as United 
States Inspector of Marine Boilers. Mr. De 
Forest was thoroughly well informed on all 
matters pertaining to steam l)oilers, and by rea- 
son of this ability he was appointed in 1855 by 
the Secretary of the Treasury United States In- 
specter of Marine Boilers, being the first for 
the pi)rt of Cleveland. lie resigned his office 
in 1873 and devoted tlie remainder of his life 
to his private interests; and his death in 1887 
closed a prosperous and useful and honorable 
career. 

The De Forests of America descended di- 
rectly from the De Forests of Avesnes, France, 
the Avesnes family from the De Forests of 
Cambresis, and they from the Sires de Trith of 
the First and Fifth Crusades. Of the Avesnes 
family there were four brothers living in Ley- 
den, France, in 1606, one of whom, Jesse, had 
a son, Isaac, born in 1616. On October 1, 
1636, Isaac de Forest sailed from Amsterdam 
in the yacht Kensselaerwyck, Captain Jean 
Tiebkins, for New Amsterdam, Xew Tork. 
Isaac de Forest was married in Xew Amster- 
dam, June 9, 1641, to Sarah du Trieux. From 
them and through their son David, and through 
David's son Samuel, and through Samuel's son 
Joseph, descended Gideon de Forest, the latter 
the father of Tracy R. and the grandfather of 



Major Cyrus H. Gideon de Forest and his 
three brothers, Samuel, Abel and Mills, were 
all born under the same roof in Stratford, Con- 
necticut, were all soldiers in the Revolution, all 
received pensions, and, in 1835, when the 
youngest was over seventy years of age, held a 
reunion at Edmeston, Xew York, when they 
came together for the first time during more 
than half a century. Gideon de Forest was 
married to Hannah Birdseye in 1794, and in 
the following year moved to Edmeston, Otsego 
county, Xew York. He died December 9, 1840, 
in his seventy-sixth year. Of Gideon's eight chil- 
dren but one, the youngest, Mrs. Harriet Ful- 
ler of Sherburne. New York, is now living. 
Tracy R. de Forest, next older than Harriet of 
Gideon's children, was born February 2, 1811, 
and was married at Black Rock, now part of 
Buffalo, Xew York, on May 22, 1833, to Julia 
Ann Sutherland, and their children were Cyrus 
Henry, our subject; Louis Germain, who served 
during the Rebellion, first as Adjutant of the 
Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, afterward as 
Captain in the One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry, and died in 1870 from dis- 
ease contracted in the service; Julia Amlirosia, 
who became the wife of Rev. Dr. Edward P. 
IngersoU and died in 1865; Charles Lee, who 
died at Jacksonville, Florida, in 1888; Maria 
Louise, who died in 1865; Albert Wright, a 
resident of this city; and Mary Frances, with 
whom the mother, in her eighty-second year, is 
now living. 

After receiving the best education afforded 
by the public schools of Cleveland, Cyrus U. 
entered the service of the O'Reilly Telegrapli 
Company as messenger boy, and soon there- 
after became an operator, serving as such in 
Cleveland and Massillon. He was among the 
very first to read by sound, and in fact he never 
used the paper ribbon. Surveying, however, 
was his chosen profession, and, with a wider 
field in view, he went West in 1856, locating 
in Omaha, then a frontier town in the early 
days of its existence. There he was in govern- 
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CUTAHOOA COUNTY. 



town sites, etc., until the discoverj of gold at 
Pike's Peak (really at Cherry Creek, the present 
site of Denver), when he with a party of five 
others, with two wagons, started for that region. 
The party made the trip in twenty-one days, 
" footing it " the entire distance, and it was 
considered a quick trip in those days. 

He remained in the mountains, prospecting 
and mining with varying success, until the Civil 
war came on, when Governor Gilpin of Colo- 
rado, commissioned him as Second Lieutenant 
of Company A, Second Colorado Cavalry. He, 
with Captain James H. Ford, soon raised a 
company and was mustered into the service at 
Fort Garland, Colorado, December 21, 1861; 
was promoted First Lieutenant, January 5, 
1862, as Captain of Company C, August 24, 
1864, and brevetted Major United States Vol- 
unteers, March 13, 1865, for gallant and meri- 
torious service in New Mexico. 

After a year's field service in New Mexico 
and Northern Texas, and participating in the 
battles of Glorietta and Peralta under General 
Slough and Canby, respectively. Lieutenant de 
Foi'est was appointed Aid-de-Camp to General 
Carleton, who succeeded General Canby in com- 
mand of the Department of New Mexico, and 
served in tiiat capacity as Acting Assistant Ad- 
jutant General of the Department upon the 
staffs of Generals Carleton, Sykes, and Getty, 
successive department commanders, until his 
final muster out of service, September 30, 
1867. 

Before Major de Forest was finally mustered 
out and upon a reorganization of the regular 
army, he was appointed Second Lieutenant of 
the Thirty-fifth Infantry, United States of Amer- 
ica; but, the military service having no charms 
for him in times of peace, he declined the com- 
mission and entered the Surveyor General's 
oflice at Santa Fe, New Mexico, as cliief 
draughtsman, where he remained until 1870, 
when he returned to Cleveland. Here he be- 
came Deputy Clerk of the Superior Court, and 
upon its demise Deputy Clerk of the Court of 
Common Pleas, serving under Clerks Cogswell, 



Hinman and Kitchen until 1884, when he en- 
tered the employ of the Society for Savings, 
where he is now the assistant accountant. 

In politics Major de Forest is uncompromis- 
ingly Kepublican. He was a member of the 
Centennial Council from the then Second ward. 
Two measures of special importance received 
favorable action by this body, namely, the Cen- 
tral Viaduct ordinance, and an ordinance leas- 
ing the canal bed to the Valley Eailroad Com- 
pany, both of which received Major de Forest's 
support. 



ERA A. KINNEY, foreman for the 
Cleveland Stone Company, was born in 
Medina county, Ohio, January 29, 1846. 
His father was S. E. Kinney, a farmer by occu- 
pation, and young Orra was reared on his father's 
farm, where he remained till he became of age, 
and received a common-school education. After 
leaving home he spent some three years in New 
York on a farm, and in 1872 came to Berea, 
soon after taking up the stone business. In 
1876 he became connected with the Berea Stone 
Company as foreman, and wiien the Berea Stone 
Company consolidated with the Cleveland Stone 
Company Mr. Kinney still continued in the 
capacity of foreman, which position he has since 
filled. 

In 1884 he went to California, where he 
spent one year, during which time he lost his 
first wife, Mrs. Lora (Crocker) Kinney, to whom 
he was married in Berea, January 29, 1872. 
She died in California, January 5, 1884. He 
was again married in Berea, January 29, 1886, 
to Mrs. Anna Bixby, of Chicago, a lady of fine 
business ability and many accomplishments. 

Mr. Kinney has been a member of the Coun- 
cil of Berea, and has been connected with the 
Baptist Church, but in 1887 became a member 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, with his 
wife. He has taken quite an active part in 
temperance work and has been interested in all 
that tends to promote the welfare of the com- 
munity in which he lives. 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



His father, Sanford E. Kinney, was born in 
Madison county, Xew York. He taught school 
for many years, although the last years of his 
life were spent in farming. He died at his 
home in Litchfield, Medina county, Ohio, a sin- 
cere Christian. His wife, nee Sarah Chace, was 
born in New York State. She died at Litch- 
field, five weeks previous to her husband, iu 
1892, and both lie buried in the same grave. 
They had three children who lived to grow up, 
— Orra A., Matilda and Alora. 



djONES S. DICKLE, junior member of the 
' J. L. Hudson clothing firm, Cleveland, and 
-^ general manager of tlieir business, is best 
described by the word " hustler.'' In the 
eighteen years or more since his advent in the 
clothing trade he has made for himself a name 
and a place seldom reached by men of his age; 
for liis company ranks among the foremost in 
their line in America, the volume of their sales 
probably exceeding that of any retail clothing 
house in any city of similar size on the conti- 
nent. 

Mr. Dickie's first essay in business life was 
in the clothing trade, when he was employed by 
the noted house of C. E. Mabley, of Detroit, 
while lie was yet a lad. Later he occupied re- 
sponsible positions in J. L. Hudson's various 
branch establishments at Sandusky and Toledo, 
Ohio, and Jackson, Michigan. When in 1885 
Mr. Hudson made his great deal in Cleveland 
and bought out the Excelsior clothing house, 
Mr. Dickie, then in his twenty-eighth year, was 
elected its manager. Cleveland offered a large 
field for an enterprising man like him, especially 
when backed by Mr. Hudson's great capital, 
keen judgment and shrewd foresight, and the 
opportunity was well improved. The city already 
had large clothing houses, but none of them had 
ever been run in the manner which Mr. Hudson 
made so successful in Detroit and elsewhere; 
his methods were of the " booming" kind, — - 
buying great lots at cut prices, advertising ex- 
tensively and selling at prices that would insure 



ready transactions. And Mr. Dickie was just 
the sort of man to inaugurate these methods in 
this city. He entered into the execution of 
them with "heart and soul," and some of the 
most brilliant advertising in the clothing line 
ever done in Cleveland was done by Mr. Dickie. 
He has always been a strong advocate of special 
sales, working for the multitude and not for the 
few; and he has also been a believer in the 
policy of low prices and quick movement of 
goods. Consequently the Cleveland public 
soon ascertained that the announcement of a 
great sale at the Excelsior meant low prices and 
exceptionable values. 

The Hudson establishment has always had 
the reputation of being willing to buy anything 
that could be bought right, and Mr. Dickie 
stands shoulder to shoulder with Mr. Hudson 
as an advocate of this policy. The store is a 
gents' clothing-house, but it is quite within 
possibilities that they would buy a train load of 
coffins, a cargo of shoe-pegs or a dozen elephants 
if the prices were low enough with the cer- 
tainty that the proper advertising would insure 
their quick sale at a profit. So far as we know, 
however, Mr. Dickie has not yet speculated in 
these articles last mentioned, but more than once 
has he sailed in and handled large quantities of 
ladies' goods, such as cloaks, etc., that he had 
bought at a bargain; and on one memorable oc- 
casion he drew such a fiock of ladies to the 
store that it became his turn to say " ]No," close 
the doors and temporarily keep back the crowd! 
One of his great purchases, some time ago, was 
of the salvage remaining from the fire of Klein, 
Goodhart& Koch, said to be valued at §200,000; 
it was bought by Hudson & Dickie in just one- 
half hour from the opening of negotiations. 
Mr. Dickie's face is one of the most familiar at 
the New York clothing markets, known to all 
his customers as characterized by black hair, 
brilliant black eyes, fine physique, commanding 
in appearance and pleasant and genial to all. 
He is an excellent example of what ambition, 
self-reliance and intelligence ill wdo for a young 
man. 



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His advent into the clothing trade was unique. 
Pie straggled into Detroit not many years ago, 
badly in need of a job. Entering Mabley's es- 
tablishment, of which J. L. Hudson was then 
the manager, he asked whether they needed any 
help. It was just prior to a big fair; the town 
would soon be full of people, and indeed more 
help was needed. "Can you sell clothing?" 
asked the manager, looking the applicant over. 
" I think I can," was the modest reply. " Well, 
come around Monday and I will see what you 
can do." Mr. Dickie departed and entered the 
clothing store next door. " I want to get some 
clothes," said he to the clerk. He was hard to 
suit. He questioned the clerk sharply about 
the merit of the goods. The clerk, expatiating, 
pulled down suit after suit, going through the 
whole stock, but could not make a sale. Mr. 
Dickie went out and entered another store, going 
through the same performance, and ere long he 
had examined every clothing stock in Detroit, 
and knew as much about the business as any 
ordinary saksman could tell. So, on Monday 
he returned to Mabley's, according to agree- 
ment, was placed at work, aud soon proved to 
be one of the liveliest and most efficient sales- 
man the house ever had. Mr. Hudson's keen 
judgment of men came into play when he 
started in business for himself, and Mr. Dickie 
was one of his first selections, who has proven 
himself one of the most successful of his as- 
sistants. 

Mr. Dickie is of German ancestry, a Penn- 
sylvanian by birth, a Presbyterian in religion, 
active in all the general business interests of the 
city, a member of the Board of Trade and of 
about all the secret and social organizations of 
the city. His success in business and accumu- 
lations of wealth have been such as to enable 
him to invest $50,000 in stocks, etc., outside of 
his business as a clothier. He became a part- 
ner in the business in 1889. The J. L. Hudson 
clothing house in Cleveland succeeds Stein, 
August & Garson, who opened the " Excelsior" 
clothing house in 1883, and failed on account 
of inefficient management; Mr. Hudson took 



the management in 1885, and under the man- 
agement of Mr. Dickie the business has proven 
a decided success from the very beginning. 

This great Cleveland establishment is known 
throughout the country, and is said to be one of 
the finest clothing stores in America. It com- 
prises two floors 90 X 175 feet, where they 
employ upward of 100 clerks. The stock is 
complete in its various departments, presenting 
a clean and fresh appearance. A most notice- 
able feature of this fine store is a show window 
28 X 40 feet, which is probably the largest in 
the world. The establishment is one of nine 
similar concerns conducted by Mr. Hudson, lo- 
cated at the following points: Cleveland, Detroit, 
Grand Rapids, St. Paul, Buffalo, Norwalk, To- 
ledo, Sandusky and St. Louis. In addition to 
the above he has a large clothing manufacturing 
establishment at Lansing, Michigan. 



LFRED KELLOGG.— Among the well 
known citizens of Cuyahoga county, 
. Ohio, is Alfred Kellogg, of No. 624 
Scranton avenue. South Side, who was 
born in this county, in November, 1820, and is 
the son of Martin Kellogg, who was one of the 
pioneers of Ohio and was a prominent man of 
the South Side half a century ago. The latter 
was born February 16, 1793, in East Hampton 
Parish, Chatham, Middlesex county, Connecti- 
cut, of Irish parents. He was the son of Mar- 
tin Kellogg, who was a native of Marlboro, Con- 
necticut and was born about the year 1765. 
His wife, nee Rachel Hosford, was the daughter 
of Dudley Hosford, of Marlboro, and she bore 
him six children. He died in 1825, and his 
wife in 1850. 

Martin Kellogg, father of our subject, was 
reared on his father's farm and received a com- 
mon-school education. In 1817 he came to Ohio, 
with three young men companions, but remained 
only one summer, returning to his old home, 
and on June 2, 1818, he was married to Laura 
Adams, the daughter of Benjamin Adams, of 



CUTAHOOA COUNTY. 



West Chester, New London county, Connecti- 
cut. In company with the families of Judge 
Barber and Messrs. Watkins, Branch and Ansel 
Young, Mr. Kellogg and his young wife set out 
on the return to Ohio, and made the entire 
journey by ox team, consuming forty days, and 
arriving in Cleveland in July, 1818. He settled 
in Brooklyn, on a farm which is now within the 
city limits of Cleveland, a portion of which is 
owned by our subject and upon which stands 
his present handsome and substantial residence 
on Scranton avenue. lie at once began clearing 
the land, and, although beset with all the trials 
and hardships of the pioneer, never once became 
discouraged or disheartened, and at the end of a 
few years had a comfortable home for his family 
and was doing nicely. In 1856 his wife died, 
and on March 8, 1860, he was married to Miss 
Laura Walker, who died July 17, 1863. His 
death occurred on the 2oth of August, 1863. 
He was the father of four children: Alfred, 
Horace, Charles M. and Sandford B., all of 
whom are now deceased except his first born, 
our subject. He was a man of stanch integrity 
and high moral courage, an enterprising citizen 
and one who took an active part in forwarding 
local improvements and the best interests of the 
community. He was originally an old-line 
Whig, but upon the birth of the Republican 
party he became a stanch adherent of that or- 
ganization. Although taking an active interest 
in political and public questions, he never 
sought or held office of any kind. 

Alfred Kellogg was reared on the farm, and 
received his education, as is commonly expressed, 
by holding the plow. His attendance at school 
was limited to a few months during the winters, 
and even this ceased as soon as he was large 
enough and old enough to make a "full hand" 
at work on the farm. But he made the best of 
his limited opportunities and secured a good 
practical education, which was supplemented 
with native slirewdness and keen judgment, in- 
dustry and integrity, and his success in life has 
bi'i'u in no wise hampered l)y the want of a better 
education. He followed in the footsteps of his 



father and became a farmer, and, as his friends 
and neighbors say, a "good one at that." He 
carried on farming until 1870, tilling the soil of 
tiie old homestead on the South Side; but about 
that time, the city having grown rajjidly and 
encroached upon his farm, he decided to plat 
and sell the remainder of the old farm, and in a 
few years' time had reduced it to about two 
acres, which he retained for a residence and 
grounds. For several years Mr. Kellogg was 
engaged in the packing business, but was suc- 
ceeded in that business by his son Horace, since 
which time he has lived retired, taking the 
world easy, surrounded by his family and enjoy- 
ing the fruits of a well spent and active life. 

On the 22d day of March, 1843, Mr. Kellogg 
was married to Louisa E. Ackley, daughter of 
Asa Ackley, a pioneer of Cuyahoga county, wiio 
settled on a farm near the infirmary. She bore 
him three children and died in 1885. The fol- 
lowing year he was married to Elizabeth A. 
Plumb, whose family were among the pioneers 
of Wayne county, Ohio. The children of Mr. 
Kellogg are as follows: Edward M., deceased, 
born in 1845; Horace, born in 1849, and now 
engaged in the packing business in the firm of 
Kellogg and Jenkins; and Frank, born in 1854. 



ENERAL MORTIMER D. LEGGETT, 
' of Cleveland, Ohio, has for years been 
prominently identified with the interests 
of this country and has distinguished 
himself in more ways than one. Volumes 
might be written upon the early life, army 
service and subsequent career of this well- 
kuown man, and yet much be still omitted. 
To give even the most succinct narrative of his 
life requires much more space than can be 
given on these pages. 

General Leggett's early days were spent in 
New York and Ohio, and amid the best social 
and educational influences. His parents, Isaac 
and Mary (^Strong) Leggett, were residents of 



CUYAHOGA OOUNTT. 



Ithaca, New York, wliere the son, Mortimer D., 
was born April 19, 1821. The family removed 
to Montville, Geauga county, Ohio, in 1836. 
The life of the son was that of the farmer boy 
of his day, and if no means of rare culture or 
expansion of mind were open to him in the 
small, back country town, he was given that 
which was of more use, — enough physical ex- 
ercise to give him a strong, hardy frame, and 
such moral and religious surroundings as to 
make him a true-hearted and earnest man. 
Such time as could be taken from the farm 
work was given to his books, of which he was 
very fond; and in his home education he was 
aided by his parents and older sister. When 
eighteen years of age he attended a teachers' 
seminary or training school, where he gradu- 
ated at the head of bis class. After this he im- 
mediately gave his attention to teaching, not 
with the purpose of making it his life work, 
but as one of the stepping-stones to the pro- 
fession he had marked oi;t for himself — that of 
the law. His success in the schoolroom was 
such as to warrant the statement that had he 
continued in that line of labor he would long 
since have become eminent as an educator; but 
as soon as his means would permit he began the 
study of law. He passed a creditable examina- 
tion and was admitted to the bar in 1844. 
About that time he became greatly interested 
in the public-school question, and in the new 
cause he and others stumped the State. The 
result of the movement was the passage of the 
experimental law applicable to Akron, in 1846, 
out of which grew the grand common-school 
system of Ohio. In the meantime Mr. Leg- 
gett had been still further preparing himself 
for hi? chosen profession, with the intention of 
entering upon its practice at once. With the 
passage, however, of the Akron school law he 
was pursuaded to take charge of the organiza- 
tion of the schools thereunder. His signal 
success at Akron made his services in demand 
at Warren, where he also rendered efficient 
service. The value of his labor during those 
experimental days can hardly be overestimated. 



In 1850, relinquishing his school labors, he 
opened a law office at Warren, and was re- 
warded with a good practice from the start. 
Ever in love with educational work, he found 
time occasionally to still pursue it, and in 1856- 
'57 we find him holding the responsible posi- 
tion of Professor of Equity, Jurisprudence and 
of Pleading and Practice in the Ohio Law Col- 
lege. In 1857 he was led to change his resi- 
dence, going to Zanesville, where he continued 
in practice and at the same time had general 
supervision of the public schools. Here he re- 
mained until the breaking out of the Rebellion. 

Mr. Leggett had a personal acquaintance and 
friendship with George B. McClellan. When 
the latter took command of his troops and 
moved into Virginia, Mr. Leggett accompanied 
him as a volunteer aid, wilhout pay, and was 
soon convinced that the war was to be a length- 
ened contest that no three months' campaign 
would end. Keturning to Ohio, he was com- 
missioned by Governor Dennison, in the latter 
part of 1861, to raise and organize the Seventy- 
eighth Regiment of Ohio Infantry. He en- 
listed as a private, being the first man to place 
his name upon the roll of the regiment. He 
went at his work with tireless devotion and 
energy, and in the short space of forty days had 
enlisted the full number of 1,040 men. As 
Colonel of the regiment he went South with it 
and reported for duty to General Grant at Fort 
Donelson. It is a matter of regret that we 
must of a necessity pass hastily over his army 
life; indeed, to give it in full would be to write 
a history of the war, and that is not the purpose 
of this work. Suffice it to say that in less than 
three years he made the phenomenal stride from 
private to Major-General; nor was his promo- 
tion the result of favoritism. It was based 
upon true merit. A born commander of men, 
and with natural military genius, it would have 
been a strange combination of adverse circum- 
stances that would have kept him from pro- 
motion. In the battle of Shiloh he received 
his first wound, but did not leave the field. 
May 16, 1862, Avhile in command of the ad- 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



vance on Corinth, he had one horse killed under 
him and another wounded, he himself escaping 
uninjured. At Champion Hills he received a 
severe flesh wound in the thigh, in the beginning 
of the fight, but "he concealed the wound even 
from his staff, and remained on the field, com- 
manding his troops throughout the battle." 
But it was at Vicksburg that lie most dis- 
tinguished himself. The morning after the 
fight, although severely wounded in the left 
shoulder, right side and elsewhere, he was 
lielped to mount his horse, and rode into the 
city at the head of his brigade. For these and 
other meritorious services he was fittingly re- 
warded. He was with Sherman on that mem- 
orable march to the sea, and his last engage- 
ment was in South Carolina. " At the grand 
review of the armies at Washington, at the 
close of the war," says one writer, " no general 
officer was more warmly or cordially received in 
the President's pavilion than was General Leg- 
gett, or congratulated with greater warmth and 
heartiness by the President and Secretary of 
War. He was on that day recognized as one of 
the heroes of the land." So high an authority 
as Whitelaw Eeid says, in his "Ohio in the 
War," of General Leggett: 

" He is strictly a moral man, never drinks 
anything that will intoxicate, never smokes 
cigars, never chews tobacco, never uses profane 
language, and never plays cards, and drinking 
and card-playing were always prohibited at his 
headquarters. His services lasted from the be- 
ginning to the close of the war; they were 
always honorable, often arduous, and sometimes 
distinguished, so that in the end he came to 
command the trust of his superiors, the admi- 
ration of his soldiers, and the gratitude from 
the country which all deserve who add capacity 
and skill to their personal devotion." 

The war over, he resumed the practice of law 
at Zanesville, Ohio. Again and again he was 
urged to try his fortune in the field of politics, 
but as often declined. During the war a warm 
friendship had sprung up between him and 
General Grant, which Crieudship still continued, 



and when the latter was elected to the presi- 
dency he proffered more than one position to 
his old companion-in-arms. They were all de- 
clined by General Leggett, with one exception, 
that of Commissioner of Patents. For this 
position he was particularly adapted, and in it 
served most acceptably for a term of four years, 
from 1871 to 1875. At the expiration of that 
time he resigned his office and removed to 
Cleveland, where he has since resided. Here 
he opened a law office, but made patents his 
specialty. His tastes ran naturally in that 
direction, and his experience in Washington 
had given him an insight into the business that 
no other form of preparation could have afforded. 
Soon he commanded a very large business in 
this direction, and practiceil in all the United 
States courts throughout the entire cuuntry 
east of the Rocky mountains. 

General Leggett has been of practical useful- 
ness to the manufacturing and business inter- 
ests of Cleveland and the West in more ways 
than one. He was one of the organizers of the 
Telegraph Supply Company, which was suc- 
ceeded by the Brush Electric Company. Of 
the latter he was president until 1884. He 
was also president of the Cummer Engine Com- 
pany, formed in 1881 for the building of steam 
engines. He was vice-president of the Cow- 
ings Steel Casting Company and of the Walker 
Manufacturing Company, and has also been in- 
terested in other important enterprises needless 
to mention here. In 1884 his desire for rest 
led him to take a trip to Europe, and before 
going he resigned the presidency of the Brush 
Company and the Cummer Engine Company, 
but he is still a member of the board of direct- 
ors of each corporation. In 1880 he was elected 
a member of the Board of Education of Cleve- 
land, and two years later was chosen a member 
of the Board of Managers of the Cleveland 
Public Library, in both of which positions he 
rendered valuable service. Politically, he affili- 
ates with the Republican party. 

July 'J, 1844, he married Miss Marilla Wells, 
daughter of Absalom Wells, of Montville Cen- 



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ter, Ohio. She died in 1876. Remarkable for 
her intelligence, charming grace and cheerful 
disposition, she was loved by all who knew her. 
They had five children, only one of whom is 
living, namely, Mrs. H. A. Seymour, of 
Washington city. The other four were 
W. W. Leggett, a lawyer of Detroit, who died 
in 1892; Mortimer Leggett, who died at Cor- 
nell University in the fall of 1873; L. L. Leggett, 
engaged in business with his father, and died 
suddenly of apoplexy, April 2, 1894; and one that 
passed away in infancy. The General was mar- 
ried in 1879 to his present companion, Miss 
Weltha Post, daughter of H. C, Post, of San- 
dusky, Ohio. 



5'HERLOCK J. ANDREWS, a jurist 
t. learned and distinguished, and one of the 
' foremost of the brilliant lawyers who 

have made the bar of Ohio famous, was born 
in Wallingford, Connecticut, November 17, 
1801, and died in Cleveland, February 11, 
1880. 

His father, John Andrews, was early in the 
present century a distinguished physician and 
a citizen of great prominence in Connecticut. 
His son, the subject of this sketch, was pre- 
pared for college in the Episcopal academy at 
Cheshire, and after a thorough course there 
was sent to Union College at Schenectady, New 
York, where he graduated with high honors in 
the class of 1821. Soon afterward he became 
the professional assistant of Benjamin Silliman, 
Sr., the eminent scientist of Yale College, and 
intimate friend of Dr. Andrews; and for several 
years he tilled the position to the great satisfac- 
tion of the distinguished professor, who took 
him into his family and gave him a father's 
care; and who, in his private journal, subse- 
quently published, speaks of his young associate 
in the highest terms of praise and affection. 

Having early chosen the law as his profession, 
Mr. Andrews, during his residence in New 
Haven, studied it assiduously, and after attend- 



ing lectures at the law school there was, iu 
1825, admitted to practice. In the same year 
he severed his relations with Prof. Silliman, 
and, following the example of many young men 
of that period, came to the Western Reserve 
and located at Cleveland. Soon afterward he 
became the partner of Judge Samuel Cowles, 
with whom the relation continued until 1833, 
when the latter retired, and the firm of Andrews 
& Foot was formed, which subsequently became 
Andrew, Foot & Hoyt. 

Very early in his professional life Mr. 
Andrews gained prominence. His brilliant 
talents, marked industry, and social qualities 
made him a leading man in the community. 
In 1840 he was elected to Congress, where he 
served with honor. In 1848 he was appointed 
Judge of the Superior Court of Cleveland, 
which was afterward legislated out of existence 
by provision of the Ohio constitutional con- 
vention, of which Judge Andrews was a con- 
spicuous member. On the bench he displayed 
eminent talent, and maintained there, as in every 
other official position, an irreproachable reputa- 
tion as a public servant. 

Upon returning to practice, Judge Andrews, 
warned by failing health, partially retired from 
active life, and thereafter was only engaged as 
counsel and advocate in important cases. In 
1873, chosen by both the Republican and Demo- 
ci-at parties, he was again a member of the 
State constitutional convention, where his long 
experience, wisdom and ability gave him a com- 
manding position, and he was made chairman 
of the Judiciary Committee, having declined a 
nomination, and certain election, as presiding 
officer, tendered him by his Republican col- 
leagues. 

During his entire professional career of more 
than forty years. Judge Andrews held front 
rank. Logic, wit, sarcasm and pathos, all rein- 
forced by a well disciplined and cultivated mind, 
stored with wide and varied learning, were at 
his command in rich profusion. There were 
others who equaled him in technical pleading; 
Itut, where he was supported by his convictions 



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of right, no other advocate in his day was so 
irresistible before a jury, or was more suc- 
cessful. In every phase of his professional life 
he commanded tlie universal respect of both 
bench and bar. In politics he wastirst a "Whig 
and then a Republican. He was not, however, 
an extreme partisan, and freely condemned party 
measures which he deemed wrong. 

lu 1828 Judge Andrews married Miss Ur- 
sula Allen, of Litchfield, Connecticut, daughter 
of Hon. John Allen, a former member of Con- 
gress from that State, and a leader of its bar. 
Five children survive him, namely: Misses 
Sarah J. and Cornelia B. Andrews, Mrs. Ursula 
M. Herrick and Mr. William W. Andrews, — 
all residing in Cleveland; and Mrs. Harriet S. 
Whittelsey, of Wallingford, Connecticut. Judge 
Andrews was a Christian gentleman, a faithful 
friend and an affectionate husband and parent. 
He passed away ripe in years and wisdom and 
universally beloved and admired, and will be 
remembered as representing the best type of 
American manhood, — able, pure, lovable and 
accomplished. The announcement of his death 
was received by the public with great sadness. 
The courts in Cleveland immediately adjourned. 
Upon their records were spread the appropriate 
resolutions of the bar, and the Supreme Court 
in entering those tributes upon its journal paid 
very unusual honor to his memory as a distin- 
guished lawyer. His death ended an honored 
and blameless life, and found him prepared for 
immortality. 



other property interests. In 1882 he engacred 
regularly and permanently in the real-estate 
business, handling it as an investment. His 



efforts have been directed toward the 



ENRY H. JOHNSON, a real-estate 
dealer and broker of stocks and bonds, 
41 Cleveland, is one of the eminently suc- 
cessful young business men of the city, 
whose career is now fairly begun. His business 
life had its beginning in this city about fifteen 
years ago, when, after completing his educa- 
tion at So\ila"s College at New Orleans, Louisi- 
ana, he liecame his father's agent to transact 
any iiiisiness pertaining to his real estate and 



iprove- 



ment of what may be termed suburban prop- 
erty, by laying out allotments and putting them 
on the market at popular prices, and by erect- 
ing business and other blocks in the vicinity as 
an inducement to homeseekers and speculators 
and as evidence of his faith in the future of this 
city. He is a stockholder in the Cleveland 
City Railway Company, and handles its stock 
and bonds as its agent. He was one of the five 
incorporators of the Permanent Loan Associa- 
tion, in which he was made a director. He 
built the Johnson block in 1892, and is inter- 
ested in a fine block now being erected. 

In business Mr. Johnson acts with much de- 
liberation. He is a student of the real-estate 
and stock markets, and is therefore "well up" 
on the values. When he decides on an invest- 
ment it is certain that the profits will drojj into 
his money-box. His counsel and advice are 
frequently sought and carry much weight. He 
was a member of the committee of the Cleve- 
land Athletic Club to select and purchase a site 
for the organization, and he is a member of the 
Forest City, Roadside and Union Clubs. 

Mr. Johnson was born in New Orleans, Lou- 
isiana, January 14, 1860. His father, William 
C. Johnson, the pioneer and popular general 
superintendent of the Cleveland & Pittsburg 
Railroad Company, was born in Connecticut, in 
1814, and was married in that State to a lady 
of the same surname. He came to this city in 
1836, and when the Cleveland & Pittsburg 
Railroad was constructed he was apjiointed shop 
foreman or superintendent, and some years 
afterward was promoted to the position of gen- 
eral superintendent. He was an employee of 
the company about thirty years, and invested 
his earnings in the stock of that road, and of 
the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. 
Louis R-iilroad and in Cleveland real estate; 
consequently when he resigned his oflice he was 
worth a good sum. He was one of the first 



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men to take stock in tlie Society for Savings 
early in its history. He was always an active, 
restless man, not content without employment; 
and his determination to spend his last years in 
retirement and rest was probably his death sen- 
tence; for his enforced idleness worried him so 
that he died in two years, being then seventy- 
two years of age: his wife followed two years 
later. 

February 10, 1891, Mr. H. H. Johnson, our 
subject, married Miss Helen Hathaway, a 
daughter of Charles Hathaway, whose history 
appears in this volume. 



'Jr^j EV. JOHN J. WALKER, pastor of St. 
r!^ Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran 
II 1^ Church in the city of Cleveland, is a 
V native of Germany, where he was born 

October 10, 1850. His parents, John J. and 
Anna (Besch) Walker, were residents of the 
kingdom of AYnrtem berg, and there at Sondel- 
fingen occurred the birth of our subject. When 
he was a child of six years his father, who was 
a shoemaker by trade, emigrated with his fam- 
ily to America. He settled in Kent county, 
Michigan, near Grand Eapids, locating in a 
section that was not at that time reclaimed from 
the wilderness. There he developed a fine farm 
and became recognized as one of the prominent 
and successful farmers of that portion of the 
Peninsular State. In the work of the farm he 
was greatly assisted by his son, our subject. 
He died in 188G, at the age of sixty-seven 
years. He, as well as his worthy wife, was a 
life-long member of the Evangelical Lutheran 
Church. 

Rev. John J. Walker is the second in a fam- 
ily of four children, namely: Katie, the wife of 
Andrew Schantz, of Michigan; John J.; Han- 
nah, wife of Henry Ruehs, of Michigan; and 
Julia, wife of Michael Heier, a resident of the 
same State. Our subject attended the public 
schools in the vicinity of his parental home in 
Michigan, and was thus enabled to secure a 



fair common-school education. The reading 
and writing of German were taught him at 
home by his parents, who were quite thorough 
German scholars. In his youth and early man- 
hood Rev. Walker's summers were passed in 
farm work, while in the winters he was enabled 
to attend school. Subsequently he was a teacher 
in a parochial school at Lisbon, Michigan. In 
1870 he entered Concordia College, a theological 
seminary of the Lutheran Church, at St. Louis, 
Missouri, and there graduated in December, 
1872. He then became pastor of a German 
congregation in the Evangelical Lutheran 
Church at Jeflfereon City, Missouri, where he 
also taught a parochial school in connection 
with his church work. There he remained 
until the summer of 1875, when he accepted a 
charge at New London, Wisconsin. Here he 
cared for six different congregations, scattered 
in two different counties, and during his stay 
here he organized three new congregations. 
And in addition to this he also assumed the 
burden of teaching the parochial school, giving 
this work his personal attendance for a period 
of ten years, and teaching both German and 
English. During his stay in Wisconsin he 
made several missionary tours into the copper 
and iron regions of the Lake Superior district, 
which resulted in the establishment of a new 
pastorate for this district at Marquette, 
Michigan. 

In 1885 he accepted a call from the congre- 
gation of St. Matthew's Church, of Cleveland, 
and in this field he has ever since labored zeal- 
ously and effectively. When he accepted the 
pastorate of this church the representation of 
families in the congregation was 140; the num- 
ber has been increased until at the present time 
the membership comprises 275 families. The 
parochial school maintained by this congrega- 
tion originally employed one teacher, the pastor 
assisting in teaching until the second teacher 
was called. At present three teachers are re- 
tained, teaching both German and English, 
and the school has increased in membership as 
rapidly as has the congregation. The pastor 



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now coufines liis duties in connection with the 
school to a general supervision of the work. 
lie is a member of the German Lutheran Synod 
of Missouri, Ohio and other States. 

The Rev. Mr. Walker was married May 19, 
1873, to Miss Kate Freyermuth, daughter of 
John and Caroline Freyermuth. She is a 
native of Huron county, Ohio, but her marriage 
to Mr. Walker was consummated at Grand 
Rapids, Michigan, near which city her parents 
are still residing. She is the second in a family 
of five children. Mrs. Walker's parents, John 
and Caroline Freyermuth, were born in Ger- 
many, and came with tlieir parents from the 
fatherland to America, when he was nine and 
she five years of age. In 1865 they settled in 
Lowell, Kent county, Michigan. Our subject 
and his estimable wife are the parents of five 
children: John C, who holds a position as 
clerk in a large wholesale establishment of 
Cleveland, and who is a young man of good 
habits and much promise, respected and es- 
teemed wherever he is known; Henry W. is at 
present a student in Concordia College, at Fort 
Wayne, Indiana; Louis F. died in the fourth 
year of his life; Katie is in school; and Lucy, 
the youngest, is but a few months old. 

Rev. Mr. Walker is a man of more than 
ordinary ability as a clergyman, having been a 
close student and a practical worker. He has 
collected a very valuable library and has a very 
broad general information. He has long since 
reached a position of distinction in his profes- 
sion and is a conspicuous figure in the work of 
his church. He is beloved as a pastor and es- 
teemed as a devout Christian, and his life work 
lias resulted in much good to his fellow-men. 



»J^^^ EY. JOSEPH LE HALLE, Rector of 
y^\^ St. Ignatius' College, Cleveland, Ohio, 
11 ^ Superior of tlie Residence and Prefect 
V of Studies, was born in Germany, in the 

Rheiiiish Provinces, January 31, 1845. He 
was educated in I'russia, Belgium and Austria. 



He then went to England and there became a 
priest. He labored for a short time in different 
missions, then went to India and worked there 
for eight years, as professor in St. Xavier's Col- 
lege in Bombay. For several years in succes- 
sion he was appointed Examiner for the Uni- 
versity degrees in classical languages. Xext lie 
served as secretary to the Archbishop, who is at 
present Archbishop of the island of Mauritius, 
at Port Lewis. Father Le Halle's health fail- 
ing, he was compelled to leave India. He then 
went to Holland, and after a short stay came to 
Buffalo, i^ew York, arriving in 1886, and for 
seven years was Professor and Prefect of Studies 
there in the Canisius College. He came to 
Cleveland in June, 1893, and was at once elected 
to his present position. 

The school numbers about 200 students. It 
was founded about seven years ago, and is in a 
flourishing condition. It is incorporated and 
has the full rights and privileges of a university. 
The last graduating class numbered about ten. 
The curriculum of the college is extending and 
growing more varied, and will continue so to 
do. 

President Le Halle is a man of broad cul- 
ture and ripe scholarsiiip, and of an experience 
gained by travel and an extensive acquaintance 
with the ways and doings of many different 
parts of the world, and varied phases of human 
life. He is most eminently qualified for his 
high position, and w^ill doubtless prove liim.self 
the right person in the right place. He is 
genial, pleasant and companionable. 

YicTORiAN Sheppard was born in Bavaria, 
February 14, 1848. He began his studies in 
Augsburg, Germany, where he continued for 
eight years. He then entered the order of the 
Jesuits in Gorheim, Ilohenzollern. After two 
years he left the college for Munster, West- 
phalia, to study humanities and rhetoric. He 
then spent three years in the study of philoso- 
phy, when he went to college in Feldirk, Aus- 
tria, remaining one year. He was ordained 
priest in 1881, in Ditton Hall, Lancashire, Eng- 
land, by Bishop O'Ueilly, of Liverpool. He 




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then became missionary to Jamaica, going in 
1882. There he spent fonr years of missionary 
life, but was obliged to quit the country on 
account of ill health. He came to New York 
in 1886 and spent several months in the hos- 
pital, recruiting his health, and then went to 
I'uffalo, New York, where he served as pro- 
fessor of commercial law. He remained there 
four years, when in 1890 he was transferred to 
Cleveland, where he teaches the same study, in 
St. Ignatius' Colleoje. 



IfJfENRY H. COIT, deceased.— The State 
rpjl of Connecticut has furnislied excellent 
II ^i men as pioneers on the Western Reserve, 
but perhaps none are more worthy of an 
honorable mention in connection with the early 
settlers of Cuyahoga county than the subject of 
this memoir. He was born in Norwich, that 
State, in 1791. His father, Daniel Lathrop 
Coit, was a member of the Western Reserve 
Land Company. At the delivering up of the 
Connecticut Land Company's lands, the whole 
of the township of Liverpool, Medina county, 
1,000 acres in Euclid (now East Cleveland) and 
about as much in Lorain county, belonged to 
D. L. Coit, a memljer of the company; and as 
an agent for him Colonel H. H. Coit, almost a 
boy, from a counting-room in New York, came 
to Liverpool about 1814, when there were only 
seven families in the township, and estal)lished 
salt works and a country store and cleared a 
large farm, all of which he sold about 1830. 
He then came to Euclid (now East Cleveland), 
bought a place at Collamer village on Euclid 
road, and soon after began to improve his 1,000- 
aere tract on the lake shore, where Mr. Colt's 
present residence is, five miles east of Cleveland 
and suri'ounding "Coit Station " of the Lake 
Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad. 

Mr. D. L. Coit made salt at Salt Springs be- 
fore the Erie canal was built, and at that time 
salt was very expensive, selling frequently for 
over $20 per barrel. He did an extensive and 



paying business for many years, encountering 
all the hardships and deprivations incident to 
Ohio pioneer life. In order to convey his salt 
kettles, for which he paid |60 apiece, he was 
obliged almost to build the road from his resi- 
dence to Pittsburg. He subsequently sold his 
entire salt works. Colonel Coit and a Mr. 
Stanislaus were instrumental in importing a 
German colony to Liverpool, Medina county, 
many of whom are still honored and i-espected 
citizens of that locality. At a later date Mr. 
Coit gave the agency of the Connecticut Land 
Company into the hands of Mr. Stanislaus, who 
was an enterprising, worthy and respected resi- 
dent of Medina county. 

About 1828 Colonel Coit located in Euclid 
township, now East Cleveland, Cuyahoga county, 
and purchased the beautiful farm where he lived 
many years. Having a natural taste for horti- 
culture and floriculture, his farm and grounds 
were soon the admiration of the people of the 
surrounding country. He not only set forth a 
good and worthy example in making the desert 
blossom as the rose, but, by industry, intelli- 
gence and thrift, raised the standard, inducing 
others to do the same, which noted change added 
greatly to the appearance of the neighborhood. 
He introduced and cultivated the very best fruits 
and vegetables of all kinds. Later, Mr. Coit 
purchased the splendid property on the lake 
shore, which is still in the possession of the 
family. This property has become the most 
desirable summer resort on the lake, and has 
been the leading attraction of the city for many 
years. Mr. Coit took special pride and pleasure 
in extending the courtesies of his mansion and 
beautiful grounds to his friends. He was a 
man of chaste life and habits, efficient in ser- 
vice, of irreproachable character, and of a gen- 
tle and loving disposition. He departed this 
life at Newark, New Jersey, while on a visit to 
his daughter, October 15, 1870, at the age of 
eighty years. His wife, Mary (Breed) Coit, 
died March 18, 1856, aged sixty years. She 
was a warmhearted Christian, a woman of rare 
intelligence and .of great devotion to the wants 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



of her family aud friends. All who knew her 
cherish her memory with grateful affection. 
Mr. and Mrs. Coit had five children, namely: 
Charles 15., the eldest in order of birth; Will- 
iam H., a resident of Eaclid township, now 
East Cleveland, was married in 1856 to Miss 
Harriet B. Fairfield; Elizabeth, also of that 
township, is the widow of Samuel II. Kirby. 
formerly a merchant in New York city, and 
later in Cleveland; Maria, deceased in 1876, at 
the age of forty years, was the wife of a Mr. 
Kirby; and Mary, wife of Rufus C. Holmes, of 
Connecticut. Mr. Coit was generous in thought, 
liberal in word, prompt in action, which, com- 
bined witl) an easy adaptability to circumstances 
and a kind, good nature, ingratiated him into 
the good will of those who had the good fortune 
to know him. 



GIIAELES B. COIT.— Among the beauti- 
ful and elegant places of resort along the 
banks of the lake, surrounded by the 
many luxuries of life which suggest not only 
the' wealth but the rare taste aud culture of the 
owner, is the home of our subject. He was 
born in Medina county, Ohio, in October, 1820, 
a son of Henry H. and Mary (Breed) Coit, na- 
tives of Norwich, Connecticut. After arriving 
at a suitable age Charles and his brother, Will- 
iam Henry, were sent to Connecticut, where 
they attended tlie common schools for a time at 
Norwich. After returning to Ohio, they en- 
tered the Western Reserve University, also 
Shaw's Academy. After completing his educa- 
tion, Mr. Coit spent several years in traveling, 
having made a trip to Iowa on horseback. He 
finally returned to this State, located on a farm 
five miles east of Cleveland, cleared a tract of 
eighty acres where he now resides, beautified his 
grounds, and his place soon became thronged 
with visitors in summer seeking a cool and 
shady resort. In 1876 he erected a hotel to ac- 
commodate thosewho mightcoine, butthebuild- 
ing was afterward burned. In 188G he built 



his present hotel, which is beautifully located, 
being less than a quarter of a mile from the 
lake, and less than one-half a mile from the 
terminus of the St. Clair street car line. There 
are few places on Lake Erie so well located or 
with more lovely scenery and surroundings, or 
with better accommodations than is aftbrded in 
this summer resort. Mr. Coit has made a prac- 
tical application of the most intelligent methods 
in the raising of ornamental shade trees. 

In political matters, our subject casts his vote 
in accordance with the principles of the Repub- 
lican party. Religiously, he is a member of 
the Presbyterian Church. As a worthy and en- 
terprising citizen, aiding in every way the im- 
provement and development of his chosen coun- 
ty, Mr. Coit occupies a prominet place. 



'Jf^^ EV. NICHOLAS A. MOES, Rector of 
f^^ St. Mary's Theological Seminary of 
11 ^ Cleveland, was born in the Grand Duchy 
^ of Luxemburg in 1844, a son of Peter 

and Elizabeth (Sand) Moes, natives of Germany, 
where the father was a teacher for many years. 
The father died in 1879, at the age of seventy- 
four years, his wife having preceded him in 
death a few years, in 1873. 

The subject of this sketch received his early 
education in Germany, at the College of Lux- 
emburg, and in 1860 he came to America, set- 
tling in Cleveland, where he continued his class- 
ical education in St! Mary's College. Later he 
finished his theological education in St. Mary's 
Seminary at Cleveland, completing the course 
in 1866. He was ordained priest in Cleveland 
in 1867. He had charge of a parish on Kel- 
ley's Island for one year; he was then located 
at Napoleon, Henry county, Ohio, where he re- 
mained until September, 1870, when he accepted 
his present position, as described in the outset 
of this brief sketch, and which position he has 
since held with marked acceptability. 

St. Mary's Theological Seminary, of Cleve- 
land, was established by Bishop Rappe in 1849, 



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and from that day to this the school has always 
been attended with success. The object of this 
school is the preparation of priests for the dif- 
ferent parishes, and workers for the different 
departments in this, the Cleveland Diocese of 
the Catholic Church. The number of students 
varies, but the school has been of much value, 
and much good has been accomplished in the 
preparation of those intended to do church 
work, and its object has been fully met. 

Rev. Moes has proved himself a man well 
fitted for the position of rector of this school, 
and much valuable work has been done by him 
in this position. He is recognized as a scholarly 
gentleman, as a successful educator and in every 
way an accomplished man. He is assisted by 
three professors, namely: Kev. J. A. TePas, 
Eev. J. T. O'Conner and Rev. M. Murphey. 

In 1878 the Rev. Moes returned to Germany, 
where he visited for two months. In his native 
land he had two brothers, who were priests in 
Luxemburg, they being Rev. Michael and Rev. 
John Moes. Tiiey were able and zealous priests, 
and though long since deceased are yet held in 
affectionate remembrance. 



dj T. SMITH, physician and surgeon, Col- 
' linwood, Ohio, was born in Hartford 
-' county, Maryland. November 30, 1830, 
the son of Rev. John T. and Esther S. (Cheney) 
Smith, natives of Maryland and Pennsylvania 
respectively. The father was a minister in the 
Christian Church from early life, and was asso- 
ciated with Alexander Campbell, and other no- 
table lights of that faith. He emigrated to 
Ohio with his family in 1812, and became 
widely known as a faithful and efficient mis- 
sionary. He died at the age of fifty-seven 
years, his funeral sermon being preached by 
the Hon. James A. Gariield, who was then 
State Senator. Esther S. Smith died at Hiram, 
Ohio, in 1874, aged sixty-five years. She was 
a woman of rare traits of character, and to her 
zeal is due much of the success that crowned 



her husband's efforts. They reared a family of 
seven children: Edith, widow of David Rol- 
ins; Dr. J. T., the subject of this notice; Will- 
iam H., who served in the late civil war, was 
taken ill at the battle of Pittsburg Landing, and 
finally died in August, 1863, aged thirty years; 
Frances Cheney was for a number of years 
matron and nurse in the Children's Hospital, 
Staten Island, New York; she accompanied 
Mrs. Dr. Liikens to Europe as private secre- 
tary, filling the position with great tact and 
judgment; Hettie J. is the wife of Dr. Clark 
of Youngstown; John H. served three years in 
the late war, enlisting in 1861; he returned 
home August 4, 1863, and September 4, 1864, 
passed to the unknown country; Rev. Clayton 
C. is an able clergyman, now secretary of the 
board which has for its object the education and 
evangelization of the colored people of the 
South. 

Dr. Smith received his elementary education 
in the common schools, and began the study of 
his profession under the guidance of Dr. Justin 
Hayes at Shalersville, Ohio. He afterward en- 
tered the medical department of the Western 
Reserve University, at which he was graduated 
in 1855, and immediately thereafter engaged in 
practice in Kent, Ohio; thence he removed to 
Warren, where he was residing when the dark 
war cloud spread like a pall over this land. He 
enlisted in 1861 as assistant surgeon of the 
Second Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and in May, 
1863, was promoted to the position of surgeon 
of that regiment. In July, 1864, he was de- 
tailed surgeon-in-chief of the Second Brigade 
of the Third Division Cavalry Corps of the 
Army of the Potomac, and in the spring of 
1865 he was promoted to the position of Sur- 
geon-in-chief of the. Third Division of Cavalry 
of the Middle Military Division, which he filled 
until the close of the war. He was thus a mem- 
ber of General Custer's staff, as the latter was 
in command of the division. 

He returned to his home and was engaged in 
practice, but afterward returned to the South 
for the purpose of raising cotton. In 1869 he 



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was appointed Collector of Internal Revenue 
for the Second District of Mississippi, an ofHce 
he held four years. During this time he was 
appointed and commissioned Brigadier General 
of the Militia of Mississippi. He was connected 
with the Mississippi Valley & Ship Island 
Kail way Company as president for two years. 
In 1875 he returned North and located in Col- 
linwood, where he has resided with the excep- 
tion of fourteen months in Arizona, and seven- 
teen months in California. 

He was married December 13, 1855, to Miss 
Maria A. Ramsay, a daughter of John S. Ram- 
say. Mrs. Smith died March 26, 1894, leaving 
three children: C. W., John Claton and Mat- 
tie. She was a member of the Christian Church 
from girlhood, while Dr. Smith belongs to the 
Church of God; he was a member of the Chris- 
tian Church until 1877. He belongs to the 
A. O. U. W., the G. A. R., Brough Post, and 
in politics is a Republican with strong prohibi- 
tion tendencies. 

Dr. Smith was in the prime of life when our 
nation was making history. He was a con- 
spicuous figure in the Reconstruction period in 
the South, and was prominently identified with 
that phase of history. 

The following from Lucius P. Woods, Act- 
ing Staff Surgeon of the U. S. Army, Surgeon 
in Chief of the Third Cavalry Division, is a 
glorious tribute to his worth. It says: 

"Headquarters Third Division Cavalry 
Corps, January 7, 1865. I have known Josepli 
T. Smith, Surgeon of the Second Ohio Cavalry 
and Surgeon in Chief, First Brigade of this Di- 
vision, intimately since his regiment Joined 
this command last May. He is a gentleman 
and a superior medical officer. He has per- 
formed more duty for the benefit of the sick 
and wounded of his command, during the time 
he has been connected with the division, than 
any otiier medical officer; while as an operating 
surgeon, I kiKjw of no one more skillful in the 
use of the knife than he. 

" I can heartily recommend him as being in 
my opinion capable of satisfactorily perfoi'm- 



ing the duties of any position in the medical 
department of the army, in the field or in the 
U. S. hospitals. 

" The subject of personal bravery is one 
rarely mentioned in papers of this character 
by me, but I do not praise when I say that this 
officer has always done his duty, and he has so 
done the same under fire, and during the many 
engagements of the past campaign, as to deserve 
and receive commendations from the command- 
ing generals and other officers of the Third 
Cavalry Division." 

Under the same date Major-General J. D. 
Cox gives testimony of equal force and merit to 
the above, showing the high esteem in which 
Dr. Smith is held by those who know him best. 



LEONARD FISH, a gardener and an 
1 honored resident of Brooklyn township, 
i was born in this township, on the farm 

where he now lives, September 5, 1834, the 
seventh of the eight children of Daniel and 
Matilda (Chester) Fish. He graduated at Bry- 
ant & Stratton's Business College, making his 
home with his parents until he was twenty-one 
years of age, when he went to Minnesota and 
entered 160 acres of land from the Government 
in one county and eighty acres in Brown county 
of the same State. After remaining there 
about five months he sold his land, to good ad- 
vantage, and went to Wisconsin and attended 
college there three months. Returning to his 
native place, he engaged in gardening, on the old 
homestead, where he now lives and owns a fine 
residence, which he built in 1873, at a cost of 
about $3,000. He also owns property in Brook- 
lyn village. 

December 24, 1863, he married Miss Clarissa 
Brainerd, a native of Brooklyn township, born 
March 26, 1842. Her father, Willard Brainerd, 
a native of Coimecticut, was an early set- 
tler in this county. Her mother, whose name 
before marriage was Harriet Young, was also 
a native of Connecticut and was only one year 



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old when her parents moved to this county; 
and she is still living. Mrs. Fish is the sixth 
of their seven children, and a twin of Carlos, 
who died when an infant. Mr. and Mrs. Fish 
are the parents of three children, namely: 
Edith May, who died at the age of six years; 
Hattie, who is now attending Baldwin Uni- 
versity; and "William E., the eldest child, now 
resides in Brooklyn township. 

Mr. Fish has a nice little farm of thirty-six 
acres near the city corporation line; is a Re- 
publican, and has been a member of thel.O.O.F. 
ever since he was twenty-one years old; being a 
zealous temperance man, he is also a member 
of the I. O. G. T., and having had an army ex- 
perience, he is a member of Brooklyn Post, 
G. A. E. He was in the Eighth Independent 
Battery, Ohio National Guards, serving six 
months as a private, being a No. 1 man on the 
gun. 



»jnj) EV. PETER F. SCHNEIDER, Treas- 
r^ urer and Financial Agent of the Ger- 
II ^ man Wallace College at Berea, Ohio, 
V was born in Hohensolms, Prussia, Octo- 

ber 12, 1825. He came to America with his 
parents in 1834, landing at Baltimore, Mary- 
land, and came in a wagon to Wheeling, West 
Virginia, from Wheeling to Mansfield, Ohio, 
and thence to Crawford county, this State, 
where his father, John Schneider, bought 160 
acres of timber land, which he cleared. 

He was reared to manhood in Crawford 
county, near Gallon, attending the common 
schools, until he was sixteen years of age. His 
father was an educated man and he taught his 
children in the evening. From his father 
young Schneider received his German educa- 
tion, as there was no German school in that 
section at the time. 

In 1848 he commenced preaching as an as- 
sistant to Rev. C. H. Hoevner, a very able 
Methodist minister connected with the Delaware 
and Gallon mission of the (Jhio Conference. 



After one year thus engaged he labored for a 
year in the Lower Sanduaky mission, and the 
year following was put on the Woodville cir- 
cuit, embracing the city of Toledo, where he 
served one year. He bought the first German 
Methodist church building in Toledo and or- 
ganized the church, with sixteen members. 
From Toledo he was sent to Sandusky City, 
Ohio, for one year; and thence to Cleveland, 
where he remained two years; from Cleveland 
to Detroit, Michigan, where he remained six 
years, four years of that time serving as Pre- 
siding Elder, on the Michigan district; thence 
to Delaware, Ohio, for two years, when he was 
returned to Toledo, where lie built a new church 
and parsonage and remained three years; then 
was stationed at Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, 
three years. He was next stationed at Evans- 
ville, Indiana, for three years, and was Presid- 
ing Elder of the Louisville District for two 
years. In 1873 he came to Berea and most of 
the time since has been pastor of the German 
Methodist Church. From 1873 to 1883 he 
was vice president and treasurer of the German 
Wallace College, and since 1883 has been finan- 
cial agent and treasurer. 

Mr. Schneider was married in Touawanda, 
New York, September 4, 1851, to Louisa Ack- 
erman, by whom he had eleven children, six of 
whom are living, namely: William H., John 
W., Edward F., Franklin H., Charles A. and 
Kingsley C. T. 

Mrs. Louisa Schneider died in Berea, Ohio, 
January 30, 1876. Mr. Schneider was again 
married in Toledo, Ohio, to Mrs. Mary C. 
Bohrbaser, by whom he has two children, Es- 
tella C. and Arthur L. 



'[r^)EV. J. C. GRIMMELL, editor of Der 
r!^ Sendbote, Wegweiser, Der Muntere Sae- 
II »i luann, Unsere Kleinen and Lesson Leaves, 
V — all monthly periodicals except the first, 

which is weekly, — was born in the city of Mar- 
burg, Germany, May 30, 1847, a son of Jere- 
miah and Margaret Grimmell, who were among 



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the first Baptists in Germany. His fatlier, as a 
layman, was very active in missionary work. 
He organized a Baptist church in Marburg, and 
also in this country, one in Williamsburg, and 
one in Wilmington, Delaware. After suffering 
persecution and imprisonment in the Father- 
land, and losing all his property, for being a 
Baptist, he came to America in 1851, and died 
in 1871, at Wilmington, Delaware, while on a 
visit there, at the age of sixty-two years. His 
wife, an honored resident of Cleveland, resides 
with her son, the subject of this sketch, and is 
now aged seventy-five years. Jeremiah Grim- 
mell and wife had thirteen children, seven of 
whom are still living, — all in this country. 

Rev. J. C. Grimmell, whose name introduces 
this sketch, was the fifth in the above family. 
He was educated at Eochester, New York, and 
Lewisbnrg, Pennsylvania, graduating in 1867, 
when he became pastor of the First German 
Baptist Church at Buffalo, New York. In 1873 
he became pastor of the First German Baptist 
Church of Brooklyn, same State, in which he 
remained for twenty years, with an intermis- 
sion of two years spent as general missionary 
and corresponding secretary of the German 
Baptist Home Missionary Society, whose ofliice 
is in New York city. 

When Mr. Grimmell went to Brooklyn in 
1873 he found but seventy-two members there, 
without a church home; at the end of his pas- 
torate there were 350 members owning valuable 
church property free from debt. They also have 
two flourishing missions, which he founded, 
besides having sent out two flourishing churches. 
Mr. Grimmell was editor and publisher of the 
" Mitarbeiter" (Co-worker), an illustrated month- 
ly journal, from 1874 to 1879. He is the wri- 
ter of several well known hymns. A collection 
of hymns which he compiled and published 
under the name of Die Weckstimme had seven 
editions. He was unanimously elected to his 
present position as editor, etc., in 1898, by the 
General Convention of the German Baptists 
held in Chicago, in September, 1892. He is 
also a platform lecturer, both in the German 



and English languages. He is talented and 
eloquent, and has been the means of leading 
many souls to Christ. In his personal manner 
he is genial, sliowing in his conversation that 
he is a scholar and every way worthy of his 
high and responsible position. lie is one of 
the leading ministers of his denomination. He 
is chairman of the Educational Board of the 
Rochester Theological Seminary, German de- 
partment. 

In 1870 Mr. Grimmell married Miss Helen 
L. Weimar, of Buffalo, Xew York, a daughter 
of John G. and Agnes Weimar, of that city, and 
they have six children, namely: Bertha R. and 
Edith Martha, teachers in the public schools of 
Cleveland, and are graduates of the high school 
and of the State Normal of New York; Row- 
land W., at present attending the University of 
Rochester, New York, and in the freshman 
year; Helen, Walter and Clara, in the public 
schools of Cleveland. The wife and children 
are also members of the German Baptist Church. 
Mr. Grimmell has been a Republican, and dur- 
ing the last war, when Lee invaded Pennsylva- 
nia, he, at the age of seventeen, served in the 
army of the United States during that emer- 
gency. 



P 



^ EV. S. P. SPRENG, editor of the Evan- 
X' gelical Messenger, the English organ of 
^ the Evangelical Association, at No. 265 
Woodland avenue, Cleveland, was born 
in Wayne county, Ohio, February 11, 1853. 
His parents. Christian and Julia (Grimm) 
Spreng, were natives respectively of France and 
Bavaria. His father was a farmer all his life, 
excelling in that vocation; but his chief activity, 
other than farnnng, was his religious work as 
an official in his church. He came to America 
in 1831, settling in Wayne county, Ohio, and is 
now seventy-eight years of age, retired, an hon- 
ored resident of Cleveland, whither he moved 
in 1892. His wife, now aged seventy years, is 
a devoted member of the same church, and has 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



consistently sustained this relation for over tifty 
years. They celebrated their " golden wedding" 
in 1892. Their children are: John E., a manu- 
facturer of agricultural implements at Ashland, 
Ohio; Emma, the wife of Eev. S. J. Gamerts- 
felder, assistant editor of the Messenger; and 
Kev. S. P., whose sketch we proceed now to 
give further in detail. 

After attending college several years at Na- 
perville, Illinois, he began in the ministry, in 
1875, at Bellevne, Ohio, where he served eight 
months, receiving fifty persons into the church; 
next he was pastor of the Calvary Church on 
Woodland avenue and Perry street, Cleveland, 
for three years; then for a time at Napoleon, 
Ohio; next he was sent to Columbus, this State, 
and then to Circleville, also this State. In 1883 
he was elected Presiding Elder of the Columbus 
district, in which position he served until the 
autumn of 1886, when he came to Cleveland as 
pastor of Trinity Church on East Madison ave- 
nue, where he served but one year, his pastorate 
terminating in the fall of 1887, by his election, 
at the General Conference of this church at 
Buffalo, Xew York, to the editorship of the 
Evangelical Messenger. In 1891 was re-elected, 
at Indianapolis, for a second term, expiring in 
1895. 

In 1885 he wrote a book entitled Rays of 
Light, and in 1888 the Life of Bishop John 
Seypert, besides editing a number of other 
works, and he has been an extensive contributor 
to the periodical press. 

In 18S3 he was elected a delegate to the Gen- 
eral Conference of the church at Allentown, 
Pennsylvania, and served as the English secre- 
tary of the conference. Again, in 1887, he was 
again elected and served in the same capacity. 
In 1891 he was ex-oflicio member of the Gene- 
ral Conference. In 1883 he was elected by that 
body a fraternal delegate to tlie General Con- 
ference of the United Brethren Church at Fos- 
toria, Ohio, sitting there in 1885. Besides, Mr. 
Sprang has had the honor of being one of the 
editors of the Standard Dictionary now in proc- 
ess of publication; and he is the author of the 



History of the Evangelical Association, issued 
by the American Society of Church History of 
New York city, under the general editorship of 
the late Dr. Philip Schaff. 

Mr. Spreng was married in September, 1878, 
to Miss Maggie Beck, daughter of George and 
Margaret Beck, old settlers of Cleveland, first 
residing on the south side. Mr. Beck was a 
grape-grower, and died about 1874, aged about 
fifty years; and his widow survived until 1891, 
dying at the age of eighty-two. Both were 
life-long, devout members of the Evangelical 
Church. They were well known as early and 
worthy settlers on the south side. 

Mr. and Mrs. Spreng have had five children, 
namely: Edmund G. C, Harrison N., Lillian 
Ethel, Ralph Waldo Emerson and George B. 
All the family are members of the Evangelical 
Association, and take much interest in moral 
questions and the enterprises that promise any 
amelioration of the human family. 

This brief review of the eventful life of Mr. 
Spreng should conclude with at least some fur- 
ther notice of his personal characteristics, as in 
the following paragraphs, gleaned from those 
who have long been acquainted with him. 

The appearance of Mr. Spreng, whether in 
the social circle, the office or the pulpit, indi- 
cates a man of culture and dignity, not however 
of the austere type, for he is as pre-eminent for 
kindliness as for culture, having a warm heart 
in happy combination with superior intellect. 
Naturally and easily he draws to himself ad- 
miring friends, of whose confidence he proves 
himself increasingly worthy. He brings light 
and life to every gathering graced by his pres- 
ence. 

In the pulpit he is mighty and n:agnetic. 
His voice is clear, strong and musical, and al- 
ways under perfect control, which adds emphasis 
to a forceful delivery. The skill with which he 
manages his voice and places his emphasis ena- 
bles him to give peculiar effectiveness to every 
part of his pulpit work. When once warmed 
with the progress of his subject he becomes 
sometimes dramatic, animated and surpassingly 



CUTAHOOA COUNTY. 



eloquent. As a writer he is distinguished for 
vigor of thought and a nervous energy and 
beauty of style. 

From the very beginning his rise in the min- 
istry was rapid, as shown by his appointment to 
the most important churches, his early election 
to the presiding eldership and subsequent ele- 
vation to the editorship of the English organ of 
the church, the Evangelical Messenger, one of 
the l>est and most influential Christian family 
weekly papers in the land. At the last General 
Conference his practically unanimous re-election 
was the best possible evidence of the wide ap- 
preciation of his eminent ability as a writer and 
ecclesiastical leader, aside from the flattering 
vote given him for the ofiice of Bishop. 

Erect, of medium height, fair complexion and 
a decidedly intellectual cast of countenance, he 
is a man of attractive presence, while his genial 
spirit and brilliant ministerial and editorial 
career has made his name a household word 
throughout the church. 



I. TRUESDELL, who occupies a con- 
spicuous position as secretary of the 
Cleveland Fire Underwriters' Association, 
has been a resident of the Forest City for 
thirty years, having come hither from the State 
of New York in 1864. lie was born near 
Binghamton, Broome county, JS'ew York, Sep- 
tember 9, 1842, and was there reared to mature 
years, receiving a thorough common school and 
academic education. Early in life he became a 
teacher, devoting his attention to pedagogic 
labors for some time prior to his emigration to 
the West. Coming to Cleveland in 1864, as 
already noted, he secured an engagement as a 
solicitor for the State Fire Insurance Company, 
later securing the preferment as secretary of the 
Midas Insurance Company, which subsequently 
was merged into the Forest City Fire Insurance 
Company. With this association he remained 
for two years, after which he resigned to engage 
in business for himself, opening a local office as 
an insurance asent. 




In 1878 he became secretary of the Cleveland 
Board of Underwriters, and since that time has 
continued in the tenure of the oflice, having 
been re-elected from year to year as his own 
successor and having discharged the exacting 
duties of the position to the satisfaction of his 
associates, who have thus manifested their ap- 
preciation of his discriminating technical ability 
and their approval of his methods. For about 
one year Mr. Truesdell was engaged in other 
business, having resigned his position for ihe 
purpose; but, after a brief interim, was again 
called to the position in which he had proved so 
capable and acceptable an executive. That he 
enjoys the confldence and esteem of the members 
of the association is beyond cavil, while during 
a long residence in the city he has not failed of 
gaining a marked general popularity. 

He has been actively identified with the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church since fourteen years of 
age. His membership is with the Epworth 
Memorial Church, in which he has served in all 
the oflicial capacities to which a layman is 
eligible. 

Mr. TruesdelTs marriage to Miss Louise M. 
Wellsted was consummated in 1866, she being a 
daughter of the late Joseph Wellsted, of Cleve- 
land, Ohio. She died in 1869, leaving one child, 
Clara L., who became the wife of Samuel G. 
McClure, now on the editorial staff of the Cleve- 
land Leader. In the year 1872 Mr. Truesdell' 
was united in marriage to his present wife, who 
was Miss Carrie Patton, a daughter of William 
Patton, Esq., of Medina, Ohio. 

Our subject's parents were Harvey and Sarah 
(Parker) Truesdell. both of whom were natives 
of the Empire State and descendants of promi- 
nent old New England families, the father be- 
ing of English and the jnotherof Scotch extrac- 
tion. Harvey Truesdell was a farmer by occu- 
pation and was one of the earliest and most 
ardent abolitionists. For many years he was a 
steadfast worker in the cause of freeing our 
nation from the blot of slavery, and successfully 
operated a station of the famous "underground 
railroad," by which so many slaves were assisted 



GUTAHOOA COUNTT. 



to freedom. He and his wife were devoted 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
They had twelve children, of whom the subject 
of this review was tlie sixth in order of birth. 
Eight of the family are living, three having 
died in childhood, and one later in life. 

The paternal grandfatiier of onr subject par- 
ticipated in the war of 1812, and Emery P., a 
brother of the latter, served as a private in Gen- 
eral Custer's cavalry during the late civil war, 
enlisting in 1862 and remaining in tiie ranks 
iintil the close of the sanguinary struggle, hav- 
ing been only sixteen years of age at the time 
he enlisted. He is now a travelling reprtjsent- 
ative for the well known and extensive agricul- 
tural implement concern of the Warder, Bush- 
nell & Glessner Company. His twin brother, 
Emri H., entered the Methodist Episcopal 
Conference in New York, early in life, subse- 
quently retiring by reason of impaired health. 
The other surviving members of the family are 
concerned in agricultural pursuits. 



EVI E. MEACHAM, formerly Clerk of 
I the Court of Common Pleas for Cuya- 
i hoga county, was born in Parma town- 
ship, this county, September 5, 1846. His 
parents were Levi E. and Lucinna B. (Emerson) 
Meachara, the former a native of New York 
and a son of Isaac and Sophia Meacham, who 
moved from that State to Oiiio in 1820, settling 
in Parma township. At that date the father 
of the subject of this mention was a mere child. 
The name of the parent tree of the Meacham 
family in America is not known, but there is 
well founded reason for the statement that he 
was of tiie Mayflower crew; and it is authenti- 
cally stated that the paternal great-grandmother 
of Levi E., Jr., was a granddaughter of the cel- 
ebrated Miles Standish. 

Lucinna B., nee Emerson, mother of Levi E., 
was one of the first white children born in 
Parma township, Cuyahoga county, where her 



parents, Asa and Sallie (Small) Emerson, set- 
tled in 1818. The father was a native of Maine 
and she a native of Massachnsettes, both being 
of Puritan stock. Both the paternal and ma- 
ternal grandparents of the subject of this sketch 
were early and well known, as well as prominent 
and respected, pioneer settlers of Parma town- 
ship. When Levi E. Meacham, the senior, 
married Lucitma B. Emerson, she was the widow 
of Charles Nicholas, by whom she had had two 
children; and to her second husband she bore 
one child, whose name introduces this personal 
sketch. 

The latter was but two months old when his 
father died; but his mother, being a woman of 
of sterling qualities, remained upon the old 
homestead in Parma township, where she still 
resides, being seventy-three years of age, and 
there brought up her children, giving them the 
advantage of such schooling as afforded in the 
district schools. For a third husband she mar- 
aried Joshua Whitney, now deceased. In re- 
ligious faith she is a consistent member of the 
Baptist Church. 

This good woman deserves more than a pass- 
ing notice. In November, 1861, her sons, Os- 
car Nicholas and Levi E. Meacham (the latter 
being then but fifteen years of age), enlisted as 
privates in Company G, Sixty-seventli Regi- 
ment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Oscar re- 
mained in the army service till 1864, after which 
time he was disabled by a severe wound re- 
ceived in battle. Levi E. remained in the ser- 
vice to the close of the war. We now wish to 
speak of the noble part the mother took in the 
struggle of the civil war. The company in 
which her sons enlisted was made up largely of 
young men and lads from Parma township. In 
the spring of 1862 much sickness distressed the 
camp of this company, who sent home for aid. 
Mrs. Meacham at once set out for the camp, 
which she reached during the latter part of that 
spring, and thereafter till the close of the war 
she remained upon the battlefield and in the 
hospital, doing all that kind and motherly hands 
could do in nursing the sick and wounded. 



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Levi E. Meacliam, thu immediate subject of this 
persouul mention, after the war attended aud 
taught school alternately for a period of four 
years, upon the close of which he (his health 
failing him) l)oi:ght a small farm and began 
farming, in which he continued until 1880, 
when he became a deputy in the office of the 
clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, where he 
was promoted from less important desks to that 
of chief clerk, or first deputy. In the fall of 
1887, as the Republican candidate, he was 
ekcted Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, 
two which office he was re-elected in the fall of 
1890. 

Mr. Meacliam is a member of the Army and 
Navy Post, G. A. R. ; he was originally a mem- 
ber of the Meujorial Post. He is also a thirty- 
second degree Mason, a uiember of the I. O. O. 
F. and K. of P. 

In 1873 he was united in marriage with Miss 
Lina Biddulph, and they have a son and a 
daughter, Roland and Florence. 



FRANK H. BILLMAN, one of the pro- 
gressive members of the bar of Cuyahoga 
^ county, has been engaged in legal prac- 
tice in the city of Cleveland since 1891, and has 
already attained enviable prominence. His par- 
ents, Alexander and Elizabeth Billman, are of 
Scotch ancestry; the father is a resident of 
Cuyahoga Falls, retired from active business; 
the mother is deceased. Frank H. was born 
March 31, 1866, in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, and 
there passed his boyhood and youth. He was 
educated in the University at Wooster. In 
1888 he began the preparations for his profes- 
sional career, entering the law office of Judge 
Rufus P. Ranney and the Hon. Henry McKin- 
ney, as a student. He read under the direction 
of these experienced practitioners until 1891, 
when he was admitted to the bar of Cuyahoga 
county. In 1891 he opened an office in Cleve- 
land, and is surely gaining a permanent place 
among the able lawyers of the county. He is 



retained as counsel for several corporations in 
and near the city. He gives his support to the 
Republican party, taking an active interest in 
the leading political events of the day. He is a 
highly esteemed member of the Presbyterian 
Church, his efforts in behalf of that society 
having met with gratifying results. 



If /■''ARL RIEMENSCHNEIDER, Ph. D.— 
L^ A well known and prosperous institution 
Jj ^ of learning is the German-Wallace Col- 
' lege, located at Berea, Ohio, and occu- 

pying a position of importance and honor as 
the chief e.NCcutive of the same, stands the sub- 
ject of this sketch, the able President of the 
college. Dr. Riemenschneider is a man of 
scholarly attainments and broad intelligence, 
and he has directed the destinies of the institu- 
tion over which he presides to the goal of nia.xi- 
nium excellence as applied to the full exercise 
of the functions in its province of accomplish- 
ment and opportunity. 

Dr. Riemenschneider was born in Louisville, 
Kentucky, May 14, 1844, the son of Rev. 
Eugelhardt Riemenschneider, who was sent as 
a missionary to Germany when our su*bject was 
seven years of age. The latter was thus reared 
to manhood in Germany and there received his 
education, which was one of a most comprehen- 
sive order. He prosecuted his studies at Bre- 
men, Franklbrt-on-the-Main, Zurich (Switzer- 
land), and at the University of Tiibingen. He 
was an instructor in the theological seminary 
at Bremen for a year and a half, after which he 
returned to the University of Tiibingen, where 
he completed his collegiate course at the age of 
twenty-two years. His marked capabilities had 
already secured him prominent recognition and 
soon he received a call to return to his native 
land and accept a professorship in the German- 
Wallace College at Berea, Ohio. This proposi- 
tion he accepted, returning to America in 1868. 
Subsequent preferments in the institution came 
as the natural result of his erudition and pro- 



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noiinced executive ability. About 1881 he was 
chosen as Vice-President of the college, and in 
1892 he was made its official head, becoming 
President of the same. 

The college was founded in the year 1864, 
from which year Dr. William Nast held the 
presidency until he was succeeded by Dr. 
Rieinenschneider, in 1892. The college is in a 
flourishing condition, has an excellent corps of 
instructors in all technical and special branches, 
and its particular province is defined in the pre- 
paring of young men for the ministry. Special 
attention is devoted to the teaching of the Ger- 
man language, and the itistitution affords an 
exceptional opportunity for the thorough ac- 
quirement of the same. The college has an 
aver.ige enrollment of 150 students, the 
majority of whom are Germans. 

Dr. Rieinenschneider was united in marriage, 
at Manchester, Iowa, July 7, 1870, to Miss 
Amelia Smith. They have five children, namely: 
Ernest, Albert, Oscar, Karl, and Clara. 



E. COZAD was born 'in Cleveland, 
Ohio, in 1846, a son of Andrew Cozad, 
one of the early settlers of this county. 
The father emigrated with his family 
from Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 
1807, and located upon land which is now cov- 
ered by the prosperous city of Cleveland; then 
there were not a dozen families living in this 
locality. He became prominently identified 
with all the progressive movements that were 
inaugurated as the country became more thickly 
settled, and held many of the local othces. Ed- 
ucation and temperance reform were matters of 
equal moment in his estimation and commanded 
his most earnest consideration. In him were 
combined many qualities of rare excellence, and 
his name was held in the highest esteem. He 
died at the age of seventy-two years. His wife, 
whose maiden name was Sally Simmons, bore 
him nine children, five of whom grew to ma- 



turity: Justice L., Dudley A., deceased, Henry 
I., deceased, Sarah L., and M. E., the subject of 
this notice. 

Mr. Cozad enjoyed the educational advan- 
tages afforded by the Western Reserve College, 
being graduated from that institution in 1870. 
He afterward studied law in the office of Otis & 
Adams, Cleveland, Ohio, and was admitted to 
the bar in 1872. He practiced his profession 
in this city four years and then turned his at- 
tention to the abstract business, organizing the 
firm of Cozad, Beltz & Bates. He also estab- 
lished the first abstract office in Allegheny 
county, Pennsylvania, removing to Pittsburg in 
1876, where he had charge of the business eleven 
years. He organized the Title Insurance Com- 
pany of Pittsburg, and afterward sold his other 
interests to this company. Somewhat broken in 
health he became identified with a life insurance 
company; through the outdoor exercise his 
health was regained and he was also very suc- 
cessful from a business standpoint. He has 
since represented different large and important 
companies, and till recently was in charge of the 
interests of the New York Life in Ohio. He is 
at present supervisor of agents in Ohio and 
Indiana for the National Life Insurance Com- 
pany of Vermont. 

During the inflation times of 1869, 1870-73, 
he had large investments in real estate in this 
city, losing heavily in the transaction. Although 
he has had many business cares he has found 
time to devote to the work of the church and 
Sabbath-school. For a number of years he was 
a member of the Board of Education, laboring 
earnestly to improve the facilities whereby the 
youth <if this city were fitted for the battle of 
life. A Republican in politics he has repre- 
sented that body in convention where his opin- 
ions have been given due weight. 

Mr. Cozad was married in 1872 to Miss Mag- 
gie S. Wagner, a daughter of John Wagner of 
Ravenna, Ohio. They have two children, Henry 
O. and Ellen. 

In the first convention of Life Underwriters 
held in Boston Mr. Cozad was a delegate from 



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Cleveland, and in the second convention held in 
Detroit lie performed the same duty. His wide 
experience, ready speech and genial manner 
assure him a welcome in all gatherings of a so- 
cial character, and his presence is especially 
prized where a response is called by the toast- 
master. 



II ENRY H. LYON, a well-known Demo- 
l| cratic politician of Cuyahoga county, 
4l Ohio, is a resident of Strongsville town- 
ship. He was born in this township, 
June 10, 1838. 

Mr. Lyon's father, Danforth S. Lyon, who 
was born in Stafford, Connecticut, in 1806, came 
at the age of twelve years to Cuyahoga county, 
Ohio, with his father, Liakim Lyon, and settled 
in Strongsville township. That was in 1818. 
Here the elder Lyon died at the age of seventy- 
five years. Danforth S. Lyon also spent the 
rest of his life aijd died here, his death occurring 
December 20, 1878. The latter was married in 
Cleveland, Ohio, in 1835, to Miss Caroline 
Lewis, who was born in Shoreham, Vermont, in 
1809. After their marriage they settled on a 
farm, and he was interested in agricultural pur- 
suits all his life. He held various township 
offices, and during the administration of James 
K. Polk was Postmaster of Strongsville Center. 
Mr. Caroline Lyon died in this township in 
April, 1870. They had four children who 
reached adult age, namely: Henry H., whose 
name appears at the head of this article; Lewis 
C, a member of Company E, Si.xty-seventh 
Ohio Volunteer Infantry, died of disease at 
Cumberland, Maryland; Delia A., wife of Fred- 
erick J. Brennis, died at Mitchell, Dakota; 
Edwin E., a farmer of this township. 

Henry H. Lyon, the oldest in the above 
named family, was reared in his native town- 
ship and has resided here all his life, with the 
e.\ception of the three years he was employed in a 
ship chandler-store in Cleveland, and with this 
exception has been engaged in farming all his 



life. He owns one hundred acres of fine farm- 
ing land, located two miles of south of the cen- 
ter of the township. 

Mr. Lyon was married in Strongsville town- 
ship, November 25, 1860, to Miss Ellen M. 
Meachain, who was born in Greenfield, New 
York, February 24, 1841, daughter of Almon 
and Polly (Kelly) Meacham. Her father was a 
native of Chesterfield, Massachusetts, and soon 
after this marriage settled here, where he was 
for man years well known as an extensive farmer 
and cattle dealer. Both he and his good wife 
continued to live here up to the time of their 
deaths. Mr. and Mrs. Lyon have had six chil- 
dren, viz.: Clara M.; Carlos H., who married 
Miss Mary Thorburn, resides in Strongsville; 
Herbert N.; Nettie E., who died at Lakeside, 
Ohio, at the age of fifteen years; and Claude C. 
and Ruby E., who died of diphtheria, at the 
ages of eleven and five years respectively. 

Mr. Lyon is prominent in political circles. 
He has been Deputy Sheriff of Cuyahoga county 
since 1887, and for eleven years served as Con- 
stable. In the fall of 1893 he was the candi- 
date of his party for the Legislature. 

Mrs. Lyon ig a member of the Congregational 
Church. 



\V\ B. NEFF, 

WU 1876, and 
^ ^ career as a 



who came to Cleveland in 
entered upon a professional 
career as a lawyer, was born at Win- 
chester, Preble county, Ohio, April 30, 1851. 

His parents are Cornelius and Eliza (Rein- 
hart) Neff. His father is a native of Ohio, and 
his mother a native of the Old Dominion State. 
Their mi'rriage was consummated in German- 
town, Ohio, and they had but one child other 
than the subject of this sketch, namely, O. L. 
Neff, a successful practitioner of law in Cleve- 
land. 

W. B. Neff was reared at Winchester and ed- 
ucated at the Ohio Wesleyan University at Del- 
aware, which institution he left when he was in 
his senior year. His taste leading him into the 



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profession of law, he entered the office of Alex- 
ander & Satzgaber at Van Wert, Ohio, where 
he read law for two years, and then he entered 
the law school at Cincinnati, graduating there 
in the spring of 1876, when he was also admit- 
ted to the bar, in that city. In May, 1876, he 
came to Cleveland and entered into a partner- 
ship with his brother, 0. L. Neff, in the prac- 
tice of law. This partnership continued until 
Mr. Neff was elected Prosecuting Attorney for 
Cuyahoga county in the fall of 1890. 

As a lawyer Mr. Neff bears an enviable rep- 
utation, and as Prosecuting Attorney for the 
county he has displayed marked ability and met 
the most sanguine hopes of his friends. 

June 22, 187G, Mr. Neff and Miss Lizzie 
Hyer were united in marriage. Mrs. Neff is a 
graduate of Delaware College, Ohio, and is an 
accomplished lady. The hotne of Mr. and Mrs. 
Neff has been blessed by the birth of two chil- 
dren, namely: Horace, now fifteen; and Amy, 
now twelve years of age. 

Mr. and Mrs. Neff are members of the Meth 
odist Episcopal Church, and he is a Master Ma- 
son, while in politics he is a stanch Republican. 



ISS F. JENNIE DUTY, a prominent 
philanthropist of Cleveland, is a native 
li of this city, the daughter of Daniel W. 
ind Mary (Mason) Duty, natives re- 
spectively of New Hampshire and New York. 
Her father was brought to Ohio in 1808, when 
but four years of age, reared in Ashtabula 
county, and in 1828, two years after his mar- 
riage, came to Cleveland. Here he engaged in 
the furniture business for a number of years, in 
company with a Mr. Vincent, and later'with 
D. A. Gardner. For years also he had, in ad- 
dition to the furniture trade, the undertaking 
business. Probably no man in the city had 
more warm friends than he, and this fact alone 
demonstrates all the peculiar traits of his char- 
acter and the fact that he was a good citizen. 
He was one of the original members of St. 
Paul's Church (Episcopal), of which he was 



Senior Warden at one time; had much to do 
with public enterprises, and was a gentleman of 
broad mind and liberal spirit. He died April 
13, 1887, and his wife died in October, 1888. 
They had six children: William, now a resident 
of Dayton, Ohio; John, deceased; Andrew, of 
Allegheny City, Pennsylvania; Mary, deceased 
in 1884, wife of P. R. Spencer of Cleveland; 
Charlotte M., a teacher in New York city; and 
the subject of this sketch. 

Miss Duty, whose name heads this sketch, 
completed her school days at the Episcopal Fe- 
male Seminary in this city, then taught for 
three years in the Ohio Female College at Cin- 
cinnati, and two years at De Pauw College in 
Indiana, being the preceptress there, and one 
year was principal of the Wheeling College for 
women. She then returned home to take care 
of her parents during their declining years. 

Up to this time she had taken some interest 
in missionary work, but not publicly until the 
great crusade on the saloons began, in wliich she 
became one of the leaders. Naturally she lias 
drifted with her co-adjutors into the Woman's 
Christian Temperance Union, in 1874 becom- 
ing one of its members. She helped establish 
the Central Friendly Inn, of which she was 
made chairman, and missionary leader, a posi- 
tion she has held for nineteen years. During 
this time she did a large amount of charitable 
work which the public know not of, besides 
much that was conspicuous in its effects upon 
public opinion and public welfare. 

First connecting herself" with the local 
Woman's Christian Temperance Union, non- 
partisan, she was elected Secretary of that 
society, in which position much hard work 
necessarily devolved upon her; and every one 
knows that the secretary of any association is 
obliged to do a great amount of work for which 
there is no pecuniary compensation. She is at 
present a vice-president of this Union. She 
was also Recording Secretary, and Secretary of 
the old State Union for eight years. When the 
non-partisan Woman's Cliristian Temperance 
Union was formed in 1890, she was made General 



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Secretary, and lield that position for two years. 
Slie was also officially connected with the old 
K^ational "Woman's Christian Temperance Union 
for several jears. She is thns a veteran in this 
greatest of philanthropic causes, and is still as 
active, zealous and efficient as ever. She has 
made her influence felt in the various fields of 
work, often speaking in public; was instrumen- 
tal in securing the enactment of some laws 
which were for the special benefit of her sex, 
although she is not technically a " woman's- 
riglits " partisan. She has been an angel of 
mercy among fallen humanity. 

When a little girl she was confirmed by 
Bishop Mcllvaine, of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church, but later she connected herself with the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, of which she is 
still a faithful member. Eealizing, iu 1893, 
the need of something to assist mankind in 
putting down alcoholism, she secured an interest 
in " Eucrasy," a cure for inebriety, in which 
field she is doing a good work. Her residence 
is on Arlington street, where she has a cosy and 
very attractive home of her own. 



G. HOPKIXSON, a graduate of Dart- 
month College in the class of 1851, and 
a gentleman eminent in educational cir- 
cles in Cleveland, has been a resident of 
of this city, with but a little interruption, ever 
since 1852. He is a native of Limington, 
Maine, and his father was a farmer. On arriv- 
ing here he took charge of the grammar school 
in Ohio City. In 1854 he was elected superin- 
tendent of the Ohio City schools, and on the 
annexation of that suburb to the main city the 
same year he was superseded by Andrew 
Freese, who was already superintendent of the 
Cleveland schools. In 1S50, his school having 
attained the high-school grade, the branch high 
school was organized, afterward changed to the 
West high school. Of this he continued as 
principal until 1865, when protracted ill health 
compelled his resignation, and he returned to 
his native State. 



After recruiting his health for more than a 
year, his friends proposed him for the position 
of superintendent of the Cleveland schools, and 
he came "dangerously" near being elected, 
lacking but one vote! He has always been glad 
that he did not get that vote. He was then re- 
elected to his old position as principal of the 
West high school. In 1870, his health begin- 
ning again to suffer, he resigned to go into 
more active business, — into work that would 
lead him more into out-door life. Accordingly, 
he formed a partnership with Mr. T. C. Parsons 
in the insurance business, which continued for 
twenty years. Under their joint energies they 
had at one time the largest fire-insurance busi- 
ness in this city. In connection with his school 
and insurance work, Mr. Hopkinsoii has occu- 
pied many positions of trust, having been mem- 
ber of the City Council for several years, of the 
Board of Education two years, declining re- 
election, and a member of the Board of School 
Examiners for many years, closing his labors 
with this body, of which, for several years he 
was president, in 1893. For a time he was also 
a member of the Public School Library Board. 
He is a director in the Wick Banking & Trust 
Company. He has been president, vice presi- 
dent and treasurer of the Cleveland Board of 
Underwriters. For many years he has been a 
member of the First Congregational Cliurch, in 
which also he has filled various offices. Was 
Sabbath-school superintendent for j'ears, and he 
has ever been a zealous worker in the cause of 
practical Christianity. He was one of the lead- 
ing factors in the erection of the new church 
building, and everything for the public good 
has. always had his hearty support. As to gen- 
eral politics he has ever been a true Republican. 
He has represented his ward in various rela- 
tions, but has never aspired to political honors. 
All the offices he has had have been thrust 
upon him. 

He was married in Massachusetts, in 1853, 
to Miss Elizabeth Cook, of Blackstone, that 
State, who died in 1855, leaving no children. 
In December, 1856 Mr. Hopkinsoii married 



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Miss Harriet Farraiid, a granddaughter of the 
old Kevolutionary hero, Jared Farraiid, who 
died only a few years ago, at the advanced age 
of nearly 107 yearsi (See a reference to him 
in the sketch of A. J. Farrand, in this volume.) 
Mr. and Mrs Hopkinson have two sons, namely: 
Harry G., superintendent of surveys for the 
Board of Fire Underwriters of this city, and 
Cliarles W., an architect, at No. 50 Euclid ave- 
nue. Financially, Mr. Hopkinson is comfort- 
ably situated, having a handsome summer resi- 
dence in a beautiful grove on the lake shore, 
besides his pleasant home on Franklin avenue. 



fJI ES. MARTHA A.CANFIELD, A. M., 
f/\ M. D.. a physician and surgeon at No. 
^ 24 Streator avenue, Cleveland, was born 
in Freedom, Portage county, Ohio, 
September 10, IS-to, a daughter of Henry and 
Eliza (Brown) Robinson, natives of Berkshire 
county, Massachusetts. Thej were among the 
early pioneers of Portage county, Ohio, where 
they remained until 18S8, and since that time 
have resided with their daughter in Cleveland. 

Our subject prepared at Hiram College, but 
graduated at Oberlin College, in the class of 
1868. She then read medicine under the pre- 
ceptorship of Dr. Charles Morrill, of Cleveland, 
and graduated at the Homeopathic Hospital 
College in the clafs of 1875, winning the high- 
est honor. Dr. Canfield immediately began 
the practice of medicine at 149 Prospect street, 
remained there three years, and during that 
time was physician to the Open Door, an insti- 
tution for friendless women. She has since re- 
sided at her present location, where she has 
erected a private hospital for the medical and 
surgical treatment of women, making a spe- 
cialty of diseases of women in adilition to her 
general practice. 

The Doctor is a ineniber of the National Sci- 
entific Association, the Woman's Intercollegiate 
Club, the Woman's Press Club, the Clevelaml 
Sorosis, Professor of Medical Diseases of 



Women in the University of Medicine and Sur- 
gery, Professor of the Diseases of Women in 
the Western Reserve School of Oratory and 
Physical Culture, President of the Woman's 
International Provers' Union, a member of the 
staff of the Woman's Dispensary, the Maternity 
Home, the Training School for Nurses in -the 
Huron Street Hospital, a member of the Execu- 
tive Board of the Maternity Home, Vice-presi- 
dent of the Women and Children's Dispensary, 
a member of the American Institute of Home- 
opathy, and the Ohio State Medical Society. 
Dr. Canfield writes for numerous medical 
journals. 

In 1869 she was united in marriage with H. 
W. Canfield, an attorney of Cleveland, and they 
have four children: Elma C, Mary Alice, 
Hiram and Charles Morrill: the latter died at 
the age of two years. The family are all mem- 
bers of the Euclid Avenue Congregational 
Church. Our subject was one of the twelve 
(and the only lady) Homeopathic physicians 
and surgeons appointed to deliver addresses at 
the World's Congress of Homeopathic Physician, 
and Surgeons at Chicago, June 13, 1893 
Among the twelve were noted men from Ger- 
many, France and England. Dr. Canfield's 
subject was the " Progress 'of Medical Science' 
Through Homeopathy." 



J. viY. JOHiN W. MALECHA is the pas- 
tor of St. Adalbert's (Bohemian) Cath- 
olic Church of Cleveland. He was born 
in Bohemia, June 23, 1861, a son of 
Thomas and Theresa Malecha, both natives and 
still residents of Bohemia. The father is a 
Bohemian farmer and lives in the village of 
Dinin. He was born about 1837, and his wife 
in 1839, and are respectable citizens and faith- 
ful members of the Catholic Church. The old- 
est child, Mary, is the M'ife of Joseph Pribyl, a 
resident of Chicago. The other members of 
the family are residents of Bohemia. 

Our subject, the second of seven children, 
was educated in Bohemia, in Budweiss College, 



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wliich in BoluMiiia is called "gymnasium.'" His 
theological education was obtained in St. Mary's 
Seminary of Cleveland, under the efficient Rev. 
Nicholas A. Moes. July 3, 1886, he was or- 
dained priest by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Gilmour, 
then ot this diocese. At Elmore, Ohio, Rev. 
Maleclia did his first work as a priest. There 
he remained for two years, at the close of which 
he was transferred to his present work. In his 
church work and in the work of upbuilding the 
school of his parish, he has been very successful. 
His parish and church was established by 
Father A. Hynek. When Rev. Malecha took 
charge of this parish he had about 100 families; 
now there are over 200 families. His schools 
are taught by four Notre Dame Sisters. There 
are ten societies connected with the church. 
The church building is a nice, well-equipped 
place of worship. 

Rev. Malecha is a man of excellent scholarship, 
of pleasing personal appearance and is one of the 
jnost popular priests of Cleveland. 



\\ C. ALEXANDER, a member of the 
^ ., Board of Commissioners for Cuyahoga 
^ county, has Ijeen for many years a promi- 
nent figure in Bedford township. He was 
elected to the office he now holds in the fall of 
1891, and took his seat January 1, 1892. The 
year of 1893 was one of marked activity for 
the board, $85,000 being expended upon 
macadam roads and $170,000 in building Brook- 
lyn Bridge, $225,000 for the Central Armory, 
besides sums for other public improvements. 

Mr. Alexander was born fifty-one years ago 
in Bedford township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, 
a son of Andrew Alexander who emigrated to 
the county in 1833; the father was born in Co- 
lumbiana county, Ohio, in 1813, a son of James 
Alexander, a native of Westmoreland county, 
Pennsylvania, of Scotch-Irish descent. James 
Alexander was one of the first settlers of Co- 
lumbiana county, Ohio, and was a soldier in the 
war of 1812. He was a blacksmith by trade, 



and owned one of the best sawmills in the 
county; he was a man of excellent business 
qualitications and was very prosperous. An- 
drew Alexander was reared and educated in his 
native county, and there married Hannah Hope, 
who was born in Lawrence county, Pennsyl- 
vania, and died in 1882. In 1855 he built 
"Alexander's Mills" (flouring) in Independence 
township, this county, and now has operated 
them for thirty-five years, for years under the 
firm name of A. Alexander & Son. 

Our subject was a mere lad when he went 
into his father's flouring mill, where he received 
a thorough training in all the details of the 
business; for thirty years he was his father's 
trusted partner, conducting the business with 
marked ability. He owns a tine farm two and 
one half miles South from Cleveland, all of 
which is under cultivation; the improvements 
are most substantial and the entire place has an 
air of thrift and prosperity. In 1876 he was 
elected superintendent of the Clewell Stone 
Company, and built and operated their large 
flagging mill at Independence station. 

Mr. Alexander was married in 1874 to Net- 
tie Logue, now deceased. Mrs. Alexander was 
a sister to Judge Logue of Cleveland. The 
second marriage occurred at Allegheny, Penn- 
sylvania, when he was united to Rachel Gib- 
son, daughter of Charles Gibson. Two chil- 
dren have been born to them, Grace Elizabeth 
and Charles Andrew. Mr. Alexander is a Re- 
publican and is one of the most ardent workers 
in his party. He and his wife are consistent 
members of the United Presbyterian Church 
and are held in high regard by all who know 
them. 



ON. CHARLES L. SELZERwas born in 



Cleveland, Ohio, October 6, 1859. At 



Hi 

II — the age of five years his father, Jacob 
, D. Selzer, removed to the village of 

Brooklyn, at which place he received a good 
school education, and later he attended the 



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West High School of Cleveland, where he pur- 
sued his studies for a period of two yesirs. 

He then took up the drug business for six 
years, during which time iiis attention was 
called to a certain law case that greatly inter- 
ested him and which v irtually created within 
hiin a taste for the profession of law. This led 
him to that study and to enter the law office of 
John W. Heisley in Cleveland in the year 1882. 
During the time he studied law he was engaged 
in various forms of work in order to gain a 
support and to enable him to further prosecute 
the study of law and his preparation for the 
profession. 

In 1883 Mr. Selzer, in company with H. M. 
Farnsworth, established a newspaper at Brook- 
lyn village known as The Cuyahogan, which 
they published as a weekly issue with success 
for a period of four years. At the close of that 
time they sold their publication for a good con- 
sideration. The building up of this paper and 
the work of publishing the same, necessitated 
loss of time in his study of the law, and thus 
he was prompted to end his newspaper career. 

In 1886 Mr. Selzer was admitted to the bar 
and without a partner he immediately began 
the practice of his profession in Cleveland. He 
has since engaged in general practice, and has 
gained the reputation of an able lawyer and 
forcible advocate. 

Mr. Selzer was scarcely twenty-one years of 
age when he entered the political arena by be- 
ing elected City Clerk of Brooklyn, in which 
capacity he served two years. He was elected 
Township Clerk of Brooklyn township, in which 
position he served two years. In 1890 he was 
unanimously elected Mayor of Brooklyn, and in 
1SU2 was re-elected to the same office in which 
he is the present incumbent. The several posi- 
tions and circumstances under which Mr. Sel- 
zer has held them are pointed out as evidence of 
that great estimation and contidence on the part 
of his fellow citizens which he enjoys. 

On January 1, 1884, Mr. Selzer was com- 
missioned by Governor Foster as First Lieuten- 
ant and Adjutant of the Fifth Regiment, Ohio 



National Guard, with headquarters at Cleve- 
land, and with his regiment participated in 
suppressing the famous Cincinnati riots of that 
year. 

Mr. Selzer was nominated by the Demo- 
cratic party as a candidate for State Senator in 
1893, but was defeated with the rest of the 
ticket by the political landslide in the autumn 
election of that year. 

January 1, 1894, he formed a partnership 
with Echo M. Heisley, son of his former pre- 
ceptor, Hon. John W. Heisley, for the general 
practice of law under the firm name of Heisley 
& Selzer, with spacious offices at No. 219 Supe- 
rior street, Cleveland, Ohio. 

Mr. Selzer is prominent and active in the 
Masonic and K. of P. orders of Cleveland. 

It was in November, 1886, that he was mar- 
ried to Miss Ida M. While, of Brooklyn, daugh- 
ter of Joseph While, Esquire. The home of 
Mr. and Mrs. Selzer has been blessed by the 
birth of two children, sons, aged six and four 
years respectively. 



I^IfORMAN E. WRIGHT, M. D., Berea, 

I \l was born in Copley, Summit county, 

II 11 Ohio, March 18, 1834. His father, the 
V late Orris C. AVright, was a farmer and 
also a miller by occupation, and died at John- 
son's Corners, that county, when si.xty-seven 
years of age, from the effects of an injury which 
he had received some time previously. 

Norman E. remained on his father's farm till 
he was seventeen years of age, afterward assist- 
ing his father in a flouring mill at different 
periods for some ten years, and then engaged in 
wood turning and other occupations till he be- 
gan the study of medicine at Olmsted Falls, 
In 1874 he graduated at the Cleveland Homeo- 
pathic Hospital College, where be received his 
diploma. Previous to his graduation, however, 
in 1871, he located in Berea, where he has 
since followed his chosen calling. 



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Dr. Wright is one who takes a fairly active 
part in local affairs, and especially in religious 
work, and for many years he has been a devoted 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of 
Berea, Ohio, although for eighteen years pre- 
vious he was connected with the Congregational 
Church at Olmsted Falls, in which body he was 
for nine years the Sunday-school Superintend- 
ent, and filled various other offices. He has 
been a member of the Board of Education of 
Berea, is an active worker in the cause of tem- 
perance, and is universally respected and 
esteemed by his fellow-townsmen. 

He was married to Miss Julia Bradford, of 
Olmsted Falls, who died May 17, 1873. For 
his present wife he married Mrs. Lizzie A. 
Smith, at Bere.i, April 9, 1876. Dr. Wright's 
children are as follows: Willis N., who is a resi- 
dent of Indianapolis, Indiana; Myron T., Cora 
E., Orris C. and Minnie I. 



rEANK LYNCH, passenger engineer on 
the C. C. C. & St. L. Railroad, was born 
-^ in Cleveland, Ohio, March 22, 1848, 
son of William Lynch. The latter was born in 
Boston, and came to this city in 1844, where 
he died in 1852. He was a contractor by oc- 
cupation. He and his wife, ?iee Elizabeth Har- 
rison, had the following children: Helen; 
William; Mary, wife of E. E. Hudson, a mas- 
ter mechanic on the Big Four Eailroad; Frank, 
our subject; Harrison, an engineer on the C. L. 
& W. Railroad; and Elizabeth, wife of Ed 



Frank Lynch attended school until he was 
fourteen years of age. He then secured the 
position of brakeman on the C. C. C. & St. L. 
Railroad, and four ye:<rs afterward was pro- 
moted to conductor, but at that time received 
an injury which caused him to suspend work 
for awhile. He returned to the road as loco- 
motive fireman, under engineer William Kir- 
win. March 27, 1872, ^Ir. Lynch was pro- 
moted to the position of locomotive engineer. 



He remained in the yard ai)out eighteen 
months, was then in the freight service .until 
1886, and since that time has been engaged as 
passenger engineer. His work has been most 
satisfactory to the company, he has been at his 
post whenever called, and he has never injured 
a passenger or employe or in any way by negli- 
gence caused the company a pecuniary loss. 
His record is indeed one of which he may be 
justly proud. His faithful service has at dif- 
ferent times won for him commendation from 
the press. 

On one occasion Mr. Lynch ran a special 
train, consisting of six coaches, from Cleveland 
to Columbus, a distance of 138 miles, in three 
hours and eight minutes, his train dashing 
along up grade and down, while the operators 
along the line almost held their breath as tiie 
rapid progress of the train was noted on the 
wire. At another time as he was speeding 
along toward Cleveland at a rate of fifty miles 
per hour, with his regular train, an incident oc- 
curred, which, as showing the material of which 
Mr. Lynch is made, should be noted here. 

"The coaches were crowded, and the train 
was a few minutes behind time. Old reliable 
eight-wheeled engine 898 was pulling the train, 
and Engineer Lynch, one of the best men on 
the road, grasped the throttle. The train ap- 
proached Iberia curve, a short distance below 
Gallon, at the same great speed. Suddenly 
there was a crash on Lyneh's side of the cab, 
the windows were wrecked, the seat on which 
the engineer was sitting w^as torn to pieces and 
Lynch was thrown with terrific force through 
the cab door and back into the tender. He w'as 
partially stunned and bruised considerably, but 
in a moment he recovered himself. The engine 
was plunging and rocking forward, and at once 
Lynch learned that one of the side- rods con- 
necting the drive-wheels was broken. He knew 
that unless the train was stopped at once a 
wreck and perhaps great loss of life would oc- 
cur. He sprang to liis feet but was again 
thrown down by the fearful plunges of tlie en- 
gine. Again he rose up and again was thrown 



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down. After several similar experiments, 
Lynch managed to enter the fireman's side of 
the cab, and apply the air-brakes. The train 
came to a standstill, and the passengers, fright- 
ened and wondering, ]jiled off" to ascertain the 
trouble. The rod connecting the forward drive- 
wheels was broken into two pieces, one of which 
could nowhere be found. Lynch promptly dis- 
connected the rod on the forward wheels on the 
other side of the engine, and again mounted 
the foot-board and pulled the throttle for Cleve- 
land. He was over half an hour late at that 
time, but still with his crippled engine, only 
four drive-wheels being used, he ran into Cleve- 
land on time. His escape from instant death 
seems almost miraculous, and the passengers 
can thank their lucky stars that Lynch's hero- 
ism saved them from death or maiming." 

Mr. Lynch was married in Cleveland, in 
1872, to Christina, daughter of Adam Karu. 
They have six children, viz.: Hariy, a fireman 
on the Big Four Eoad; Frank E. and Maud, at- 
tending the high school; and Arthur, Lulu and 
William, at home. 

In his social relations, Mr. Lynch is a mem- 
ber of the B. of L. E. and of the Knights of 
Pythias. 



man of 

city of 



Ei) M. BARE, a prominent busines 
l> Cleveland, was born near the 
^ Cincinnati, in 1864, a son and one of 

the two children of James A. Barr, of that 
city, who was a Lieutenant in the Twenty-sixth 
Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the late war. Mr. 
Barr's ancestors came to America about 1773, 
locating in New Jersey. The Barr family, a 
prominent one, settled early in Cincinnati, 
Major William Barr, the paternal great-grand- 
father of Mr. Barr, being one of the first settlers 
of that city. The paternal grandfather of Mr. 
Barr was John Barr, in his time a prominent 
merchant of Cincinnati. 

The subject of this sketch received a liberal 
education and early became interested in elec- 



tricity, beginning business in 1883 as an elec- 
trical salesman for the Edison Electric Manu- 
facturing Company, remaining with that com- 
pany in the successive capacities of manager of 
their business in the States of Iowa and Mis- 
souri, and later of the State of Ohio, with head- 
quarters at Cleveland until the Edison and 
Thomson -Houston Companies were merged in 
the General Electric Company. 

Mr. Barr came to Cleveland from St. Louis 
in 1890, and though a young man has gained a 
prominent position in his chosen field, and is in 
every way an active, progressive and sagacious 
business man. In 1885 he was united in mar- 
riage with Miss Louite Little, daughter of 
William Little, of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and 
they have two children, B. M. and Louise. 

While in no way active, Mr. Barr is a pro- 
nounced Democrat in politics. 



W. BISHOP.— One of the distinctly 
representative business men of Berea, 
Oliio, and one who has done much to 
further the advancement of the place 
and conserve its stable prosperity, is he whose 
name initiates this brief review. By virtue of 
his position as one of the substantial capitalists 
and progressive citizens of Cuyahoga county, it 
is imperative that he be accorded due attention 
in this connection. 

Mr. Bishop was born in Orleans county, Njew 
York, July 1, 1838, and in October of the 
same year his parents removed to Medina 
connty, Ohio, where the father was engaged in 
the milling business for eome time, finally dis- 
posing of his interests in this line and devoted 
his attention thereafter to farming. Our sub- 
ject was reared on the farm, in Medina county, 
securing a thorough common-school education, 
and at the age of nineteen years he engaged in 
school-teaching in Lorain county, Ohio, being 
thus occupied during four winters and working 
on a farm during the summers. About this 
time he in vented, an animal poke, which was 



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the first contrivance of the sort ever invented 
in the United States. In this connection it 
may be incidentally noted that since our sub- 
ject originated this valuable device more than 
one hundred other designs have been invented, 
patented and placed on the market. It is cer- 
tainly interesting to thus trace an article now 
in such common use back to its original type. 
Realizing that his invention was one of practi- 
cal utility, Mr. Bishop began manufacturing 
the pokes at Medina, continuing the enterprise 
at that place from 1865 until 1871, when he 
removed his business to Berea, where he 
erected a factory and resumed operations upon 
a much larger scale. The industry, which is 
now one of much importance, has been carried 
successfully forward and represents at the pres- 
ent time one of the representative manufactur- 
ing enterprises of the State. Mr. Bishop has 
perfected several improvements upon the orig- 
inal design of the poke, which is yet recognized as 
one of the best, if not the best, on the market. He 
has also invented a unique machine for planing 
rubber and an apparatus for cleaning boilers. 
His business interests in Berea include varied 
enterprises aside from the one noted, and it is 
doubtful if there be another single individual 
who has done more to advance the prosperity 
of the town along the normal avenues of enter- 
prise than has our subject. In the way of 
municipal improvements he has maintained a 
lively interest and has practically made the 
cause of the little city his own. He actually 
built the Front street extension in Berea and 
was notably instrumental in locating the Union 
Depot where it now stands. He has sought, in 
more ways than one, to improve the town and 
has contributed ungrudgingly of his means 
with this end in view. 

Public-spirited to a pronounced degree, Mr. 
Bishop has always taken a very active part in 
local affairs, is a member of the Common Coun- 
cil and is universally recognized as one of Be- 
rea's most enterprising and progressive citizens. 

February 5, 1857, he was united in marriage 
to Miss Lydia Doane, a sister of Josiah Doane, 



a prominent resident of Columbia, Lorain 
county, Ohio. Our subject and his wife had 
two children, a son and a daughter. The lat- 
ter, Lunette, died at the age of six and one-half 
years; the son, Frank L. is engaged in the oil 
and gas business at Muncie, Indiana. Mrs. 
Lydia Bishop, the devoted wife and mother, 
entered into eternal rest, in Medina county, in 
the year 1867. 

December 31, 1869, Mr. Bishop consum- 
mated his second marriage, being then united, 
at Medina, to Miss Zora Harrington. Of this 
union two children have been born: Mary L., 
the wife of Frank M. Kuederle, and Leo A. 

Mr. Bishop was the projector and has been 
actively interested in the construction of the 
Cleveland & Berea electric railway and is the 
superintendent of the system at the present 
time. In company with others he built the 
street railroad at Sandusky, Ohio, and also the 
one at Mt. Clemens, Michigan. In the way of 
securing local improvements, it may be noted 
that he was foremost in establishing at Berea 
the gas wells and pipe line which supply the 
city. 

Conducting individual enterprises which are 
of incalculable benefit to Berea, ever ready to 
contribute of his time and means to such ob- 
jects as conserve the best interests of the place, 
a thorough and discriminating man of business, 
respected and honored by the community with 
which he is closely identified. Mi-. Bishop 
richly merits the slight recognition of his abil- 
ity and worth that has here been accorded. 



CHARLES A. UHINCK, one of the suc- 
cessful farmers and highly respected citi- 
zens of Parma township, Cuyahoga 
county, Ohio, is a descendant of German ances- 
try and from his forefathers inherits the thrift 
that is so characteristic of the German people. 
As one of the representative men of the town- 
ship, the following record of his life is appro- 
priate in this connection. 



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Charles A. Uliinck was born in Parma town- 
ship, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, December 13, 
1853, son of William and Margaret (Beyer) 
Uhinck, both natives of Germany, the former 
born January 12, 1825. Soon after their mar- 
riage they emigrated to America and settled in 
the township in which their son Charles A. 
now lives. That was in the year 1848. Here 
the mother died March 6, 1887. The father is 
still living. They had six children: William; 
John; Margaret, wife of H. R. Heiniinger; 
Charles A.; Katie, who died in childhood; and 
Jacob L. All are residents of Parma townsliip. 

In this township our subject was reared and 
educated. For several years he was engaged in 
the butchering business, and aside from that his 
whole life has been devoted to agricultural pur- 
suits. He owns sixty acres of fine farming land, 
all of winch is well improved with good fences, 
buildings, etc. 

Mr. Uhinck was married in Parma township, 
February 20, 1877, to Miss Emma Henninger, 
a native of this place, born June 29, 1850, 
daughter of Philip G. and Sophia (Orth) Hen- 
ninger. Her father died in this township, July 
15, 1892. Mr. and Mrs. Uhinck have three 
children living, namely: Henry Robert, Eda 
and Elsa. Tiieir son Rubart died iti infancy. 

Mr. Uhinck afiiliates with the Kepublican 
party and takes a commendable interest in po- 
litical affairs. For a number of years he has 
served as School Director. Both he and his 
wife are active workers in the Presbyterian 
Church. 



djAMES F. J. DAVIS, Sergeant at Arms of 
j the City Council, Cleveland, Ohio, was 
^ born in Orleans county, New York, Au- 
gust 6, 1839, son of Paul H. and Caroline (Le- 
latid) Davis, the former a native of Vermont 
and the latter of New York. Paul H. Davis 
was seven years old when he went with his 
parents, Joseph and Dolly Davis, to Orleans 
county. Tiiat was in 1S20, and there he has 
since remained, all tliese years Ijeing spent on 



the same farm where he now lives retired. 
Joseph Davis bought his article for this land in 
the old Holland purchase. The greatgrand- 
father of our subject, Sergeant Paul Davis, 
served five years, nine months and eighteen 
days in the war of the Eevolution. His dis- 
charge, dated June 8, 1783, is now in the pos- 
session of Mr. Davis. It bears the signature 
of George Washington. At the early age of 
three years Mr. Davis was deprived of a 
mother's loving care, her death having occurred 
when she was twenty-five. 

Upon reaching young manhood, Mr. Davis 
turned his face westward, and in Michigan 
spent the winter of 1857-'58 in teaching school. 
Following that experience he entered the era- 
ploy of a Government contractor in the Terri- 
tory of Nebraska, with whom he remained 
about a year. Then he was in railroad employ 
fur some months, next went to Memphis and 
from there to Wisconsin. Tlie winter of 1860 
he spent in the pineries of Wisconsin, and was 
there when the war broke out. He enlisted in 
May, 1861, for three years, and as a member of 
Company G, Sixth Wisconsin Volunteer In- 
fantry, went to the front, his regiment becom- 
ing a part of the Army of the Potomac. He 
served until February, 1863. At the battle of 
Antietam he was seriously wounded, and from 
the time of that battle until his discharge he 
was in hospital. Previous to the engagement 
at Antietam he was in several other battles, in 
all of which he acted the part" of a true and 
patriotic soldier. 

After his recovery Mr. Davis located in 
Cleveland, Ohio, and since March, 1863, he has 
been a resident of this city. For eleven years 
he was in the employ of the Adams Express 
Company. Then he looked after the city trade 
for the Marion & Morgan Parafline Company 
for eleven years. Since April, 1892, he has 
served in his present official position in the 
City Council. 

Mr. Davis was married in June, 1861, to 
Miss Annie Benbovv, daughter of Edward and 
Elizabeth Benbow, natives of England but resi- 



CU TABOO A COUNTY. 



dents of Beloit, Wisconsin. Mr. ami Mrs. Da- 
vis liave had five cliildreii, namely: Franl< An- 
nie, wife of Dr. K. B. Waite, of Cleveland. 
Ohio; Elizabeth C, who died at the age of 
twenty-four years; James H., wiio died at the 
age of twenty -two; Herbert, wlio married Emma 
Cnshman and resided in Cleveland; and Bnrt, a 
student in tlie Cleveland high school. 

In Knight of Pythias circles Mr. Davis is 
well known. He has passed tlirough all the 
chairs in the lodge and Endowment Rank, and 
has represented his lodge in the Grand Lodge 
three terms. He is also a member of Memo- 
rial Post, No. 141, G. A. R., Cleveland, his 
name being on the liet of charter members, and 
in tliis organizaiion he has also held official 
position. 



TjARED FARRAXD, a soldier of the Revo- 
it I lution. — Among the early settlers of Cuya- 
^^ lioga county were ihe Farrands. Jared 
Farrand, the senior member of the family, came 
to this country in 1832, locating in Dover town- 
ship, where he purchased land and engaged in 
agricultural pursuits. He was born at Nor- 
wich, Connecticut, in the year 1756. While he 
was a boy his father, Tiiomas Farrand, moved 
with his family to Vermont, and settled in 
Bennington county. Here the elder Farrand 
commenced to hew out for himself and family 
a home in the wilderness, and here young Jared 
grew up. In these early days the woods were 
alive with wild game, and the boy never lost an 
opportunity for a hunt, and thus became, in the 
language of the times, a crack siiot with the 
rifle. He bore the distinction of being one of 
the number tiiat were required to pay double 
price for a shot at the turkeys, at shooting 
matches, and then was only allowed to aim at 
the head of the bird. It is said that he could 
drive a nail with a bullet at a hundred paces, 
three times out of five. It was these wonder- 
fully accurate marksmen that finally became a 
terror to the officers of the Britisli army during 
the Revolution. 



Just as he was emerging into manhood the 
war for Independence burst on the country. The 
people went w-ild with excitement. Such tur- 
bulent spirits as Colonel Ethan Allen and Seth 
Warner did their full share in arousing the 
people of that section to take up arms in resist- 
ance to the tyrannical spirit manifested by Great 
Britain toward the colonies in America. A 
scheme was soon set on foot for the capture of 
Ticonderoga and Crown Point. Ethan Allen 
rallied around him a band of as brave and fear- 
less men as ever followed a gallant leader to 
victory. Young Farrand caught the war fever, 
ran away from home, joined Colonel Allen's 
expedition, and thus ro(?eived his first lesson in 
war at the capture of Ticonderoga. Soon after 
this he joined an independent company of mili- 
tia, called the Rangers. Later on he was em- 
ployed by General St. Clair, as scout. Early in 
the spring of 1777 he and a companion by the 
name of Myron Panghurn, dressed in the garb 
of backwoods hunters, and with a birch-bark 
canoe, skirted the shores of Lake Champlain to 
its lower end, and as far down the Richelieu 
river as St. Johns, taking note of the prepara- 
tions going at that place, and picking up all the 
information possible in regard to the threatened 
invasion of the colonies by a British army from 
Canada, which was to ascend the Richelieu river 
to Lake Champlain. From information that 
had been received from various sources, the 
people of that section were convinced that an 
invading army would soon be in their midst. 
Vigorous preparations were soon set on foot, for 
collecting arms and ammunition and enlisting 
n)en for defense. 

It was at this time that Mr. Farrand enlisted 
in Captain Joseph Safford's company, the 
"Green Mountain Boys,'' whicli became a part 
of the first regiment of regulars- raised in Ver- 
mont for the Continental Array. This regi- 
ment remained in service until the close of the 
war. He was with Stark at the battle of Ben- 
nington, also took part in the engagement at 
Bemis's Heights, and was severely wounded at 
the battle of Saratoga. After recovering from 



CUFAHOOA COUNTY. 



this wound he rejoined liis regiment, and was 
promoted to be First Sergeant of his company. 

During these eventful years of theEevolution 
he had many thrilling experiences. Especially 
was this so while he was acting as scout. Some 
of these incidents may not prove uninteresting 
in this connection. It is related that on one 
occasion, early in the summer of 1777, while 
west of Lake George watching the movements 
of Bnrgoyne's army in that direction, he sud- 
denly found himself surrounded by a band of 
Mohawk Indians, and was made prisoner. 
Watching his opportunity, he contrived to make 
his escape at night. His absence being dis- 
covered, he was iiotly pursued by the savages, 
but from Iiis knowledge of woodcraft he man- 
aged to elude his pursuers for two days, finally 
reaching the shore of Lake George almost worn 
out with fatigue and famished from hunger. 
Fortune favored him. Concealed in the bushes 
near the lake, he discovered a canoe containing 
a spear and paddle. He lost no time in setting 
it afloat, and his new-found treasure was soon 
cleaving the waters of the beautiful lake, but 
not a minute too soon, as his pursuers were 
almost immediately on the shore, only to see 
their prisoner beyond their reach. He crossed 
the lake in safety, and reached Fort Castleton 
without further molestation. 

At another time he was sent to learn some- 
thing, if possible, of the movements and designs 
of the force under Colonel St. Leger and Joseph 
Brant, chief of the Mohawks, who were known 
to have a large force of Tories and Indians under 
their command. Night coming on, he put up 
at a tavern near the Hudson river. He had just 
seen that iiis horse was stabled and fed, and had 
ordered supper, when it seems, as chance would 
have it, a British officer and a Tory who was 
acting as guide rode up to the same tavern to 
stup for the night. As they were passing by 
the dining-room on their way to the stables, the 
Tory saw Sergeant Farrand eating iiis supper, 
and, as they had been well acquainted before the 
war, recognized him at once. The Tory made 
habte to infi_irin the officer that the man inside 



eating his supper was a noted scout from Gates' 
army. Highly related, the British ofiice em- 
mediately began to concoct some plan to effect 
his capture. In this it seems they were 8\iccess- 
ful. Early next morning they set out with 
their prisoner toward their destination. Sergeant 
Farrand took his capture in a very philosophical 
manner: appeared to be perfectly unconcerned 
about its results. We may well infer, howevei-, 
that his mind was not idle in weighing every 
circumstance that might atloi'd an opportunity 
for his escape. Such an opportunity must have 
presented itself, for a few days later he came 
riding into camp on his own horse, his holsters 
bristling with horse pistols and leading two 
other horses. When asked wliere he got his 
horses he merely remarked that a certain British 
officer and a Tory of his acquaintance had given 
him so much trouble that he Iiad concluded to 
take their horses to get even with them! 

There are many more interesting adventures 
connected with his long and eventful life, which, 
if well written up, would make a first-class 
romance, but we have not time to recount them 
here. 

After the war for independence had been 
brought to a successful close. Sergeant Farrand 
returned to his old home in Vermont. In 1783 
he married Miss Hannah Evans, of Bennington, 
and they settled in Chittenden county, Vermont. 
Here he engaged in the manufacture of lumber 
with an old-fashioned sawmill run by water 
power, and in the cutting of the largest and 
tallest pine trees for shipmasts. These were 
made into rafts and floated by way of Lake 
Champlain and the Richelieu river to St. Johns, 
where they were sold f(jr masts and spars of 
vessels. 

A few years previous to the war of 1S12, he 
moved with his family to a place called Dun- 
ham's Flats in Canada. Here he purchased 
some very fertile land in the valley of the Sorel 
river, and commenced farming. He was just 
getting comfortably fixed and doing well when 
the second war witli Gi'eat Britain came on. 
Ca-iada demanded an oath of alle(>;iance from all 



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her citizens. Mr. Farrand,not being willing to 
take this, returned to Vermont, leavin 



his 



property in Canada, which was confiscated. He 
was now compelled to make a new start in life, 
and in addition had a large family of children 
to support. In this dilemma he set up in the 
business of shoeraaking. He had learned this 
trade when a young man, and it now stood him 
well in hand for a support for himself and 
family. He finally opened a store at Esse.x, 
Vermont, where he lived until 1832, when he 
joined a party of settlers going to Ohio. He 
had raised a family of fourteen children, — eight 
boys and six girls. At this time they were 
nearly all married and gone for themselves. 
When he came to Ohio he was accompanied by 
two of his sons, William and Jared, Jr., and 
bis youngest daughter, Polly. 

At this time he was nearly seventy-five years 
old, but well preserved and vigorous. He was 
a man of mark among men; stood six feet two 
inches in his stockings, was powerfully built, 
and possessed a fine physique and noble pres- 
ence. He was a good type of the class of men 
that made American liberty possible. He pos- 
sessed great muscular strength and endurance, 
and had a strong will and indomitable persever- 
ance. When a centenarian, he went out and 
constructed a section of rail fence, and did many 
other things equally remarkable for a man of 
that age. On his one hundredth birthday his 
neighbors gave him a surprise party. It was 
participated in, and highly enjoyed, by the old 
settlers round about the country, while the 
young folks had as lively a break-down as had 
been seen in these parts for many a day, the 
grand old man causing mucb merriment by 
himself leading in the dance. 

Mr. Farrand's first wife, Hannah, died in 
Middleburg, Cuyahoga county, November 5, 
1844, aged seventy-six years. He married again 
in 1846, a Mrs. Emma Gallup, of Kockport 
townsiiip, this county. At the time of his 
second marriage he was ninety years old, and 
his bride sixty-rive. Even at this time of life 
he seemed quite well preserved, and she was the 



brightest and spriest little woman of her age in 
all the country. The old gentleman caused 
considerable merriment at his wedding, espe- 
cially among the young people of the place, by 
remarking to the minister that he thanked (lod 
that he had got such a young wife! They lived 
very happily together for thirteen years, when 
she died August 14, 1859, aged seventy-eight 
years. Mr. Farrand made Cuyahoga county 
his home until his death, which occurred June 
28, 1862, his age being 105 years and seven 
months! 

He had always been a man who took a keen 
interest in public affairs. In politics he was a 
straight out and out Andrew Jackson Democrat. 
He had voted at every presidential election from 
Washington to Abraham Lincoln. He claimed 
that the South had committed a grievous wrong 
in firing on the flag at Fort Sumter, and thought 
they should be punished for it. 

In religion he was a Methodist, of which 
church he had been a member for more than 
half a century. He was a man strictly temperate 
in all things, very regular in his habits, never 
seemed to be in a hurry or excited, always ready 
with a good story, and no one liked a good joke 
better than he. Possessing this even disposi- 
tion, he lived on enjoying his pension, and often 
" fighting his battles over again " for his great- 
grandchildren. His mind appeared to be clear 
until a short time before his death, and he 
seemed to enjoy himself to the end of his long 
and eventful life. 

Captain Jared Farrand, Jr., one of the sons 
of Jared Farrand, the old Revolutionary soldier, 
that came to Cuyahoga county in 1832, was born 
in Chittenden county, Vermont, in 1804. He 
was reared to farming ^nd the lumber business. 
In 1827 he married Miss Sarah Randall, of 
Colchester, Vermont, and they soon after settled 
in Burlington, same State. It was about this 
time that he and his brother bought a lumber 
vessel, and were engaged for several years iu 
carrying freight between the ports on Lake 
Champlain and Whitehall. In 1832 he came 
with a party of emigrants to Ohio. Tliese set- 



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tlei> stopped first in Buffalo, and then at Ashta- 
bula, but finally decided to come to Cleveland. 
Soon after arriving here, he bought land in 
Dover township, this county. Here he lived 
until 1841, when he sold his farm in Dover to 
Dr. Jason Bradley, and bought again in 
Middleburg township, this county. 

The writer of this article, Addison J. Far- 
rand, after an absence of more than forty years, 
took occasion in the summer of 1893 to visit the 
old place in Dover where he was born, and re- 
ports as follows: " I found a daughter of Dr. 
Bradley (who is now a Mrs. Van Gelder), living 
on a part of the old homestead. Slie had in her 
possession the old deed showing the conveyance 
of my father's farm to her father, which bore 
date of 1841. Siie was then only a school girl, 
but is now seventy years old. She said she re- 
membered Jared Farraud, the old soldier, very 
well, as he was at that time living next door to 
her people. She told me that soon after my 
parents moved to Middleburg my father and 
mother came to Dover after her to go and teach 
their district school. It was settled that she 
should go and they were to set out on the 
journey as soon as a horse could be procured 
that she could ride. They had to go on horse- 
back, as there was only a path cut through the 
woods a part of the way, which was a distance 
of about eight miles. She remembered being 
much frightened before the end of the journey 
was reached, as it began to grow dark and there 
was such a wild, deep shadowy forest all around 
her; she began to feel lonely, and was startled 
by every slight noise she heard, as the woods at 
that time were full of wild animals. She boarded 
with my parents and told me more about those 
early times than I had ever known." 

Mr. Farrand followed the occupation here 
that he had learned at home in Vermont, — that 
of farming in siiramer, and cutting the timber 
off his land in winter for lumber. He made 
Middleburg his home until his death, which oc- 
curred in 1853. Being in Buffalo, i^ew York, 
on business, he was taken suddenly sick with 
cholera, and died there. His wife, Sariali, had 



preceded him four years, she having died in 
1849. She was a very exemplary pious woman, 
zealous in all good Christian work. She had 
belonged to the Baptist Church for many years, 
and her whole life testified to the sincerity of 
her convictions and the reality of her faith. Mr. 
Farrand had always been an active citizen in all 
public affairs. In politics he was a Whig. He 
took quite an active part in the log-cabin and 
hand-cider campaign of 1840, which resulted in 
the election of William Henry Harrison to the 
presidency. During the agitation of the ques- 
tion in regard to war with Mexico, he raised a 
company of militia, and was commissioned 
Captai!), but never entered on active service in 
the war. He had always been a man of strict 
integrity, a good neighbor, a warm, ardent and 
faithful friend, and higlily respected by all who 
knew him. 

Jared Farrand, Jr., reared a family of six 
children, as follows: Hannah, who tnarried 
George O. Bliss, of Euclid township, this 
county, now deceased; Harriet, wife of A. G. 
Hopkinson, a prominent business man of Cleve- 
land, Ohio; Addison J., real-estate dealer, La 
Fayette, deceased; Mary, wife of William 
Buchholz, a merchant of Cleveland, Ohio; and 
George A., now a retired Baptist minister and 
living on a farm in Rockport township, this 
county. 

The descendants of Jared Farrand, the only 
Revolutionary soldier, are now living in almost 
every State in the Union, and followed various 
occupations and professions. 

Addison J. Farrand, oldest son of Jared Far- 
rand, Jr., was born in Dover township, Cuya- 
hoga county, in 1840. His parents soon after- 
ward moved to a farm in Middleburg township, 
where he grew up. His mother died when he 
was nine years old, and his father four years 
later. He then went to live with Luther Moses, 
one of the old shipbuilders of Cleveland, where 
he remained five years, attending school most of 
the time. At the age of eighteen he became a 
teacher in the public schools. After teaching 
several terms he changed his occupation to that 



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of clerking, and later to l)ookkeeping, which he 
followed until May 2t^, 1862, when he enlisted 
in Company D, Eighty-fourth Regiment, Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry. The duty assigned to this 
regiment was to guard the country between 
Harper's Ferry and Cumberland, and to disperse 
or capture the various marauding bands of 
guerrillas that were engaged in taking wagon 
trains of supplies, arms and other munitions of 
war from Maryland to the rebel army, by way 
of the Shenandoah valley. Company D, to 
which lie belonged, spent much of the summer 
of 1862 in Virginia in this service. The 
Eighty-fourth was mustered out at Camp Dela- 
ware, Ohio, September 20, 1862. May 5, 1864, 
Mr. Fanand enlisted again, this time in Com- 
pany G, One Hundred and Fiftieth Kegiment, 
Ohio National Guard Volunteers. They were 
stationed in the fortifications around the nat- 
ional capital. They took part in the battle of 
Fort Stevens with the forces under General 
Early, when he made his attack on the defences 
of Washington, July 11 and 12, 1864. Mr. 
Farrand was mustered out of service at Cleve- 
land, Ohio, August 23, 1864. 

After his army service he was engaged in 
life and tire insurance for five years. He then 
entered the mercantile business, opening a store 
at Akron, Ohio, millinery, notions and fancy 
goods being his specialty. At another time he 
had a store in Fremont, Ohio, and still later he 
opened a store in Cleveland, where he remained 
until 1888, when he sold out his store and re- 
tired from mercantile life. He has since inter- 
ested himself in mining and real estate. In 
religion he is aCongregationalist,both he and his 
wife belonging to that church. He is a member 
of Memorial Post, No. 141, G. A. R., also a mem- 
ber of Halcyon Lodge, No. 498, F. & A. M., 
and a charter member of the Western Reserve 
Societ}', Sons of the American Revolution, and 
also belongs to several patriotic orders. 

On January 8, 1866, he married Miss Amelia 
C. Rausch of Akron, Ohio, and they have but 
one child living, — Walter Cleveland Farrand. 

George A. Farrand, youngest son of Jared 



Farrand, Jr., was born in ]\[iddlel)urg, Cnya- 
hoga county, Ohio, Novenil)er 10, 1846, and 
received his education in the Cleveland schools, 
and at Oberlin. In the early part of 1864 he 
enlisted in the quartermaster's department at 
Nashville, Tennessee, to serve six months. 
When discharged he again enlisted, September 
17, 1864, this time in Captain Theodore Price's 
Company G, Fourth Regiment New York 
Heavy Artillery. They were sent immediately 
to the front and assigned to the first division of 
the Second Array Corps. He was with General 
Grant's army in all the fighting around Peters- 
burg and Richmond, and at Appomattox Court 
House when General Lee surrendered. Was 
mustered out of service at Albany, New York, 
in July, 1865. 

In January, 1866, he received a commission 
as missionary, under the auspices of the Ameri- 
can Missionary Society, and was ordered to 
report to Major Buckley, at Montgomery, Ala- 
bama. From there he was sent as Superintend- 
ent of the freed men's schools, with headquar- 
ters at Gainesville, Alabama, where he labored 
nearly a year. July 4, 1867, at a mass meeting 
of about 5,000 people, held at the county seat 
of Sumter county, Alabama, he delivered the 
first Republican speech made in the State of 
Alabama after the close of the Civil war, and 
revolvers were drawn on him three times during 
his talk of something more than an hour. 

He then became an active organizer of the 
Union League in the Southern States. While 
in the midst of this work he received a commis- 
sion from General O. O. Howard as agent in 
the Freedmen's Bureau. Soon afterward, being 
attacked by fever, he was obliged to come 
North to regain his health. In 1869 he was 
ordained pastor of the regular Baptist Church 
at North Hampton, Ohio. He followed bis 



chosen profession for a number of 



year 



with 



commendable results, until failing healtii com- 
pelled him to change his occupation, at least for 
a time. He is now turning his attention to 
fruit and grape culture on a farm in Rockport 
township, in this county. 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



LEWIS L. DIBBLE, of Cleveland, Ohio, is 
I descended from one of the early pioneer 
1 families of this place. He is a son of 

Lewis Dibble, who was brought to Cleveland by 
his father, in 1812, from some point on the river 

Raisin in Michigan, he and his family having 
been driven from that place by the hostile In- 
dians. Elisha Dibble, the grandfather of our 
subject, was born in New York State. He 
married there and about 1809 took his family 
to a frontier home in Michigan, they being 
among the first settlers on the river Raisin. 
After locating in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, he 
left his family in Newburg township while he 
raised a company for service in the war of 1812. 
Of this company he was chosen captain. He 
took his men to Toledo and reported to General 
Harrison for duty. He did not remain in the 
service long, however, for he was attacked by 
malaria which was so prevalent here at that time, 
and was forced to retire to his family, then 
residing on what is now Woodland Hills ave- 
nue. He took up his life-long occupation, that 
of farming, and cleared up a small tract of land 
in advance of almost any other person. 

In the work of clearing this land Lewis Dibble 
rendered efficient service, and remained at home 
until he was eighteen. He then began sailing 
on the lakes. After seventeen years spent on 
the water, he retired, and some time afterward 
took charge of the Marine Hospital, as super- 
intendent. He remained in this position eight 
years, and, with the exception of lighthouse 
tender, which place he filled four years, he held 
no other political office. He was a stanch 
Jackson Democrat. Believing in the future 
greatness of Cleveland, he invested some in real 
estate, which is now most valuable. In 1826 
he purchased fifty feet on Euclid avenue, ne.xt 
to the Opera House, paying for it $100: this is 
now worth $75,000. In 1839 he bought fifteen 
acres on Norwood avenue, which he afterward 
platted. It is now well built up, and is a beau- 
tiful residence portion of the East Side. Seventy- 
nine years of his life were spent in Cleveland, 
and at the time of his death, in 1891, at the aw 



of eighty-three years, he was the oldest pioneer 
in the city. He was a vigorous and robust man 
and during his whole life here he never required 
the attendance of a physician until his final 
sickness. He married in this county, Mary 
Amock, the daughter of a pioneer, who came 
here in 1830. Of their six children we make 
record as follows: Phebe, wife of Samuel 
Thompson, is deceased; Minerva is the wife of 
John J. Shepard, of Cleveland; Lewis L. ; 
Charles E., deceased; Anson, deceased; and 
Florence, who was the wife of a Mr. Kenny, is 
deceased. 

Lewis L. Dibble, whose name heads this arti- 
cle, learned the machinist's trade under the 
instructions of Dennis Holt, of Cleveland, 
beginning in 1861 when he was eighteen, the 
date of his birth being November 80, 1843. 
During the summer season for a number of 
years until 1885 he was employed as a lake en- 
gineer, then worked at his trade for a short time, 
and since then has followed no vocation. When 
Ohio was invaded by Southern troops during 
the Civil war, Mr. Dibble joined a company of 
"Squirrel Hunters" for the defense of Cincin- 
nati against General Morgan, and served until 
the company was disbanded. 

April 17, 1865, he married Josephine, daugh- 
ter of Michael Cogan, who came to Cuyahoga 
county from New Haven, Connecticut. Their 
children are as follows: May, Lewis, Edith 
(wife of Harvy Fuller), Harvey, Lillian and 
Norma. 



CHARLES F. BRUSH.— To trace the 
specific outcome of practical genius must 
ever prove an indulgence fecund in inter- 
est and value. It is conceded, however, that 
the mere subjective possession of this almost 
indefinable attribute will not of itself insure 
either success or an application of practical 
value to the world. There must be a mentality 
that will direct genius into fields where good 
may be accomplished and prevent digression 



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and the turning of the power into abnormal or 
clandestine channels. To even briefly outline, 
then, the salient points in the life history of one 
who has been granted the intellectual acumen to 
bear his native talent onward to the goal of suc- 
cess, must prove profitable in every case. 

Born in Euclid township, Cuyahoga county, 
Ohio, March 17, 1849, it is grateful to note 
that the subject of this review has in his native 
county attained to a position that has made his 
name conspicuous in the most diverse sections of 
the civilized world. Charles F. Brush is a son 
of the late Colonel I. E. Brush, being one of a 
family of eight children. He is of purely Eng- 
lish lineage, his parents' early ancestors — both 
notable families — having come from England to 
this country about the middle of the seven- 
teenth century. Mr. Brush's early years were 
passed on his father's farm and in attendance 
at a neighboring school, at Wickliffe, Lake 
county, Ohio. While still a mere youth the 
natural talents and proclivities of the future 
inventor began to manifest themselves: at home 
and in scliool he prosecuted individual experi- 
ments that indicated his special taste and apti- 
tude for chemistry, physics and engineering, 
being precocious and yet thorough in all of his 
studies and early investigations. At the age of 
thirteen years he entered the Shaw Academy, 
at Collamer, Ohio. While at this institution 
he made his first experiments with static elec- 
trical machines and batteries, all of which he 
manufactured himself. In 1864 he became a 
student in the Cleveland high scliool, from 
which he was graduated with honors in June, 
1867. While in attendance at the high school 
he became much interested in microscopes and 
telescopes, making a number of each for him- 
self and conii)anions. It was characteristic of 
the youth, as it has been of the man, to trace 
any subject or line of investigation back to its 
basic elements, nuiking all knowledge thorough 
to the degree rendered possible by the oppor- 
tunities and facilities offereil. In the matter of 
the instruments just mentioned, it is worthy of 
note that he constructed every part utilized. 



even to the e.xtent of personally grinding the 
lenses. Within the same year he evolved and 
perfected the scheme of igniting and extin- 
guishing the gas of street lamps by the use of 
electricity. Thus it may be seen that there was 
a practical bent to all of his experiments even 
at an early date, his intellectual comprehension 
of practical values dominating the inherent 
ability whicli in the average case would have 
directed its eflbrts to perhaps diverting but 
valueless experimentation. He also became in- 
terested in photography, and e.xecuted some 
excellent work by means of the dry-plate pro- 
cess, which at that time was practically but 
incepted. Incidental to his course in the high 
school he passed a very rigid examination in 
physics, his knowledge of which branch of 
science had been gained by personal application 
alone. He made marked progress in the line of 
chemistry, in which he was deeply interested. 
During his senior year the physical and chemi- 
cal apparatus belonging to the school was placed 
in his charge. 

About this time Mr. Brush did his first dis- 
tinctive work along that line in which lie has 
won distinction, high honor and incidental suc- 
cess. He constructed an electric motor, whose 
field magnets and armature were excited by the 
battery current. He also produced the first arc 
light, with a lamp and battery of his own 
manufactiiring. The most consistent subject 
of his commencement oration was: "The con- 
servation of force," the line of thought having 
been inspired by the then recent work of AVilde, 
with his dynamo-electric machine and single 
electric light, in England. 

In the autumn subsequent to liis graduation 
at the Cleveland high school, Mr. Brush entered 
the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, 
where lie took up a course of study and research 
particularly suited to his tastes, and by diligent 
and discriminating application thereto, gradu- 
ated with the degree of Mining Engineer in 
1869, — one year in advance of his class. 

Having completed his theoretical and teclini- 
cal traininii; he was not slow in nuttinir his 



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knowledge to practical use. In 1873 he foiMned 
a partnership with Mr. C. E. Bingham, of 
Cleveland, for tlie purpose of marketing Lake 
Superior pig iron and iron ore. While thus 
concerned Mr. Brush still pursued his electrical 
investigation and experimentation, and in 1876 
he constructed his first dynamo electrical ma- 
chine. This machine was of a new and original 
type, and embodied the first of Mr. Brush's 
series of brilliant inventions which have brought 
him renown and representative wealth. 

In 1877 the partnership between our subject 
and Mr. Bingham was dissolved, after which 
the former devoted his entire attention to the 
increase and development of his electrical in- 
ventions. At that time he entered into a con- 
tract with the Telegraph Supply Company, by 
the provisions of which that corporation was to 
manufacture his patents, place them on the 
market and pay him a consistent royalty. In 
1881 the corporate title of this company was 
changed to the Brush Electric Company, — a 
name which is known the world over. 

In 1877 Mr. Brush constructed his first com- 
mercial arc light, which, with one of his dyna- 
mos, he exhibited at the Franklin Institute, 
where the two inventions attracted much atten- 
tion and secured all the honors. To Mr. Brush 
is due the credit for perfecting the inventions 
that have made possible the commercial arc 
lighting from central stations. All of the 
various systems in use at the present time in the 
line of arc lighting are based upon his inven- 
tions, — a circumstance which, when fully taken 
into recognition, places his name among those 
of the great inventors whose work has been of 
incalculable benefit and value to the entire 
world. 

At an early date Mr. Brush completed what 
is undoubtedly his most wonderful and valuable 
invention, the fundamental storage battery, con- 
sisting in the mechanical application of the 
active material to the electrodes, and after four 
years of litigation in the patent office he finally 
secured recognition and letters patent. He has 
the honor and the control of all the modern 



forms of storage battery, and he may most con- 
gruously be designated as the father of the arc 
lighting industries of the world. He secured 
foreign patents upon many of his early inven- 
tions, and eventually sold them to an English 
syndicate, known as the Anglo-American Brush 
Electric Light Corporation, Limited. From 
this corporation he received in exchange for his 
patents a pecuniary consideration of about 
$500,000, and from that time his magnificent 
inventions have continued to yield the most 
gratifying returns, secTiring to Mr. Brush a 
position as one of the representative capitalists 
of the Union. 

He has at no time courted notoriety, having 
early adopted the policy of keeping out of print, 
preferring to give to the world the actual and 
practical embodiment of his inventions rather 
than to devote his time to the discussion of his 
investigations. 

Mr. Brush stands forth conspicuously as pos- 
sessing that great desideratum, "a sound mind 
in a sound body," being one of the finest mental 
and physical specimens of the human race. He 
is of magnificent physique, six feet and two 
inches in height, broad of shoulder and of 
chest, and with figure ever erect, the easy grace 
and dignity of conscioiis strength and health 
being manifest in his very bearing. It is 
almost tautological to say that his mind is a 
storehouse of original and acquired knowledge, 
and that his conversation affords great pleasure 
and Ratisfaetion to scentists as well as others to 
whom comes the privilege of an acquaintance- 
ship with him. He is ever active and busy and 
is concerned in a capitalistic and executive way 
with many representative manufacturing and 
commei-cial corporations. His efforts have en- 
riched and benefitted the entire world, and the 
crown of maximum success has not been denied 
him. The Michigan University conferred upon 
him the degree of Mining Engineer, as already 
noted, and the Western Reserve University in- 
vested him with the honorary degree of Doctor 
of Philosophy. At the former institution he 
was made a iueml)er of the well-known Greek 



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fraternity, the Delta Kappa Epsilon. In 1881 
lie was decorated Chevalier of the Legion of 
Honor, by the French Government. 

Mr. Brush was united in marriage, October 6, 
1875, to Miss Mary E. Morris, of Cleveland, 
and they are the parents of three children. The 
beautiful family home is located on the best part 
of Cleveland's famous Euclid avenue, and is 
surrounded by a private park of nearly seven 
acres. 

In his political adherencyMr. Brush supports 
the principles and policies advanced by the Re- 
publican party. In religions faith he is a mem- 
ber of the Protestant Episcopal Church, of 
Trinity parish. He is a very liberal contribu- 
tor to the church of his choice and to charitable 
institutions and societies, as well as other wor- 
thy objects. 

A man of high endowments, successful in the 
highest sense of the term, and holding not to 
himself all the honor, having due cognizance of 
nature's favors and of all incidental eletnents 
which have contributed to his success. Mr. 
Brush stands forth as one whose example is 
worthy of emulation and whose life offers both 
and incentive. 



EDMUND C. STROUD, deceased.— It is 
most fitting that in this connection there 
1 be incorporated a record memorial to one 

who passed nearly his entire life in Cuyahoga 
county, Ohio; one who gained to himself, as 
the result of his integrity and unswerving rec- 
titude of character, the respect and esteem of 
all; one whose ability and well directed efforts 
brought him recognition as one of the truly 
representative men of the community in which 
he lived. his useful and active life and in which 
death came to him in the fullness of years. 
Edmund C. Stroud was born in the State of 
New York, June 7, 1818, and came with his 
parents to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, when he was 
fourteen years of age. They settled in Middle- 
burg township, anil there the parents died. C)ur 



subject continued to reside in Parma township 
until he was married, in 1842. About 1845 he 
settled in Middleburg township, where he re- 
sided most of the time until the hour of his 
death. For a number of years he operated a 
flouring and saw mill in Rockport township, 
this line of enterprise, together with that of 
farming, constituting his chief occupation. He 
was a most thorough and discriminating busi- 
ness man, upright in all his dealings, public- 
spirited to a degree, and a man of influence in 
his community. He brought his excellent farm 
into a high state of cultivation, and improved 
the same with convenient and substantial build- 
ings. At the time of his death he owned tifty- 
six acres. 

He was married February 24, 1842, to Miss 
Elizabeth Michener, who was born in Ohio, and 
who survives her lamented iiusband. They had 
a family of eight children: Alonzo; Nancy, who 
became the wife of Lorenzo Frost, and who died 
in Cleveland; Thomas, who married Maggie 
Fry, now deceased; Lucy, who is the wife of 
William Ohle; Adelia, tlie wife of Wesley 
Blackburn; Jennie became the wife of William 
E. AViddow, her deatii occurring in April, 1891; 
Sallie, who died in childhood; and Morris H., 
who is one of the prominent and progressive 
young farmers of Middleburg township. 

Morris U. Stroud was born in the same town- 
ship of which he is now a resident, February 14, 
1865, standing as the date of his nativity; he 
was reared to manhood on the old homestead, 
receiving a thorough common-school education, 
and ultimately turning his attention to agri- 
cultural pursuits, a vocation for who.ie success- 
ful carrying forward he is eminently quali- 
fied both by inclination and long association. 
April 5, 1882, at Cleveland, Ohio, he was uni- 
ted in marriage to Miss Katie Becker, who was 
born in Rockport, Cuyahoga county, November 
30, 18C2, the daughter of Fred and Margaret 
Becker, who were prominent residents of Rock- 
port township. Mr. and Mrs. Morris H. Stroud 
are the parents of four children, namely: Will- 
iam C, Florence L., Ernest L. and Emery B. 



CUYABOOA COUNTY. 



Edmund C. Stroud, the immediate subject of 
this memoir, lived to see his efforts crowned 
with success, to see his children well established 
iu life, and to attain a venerable age, his death 
being the consistent end of a long and well- 
spent life. He died at the old homestead in 
Middleburg township, April 11, 1893, regretted 
by all who had known him and gained in appre- 
ciation of his noble attributes of character and 
unassuming dignity of bearing. He had long 
been a devoted member of the United Brethren 
Church, of which his widow is also a zealous 
adherent. 



E'DWARD V. SPRING, engage! in the 
grocery business in Collinwood, also ex- 
— ' Postmaster of this city, was born in 
Euclid township, Cuyahoga county, June 5, 
1836. His parents were Virgil and Mary 
(Richmond) Spring, natives of Massachusetts. 
The father came from his native place to Rich- 
mond settlement, Euclid township, tliis county, 
in June, 1817. The mother's people settled in 
the same locality in March, 1815. Mr. and Mrs. 
Spring were married November 25, 1825, and 
lived to celebrate their golden wedding in 1875. 
Three persons, a brother, sister and brother-in- 
law of the bride, were the only ones present 
who attended the wedding in 1825. Mr. Spring 
was a conscientious, painstaking and trust- 
worthy man. For thirty years, twenty-seven of 
which were successive years, he served as Town- 
ship Trustee. A manly character only could 
have inspired such confidence, and only a faith- 
ful service could have secured its continuance 
for so long a period. Both he and his wife 
were of Puritan stock. Mr. Spring died Feb- 
ruary 5, 1887, at the age of eighty-eight years. 
The wife departed this life in August, 1877, 
aged seventy-eight years. She was a life-long 
member of the Congregational Church. In 
political matters Mr. Spring was first a AVhig, 
and after the organization of the Republican 
party was ever afterward in harmony with the 
])rinciple8 of that party. Mr. and Mrs. Spring 



had six children, viz.: Julius, born in 1827, 
died in 1871; Aurelia M., born in 1829, mar- 
ried Hezekiah Wenban, was the mother of six 
children, and died in April, 1892; Fidelia E., 
who married Clark H. Leslie, and after his 
death became the wife of Milo J. Tilden, of 
Euclid, Ohio; Albert, born in 1S31, died in 
1855; Edward V., our subject; and Addie H. 

Edward V. Spring, the subject of this sketch, 
received his education in the common schools of 
Euclid. He afterward assisted his father on 
the farm until 1857, and from that year until 
1861 was employed in making liand-rakes. 
April 23, of the latter year, he enlisted in the 
Continental Rifles, but afterward became a 
member of Company A, Twenty-third Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry, and served principally in 
the Army of West Virgit\ia. Mr. Spring's first 
battle was Carnifex Ferry; afterward did scout- 
ing and guarding until September 14, 1862, 
when he took part in the battle of South Moun- 
tain, September 17, of the same year; partici- 
pated in the battle of Antietam; did scouting 
and guard duty in the Array of West Virginia, 
in Kanawha valley, until May, 1864, then 
moved South; May 9, of that year, fought in 
the battle of Cloyd's Mountain, later at New 
River Bridge; crossed the Alleghany mountains 
tu Staunton, Virginia; took part in Hunter's 
celebrated raid, in which they suifered from the 
want of food; returned to Kanawha valley, 
thence to the Shenandoah valley, and was with 
Sheridan's forces. Mr. Spring was wounded in 
the left thigh at Cedar creek. He took part in 
the battles of Kernstown, Opaqnau creek, 
Fisher's Hill and Cedar creek. He was then 
in the hospital at Philadelphia until February, 
1865, when he returned home on a six weeks' 
furlough. Returning to the regiment in West 
Virginia, he was honorably discharged August 
2, 1865, having served four years, three months 
and nine days. As he was guarding trains on 
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, be could not 
take part in the grand review. 

The war closing, Mr. Spring followed farm- 
ing on the bank of Lake P>ie for the following 



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six years, and tlieii, in 1872, went to Michigan, 
where he was engaged in the lumbering busi- 
ness ten years. After returning to Collinwood, 
Ohio, he followed carpentering until September 
1, 1889. In that year he was appointed Post- 
master of this city, and held that position four 
years. Since that time he lias been engaged in 
the grocery trade. Mr. Spring has also served 
as Marshal of the village, having filled an un- 
expired term of over two years. In his social 
relations our subject is a member of the Ma- 
sonic order, Chapter of R. A. M., South Haven, 
Michigan; is Commander of Brough Post, No. 
359, G. A. R., of Collinwood; is Permanent 
Secretary of the I. O. O. F.; is Past Councilor 
aiid Financial Secretary of the Junior Order of 
the A. O. U. M., and is a member of the K. of P. 
Politically, he is a staunch Republican. 

May 12, 1867, Mr. Spring was united in 
marriage with Miss Roxanna Moses, a daughter 
of Elihu and Ann Moses, of Euclid, Ohio. To 
this union has been born one child, George B., 
a member of the firm of E. V. Spring & Son. 

Mr. Spring has a most enviable record as a 
brave and patriotic soldier, few persons having 
seen more or a harder part of the service. He 
is well known, popular and trustworthy, and is 
prominent in all matters looking to the advance- 
ment of the community. 



_, . B. MOORE, general agent of the Key- 
Jlt// '^*® Lock Company for the State of 
!i ■! Ohio, was born in Holmes county, this 
State, June 25, 1865, the son of Thomas and 
Rebecca (Biggs) Moore, who are now residents 
of Tiffin, Ohio. At the age of fifteen years he 
entered a grocery in Tiffin, where he was em- 
ployed for four years, and then he entered the 
piiotograph business. Quitting that in 1885, 
he came to Cleveland and was employed by 
Earliue & Baker. After closing his relations 
with this firm he entered into business for him- 
self at 11 Euclid avenue, which he subsequently 
sold out and i-esumed work in the service of his 



predecessor, C. P. Leland. After two years 
there, in January, 1893, he purciiased the gal- 
lery of Mr. Leland, and followed the photo- 
graphic art there for about five months, and in 
November of that year he entered the employ 
of the Keyless Lock Company, taking the gen- 
eral agency for the State of Ohio. Besides this 
article of trade, the company handle a line of 
novelties, which tiiey sell to the trade direct and 
through agents. Mr. Moore has the business 
already well organized and is successfully push- 
ing it. He is an acti ve young business man, des- 
tined to make his influence felt in the commercial 
circles of the Forest City. He is a member of 
the Cleveland Wheel Cliib. 

July 15, 1891, in Cleveland, is the date of 
Mr. Moore's marriage to Miss Nettie Caldwell, 
daughter of James and Maiy Caldwell, of Vint- 
ner, Canada, and they have one child, Leroy C. 



DR. K. B. WAITE, whose office is in the 
Kendall building, Cleveland, Ohio, is one 
— - of the prominent young physicians of 
the city. 

He was born in Hudson, Summit county, 
Ohio, son of Benjamin K. and Maria (Darley) 
Waite, both natives of Summit county. Benja- 
min K. Waite is ranked with tlie pioneer farm- 
ers of his county. He and his good wife are 
now living retired at their rural home, he hav- 
ing reached the ripe old age of seventy-eight 
years. They are worthy members of the Con- 
gregational Church, and in politics he is & 
stanch Republican. The Doctor was the fifth 
born in their family of ten children and is oue 
of the seven who are still living. 

He has had the best of educational advan- 
tages and has improved his every opportunity. 
He graduated at the Akron high school in 1880, 
attended the Western Reserve College and the 
Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College, and 
graduated in the last named institution in 1888. 
At this writing he is Registrar and Professor of 
Oj)erative Surgery in the Cleveland Homeo- 



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patbic; Medical College. Previous to liis enter- 
ing tlie college, be studied medicine under the 
instructions of Dr. A. C. Buel, of Cleveland. 
In tbe practice of iiis profession he lias thus far 
met with excellent success, and in addition to 
his professional duties he also finds time to act 
as business manager of tbe Argus, a medical 
journal of tbe Homeopathic school. 

Dr. Waite was married in 1888 to Miss 
Frankie A. Davis, daughter of James F. J. Da- 
vis, of Cleveland. They have two children, 
Harrison K. and Lizzie Davis. Both tbe Doc- 
tor and his wife are members of Woodland 
Avenue Presbyterian Church. 

He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, 
and, like bis father, is identified with tbe Re- 
publican party. 



YRON T. HERRICK.— In 1875, a 

struggling law student; in 1894, presi- 

^ dent of tbe largest bai 



i 

11 ^ dent of tbe largest banking establish- 
/ ment in the West. Such is the epit- 

ome of the last nineteen years of tbe life of 
Colonel Myron T. Herrick, president of the So- 
ciety for Savings of Cleveland. 

Colonel Herrick was born in Huntington, 
Lorain county, Ohio, on the 9tb day of Octo- 
ber, 1854. Both his paternal great-grandfatiiers 
served in the Revolution. His father, Timothy 
R. Herrick, was born in Watertown, New York, 
in 1828, tbe son of Timothy Herrick, one of 
tbe pioneers of Lorain county. The elder Timo- 
thy served in the war of 1812, and for his serv- 
ices was given a claim in that county. He re- 
moved his family from the old home in New 
York and settled on the claim in 1837. The 
boyhood of young Herrick passed without the 
occurrence of anything in bis life of more im- 
portance than is common to tbe lot of the aver- 
age boy. He attended the district school in 
Huntington and the LTnion School at Welling- 
ton, and subsequently attended college at Ober- 
lin and Delaware, where be made good progress 
in bis studies, but did not i-emain lon^j enouirh 



at either place for graduation. While attend- 
ing college he taught school for a time, being 
then in his seventeenth year. Before attain- 
ing his majority he spent some time in the In- 
dian Territory, New Mexico, Colorado and 
Kansas inspecting the country. The results of 
his observations were from time to time given 
to the public through the medium of the 
Eastern press, and were considered interesting 
and valuable to the many who were at that 
time seeking information in regard to those lo- 
calities. 

In 1875 he returned from the West and came 
to Cleveland for the purpose of reading law. 
He entered the law office of his relatives, G. E. 
and J. F. Herrick, where for upwards of three 
years he diligently applied himself to the mys- 
teries and intricacies of Blackstone, and in 1878 
was admitted to the bar. Following his ad- 
mission as a practitioner he engaged actively in 
his profession and gave promise of ultimately 
taking high rank at the bar, but it was not a 
great while before he found his inclination and 
opportunities leading liim away from a purely 
professional career, and, his abilities being at 
once recognized, his mind and time were soon 
engrossed with business interests of importance, 
all of w-hich resulted in his practically giving 
up tbe legal profession. His financial ability 
came to tbe front in 1886, when he originated 
the Euclid Avenue National Bank. This insti- 
tution was formally organized in June of that 
year, with Mr. Herrick as one of the directors. 
The following September, however, he was 
made secretary and treasurer of the Society for 
Savings, and resigned from the directory of the 
Euclid Avenue Bank to accept the same. He 
discharged the duties of bis new position with 
marked ability and with satisfaction to all con- 
cerned, for eight years, and upon the death of 
the President, Mr. Samuel Mather, in January, 
1894, Mr. Herrick was chosen his successor, 
bis election occurring on February 3, 1894. 
This was probably as high a compliment as 
could be paid to Colonel Herrick, both as a 
financier and as a man, for tbe position is one 



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of great responsibility and trust, and, when the 
age of Colonel Herrick is considered, may be 
regarded as an unusual honor. 

The following editorial mention of Colonel 
Herrick was made by one of the city's leading 
newspapers, upon liis election to the presidency 
of the Society for Savings: "To be elected 
president of a banking institution with nearly 
$25,000,000 of deposits while yet on the youth- 
ful side of forty years of age, is an honor which 
has been conferred on perhaps not to exceed 
three or four men since time began or money 
to circulate. That is the distinction which has 
been given to Colonel Myron T. Herrick by a 
unanimous vote of the trustees of the Society 
for Savings; and the significant feature of the 
matter is that nobody is surprised at the selec- 
tion made. On the contrary, it seems to the 
50,000 depositors and the public to be the 
natural and the proper thing to be done. Col- 
one) Herrick has fully and justly won the hon- 
ors he so modestly wears." 

Colonel Herrick has not confined his atten- 
tion entirely to the banking business, but is in- 
terested in various enterprises and institutions, 
and the city has been greatly benefited thereby. 
He and his associates organized the Euclid 
Avenue Arcade, which resulted in the erection 
of the Arcade Building, one of the largest and 
finest structures of the kind in the United 
States. The building extends from Euclid ave- 
nue to Superior street, is constructed of brown 
stone and glass, and is one of the most con- 
spicuous buildings in the city. Another mag- 
nificent structure in which he is interested as 
part owner is the Cuyahoga, one of the largest 
office buildings in Cleveland, which is of no less 
importance than the Arcade, and from its cen- 
tral location on the public square and Superior 
street is even more conspicuous. He also has 
interests in several manufacturing enterprises 
and in valuable real estate. 

Colonel Herrick has for years taken an active 
interest in the public and political affairs of the 
city and State, not as an office holder or seeker, 
but as a valuable adviser and counselor, and he 



wields a wide infiuence in the Republican cir- 
cles of the State. In 1885 he was elected to 
the City Council for a term of one year, and in 
1886 was re- elected for a terra of two years. 
In 1888 he was a delegate to the National Re- 
publican Presidential Convention from the 
Cleveland District, and served two terms on the 
State Executive Committee. He was appointed 
by Governor Foraker as Ohio Commissioner to 
the Centennial at New York, on April 30, 
1889, commemorating the 100th anniversary of 
the inauguration of George Washington. In 
1892 he was a Presidential Elector at large for 
Ohio. Colonel Herrick is a warm per.sonal 
friend of Governor McKinley, and in 1892 was 
appointed to a position on the Governor's staff 
with the rank of Colonel, a position he held 
until March, 1894, when on account of pressing 
business cares he was compelled to resign. In 
1876 he became a member of the Cleveland 
Grays, but in 1879 resigned from that regi- 
ment and became a member of the First Cleve- 
land Troop, of which he was a member for 
eleven years. 

Colonel Herrick was married on June 30, 
1880, to Miss Caroline M. Parmely, of Dayton, 
Ohio, and they have one son, Parmely Webb 
Herrick. 

The above is an outline in brief of the life of 
one of Cleveland's most prominent and popu- 
lar citizens, and is the history of one who un- 
aided has achieved both success and honor, and 
has accomplished this while yet a compara- 
tively young man. The life of Colonel Herrick 
has been a most active and busy one since boy- 
hood, particularly so during the last fifteen 
years, his activity increasing with his responsi- 
bilities. Early in life he was thrown upon his 
own resources, and for years it was a struggle 
for him to keep his head above water. But 
with indomitable energy, ambition and a de- 
termination to win he has breasted each wave, 
and now, at the meridian of his life, rides on 
the crest of the waves and more than holds his 
own and keeps pace with this period of compe- 
tition and advancement. He possesses by na- 



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tnre talents which peculiarly lit him for liis 
sphere in life, his characteristics being shrewd- 
ness, keen insight, promptness to act and clear 
judgment, to which is added a conservative 
method that has enabled him to make safe 
moves on the chess-board of life, which at the 
time may seem bold and impetuous, but are in 
fact the results of a carefully considered and 
well planned line of action. A friend sums up 
the character of Colonel Herrick in these words: 
" As a lawyer he was regarded as clear-headed, 
painstaking and practical, and gave promise of 
rising in the ranks to an unusual degree had he 
given tiie legal profesBioii the efforts of a life- 
time. As a financier he is considered brilliant, 
yet sound and conservative, with a brilliant fu- 
tui-e befoi-e him. As a citizen he is enterpris- 
ing, progressive and patriotic. As a man he is 
kind, congenial and courteous to all, of decided 
views and opinions, and having the courage of 
his convictions.'' 



EORGE S. KAIN, attorney and counsel- 
lor at law, was born in the township of 
Bi-ant, Erie County, New York, July 
12, 1842. His father was Stephen H. 
Kain, a native of Orange county. New York, 
born in 1802; and his mother, whose maiden 
name was Jane Kerr, was a native of the same 
county. They were married in the county of 
their birth, but removed to Erie county shortly 
after its organization. Mr. Kain was a carriage 
manufacturer, and was engaged in this industry 
a great many years. He died in 1873; his wife 
passed away in 1865. There were six children 
in tlie family, all of whom are deceased except- 
ing George S. 

The boyhood days of Mr. Kaiii were spent in 
Brant township and the township adjoining of 
North Collins, amid the scenes of his birth, but 
at the age of twelve years he went to Gowanda, 
New York, where he remained three years 
in the employ of a druggist and grocer with 
whom he made his home, attending school win- 
ters at the academy there. This was the begin- 



ning of his career in the commercial world, but 
it was followed by several years of study. At 
the age of fifteen years he entered the prepara- 
tory department of Oberliu College, and was 
graduated at this institution in 1864. During 
the period he was a student there he supported 
himself by teaching, and for one year had charge 
of the academy at Gowanda. 

After finishing the course at Oberlin he re- 
turned to Gowanda, and entered the office of 
Judge Woodbury of that place, reading law un- 
der his direction for one year. He then en- 
tered the office of Hiram C. Day at Buffalo, 
New York, where he spent one year. In the 
fall of 1866 he was admitted to the bar in Buf- 
falo, but removed thence to Cleveland, Ohio, in 
January, 1867, and entered the office of Willey 
& Carev. Here he passed more than a year, 
and then resumed practicing alone. Afterward 
he formed a partnership with H. L. Terrill, 
which continued for only a brief period, and 
when this i-elationship ceased he practiced alone 
until 1872. He then became the partner of 
Captain William C. Bunts, the connection be- 
ing severed by the death of the latter in 1874. 
Captain Bunts was at that time city solicitor, and 
upon his death Mr. Kain was elected to serve 
the nnexpired term, from the spring of 1874 
to the spring of 1875. He was the choice of 
the Republican party for re-election in 1875, 
but suffered defeat with the rest of the ticket. 
While filling the office in 1874 he formed a 
partnership with Captain M. B. Gary, now col- 
lector of customs. This firm existed until 
about 1881, when Mr. Kain was nominated and 
elected to the office of city solicitor on the Re- 
publican ticket. He held this position four 
years and was ex officio a member of the City 
Council, at the end of which time he delinedto 
be renominated on account of his wife's ill 
health. In search of a more genial climate Mr. 
Kain removed with his wife to Florida, and re- 
mained there five years, during which time he 
was engaged in the practice of his profession. 

In 1891 he came back to Cleveland and re- 
sumed his lea'al work here. Not long after his 



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return lie was appointed to the position of As- 
sistant Cor|)oration Counsel by General E. S. 
Meyer, and held the office a little more than 
twelve months. Since the expiration of his 
term he has been practicing alone, with his of- 
fice at 716-719 Society for Savings Building. 
Since his admission to the bar of Ohio in lSf37 
lie has occupied a place among the leading 
practitioners of the Buckeye State. In the dis- 
charge of official business he has exhibited a 
marked talent for the management of the affairs 
of State, while his legal acumen and sound 
judgment have commanded the respect of his 
fellow practitioners. 

Mr. Kain was married September 2, 1867, to 
Miss Elizabeth W. Fuller, daughter of ex-Au- 
ditor William Fallur, of Cuyahoga county. 



'j7^\EV. ORLANDO BADGLEY, pastor of 
V^^ the Methodist Episcopal Church of 
11 »\ Brooklyn Village, was born in Harmony, 
V Chautauqua county, Xew York. His 

parents were John and Asenatli (Curtice) Badg- 
ley, both of whom died some years ago. He 
was the youngest but two of a family of thir- 
teen children. After receiving a good common- 
school education, he pursued his studies at 
Jamestown Academy, located at Jamestown, 
New York. At the age of eighteen years he 
entered the ministry, continuing his studies in 
connection with his pastoral duties. His first 
charge was Pleasantviile Circuit, in Venango 
county, Pennsylvania. The country was new 
and his appointments were mainly in private 
and school houses. Tlie circuit was a large one, 
with seventeen different preaching places upon 
it. His success was marked from the begin- 
ning, many coming to hear the " boy preacher" 
as he was called. For the first twelve years of 
his ministry he filled various charges in north- 
western Pennsylvania and western New York, 
until, in 1868, he removed to Ohio and was 
stationed at Alliance. Remaining one year at 
Alliance, in September, 1869, he entered the 



ministry of the North Ohio Conference, of which 
he is now a member. Among other charges he 
has been stationed at Wooster. Bucyrus, Belle- 
vue, Clyde and Oberlin. 

In October, 1891, he was appointed to his 
present charge, and since that time the church 
has had a solid and substantial growth. He is 
very popular, and discourses weekly to large and 
constantly increasing congregations. He has 
been since early life a devout Christian and a 
faithful and conscientious worker. By reason 
of paternal influence he was early in life a mem- 
ber of the United Brethren Church. He has 
collected a valuable library, of which he makes 
diligent use, his studies covering an extensive 
field. In the pulpit he is both progressive and 
aggressive, his sermons showing a marked in- 
dividuality and being eminently suggestive. 
He is an interesting speaker and a fine con- 
verger. He was one of the twenty-seven com- 
missioners, representing five different young 
people's societies of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church who met in Cleveland May 14, 1889, 
and after two days of deliberation organized the 
Epworth League. For the success of the league 
he has been a tireless worker, and in conventions 
and elsewhere has done effective work. He was 
a member of the Advisory Council of the great 
Parliament of Eeligions, held in Chicago in 
September, 1893, in connection with the World's 
Fair. 

August 23, 1859, he married Miss Mary 
M. Mclntyre, of Corry, Pennsylvania, and they 
have had three children, viz.: Cora Eliza, wife 
of Mr. J. H. Grimes: they reside in New York 
city, and Mildred is their only child; Curtice 
E., who died at the age of nineteen years, in 
1881, while a freshman in the Ohio Wesleyan 
University at Delaware, Ohio: he was a brilliant 
student and was preparing for the ministry; 
Metta M., after studying music in the Ohio 
Wesleyan LTniversity, graduated in the Cleve- 
land, Ohio School of Music, class of 1891, since 
which time she has been devoting herself to the 
teaching of vocal music, and for the jiast year 
has had charge of the vocal department of the 



CUTAGOHA COUNTY. 



Conservatory of Music of Mount Union College, 
at Alliance Ohio. She is a very line soprano 
singer. Mrs. Badgley and the children are 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
Mrs. Badgley is a noble and cultured Christian 
woman, whose reading has been extensive — and 
an unusually well informed lady. She is also a 
faithful helpmate of her husband in church 
work. 



FJRANK ^N. MASTICK, a well known and 
representative farmer of Rocky River 
— Hamlet, and recognized as one of the 
most intelligent and progressive of the prosper- 
ous husbandmen of this favored section of the 
Buckeye State, was born in Clarendon, Geaiiga 
county, Ohio, February 15, 1833. His father 
was the late Major Asahel Mastick, who was 
born in the State of Vermont in tlie year 1800; 
and the mother, whose maiden name was Caro- 
line Andrews, was born in Connecticut in 1808. 
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Asahel Mas- 
tick emigrated from their home in the East and 
left the comforts and pleasing environment of 
the older settled section of the Union to cast 
their lot with the frontier settlers who were 
opening up and developing that portion of Ohio 
wliich is now one of the most beautiful and 
prosperous sections of our vast national com- 
monwealth. They first settled in Geauga coun- 
ty, but in 1833, when their sou, the subject of 
this sketch, was but two months of age, they 
removed to Cuyahoga county, and settled in 
that part of Eockport township which is now 
known as Rockport Hamlet. Here they con- 
tinued to reside, honored and respected by all, 
until the hour of their death. The father died 
in the spring of 1857, and the mother in Feb- 
ruary, 1883. They were the parents of nine 
children, to whom individual reference is here 
made: Eli; Frank W.; Almeda, the wife of 
George Pynchon; Abigail, the wife of Parley 
Bassett; Melissa, deceased; Isabella, wife of 
James Curran; Edwin A.; Robert; and Julia, 
the deceased wife of J. Stone. 



Frank W. Mastick remained with his father 
until he was twenty-one years of age, when he 
went by way of the Nicaragua route to Califor- 
nia, where he worked in the lumber camps for 
three years, subsequently engaging in farming 
and in the grocery business, which enterprises 
he conducted for twelve years. He then re- 
turned to Rockport township and purchased the 
farm where he now lives. The place comprises 
fifty-seven and one-half acres of most fertile 
and productive land, has an excellent residence 
and is well improved in every particular. 

Mr. Mastick was married, in Rockport town- 
ship, February 2, 1860, to Miss Hannah L. 
Spencer, a daughter of the late Jolm P. SpenceK 
and a sister of Henry B. and John W. Spencer, 
well known residents of this township. She 
was born in Rockport township, January 17, 
1837. Mr. and Mrs. Mastick have had six chil- 
dren: Hattie; Laura, deceased; JolinA.; Carl, 
deceased; Eva and Arthur. 

The confidence reposed in Mr. Mastick by his 
fellow townsmen is evidenced by their having 
chosen him as one of the Trustees of tiie town- 
ship — a position for which he proved himself 
eminently qualified and in which capacity he 
served four years. He has also held other 
minor offices. He stands as one of the repre- 
sentative men of the community and enjoys 
the respect and esteem of all. 



EiDWIN SCRIVENS.— We are now called 
upon to touch briefly the more pertinent 
! points in the life history of one of the 

distinctively successful and representative men 
of Middleburg township, Cuyalioga county, a 
man whose entire life has practically been passed 
in that section of the county which he now calls 
his home. He was born in Royalton, Cuya- 
hoga county, Ohio, April 17, 1846, the son of 
William and Mary (Pumfrey) Scrivens, both of 
whom were natives of England, having been 
born at AVantage, Berkshire county. They came 
to America with their respective parents while 



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CUTAHOOA COUNTT. 



they were yet children, and the friendship be- 
tween the two families continued until the two 
young puople had attained maturity, when they 
determined to cement the friendsiiip by a still 
closer bond. They were accordingly united in 
marriage, July 4, 1845, in Cuyahoga county. 
They settled in Middlehurg township and there 
passed the remainder of their lives, useful, 
popular and honored citizens. The mother died 
in February, 1858, and the father survived nn- 
til September 2, 1885, when he passed away in 
the fulness of years. Tiiey had three children, 
one of whom died in infancy. The two surviv- 
ing are our subject and Mary, the wife of W. 
«A. Cunibernorth, of Medina county, Oiiio. 

Edwin Scrivens remained on the parental 
farm until he had attained to years of maturity 
and he has ever continued to reside in the town- 
ship. He served for three months as a Govern- 
ment laborer while tiie late war of the Rebellion 
was in progress. He has always devoted his 
attention to that most important and honorable 
occupation, farming, and has been successful by 
reason of his thorough familiarity with practi- 
cal details of the work, his intelligence, indus- 
try and progressive methods. He is a man who 
has taken an active interest in all that tends to 
conserve the welfare and prosperity of the com- 
munity inwhich he lives, is pulilic-spirited to 
tlie maximum degree, and is recognized as one 
of the leading citizens of the township. It is 
but in natural sequence that he has been called 
upon to serve in positions of public trust, for 
his active concern in local affairs has never 
abated. He was one of the Trustees of the 
township at the time the beautiful "Woodvale 
cemetery was purchased and platted, and was 
one of the most active in securing this neces- 
sary and consistent improvement. He has also 
served as Justice of the Peace and as Constable. 
In his political adherency he ardently espouses 
the cause of the Republican party, and in its local 
constituency is a prominent figure. Fraternally 
he is identified with the I. O. O. F. His fine 
farm of eighty acres is one of the most highly 
improved in the section, giving unmistakable 



evidence of the painstaking care devoted to its 
cultivation. In connection with his fanning 
operations Mr. Scrivens has been for some time 
a public auctioneer, his services in this line be- 
ing in much demand. 

April 3, 1867, at Strongsville, Cuyahoga coun- 
\y, our subject was united in marriage to Miss 
Lettie A. Kingsbury, daughter of the late "Will- 
iam I^ingsbury, of Royalton, of which town- 
ship he was one of the pioneer settlers. He 
died there on the 27th of June, 1883. Mrs. 
Scrivens was born in Royalton, May 18, 1848. 

Mr. and Mrs. Scrivens are the parents of 
seven children, of whom we offer the following 
epitomized record: Gertrude T., the wife of H. 
L. Fuller, of Middleburg township, Cuyahoga 
county; "William R.; Amy M., the wife of Al- 
bert Hoffinan, of Parma township; Edwin X., 
Arthur H., Esther H. and Lettie J. 



LBERT FRIEDMAN, manager of the 
l\ National Fire Insurance Company of 
4i Hartford, Connecticut, for the States of 
Ohio and Kentucky, with office at 482, 
The Arcade, Cleveland, assumed his present po- 
sition in January, 1894; but he has been with 
the company since the beginning of the year 
1892, when he took the territory of the States 
of Kentucky and Tennessee. He first came to 
Cleveland during the first of the year 1884, and 
has been engaged in the insurance business for 
five years, commencing with the Equitable in 
Kentucky, with which company he was connect- 
ed for about three years, controlling a part of 
Kentucky and Tennessee. He is thoroughly 
familiar with the details of fire insurance and 
reliable, and therefore one of the most success- 
ful fire insurance men in the county. During 
tlie months of October, November and Decem- 
ber last he wrote over a million of dollars. He 
represents one of the leading young insurance 
companies of the country, which was organized 
in 1885, and now has a capital of $4,400,000, 
— a ratio of twenty to one. 



CVTAHOOA COUNTY. 



Mr. Friedman is a native of Vienna, Austria, 
born in 186!), a son of Benjamin and Theresa 
(Bergman) Friedman. His mother died in 1893, 
and liis father is still living, making his home 
with him ; he is an expert mechanic in hardwood 
lumber. 

Albert was reared in his native country, com- 
pleted a thorough course in the best schools of 
Vienna, and became proficient in six languages. 
After completing his education he was employed 
in a bank in Vienna for two years as bookkeeper 
and easliier, and then, in 1888, he emigrated to 
America, locating first in Louisville, Kentucky, 
where lie was engaged in the insurance busi- 
ness, to which he has since given his attention. 
"With the thorough foundation he has had, both 
in school education and in the severe training 
characteristic of the old country, future success 
is assured to Mr. Friedman in anything he may 
undertake; he is a live young business man. 

He was married in Lynchburg, Tennessee, in 
1891, to Miss Fanny Dance, daughter of Rev. 
S. E. H. Dance, M. D. 



FB. BERRY, manager of the Cleveland 
Type Foundry, has been associated with 
— this institution for the past sixteen years, 
having arrived in this city in 1877, and the fol- 
lowing year accepting a position in the service 
of this company. First he was traveling sales- 
man for two years, when he became secretary 
of the company, in which capacity he served 
until two years ago, 1892, when he became 
manager. From the first lie has been a stock- 
holder in the establishment. The business has 
grown from that of a small supply house to its 
present magnificent proportions, becoming the 
largest in the State. 

Although a native of Ohio, born in 1853, 
Mr. Berry was reared in Massachusetts. His 
parents were E. B. and E. W. (Wright) Berry. 
At the age of sixteen years he commenced to 
learn the printers' trade in Dover, New Hamp- 
shire, which he followed until he came to 



Cleveland. Here he is one of the representa- 
tive business men of the city, belonging to the 
class which go to make up a substantial, pros- 
perous commonwealth. His residence is in the 
» East End." 

In 1882, in this city, he married Miss E. W. 
Allen, a native of Massachusetts, and they have 
two children, — Ruth and Mildred. 



C 'CHARLES GUNN, of Collinwood, was 
Y born in East Cleveland township, Sep- 
^ tember 10, 1844, a son of Lncien and 
Charlotte (Smith) Gunn. His father, a native 
of Medina county, this State, was brought to 
the above named townsiiip when fourteen years 
of age. On passing through the ground that is 
now the site of Cleveland, his father turned his 
oxen into a ten-acre lot that is now the pul)lic 
square. Purchasing thirty acres of the Coit 
tract, upon which his son, Marcus, now resides, 
he settled there and continued a resident the re- 
mainder of his days. By occupation he was a 
charcoal-burner all his life, but in this county 
he was also a farmer. His life was ended by 
being run over by the railroad cars October 31, 
1891. His wife had died January 11, 1887, at 
the age of sixty-two and two-thirds years, a 
member of the Disciple Church. They had two 
sons and one daughter: the last mentioned is 
now deceased. 

The subject of this outline, Mr. Charles Gunn, 
received a common-school education to theageof 
seventeenyears, since which time he has followed, 
at intervals, farming and carpentering, bat is 
now retired. He is the owner of a nice farm, a 
homestead of five acres and some village lots at 
Collinwood, and also a farm of twenty-nine acres 
in Euclid township. For public life he has not 
been ambitious, but he has been one of the 
Judges of Election for the past eight years, and 
has also been Trustee of his township for that 
length of time. He is a Republican, as well as 
all the members of his family. 



CVTAnOOA COUNTY. 



He was married, in 1867, to Elizabeth Whit- 
lock, of Orange, who was brought from England 
bj' her people when six years of age. They have 
eight children, namely: Harry, Clarence, Chand- 
ler, Elmer, Earl, Lucieu, and Lottie. Clarence 
is married and resides in CoUinwood, in the 
employ of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern 
Railway Company; Chandler, also married, is at 
work in Wilson's meat-market; and Elmer and 
Earl are in the service of the Lake Shore ife 
Michigan Southern Eailroad Company. Mr. 
Gunn is a member of Thatcher Lodge, No. 
439, and also of Webb Chapter. 



J 



C. TRASK, holding a representative pre- 
ferment as general agent for the North- 
s' western Mutual Life Insurance Company, 
of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, well merits the rec- 
ognition accorded him in this volume. 

The old Empire State contributed its quota 
to the throng of valiant p'oneers who left their 
comfortable home in the East and made their 
way to the western frontier, there to undergo 
the trials and vicissitudes which ever fall to tiie 
lot of those who lead the march of civilization 
and development into new fields and provinces. 
The parents of our subject are Cuyler and Rutli 
F. (Hoag) Trask, both of whom are natives of the 
State of New York and of English and Scottish 
lineage respectively. J. C. Trask was born in 
the town of Farmiugton, Wayne county, New 
York, in the year 1854. In 1861, when our 
subject was a lad of seven years, his parents set 
forth for Ohio and upon their arrival took up 
tiieir residence in Ashtabula county, where they 
still abide. Tiie father is now eighty-two years 
of age,and the mother seventy-six; and notwith- 
standing their advanced age, both are yet hale 
and strong and in the enjoyment of excellent 
health. They are residents of the town of Ans- 
tinbnrg. Cuyler Trask devoted himself assid- 
uously to farming in early life. He is now 
probably the oldest active life insurance man in 
the Union. He has represented the North- 
western Mutual Life Insurance (Company, of 



Milwaukee, as special agent for the last seven 
years, and has written a large amount of business 
for that corporation. As recently as 1S91 he 
was invited to the annual meeting of the com- 
pany at their expense, this courtesy being a 
recognition of their appreciation of the efforts 
put forth by him while he was active as an 
agent in their employ. 

The subject of this review passed his boy- 
hood years on the farm and after coming to 
Ohio enjoyed such educational facilities as were 
then afforded, securing his preliminary training 
in the public schools of Ashtabula county. He 
graduated at Grand River Institute in 1876, 
and subsequently was enabled to complete a one 
year's course in the law department of the 
State University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor. 
He had commenced his legal studies by a course 
of reading- in the office of E. Jay Pinney, of 
Jefferson, Ashtabula county. After returning 
from Ann Arbor Mr. Trask entered into a part- 
nership with J. P. Cadwell, now Probate Judge 
of Ashtabula county, and for four years the 
firm of Trask & Cadwell maintained a successful 
practice in the county just mentioned, being 
really successors to the law office established by 
those honored patriots, Hon. Benjamin F. Wade- 
and Hon. Joshua R. Giddings. 

After a successful practice of four years' du- 
ration Mr. Trask was offered and accepted the 
position which he now liolds, that of general 
agent of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insur- 
ance Company, of Milwaukee, his assigned ter- 
ritory being the eastern half of the State of 
Ohio. His management of the field has been 
signally effective and one statistic alone will 
show how thoroughly the interests of this 
staunch and reliable company have been fur- 
thered in the territory under the supervision of 
our subject. He has been enabled to increase 
the collection of premiums from the field from 
850,000 to more th.in .?300,000. He under- 
stands thoroughly the objects, range and func- 
tions of insurance and his presentation of facts 
and figures constitutes an indubitable argument 
in favor of the policies he advances. He is re- 



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garded among insiii-ance meti as one of the best 
iuformed, most pioficient, entlmsiastic and suc- 
cessful of their profession. He has devoted his 
entire time to tlie interests of tliis celebrated in- 
surance company, whose record is one of the 
most brilliant, successful and honorable of all 
similar corporations. As the American republic 
stands to-day pre-eminent among all the nations 
of the globe in its capacity for conducting 
affairs of great breadth and scope, so does the 
wonderful enterprise of the Northwestern 
Mutual Life Insurance Company stand as a 
conspicuous example of the truth of this cir- 
cumstance. The character and extent of this 
undertaking are to be comprehended only by the 
noting of its extraordinary business, successful 
management, accumulated assets and notable 
surplus. The reputation of the c»ucern is such 
that its great continuous growth comes natu- 
rally when its claims are presented and compre- 
hended. It was founded in 1857 and its man- 
agement has always been distinguished for its 
conservatism, soundness and liberality toward 
policy holders, and as a consequence it lias be- 
come recognized as one of the best in which to 
secure the necessary protection for those depend- 
ent upon the wage earner for their support. 
The company has been represented in Cleveland 
for a quarter of a century, and the present gen- 
eral agent, Mr. Trask, has been a representative 
of its interests for the past decade, eight years 
of which time he has passed in this city, in 
rooms 282 to 289, the second Hoor of the Arcade, 
Euclid avenue, front. The energy and ability 
displayed by Mr. Trask in his responsible po- 
sition are best illustrated by the fact that during 
the year 1893 there was only one other mutual 
life insurance company that wrote more busi- 
ness in Ohio than did the Northwestern. Mr. 
Trask is an experienced and capable insurance 
man, and while he makes no claim to being a 
" lightning solicitor," yet he does take pride in 
having the ability to select an able corps of re- 
liable men as agents, whose statements on the 
subject of life insurance can be relied upon im- 
plicitly. 



The marriage of our subject oecurreil at Jef- 
ferson, Ohio, September 20, 1882, when he was 
united to Miss Maud Norton, the accomplished 
daughter of R. M. Norton, of that place. Mr. 
and Mrs. Trask have four children: Ethel M. 
Norton R., Mildred R , and Florence E. 

In politics our subject warmly espouses the 
cause of the Republican party, though he has 
never sought or desired othcial preferment. In 
his fraternal relations Mr. Trask is prominent 
in Masonic circles, having taken the thirty- 
second degree (Scottish Rite). He is a mem- 
ber of Tyrian Lodge, of Oriental Commandery, 
No. 12, of the Northern Ohio Consistory and 
of Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine. 



EiDWARD PETERJOHN, who holds the 
responsible and important preferment as 
1 foreman of the (Cleveland Dryer Com- 
pany's establishment, in Rockport Hamlet, 
Cuyahoga county, Ohio, was born in that place, 
November 22, 1865. He is a son of John 
Michael and Margaretta (Engelhardt) Peterjohn, 
old and honored residents of Rockport Hamlet. 
Both are natives of Germany and both passed 
the early years of their lives in the fatherland, 
the father being seventeen years of age and the 
mother sixteen when they came to America 
witii their respective parents. They were mar- 
ried in Cleveland, Ohio, March 14, 1844, and 
shortly after that memorable event they settled 
in that part of Rockport township which now 
bears the name of Rockport Hamlet. Here 
they have ever since continued their residence. 
.John M. Peterjohn has developed one of the 
finest farms in this section of the State, havintr 
been engaged in agricultural pursuits from the 
time of his advent in the township. The farm 
comprises thirty-eight acres and all is under a 
high state of cultivation, while the permanent 
improvements in the way of buildings are of 
most excellent and attractive order. 

These well known and honored residents of 
Rockport Hamlet have had ten children, of 



CUTAHOOA COUNTY. 



wlioin eight are living, namely: Mary A., the 
wife of Henry Dorr; George J., who married 
Kate Hannigartner; Anna, the widow of Will- 
iam Eartlielman; Fred T., who married Louisa 
Smith; Jolm M., Jr., who married Julia Brun 
ner; Louisa, the wife of William Renz; Edward, 
suhject of this sketch; and Henry C. The two 
deceased children are: John, who died at the 
age of three years; and Henry, wlio lived until 
his thirteenth year. 

Edward Peterjohn grew to manhood beneath 
the parental roof, securing his education in the 
common schools of the locality. He early 
manifested distinctive business and executive 
ability and to this endowment is doubtless due 
the preferment he now holds. 

He was married, in Parma township, Novem- 
ber 12, 1891, to Miss Anna Hoehn. They liave 
one son, Alvin C. 



EMIL RING, professor of music, con- 
ductor of the Cleveland Philharmonic 
1 Society, and also conductor of the Cleve- 
land Gesangverein, was born at Tetschenon- 
the-Elbe, a small village in the northern part of 
Austria, in what is known as Saxonian Switzer- 
land, on November 21, 1863. He was given as 
good an education as tlie public schools of his 
native town afforded, and at the age of ten years 
took up the study of harmony and vocal music, 
and also the use of the flute and clarinet. His 
parents had entertained the idea of some other 
calling for him, and were disappointed at his 
choice of a vocation. 

In 1875 he went to Dresden, where he re- 
ceived his first scientific training under Ed- 
mund Kretschmer, the well known composer. 
Here he became a member of the Royal Saxon- 
ian Church Singers, as boy soprano, singing for 
over three years in the Catholic court church. 
He was then obliged to abandon his profession 
fur a time, on account of tlie changing of his 
voice, and spent the interim in attendance at a 
gymnasium (^high school). Resuming, he con- 



tinued his musical studies under Kopell Meis- 
ter Karl Krebs, a celebrated conductor of church 
music, becoming proficient in the study of har- 
mony and theory. 

Next he went to Prague, the capital of Bo- 
hemia, and entered the conservatory there, his 
previous training enabling him to complete the 
regular six years' course in four years. At this 
time he was twenty years of age, and, according 
to the custom of his country, he spent a year in 
the volunteer army. Near the close of the year 
1884 he passed a severe examination and was 
made a Lieutenant of Reserves. At the close 
of liis military experience, not having availed 
himself of the raidc conferred upon him, he 
joined a musical organization then in the zenith 
of its fame, namely, the Mansfeldt Orchestra, 
whicli had its headquarters in Dresden. During 
the following season Professor Ring traveled 
throughout Germany and Belgium, visiting all 
the large cities and participating in the concerts 
given by tiie orchestra. The next two years 
were spent in England, in study, and during the 
latter jiart of 1886 Mr. Ring moved to Berlin; 
and while there he received an offer to become 
a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, 
whicii he accepted, first setting foot on Ameri- 
can soil in March, 1887. The next year he was 
engaged to conduct the Cleveland Piiilharmonic 
Orchestra, and he accordingly arrived in this 
city in September, 1888. Since his residence 
began here he has made matiy friends through 
his kindly, genial disposition, and his excellent 
musical ability. He is connected with many of 
the musical organizations of the. city, is one of 
tiie instructors in the Conservatory of Music, 
and has charge of tlie music in the Jewish Or- 
phan Asylum. The Cleveland Gesangverein, of 
which he is conductor, is the oldest and most 
noted singing society west of Philadelphia, 
having been founded in September, 1854. 

His father, Alvin Ring, was the youngest of 
twelve sons, was engaged in expressing and 
forwarding, and spent all his life in his native 
laud, dying in 1883, at the age of forty-eight 
years. He had but very little musical inclina- 



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tion. A brotlier o£ his, Max by name, was 
court conductor of music, and lost his sight by 
too close application. In 1849 lie left the 
country, went to Hamburg and shipped to Aus- 
tralia, and was never heard of afterward; and it 



is presumed that lie is drowned in the 



Hi 



father paid much money to learn of his where- 
abouts, but could never discover anything. 

Professor Eiiig's mother, whose name before 
marriage was Anna Rotzsch, was born in 1838, 
and is still living. Mr. Alvin Ring and wife 
had four sons, namely: Emil, the subject of 
this sketch; Gustave, wiio studied medicine at 
tiie university, has passed his State examination, 
and is still a resident of the old country; Ru- 
dolph, the successor in his father's business; 
and Fred, who resides in Cleveland and is a 
bookkeeper in the Arcade music store. 



J j AMES SANDERSON", division superin- 
tendent of the Cleveland Electric Railway 
Company, was born near Ottawa, Canada, 
September 26, 1855, a son of James Sanderson, 
who was born in Dundee, Scotland, October, 
1819. He came to America when young and 
followed carpenter work all his life. He mar- 
ried in Canada, May Christie, a daughter of 
Arcliie Christie, born in Scotland. Mrs. San- 
derson's children are: Mary, wife of D. Car- 
penter, in Cleveland; John, at New Lisbon, Da- 
kota; James; George and "William, at Cleve- 
land; and Maggie, who married G. Baird, a 
resident of Denver, Colorado. 

James Sanderson left the public schools at 
sixteen and began driving team. He next en- 
tered a commission store in this city and re- 
mained eleven years; then became a driver for 
the East Cleveland Railway Company on Euclid 
avenue, and was promoted in line to be a con- 
ductor, a night watch, and finally a clerk in the 
office of Superintendent Duty; and retained 
this last position till the formation of the Cleve- 
land Electric Railway Company, in 1893, when 
he was made division superintendent, having in 
char<Te the Central avenue line. 



Mr. Sanderson was first married January 3, 
1880, to Rosa, a daughter of Christian Ubersax, 
of Switzerland. The children of this marriage 
are Cora and Freddie. Mrs. Sanderson died 
September 5, 1885. His second marriage, Janu- 
ary 3, 1888, was to Edith Loretz, of Swiss birth, 
and a daughter of Philip Loretz. One child has 
been born by this marriage, named Nellie. 

Mr. Sanderson is a Knight of Pythias, ami 
in politics a Republican. 



n\ T S. POSSONS.— A man of distinguished 
I \l ^'^'I'ty ■'""^ attainments, one who lias ac- 
J 11 complished much in the line of his pro- 
^ fession and who has thereby contributed 

to its advancement and incidentally wrought 
for the good of his fellow men, Mr. Possons 
may with particular congruity be accorded 
representation in this volume, though it will 
be possible within the limitations of the same 
to give no more than an outline of the more no- 
table features of his career. 

Of French and German extraction, Mr. Pos- 
sons is enabled to trace his lineage back to an- 
cestors who became residents of America in the 
latter part of the sixteenth century. He was 
born in Coeymans, Albany county. New York, 
in 1844. His parents were William Fiero and 
Maria A. (Zimmer) Possons, natives of Scho- 
harie county. New York. The father was ap- 
prenticed in early life to the dyers and fullers' 
trade, which he followed up to the time of the 
advent of woolen factories. He graduated at 
the Albany Normal School, but much of his 
education was obtained after his marriage, and 
by the help of his wife, a lady of advanced 
scholarship. Later he greatly interested him- 
self in educational matters, teaching sciiool with 
marked success, by methods ahead of his times. 
He was " apt to teach," having a natural ability 
for imjjarting instruction in the most efficient 
manner, and being one of the pioneer leaders in 
giving instruction by object lessons, so much in 



,ogue 



the latter days. In h 



CUTAUOOA COUISTT. 



lutions lie was a member of the Baptist Church, 
in wliicli lie held the office of Deacon; and in 
more public life he also was City Clerk and 
School Trustee for inany years. In the educa- 
tional field, indeed, he was a leading factor. He 
died in 1879, at the age of sixty-eight years. 
His wife died April 22, 1886, aged seveiity-one 
years. She also was a life-long member of the 
Baptist Church, wherein she was a shining ex- 
ample of Christian consistency. 

Her parents were Jacob and Maria Zimmer. 
Mr. Zimujer was a large land owner, whose es- 
tate comprised what was known after his name 
as "Zimmer's Hill," in Schoharie county, New 
York. He was a Revolutionary soldier, lived 
to a ripe old age, and was an extremely useful 
man. 

Mr. N. S. Posson's paternal grandfather, 
Wiihelmus Possons, was the first farmer in 
Schoharie county who practiced the system of 
renewing the soil by raising clover upon it, 
which has now for many years been so popular 
among scientific agriculturists. He also in- 
vented the first threshing machine, doing all the 
mechanical work himself, and the machine was 
^ignally successful. For his wife he married 
Eliza Borst, who died comparatively young, a 
noble and devout Christian. 

Mr. Possons, whose name heads this sketch, 
received in his native State a thorough academic 
education, and, having a natural aptitude for 
mechanics, devoted his attention to this science 
until lie had mastered its details and intricacies. 
Being regularly apprenticed to John Whitin & 
Son, builders of cotton-mill machinery at Hol- 
yoke, Massachusetts, he served a full term, 900 
days. He became a die sinker and model maker 
in the celebrated Remington armory at Ilion, 
Herkimer county, New York, remaining there 
until the month of May, 1864, and acquiring a 
most discriminating knowledge in regard to the 
manufacture of fire-arms. This knowledge 
stood him well in hand for the preferment to 
which he was forthwith called, that of United 
States Inspector of Small Arms, under W. A. 
Thornton, of the Ordnance Department, and 



was ordered to Colt's armory in Hartford, Con- 
necticut. Subsequently lie was concerned with 
other establishments of like order in various 
cities of the Union. In December, 1865, he 
went to the Ceresian Cutter Works at Syracuse, 
New York, and three years later removed to 
Auburn, same State, where he had the siiper- 
intendency of the extensive works of Ilajden &, 
Litchworth's manufactory of saddlery hardware. 

In 1879, Mr. Possons responded to overtures 
made by the Telegraph Supply Company, of 
Cleveland, and coming to this city was placed 
in charge of their business, which was subse- 
quently changed to the Brush Electric Com- 
pany. This place he retained until October, 
1890, when he resigned to accept a similar 
preferment with the Belding Motor Company, 
of Chicago. Returning to Cleveland in 1891, 
he effected the organization of the Universal 
Electric Company, of which corporation he was 
made president and general manager. This 
concern is one of unmistakable importance con- 
sidered in connection with the industrial ac- 
tivities of the Forest City, and with its chief 
executive a man of so pronounced ability in the 
line of his profession and with so thorough a 
knowledge of practical methods and details, it 
is evident that the enterprise will widen its 
scope of operations to the utmost limits, gaining 
a prestige secondary to no similar undertaking 
in the Union. Mr. Possons is both a mechani- 
cal and electrical engineer, and he has invented 
and patented several unique machines for the 
facile and speedy execution of work in the lines 
noted. 

Politically, Mr. Possons gives his sympathy 
and support to the Republican party, taking a 
consistent interest in the issues of the day. In 
his fraternal relations he is prominently identi- 
fied with the Masonic order, having been ad- 
vanced to the thirty- second degree, and filled 
many of the chairs of this order. 

In 1872 Mr. Possons was united in marriage 
with Miss Martha Adla Connor, a daughter of 
Joseph and Matilda (Steele) Connor, residents 
of Auburn, New York. Mr. Connor was a 



GUT^iHOQA COUNTY. 



participant iu the lato war, as a private in the 
Seventy-tit th New York Volunteer Infantry, 
and was under General Siieridan in the valley. 
He died from disease contracted while in the 
United States service. His wife, ?iee Matilda 
Steele, was a noble woman of North Ireland, 



id li 



er peoj 



were nroniinent iu the affairs of 



the Ii-ish government. They were true disci- 
ples of " William of Orange," and oue of her 
brothers, Newman Steele, was stoned to death 
by the Catholics! She was an expert eques- 
trienne, the envy of her sex in riding after the 
hounds. She died in Cleveland, Ohio, at the 
age of fifty-five years, in 1882. She and her 
iiusband came to America after their marriage, 
in 1846, and brought up a large family of chil- 
dren, — four daughters and seven sons. 

Mr. N. S. Possons and wife have adopted 
three children, namely: Albert W. Connor, the 
younger brother of Mrs. Possons, an expert ma- 
chinist, having learned his trade under Mr. 
Possons; Maude Blanche and Hamilton Van 
Valkenburg, brother and sister, are children of 
a deceased sister and brother-in-law of Mrs. 
Possons, namely: Charles E. and Matilda (Con- 
nor) Van Valkenburg. 

Mr. Pussons is a zealous member and sup- 
porter of the Presbyterian Church, with which 
organization Mrs. Possons is also connected, 
being prominent in the work of the church and 
the Dorcas Society. 



EORGE PRESLEY.— As the American 
I nation has shown itself pre-eminently 
4 capable of carrying forward enterprises 
of magnificent scope and gigantic import, 
so is it a matter of more tlian cursory interest 
and value to trace these great specific under- 
takings back to their inception, to note the in- 
fluence which they have exerted in the upbuild- 
ing of populous communities, to canvass the 
pi'i'souncJ of those who have lent impetus to 
the work, and to learn lessons both by inductive 
and deductive methods. 



The city of Cleveland, into whose port enter 
with stately grace the white-winged arg.jsies of 
the great lake system, together with all manner 
of improved modern craft that ply the blue 
waters of these inland seas, has had from its 
earliest history a most intimate connection with 
maritime interests and, indeed, along this line 
has been the most distinctive march of improve- 
ment, — no other one factor having entered more 
conspicuously into the very warp and woof of 
her industrial and commercial fabric, whose 
texture is such as to have insured to the beauti- 
ful Forest City honor, prestige and renown. 

Prominent among those honored citizen who 
have been for many years identified with the 
ship-building industries of the city is he whose 
name initiates this review. Success in the 
average case bears testimony not alone of sub- 
jective ability and business acumen but also 
bespeaks the fact that honorable and upright 
methods have been brought to bear in the at- 
taining of such precedence. Mr. Presley has 
been a resident of Cleveland for a full half of a 
century, has been active and enterprising and 
has gained a full measure of success. It can 
not be less interesting than profitable to trace 
briefly, as only we are permitted in the premises 
those points which have a personal bearing and 
and which incidentally mark the progress of 
these many years of identification with the busi- 
ness activities of the city. In such instances as 
the one at hand, — the touching upon the salient 
features in the life of an honored pioneer, — does 
coutempory biographyexercise its maximuinand 
most important function. 

As the name implies, the Presley family 
traces its origin back to Scotland, while our 
subject's maternal genealogy is of pure English 
strain. At Cornwall, Lower Canada, February 
22, 1820, a son wa5 born to John and Almira 
(Raymond) Presley, and to him was given the 
baptismal name of George. When this son, our 
subject, was yet but a child, his parents removed 
from Canada to Jefferson county. New York, 
where the father was engaged in farming oper- 
ations, beinii- a man of marked intelligence and 



en YAHOO A COUNTY. 



sturdy integrity. Under the parental roof and 
amid the quiet pastoral scenes George remained 
until he attained his eighteenth year, when he 
determined to give his time and attention to 
work aside from the monotonous and routine 
duties of the farm. Thus, at the age of e'ghteen 
years, in the meanwhile having secured a fair 
common-school education, he left his home and 
going to Clayton, Jefferson county, engaged 
with George S. Wicks to learn the trade of 
shipbuilding. He completed his trade with 
John Oades, in 1843, and within the same year 
removed to Cleveland, Ohio, where he has since 
remained. His parents subsequently removed 
to this city and here passed the residue of their 
lives. 

Upon his arrival in Cleveland Mr. Presley 
found employment with Sanford & Moses, 
prominent shipbuilders at that time. He sub- 
sequently engaged in similar work for Wash- 
ington Jones and still later entered the employ 
of S. & A. Turner. In 1846 he first began in- 
dividual operations in contracting for and build- 
ing vessels, having entered into partnership 
with Ira Laffrienier and William Stevenson. 
Two years later he l>ecanie associated with 
others in the same business, a new firm being 
organized and having been maintained until 
1850, when a dissolution occurred and the firm 
of Stevens & Presley was organized, the mem- 
bers being Harvey Stevens and George Presley. 
This copartnership continued until 1878 — more 
than a quarter of a century — when it was dis- 
solved and the firm of Presley & Company 
formed. This organization was discontinued in 
1SS7, being merged into the Cleveland Dry 
Dock Company, which represented the interests 
of Mr. Presley and the Globe Iron Works Com- 
pany. The company was duly incorporated and 
Mr. Presley's stock representation was for one 
half of the full ajuount subscribed. He was 
elected president of the company and held this 
position for some seven months, when he dis- 
posed of his interest in the enterprise and re- 
tired from active business. After this time, 
huwevei-, he came forward in the capacity to 



which he had devoted so many years of his life 
and superintended the construction of the bteam- 
ers H. J. Johnson and George Presley. 

In 1850 Stevenson & Presley built the first 
horse-power railway for hauling out vessels. In 
1856 they abandoned that and built a new and 
larger steam railway, and in 1870-'71 they built 
the first dry dock, which they owned until it 
passed into the hands of Presley & Company, 
then into the hands of the Cleveland Dry Dock 
Company. 

Mr. Presley has seen more than fifty years of 
active service in shipbuilding, and out from this 
intensively practical, busy and useful life he 
has retired to enjoy that repose which is so 
richly merited. Notwithstanding the fact that 
he is now (1894) seventy-four years of age, he 
bears his years lightly, is vigorous in mind and 
body and is hale and hearty. Within his long 
business career he has been associated with 
many prominent and well known shipbuilders, 
but he has outlived all his early associates in 
business and has noted the remarkable advances 
made in the art of navigation and the volume 
of business transacted in the line with v^hose 
interests he has so closely been identified and to 
whose progress he has contributed no inconspicu- 
ous quota. Mr. Presley has built and floated up- 
ward of fifty vessels — an average of at least one 
a year for all the years during which he has been 
connected with the industry. Prominent among 
the boats which he has put into operation may 
be named the followiiig: H. Tn'. Gates, Gipsey, 
Alpha, the brig Isabella, the propeller Niagara, 
Prairie State, Maine, Boston, New York, Smith- 
more, Republic, Continental, Colonial, Mag- 
netic, Specular, Horace A. Tutrle, H. J. John- 
son, and the George Presley. The vessel last 
noted is the largest of them all and probably 
the finest in every detail of construction, being 
thoroughly modern in all its equipments and 
standing as a model in its line. The boat was 
named in honor of its builder. Throughout his 
long and diversified career Mr. Presley has 
ever been alert, active, discerning: that success 
should have attended his efforts was but in 



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normal eequence and a result legitimate and 
consistent. It is but congruous that especial 
attention be here directed to the one line in 
whicli his efforts have proved of great value and 
have called forth a distinctive appreciation of 
liis ability. This is in the matter of his effect- 
ual work in relieving stranded vessels. He had 
devoted much time and study to the practical 
and approved methods of affording succor in 
such cases and his services were ever in demand. 
Indeed, it had almost passed into an axiom 
among sailors and vessel owners that " where 
Presley could not furnish relief and do it quickly, 
no one could." 

When our subject arrived in Cleveland his 
capitalistic resources aggregated only three dol- 
lars, but by close application to business, by 
correct metliods and by unmistakable ability he 
has won for himself a competency which has 
given him a high standing in the business com- 
munity. He is the owner of stock in several 
vessels and has important real-estate interests 
in Cleveland. 

Ill his political proclivities Mr. Presley was 
in early lil'e a Republican, but during later 
years he has been identified with the Prohibi- 
tion party, having the true courage of his con- 
victions and standing ever ready to array him- 
self in the support of the principles which he 
holds to be right and for the good of his fellow- 
men. From the very character of the man it 
is readily understood that he would never have 
figured as an aspirant for public office. He has 
not had taste or inclination for a political ca- 
reer, and even had other conditions prevailed, 
he has found that his intensively active busi- 
ness life has maintained insuperable demands 
upon his time and attention. Incidentally, and 
as marking his active interest in the welfare of 
the city which has so long been his home, it 
may be mentioned that he has several times 
served as a member of tlie City Council. In 
his fraternal affiliations he is prominent as a 
member of the F. & A. M., being a Knight 
Templar. He is also identified with the I. O. 
O. F. 



Passing to that portion of a man's life history 
that ever has a marked influence upon his 
happiness and his success, we note that Mr. 
Presley has been married twice. He has 
fonr children, living, by the second wife: Maria, 
wife of Barnabas Eldridge, of Belvidere, Illi- 
nois, a manufacturer of sewing machines for the 
National Sewing Company; George Presley, 
Jr., who is engaged in the mercantile business 
in Cleveland; Charles H. Presley conducts an 
important insurance agency in Cleveland: Lewis 
B. Presley married and is now a resident of 
Columbus, Ohio, where he is engaged in busi- 
ness. In February, 1883, Mr. and Mrs. Pres- 
ley were called upon to mourn the untimely 
death of a son, Edwin Forest Presley, a most 
promising young man, who died in the twenty- 
seventh year of his age. 

Our subject and his wife have long been act- 
ive and devout members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, the former having been iden- 
tified with the organization for more than a half 
century and having contributed liberally and 
ungrudgingly to its support. 

The record of such a life as this must be read 
not alone from the mere words that appear in 
the context, but, between the lines and awaiting 
only for the penetration of the true student and 
earnest seeker for the basic elements of success 
and honored name, lie the lesson and the reve- 
lation whose recognition can not fail to yield 
a full harvest of goodly results. 



FRANKLIN H. RUPEE, a prominent citi- 
zen and business man of CoUinwood, is 
the proprietor of a livery and board 
stable, and is also a coal dealer. He is a native 
of this place and has been identified with it all 
his life. Briefly, a sketch of him is as follows: 
Franklin H. Ruple was born in CoUinwood, 
Ohio, May 19, 1848, son of Dr. Cyrus and 
Julia (Hitchcock) Ruple, both natives of Ohio, 
his father having been born in CoUinwood in 



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1S06. Dr. Kuple was well known throughout 
this part of the State as a skilled phjsiciau and 
surgeon, aud had au extensive practice here. 
His early advantages were not sucii as are 
atibrded medical students to-day, but he im- 
proved his every opportunity and rendered 
most efficient service in time of need. He was 
a man in whom the people reposed great conti- 
deiice, not only as a pliysician but also as a 
business man, and he was their clioice for vari- 
ous local offices, the duties of which lie per- 
foiniod with the strictest fidelity. He was a 
member of theCollamer Congregational Church, 
and for years held an office in the same. Po- 
litically, he was an Abolitionist of the Joshua 
Giddings type, and was connected with the 
famous "Underground Kailway." Later he was 
an ardent Republican. His death occurred in 
March, 1874, at the age of sixty-nine years. 
His wife died April 14, 1883, at the age of 
sixty-seven years. She was for many years a 
member of the Congregational Church, was a 
woman of many Christian graces, and was well 
known far and near for her deeds of kindness. 
They had a family of eleven children, Frank H. 
being the eighth born and one of the six who 
are still living. Mo:?t of them are in Cuyahoga 
county. 

As above stated, the subject of our sketch has 
been identified with CoUinwood all his life. 
His education was received in the common and 
high schools. His first occupation was farm- 
ing, at which he was engaged four years. Then 
he ran an express wagon between CoUinwood 
and the city for seven years, five years before 
he started the livery and two years afterward. 
Since March 20, 1883, he has been engaged in 
his present business. In the meantime, for 
four years, he kept the Central Hotel in CoUin- 
wood. His livery business is one of the thriving 
enterprises of the town. He keeps sixteen head 
of horses and a number and variety of veliicles, 
all of which are in demand, as his characteristic 
push and energy has brought his business to the 
front and secured a large patronage. He served 
the town as Marshal aud Deputy Marshal for 



three years, and by his personal service, his in- 
fluence and his means he has done much to ad- 
vance the interests of the place. 

Mr. Ruple was married February 12, 1872, 
to Miss Mary Seaber, daughter of John Seaber, 
late of this county. Mr. Seaber and his family 
were natives of England, from whence they 
emigrated to this county when Mrs. Ruple was 
one year old. He and his wife are deceased. 
Mrs. Ruple has one brother, Alfred N., a resi- 
dent of Kirksville, Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. 
Ruple have three children living: Lillian May, 
Edith Maud and Ethel Grace; and two deceased: 
Nellie Julia, who died at the age of seven years, 
and Arthur Clyde, at the age of four months. 

Both he and his wife are members of the 
Congregational Church at CoUinwood. In poli- 
tics he is a Prohibitionist; fraternally he is a 
Knight of Pythias. 



TjOHN MEYER, a retired farmer residing 
^, I at No. 1327 Pearl street, Cleveland, Ohio, 
^<d/ has long been identified with this place, 
and it is fitting that some personal mention be 
made of him in connection with other repre- 
sentative men of tlie county. Briefly, a sketch 
of his life is herewith presented: 

John Mej-er was born on a farm, which is 
now covered by a portion of Cleveland, May 19, 
1888, his parents being Nicholas and Dorotha 
(Gephart) Meyer, both natives of Germany. 
Nicholas Meyer, a carpenter by trade, came to 
Cleveland about 1833, and here was for many 
years engaged in contracting and building. It 
was here that he was married to Miss Gephart, 
and they established their home on Canal street, 
where the Point Works are now located. Both 
were well known and highly respected. They 
were devoted members of the Zion's United 
Evangelical Church. He died May 23, 1884, 
aged seventy-five years; she April 9, 1890, aged 
seventy-three. They had a family of twelve 
children, six of whom are still living, all in or 



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near Cleveland. Jolm was the second born in 
this family and is the oldest one now living; 
Christian, a carpenter l)y trade; Nicholas, wiio 
is engaged in farming; Charles, a dealer in coal, 
flour and feed; George, a farmer; and Caroline, 
wife of Theodore Lanipus, a cigar manufacturer. 

With the exception of the past three years, 
the subject of our sketch has spent his whole 
life in agricultural pursuits. He has plowed, 
sowed and harvested where a large part of the 
South Side now stands. He was for some time 
a resident of Brooklyn township, and while 
there served several terms as Trustee. During 
the war he served for sixty days on guard duty, 
guarding Rebel prisoners on Johnson Island, 
he having enlisted August 15, 1863. 

Mr. Meyer was married November 8, 1860, 
to Miss Elizabeth Gruebele, daughter of Jacob 
and Margaret Gruebele. Her parents came to 
America from Germany, their native land, when 
she was six years old, and landed in Cleveland 
July 12, 1847. She was born September 13, 
1841. Her father was born in 1813, and de- 
parted this life April 15, 1882; her mother, 
born in 1809, passed away November 9, 1886. 
They were devoted Christian people, and were 
much esteemed by all who knew them. Mrs. 
Meyer is one of a family of twelve children, 
three of whom are living. Her sister Mary, 
widow of Frederick Koeber, resides in Cleve- 
land, and her brother Lewis lives in Tennessee. 
Mr. and Mrs. Meyer have had a family of four- 
teen children, record of whom is as follows: 
Charles, a carpenter of Cleveland, married Miss 
Carrie Klein and has two children. Ruble and 
Delbert; Heni-y (twin of Charles) was acci- 
dentally killed while repairing a car in the car 
shops in Canton, Ohio; John is a conductor on 
the motor car line; Carrie, wife of Robert 
Merker, Cleveland, has one child, Lillian; Katie, 
wife of Charles Renz, a grocer of Cleveland, 
has three children, Erma, Helen and an infant; 
George, who married Minnie Fay and resides in 
Cleveland, has one child, Roy; Louis, a conduc- 
tor on the motor cars; Edward, employed as a 
clerk in Cleveland; Anna Dorotha, who died at 



the age of twenty months; Jessie, a bookkeeper; 
Gussie, attending school; Alice and Albert, 
twins; and Maud. 

Mr. Meyer has been a life-long Republican, 
but has given little attention to political matters. 

In concluding this sketch, we further state 
that Meyer street in Cleveland was named in 
honor of the family to which our subject 
belongs. 



DAVID E. McLEAN, President of the 
Pearl Street Savings & Loan Company, 
— - and also of the Herrman-McLean Com- 
pany, both of Cleveland, is a native of this city. 
Mr. McLean was born December 25, 1855, 
son of Alexander and Ann (James) McLean, 
the former a native of England and the latter 
of New York State. Alexander McLean came 
to Cleveland in 1886, then a young man of 
twenty years, and here he was married, passed 
his life, and died, his death occurring in 1876. 
He was a man of sterling integrity, and by his 
honorable and upright life won the respect and 
esteem of all who knew him. His business was 
that of a mason and contractor. He built and 
owned the Young American Block. For several 
terms he was a member of the City Council, 
and it was largely througli his instrumentality 
that the West Side market house was placed 
where it now stands. Mrs. McLean departed 
this life October 23, 1870, at the age of forty- 
two years. She was a member of St. John's 
Episcopal Church. David E. is the youngest in 
their family of three children. His sisters, 
Elizabeth and Mary, are both residents of Cleve- 
land: the former is the wife of Henry Campbell, 
and the latter of William Kenney. 

The subject of our sketch received hia educa- 
tion in the public schools of Cleveland and in 
the Spencerian and Bryant & Stratton colleges. 
His business career was begun as a clerk in a 
grocery store. By close attention to whatever 
he undertook, and by honorable business 
methods he has risen to a position of promin- 



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ence among the leading business men and 
financiers of the city. He owns a grocery, flour 
and feed store and an elevator and warehouse on 
Fearl street, at Nickel-Plate Crossing, a grocery 
on Lorain near Market street, and a flour and 
feed store opposite on Market street. He is 
also largely interested in banking, being a 
stockholder in the "West Side and Forest City 
Banks, and being president of the Pearl Street 
Savings & Loan Company. He was an oflicer 
in the Board of Trade, and since that organiza- 
tion has been merged into the Chamber of 
Commerce, he still retains his membership in it. 
He also has an interest in the Greif Brothers 
Cooperage Company. 

Mr. McLean was married in 1880, on May 
10, to Miss Ernstein Teufel, daughter of John 
Teufel, then of Chicago, now of Cleveland. 
He was for many years a pork-packer and ship- 
per, but is now retired. Mr. and Mrs. McLean 
have two children, — John Christian and Annie. 
Both he and his wife are members of All Saints' 
Episcopal Church. 

Mr. McLean is a liberal and public-spirited 
man. He has ever encouraged by his influence 
and financial aid, all enterprises for the beat 
interests of the community, and is recognized 
by all as a man of worth, strict integrity and 
good business sagacity. 



CHARLES FAYETTE OLXEY, of Cleve- 
land, Ohio, is a man whose broad educa- 
tion, extensive travel, love of music and 
art, progressive spirit and well-rounded char- 
acter have made him a citizen of rare useful- 
ness. Life to him is a sacked trust. 

The English Doomsday Book recognizes his 
noble English descent, and the Olney coat of 
arms, though deemed un-American, is exception- 
ally beautiful. 

Like most New England sons. Professor 
Olney takes a just pride in his ancestry and his 
birthplace. Thomas Olney, liis first American 
ancestor, emigrated from Hertfordshire, Eng- 



land, in the year 1633 and settled on a grant of 
land comprising forty acres in Salem, Massachu- 
setts. He was at once elected one of the leading 
oflicers of the colony; but, becoming a convert 
to the peculiar views of Roger William?, a Bap- 
tist, he soon gave up all his Salem privileges, 
traversed the wilderness with Williams and 
founded Providence in the State of Rhode 
Island. Thomas Olney was thus one of the 
original thirteen proprietors of Providence, and 
by turn held the offices of Treasurer, Assistant 
Governor, Commissioner and Grantee under 
the new royal charter given to the colony by 
Charles II in 1662. His children intermarried 
with the children of Roger Williams, and their 
children intermarried for generations. All had 
large families, and the Olneys and Wiliiamses 
migiit be said to have almost peopled the State 
of Rhode Island. The Olneys were energetic, 
self-respecting and a little austere, while their 
courage and their virtues made them not only 
popular civil servants, but also, when Revolu- 
tionary times came, admirable soldiers and 
officers. Love of country was ever dominant. 
That one of them possessed a vein of grim 
humor may be inferred from his remark after 
the battle of Rhode Island, where be had dis- 
tinguished liimself by signal bravery, that he 
"had been picking cherries," — i. e., killing Red 
Coats. Captain Stephen Olney was chosen for 
his coolness and courage to lead the advance 
column at the battle of Yorktown. Old pictures 
represent him as the first man on the rampart, 
vigorously waving the flag to encourage his fol- 
lowers. A close friendship existed between him 
and Lafayette, and on the second visit of the 
French JIarquis to America, while on a tour 
through the principal cities, as he entered Prov- 
idence his eyes searched the crowd to discover if 
possible his old friend. At once singling him 
out, he rushed toward and warmly embraced 
him. Captain Joseph Olney was a distinguished 
commander in the naval service, while his 
brother Jeremiah held a Colonelcy under Gen- 
eral Washington, by whom he was greatly es- 
teemed. 



CUYAHOGA VOUNTY. 



Jesse Olnej, the fatlier of the subject of this 
sketch, was himself the son of a Revolutionary 
officer, and his long, useful and brilliant career 
is well known throughout the United States 
from the wide success of his school-books, — 
Olney's Geography and Atlas, the National 
Preceptor, etc., — and his scientific attain- 
ments. Besides being a popular author, he 
was an eminently successful teacher, and in 
political life was rewarded with most of the 
highest honors in his State. His wife, nee 
Elizabeth Barnes, descended from an unbroken 
line of Puritan ancestors. They were married 
in 1829, in Hartford, and there Charles F., 
their eldest son, was born, August 27, 1831. A 
little later tiie family removed to Soutliington, 
a hill-engirdled Connecticut village lying mid- 
way between Hartford and New Haven. 

In that picturesque, New England town 
Charles grew to manhood and received his edu- 
cation. Almost from his infancy he showed 
rare genius as a musician, and at a very early 
age became proficient upon several instruments, 
his acquirements being no mere matter of train- 
ing and technique, but the result of a natural 
and almost instinctive gift. His father's inter- 
est in politics, science and religion brought 
witiiin the Olney circle of friends most of the 
leading politicians and divines of the day, among 
them many Harvard and Yale graduates, who 
infused into the quiet, rural town tlie stimulus 
of fresh ideas and the resources of a comprehen- 
sive culture. Such influences at an age when 
character and temperament take impressions 
like wax doubtless helped to kindle and foster 
tastes wliich gave bent to the after life of young 
(.)liieY- 

After preparing for Yale, Charles to his 
great surprise was offered the principalship of 
the school in his home district, and owing to the 
urgent request of his father he relinquished the 
cherished idea of a college life and became the 
teacher, at the age of seventeen, of the boys and 
girls of his neighborhood. This enabled him to 
live at home and enjoy the companionship of 
his honored father, a ])rivileo;e for which he has 



ever been truly grateful. No doubt hereditary 
instinct had much to do with his eminent suc- 
cess as a teacher. His zeal, tact, and above all 
his gift for controlling, rendered this a most 
fortunate choice of a profession. In his career 
in Stratford, Connecticut, where he established 
a high school, and subsequently in New York 
city, where for nearly thirty years he was con- 
nected with the cause of popular education, he 
invariably exhibited those sterling traits which 
marked him for leadership. He was one of the 
founders of the New York Teachers' Associa- 
tion, the largest association of teachers in the 
world, and for fifteen years he was the head of 
its executive committee and foremost in every 
good work. 

In April, 1861, Professor Olney married 
Louisa, only daughter of Jameson D. Brown, 
Esquire, of New York. Her death, in 1878, 
left him childless and alone. This loss, and the 
loneliness it entailed, helped to fix and intensify 
the artistic tastes which had always characterized 
him, but which now became a refuge aa well as 
a passion. He became interested in forming a 
collection of works of art and objects de vertu. 
The thousands of interesting and beautiful things 
he has collected from far and near, — curios, rare 
pictures, sculptures, bronzes, ivory carvings, etc., 
etc., many the results of happy pilgrimages — 
form one of the most notable collections in the 
country. 

In 1887, he married Mrs. Abbie Bradley 
Larason, of Cleveland, a friend of his boyhood, 
and has since resided in this city, their elegant 
home being located on Jennings avenue. To 
better accommodate his art collection he has 
recently erected a beautiful Grecian art temple 
as an annex to his home, which was dedicated 
as the Olney Art Gallery in December, 1893. 
The Professor and his wife are characterized 
alike by warm, humanitarian sympathies, earn- 
est zeal for the public welfare, and ardent phil- 
anthropic spirit. Not a few of the colleges, 
schools, religious societies and other organiza- 
tions of Cleveland and other cities have been 
and are glad recipients of their bounty. Indeed, 



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too much cannot be said of their generosity 
toward all worthy causes, and their hospitality 
is unbounded. 

Professor Olney wields a fluent pen and is a 
contributor to various publications. Although 
not a professional lecturer, he is a most inter- 
esting speaker, and, anxious to stimulate thought 
and willing to tell of his many journeys, he fre- 
quently addresses schools and societies upon 
scientific themes and his travels. He is a mem- 
ber of the Masonic fraternity, the National 
Geographical Society, the Sociological Council, 
the Sous of the Revolution, etc.; aud is deeply 
interested in floriculture and forestry. 

In short, it would be difficult to find a more 
useful, genial and entertaining gentlenian than 
Prof. Charles F. Olney. 



M. BURKE, one of the prominent, wor- 
thy and respected business men of Cleve- 
land, Ohio, is president of the Lake Sliore 
Foundry, located on Alabama street; is a stock- 
holder in a number of the banks of the city, aud 
is vice-president of the Dime Savings & Banking 
Company. Without further introduction — in- 
deed, Mr. Burke needs no introduction whatever, 
so well known is he in Cleveland — we proceed 
to give a biography of him; for without more 
than a passing notice of him and the industry 
with which he is connected, a history of this 
city would be incomplete. 

O. M. Burke was born in Newburg township, 
on his father's old farm which now forms a part 
of the twenty-seventh ward of Cleveland, March 
14, 1823. llis parents were Gains and Sophia 
(Taylor) Burke. His father was a native of 
Massachusetts, was a farmer by occupation, and 
was for many years Treasurer of Cuyahoga 
county, where he was well known and highly 
esteemed. He died in 18G5, aged seventy-four 
years. His good wife died June 27, 1859, aged 
sixty-live. She was a true Christian woman 
and was beloved by all who knew her. Our 
subject was the second born in their family of 



six children, three sons and three daughters. 
Only two of that number are now living, O. M. 
and Helen, the latter being the wife of I. C. 
Webster, of Kansas. 

Mr. Burke received a common school educa- 
tion only. The first money he made was by 
school- teaching, receiving '^$1% a month and 
" boarding around." In 1847 he went to Illi- 
nois, and engaged in farming and teaching there 
until 1855. Since 1855 he has been a resident 
of Cleveland. In 1874 he became connected 
with the foundry, and has been interested in it 
ever siuce, he and his brother, Augustus M. aud 
Judge Burke aud others being its founders. 
Its name has not been changed during all these 
twenty years, and its business has been largely 
increased. At this writing the Lake Shore 
Foundry employs between 400 and 500 men, 
and is regarded as one of the most useful indus- 
tries in the city. It is officered as follows: O. 
M. Burke, president and treasurer; C. E.Burke, 
vice-president and superintendent; George B. 
Thomas, secretary; and A. J. Goodhue, sales 
agent. 

The subject of our sketch was married in 
1847 to Miss Martha C. Meech, a native of Con- 
necticut, and they have a family, a record of 
which is as follows: 

Clarence E., vice-presidentand superintendent 
of the Lake Shore Foundry, has, like his* father, 
been connected with this enterprise since it was 
founded. He married Maria, aaughter of Col. 
"W. H. Hayward, of Cleveland, and their only 
child is Jessie. 

Lizzie, wife of W.G. Alcott, has one child, — 
Clarence Frank Alcott. Mr. Alcott is connected 
with the Diamond-Portland Cement Company, 
near Canton, Ohio. 

Frank G., a resident of New York city, is 
engaged iu the manufacture of " Manhattan 
Soap." He married Joanna Arington and has 
four children, — Martha A., Oijcar, Lucie and 
Frank. 

Mrs. O. M. Burke's parents were (iurdon 
Meech and Lucy ncc Swan, natives of Cjnnec- 
ticut. Her birth occurred in Bozrah, Connec- 



CUTAUOOA COUNTY. 



ticut, September 11, 1824, and in 1832 the 
family removed to Ohio and settled in Newburg, 
where her father was engaged in farming up to 
the time of his death. Both her parents reached 
an advanced age, her father being eighty-seven 
and her mother eighty five at the time of deatli. 
Mrs. Meech was small of stature, but was one of 
the noblest of women and possessed that breadth 
of character which enabled her to befriend the 
distressed and needy, on the principle that " it 
is more blessed to give than to receive." She 
reared to mature years nine children of her own, 
besides bringing up nine others. One winter 
she sent eighteen children to the district scliool. 
Of her nine children, Mrs. Juliett Morgan, 
widow of Irhajn Morgan, of Newbnrg, and 
Mrs. O. M. Burke, are the only ones now living. 

Mr. Burke moved into the beautiful and com- 
modious residence he now occupies, October 23, 
1866, and may be considered one of the pioneers 
in this part of the city as at that time there was 
only one house on the east side of his. Tills is 
now one of the most beautiful and densely pop- 
ulated portions of Cleveland. 

Politically, Mr. Burke is an ardent Republi- 
can; fraternally, a member of Iris Lodge, F. & 
A. M. Mrs. Burke is a member of tlie Third 
Presbyterian Church. 



JlOHN MUSTOE, a prosperous farmer of 
it I Strongsville township, was ])orn in Wilt- 
^!^ shire, England, February 11, 1832, and 
emigrated to America in 1856. For the first 
seven years here he was employed by J. H. 
Hussey in the copperas works in Cleveland. 
Next, for a year and a half, he was employed in 
oil works in Pennsylvania, and then settled on a 
farm in Newburg township, Cuyahoga county, 
Ohio, but four years afterward removed to 
Strongsville, locating upon the farm where he 
now resides. He owns 196 acres, on which are 
good buildings and all other improvements 
highly creditable to the judgment and painstak- 
ing of a careful man. In public relations he has 
been a Scliool Director. 



He was first married in England, to Miss 
Caroline Towiisend, a native of Wiltshire, and 
they had five children, all of whom died young! 
and Mrs. Caroline Mustoe died in this county, 
January 1, 1800. July 3, 1862, in Cleveland, 
Mr. Mustoe married Mary C. Kinch, who was 
born in Leicestershire, England, January 24, 
1885. 



SOLOMON PEASE, a prosperous and sub- 
stantial farmer of Rocky River Hamlet, 
^-^ Cuyahoga county, is a native of the same 
place where he now resides, the date of his birth 
being November 18, 1846. At that time Rocky 
River Hainiet bore the name of Rockport town- 
ship. 

The parents of our subject, Solomon and 
Mary E. (Rodgers) Pease, were pioneer settlers 
in Rockport township, having located there in 
1826 or 1827. Both were natives of beautiful 
old Chautauqua county. New York, where the 
father was born in the year 1803. They emi- 
grated to Ohio at the time just noted and set- 
tled in that portion of Cuyahoga county where 
their son now lives, residing there until the 
time of their death. The father died November 
14, 1846, and the mother surviving him many 
years, her death occurring August 24, 1888, at 
which time she had attained the age of seventy- 
nine years. Of their five children we make 
brief record as follows: Dorothy, who became 
the wife of Frederick Wright, died in Rocky 
River Hamlet, in October, 1891; Calvin is a 
retired merchant of Dover Center, Cuyahoga 
county; Gideon is a resident of Rocky River 
Hamlet, where he is engaged in farming; James 
is an undertaker of Dover Center; atid Solomon 
the youngest, is the immediate subject of this 
review. 

In the place of his nativity our subject was 
reared and here he has ever since continued to 
reside, being engaged in general agricultural 
pursuits and being honored and esteemed in the 
community that has known him from his youth 



CUTAHOOA COUNTY. 



Attaining to years of maturity and having 
placed himself iii a position of independence, 
Mr. Pease found yet one essential element of 
happiness lacking. This was supplied, on the 
22d of January, 1871, when he was united in 
marriage to Miss Emma Duulap, who was born 
in Wisconsin in July, 1851, a daughter of 
Alexander Diinlap. Her marriage to Mr. 
Pease was consummated in Pocky River Ham- 
let. In the happy family circle there are now 
five children, namely: Arthur, Howard, Edward, 
Elva and Zella. 

Mr. Pease has found that his farming oper- 
ations demanded his entire attention and he has 
had neither time nor inclination for anything 
in tlie line of public office, though he maintains 
a consistent interest in the political issues of 
the day and in the public affairs of a local order. 
He has a fine farm of ninety-one acres, all of 
which is under a high state of cultivation and 
well improved. The family homestead is a 
spacious douiicile of muuiTn style of architect- 
tare and is one of the handsomest residences in 
this section of the State. 



P 



^ EV. PETER BECKER. -While to all 

r( tliinking minds there must ever come a 
^ recognition and appreciation of the lead- 
ing part religion has taken in advancing 
civilization and conserving the higher interests 
of the human race, yet not to all comes an equal 
understanding of the burdens borne, the trials 
endured, the anxious responsibility maintained 
and the self-abnegation practiced by those who 
give their lives to the Master's cause, merging 
their very identity into the holy work which 
none should approach save with clean hands 
and pure heart. Sacrifices there must be; am- 
bition in a worldly sense must be forsworn and 
in all the work of preparation and execution 
there must be a devotion in all singleness of 
spirit to the uplifting of fellow-men into the 
brighter refulgence of the higher light, the 
light pirpetual, zealous in all good wurks and 



fit to be known as a follower of the one great 
Shepherd of all, it is most consonant that Fa- 
ther Becker, Rector of Holy Trinity parish, 
should be accorded an honored position in a 
work whose aim is to leave a permanent memo- 
rial of those individuals who have lived and 
labored in this particular section of the Union. 

Peter Becker was born in Alsace, France, 
(now Germany), November 25, 1834, his par- 
ents, John and Catherine (Kraus) Becker hav- 
ing also been natives of France. The father 
was variously engaged at farming and carpentry 
during his lifetime. He served as a soldier 
under Napoleon First and participated in the 
memorable battle of Waterloo, having been a 
private in the cavalry service. He was never 
wounded, but did not escape his quota of the 
hardships of war. He had his feet frozen and 
was sent to the hospital, undergoing much pain 
and suffering. 

John Becker came to Dover township, Cuya- 
hoga county, in 1843, arriving there on the 
fourth day of August and at once settling on a 
farm. After leaving liis native laud he arrived 
in due time at the port of New York. From 
the national metropolis he proceeded on a tow- 
boat to Albany, thence to Buffalo on a canal 
boat, completing the journey to Cleveland on 
the steamer Chicago. In 1855 he removed from 
Dover township to Sandusky county and took 
up his residence on a farm of 240 acres. In 
his farming operations he was very successful, 
bringing to bear much executive ability and 
looking carefully to all details of operation, thus 
not only insuring success but also deserving it. 
He died about the year 1876 at the age of eighty- 
four years, his wife having entered into eternal 
rest in 1855 at the age of fifty-nine years. Both 
parents were lifelong members of the Roman 
Catholic Church, and were honored and esteem- 
ed in the community which had been their 
abiding place. Mrs. John Becker was a good 
mother and a most earnest and devout Christian 
woman. Ik'r influence for good among those 
who knew her was most marked and will long 
abide. 



CU YAHOO A COUNTY. 



The subject of this sketch was the sixth in a 
family of ten cliildren, seven of whom are still 
living. His early years were passed on a farm, 
his childhood being spent in Alsace and his 
youth in Cuyahoga county, Cleveland having 
been his home for many years past. His early 
educational advantages were very meagre. Un- 
til he had attained the age of twenty-four years 
his scholastic training had been confined to two 
months' instruction during each winter season, 
when he was under the tutorship of old sailors. 
In 1858 he became a pupil in St. Mary's Semi- 
nary, in Cleveland, where he remained for a 
period of nine years. He has ever since been 
an enthusiastic and indefatigable student, though 
not to the extent of rendering him in the least 
visionary or impractical, for he is recognized as 
a man of marked business sagacity. 

Father Becker was ordained a priest Novem- 
ber 16, 1867. His first charge was from Toledo 
to Edgerton, on the Indiana line, — a work of 
seven missions, among French, Irish, Poles, 
Swedes and other nationalities. He was engaged 
in this mission work for a period of sixteen 
mouths and was then sent to Youngstown to 
start a new congregation. He began with 
twenty-five families, and when he left the charge 
one year and a half later the representation was 
si.\ty-tbur families. From this nucleus grew 
St. Joseph's Church, which is the finest one in 
the city of Youngstown, the priest in charge 
being Father John Klute, a veteran in the work 
and a most worthy man. September 18, 1870, 
alter leaving Youngstown, Fatlier Becker re- 
moved to Maumee City, in Lucas county, where 
he served for nearly nine years, coming to his 
present charge May 15, 1879. Fle began his 
present work in 1880, with a representation of 
100 families. Through his earnest and zealous 
efforts the list has now reached 400 families. 
At the beginning of his work in the parish the 
church had nothing in the way of buildings. 
He canvassed the situation thoroughly and set 
himself a task which many a less indomitable 
man would have pronounced impossil)le cf 
performance. He commenced without the first 



penny, efiected the purchase of the lots on Wood- 
land avenue for a consideration of $16,000, and 
at once instituted the work of erecting a suit- 
able building for the parochial school. The 
church edifice was also brought to completion 
in due time. The school opened with two 
teachers and at the present time the services of 
five are demanded, the same being Sisters of the 
Sacred Heart of Mary. Father Becker still 
retains his first teacher, Margaret Bonagh, while 
others have remaii ed long in the service. He 
has been particularly favored in the retention of 
the old and thoroughly proved instructors. 
Aside from the school already mentioned Father 
Becker maintains another school in temporary 
quarters, and in this also good work is beino- 
done. 

The church edifice is a commodious frame 
structure, which in time will be replaced by a 
more permanent and imposing building. The 
baptisms have reached an average of eighty-six 
per year; in 1893 the marriages were twenty- 
four in number and the deaths forty-one. The 
church has a chime of eight bells, a fine organ, 
and is otherwise well equipped in the matter of 
accessories. 

Father Becker is an indefatigable worker, a 
man of broad intellectuality and grateful human 
sympathy, and one of the most earnest soldiers 
of the church militant. He has done well his 
part in whatever field of usefulness he has been 
called, and both as a priest and a man has ever 
been held in the highest esteem by his parish- 
ioners. The fruits of his labors and the influ- 
ence of his personal example will long abide as 
a valued heritage to those to whom he has 
ministered. 



IfOSEPH H. SOMERS, a coal operator and 

i^ I wholesale dealer in coal, in Cleveland, was 
^^ born in Nelsonville, Ohio, in 181-3, a son 
of J. F. Somers, who also was a coal operator 
and shipper and one of the largest dealers in the 
country. His paternal ancestors were among 



CVYAHOOA COUNTY. 



the early settlers of Maine, and his maternal 
ancestors were people of proiainence in the set- 
tlement of New Jersey. He died in 1892, aged 
eighty-sev^en years. The paternal grandfather 
was a soldier in tiie Kevoliitionary War. 

Mr. Somers received a high-school educa- 
tion, and on leaving school became identified 
with his father in the coal business until 1868, 
in which year he went to Columbus, where he 
resided until 1883, when he came to Cleveland. 
Later his enterprise founded and built up the 
village of Somerdale, Ohio, on the Wheeling & 
Lake Erie Railway. He also opened coal mines 
at Sherrodsville, tiiis State, and from that time 
on lie has been very largely interested in coal, 
both as an operator and dealer in Ohio and 
Pennsylvania, owning now three coal mines. 
He is a wholesale dealer only, and the great 
success that has followed his efforts evinces re- 
markable business ability and integrity, and 
has placed Mr. Somers among the foremost of 
enterprising business mc:\. 

In June, 1861, he enlisted in the Twenty- 
second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, as a private in 
Company E, as one of the 75,000 men who en- 
listed under the first call for troops, and was 
discharged live months later. In 1862 he en- 
tered the United States Navy as master's mate 
of a vessel, and served in thiscapaeity until 1864. 
He is a progressive citizen and manifests much 
interest in public issues, being a firm Republi- 
can in his political principles and taking a de- 
cided intei-est in public affairs. He is a man of 
honor and respectability, and in every sense of 
the term a self-made man. 



IfJfON. JOSEPH H. BRECK, a highly 
rpl respected citizen of Newburg, Ohio, and 
II ^ at present a member of the State Legis- 
'^ lature, was born in Brecksville, Cuy- 

ahoga county, Ohio, June 28, 1831. 

The Breck family in America trace their 
ancestry back to three brothers of that name 
who emigrated from England to Massachusetts 



in 1630. Eev. Joseph Hunt Breck, the father 
of our subject, was born in Northampton, Mas- 
sachusetts, July 9, 1798; was reared and edu- 
cated in his native State, and was a graduate of 
Yale College. As early as 1828 he came as a 
missionary to the Western Reserve. He trav- 
eled throughout Summit, Geauga, Ashtabula 
and Madison counties, preaching at various 
places and being the means of accomplishing a 
great amount of good. In 1830, on account of 
failing health, he returned to Massachusetts, 
and while there was united in marriage to Miss 
Alice A. Snow, a native of Northampton, their 
7narriage occurring July 20, 1830. She was 
the daughter of Ralph Snow, a merchant of 
Northampton. After their marriage they re- 
turned to Cuyahoga county, (^hio, and located 
at Brecksville, a town named in honor of his 
family. After two years more spent in the 
ministry, his health again failed and he removed 
to Cleveland and settled on the farm which is 
now owned and occupied by his son. That was 
iti 1833. He continued farming up to the time 
of his death, June 21, 1880. Some time after 
the death of his first wife he married Diantha 
Chamberlin, who is also now deceased. In 
politics he was first a Whig and afterward a 
Republican. Early in life he was a Mason. 

Joseph H. Breck is one of a family of two 
children, his sister having died in her fourth 
year. His birth occurred in a little log house 
at Brecksville, and much of his early life was 
spent in assisting his father on the farm to 
which, as above stated, they subsequently moved. 
He, however, had the benefit of as good educa- 
tional advantages as the country afforded, his 
last schooling l)eing at the Shaw Academy where 
he received- instructions under Joseph B. Mer- 
riam. After he left the academy he was for 
a while employed as bookkeeper for E. I. Bald- 
win. Most of his life, however, has been spent 
on the farm where he now resides, engaged 
largely in the dairy business, keeping from forty 
to fifty cows. His property has grown to l)e a 
very valuable one, and a portion of it is now 
laid out in town lots. 




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CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



Mr. Breck was married January 18, 1859, to 
Miss Hattie Brooks, a native of Lorain county, 
Ohio, who was educated at Oberlin. Slie is a 
daughter of H. Brooks and sister of Dr. M. L. 
Brooks of Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Breckhave 
four children : George D., who is now associated 
with the Cleveland Elect. Eng. Co.; Dr. L. B.; 
William M., of New Haven; and Mary L., an 
accomplished young lady. 

Politically, Mr. Breck is a Republican, and 
by that party was elected in 1893 to his present 
position as a Representative to the State Legis- 
lature, his vote being next to the largest one 
polled in the county. Mr. Breck is also a 
prominent Mason. He is a member of New- 
burg Lodge, No. 379, and of Baker Chapter. 



DOMINICK M. CAREY, the subject of 
this sketch, was born at Dundas, On- 
— - tario, Canada, March 2, 1844. He was 
the second son of Michael and Winifred (How- 
ard) Carey. Michael Carey, the father of D. M. 
Carey ,wa8 born in County Galway, Ireland, about 
1824, and left the " old sod " bound for Amer- 
ica, when only a lad; and soon after his arrival 
in Canada, being a boy of industrious habits 
and greafenergy, he apprenticed himself to a 
tanner and currier to learn the business of mak- 
ing leather. 

The son, Dominick M. Carey, being dissatis- 
fied with the narrow field and limited oppor- 
tunities for acquiring for himself fame and for- 
ttine that were afforded by his father's tannery, 
left the parental roof at the early age of sixteen 
and boldly and courageously struck out, unaided 
and alone, to begin the battle of life. He was 
a born leader of men. This fact was exempli- 
fied in his childhood by the commanding influ- 
ence exerted by him over the men in the tan- 
nery, and over the children on the plaj-ground 
of the public school; and in his later career, by 
the wonderful control had by him over the 
armies of men he employed on the public works. 



There were two prominent reasons why this was 
so. First, he was the soul of honor, always do- 
ing exactly as he had promised to do; secondly 
all with whom he had business relations had 
unlimited faith in his knowledge of his busi- 
ness and in his judgment as to the best methods 
for obtaining the desired end. He was generous 
to a fault, and no worthy and needy person 
who made his necessities known ever left him 
empty-handed. 

Mr. Carey left Canada in 1860, going to Ni- 
agara county. New York, where he sought and 
obtained employment as a laborer in building 
railroads, bridges and tunnels, and rising step 
by step to be " boss of a gang," superintendent 
of construction, sub-contractor, and finally the 
leading spirit and active manager of a firm of 
contractors, widely known both in the United 
States and Canada. The work of this uoted 
firm is to be found in almost every part of this 
great country, from the new Croton aqueduct 
in New York city on the East to the Union Pa- 
cific Railroad on the West, a large portion of 
both having been built by Mr. Carey, besides 
many railroads, bridges, and tunnels between. 

On the 28th of February, 1881, Mr. Carey 
was happily married to Miss Clara Gleeson, who 
was the daughter of Edmond and Charlotte 
(Comstock) Gleeson. They had three children, 
all boys: Le Grand G, born May 25, 1882; 
James Howard, born June 2, 1886; and Ed- 
mond M., born September 7, 1888. They are 
bright boys and are fine representatives of both 
father and mother. It is said of the father of 
these boys, D. M. Carey, that for years he had 
from 700 to 1,200 men in his employ at the 
same time, and that having once seen a man 
and heard his name spoken he never forgot 
either! Le Grand G. seems to possess a similar 
faculty. 

Mrs. Carey was born June 25, 1851, and is 
a refined and cultured lady, well educated and 
has a talent that fits her for business. Edmond 
Gleeson, the father of Mrs. D. M. Carey, was 
born in 1810, married to Miss Charlotte Com- 
stock, April 4^ 1848, and (Jied October 26, 



CUTAHOQA COUNTY. 



1854. His widow subsequently (1859) mar- 
ried James C. Cleveland, Esq., who was born 
October 16, 1825, and seemed to be just 
in liis prime. Mrs. Carey and her sons live 
with Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland on Castle Hill, 
Independence, Ohio. Mr. Carey was drowned 
at Wheeling, West Virginia, January 14, 
1892. 

The Wheeling Daily Register of January 15, 
in a long article discriptive of the sad event, 
says: "The Register this morning is pained to 
chronicle the death of an active business man, 
one of a class whose energy, ability and general 
attril)utes made him a valued and valuable mem- 
ber of the community, and whose loss will be 
universally deplored. It was characteristic of 
Dominick M. Carey that death found him in 
the midst of danger, at a point where he had 
forbidden his men to go, and that he was en- 
gaged in the supervision of details for the pro- 
tection of the greatest work he had yet under- 
taken, — the Main street stone bridge — when 
he was swallowed up in the icy and turbid wa- 
ters of the stream he had spanned with the 
greatest stone arch in America. The bridge will 
stand a fitting monument to the memory of its 
great builder." 

The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer, of the 
same date, in an extended article from which 
we quote, says: "It was reported about the 
city in the forenoon yesterday that Mr. Domi- 
nick Carey, of the well known firm of con- 
tractors building Main street bridge, had been 
drowned, and inquiry confirmed the awful story! 
The death of a man of his prominence and use- 
fulness would have been enough of itself to 
send a thrill of sorrow through the community, 
but the special features which attended the sad 
occurrence made the horror of it almost as great 
as the sorrow, which was general. The regret 
for the death of Mr. Carey is as nearly univer- 
sal as a feeling of sorrow ever was in any com- 
munity." 

A diligent and extended search for the itody 
of Mr. Carey was immediately begun, and after 
weeks of labor and anxiety it was found, teu- 



derly conveyed to Dundas, the place of his 
birth, and buried by the side of his relatives. 

Mr. Carey's mother died April 24, 1894, and 
sleeps by the side of her son. 



JAMES W. DAWSON is one of the repre- 
sentative citizens of Bedford, and has 
been for many years identified with her 
interests. He was born in the Dominion of 
Canada, near the city of Toronto, April 30, 
1829. 

Robert Dawson, his father, was one of the 
prominent pioneers of this township. He was 
a native of Stokesley, Yorkshire, England, and 
there grew to manhood. He was united in 
marriage to Miss Jane Ward, also a native of 
England, and in 1822 they crossed the sea, 
taking up their abode in Her Majesty's terri- 
tory on this side the water. At the end of five 
years they disposed of their interests and came 
to the United States, settling in Cleveland, Ohio. 
Shortly afterward tiiey removed to Twinsburg, 
Summit county, Ohio, and thence came to Bed- 
ford township. Here Mr. Dawson purchased 
400 acres of timber land, and built a sawmill, 
one of the first erected in the county. Possess- 
ing ample moans, he was able to fit up the mill 
with the l)est im[)rovements afforded at that 
time, and he employed a large force of men. 
In addition to his milling interests he developed 
a fine farm, bringing the land to a high state of 
cultivation. Here he made his home during 
his latter years, passing to the "unknown 
country" at the age of fourscore years. His 
widow died April 27, 1887. There were born 
to this worthy couple a family of ten children, 
eight of whom grew to maturity: James W.; 
John, who died at the age of thirty-two years; 
Amelia M.; Robert F. ; Mary Jane, deceased; 
Martin B.; George Frederick, who died at the 
age of twenty-two years; and Dr. T. K., who 
was formerly Dean of the Cincinnati Medical 
College. Both the father and mother were 
reared in the faith of the Episcopalian Church, 



CUTAHOGA COUNTY. 



but in later life the mother united with the 
Disciple Church. Mr. Dawson was a man of 
untiring energy and commanded success in all 
business transactions. 

James W. Dawson grew from childhood to 
maturity in the community in which he still 
resides. In his youth he assisted his father in 
the labor of the mill and farm, becoming thor- 
oughly familiar with both industries. Arriving 
at mature years he embarked in the nursery 
business, carrying one of the finest collections 
of trees and shrubs in this part of the State; he 
made a specialty of pines and evergreens, buy- 
ing his supplies from the leading dealers of 
Canada and Europe. Of late years he has 
given his attention to agriculture, and owns a 
well improved farm of 120 acres. 

Mr. Dawson was married, at the age of thirty- 
five years, to Helen S. Bosworth, who was born 
at Solon, Ohio, a daughter of one of the early 
settlers of that place. Six children have been 
born of this union: Dr. W. B.; Carrie B., a 
music-teacher at Bedford; Emma, wife of E. E. 
Arnold; John R., J. A. and Ariel. Politically 
our subject affiliates with the Democratic party. 
He has served as Trustee of the township ten 
years, discharging his duties with rare fidelity 
and winning the confidence of all classes of 
citizens. 



SAMUEL GEOVES.— The subject whose 
life history is now under review occupies 
a prominent position in the business and 
social circles of the Forest City, and it is evi- 
dent that special attention should be accorded 
him in this connection. His genealogy traces 
back to a prominent line of Puritans, who occu- 
pied distinguished positions in the mother coun- 
try. He himself, was born at Dudley, England, 
December 5, 1855, and the major portion of 
his life has been passed in the land of his 
nativity. He received a thorough education at 
a private academy, and after completing his 
studies served a seven years' apprenticeship as 
mechanical draughtsman with Cochrane, Grove 



& Company, engineers and iron founders, of 
Middleborough-on-Tees, devoting special atten- 
tion to blast-furnace and pipe-founding prac- 
tice. With this representative concern he re- 
mained for a period of twenty-one years, the 
last fourteen years being in charge of the pipe- 
founding department of the drawing office. In 
1889 he accepted a position as engineer to the 
Stanton Iron Works Company, of Derbyshire, 
his principal work in the connection being the 
designing of new foundries and the providing 
of an eighteen-inch pumping set for supplying 
water to the town of Ilkeston. This incum- 
bency he retained for one year and then deter- 
mined to make the New World the scene of his 
further operations. He landed in New York, 
March 14, 1891, and soon engaged with Mcin- 
tosh, Hemphill & Company, engineers at Pitts- 
burg, Pennsylvania, remaining in their employ 
for three months. He then removed to Cleve- 
land, where he accepted the preferment as 
assistant to Mr. John Walker, mechanical en- 
gineer of the Walker Manufacturing Company. 

Endowed with much natural ability in the 
line to which he has devoted his attention, and 
having received the most thorough practical 
training, he has attained a conspicuous position 
and a recognition of his abilities in distinguished 
scientific circles. He holds a certificate as a 
science teacher to the English government and 
is a Fellow of the Society of Science, Letters 
and Arts, London, England. Since coming to 
Cleveland Mr. Groves has been elected to full 
membership in the Civil Engineers' Club, of 
this city, this being a richly merited recognition 
of his professional ability. 

March 14, 1878, Mr. Groves was united in 
marriage to Miss Anna Beckwith, a daughter 
of Emerson B. and Centy D. Beckwith, of 
London, England, the father holding a position 
of prominence as an agent for representative 
estates and landed interests. Our subject and 
his wife are the parents of five children, whose 
names and dates of birth are here noted: New- 
man, born in 1879; Frederick, 1881; Herbert 
ia85; Samuel, 1888; and Esmond, 1890. 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



Since uniting his fortunes with the United 
.States Mr. Groves has identified himself thor- 
onglily with the interests of the Union and is 
unswervingly loyal in the support of its laws 
and institutions. Having become convinced 
tliat the policies and principles advanced by the 
Eepublican party are for the best interest of 
the country at large, he has united with that 
organization and with it casts his suffrage. In 
his fraternal relations he is most prominently 
identified with the Knights of St. George, hold- 
ing the iionorabie preferment as Adjutant-Gen- 
eral in tliat order. 

Mr. Groves and his family are members and 
zealous supporters of the Congregational Church. 
Mr. Groves is the fortunate possessor of a tenor 
voice of e.xcellent timbre and fine cultivation, 
and he holds the position as tenor of the quartet 
clioir of the church of which he is a member, 
being also an active and etfectivo worker in the 
Sunday-school. Men of such high attainments 
and thorough integrity are an acquisition to 
any community, and our subject and his inter- 
esting family have already gained a position in 
the high esteem of Cleveland citizens. 



THOMAS SHEHAX, superintendent of 
motive power and electrician of the 
Cleveland City Railroad Company, was 
born in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, February 
1, 1847. He attended the schools of Collamer 
village, and upon leaving them entered the 
Union Iron Works of this city to learn his 
trade. That completed, Mr. Shehan became 
foreman of the shop, and in 1883 superintend- 
ent of Bowler's sewer and gas- pipe factory, and 
improved their molds by designing new ones 
and getting out patents covering them. In 
1887 Mr. Shehan became chief engineer of the 
Montreal line of steamers plying the lower and 
upper Lakes. He afterward accepted the posi- 
tion of superintendent of tlie Cleveland Elec- 
tric Motor Company, and in 1891 came to the 
Cleveland City Railroad Company, as superin- 



tendent of motive power and electrician, in 
which capacity he has demonstrated much fitness 
and adaptability. 

Mr. Shehan's father, Daniel Shehan, came to 
Cleveland in 1846, from county Limerick, Ire- 
land, his native place. He was a blacksmith by 
trade, and settled in Collamer village. He 
married in Ireland, Margaret McEUegot. 
Thomas Shehan is the fourth of a family of 
eight children, five now living. He married in 
Cleveland, February 20, 1893, Mrs. Kate Mc- 
Nally, of Ireland. Their children are Mary, 
Thomas and Florence. Politically, Mr. Shehan 
is Democratic on uHtinniil issues, but liberal in 
local matters. 



TH. ATKINSON, a prominent insurance 
man of the city of Cleveland, has been 
located in this city since 1868. He was 
born in Toronto, Canada, in 1845, on the 
22d of March. Mainly he was brought up in 
Buflalo, New York, where he received his edu- 
cation, having been taken to that city by his 
jiarents when he was a small child. His youth 
was spent there and very early in life he was 
invited into the business world. His father was 
a business man of considerable reputation, being 
a contractor. His parents were William and 
Mary (Bell) Atkinson, and were of English and 
Scotch nativity, respectively. Our subject was 
one of six children, of whom he is the youngest 
but one. 

When twenty-three years of age, T. H. At- 
kinson was superintendent of the Ohio Bridge 
Works, which position he held for five years, 
then in 1873 he was appointed as the deputy in 
the Revenue Department of the United States, 
which he really holds at present. In 1885 he 
engaged in the insurance business and since 
that time he has been very active in that busi- 
ness. Ho is general manager for the British 
American Insurance Company, the St. Paul 
Fire, the Mechanics' of Philadelphia, and other 
insurance companies. He is a stockholder in 



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the Merchants' Bank of Cleveland and also 
holds stock in various other business concerns 
of the city. 

Tie is an active Kepublican in politics, has 
served as a member of the county executive 
committee at different times, has been a dele- 
gate to many of the conventions of his party, 
has been a member of the city council, of the 
board of public improvements and has held other 
positions of honor and trust. He is a stock- 
holder in the Cleveland Athletic Club, having 
been one of the organizers of that club, and he 
also belongs to several other social societies in 
the city. He was married in this city on the 
17th of September, 1871, to Miss M. B. 
Harmon. 



It Jl YRON C. LONG is the general agent 
|j\rl of the United States Mutual Accident 
JJ ti Association of New York, which has 
/ been represented in this city during the 

past fourteen years. Mr. Long had been con- 
nected with this corporation a number of years, 
and in August, 1893, he was placed in charge of 
the Cleveland ottice, through which the entire 
business of the State passes; there is in this 
city alone a membership of more than 1,300, 
and the company is well represented throughout 
the State. 

Mr. Long is a iiutive of tho State of Oliio, 
born in Cleveland, in 1807, a son of A. M. and 
Etta (Wilbur) Long. The father is now dt-- 
ceased; he was an expert accountant and a man 
of superior qualifications. Myron C. attended 
the public schools of his native city, where ho 
received a good education. His first contact 
with the business world in a practical way was 
as an employee of Chandler & Price, with whom 
he remained five years; during this time he had 
charge of a number of men in the milling and 
tool department of their establishment, where 
he gave excellent satisfaction as superintendent. 
Severing his connection with this firm he ac- 
cepted a position with the Manufacturers' Ac- 



cident Insurance Company, assuming the 
management of this corporation's business in 
Indiana, Illinois and Michigan. At the end of 
twelve months he became associated with the 
United States Mutual Accident Association, 
which lie now ably represents. He is a young 
man of much more than ordinary qualifications 
and his services have met with duo apprecia- 
tion. 

lie was united in marriage, April 18, 1888, 
to Miss Lillie Broad bent. Two children have 
been born to them, Herbert J. and Helen. Mr. 
Long is a member of Plymouth Congregational 
Church, and takes a deep interest in the work of 
the society. He assisted in the organization of 
the Society of Christian Endeavor in this city, 
and has acted as both secretary and treasurer of 
that body. 

In private business enterprises Mr. Long has 
been very successful; he holds stock in some of 
the manufacturing corporations of this city, and 
also owns some valuable mining stock. Through 
perseverance and an energy that knew no fa- 
tigue he has arisen to a position of financial 
independence. 



ILLIAM CUBBON, one of the leading 
and early pioneers of Cleveland, was 
born in the Isle of Man, in 1810, a son 
Henry and Ann (Quirk) Cubbon, who spent 
their entire lives on that island. They were the 
parents of nine children, of whom our subject 
is the seventh iu order of birth, and the only 
one now living. Margaret, who was the wife 
of John Corlett, of Prospect street, Cleveland, 
was nine years younger than William. She died 
April 7, 1894. 

After completing a common-school education 
William Cubbon learned the carpenter's trade 
in England, where he had moved in 183-1. In 
1840 he came to Cleveland, Ohio, where he 
worked for several noted parties in the cai-pen- 
tering and contracting business, notably for 
Daniel Sanford, in the Cleveland boat yard. 



CUTAEOGA COUNTY. 



Afterward for a number of years he was a mem- 
ber of the well known firm of Corlett (Will- 
iam) & Ciibbon, contractors and builders. 

Mr. Cubbon made his own start in life, has 
succeeded in securing a competence for his de- 
clining years, and carries the confidence and 
respect of a large circle of acquaintances. He 
retired from business a number of years ago. 
He is a man of broad and progressive views, 
and well posted on current events. His politi- 
cal views are in harmony with Republican prin- 
ciples, and, although not a politician, has held 
office. He served as a director of the Home for 
the Poor two terms. 

In 1860 Mr. Cubbon was united in marriage 
with Miss Isabella Quirk, a daughter of Phillip 
aud Elizabeth (Gill) Quirk, natives of the Isle 
of Man. To this union has been born one 
daughter, Anna Elizabeth, a graduate of the 
Cleveland Academy. Mrs. Cubbon is a mem- 
ber of the First Baptist Church, and her daugh- 
ter is a member of the Woodland Avenue 
Presbyterian Church. In his social relations, 
our subject was a charter member of the Cuya- 
hoga Lodge, I. O. O. F., in which he has filled 
all the chairs but one. He has contributed in 
many ways toward making Cleveland a beautiful 
city, having been a skilled workman in his line. 
He occupies a pleasant home on Case avenue, 
which is one of the most beautiful thorough- 
fares of the city. 



WjlLLlAM JOHNSTON SCOTT, M. D., 
LL. D., who has been a resident of 
— — Cleveland for the past three decades, 
and who occupies a position of unusual promi- 
nence by reason of his intellectual attainments 
and his discriminating ability as a physician 
and surgeon, stands as one of the representa- 
tive and most honored professional men of the 
Forest City, — facts that lend particular congru- 
ity to the consideration of his life history in 
this connection. 



A native of the Old Dominion, that cradle of 
our national history, he was born in Culpeper 
county, Virginia, January 25, 1822, the son of 
John and Mary (McKinney) Scott, who were of 
Scottish lineage and both of whom were na- 
tives of Virginia. The father was a farmer 
by occupation, though in his earlier life he 
had followed the cooper's trade. He was a 
participant in the war of 1812, having been 
stationed at Craney Island, below Richmond. 
He died in 1836, his widow surviving until 
1879, when she passed away at the age of sixty- 
three years. Both were devoted members of 
the Baptist Church. They were the parents of 
five children, of whom the subject of this 
sketch was the oldest. Of these five children 
our subject and Thomas Edward Scott, of Knox 
county, Ohio, are the only survivors. 

William J. assisted his father in conducting 
the work of the farm until he had attained his 
majority, his educational advantages up to this 
time having been confined to attending the dis- 
trict schools. Determined to secure a liberal 
education, he went to Gambler, Ohio, entering 
the preparatory department of the Kenyon Col- 
lege. He remained at this institution for five 
years, graduating in 1848, with the degree of 
Bachelor of Arts. Immediately thereafter he 
was appointed a tutor in the college and filled 
that position most ably and acceptably for a 
period of two years. During this time he gave 
especial attention to the study of chemistry, 
and he passed the winter of 1849-'50 in Cleve- 
land, where he took a course of lectures at the 
Cleveland Medical College, subsequently re- 
turning to Gaml)ier, where for a time he was 
engaged in the practice of medicine. He was 
then appointed a professor of chemistry at Jef- 
ferson College, near Washington, Mississippi, 
where he remained about two years. In 1853 
Dr. Scott returned to Ohio and entered the 
Starling Medical College, at Columbus, and 
graduated at that institution with the degree of 
Doctor of Medicine, having previously received 
the degree of Master of Arts from Kenyon Col- 
lege. 



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Locating in Franklin county, Ohio, he en- 
tered upon the^active practice of his profession, 
and in 1861, upon the precipitation of the late 
Civil war, he became recrnting ofHcer and med- 
ical examiner. He also lent effective assistance 
in recruiting the Third Battalion of the Eight- 
eenth regular _ Infantry. Within the winter 
of 1863-'64the Doctor returned to Cleveland, 
having been appointed professor of materia 
medica and therapeutics at the Charity Hospi- 
tal College, wliicli subsequently became the 
medical department of Wooster University. 
This professorship he retained until the winter 
of 1865-'6(5, when, upon the reorganization of 
the medical department of the Western Eeserve 
University, he took the chair of principles and 
practice of medicine. From that date until 
the present time he has been continuously con- 
nected in some important capacity with this 
well-known medical institution. 

In the summer of 1864 Dr. Scott was ap- 
pointed by the Governor of Ohio a visitor to 
the military hospitals at Louisville and Nash- 
ville. In the spring of 1865 he removed his 
family to Cleveland, where he has since resided, 
being engaged in the practice of his profession 
and standing forth as one of the most able and 
popular practitioners in the city. His patron- 
age is one of distinctly representative order and 
he has ever kept pace with the magnificent de- 
velopment and scientific advances made in the 
line of his profession, being a close student and 
a discriminating judge in regard to the value of 
theories presented and methods advocated. 

He retains a membership in the American 
Medical Association (of which he has been presi- 
dent), the American Pharmaceutical Association, 
the Northwestern Ohio Medical Association, and 
the Cuyahoga County Medical Association. 

October 25, 1885, Dr. Scott was united in 
marriage to Miss Mary Stone, a daughter of the 
late Nathan Stone, of St. Johnsville, Vermont, 
and of their four children only one survives, 
namely, Dr. Nathan Stone Scott, of whom per- 
sonal mention is made in the paragraphs imme- 
diately following. 



In his profession Dr. Scott has attained a high 
reputation, the direct result of his unmistak- 
able ability and rare discernment, and eminently 
befitting a man of his known erudition. The 
respect in which he is held Ijy the citizens of 
Cleveland stands in lasting honor of his profes- 
sional precedence and his honest worth of char- 
acter. 



lyj/ATHAN STONE SCOTT, M. D., son 
I \| of Dr. William J. Scott, concerning 
I 11 whom individual mention has been made 
^ in the paragraphs immediately preceding 

this, has followed in the footsteps of his distin- 
guished father in adopting medicine and surgery 
as his life profession; and it is but natural that 
with the careful and painstaking direction under 
which his studies and researches have been pur- 
sued, and the unexcelled advantages which have 
been offered him, he should have risen as he has 
to a position of prominence in his profession, 
and to a point of recognition as one of the most 
capable and thoroughly informed physicians in 
the Forest City, — a young man of pronounced 
and admirably applied ability. 

He was born in Shadesville, Franklin county, 
Ohio, Jnne 16, 1863, and received his literary 
education at Oberlin College, and then com- 
menced the study of medicine under the direc- 
tion of his father. He afterward completed the 
course of study in the Medical Department of 
the Western Reserve University, and after his 
graduation spent one year as house physician of 
the Cleveland Maternity Hospital. He then 
passed one year abroad, for the purpose of per- 
fecting himself in surgery. During this year 
he spent much time in Paris, Berlin, Vienna 
and London, gaining most valuable knowledge 
and practice in the hospitals of these cities. 

Returning to Cleveland in the spring of 1891, 
he entered upon the active practice of his pro- 
fession in partnership with his fathei', and in 
the following fall was appointed lecturer on 
osteology in the Medical Department of the 



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Wooater University. In the spring of 1893 a 
flattering recognition of his ability was accorded 
by the same institution, which advanced him to 
the professorship of genitourinary diseases, a 
preferment whicli he has since retained. He is 
also consulting surgeon for the city hospital, 
and is visiting physician for the charity hospital. 
He is identified with the Ohio State Medical 
Society, the Cleveland Medical Society, the 
Cuyahoga County Medical Society, the North- 
ern Ohio District Medical Society, and the 
Northeastern Ohio Medical Society. He holds 
the position also as medical examiner for the 
New England Life Insurance Company. 

In 1887 was consummated the marriage of 
Dr. Scott to Miss L. Bena Brown, daughter of 
Rev. H. E. Brown, of Oberlin, Ohio, who held 
the position as Secretary of the International 
Y. M. C. A. until the year 1S93, when he ten- 
dered his resignation. Dr. and Mrs. Scott have 
one child, a winsome daughter. Flora Lucee. 
They are devoted members and communicants 
of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, the 
Doctor being Assistant Superintendent of the 
Sunday-school of the parish. 



GL. SAUNDERS, civil and mining en- 
gineer, was born in Logansport, Indiana, 
in 1865. Mr. Saunders received his edu- 
cation principally in Cleveland. He graduated 
at the Case School of Applied Science in 1887, 
graduating as a civil engineer after taking the 
course of Electrical Engineering. He spent 
some time in the West after his graduation, 
then accepted a position as contracting engineer 
for the JSew York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Rail- 
road Company, in whose employ he remained 
about one and a half years. Thereafter he was 
for a time in the employ of the Erie Railroad, 
and later spent some time in the Michigan 
mines. Afterward he taught the science of his 
profession for two years in the Case School of 
Applied Science. In 1891 he became inter- 
ested in electrical construction, being one of the 



organizers of the Cleveland Engineering Com- 
pany. He and his associates constructed for 
the Williams Publishing Company a SOO-horse- 
power electric light and power plant. Mr. 
Saunders is also consulting engineer for the 
National Carbon Company, and in many ways 
has he been connected with the industrial enter- 
prises of Cleveland. As a civil engineer, having 
a practical knowledge of electricity, his skill 
and ability have been employed in the planning 
and construction of many industrial plants of 
Cleveland. He has drafted the plans and speci- 
fications for various buildings, steam and elec- 
tric power plants for furnaces, mills, etc., and is 
regarded as one of the ablest mechanical en- 
gineers of Cleveland. 

In politics Mr. Saundeis is a firm Republi- 
can; is a prominent Freemason, and a member 
of several of the athletic and scientific clubs of 
the city. 



^NIEL EWALD, proof-reader for the 
publishing house of the Evangelical As- 

^ sociation, No. 265 Woodland avenue, 
Cleveland, Ohio, was born in Prussia, Germany, 
August 15, 1838. 

His parents, Daniel E. and Dorathy (KroU) 
Ewald, both natives of Germany, emigrated 
with their family to Canada in 1852, and settled 
on a farm. There the mother resided until 
quite recently, when she died, having attained 
her eighty-fourth year. The father preceded 
her some years ago, at the age of si.xty-eight. 
He was a prominent member of the Evangeli- 
cal Church, as also was Mrs. Ewald, whose 
beautiful Christian cliaracter has been an in- 
spiration to her family. 

The subject of this sketch was the second 
born in a family of nine children, all of whom 
are in Canada except him. He received a good 
German education in his native land and com- 
pleted his schooling after coming to America. 
For ten years he taught in the public schools of 
Canada, but, on accoiint of throat trouble, he 




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GUTAHOOA COUNTY. 



was compelled to discoutinue that occupation. 
About 1878 he was licensed to preach. This 
same throat affliction, however, would not per- 
mit of his entering the regular work of the 
ministry. In April, 1869, he came to Cleve- 
hmd, Oliio, and since then proof-reading and 
literary work have occupied his attention, he 
having tilled his present position for twenty- 
five years. He was for some time a member of 
tlie Board of Education in tiiis city. 

Mr. Ewald was married in 1859, to Miss 
Catherine Schell, daughter of Joseph and Sarah 
(Lamont) Schell. Her father was a descendant 
of Christian Schell, of Herkimer county. New 
York. The former died at the age of seventy- 
four years. His widow, still a resident of Can- 
ada, is now eighty-four years of age. Mr. and 
Mrs. Ewald have five children, viz.: Daniel 
Ephraim, a graduate of Michigan University at 
Aun Arbor, is teaching in a boys' school in 
New York city; Jennie, wife of John R. Ed- 
wards, Jr.; Milton, attending Case School; Ad- 
dison, an apprentice to the trade of machinist; 
and Arthur Judson, attending the public schools. 
The family are all members of the Evangelical 
Association. 

Personally, Mr. Ewald is a man of fine phy- 
sique, broad intellect and general information, 
and withal his genial disposition makes him a 
general favorite. 



rjjON. VINCENT A. TAYLOR, of Cuya- 
|p1| hoga county, descended from a long line 
II t of ancestors, the history of whose brill- 
' iant careers is but a prophecy of his 

own. 

He was born at Bedford, Ohio, December 6, 
1845, the son of William O. and Harriet M. 
(Fitch) Taylor. William O. Taylor was born 
at Euckland, Franklin county, Massachusetts, 
ill 1814, and was a lineal descendant of the 
Taylui' family well known in the history of the 
New England States in Colonial days. Harriet 
M. Fitch was born at Bedford, Ohio, the daugh- 
ter of Benjamin Fitch, a native of Connecticut. 



The Rev. James Fitch, one of the maternal an- 
cestors, was prominently identified with the 
founding and early history of Norwich, Con- 
necticut, and was the first minister of the gos- 
pel in that town. Thomas Fitch, one of the 
descendants of the Rev. James Fitch, was Gov- 
ernor of Connecticut from 1754 to 1766; and 
Major James Fitch, son of the Rev. James 
Fitch, was one of the founders of Yale Col- 
lege; he made liberal contributions of money 
and building material to that institution, and 
finally endowed the college with 637 acres of 
land. A great granddaughter of the Rev. 
James Fitch married President Styles of Yale 
College. Benjamin Fitch emigrated to Ohio in 
1801, and in 1813 came to Bedford, where he 
followed the trade of chair-making. William 
O. Taylor removed to the West in 1831, and 
two years later began to learn the trade of chair- 
making from Mr. Fitch. When he had mas- 
tered the business he began working on his own 
account, and met with much more than ordi- 
nary success. This was the foundation of the 
trade which called for the larger works and in- 
creased facilities which were provided in 1863, 
by the erection of a large plant at Bedford. In 
1873 the firm of William O. Taylor & Sons was 
established, and this in time was organized as 
the Taylor Chair Company, which is the present 
style of the concern. 

Vincent A. Taylor, like many another lad, 
was foiled in his youthful ambitions for want of 
means to complete his education. In 1864, 
when eighteen years of age, he enlisted in the 
One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio Volunteer In- 
fantry, and later joined the One Hundred and 
Seventy-Seventh Regiment, of which he was a 
member when he was mustei'ed out of the ser- 
vice. He was in the Twenty-third Army Corps 
during the Hood-Thomas campaign in Tennes- 
see, when the bloody battles of Nashville, 
Franklin, Spring Hill and Stone River were 
fought; he was also in the attack upon Fort 
Fisher, and participated in the campaign in 
North Carolina. He was honorably discharged 
in June, 1865, one of the youngest soldiers of 



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CUFAHOOA COUNTY. 



tlie Union army. After returning from the war 
lie abandoned his long-clierished hope of enter- 
ing the legal profession. He embarked in the 
lumber trade, which he conducted with very 
satisfactory results, until he decided to connect 
himself with his father and brothers in the 
manufacturing business. 

He has always taken an active interest in the 
affairs of his town, connty, State and nation, and 
has served the public in various capacities, dis- 
charging his duties with a fidelity and zeal 
which commanded the respect and inspired the 
confidence of his constituents and opponents 
alike. In 1878-79 he filled the office of Mayor 
of Bedford, and in October, 1888, he was elected 
State Senator from Cuyahoga county on the 
Republican ticket. From the first he took a 
prominent position in the Senate, and was an 
active participant in the deliberations of that 
body. Among the most important measures 
introduced by him was the bill known as the 
"Depository Law," which, in brief, required 
city treasurers and boards of education to de- 
posit the funds received by tiiem in the bank 
which oflered the highest rate of interest for the 
money, the rate being determined by proposals 
or bids from the banks. This bill became a law, 
and, besides securing large additional revenues 
to cities, effectually places the public funds be- 
yond the roach of embezzlement or defalcation. 
In 1890 Mr. Taylor was nominated by the Ke- 
publican party for Congress to represent the 
Twentieth Congressional District of Ohio, and 
was elected at the following election. The 
nominating convention convened in Cleveland 
August 7th of that year, and five candidates 
were brought forward: V. A. Taylor, of Cuya- 
hoga county; C. P. Wickham, of Huron county ; 
J. B. Burrows, of Lake county; N. D. Tibbals, 
of Summit connty, and E. G. Johnson and C4. 
W. Siiurtleff, of Lorain. All were men of 
prominence and influence, and were supported 
l>y intelligent and devoted friends. The bal- 
loting continued until the 16th of August with- 
out intermission excepting Sunday, and 281 
ballots were taken before a choice was made. 



On the 281st ballot Mr. Taylor received 141 
votes, or twenty-two more than were required 
for a decision. 

Mr. Taylor was united in marriage on the 
30th of November, 1867, to Miss Clara R. 
Flick of Bedford, a daughter of Jacob Flick, 
whose history is given in this volume. Four 
children have been born of this union: Albert 
v., who is a student in the Columbian Law 
School, Washington, District of Columbia; Hat- 
tie M., Joseph and Bruce. Mr. Taylor is an 
honored member of the Masonic fraternity, be- 
longing to Summit Chapter, R. A. M., and to 
Holyrood Commandry, K. T., of Cleveland; he 
is a member of Memorial Post, G. A. R., and 
belongs to the Church of Christ at Bedford. 



LEOPOLD EDELMAN, engaged in the 
I cigar and hat business in Cleveland, was 
1 born in Hungary, Austria, in 1856, a son 

of Marcus and Pauline Edelman, natives also 
of that country. Although seventy-one years 
of age, the father is still engaged in merchan- 
dising in Hungary. He is a member of the 
Jewish Congregation. Mrs. Edelman died of 
cholera in 1871. They had four sons and three 
daughters, — Leopold, our subject; Abram; and 
B., engaged in the cigar and hat business in Chi- 
cago: William, also in that city; Lena, wife of 
Samuel Goldstein, engaged in the cigar business 
in Chicago; Rosena, wife of William Schriber, 
and Estie, both of Chicago. 

Leopold Edelman receiveil his education in his 
native country. In 1872 he came to America, 
locating in Cleveland, and for the following 
two years traveled with cigars. He then en- 
gaged in business for himself on a small scale, 
which has gradually increased until he now car- 
ries a stock of goods amounting to $7,000. His 
store is located on the Public Square, and his res- 
idence at 176 and 178 Central avenue. His 
property is worth S12,000. He has four 
houses on one lot. Socially, Mr. Edelman is a 
charter member of Deak Lodge, No. 334, K. 



CUYAHOGA COUNT?. 



of P., and now carries an insurance of $3,000 
in Endowment Bank. He is also a member 
and has served as Treasurer tliree years of the 
Sons of Benjamin, is a member of the Young 
Men's Hungarian Benevolent Society, of tiie 
Hebrew Relief Society of the Old Age Home, 
the Jewish Orphan Asylum, and is one of the 
burying ground trustees. 

Mr. Edelman was married July 20, 1881, to 
Miss Minnie Berkowiz, native of the same lo- 
cality in Austria as her husband. They have 
live children, — Morris, Paulina, Selma, Phillip 
and Lillie. Mr. Edelman purchased the Eagle 
Street Synagogue for the Jewish Congregation, 
the remodelling of which cost $3,500. He was 
Chairman of the Building Committee, after- 
ward served as President and Secretary of the 
society, and is now Treasurer. Mr. Edelman is 
well known in business and social circles, as 
well as in political organizations. He is iden- 
tified with tlie leading business men of the city. 



DR. E. P. BANNING, piiysician and sur- 
1 geon, Clarence building, Cleveland, was 
born in Titnsville, Pennsylvania, Janu- 
ary 1, 1835. 

His father. Dr. Edwin P. Banning, was a na- 
tive of Cantield, Trumbull county, Ohio, and, 
being vary young when his parents died, was 
brought up and educated by his mother's 
brother, Archibald Tanner, the father-in-law of 
Gleni W. Scofield, late Judge of the Court of 
Claims and Register of the United States Treas 
ury, and Congressman from 1856 till he ac- 
cepted the position in the Treasury Department. 
Dr. Banning (father of our subject) graduated 
at the medical college at Fairfield, New York, 
and entered upon the practice of his profession 
in the oil town, Titusville, Pennsylvania, then a 
hamlet of only five houses, with no roads except- 
ing trails and bridle paths. He was accord- 
ingly a pioneer in his profession there, and the 
oldest physician in the vicinity. 

In 1827 he became impressed with the fact 
that there was a class of chronic diseases that 



invariably resisted the action of medicine for 
their relief; and by special investigation he dis- 
covered that the reason for the failure of medi- 
cine in such cases was the fact that they were 
displacements of internal organs, and needed 
only mechanical treatment. He worked his way 
to Pittsburg, on a lumber raft, and presented to 
the Allegheny Medical Society his views, to- 
gether with some rude appliances that a horse- 
shoer had made under his direction for the cor- 
rection of the displacements. He thus became 
the discoverer of mechanical pathology, the 
founder of mechanical therapeutics. His in- 
ventions constitute to tlie present day the founda- 
tion of all appliances for the support of the 
spine. He is known and quoted as the father 
of mechanical therapeutics throughout the civil- 
ized world. It has been estimated that no dis- 
coverer in the series of inventions has so bene- 
fited humanity. To him is due the discontinu- 
ance of the burning and blistering for spinal 
diseases, formerly so greatly in vogue in this 
country. And so firmly did he construct and 
conscientiously perfect his mechanical devices, 
that two years after his death they were ex- 
hibited at the great World's Columbian Expo- 
sition at Chicago in 1893, and secured the only 
award among 134 competing exhibitors! and 
this was the only instance in the whole exposi- 
tion where a sole award was given. 

Dr. Banning died in January, 1891, full 
of years (he was born in 1800) and full of 
honors, esteemed as one of earth's greatest 
benefactors. 

After leaving Pittsburg in 1827 he moved to 
New York, in 1854 to Cleveland, Ohio, and in 
1859 returned to New York city, where he re- 
sided until his death. Four of his seven chil- 
dren are living, namely: Emily, wife of Tomp- 
kins Neams, a celebrated composer and musician 
of New York city; Dr. E. P., our subject; Dr. 
A. T. Banning, the Health Officer of West- 
chester county. New York, and a very promi- 
nent operating surgeon; and Carrie, the wife of 
Dr. C. G. Clark of Centerville, Crawford county, 
Pennsylvania. 



CUTABOGA COUNTY. 



Dr. E. r. Banning, wliose name introduces 
tliis memoir, received his professional training 
at the Evansvilie (Indiana) Medical College. 
On the commencement of the war he enlisted in 
tlie United States Navy and served until 1871, 
at which time he was promoted as Lieutenant 
in the regular service. Ik- resigned his com- 
mission and entered upon the practice of his 
profession in New York city, soon becoming 
interested in his father's special views, improve- 
ments and inventions. 

He was first married at Pensacola, Florida, 
to Miss Florida Morrill, in 18G6; she died in 
New Orleans, in June. 1809, and the Doctor 
was again married, this time to ^Nfiss Carina 
Carpenter, a daughter of Dr. Calvin Carpenter, 
of Geneva, New York, and niece of Stephen H. 
Carpenter, professor of rhetoric and literature 
in the Wisconsin State University. Of the Doc- 
tor's four children tiiree are living, viz.: Corena 
Carpenter, aged twelve years; P'lorida Gennette, 
ten; and Dahlgren, five. Mrs. Banning is a 
graduate of tlie scientific department of the 
Wisconsin State University, also of the Cleve- 
land University of Medicine and Surgery, for- 
merly the Homeopathic Hospital Medical Col- 
lege, at whicii her husband is special lecturer on 
the diseases of the spine. She is a member and 
zealous worker in the Cedar Avenue Baptist 
Church, and Dr. Baiming ia a member of the 
Episcopalian Church. 



LBEKT S. ELLIOTT, M. D., of Ea.st 
Cleveland, was born in Olmsted, Cuy- 
ahoga county, September 8, 1870, a 
son of Reuben T. and Anna M. (Spence) 
Elliott. His father is a teacher by profession, 
and is now one of the county examiners, and is 
Superintendent of the Butternut Itidge schools. 
His children are: Archie, who resides in South 
Dakota; Will N., American express agent at 
.Vshtabula, Ohio; and Alln-rt S.. whose name 
heads tiiis sketch. 

Dr. Elliott was educated at the Butternut 
Kidge high school, graduated in medicine at the 



Western Reserve University in 1892, and ap- 
pointed house physician at St. Vincent's Hos- 
pital, remaining there until 1893, when he 
opened practice at the corner of Euclid and 
East End avenues. Since April, 1893, he has 
been district physician, and is now consulting 
physician for the National Union Life Insurance 
Company, the State Mutual Insura!K'eCom])any 
of Worcester, Massachusetts, and tlie Home 
and Benefit Companies of Cleveland. 



djACOB D. SELZER, proprietor of one of 
the finest greenhouses in Cuyahoga county, 
— and who has held several important public 
positions, was born May 4, 1836, in Bavaria, 
Germany. He crossed the ocean in 1850 with 
a cousin, and came to Cleveland. A brother of 
his, Daniel Selzer, had preceded him, and prob- 
ably he was thus induced to come to Cleveland. 
Mr. Selzer's early education was obtained in 
Germany, his fatherland, and was thorough. 
His parents were Jacob and Mary (Damien) 
Selzer. They have long since passed away in 
death. While the name Selzer is wholly Ger- 
man, the name Damien is of French origin. 
Mr. Selzer was born as the second of six chil- 
dren, of whom only three now survive. The 
eldest of these children, Anna, married Dr. 
Hartman. formerly a physician of Cleveland; 
he was killed during the Civil war, at the battle 
of Chancellorsville. Louise, the second child, 
married August Schermer, and is now a resi- 
dent of Parma, Ohio. The third child, Daniel, 
was for years a well-known merchant of Cleve- 
land, where he died a few years since. Mary S. 
was wedded by Cliristopher Wetzel, a coojier of 
Chicago. Elizabeth Selzer died early in life, as 
the wife of William Schermer. 

The subject of this sketch l>egau life in Amer- 
ica as a clerk in a store. Subsequently he was 
engaged for a considerable time for various 
Cleveland firms as a traveling salesman, where 
he remained for as many as twenty years. In 
January, 1859. he wedded Elizabeth Wirth, of 
Brooklyn. She died in 1865, leaving one child. 



CUTAHOOA COUNTY. 



Hon. Charles L. Selzer, Mayor of Brooklyn, a 
prominent attorney. For a second wife Mr. 
Selzer married Louise Wirth, by whom ho has 
one son, George H., born June 27, 1807, who 
was educated at IJrooklyn and is now a travel- 
ing salesman for a firm in Cleveland. In 18()7 
Mr. Seizor bought the piece of property which 
he has beautified and developed into his present 
excellent home, and has long resided at Brook- 
lyn. In 1886 he embarked in the greenhouse 
business, in which he has been very successful. 
Politically he has always been a stanch Demo- 
crat. He has always been active and progress- 
ive as a worker in the ranks of his party, and 
has tilled several very important political posi- 
tions. He was appointed Deputy Treasurer of 
the State in 1878, a position which he held two 
years, and a very responsible position, which he 
filled with credit to himself and those whom he 
served. His next position of honoi' was that of 
bookkeeper of the House of Uejiresentatives, 
which position he held during the forty-eighth, 
forty-ninth, fiftieth and fifty-first Congresses. 
In personal bearing Mr. Selzer is a very pleas- 
ant, genial spirit. He is a gentleman of liberal 
and broad views, charitable in his nature, and 
is esteemed and respected by all who know 



Kr^ OBERT FOSTER, manufacturer of lad- 
K^ ders and woodenware, Glenville, Ohio, 
Jl *^ is one of the most public-spirited and 
^ enterprising of men, and is well worthy 

of representation among the leading citizens of 
Cuyahoga county. He was born on the farm 
which is still his home, October 3, 1850, the 
son of William and Mary (Whigham) Foster, 
natives of county Meath and county Down re- 
spectively. The parents einigrated from Ire- 
land to America, and passed the remainder of 
their lives in this country. The father settled 
on his farm in 1830, and to-day the entire tract 
is laid out in lots within the corporation of 
Glenville. Mr. Foster was a conspicuous figure 



in the village, taking a deep interest in religious 
and political matters; his home was the head- 
quarters for the Methodist ministers, and he 
was largely instrumental in the building of the 
first Methodist Episcopal cjiurch in the place. 
He cast his suffrage with ihe old Jackson 
Democrats. He died in 1877, on the 34th day 
of April, aged seventy-four years; his wife 
died in 1853, at the ago of thirty years. There 
were six children in the family, three of whom 
died in early life: Robert, Thomas, and Nancy, 
wife of Attorney Barrett, of Cleveland, are the 
three surviving. 

Robert Foster received his education in the 
common schools, his training there being sup- 
pleniented by a course in the Spenoerian Busi- 
ness College in 1870. He was reared to the 
occupation of a farmer, and followed agricult- 
ural pursuits in connection with bridge-build- 
ing until 1888. He then started the only 
manufactory that has found support in (Glen- 
ville, his annual output of ladders aggregating 
20,000; he also manufactures a large line of 
woodenware, and draws his patronage from 
Florida, Texas, Maine, California, and interme- 
diate States. In October, 1893, the plant was 
totally destroyed by fire, but with characteristic 
energy Mr. Foster went to work rel)uilding, 
and within sixty days had his factory in 
operation. 

He has held every ollice in the village ex- 
cepting that of Mayor: he was the first Mar- 
shal, resigning this position to l>ecome a mem- 
ber of the Council; at the end of throe years 
he resigned to accept the oflico of Clerk, which 
he hold two years. He was then elected a 
member of the School Board, and after one 
year he resigned to take a place on the Board 
of Water- works, which he still holds. He is 
the choice of both Democrats and Ropnblicans 
for the same office, so that his election in April, 
1894, is almost an assured thing. In 1883 he 
was the choice of the Greenback party for 
County Clerk, and received a very large vote. 

Mr. Foster was married in 1877, on Christ- 
mas eve, to Miss Lillian E. Draper, daughter of 



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C. R. Draper, and a native of the State of Ohio. 
Mr. Draper was a minister iu the Universalist 
Church, and during the late war was in the 
service four years. Mr. and Mrs. Foster are 
the parents of five children: William Robert, 
Frank Carlisle, Thomas Earl, Lillian Ethel 
and Dorris. Mrs. Foster and the two elder 
children are members of the Methodist Episco- 
pal Church. 

Politically, financially and socially Mr. Foster 
is refjardcd as one of the leading men of the 
townshij), and few persons can number a stronger 
host of friends than he. 



DAVID S. PERKINS, M. D., 711 Genesee 
avenue, Cleveland, was born in Randolph, 
— ' Portage county, Ohio, Jan. 8, 1856, a son 
of Captain Simeon and Mary Ann (Rogers) Per- 
kins, who were also born within the borders of 
the Buckeye State. Captain Perkins was reared 
to the occupation of a farmer, and followed 
this vocation until recently, when he turned his 
attention to the business of securing pensions. 
He was a soldier in the late war, and therefore 
has a keen appreciation of the hardships en- 
countered and the dangers faced by the "boys 
in blue." lie enlisted in 1S63 in the One Hun- 
dred and Eighty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infan- 
try, and was assigned to the Army of the Cum- 
berland, after which he was chiefly on guard 
duty. He and his wife are consistent members 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which 
he is an officer. They have had a family of 
three children: Dr. David S. is the eldest; 
Electa is the wife of Clarence Ladd, of Ran- 
dolph, Ohio; Maud, a talented musician, died 
at the age of twenty-two years; slie was a young 
woman of unusual gifts, and her death was 
deeply lamented by all who knew her. 

Dr. Perkins pursued the literary course of the 
University of Michigan and then entered the 
Cleveland Medical College, from which he was 
graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1880. 
Iu 1883 he took the same degree at Jeffer- 



son Medical College, Philadelphia. He is a 
thorough student, and keeps fully abreast of the 
times in all matters pertaining to his profession. 
He began his practice in Randolph, Ohio, in 
1880, and three years later came to Cleveland, 
where he has met with most gratifying success. 
His scholarly attainments, his devotion to his 
profession, and his genial disposition, have won 
him a host of admiring friends. He is surgeon 
to the Universitj' School, Cleveland; is medical 
examiner for the Hartford Life and Annuity 
Insurance Company, the Royal Arcanum, and 
the Knights of Maccabees. 

The Doctor was united in marriage in 1878 
to Miss Carrie Mendenhall, daughter of William 
T. Mendenhall, of Randolph, Ohio. They have 
one child a daughter named Nina. They are 
both members of the Presbyterian Church. 
Although he takes no active interest in politics. 
Dr. Perkins does not neglect his duty as a citi- 
zen of the Republic: he casts his suffrage with 
the Republican party. 



LEWIS J. DUNN, veterinary surgeon, 
I occu])ies a conspicuous and desirable rank 
- — i in his profession, and was born at Erie, 
Pennsylvania, December 10, 1867, and was there 
a resident many years. In the schools of Cleve- 
land he gained a liberal education. His father 
being a liveryman, his surroundings in youth 
were such as invited him into the practice of 
veterinary surgery, and for two years he was 
a student under Dr. John R. Anderson and 
Hardlull Bros., of Louisville, Kentucky, in 
which latter city he spent two year.-;, as a prac- 
titioner gaining a thorough and practical knowl- 
edge of his profession. He then returned to 
Erie, and after remaining there about eight 
months, and graduating from the Toronto School 
of Veterinary Surgery, he also became an hon- 
orary member of the Ontario Veterinary School. 
Upon coming to Cleveland he located at Brook- 
lyn, where he has a very large stal)le. exceed- 
ingly well equipped and arranged for his busi- 



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ness, wbicli has steadily increased in importance. 
Dr. Dunn's practice has been very successful 
and has placed him among the most able of his 
profession. He has many boarders in his in- 
firmary, which requires the attention of a num- 
ber of skillful attendants. His institution is 
one of tlie l)est and most successfully conducted 
institutions of its kind, and is kept in line with 
all the modern improvements, and he himself, 
being of a progressive spirit, keeps full pace 
with the advancement of his profession. He 
graduated with honors at Toronto, has practiced 
with success, has accumulated wealth and 
achieved honor and respect. He enjoys the 
blessings of a happy marriage relation. He 
was married in September, 1892, to Miss L. 
Hoeh, and his present home is located at 43 
Seymour avenue, Brooklyn. 



rM. McCAETNEY, D. D. S., with his 
office at 1207 Pearl street, has been a 
— practicing dentist at that place for the 
past three years. He is a native of Randolph, 
Pennsylvania. He removed to Titusville, Penn- 
sylvania, in 1884. He graduated in dental 
surgery at Philadelphia, obtaining his degree of 
Doctor of Dental Surgery in 1890. He imme- 
diately came to this city and has since built up 
a very excellent practice in his profession, in 
which he ranks as a man of ability and learn- 
ing. As a citizen Dr. McCartney is also highly 
esteemed. He is a member of the order of 
Knights of Pythias, and in politics is a Repub- 
lican. 



[( MOS DENISON, a representative attor- 
1\ ney at law in Cleveland, Ohio, a man of 
li conspicuous professional ability and 
marked intellectual acumen, is a native of 
the Buckeye State, having been born at Parma, 
Cuyahoga county, October 11, 1849, the son of 
Amos E. W. and Mary M., (Dexter) Denison. 
The father was a native of Stonington, Connecti- 
cut, and the mother was a direct descendant of 



Samuel Dexter, who once held conspicuous pre- 
ferment as Secretary of the United States Treas- 
ury. 

Mr. Denison's boyhood days were passed on 
the parental farmstead, that most effective cradle 
of industry, of impregnable integrity and well- 
directed ambition. Under such invigorating 
and potent environment and rugged discipline 
our subject developed those sterling character- 
istics which were to fortify him for the battles 
of life and to render possible the advancement 
to a position of prominence and honor as a man 
and a lawyer. At an early age he manifested a 
marked predilection for consecutive study and 
an ability to make a practical application of the 
knowledge gained through varied channels. Be- 
ing gifted with keen perceptive powers and a 
mentality that placed true values upon all things, 
he was enabled to make his way through the ad- 
vancing grades of the public schools with ex- 
traordinary rapidity, as may be deduced from 
the circumstance that at the age of fourteen 
years he became a student in the Cleveland In- 
stitute, where he devoted himself for several 
years to his studies, being unflagging in his ap- 
plication and holding no obstacle along the line 
of intellectual development as insuperable. He 
graduated at this institute in 1869, incidentally 
bearing off the highest honors of his class. His 
literary education thus advanced, the youno- 
man realized that in the wide world there was 
yet much to learn by mere contact with his fel- 
low-men, and tiiis broadening discipline he de- 
termined to secure, passing two years very prof- 
itably in study and travel. All this time he 
had retained in an inchoactive form an idea of 
the distinctive line along which his life work 
should be directed, and once determined as to 
the course to be pursued he buckled on the har- 
ness and again lent himself to close application, 
eagerly taking up the study of legal lore with 
the aim of preparing himself for practice at the 
bar, a profession for which he was admirably 
adapted by natural endowment and mental char- 
acteristics, as is sufficiently evinced by the 
marked success he has attained. He began the 



CV YAHOO A COUNTY. 



reading of law in the office of Palmer& DeWolf, 
then prominent attorneys of the Forest City, 
and subsequently he took a full course of in- 
struction in the law department of the Universi- 
ty of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, graduating in 



ich 



year 



he secured admission to 



1872, 
tlie, bar. 

Thus thoroughly equipped, he entered upon 
the active practice of liis jirofession in Cleve- 
land, as a member of the firm of Wyman, Ham- 
ilton & Denison. Four years later his associa- 
tion was dissolved by the retirement of Mr. 
Wyman and the election of Mr. Hamilton to 
the bench of Common Pleas. Mr. Denison 
then entered into a professional partnership with 
J. W. Tyler, the firm conducting a representa- 
tive business for a number of years. In 1886 
our subject formed a law partnership with W. 
E. Sherwood, which association continued until 
the latter was appointed Judge of the Court of 
Common l^leas. 

Very early in his career Mr. Denison attained 
prominence in his profession and consequently 
high staiiding among the members of the legal 
fraternity, ever retaining his prestige at the 
bar and as a man among men. With much na- 
tive talent, close habits of study and application, 
indefatigable industry and integrity, the ad- 
vancement of the subject of this review to a dis- 
tinguished professional position is but in nor- 
mal sequence from cause to effect. His abili- 
ties, acquirements and success have, however, 
transcended the limitations of his profession; 
his thorough education, keen discrimination, in- 
nate refinement and strong convictions have 
drawn him to a considerable extent into the lit- 
erary and jounalistic field, where he has proved 
his talent as a vigorous and versatile writer. 
As a speaker he is persuasive, entertaining and 
eloquent, never resorting to specious methods, 
but ever giving a courteous dignity and direct- 
ness to his utterances; he has gained no little 
prominence as a lecturer. 

Genial in his bearing and of broad sympa- 
thies, he enjoys a marked personal popularity 
and has high standing in social circles. In his 



political proclivities Mr. Denison has always 
been actively arrayed in the support of the Re- 
publican party and its tenets. In 1892 he was 
a delegate to the National Republican Conven- 
tion in Indianapolis, representing the Twenty- 
first Congressional District. He has ever main- 
tained a lively interest in the cause of edu(;ation 
and is one of the incorporators of that notable 
Cleveland institution, the Case School of Ap- 
plied Science. 



T| T. FLYNN, -who holds the responsible 
J^ I position of steward for the Cleveland In- 
''^ firmary and Hospital, was born in Pater- 
son, New Jersey, September 13, 1861, a son of 
D. J. Flynn. The latter was born in Dublin, 
Ireland, and emigrated to America. He was 
married in Glasgow, Scotland, to Miss Mitchell, 
and they had only one child. After coming to 
this country Mr. Flynn enlisted in the Federal 
army in New Jersey, and during his services 
received a wound from which he suffered many 
years. By the advice of physiciaas he consented 
to an operation to prolong his life, but, not be- 
ing physically able to undergo such surgical 
treatment, he died on the operating table. May 
14, 1893! 

J. T. Flynn, our subject, was brought by his 
father to this city when about seven years .of 
age, where he received a good education in the 
public schools, and also completed a course in 
the Spencerian Business College. At the latter 
place he gave special attention to the study of 
stenography, becoming proficient. He served as 
stenographer for the general freight agent of 
the Big Four Railroad Company four years, for 
the following two years had charge of tiie freight 
office and yard of the Valley Railroad Company, 
was then appointed stenographer and Deputy 
Sheriff under Sheriff Ryan, and remained in 
that position until appointed steward of the 
Cleveland Infirmary and Hospital, May .1, 
1893. Mr. Flynn has 700 inmates under his 
charge, fifty-si.x employes, and live divisions. 



CUYAHOGA OOUNTT. 



All matters pertaining to the government and 
control of the two institutions are submitted to 
him for execution. Mr. Flyun has always been 
an active worker in political campaigns. He 
was one of the DeTiiocratic members of the City 
Council in 1890-'91, having been elected from 
the second district, sixth ward; was chairman of 
the committee on public offices and officers, and 
also served on several special committees. 

June 4, 1887, in this city, our subject was 
united in marriage with Rose E., a daughter of 
G. W. Swearinger, of German descent. He is 
now employed on the Valley Railroad. 



'Jf^j EV. GEORGE BERSTECHER, assistant 
r^' editor of the Ghristliche Botschafter, 265 
IJ ¥i Woodland avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, was 
V born in Tuttlingeu,Wuerttemburg, Ger- 

many, January 6, 1850. His parents, George 
and Lena (Huber) Berstecher, passed their lives 
and died in Germany. 

The senior George Berstecher left Germany 
with his parents when he was sixteen years of 
age, expecting to come to America; but by the 
treachery of King Philip of France they were 
misled, and the whole company, instead of land- 
ing in America, landed in Africa, where they 
remained six months. On this voyage two of 
his l)rothers sickened and died and were buried 
at sea. They were returned to Germany at the 
expense of the French Government, and three 
days after they landed his father, the grand- 
father of our subject, died. The family was at 
one time wealthy, but on this voyage lost all 
their means. After his return to Germany, 
George Berstecher served his country eight years 
in the array. He died at the age of sixty-seven. 
Both he and his wife were members of the 
Evangelical Lutheran Church. They had a 
family of two daughters and five sorjs, George 
being the first born. He was the first of the 
family to come to America, the date of his 
arrival here being July 12, 1870, when he lo- 



cated in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1883 he was 
joined by his brother John, who is now a re- 
sident of Pennsylvania. 

The subject of our sketch had received a good 
education in his native laud, and after he came 
to this country he was for two years employed 
ig house of the Methodist Epis- 



at the publish 



copal Church in Cincinnati. After that he be- 
came connected with the Evangelical Associa- 
tion publishing house. In the meantime he 
was preparing himself for the work of the minis- 
try, and in 1873 he began his ministerial work 
as an itinerant in the Indiana Conference of the 
Evangelical Association. He served as a mis- 
sionary in Ohio two years and for seven years 
was in the same kind of work in Illinois. After 
tliat he took work in the Erie Conference of 
the same denomination and returned east. He 
tilled places in New York and Pennsylvania, 
and in the spring of 1891 was made pastor of 
the Herald Street Church of Cleveland, Ohio, 
where he served one year, at the end of which 
time he was appointed to his present position. 
He has been Conference Secretary most of the 
time since he has been in the ministry. In 
1891 he was a delegate to the General Confer- 
ence at Indianapolis, and was one of the secre- 
taries of that body. 

Mr. Berstecher was married in 1875 to Miss 
Rosa Wuest, a native of Baden, Germany, who 
has been a resident of the United States since 
1872. Tiiey have three children: Rosa, Olga 
and Thekla. His family are all members of the 
Evangelical Association. 

In his political views he is a Republican. 



F. BECK, M. D., physician and sur- 
geon of Brooklyn Village, was born 
November 6, 1856, at Erie, Pennsyl- 
vania. His parents were John and Eva Beck, 
both being natives of Germany. They came to 
this country a few years prior to 1856. Soon 
after coming to this country they located in 
Erie, in the public schools of which city Dr, 



CUTABOGA COUNTY. 



13eck received a literary education. For a time 
be was engaged in the mercantile business and 
other pursuits. He then entered the Univer- 
sity of Buffalo for the purpose of taking a medi- 
cal course, and received a diploma in 1893. 
He has thoroughly well prepared himself for 
his profession. He graduated with honor, 
being regarded as strongest of the class in which 
he graduated. Upon entering into the practice 
of his profession he located at Brooklyn and has 
already gained considerable reputation in the 
profession. Being naturally a man of strong 
character of mind and his tastes having led 
him to his profession, he is thoroughly devoted 
to the same, and is a constant and thorough 
reader and investigator, and has become 
thoroughly well equipped for his practice, hav- 
ing gained considerable hospital experience, as 
well as having traveled a very great deal, always 
looking with a view to benefiting himself in 
some way for the practice of his profession, in 
which lie evidently will become successful. 



Q 



EURGE B. FARXSWORTH, M. D., 
the oldest practicing physician of Brook- 
U lyn, where he has practiced for many 
years, was born June 23, 1854, in New 
York State. His parents were Whitcomb and 
Harriet Farnsworth. When our subject was 
but two years old, his widowed mother removed 
to Painesville, Ohio. Here her son was edu- 
cated. Early in life he took up the study of 
medicine, remaining for a time under the guid- 
ance of practicing physicians, then entering the 
medical department of the Wooster University, 
of Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated in medicine 
in the year 1879, and in the following spring 
he located in Brooklyn, where he has since con- 
tinued in the practice of his profession. He is 
one of the oldest and best-known physicians of 
that place, and sustains a very appropriate rank 
in his profession, being a member of the Cleve- 
land Medical Society and the Cuyahoga County 
Medical Association, and also sustaining other 
important relations in his profession. 



Fraternally, he is a member of the Royal 
Arcanum. He is also a Christian gentleman, 
and is of a progressive spirit, taking consider- 
able interest in public affairs. He has always 
been a warm friend of both church and education. 
He has served quite well as a member of the 
Board of Education and also on the Board of 
Public Health. He organized the Brooklyn 
Vocal Society, beginning with sixteen members, 
in connection with the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, and now the membership of this society 
is considerably larger, consisting of some of 
the most excellent talent in vocal music. 



ALPH ARNOLD, farmer of Orange 
township, Cuyahoga county, was born on 
the place where he still lives, July 5, 
1833, a son of Elestus Arnold, a native 
of Berkshire, Massachusetts, but one of the early 
pioneers of this county. His father, Elijah 
Arnold, was a Revolutionary soldier, and a 
member of a prominent family in Massachusetts. 
Elestus Arnold married Electa Fayworth, also a 
native of that State. In 1826 they came to 
Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and two years after- 
ward located on the farm in Orange township 
where our subject now resides. The father died 
here at the age of seventy-nine years, and the 
mother survived until eighty-four years of age. 
They were the parents of six children, viz.: 
Collins (deceased in Warrensville, Ohio, in 
1893), Douglas, Charles, Eliza, Ralph and 
George G. Mr. Arnold was an active worker 
in the Republican party, and for many years 
served as Justice of the Peace. He was a mem- 
ber of the Baptist Church. 

Ralph Arnold was reared on the old home- 
stead, and received his education in the public 
schools of this locality. During the late war he 
served two years as a member of Company C, 
Fifth Ohio Infantry. Mr. Arnold now owns 100 
acres of well-improved land in Orange township, 
where he has all the necessary farm buildings 
and improvements, and for the past twenty 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



years has been largely engaged in stock raising. 
He was also successfully engaged as a traveling 
salesman for a number years. In political mat- 
ters, Mr. Arnold has always been an active 
worker in the Kepublican party, and has served 
with credit as Assessor, Trustee and a member 
of tlie School Board. 

In 1858 our subject was united in marriage 
with Jane N. Smith, a daughter of John and 
Nancy (Burnside) Smith. To that union was 
born one daughter, Lydia J., now the wife of 
Rev. F. N. Foster, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. 
The wife and mother died in 1859. October 13, 
1868, Mr. Arnold married Nelly, a daughter of 
James and Jane (Reynolds) Brown. The father 
died in February, 1893, at the age of eighty 
years, and the mother now resides at Elyria, 
Oliio, aged seventy-tive years. They had six 
children: Mary A., Nellie E., Clarence, Jennie, 
Eva and Wilfred. 

Mrs. Arnold was a popular music teacher be- 
fore her marriage. She is a member and zealous 
worker in the Free-will Baptist Church. 



'Jf^^ EV. JOHN MITCHELL, D. D., Pre- 
r^' siding Elder of the Northern Oiiio Con- 
11 ^ ference, was born in Wakeman, Ohio, 
V December 1, 1823. His parents were 

of English descent and came from England to 
America a few years prior to the birth of their 
son. Dr. Mitchell's early education was 
obtained in the common schools. He also 
attended Oberlin College, and at the age of 
eighteen years entered the Boston Theological 
School, where he graduated at the age of 
twenty-two years, receiving the degree of Doctor 
of Divinity. Upon his graduation he took up 
his ministerial work and from that date to this 
he has been one of the most active and zealous 
ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
holding various and important charges in wliich 
his work has been effectual, rendering him con- 
spicuous as one of the ablest, most eloquent and 
learned ministers of his church. In the year 



1889 he was made Presiding Elder over his 
present charge, where he is not only highly 
esteemed as a pastor, but personally he is held 
in profound reverence, and to him is yielded 
most pleasing deference. 



D 



R. IIANNA. — Elsewhere within these 
pages reference is made in detail to 
M. A. Hanna, who is at the head of the 
well-known and representative business firm of 
M. A. Hanna & Company, of Cleveland, and 
who is one of the prominent business men of 
the Forest City. A son of the gentleman noted, 
and also a member of the firm just mentioned, 
it is certainly consonant that there be incor- 
porated in this connection a biography of him 
whose name initiates the paragraph at hand. 

D. R. Hanna is a native of the city with 
whose business interests he is now identified, 
having been born in the year 1866. He was 
afi'orded the most excellent educational ad- 
vantages, completing a college course in 1887. 
A young man of practical inclinations and a 
marked aptitude for business, he soon turned 
his attention actively to industrial pursuits, en- 
gaging in the coal and iron-ore business upon 
his own responsibility. Subsequently he found 
it expedient to identify himself and his efforts 
with the similar enterprise conducted by his 
father, the same being one of established 
prestige and wide scope of operations. Accord- 
ingly he became a member of the firm of M. A. 
Hanna & Company, who are extensive dealers 
in coal, iron ore and pig iron. To the further- 
ing of the interests of this enterprise our sub- 
ject has lent himself assiduously and efl'ectively. 
He has proved himself a very capable young 
business man, employing much discrimination 
and utilizing most careful and effective methods 
— circumstances which insure his still greater 
precedence in the business and commercial ac- 
tivities of the State. 

In 1887 Mr. Hanna was united in marriage 
to Miss Carrie M., the daughter of the late 



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C. H. Herrington, who was a prominent capi- 
talist of the Forest City. His death occurred 
in 1893. He was a native of Vermont, in 
which State he passed the greater portion of his 
life, coming to Cleveland in 1888 and establish- 
ing his home in a fine residence on Prospect 
street. He and his wife were members and 
communicants of St. Paul's Protestant Episco- 
pal Church, and were devoted to the furtherance 
of all Christian causes. 

Mr. and Mrs. Hanna are the parents of two 
cliildren, namely: M. A., who was born in 1888; 
and C. K., whose birth occurred in 1890. The 
family home is at Lakewood, a beautiful suburb 
of Cleveland, located five miles out, on the line 
of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Rail- 
road, where our subject has a very attractive 
modern residence. 

Mr. Hanna is a young man of pleasing ad- 
dress, genial and courteous in his bearing, and 
enjoying a marked popularity in both business 
and social circles. He is liberal in his support 
of all worthy causes in the way of charity or as 
conserving the public good. In his political 
proclivities he is a Republican, and maintains a 
consistent interest in national and local issues. 



COLONEL JOHN F. HERRICK, one of 
Cleveland's able and prominent attorneys, 
— is a native of Wellington, Lorain county, 
Ohio, where he was born February 23, 1836. 
His youth was spent at work upon the farm 
and in attending the district schools. In the 
Wellington Academy he was prepared for col- 
lege. In 1856, he went to Oberlin College and 
there graduated in the spring of 1862. 

Immediately upon leaving college, he raised 
a company for the Eighty-seventh Ohio Infantry, 
in AVellington and Oberlin. He was elected 
Captain and served until he, with his whole 
command, was captured by the rebels at Har- 
per's Ferry. He was soon after paroled, came 
to Cleveland and read law in the office of his 
brother, G. E. Herrick, and also attended the 



Union and Ohio State Law College, and, having 
previously studied law to some extent, he was 
enabled to graduate as early as 1863. He was 
also graduated at Oberlin College, as has been 
observed, though by the faculty during his ab- 
sence, and found his diploma awaiting him on 
his return to Cleveland while on parole. In 
1863 he received a recruiting commission from 
Governor Tod, and he raised a company in 
Cleveland for the Twelfth Ohio Cavalry, and 
was made first Major of the regiment while in 
camp at Cleveland, having been in the mean- 
time notified of an exchange of prisoners, which 
left liim free again to take up arms. With the 
above regiment, as a part of the Si.xth Division 
of the Twenty -third Army corps, Mr. Herrick 
served during the remainder of the war, and 
was discharged November 24, 1865, as a Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel. He was in all the battles and 
skirmishes in which his regiment took part for 
over two years, and received high commenda- 
tion for his brilliant and gallant cavalry charge 
which he made as commander and leader of his 
regiment at Marion, Virginia, on the 17th of 
December, 1864. 

L^pon the close of the war Colonel Herrick 
returned to Cleveland and became a partner 
with his brother, G. E. Herrick, in law practice, 
and the two remained together in the practice 
of their profession until May, 1893. At that 
time Col. Herrick became senior member of the 
law firm of Herrick, Athey & Bliss. He was 
for a time one of the attorneys for the East 
Cleveland Street Railroad Company, and has 
been at times attorney for other important 
business firms. He has been a very successful 
lawyer, and has been retained in many import- 
ant cases, involving not only important points 
in law, but also involving vital questions of 
rights and privileges as well as enormous sums 
of wealth. One of the most important cases 
brought by Colonel Herrick was that involving 
the question of the rights of property owners 
in the street. In bringing this before the court 
he did so against the judgment and opinion of 
nearly every member of the bar. No like case 



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had ever been before the Supreme Court, upon 
whose ruling the judgment of the lower courts 
might depend. Defeated in botli of the lower 
courts, Mr. Herrick carried the case to the 
Supreme Court of the State, before which he 
rendered oral argument, and, after years of de- 
lay, he succeeded in winning his case before 
that tribunal, whose ruling in this case is looked 
upon as one of moment and importance. 

Colonel Herrick is a member of the Grand 
Army of the Republic, and is also an active 
worker in the Loyal Legion. 

He was married May 23, 1877, to Miss Flora 
E. AVaring. The following are the names of 
Mr. and Mrs. Herrick's children: Clay and 
Howard (sons). Flora Scott, Pauline Waring, 
Marion Gertrude and Marguerite Gladdys 
(daughters). 



JlOSHUA THOMAS, a dealer in oil and a 
manufacturer of pump governors and re- 
— ducing valves and automatic water-feed 
regulators, is located at No. 4 Lee Court, Cleve- 
land, Ohio. A brief sketch of his life is here- 
with presented: 

Joshua Thomas was born in Franklin county, 
New York, in October, 1829, son of Joshua 
and Sophia (Kingsburg) Thomas, the former a 
native of Vermont and the latter of ('onnecti- 
cut. Their marriage occurred in New York. 
The senior Joshua Thomas was engaged in 
farming in New York previous to 1849, when 
he came to Cleveland, Ohio, and began working 
at the trade of mason. He followed that trade 
and was also engaged in contracting for many 
years. Many of the large buildings in this city 
were erected by him. In religious belief, he and 
his wife were Universalists. He died in 1884, 
aged eighty-one years, and his wife passed away 
at the age of si.\ty-six. Both were most estim- 
able people and were held in high esteem by a 
large circle of friends. They had a family of 
ten children, brief mention of whom is as fol- 
lows: Sophia, widow of J. S. Stuart, resides in 



Chicago; Alvira, who died at the age of fifty- 
seven years; Joshua, whose name heads this 
article; J. M., a resident of New York State; 
Emma, wife of Ervin Kennon, of Cleveland; 
Hiram, who died at the age of eleven years; 
William R., Dr. Willard B. and Cyrus C, all 
residents of Cleveland; and Edwin, who died in 
infancy. 

The subject of our sketch received his early 
education in the public schools of New York, 
but the greater part of his education was gained 
by home study. After he reached his majority 
he felt the need of more advanced study, and 
for four years he spent nearly all his evenings 
at home with his books. Previous to this time 
he had helped his parents in the support of 
their large family, and thus he had been de- 
prived of early educational advantages. He was 
for some time employed in work at the carpen- 
ter's trade and also at that time of stone cutter, 
and in 1861 turned his attention to the oil 
business in Pennsylvania, in which business he 
is still interested. He has made a number of 
inventions which have proved of great value to 
him and to others. His pump governor and re- 
ducing valve, which are used together, forms 
one of the finest reducing values ever invented. 
These patents he is now placing upon the 
market and is meeting with success in their 
sale. 

Mr. Thomas has been twice married. In 
1855 he wedded Miss Emily Cane, daughter of 
Sylvester and Mary Cane, and they became the 
parents of two children: John E., who married 
Mary Evans, is now with the Standard Oil 
Company; and Emily Mary, who died in child- 
hood. The mother of these children died in 
1858, aged twenty-six years. In 1873 Mr. 
Thomas married Miss Maggie Shields, who is 
of Scotch descent and who.se parents died when 
she was an infant. They have had five chil- 
dren, viz.: Freddie, Bertine, Harry (deceased), 
Eddie (deceased) and Elmer. 

Politically, Mr. Thomas is a Republican; 
fraternally, a Mason. He is a most worthy and 
respected citizen. A thorough American, he 



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believes in America for Americanized citizens 
without reference to the mother tongue. He 
has raucii inventive genius and his inventions 
are of a most valuable kind. He represents 
that class of inventors to whom the nation is in- 
debted for that progress and unparajleled growth 
and enterprise wliich ranks her one of the fore- 
most nations of the globe. 



EDWIX DUTY, the veteran street railway 
man of Cleveland and ex-Superintendent 
1 of tlie East Cleveland Railway Com- 
pany, has spent his entire business life in this 
city. His father, Andrew Duty, came to Cleve- 
land in 1833, three years after Edwin's birth, 
and bought the old Streeter farm near this 
city, which he and his sons cultivated for many 
years, in addition to their manufacturing of 
brick, which they took up in this new country. 

Andrew Duty was born in New Hampshire 
in 1804, and a few years later emigrated to 
Xew York and settled in Oneida county, where 
he married Elizabeth Haven, and was engaged 
for a time in distilling spirituous liquors. His 
children were: Edwin; Daniel, President of 
the Forest City Ice Company, and Andrew, a 
manufacturer of brick in this city. Mr. Duty 
died in April, 1884, and his wife one year 
later. 

Edwin Duty secured a fair school training 
from the country school at Doan's Corners and 
from Shaw's Academy. At twenty-two he be- 
gan business for himself, taking charge of the 
farm and operating it till 1857, when he bought 
out an omnibus line running from Doan's Cor- 
ners — now Fairmount street — to the city, and 
conducted it until the opening of the East 
Cleveland Railway Company in i860, when he 
sold out his business to them and became 
superintendent of the new line. From this 
date until April 1, 1893, Mr. Duty rendered 
most efficient service as Superintendent, being 
out of the company's employ only once from 
1876 to 1881, when he was engaged in the ice 



business as part proprietor of the Cleveland Ice 
Company. Upon the consolidation of the East 
Cleveland lines in 1893, Mr. Duty was made 
superintendent of construction, where he still 
remains. 

Mr. Duty was born in Oneida county. New 
York, November 8, 1830. He married first, 
in 1852, — a daughter of Stephen B. Meeker, 
a Cuyahoga county pioneer. Two children re- 
sulted from this union: Albert E., assistant 
superintendent of Cleveland City Railway Com- 
pany, and Emma, wife of H. B. Ferris, of this 
city. 

Mrs. Duty died in 1860, and the next year 
Mr. Duty married Elizabeth, a daughter of 
Richard Salter, a butcher of Cleveland. Their 
children are: William B., drowned in Geauga 
Lake at nine years of age, in 1880; Harriet, 
wife of F. W. Burwell; Elizabeth, married H. 
T. Fisk; Frank and Nellie, both single daugh- 
ters; and Edwin, Jr. 



EiDWARD SIXT of Rockport Hamlet, 
Ohio, was born in Berea, Ohio, Decem- 
. 1 her 22, 1853, a son of William and Bar- 
bara (Noderer) Sixt. Personal mention of Will- 
iam Sixt is made elsewhere in this volume. 
Edward Sixt was quite young when his father 
removed to Cleveland, where he remained but a 
short time, from thence going to that part of 
Rockport township now known as Rockport 
Hamlet, where Edward grew to manhood. Here 
he has since resided. For ten years lie has been 
engaged in the milk business in connection with 
farming. 

Edward Sixt was married in Rockport town- 



np, 



December 14, iSTu. to Miss Sarah Herbe- 



son, daughter of the late Matthew Ilerbeson, of 
Rockport township. Mrs. Sixt was born in 
what is now Rockport Hamlet, March 9, 1855. 
Matthew Ilerbeson, iier father, was born in the 
North of Ireland, and her mother, whose maiden 
name was Mary Dunn, was also a native of Ire- 
land. He died January 15, 1889, and she in 
February, 1890. 



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Mr. and Mrs. Si.xt are the parents of four liv- 
ing children, namely: Edward, William M., 
Eliza and Stewart 11. They have buried two 
children: Lillie, who died in her twelfth year, 
and Laura, who died when eight years and six 
months old. 

Mr. Sixt has served as School Director, and 
has taken a good degree of interest in local 
affairs. He owns 120 acres of improved land. 
Mrs. Sixt is a member of the Presbyterian 
Church. 



HARLES L. BROWN, the elHcientyonng 
clerk of the Detroit & Cleveland Steam 
Navigation Company, was born in Wayne 
county, Ohio, September 12, 1870. He is a 
worthy representative of an old pioneer family 
led into Wayne county by his grandfather, a 
farmer, one of whose children, E. A. Brown, 
was the father of Charles L., who is the sub- 
ject of this sketch. He was born in Apple 
Creek, and early in life became a public ofHcial 
as Bailiff, Deputy and ultimately Sheriff of the 
county, dying in office November 28, 1891, 
aged sixty-fouryears. He married Jane Hunter, 
and was the father of Esther A., wife of Mi'. 
Wynn, of Cleveland; Mary J., who married Mr. 
Mackey, of Wayne county; Clarence; and Ella, 
who married a Mr. Baker, and is now deceased. 
John H. Brown, born October 3, 1859, came 
to Cleveland in July, 1880, and entered the 
employ of the Big Four Railroad, remaining in 
the freight department till October 4, 1892, 
when he severed his connections, being then 
chief of the receiving department. He ac- 
cepted the station agency of the C, C. & S. at 
Canton on leaving the Big Four, and remained 
until called to his present position as chief 
clerk and cashier of the Empire Fast Freight 
Line of Cleveland. 

In April, 1879, he married Lillie. a daughter 
of Peter Reese, of German birth. Their chil- 
dren are: Clyde A., Grover C, Blanche J., 
David W., of Cleveland; Laura Belle, who mar- 



ried Mr. Peppard; Minnie May, who is married ; 
and Charles L. The last named went to work 
at the age of fourteen in a planing-mill in 
Wooster. A few months later he came to 
Cleveland and secured employment at the Union 
freight depot, until he entered into the service 
of the Detroit & Cleveland Steam Navigation 
Company as office boy. He proved an apt and 
diligent pupil, and in two years was made bill 
clerk, and after a like service to the position of 
chief clerk in the spring of 1892. 

It is the boy who possesses the energy and 
pluck that reaches the top round of the ladder, 
and since Mr. Brown reached the chief clerk- 
ship at the remarkable young age of twenty- 
one, it is only fair to predict a bright and pros- 
perous future for him. 



FRANK W. WARNER, an employee of 
the Valley Railroad, is a representative 
— of an old and well-known family of Cleve- 
land. His grandfather, W. J. Warner, was 
born in Massachusetts, in 1804. He came to 
Cleveland, locating in a log house on Prospect 
street. He was a prominent contractor and build- 
er, and, among other buildings, erected the For- 
est City Hotel, the post-office building and the 
old stone church' on the square. His labors 
yielded him a profit sufficient to retire from act- 
.ive work soon after the close of the war, and 
his death occurred at 83 Prospect street, in 1882. 
Mr. Warner married a Miss Morris, and they 
had live children: Elvira, widow of John Ruse; 
C. H., father of our subject; T. M., engaged 
with the Society for Savings; Fred, in the insur- 
ance business; and one whose name is unknown. 
C. H. Warner was born in Cleveland, in 
1839. He spent several years in Independence, 
Kansas, where he was first engaged in the boot 
and shoe business, next in the hardware trade, 
and lastly was proprietor of a hotel. He then 
returned to this city, and secured the position of 
Post-master. He was united in marriage with 
Catherine, a daughter of Captain lioliert Moore, 



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a native of the lale of Man; he came to Cleve- 
land, where he was engaged in the lake trade 
many years. Mr. and Mrs. Warner had five 
children, four now living: Frank W., our Buh- 
jeet; William, a traveling salesman; Albert, 
and Jennie. Mr. Warner is deceased. 

Frank W. was born August 5, 1862, and at- 
tended the Cleveland public schools until fifteen 
years of age. He then began his railroad career 
as fireman, on the Cleveland & Pittsburg Rail- 
road, under passenger conductor Thomas Car- 
lisle. This crew brought the Garfield funeral 
train from Pittsburg to Cleveland, with engine 
No. 27. In 1884, Mr. Warner was promoted 
to the position of engineer, but soon afterward 
left that road, and has since remained with the 
Valley Railroad. In his social relations, he is 
a member of the B. of L. E., and for the past 
fi\e yeais has been chairman of the adjustment 
committee of the order. 

Mr. Warner was married in this city, Febru- 
ary 21, 1888, to Carrie Caldwell. Her father, 
Charles S. Caldwell, was born in Trumbull 
county, Ohio, in 1844, was proprietor of a hotel 
at Mineral Point, this State, and his death oc- 
curred in 1883. He married Martha Sheldon, 
a native also of Trumbull county, who now re- 
sides in Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell had 
two children, — Bert, of Canton, Ohio, and Mrs. 
Warner. Our subject and wife have one son, 
Charles C, born January 19, 1889. 



I7l( NNA GAAB is the widow of Joseph 
Lj\ Gaab, who was born in the Province of 
fr^ Berne, Switzerland. He was left an 
' orphan at the age of two years. Upon 

coming to America, he first purchased five acres 
of land in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, to which he 
afterward added 250 acres more, and erected 
a good residence. His death occurred in 1869, 
of cholera; he retired at night in good health 
but (lied before morning. 

Mr. Gaab was married in 1852 to the subject 
of this ske*^eh, whose maiden name was Bock- 



bower. She had four brothers and sisters, Fred- 
erick, Anna, Mary and Leonhart, — but is the 
only one of the family in this country. Mr. 
and Mrs. Gaab had five children, namely: 
Joseph, Mary, Lizzie, Anna and Catherine. The 
eldest son is engaged in making grindstones in 
the mill. Mr. Gaab was a hard-working and 
industrious man, and made what he owned by 
unrelenting toil. His only help was $275 re- 
ceived from his father-in-law. 



(r^ EORGE W. NORAGON, one of the 
I ic most faithful and reliable engineers in 
>^ the employ of the Cleveland & Pittsburg 
Railroad Company, was born in Wor- 
cester, Pennsylvania, in 1853. When he was about 
three years of age his parents became citizens 
of Butler county, Pennsylvania, and there 
George was reared to the age of sixteen, and ob- 
tained a common-school education. The par- 
ents decided tiiat another move westward would 
be beneficial and accordingly they sought Ohio 
and made Alliance their stopping place. Ashort 
sojourn there was followed by another move, 
this time to Michigan, where the father, D. Nora- 
gon, died, in 1886. While a resident of Pennsyl- 
vania, the senior Xoragon was a farmer, but in 
Ohio and Michgan he was a hotel-keeper. He 
married Anna Stephens, born in Pennsylvania, 
and yet living. Three sons and three (Jaughters 
were bornto Mr. and Mrs. Noragon, viz.: George 
W. ; Mary, who married and is a resident of 
Iowa; Samuel, road foreman of engineers of the 
Cleveland v^: Pittsburg Company, who married 
Mary Clingerman; Elizabetli; Thomas, engaged 
in merchandising in Michigan ; and Ella. George 
AV. Tsoragon was for a short period a teamster 
in Alliance, Ohio, giving it up and entering the 
employ of the Cleveland k Pittsburg Company, 
July 22, 1872, as freight brakeman, with con- 
ductor Lewis Myers. Two years' service in that 
capacity sufticed to make him fireman, where we 
find him seven years and a half. His ne.xt pro- 
motion was to the position of yard engineer, 



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awaiting a vacaacy on tlie road. He ran through 
and local freight and passenger trains, and by 
preference he has, for three years past, been do- 
ing yard work solely. lie is a careful and in- 
dustrious man, treating the property of the 
company as if himself financially responsible, 
and possessing withal a creditable record as an 
engineer. 



rj/ON. ROBEKT WALLACE.— To the 
Ir^i heterogeneous and cosmopolitan elements 
II 4i which go to make up our composite 
'^ national personnel there is perhaps no 

other foreign land that has made more valuable 
contributions than has the Emerald Isle, that 
cradle of legend and romance. The quick intel- 
legence, the ready wit and extreme versatility ot 
the Ii-ish type prove attributes that assure the 
ready assimilation of the subject into bone and 
muscleof the national individuality, and to men 
of such lineage we owe much honor for loyalty, 
for tlie accomplishment of ambitious ends, and 
for intelligent and well directed industry. The 
subject of this memoir, who attained to a posi- 



tion as one of the re 



presen 



tative and honored 



business men of Cuyahoga county, was a native 
of Ireland, where he was liorn March 18, 1828, 
his parents being people of intelligence and cul- 
ture. When he was fourteen years of age the 
family left their native land, emigrated to 
America and finally located at Berea, Cuyahoga 
county, Ohio. Here young Ilobert grew to 
manhood, became a capable business man and 
eventually one of much influence in the com- 
munity, and here he continued to reside until 
he answered deatii's inexorable summons. He 
became prominently identified with the stone 
quarrying enterprises of Berea, and during the 
latter years of his life was connected with that 
well known and important corporation, the Berea 
Stone Company, whose business ramifies into 
the most diverse sections of the Union. 

He was married in 1854, to Miss Maria 
Bryan, who was born in Strongsville, Cuyahoga 



county, the daughter of pioneer residents of 
that place. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace became the 
parents of three children, Mary J., Robert H. 
and Edith M. 

Mr. Wallace was one of the progressive and 
public-spirited citizens of Berea, maintained a 
lively interest in public affairs of a local order, 
and was ever on the alert to aid and foster such 
enterprises and undertakings as conserved the 
advancement and best interests of the commun- 
ity in which he lived. Stanch in his support 
of the principles and policies advocated by the 
Republican party, he naturally occupied a posi- 
tion of no little prominence in the local coun- 
cils of that organization, and was honored with 
conspicious preferments in the gift of the people, 
who had perfect confidence in his executive 
ability, his integrity and fidelity to their inter- 
ests. He served in the war of the late Rebellion, 
as captain of Company C, Oiie-IIundred-and- 
twenty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which 
company he organized. For several years he 
served as Justice of the Peace, and in 1880 he 
was the choice of the Republicans of his district 
as a candidate for the State Legislature, being 
elected to the office by a majority that gave 
unmistakable evidence of the popularity in 
which he was held. During the latter years of 
his life he was intimately identified with religi- 
ous work, being a consistent and zealous mem- 
ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of 
which his wife is also a member. 

Mr. Wallace died September 10, 1883, and 
his demise was sincerely mourned in both the 
business and the social circles of the city to 
whose interests he had been devoted. Since 
the death of her husband, Mrs. Wallace has 
maintained her home with the family in Mid- 
dlebnrg Township. 

Honored in life and held in grateful memory 
after its close, the subject of this sketch has 
well merited the recognition that has been ours 
to accord him, while the task would be a pleas- 
ing one were we permitted to enter more fully 
into the details which go to make up his life 
history. 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



if^) ENJAMIN ROCSE.— Without extended 
y notice of tlie life and character of that 
pioneer philanthropist, the late Benja- 
min liouse, a biographical record of the city of 
Cleveland, the county of Cuyahoga or the West- 
ern Reserve of Ohio would be incomplete. 

The Rouse family traces its ancestry direct 
to Sir Robert Le Rous, Knight Raronet under 
Edward, the Black Prince. Sir Anthony Rouse, 
the seventh in descent from Sir Robert, was the 
father of Francis Rouse, the Speaker of the 
"Little Parliament" under Cromwell, in 1653. 
The subject of this notice was the son of Joseph 
Rouse, who was born June 22, 1773, the second 
son of Benjamin Rouse, Sr., who was born in 
England, June 25, 1736, and the second in de- 
scent from the Francis Rouse of Cromwell's 
day. 

Benjamin Rouse, our subject, was born in 
Boston, Massachusetts, on the 23d day of 
March, 1795. His parents died when he was 
but six years of age, after which he found a 
home, first with an aunt and later with his ma- 
ternal grandmother. His opportunities for 
gaining an early education were to a certain ex- 
tent limited, but being possessed of great native 
ability he acquired rather an extensive knowl- 
edge of subjects of general interest. When but 
seventeen j-^ears of age he served in the war 
of 1812, and at its close he became a build- 
ing contractor in association with Peter Osgood 
of Boston. He was married August 12, 1821, 
to Rebecca Elliott Cromwell, and in 1824 re- 
moved to New York city, where he successfully 
followed tlie occupation of contracting and build- 
ing. During his business career in the city of 
New York certain circumstances brought about 
radical changes in his plans for the future. Pos- 
sessed of all the elements of a good business man, 
he nevertheless was not disposed to devote the 
whole of his time and attention to the accu- 
mulation of wealth. Being liberal-minded and 
benevolent, and having a true spirit of Chris- 
tianity, he became deeply interested in the cause 



of Sabbath-school work among a certain neglected 
class in the great city of New York, and to this 
work he devoted his time and energy with such 
success that to him was drawn the attention of 
the American Sunday-school Union. This 
organization urged him to become its agent for 
the Western Reserve in Ohio. Accepting this 
appointment, he came to Ohio with a commis- 
sion to open a depository and organize Sunday- 
schools and missionary work there, although 
this change entailed many personal sacrifices. 
Mr. Rouse, while very practical, was full of 
sympathy, generosity and enthusiasm, and his 
young wife, although of a more quiet and less 
demonstrative temperament, was none the less 
earnest and devoted and ready to go wherever 
the cause of their Divine Saviour might require. 
Accompanied by his family, Benjamin Rouse 
arrived in Cleveland on the 17th day of October, 
1830, and found it a village of 1,075 people, with 
small promise of becoming the great manufac- 
turing center of Ohio, now far exceeding in pop- 
ulation the New York city of that day. He took 
up his residence on the northwest corner of Su- 
perior street and the Public Square, the location 
of the present Rouse Block, which he built in 
1852 and which still remains in the possession 
of the family. Here lie opened a Sunday-school 
book depository and for many years traveled 
through northern Ohio, holding religious meet- 
ings and accomplishing a great amount of 
good. From the very first he threw his whole 
soul into the work he had come to do, and among 
the results of his devoted lal)or.s were the organ- 
ization of a tract society, a Seamen's Friend 
Society, and over 200 Sunday-schools. He was 
also one of the constituent members of the First 
Baptist Church in the city of Cleveland, organ- 
ized in the year 1833, and for forty years there- 
after was one of the most zealous workers in 
that church, in which he was Deacon all the 
while. Many years were allotted to him to lead 
a useful life, which ended on the 5th day of 
July, 1871. 

Great was the strength and firmness of his 
religious faith and force of will power. He was 




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a lion iu the liue of duty, uever shirking any 
task placed upon him, never losing courage. He 
was a man of sterling qualities; he was a man in 
every sense of the term, strong against tempta- 
tion and zealous in whatsoever work he engaged. 
Assuring himself he was right, condemniug 
wrong, he steadfastly and firmly remained in 
what he felt to he his path of duty. To illustrate, 
we will give the reader the Lenefit of an oft re- 
peated story by himself: 

"Shortly after coming to Cleveland,'" said he, 
"I had just settleil my little family in a house 
and bought a horse and buggy, and one fine 
morning I took a quantity of Sunday-school 
books and tracts and started for Lorain county 
to organize a Sunday-school. I had crossed the 
Cuyahoga, and was well on my road to Kocky 
River, when suddenly some one spoke to me. 
The voice seemed to say, ' Well, Benjamin Rouse, 
you are pretty fellow! You, a strong young 
man, in the prime of life, with a fine young fam- 
ily, giving up a great business in the city of 
New I'ork, selling your property for little or 
nothing and coming into this wilderness with a 
horse and buggy for the purpose of peddling 
tracts and Sunday-school books in the woods! A 
pretty fellow, indeed, Benjamin Rouse!' 

"At the thought I stopped my horse and 
turned around as if some one were there, and 
said aloud, 'Satan, begone! Did not Rebecca 
and I pray about this all night, and didn't the 
Lord tell us to come? and am I not here because 
God sent me? Yes, He did send me and I shall 
hold on to my work and trust Him to the end; 
and now, begone, you Tempter!' Then the fierce 
trial passed forever, and I went on my way re- 
joicing. I established several Sunday-schools in 
the younger settlements; returned to Cleveland, 
and a few days afterward the Lord opened to me 
an opportunity to buy my corner on the Public 
Square and Superior street for §1,200, and I can 
see the Lord's hand in ordering my whole life." 
Mr. Rouse was a man richly endowed for the 
work he had taken up in early life, and to which 
the whole of his manhood was devoted. He 
was one of the most kind-hearted men. He was 



generous, charitable, quick to act and certain iu 
his course. He carried with him that enthusiasm 
necessary for the infusion of zeal in others. His 
greatest joy was found in doing good unto others. 
No other so well came living up to the golden 
rule, "As ye would that men should do to you, 
do ye even so to thein." 



'[f^^EBECCA ELLIOTT ROUSE.— Of all 
r^ the women of Cleveland, past and present, 
Jl ^ who by their noble works have won for 
V themselves a conspicuous place in the 

history of the city, none are more deserving of 
notice than the late Mrs. Rebecca Elliott 
(Cromwell) Rouse, who in her quiet and un 
ostentatious way did more to promote the 
growth of organized Christian work during the 
pioneer days of the Western Reserve than any 
other one woman. 

This woman, so remarkable for her intellect- 



ual and spiritual gifts, 



born in Salem , 
Massachusetts, on the 30th day of October, 
1799, and died in Cleveland on the 23d day of 
December, 1887. Her father, John Cromwell, 
died when she was but a child, her mother sur- 
viving until daring the '30s. Her childhood 
was spent in affluence, and to a liberal educa- 
tion was added the refining influences of exten- 
sive foreign travel. At the age of eighteen 
years she was married to Benjamin Rouse, and 
in 1825 removed with her husband to New 
York city. Always of a deep Christian and be- 
nevolent nature, Mrs. Ronse was not long in 
becoming interested in and identified with the 
benevolent and charitable work of the metropo- 
lis, so that five years later, when her husband 
was urged to go to Ohio, as the emissary of the 
Sabbath-school Union, she cheerfully abandoned 
the comforts of her eastern home to devote her- 
self to missionary work in the Western Reserve, 
then in a primitive state, where the work was 
urgent and the laborers few. 

Mrs. Rouse's first work upon coming to 
Cleveland was to make a personal visitation 
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was such that a church was soon organized, she, 
with her husband, being one of the seventeen 
original members of the First Baptist Society. 
When the infant church was in swaddling 
clothes, she was its nursing mother; she blessed 
it with her prayers and tears, and surrounded it 
with her loving anxiety. It was her greatest 
joy to see it grow and thrive and become strong. 
In the wider realm of philanthropy lier in- 
fluence as a leading spirit was everywhere felt. 
She was the organizer and the president of the 
Martha Washington Society of 1842, one of the 
earliest of Cleveland's benevolent societies, out 
of which grew the Protestant Orphan Asylum, 
the oldest of the Protestant benevolent institu- 
tions of the city, and of which Mrs. Rouse was 
for years the managing director. She was also 
a leading spirit in many other benevolent or- 
ganizations of the city during her active life, 
giving freely of her time, talents and means to 
further philanthropic work of all kinds. Many 
there are "who shall rise up and call her 
blessed." Not a few of these are the Ohio 
"Roys in Blue" of the war of the Rebellion. 
Never will they forget the continued self- 
sacrificing labor this great-hearted woman gave 
for five years, when she was instrumental in 
collecting and distributing millions of dollars' 
worth of supplies for the gallant sick and 
wounded lying i" military hospitals. The call 
to arms was sounded on April 15, 1861. Five 
days later the "Soldiers' Aid Society of 
Cleveland, Ohio," was formed, and to it belongs 
the great and lasting honor of being the first 
society of women that met and organized for 
the noble work of bearing a people's love to the 
people's army. As president of this society, 
Mrs. Rouse became widely known and much 
beloved. To her wise administration of its 
affairs was largely due the success of an enter- 
prise which achieved a national reputation. 
Although most unassuming, she was pressed 
into making some highly etfective addresses 
which aroused the sympathy and patriotic inter- 
est of the women of northern Ohio in the great 
relief work of those eventful days. 



On several occasions she went to the front, in 
connection with supplies sent, and visited the 
soldiers in military hospitals. At one period, 
when more buildings and supplies were ren- 
dered necessary to shelter and relieve the 
soldiers passing through Cleveland, so heavy 
had been the drain upon the resources of the 
citizens that some of the business men said that 
the money could not be raised. Her quiet and 
characteristic reply was, "It must be raised;" 
and it was. She possessed in a very large 
measure that genius of common sense, that 
breadth and boldness of conception and wonder- 
ful executive ability, which met and mastered 
difficulties as they arose, and which was ade- 
quate to each emergency. 

In honor of her great work in behalf of the 
soldiers, and in grateful memory of the woman, 
a bronze figure of Mrs. Rouse has been placed 
on the south side of, and her name inscribed 
within, Cuyahoga county's magnificent Soldiers' 
Monument, which has been erected in Cleve- 
land's Public Square. 

Though of delicate appearance, Mrs. Rouse 
possessed great strength of mind and body, 
patience and endurance, and a will-power and 
courage that knew no such word as fail. Her 
deep religious nature, with all its earnestness, 
was turned into a patriotism which considered 
no sacrifice too great to save the country. 
Humble, unostentatious, heroic, self-sacrificing, 
noble-hearted woman and devoted Christian, 
she "rests from her labors and her works do 
follow her." She was universally loved and 
her name was a household word throughout the 
community. Her memory is loved and revered 
by thousands who came directly, or through 
the medium of loved ones, under the influence 
of her Christian spirit and benevolent works. 
Her resting place is a sacred spot. 

The following tribute to Mrs. Rouse is from 
the author of "Men and Events of Half a 
Century:" "A hundred years hence, when the 
census shall credit the beautiful city with a 
million of people, the ladies of Cleveland will 
celebrate the virtue and heroic devotion of the 




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noble men and women whose names are em- 
balmed in the historic record of the great 
sanitary fair of the Civil "War and wonder that 
their ancestors could have done snch mighty 
works; and the antiquarian will search among 
the moss-covered tombstones of Lake View, 
Woodland and liiverside for the names now 
familiar to us, and find his delight if, happily, 
he shall be enabled to decipher and slowly spell 
out the name of Mother Rouse." 



EDWIN COOLIDGE ROUSE, Insurance 
President of Cleveland, the second son 
^1 of Benjamin and Rebecca Elliott (Crom- 
well) Rouse, was born in New York city on the 
12th day of August, 1827. During the period 
beginning with ante-bellum days and ending 
with his death on the 1st day of February, 1877, 
he was a well known and prominent figure in the 
commercial and insurance history of Cleveland. 

Mr. Rouse was but three years of age when 
his parents came to Cleveland. Here he was 
reared and educated and began his business 
career as a member of the wholesale dry-goods 
house of Clark, Morgan & Company. A man 
of more than ordinary capabilities, he com- 
manded success in all his undertakings and was 
not long in making his way to the head of the 
firm of Rouse, Post & Company. While en- 
gaged in mercantile pursuits his methods were 
conspicuous as being most correct and honorable. 
When the firm with which he had been connected 
dissolved, in 1856, Mr. Rouse became identified 
with the insurance business, and to this voca- 
tion the best years of his life were devoted, ex- 
cepting for a period of three years that he served 
as Assistant Treasurer of Cuyahoga county, 
and a few tnonths spent in military service as 
Captain of Company F, One Hundred and 
Fiftieth Ohio National Guard, commanding 
Fort Totten, one of the defenses of Washing- 
ton, District of Columbia. 

In 1865 he resumed ihe insurance business, 
and upon the organization of the Sun Fire In- 



surance Company of Cleveland he became its 
secretary and treasurer, and in the spring of 1875 
he was elected president of the company to fill 
the vacancy caused by the death of Stillman 
AVitt, and which office he held up to the time 
of his death. For several years he was man- 
ager of the Ohio business of the Continental 
Insurance Company of New York, and for five 
years was the president of the Cleveland Board 
of Underwriters; he was a member of the Na- 
tional Board of Fire Underwriters, and a mem- 
ber of its executive committee from its organ- 
ization until his death. He was also the first 
pi-esident of the American District Telegraph 
Company. In these varied positions of trust 
there were presented to him many opportunities 
for advancing the interests of all underwriters 
and for elevating the standard of the fire-in- 
surance business, — opportunities which he never 
failed to embrace. 

He uniformly commanded tlie respect of all 
who knew him, even where be failed to win the 
concurrent judgment of his professional as- 
sociates. He was logical in his habits of 
thought, and as free from the fear of reckless 
competition as lie was from the influence of 
personal greed. Possessed of a warm, generous 
nature, he was charitable in his judgment of 
others, stanch and true in his friendships and 
worthy of the affectionate regard in which he 
was held. 

Mr. Rouse was united in marriage, at Cleve- 
land, August 12, 1850, to Mary Miller, daugh- 
ter of Joseph K. Miller, who was the son of 
William and Hannah Miller. Joseph K. Miller 
was born January 12, 1802, and was brought in 
his childhood by his parents from their Mary- 
land home to Ohio. He was married February 
14, 1826, to Margaret Spangler, who was born 
June 18, 1809, at Canton, Ohio, a daughter of 
Michael and Elizabeth Spangler. Mr. Miller 
died at the age of thirty-six, and his wife, a 
woman of many admirable traits of character, 
ended her long and active life, replete with 
many acts of benevolence and charity, on Sep- 
teraber 26, 1891. 



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Mrs. Mary Miller Eoiise died January 13, 
1884. Slie was a lady of great beauty of char- 
acter and amiability of disposition, possessed of 
much artistic taste and an innate love of the 
beautiful. She and her iiusband were alike 
lovers of music and were united in their relig- 
ious life in song, giving more than twenty-nine 
years of their time and service to the conduct 
of the choir of tlie First Baptist Church, of 
which they were both devoted members. 



Iff' KNRY CLARK ROUSE, financier and 
IpI' railway president, only son of the late 

11 t Edwin C. and grandson of the late 
^ Benjamin Rouse, was born on the loth 

day of March, 1853, in the city of Cleveland, 
Ohio, where as a youth he received his academ- 
ic education, graduating at the age of eight- 
een. Following this he continued his studies 
under private tutors for two years, and then 
went abroad, spending some time in foreign 
travel. 

AVhen twenty-one lie entered his father's 
ottice and there obtained a thorough business 
training, by reason of which he was able to as- 
sume with ease, at the age of twenty-three, the 
entire business of his father upon the latter's 
death in 1877, thus becoming at once conspicu- 
ous as the youngest insurance manager in this 
country. His administration of the affairs of 
this office was most successful, but the develop- 
ment of superior powers for broader organiza- 
tion and execution five years later led to his 
giving up his active interest in under-writing 
to engage in other pursuits. 

The record of the business achievements of 
Henry C. Rouse during the past ten years 
speaks volumes for his ability as a financier and 
man of affairs. Cleveland's first large apart- 
ment house, "The Lincoln," was tiieworkof his 
brain, and in 1882 was operated l>y him as the 
managing director of tiie Lincoln Apartment 
House Company. 

About this time the marked executive ability 
and general business talents of Mr. Rouse began 



to attract attention, and during the business 
depres.sion of 1883 his services were enlisted 
in behalf of the Joel Hayden Brass Company, 
of Lorain, Ohio, a large concern then verging 
on bankruptcy. He thus became identified with 
the brass- man ufiictu ring business of the coun- 
try, and in the following year he was made 
president of the " Hayden Company," which 
corporation was operating large brass works at 
Haydenville, Massachusetts. Following this he 
became president of the United Brass Company, 
of Xew York, then the leading brass-manufac- 
turii.g company of the country. 

Thus at the age of thirty we find Mr. Rouse, 
through his ability as a financial manager, the 
youngest officer of the corporation of which he 
is president, though representing the largest 
interests in the brass-manufacturing industry. 
At this time Mr. Rouse also held ofticial posi- 
tions in a number of Ohio enterprises of greater 
or less importance, among others the Britton 
Iron it Steel Company, of Cleveland, and the 
Lorain Manufacturing Company, both of which, 
together with all his interests in brass manufac- 
ture, have been wholly abandoned within the 
last three or four years, his time now being en- 
tirely devoted to the administration of railway 
properties. 

In 1885 Mr. Rouse was brought into relation 
with a western railroad enterprise, and joined a 
syndicate for tiie construction of the Chicago, 
Wisconsin it Minnesota Railrod, an extension 
of the Wisconsin Central System, from Mil- 
waukee to Chicago. I^revious to this he had 
devoted considerable attention to the study of 
railroad interests, in pursuit of which he traveled 
extensively over a great portion of this contin- 
ent, visiting every State and Territory in this 
country and all the provinces of the British 
Possessions in America. The fund of general 
information thus obtained pertaining to the vast 
material resources of the country, and their re- 
lation to trade centers and the avenues of com- 
merce, admirably adapted him for entering 
upon the broad, field of practical railroad admiu- 
I istration that has since been opened to him. It 



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is in this direction that he has achieved his 
greatest success, as in it he has found an oppor- 
tunity to develop the unusual organizing and 
administrative abilities inherited from his pa- 
ternal grandmother. 

On June 1, 1887, the Missouri, Kansas & 
Texas Hallway Company defaulted in payment 
of mortgage interest and the road passed into 
the hands of receivers. In 1891 a reorganiza- 
tion of this company was efi'ected, and in June 
of that year Mr. Rouse was offered tlie position 
of chairman of its board of directors. He ac- 
cepted the position and the company's property 
was turned over to him by the receivers July 1, 
1891, since which time he has made rapid 
strides in the railway and financial world, and 
is to-day recognized, both in this country and 
abroad, as one of the rising men in railway cir- 
cles in America. Under his skillful direction 
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Com- 
pany has been rescued from its bankrupt condi- 
tion and placed upon a sound physical and fin- 
ancial basis, and has attained an important place 
among the great railway systems of this coun- 
try. Recognition of Mr. Rouse's successful 
administration has come each year since 1891 in 
the way of his continued re-election as chairman 
of the board of directors, and by his election as 
president of the company as well in May, 1S93. 
With his first election as president of the Mis- 
souri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company, Mr. 
Rouse became the youngest railway president 
in this country. 

Another recognition of Mr. Rouse's abilities 
came in 1893, when, on the 15th day of August 
of that year, he was appointed receiver of the 
Northern Pacific Railroad Company, a position 
he also holds at tlie present time. In January, 
1894, an application was made to the courts by 
adverse parties actuated by selfish motives for 
the removal of Mr. Rouse and his associates 
from the receivership of this railroad, but the 
court passed upon the application fully exoner- 
ating Mr. Rouse from all charges, sustaining 
him as receiver and confirming his appointment. 

Besides being at the head of two of the 



systems in the United States, aggregating 7,000 
miles of railroad, Mr. Rouse has many other col- 
lateral interests, being officially connected with a 
score or more of railroad and kindred enterprises. 

As an illustration of the breadth of the man 
and his capabilities, and the wide scope and 
ramification of iiis interests, extending through 
fifteen States and Territories, the following list 
of the official positions he liolds is here given: 

Chairman of board and president, Missouri, 
Kansas & Texas Railway System; receiver of 
the Northern Pacific Railroad; chairman of the 
board of the Missouri, Kansas & Eastern Rail- 
road Company; president of each of the follow- 
ing companies: Boonville Raih-oad Bridge Com 
pany, Northern Pacific & Manitoba Railway 
Company, Winnipeg Transfer Railway Com- 
pany, Limited, Coeurd'Alene Railway & Naviga- 
tion Company, Helena & Jefferson County Rail- 
road Company, Fargo & Southwestern Railroad 
Company, Southeastern Dakota Railroad Com- 
pany, Northern Pacific & Cascade Railroad 
Company, Central Washington Railroad Com- 
pany, Washington Short Line Railroad Com- 
pany, Rocky Fork &. Cooke City Railway Com- 
pany, Sanborn, Cooperstown &TurtleMountain 
Railway, Tacoma, Orting & Southeastern Rail- 
road Company; and director in each of the fol- 
lowing companies: Kansas City & Pacific Rail- 
way Company, Denison & Washita Valley liail- 
way Company, Southwestern Coal & Improve- 
ment Company, Osage Coal & Mining Conjpany, 
Chicago & Northern Pacific Railroad Company, 
Chicago & Calumet Railroad Company, St. 
Paul & Northern Pacific Railway Company, 
Spokane Falls & Idaho Railway Company, 
Spokane Falls & Palouse Railway Company, 
Little Falls & Dakota Railway Company, North- 
ern Pacific, Fergus & Black Hills Railway Com- 
pany, Duluth & Manitoba Railway Company, 
Northern Pacific, LaMoure & Missouri River 
Railroad Company, James River Valley Rail- 
way Company, Jamestown & Northern Rail- 
way Company, Rocky Mountain Railroad of 
Montana, Helena & Red Mountain Railway 
Company, Jamestown &, Northern Extension 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



Railway Company, Duluth,Crookston & Xorth- 
ern Railway Company, Clealuin Railroad, North- 
ern Pacific & Montana Railway Company, and 
Montana Union Railway Company. 

It is a characteristic of Mr. Rouse, in con- 
nection with the many enterprises with which he 
has been identified, that he has manifested an 
intimate knowledge of the resources and possi- 
bilities of his undertakings, and has demon- 
Btrated his power of readily applying the most 
practical expedients at the proper time. His 
capacity for acquiring minute information and 
his unusual powers of observation and concen- 
tration of details has caused his services to 
be greatly souglit for where intricate and 
difficult problems are encountered in the conduct 
of large enterprises. Although of a conservative 
nature, once a determination reached, he plans 
broadly and boldly, and executes with celerity 
and confidence. 

Personally Mr. Rouse possesses most attract- 
ive characteristics. Although a man of very 
positive views and unequivocal expression, he 
is of most agreeable address, kind and courteous, 
easy of approach and of decided personal mag- 
netism. He has traveled so extensively, both 
in tiiis country and in Europe, that his circle 
of acquaintance is very large both at home and 
abroad, and he possesses the varied accomplish- 
ments of the thoroughly trained man of the 
world. He is a member of the Union, Road- 
side and Athletic Clubs of Cleveland, and the 
Country Club of Glenville; of the Metropolitan, 
Riding, Raqnetand Tennis, and Lawyers' Clubs, 
the Seawanhaka-Corinthian and New York 
Yacht Clubs, and the Down Town Association 
of New York city. 

At his home in Cleveland, where he occupies 
the old family homestead, a beautiful residence 
on Euclid avenue, Mr. Rouse is thoroughly ap- 
preciated by his friends and fellow townsmen, 
all of whom consider him a good citizen, and 
class him among the ablest railroad presidents 
and financiers of the country, and take a per- 
sonal pride in his achievements, regarding bis 
success as a compliment to the city. 



JOHN G. REITZ is a son of the late George 
P. Reitz. His mother was Barbara (Lehr) 
Reitz. The parents were born in Germany, 
emigrating to America late in the '408, living 
for a short time in Cleveland and then settling 
in Rockport township, wliere the father died in 
1856. 

John G. was the youngest of a family of ten 
children. He was born in Rockport township 
December 16, 1855. Here he was brought up 
and received a common-school education. 

He was married in Rockport township, Feb- 
ruary 14, 1882 to Miss Mary Rarthelman, 
j daughter of John Christopher Barthelman, who 
died in Rockport township, December 16, 1877. 
Mrs. Mary Reitz are the parents of four chil- 
dren, — Henry G., Frederick W., Anna K. and 
John C. 

Mr. Reitz was elected one of the councilmen 
of Rockport Hamlet in April, 1893. He has 
been school director for several years. Farm- 
ing has been his life work, and he owns the old 
homestead which formerly belonged to his 
father, consisting of eighty acres. 

Mr. Reitz and his wife are members of the 
German Protestant Church. 



f[ H. PARR, manager of the Ohio Oil & 
Grease Company, was born in Cleveland, 
41 May 16, 1870, a son of Thomas W. and 
Caroline (Hattereley) Parr, natives of 
England and Cleveland, respectively. The 
father came to this city in 1865, when he en- 
gaged in contracting and building, and later 
succeeded his father-in-law, Henry Hattersley, 
in the gunsmith store. He is now engaged in 
the coal business on South Woodland avenue, 
Cleveland. The family residence is located at 
35 Piatt street. Mr. and Mrs. Parr had four 
children, namely: H. H., our subject; William 
J., secretary of the Cleveland Window Glass 
Company, married Miss Ella Chapin, of this 
city; Katherine and Caroline, attending the city 
high school. 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



H. H. Parr received his education in the 
public school of tliis city, and also in the Spen- 
cerian Business College. After leaving school 
he was employed as clerk for the Manufacturers' 
Oil Company for seven years, and then, in 1892, 
assumed control of the Ohio Oil & Grease 
Company. The oil is manufactured in Cleve- 
land, and is shipped to all parts of the United 
States. The company send out 250 sample 
cases, and employment is also given to many in 
handling and shipping. 

Mr. Parr was married in August, 1893, to 
Miss Georgia Hunt, a daughter of the late 
William Hunt, of northeast Maryland. He 
was a prominent manufacturer, and also had a 
large business in Philadelphia. Mrs. Hunt is 
still living, an honored resident of Cleveland. 
She is a member of the First Baptist Church. 
Mr. Parr is a member of the East Madison 
Avenue Congregational Church, and his wife 
of the Baptist Church. 



SAMUEL A. KAYMOND.— Specific ca- 
pability coupled witii fidelity to any im- 
portant trust intiposed or conferred will 
eventuate in the average casein something more 
than the mere subjective satisfaction that must 
come when one's duty is fulfilled. There will 
be a reward extraneous to this, while yet its 
natural sequence. Thus it is in the case of the 
thorough executive and honored business man 
whose name constitutes the caption of this par- 
agraph. He is a native of the same county of 
which he is now a resident and was born August 
27, 1845. His parents were Samuel and Mary 
(North) Raymond, the former of whom was born 
at Bethlehem, Connecticut, in 1805, and the lat- 
ter in the State of New York, in 1811. 

Samuel Raymond was one of the pioneer mer- 
chants of Cleveland, coming from New Britain, 
Connecticut, in 1836 and at once opening a dry- 
goods establishment in the Forest City. This 
enterprise, which in its importance and range of 
operations kept pace with the growth and de- 



velopment of the city, was continued by its in- 
ceptorup to the time of his death, in 1806. He 
was widely and favorably known as one of the 
leading merchants of Cleveland during those 
early years of her history. He was a promi- 
nent member of the first Presbyterian Church 
and was one of the trustees of the Cleveland 
Medical College (as it was then known), contrib- 
uting largely to the success of the institution 
when it was endeavoring to establish itself upon 
a firm and permanent basis. As a business man 
he was duly conservative, ordering his affairs 
with careful discrimination and gaining a repu- 
tation for irreproachable integrity and honesty 
of purpose. His death was of tragic order: 
he was on board the ill-fated Mississippi river 
steamer, W. R. Carter, which was demolished 
by the explosion of her boilers, near Vicksburg, 
in 1866. More than 200 persons met death as 
the result of this accident, and Mr. Raymond 
was one of the victims. He was drowned and 
hie body was never recovered. He was making 
a pleasure trip in company with his wife and 
the latter was saved from death, though one of 
her limbs was fractured at the time. The wid- 
ow survived for six years, but never rallied from 
the shock and bereavement entailed by the 
fearful disaster. She died in 1872, at the age 
of sixty-one years. 

Samuel A. Raymond was the fourth of a fam- 
ily of five children, two of whom died in infan- 
cy. Of the three who attained to mature years 
Henry N. is the eldest and is a well known res- 
ident of Cleveland; our subject is next, and the 
loved sister, Mary Louise, died at Aiken, South 
Carolina, in 1872, a month prior to the demise 
of her mother, with whom she was travelling for 
the benefit of the latter's health. 

The subject of this brief review completed his 
education at Yale College, having pursued a 
classical course with the class of 1870. After 
graduation he engaged in the dry goods busi- 
ness in Cleveland, continuing the enterprise suc- 
cessfully until 1879, when he became the pri- 
vate secretary of Mr. Amasa Stone, whose name 
is familiar to the majority of the residents of 



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Cleveland. From liis intimate knowledge of 
the functions and affairs of the estate in view 
of the implicit confidence in wliich he was held 
by Mr. Stone, it was but natural and consistent 
that upon the death of the latter he should be 
appointed as agent of the estate, — a preferment 
which was accorded him and which he has ever 
since retained, proving a most discriminating 
and faithful executive. Mr. Eaymond holds a 
position of no little prominence in the business 
cides of Cleveland and he is the incumbent in 
several positions of trust and responsibility, 
aside from the management of the large estate 
already referaed to. He is vice president and 
director in the Van-Cleve Glass Company, is 
secretary and director of the Children's Aid 
Society, secretary of the Board of Trustees of 
the First Presbyterian Church, of which he is a 
Dfa(on and both he and his wife devoted nicm 
bers, and he is also trustee of the Univercity 
School. 

The marriage of Mr. Eaymond was celebrated 
on the 20th of January, 1875, when he was 
united to Miss Emma E, Stone, of Philadel- 
phia. Both parents entered into eternal rest 
many years since. Mr. and Mrs. Eaymond have 
an interesting family of five children, namely: 
]\[ary, Hilda, Henry Augustine Julia and 
Samuel Edward. 

While in no sense a politician in the modern 
acceptance of the term, our subject maintains 
a lively interest in the affairs of city, State and 
nation, casting his ballot with the Eepnblican 
party. 



II f | ON. MILAN GALLAGHEE.— Conspic- 
|H|| nous among men of public affairs in 
IJ i the city of Cleveland, the subject of this 
^ sketch takes appropriate rank. He was 

liorn in this city September 5i3, 1855, a son of 
Aaron A. atid Catharine E. (Moran) Gallagher; 
the parents were pioneers here. The father died 
October 13, 1862, at the age of thirty-three 



years. By calling he was a contractor and 
mover of buildings, was a clever and respected 
gentleman, and in his politics was a strong 
Abolitionist. 

The subject of this sketch, the only surviving 
child, was reared and educated in Cleveland. 
After gaining a liberal education in the public 
schools of the city, he read law for two years, 
in the office of Allen T. Brinsraade. His in- 
clination and environments drew his attention 
to a business career upon which he embarked, 
first as a grocer on Detroit street, where he con- 
tinued in business for seven years. He then 
became interested in the business of the Sun 
Vapor Lighting Company, with which lie is 
yet connected, being its manager for the West 
Side. 

As a business man, Mr. Gallagher has given 
evidence of enterprise, thrift and push. As a 
man of public spirit and affairs he deserves no 
less praise. In 1890 he became "Sealer," 
which position he held for two years, and was 
known as the mo^t popular city sealer Cleveland 
has had for twenty-five years. In 1891 he was 
elected a member of the lower house of the 
General Assembly of the State of Ohio, and in 
that body his services were such as not only won 
the confidence and esteem of his fellow mem- 
bers, but also made him a popular representative 
among the people. He was very active in the 
Senatorial contest of 1892, in the interest of 
Senator John Sherman. In the legislature he 
is a very enthusiastic and sagacious workei', in- 
troducing many measures and serving on many 
important committees pertaining to municipal, 
railroad and telegraphic affairs. Among matiy 
other measures, he introduced, and materially 
aided in passing, House Bill No. 1180, desig- 
nated the " Park and Boulevard Bill," which 
provides for a board of park commissioners 
having control of parks and their development. 
The commission is one of great importance, 
and its influence in the development of public 
parks for the city of Cleveland has been per- 
ceptibly felt. There have been parks beautified 
and beautiful boulevards and drive-ways pro- 



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vided for already, and much iiHportant work is 
yet pending before tliis board of park commis- 
sioners, which consists of five members, two of 
whicii shall be the mayor of the city and the 
president of the city council; and said members 
are appointed by the trustees of the sinkiijg 
fund of the city. Tliis bill provided such ex- 
pediencies as will eventnally result in the ade- 
quate develojjment and maintenance not only of 
beautiful and well arranged parks but also of 
drive-ways and well improved and extended 
boulevards, and will thus add to the beauty and 
attraction of the already beautiful Forest City. 
The introduction of this bill and its passage is 
due to a very commendable course on the part of 
Mr. Gallagher. 

To him is also due the credit for the erection 
of tlie magnificent manual training school 
building on Cedar avenue, of which the city of 
Cleveland amy well be proud, as he was the 
author of the hill which gave the school 
director and the school council authority to 
build said structure. The school will be open 
to the public September 1, 1894. with the latest 
improved machinery. 

Mr. Gallagher was also very active in getting 
the " Federal plan " bill for the government of 
the public schools of Cleveland through the 
House of Repi-esentatives, as he is a stanch 
friend of the public schools. 

In a political way, Mr. Gallagher has been 
one of the stanchest Republicans. He has 
been a member of the County Central Com- 
mittee for over twelve years, and has also served 
upon the executive and financial committees. 
He has been a delegate to every county and 
State convention of his party since 1876. He 
was president of the Gardner Republican Club 
six years, and is also a member of the Tippe- 
canoe Club, and is now president of the Foraker 
Club. Was a delegate to the national Republi- 
can clubs iield at Buffalo, New York, in Sep- 
tember. 1892, at Louisville, Kentucky, in May, 
1893, and at Denver, Colorado, in June, 1894. 
Fraternally, he is a member of the I. O. O. F., 
K. of P., and of the National Union. 



Besides having other business interests, Mr. 
Gallagher is engaged in the real-estate and 
insurance business, being agent for several im- 
portant fire insurance companies, as the Ameri- 
can Casualty, the Insurance Conipany of 
Baltimore, etc. 

December 10, 1877, Mr. Gallagher married 
Miss Inez Phillips, who was born in Ainboy, 
Ashtabula county, Ohio, a daughter of S. D. 
and Marietta (Wait) Phillips. Mr. Gallagher's 
children are Mabel Everett, Grace Inez, Chester 
Arthur and Daphne Sherman. 



lOHN ROSE, one of the highly respected 
citizens of Dover township, Cuyahoga 
county, Ohio, dates his birth in Norfolk- 
shire, England, September 25, 1816. He is a 
son of Clark and Betsey (Bush) Rose, natives 
of that country. His father died in England, 
and some time afterward the mother became 
the wife of Robert Moore. They emigrated to 
America in 1831, first settled in Cleveland, 
Ohio, subsequently removed to Warrensville 
township, Cuyahoga county, and still later took 
up their abode in Dover township, where they 
spent the residue of their lives. 

The subject of our sketch landed in America 
in 1831 with his mother and her husband, and 
the greater part of his life has been spent in the 
township in which he now lives. Here he 
cleared and developed a tine farm of 125 acres, 
and farming has been his life occupation. 

Mr. Rose was married iu Dover township, 
November 24, 1838, to Miss Ellen Kelly, who 
was born on the Isle of Man, December 21, 
1815, and they have had eight children, a re- 
cord of whom is as follows: Ellen, who is the 
widow of Asahel P. Smith; Lucy, decased wife 
of Sylvester A. Phinney; Andrew K., served 
three years in the late war, in which he was 
Sergeant: he married Sarah Beardsley; KateL., 
wife of Sylvester A. Phinney; Eliza J., wife of 
Ciiipman L. Williams; Fi'ed J., carpenter and 



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builder, who married !N[iss Emma L. Bramley; 
Jennie L., an artist, and Clara I., wlio are still 
living at home. 

Politically, Mr. Rose affiliates with the Re- 
publican party, and takes an active and com- 
mendable interest in all public afifairs. He lias 
filled important township otfices and has served 
three terms as Township Trustee. Both he and 
his wife are earnest and active members of the 
Congregational Church, and by their many 
estimable traits of character have won the re- 
spect and esteem of all who know them. 

Such, in brief, is a sketch of the life of one 
of Cuyahoga county's leading and influential 
men. 



Il AMES J. BARTLETT, Trustee of Strongs- 
K I ville township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, 
^^ and one of the well-to-do and highly re- 
spected men of the township, forms the subject 
of this article. 

Mr. Bartlett was born in Brunswick, Medina 
county, Ohio, March 13, 1845. His father, 
Frederick R. Bartlett, came from Denvonshire, 
England, to this country in 1831, accompanied 
by his family. After remaining in New York 
city for some time, he located in Utica, New 
York; two years later removed to Cleveland, 
Ohio, and for four years made his home in that 
city; thence to Medina county, Ohio, first set- 
tling in Liverpool and afterward removing to 
Brunswick; and from the latter place he came 
to Strongsville, Cuyahoga county, in January, 
1852. Here he spent the residue of his life 
and died, his death occurring in 1864. His 
good wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth 
Brown, died in Strongsville in the fall of 1886. 
James J. is the youngest in their family of 
seven children, and was seven years old at the 
time they came to Strongsville. Here he was 
reared and here he has resided ever since, with 
the exception of two years and a half when he 
was in Cleveland. He has been engaged in 
stone work and bridge-building for several years 



and has also carried on farming operations, he 
being the owner of a fine farm of 165 acres, 
upon which he has erected a set of good build- 
ings. 

Mr. Bartlett was married in Strongsville, 
January 25, 1868, to Miss Mary J. Hendershott, 
who was born in Cleveland, Ohio, July 15, 
1850. Her father and mother, Abner A. and 
Angeline (Drake) Hendershott, came from New 
York to Cleveland at an early day, and in that 
city passed the greater part of their lives and 
died, her death being in 1860, and his in Oc- 
tober, 1871. Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett have five 
children, namely: Stella A., wife of A. L. 
Sanderson; Edward J., who married Nettie A. 
Killian; Edith E.; Luella M.; and Mary M. 

Mr. Bartlett has all his life taken a commend- 
able interest in public affairs, has tilled numer- 
ous minor offices, and since 1884 has been one 
of the trustees of Strongsville township. He is 
a member of Forest City Lodge, No. 388, F. 
& A. M., and of Oriental Commandery, No. 
12, of Cleveland. 



Jf HURD, a dentist of Cleveland, was born 
in Trumbull Co., Ohio, November 18, 

11 1833, a son of Joy and Nancy (Hudson) 
Hurd. The latter is descended from the 
family after whom Hudson Bay and river were 
named. The father was a native of Hartford, 
Conn., and of Holland extraction. In 1807, 
accompanied by his wife and seven brothers, he 
crossed the Alleghany Mountains in a cart, and 
came to the Western Reserve, locating on a 
farm near Warren. He afterwards moved to 
Geneva, Ashtabula Co., and still later came to 
Cleveland, where he died at the age of eighty- 
five years. Mr. Hurd served as drum-major 
during the war of 1812, went from Cleveland to 
Detroit on foot, but arrived after Hull's surren- 
der. The Ohio troops regained the fort. Mr. 
Hurd owned one of the largest farms in the 
county, and was well known as an honest, worthy 
and respected citizen. Both he and his wife 



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were members of the M. E. Church. Mrs. 
Hurd departed this life fifteen years before her 
husband's death, at tiie age of sixtj-seven years. 
They were the parents of eight children, six 
now living,— H. K., G. H., C. S., Henry, all of 
whom are dentists by profession; Nancy, wife 
of H. E. Hunt; and Henrietta, now Mrs. Elisha 
Dorman. 

Henry Hurd, our subject, attended the com- 
mon schools, and graduated at the Cincinnati 
Ohio Dental College in the class of 1892. He 
practiced his profession at Vincennes, Ind., 
three years, was then at Evansville, that State, 
next went to Memphis, Tenn., and in 1873 came 
to Cleveland. Mr. Hurd afterwards spent five 
years in Detroit. 

He was married in 1878, to Miss Mary, a 
daughter of Elizabeth Stormoth, both natives of 
Scotland. Mr. and Mrs. Hurd have one son 
living, Henry, a pupil of the city schools. Mrs. 
Hurd is a member of the Presbyterian Church. 
Our subject is independent in his political views. 



EV. B. ROSINSKL— The stamp desig- 
nating true nobility of character must 
ever find its ineffaceable tracery on the 
brow of one who sets himself apart 
from " the madding crowd's ignoble strife " 
and dedicates his life to the uplifting of his fel- 
low-men. A more than superficial investigation 
is demanded when one essays to determine the 
mental struggle and the spirit of unselfish de 
votion that must animate the man who gives 
all that he is and all that he hopes to be to 
service in the great vineyard of life, seeking re- 
ward only in that realm " where moth and rust 
do not corrupt and where thieves do not break 
through and steal." Preparation for and 
labors in the priesthood are perforce exacting, 
demanding an ever ready sympathy, a broad in- 
telligence and an unswerving fidelity. Scoffing 
cynicism and careless irreverence would often 
be silenced if only the inner life of those who 
minister in holy places might Ijo laid open for 



inspection. Honor is due and honor will be 
paid when once there comes a deeper under- 
standing of the truth. 

The subject of this sketch is the priest in 
charge of one of the largest and most important 
parishes in the diocese, that of St. Stanislaus 
(Polish), on Forman street, Cleveland. He 
was born in Poland, March 20, 1860, his 
parents being Sylvester and Caroline (Lewan- 
dowska) Rosinski, both natives of the province 
of Posen, Poland. The venerable father is 
still living, and, at the age of threescore years 
and ten, has crossed the ocean from his native 
land for the purpose of visiting his sons (1893). 
He is a cooper by trade, and now, after a long 
life of usefulness.is enjoying a richly merited 
rest. His wife died about 1881, at the age of 
sixty-six years. He has been a life-long mem- 
ber of the Roman Catholic Church, as was 
also his devoted wife. To them were born a 
family of five children, three of whom are still 
living. Ignatius, tiie eldest living son, is a 
resident of Cleveland, the next in order of birth 
being our subject, and the third being Frank, 
who is also a resident of the Forest City. 

Our subject pursued his education for five 
years at the gymnasia of Gnesen and Kulm, in 
his native country. His theological discipline 
and training was secured at St. Mary's Semi- 
nary, where he was under the tutorage of Dr. 
Moss. His ordination to the priesthood oc- 
curred in 1887, the late Bishop Gilmour otiiciat- 
incr. He was sent to Sandusky, where he 
served for nearly three years as assistant at St. 
Mary's Church. He was then placed in charge 
as pastor of St. Adalbert's Church at Berea, 
Ohio, the congregation being of Polish con- 
stituency. In this charge he remained for two 
years, assuming the duties of his present pas- 
torate in June, 1892. During his stay in 
Berea he effected many improvements in the 
equipments of the parish, among others being 
the erection of a fine school-house, which is the 
best in the place. In his present congregation 
Father Rosinski has nearly 1,300 families, his 
church bi'ing the largest in the diocese. The 



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cliiirch building has an extreme length of 200 
feet, the width in transept being 107 feet while 
tlie width of the nave proper is eighty-six feet. 
The twin spires which adorn the imposing 
structure are 232 feet in height. The paro- 
chial school maintained is one of repreientative 
and efficient order. There are nine school- 
rooms and the corps of instructors compi-ises ten 
individuals, all .save one being Sisters of St. 
Francis, from Rochester, Minnesota. One 
male instructor is employed. A few statistics 
from the parish records for the year 1893 will 
be of interest in the connection: the number of 
baptisms within the year was 531; marriages, 
90; deaths, 218; confirmations, 147. The 
work of the parish is ably directed and is in a 
healthful condition. 

Father Rosinski is a man of high literary 
attainments, being thoroughly conversant with 
the Polish, Bohemian, German and English 
languages and also well versed in the classics. 
He preaches in the Polish tongue, and from 
time to time in the German, as that race has a 
number of representatives in his congregation. 
He has had an assistant in his work for some 
time. 

The subject of our sketch is a man of fine 
personal appearance, of genial and gracious ad- 
dress and of scholarly attainments. A true 
pastor to his flock and faithful to the most re- 
sponsible trust that has been placed in his 
keeping, he merits and retains the high esteem 
and afFection of his parishioners and the re- 
spect of all with whom he comes in contact. 



PHILLIP GKAF, railroad conductor, was 
born August 4, 1853, in Brooklyn town- 
ship, where now stands the village of 
Lindale. His father, Jacob Graf, was 
born in Uhlmit, Germany, February, 9, 1813, 
and died in Cleveland, February 2, 1889, at the 
residence of Senator Herrman, and was buried in 
the Riverside Cemetery. He was never sick un- 
til about three days liefore his death. He came 



to this country in 1846, landing July 19tli at 
the point now occupied by the Cleveland Mill- 
ing Company. There being no wharf then, a 
plank was thrown out for the landing of passen- 
gers. The senior Graf lived first in Lindale, 
and then purchased twenty-one acres of land in 
Middleburg township, and lived there until his 
wife died, May 11, 1886, from which time he 
lived with his daughter, Mrs. Herrman, until 
his death. During his life he was never called 
into a court of justice, always living at peace 
with his neighbors. He married Katherine 
Myer, a sister of Nicholas Myer, and had the 
following named children: Jacob, Peter, Cath- 
erine, Fred, Margaret, Carrie, Mary, Phillip, 
Susie and Emma, — all of whom are residents of 
this city excepting Carrie, who is living near To- 
ledo; and Peter, who died in the late war. As a 
private in the twentieth Ohio Battery, he was 
crossing the Cumberland mountains one night, 
riding the leading team, when the gun carriage 
slipped down the mountain and three men were 
killed and the rest injured. The next morning 
the wounded were started in an ambulance to- 
ward Nashville, but on the way were captured 
and sent to Richmond, and finally to Anderson- 
ville, where Mr. Graf died, September 26, 1864, 
after having been a prisoner about eighteen 
months,and was buried in grave No. 9,813, in 
the national cemetry. 

The gentleman whose name heads this sketch, 
after having received the usual common -school 
education, at the age of eighteen years entered 
the employ of the Lake Shore & Michigan 
Southern Railroad Company as yard brakeinan, 
and afterward was promoted as yard conductor 
and yard master, and he is now running the 
train carrying employees between Cleveland and 
Nottingham. It was named the "Bug Run" 
train by Mr Conch, superintendent of the east- 
ern division. 

He has two dwellings, adjoining each other, 
on Laurel street, in Collinwood. With refer- 
ence to national issues he votes the Republican 
ticket. His parents were members of the Prot- 
estant Evangelical Church, anil were very lib^ 



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eral in religious matters. He was married 
October 12, 1875, to Maggie Breein, wiio was 
horn in Cleveland, in March, 1856, a daughter 
of Irish parents. Mr. Graf's children are Fred, 
John P. and Alice C. 

Mr. Graf has taken great interest in educa- 
tional matters. He came here in 1874, and to 
his best recollection there was one district school 
building, with two ungraded school rooms, and 
uo superintendent; and the schools wei-e under 
management of three supervisors, namely, 
George Elton, George Hooper, and Joseph 
Parks. They continued under that management 
until 1878. Then CoUinwood was incorporated 
as a village and the schools were put under the 
management of a school board, consisting of 
six members, namely, Joseph Parks, Dr. Badg- 
er, Joseph Day, George Elton, D. M. Alvord, 
and L. A. Hall. The schools were increased 
from year to year till 1890, when Dr. Badger 
died: Mr. Graf was elected to fill the vacancy 
by the School Board. Mr. Graf has served as 
a member of that Board up to this time, which 
now consists of Dr. John S. "Wood, Dr. A. L. 
Waltz, Attorney F. B. Garrett, Joseph S. Ban- 
der, Allen Tyler, besides himself. 

When the village was incorporated, in 1878, 
the School Board then employed a superintend- 
ent, — Mr. Burns, — and autliorized him to grade 
the schools. In 1890, when Mr. Graf became 
a member of the board, C. A. Hitchcock was 
the superintendent of the schools. Three years' 
high-school course was then added, which proved 
to be a great success, and also a great benefit 
to the school. 

Then the schools outgrew their accommoda- 
tions, and the question was put before the board 
to erect a new school building. It was decided 
by a vote of the people at a regular election to 
erect a school building not to e.xceed $25,000. 
The board decided to appoint a committee to 
consult an architect in regard to erecting a 
school building, and the committee consisted of 
Phillip Graf, Dr. J. S. Wood, Joseph Parks, 
and they decided to erect an eight-room school 
building with all the latest improvement.s, and 



have the structure fronting on Clark avenue, 
which they now occupy with eight full rooms. 

At the present time the schools are superin- 
tended by E. E. Rayman, assisted by Miss Cora 
L. Swift, of Oberlin college. The grammar 
teachers are, Miss Counts, Miss Miimer and 
Miss Ale.xander; and the primary teachers are: 
Miss Counts, Miss Howell, and Miss Throssell. 
Mr. Jeff Blackwell, a faithful colored man, is 
the janitor. 

There are also three other rooms, two of 
which are north of the Lake Shore & Michigan 
Southern Railroad, taught by Miss Sherman 
and Miss Stevens. The third room is situated 
in the old brick school building on Collamer 
street, taught by Miss Alice Calhoon. The 
school census of 1894 showed a total of 692 
school children. 



I^ILLIAM CORLETT, one of the prom- 
/ inent men of Warrensville township, 
Cuyahoga county, Ohio, was born at 
Xewburg, this county, October 25, 1827. 

William Corlett,Sr., the father of our subject, 
was a nati\'e of the Isle of Man and was one of 
the early settlers of Cuyahoga county, Ohio. 
After living in Newburg for seven years he re- 
moved to the farm now occupied by his son 
William, and here he spent the residue of his 
life and died in 1866, being sixty -nine years of 
age. By trade he was a tailor, which he followed 
for several years, but during the latter part of 
his life gave his attention to farming. He 
built a log house upon his farm, some years lat- 
er replaced it with a more pretentious frame 
one, and otherwise improved and developed the 
place. His good wife, whose maiden name was 
Ann Kinley, and who was also a native of the 
Isle of Man, survived him a short time, her 
death occurring in 1867, when she was seventy- 
three years of age. Both were devoted Chris- 
tian people and were worthy members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. They had a fam- 
ily of seven children, whose names are as fol- 



cayjuooA county. 



lows: Jane Clark, deceased; William, the sub- 
ject of this article; Thomas, a resident of Cali- 
fornia; John, deceased; Daniel, of Iowa City, 
Iowa; Kate ^Nichols, of California; and Josiah 
K., of Iowa City. 

William, the second born in the family, was 
reared on his father's farm, and the limited ed- 
ucation he obtained in the typical log school- 
house of that day he supplemented by a knowl- 
edi^e gained in the practical school of experi- 
ence. Tiie home farm which he owns and op- 
ci-atcs comprises 117 acres, and is well improved 
and nnder a high state of cultivation. Its two- 
story residence is located on a natural building 
site and is surrounded by an attractive lawn. 
The commodious barn, 30 x 80 feet, has a stone 
basement and affords ample shelter for stock. 
Indeed, everything about the premises is con- 
veniefitly arranged. Mr. Corlett has a wide ac- 
quaintance throughout the township, and is as 
popular as he is w^ell known. Mr. Corlett was 
married in August, 1855, to Elizabeth Kneen, 
a native of the Isle of Man and a daughter of 
William and Ann (Quail) Kneen, both natives 
of that isle. Her parents had eight other child- 
ren, — Thomas, William, John, Ann, Phillip, 
Edward, James and Kate. Mr. and Mrs. Cor- 
lett have five children, viz.: Edwin Howard, of 
Cleveland; Emma E.; Walter W., of Cleveland; 
Kittie A., of Cleveland; and Hattie E. 

He and his wife are members of the Method- 
ist Episcopal Church, and in politics he is a Re- 
l 



,ul)li 



H. MOSES. — The surname which initiates 
this review is one that has been conspicu- 
ously identified with the civic history of 
Ohio from the early pioneer days, and the im- 
mediate subject to whom these paragraphs are 
devoted bears well the honors of an honored 
name, being a prominent business man of the 
Forest City. He was born in Euclid township, 
Cuyahoga county, in 1851, the son of Henry 
and Margaret Moses, being one of their three 



childien. The father was engaged in the ship- 
timber and contracting business, and was one of 
the prominent and iufiuential lesidents of the 
county. He owned some 900 acres of land, 
was exceptionally endowed with business quali- 
fications and held a high position in the esteem 
of a large circle of acquaintances. His life was 
cut short just in his prime, his untimely death 
occurring in 1861, when he had attained the 
age of only thirty-four years. He was broad 
and liberal in his views, and was public-spirited 
to the highest degree. The Moses family is of 
French origin. The mother is living and in 
good health. It is worthy of incidental note 
that an uncle of our subject. Captain Moses, 
served under the celebrated Commodore Perry, 
was shot in the memorable battle, dying from 
the wound and being interred in the Public 
Square of Cleveland. Two other uncles were 
engaged in shipbuilding in Cleveland, and con- 
ducted the most extensive enterprise of the sort 
in the city. 

I. H. Moses was reared in Cuyahoga county, 
and engaged in the lumber business at CoUin- 
wood, conducting the enterprise very success- 
fully for a period of twelve years. In 1887 he 
came to Cleveland, and for three years was en- 
gaged in the real-estate business. In 1890 he 
purchased a one-half interest in the electrical 
supply business conducted by A. B. Lyman, and 
two months later he purchased his partner's re- 
maining interest and assumed full control of 
the enterprise, which has been advanced to a 
representative position, being one of the most 
extensive of the sort in the city. The business, 
when he assumed control, represented about 
$5,000 as the sum total of its annual opera- 
tions; he has widened the range and built up a 
trade which now reaches an annual average of 
$50,000. He deals extensively in all lines of 
electrical supplies, manufacturing the major 
portion of the same. He also holds the agency 
for the New York Safety Wire and Electrical 
Company. Mr. Moses put in the fine electrical 
appliances in the magnificent new steamboat, 
"Menominee," and lias tilled a number of other 



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important contracts of like order. His is the 
only establishment where telegraph instruments 
are manufactured in the West, with the excep- 
tion of manufactories io Chicago. 

In 1874 Mr. Moses was united in marriage 
to Miss Anna A., a daughter of Alonzo Ches- 
brough, of Niagara Falls, and late of Toledo, 
Ohio, where lie conducted one of the most ex- 
tensive lumbering enterprises in the city. Our 
subject and his wife have two sons: Alonzo and 
Sylvester. Mr. Moses is a member of the Con- 
gregational Church, as is also his wife. 

Taking a consistent interest in the political 
issues of the day, Mr. Moses is quite actively 
identified with the Republican party, and it is 
worthy of note that he held official preferment in 
the year he attained his majority, serving very 
acceptably as Constable. Fraternally he is iden- 
tified with the Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
lows, having passed all of the chairs in the 
same. 



T[J( ENRY M. WHITNEY, of Strongsville 
IrMJ township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, is a 
11 ^J son of the late Flavel Whitney, one of 
^ the pioneers of this vicinity. 

Flavel Whitney was born in Marlborough, 
Vermont, September 30, 180-4, and in 1816, 
when twelve years of age, emigrated with his 
father, Guilford Whitney, and family from the 
Green Mountain State to Cuyahoga county, 
Ohio, their settlement being in Strongsville 
township. Here Guilford Whitney passed the 
rest of his life and died, and here his son Flavel 
grew to manhood, had an active and useful ca- 
reer, and died, honored and respected by all who 
knew him. His death occurred October 29, 
1877. Flavel Whitney was married several 
times and reared a family of children to occupy 
honorable and useful positions in life. He was 
first married in Strongsville, July 2, 1828, to 
Clarinda Tnttle, whose untimely death occurred 
July 14, 1830. November 14, 1830, he married 
Electa Harvey, who passed away on the sixth of 



October in the following year. On the fourth 
of November, 1832, he wedded Aurelia Allen, 
who was born in Norwich, Connecticut, Sep- 
tember 16, 1812, and by whom he had four 
children who reached maturity, namely: Watson 
H., a resident of Berea, Ohio; Henry M., whose 
name appears at the head of this sketch; John 
F., a railroad engineer; and Electa, wife of 
William Humiston, of Berea. The mother of 
these children departed this life August 22, 
1843. March 28, 1844, Mr. Whitney married 
Mrs. Catherine A. Barnes, and some time after 
her death he was married to Lucy A. Cole, who 
died in November, 1889, his last wife having 
survived him several years. 

Henry M. Whitney was born in the township 
in which he now lives, December 2, 1835, and 
here, with tlie exception of one year spent in 
Wisconsin, he has ever since resided, his chief 
occupation being farming. He owns over eighty 
acres of good land and carries on his farming 
operations by the most approved methods. 

Mr. Whitney was married in Strongsville, 
May 29, 1862, to Sarah J. Haynes, who died 
September 10, 1864, leaving an only child, 
Gertrude S. His second marriage occurred in 
Litchfield, Medina county, Ohio, April 18, 1866, 
to Miss Mary Cole, who was born iti Bethel, 
Connecticut, November 17, 1836. They have 
two children, Williston O. and Edith M. Mrs. 
Whitney is a member of the Congregational 
Church. 

Mr. Whitney takes a commendable interest 
in public affairs. 



ZIBA S. HALL, one of the prosperous 
farmers of Dover township, Cuyahoga 
^ county, Ohio, is a native of this place, 

born November 23, 1830, fourth in the family 
of Charles and Lucy (Seymour) Hall, pioneers 
of the county. With the exception of about six 
years, he has been a resident of this township 
all his life. When he was eighteen he spent a 
few months in Ashtabula county, Ohio; a year 



CUTAUOUA COUNTY. 



later was in Micliigin about six months, and not 
long after tliat went to East Cleveland, where 
he learned the trade of painter and where he 
worked at that trade live years. With these ex- 
ceptions, his life has been devoted to agricult- 
ural pursuits in Dover township, where he owns 
an excellent farm of one hundred acres, all well 
improved. 

Mr. Hall was married in Euclid (now Col- 
linwood), Cuyahoga county, Oliio, December 
19, 1855, to Sarah E. Ilale, who was born there 
August 14, 1885, daughter of John A. and 
Nancy (Craney) Hale, both natives of that place. 
Mrs. Hall is the oldest of their eight children, 
three sons and five daughters. Mr. and Mrs. 
Hall have had six children, two of whom died in 
infancy. The others are Metta S., who died at 
the age of eight years; Charles A., who lived 
only two years; Pearl E. and Ruby S. 

Mr. Hall has taken an active part in the af- 
fairs of his township. He has served as School 
Director, and for seven years was Treasurer of 
the Dover Township Agricultural Society. He 
and his wife are identified with the Congrega- 
tional Church, in which they are active working 
members. Mr. Hall is also a member of Olm- 
sted Post, G. A. K., No. 634. During the war 
he was a member of Company I, One Hundred 
and Fiftieth Ohio National Guards, he having 
enlisted May 2, 1864, in the one-hundredday 
service. 



d[(OHN W. WILLIAMS, who stands dis- 
I tiuctively as one of the representative men 
^ of Rockport hamlet, is a native of Rock- 
port township, the date of his birth being Au- 
gust 9, 1849. His father, the late William J. 
Williams, was a native of Wales, and his mother, 
whose maiden name was Polly M. Alger, was 
born in Rockport. They were married in Cuya- 
hoga county and settled on a farm in Rockport 
township, where they continued to reside until 
their death. The mother died December 14, 
1857, and the father met his death about the 



middle of December, 1868, at Cleveland, as the 
result of an accident on the Cleveland, Colum- 
bus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railroad. He 
died in the hospital at Cleveland. They had 
two children: John W., the subject of this re- 
view, and Lucy S., who was the wife of Henry 
\Yilde, and who died in Cleveland. Philani 
Alger, sister of Mrs. Polly M. Williams, was 
the first white female child born west of the 
Cuyahoga river. 

John W. Williams grew to maturity in Rock- 
port township and has ever since continued his 
residence here. He received a good common- 
school education and has ever been closely iden- 
titied with the farming operations of the local- 
ity, proving a capable, intelligent and success- 
ful business man. In connection with general 
farm work he has given special attention to 
dairying and has derived very satisfactory re- 
sults from this enterprise. His fine farms of 
183 acres gives evidence in itself that the owner 
is a man of energy and progressive methods. 

August 23, 1871, Mr. Williams led as a bride 
to the altar Miss Maria Herbeson, daughter of 
the late Matthew Herbeson, who was one of the 
pioneer residents of Rockport township, where 
his death occurred in January, 1S89. Mrs. 
W^illiams was born in New York city, in 1851, 
and died suddenly January 11, 1894; and her 
funeral was the largest ever attended in that 
community. 

Our subject and his estimable wife have five 
children, by name as follows: William W., Mat- 
thew G., Royal J., May I. and Ruth L. 

In his political proclivities Mr. Williams 
espouses the cause of the Republican party, and 
in local affairs he has taken an active interest 
and somewhat prominent part. He held the 
olHce of Township Trustee for three years, and 
discharged the duties of the position most ably 
and acceptably. 

He is a zealous member of the Congrega- 
tional Church, as was his wife, and takes an 
active interest in the work of the local society 
of that denomination, contributing willingly 
and liberally to its s>ipport. Upon men of such 



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thorough rectitude of character and such sub- 
stantial and honest worth does the stable pros- 
perity of our nation largely depend, and the in- 
dependent yeoman, looking across his broad and 
fertile acres, need envy no man. 



QEOPIGE S. IDDINGS, dealer in real 
I estate, has been a resident of this city 
since 1854. He was born in Warren, 
' Trumbull cuiinty, Ohio, May 23, 1851, a 
son of Hiram and Mary (Clark) Iddiiigs. His 
father died in October, 1863, after having been 
a resident of this city for about nine years. 
When he (the father) first came here in 1854, 
the firm of Edwards & Iddings was formed, and 
they continued in business under that name 
until Mr. Iddings' death, when it was merged 
into that of William Edwards & Company, who 
conducted one of the largest wholesale estab- 
lishments of the city. Mr. Hiram Iddings was 
a prominent citizen of Cleveland, a member of 
the 13oard of Trade, etc. 

Mr. George S. Iddings, of this sketch, com- 
pleted his schooling at a private establishment 
in the East, and at the age of sixteen years en- 
tered the employ of George Cooper & Company, 
hardware merchants, where he was employed 
for three years. He then opened the first stone 
quarry, on Euclid creek, which he operated for 
some three or four years. I^ext he was engaged 
in the grocery trade at Nottingham; later in the 
oil business, and still later in the brokerage 
business, which he conducted on an extensive 
basis. This he closed in order to organize the 
Cleveland Automatic Refrigerator Company, 
which is now the Cleveland Artificial Ice Com- 
pany. With some others he became interested 
in an ice invention, to which he gave some 
considerable time, and which he finally sold to 
good advantage. Then he was one of the organ- 
izers, in 1893, of tlie American Eucrasy Company, 
the outgrowth of the Eucrasy Company. This 
company has the territory of the whole world 
for the treatment, by a certain method, of ine- 



briety, the morphine and opium habit and all 
diseases of a like order. The treatment is such 
that no confinement is necessary, and no sani- 
tarium required but home. To this business 
Mr. Iddings now gives his entire attention, and 
his success is marked. 

In politics he is an active Kepublican, and he 
is a member of Thatcher Lodge, No. 46, F. & 
A. M., of Webb Chapter, and of Oriental Com- 
mandery. No. 12. 

He was married at Euclid, April 23, 1882, to 
Miss Elizabeth Dille, daughter of Sanford W. 
Dille, and they have two children living: Paul 
Allen and Elizabeth Corinne. The residence is 
at Euclid. 

Mr. Iddings' ancestry is traceable to Wales 
on the paternal side, while on his mother's side 
it is of Quaker stock. His grandmother Iddings 
was born in Philadelpliia, daughter of Mr. 
Lewis, of Revohitionary stock. 



EDWIN W. CHRISTY, manager for the 
United States Life Insurance Company 
1 of New York for the State of Ohio, was 

placed in charge of this office in 1891. He 
came to this city from Warren, Ohio, where he 
was born, November 29, 1864, a son of Matthias 
and Jane (McMuUen) Christy. He was reared 
in Trumbull county, this State, educated at the 
public schools of "Warren, one year at Hiram 
College, and finally graduated at the University 
of Michigan at Ann Arbor, in 1887. 

He then associated himself with the Equit- 
able Life and the Pennsylvania Mutual Life 
Insurance Companies, representing the latter 
as special agent for Ohio, Kentucky and Ten- 
nessee. This position gave him a thorough 
knowledge of the business, fitting him for the 
duties of ghneral manager for such a State as 
Ohio. In 1888 he began operations for the 
United States Life Insurance Company of New 
York, at Warren, Ohio, taking charge of the 
eastern half of the State. About five months 
later he came to Cleveland and assumed the 



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management of tlie entire State. Before he 
took control the largest amount of business 
reached was about $100,000; during his first 
year he increased this to §1,300,000, and he has 
continued to increase the amount ever since. 
He has placed upward of 300 men in the field, 
adopting a system that has given a healthy im- 
petus to the work; is a member of the Clere 
laud Fire Underwriters' Association, and is 
thoroughly imbued with the spirit of business, 
and is "up to snufF" on all points in his line. 
His office is located at 106 Euclid avenue. He 
is also a stockholder and one of the directors in 
the Standard Brick Company of Cleveland, 
wliich is one of the largest plants of the kind in 
the State. 

He was married in Warren, Ohio, to Miss 
Jennie E. Bassett, daughter of H. P. Bassett of 
that city, and they have a son, named Taylor B. 
Their residence is at 95 Bell avenue, in the 
East End. 



ROBINSON SWIFT, of the dry-goods 
house of William Taylor, Son & Com- 
pany, Cleveland, has been associated 
with this house for the past four years, 
beginning in 1889. 

He is a native of New York city, born Jan- 
uary 6, 1861, a son of Edward L. and S. R. 
Swift, both of whom were from the oldest New 
England families, dating their American his- 
tory as far back as 1685. The father was an 
extensive sugar-refiner. 

Mr. Swift of this sketch at the age of seven 
years began to attend school in Vermont, com- 
pleting his schooling at the age of seventeen. 
Then he became salesman for John L. Bremar 
& Company, dry-goods commission merchants 
of New York city, and continued with them 
for ten years; then, in 1889, he came to Cleve- 
land as above stated, took an interest in the 
business of the house and assumed the man- 
agement of the wholesale department. lie is a 
resolute young man, of thorough business ca- 



pacity and reliability, perfectly adapted to his 
position, to which he gives his entire attention. 
He is a member of the Chamber of Com- 
merce, of the Union and Athletic Clubs and of 
the Presbyterian Church. Public-spirited, he 
is destined to make a permanent mark in the 
social and business circles of Cleveland. 



[( LLEN B. WARD, one of the Trustees of 
l\ Dover township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, 
^ was born in Brighton, Lorain county, 
this State, November 11, 18-16, son of 
Abram and Electa (Simmons) Ward, natives re- 
spectively of the town of Ashtield, Franklin 
county, Massachusetts, and the town of Per- 
rington, Genesee county. New York. His par- 
ents were married in Olmsted, Cuyahoga county, 
Ohio, and soon after their marriage settled in 
Brighton, Lorain county, where they lived a few 
years and from whence they came to Dover 
township, Cuyahoga county, where they have 
since resided. They had four children: Abi- 
gail, Allen B., Leroy and Frances. 

Allen B. Ward was quite young when his 
parents removed to Dover township, and here 
he was reared and educated and has since re- 
mained. For sixteen' years he was engaged in 
the sawmill business, and since then has carried 
on farming and has also worked at the carpen- 
ter's trade. He owns ten acres of land, upon 
which he has erected good buildings, and where 
he has a comfortable home in which he and his 
family reside. 

Mr. Ward was married in Dover township, 
July 28, 1872, to Miss Helen Barry, who was 
born in Rockport township, this county, June 
12, 1850, daughter of John and Ruth (Jordan) 
Barry. Her parents, both natives of New York, 
were married in the Empire State, and from 
tliere moved west to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, at 
an early day, and settled in Rockport township, 
where they lived for several years and from 
whence they removed to Dover township. Here 
her mother died in November, 1887. Her father 



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is still living. They had eight children, of 
whom Mrs. Ward was the seventh born. Mr. 
and Mrs. Ward have one child, Florence B. 

Mr. Ward's political alfiliations are with the 
Democratic party. He has served bis town- 
ship as its Trustee, Assessor and Clerk, the 
duties of all of which offices be has performed 
with the strictest fidelity. Personally, be is 
frank and cordial, and both he and bis family 
have hosts of friends here. 



iT^EORGE R. McKAY, Justice of the 
I ¥(■ Peace, Cleveland, is a native of this city, 
>-j[[ born December 12, 1862, a son of Rob- 
ert G. and Mary J. (Greenlees) McKay, 
natives of Scotland and both deceased. After 
his marriage, in bis native land, the father be- 
came a sailor and was a navigator both on the 
ocean and on the lakes of America for a num- 
ber of years. He settled in Cleveland in 1860, 
where be followed the occupation of machinist 
and millwright; and in 1870 he went to Chi- 
cago and was employed in the South Side roll- 
ing mills as machinist, where be was killed 
July 2, same year, leaving a wife and three 
children: Mary J., wife of L. J. Wortan, 
formerly of Cleveland, who died in Pittsburg 
in 1892; Nellie, who married Edwin D. Dean 
and died May 16, 1892; and George R. 

When a lad of twelve years Mr. McKay was 
employed at the rolling mills at Newburg, and 
continued there until he was twenty-one years 
of age, meanwhile pursuing a course of study 
under the instructions of Miss Trobridge. 
Then, in 1883, be entered the Western Reserve 
Academy at Hudson, and graduated there in 
1885; then spent a year in special studies in 
higher branches at Oberlin College and at Ada, 
this State. 

Striking out into liusiness, be entered the 
employ of the Otis Steel Company, as assistant 
shipping clerk; in the spring of 1891 he be- 
came bailiif for the county sheriff, and during 
bis service here he read law at night, under the 



supervision of the firm of Sherwood & Denni- 
son; a year afterward he entered the United 
States marshal's office as deputy, where he re- 
mained until he graduated in law, June 6, 
1889, when he was admitted to the bar at Co- 
lumbus. Then, entering the law office of his 
former preceptors, lie practiced there until be 
was elected Justice of the Peace in Cleveland, 
the only Democrat elected in the county, and 
that, too, when be was but tweuty-si.\ years of 
age, the youngest man ever elected to this of- 
fice in this county. He entered upon bis duties 
as Jiistice November 14, 1889; and November 
7, 1893, he was re-elected to the office. All 
the spare time he has during the intervals of 
his official duties he devotes to the practice of 
his profession. After his term expires as Jus- 
tice he expects to devote his whole time to 
legal practice. 

In his society relations Mr. McKay is Past 
Grand of Cataract Lodge, No. 295, I. O. O. F., 
of the Cleveland Athletic Club, and of the 
Cleveland Gatling Gun Battery. 

He was married November 8, 1893, to Miss 
May Kimberley, daughter of D. H. Kiiuberley, 
ex-County Treasurer, and they reside at 51 
Belle avenue. 



HARLES WESLEY, proprietor of the 
Weddell House, Cleveland, has been a 
resident of this city since 1874, when he 
and bis father took the management of this 
house, succeeding R. Gillett. He was born in 
Cazenovia, New York, in 1S49, a son of George 
W. and Jane (Gee) Wesley, both of whom died 
in 1888. Five years prior to his death the 
elder Wesley purchased a country seat on the 
lake shore, where be died, having retired from 
active business some time before: he has been 
a resident of Cleveland fourteen years. 

Mr. Charles Wesley was brought up in hotel 
life. When a lad of fifteen years he had charge 
of the office of the Bancroft House in Indian- 
apolis,Indiana, and afterward of the Bates House 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



in the same city, and ever since 1883 he has had 
full control of the Weddell House. In 1887 he 
thoroughly remodeled the building, placed upon 
it an additional story, enabling him to accom- 
modate 300 guests. He makes his home in the 
hotel. He has now been a hotel proprietor in 
this city longer than any other hotel or livery 
man here. He is vice president of the Cleve- 
land Transfer & Carriage Company, a director 
of the Cleveland National Bank. He was init- 
iated into Masonry in 1871, and has taken the 
thirty-second degree of the Scottish rite, and 
he is also a charter member of the Mystic 
Shrine, of the Cleveland Chapter, Holy Rood 
Commandery, Forest City Consistory and Al- 
koran Temple, N. M. S. He is also a director 
of the Roadside Club, member of the Union 
Club, vice president of the Cleveland Hotel- 
keepers' Association, member of the National 
Hotel-keepers' Association and of the Hotel- 
men's Mutual Benefit Association. 

In 1870, in Saginaw, Michigan, he married 
Miss Hester Jerome, and lliey have two chil- 
dren, — Grace and George; the latter expects to 
enter Yale College next fall (1894). 



fJI[ A. HANNA. — Outside of political cir- 
jTI cles it is a rare thing to find a man whose 
4i reputation extends over so wide a scope 
of country as does that of M. A. Haniia 
of (Jleveland, who ir< one of the city's most 
prominent, influential and deservedly honored 
citizens, and one of the foremost men of the 
Buckeye State. The business interests of Mr. 
Hanna are not confined to Cleveland or to Ohio, 
but are distributed over a wide territory, reach- 
ing into at least half a dozen different States, 
and are as diversified and important as they are 
extensive. 

For half a century the Hanna family has 
been most closely identified with the commer- 
cial, financial, and industrial history of Cleve- 
land, and its members during that time have 
contributed as much as those of any family to- 



ward the building up of the city and its many 
industries and institutions. Mr. Ilanna's father, 
Dr. Leonard Hanna, was a leading citizen of 
New Lisbon, Ohio, until his removal to Cleve- 
land in 1852, wlien he at once took rank with the 
prominent men of this city. He was one of the 
founders of the wholesale grocery house of Han- 
na, Garretson & Company, which was one of the 
largest and most important firms in that line in 
the city at that time, the partners being his 
brother Robert Hanna and Hiram Garretson, 
both of whom were then and later very promi- 
nent among the leading business men of the 
Forest City. This firm continued in successful 
business until 1863, and among the many ways 
in which it aided in building nj) the trade of 
Cleveland was the establishment of a line of 
vessels between this city and the then opening 
iron regions of Lake Superior. 

M. A. Hanna is a native of Ohio and by birth 
and nature is in full accord with the best forms 
of Western Reserve thought and sentiment. 
He was born in New Lisbon, Columbiana coun- 
ty, on the 24:th day of September, 1837, and it 
was in that county that his early boyhood was 
spent. He attended the schools of his native 
town, and upon his removal to Cleveland was 
given the full benefit of the city schools, and to 
the thorough public-school education he there 
obtained was supplemented a season at the 
Western Reserve College. His business career 
began in 1857, when he became an etnployee of 
the firm of which his father was a member. He 
continued with that firm and its successor, 
Robert Hanna »fc Company, until 1807, and dur- 
ing that time originated the Buckeye Oil Com- 
pany, which he managed in connection with his 
other duties, thus giving evidence at that early 
age of the splendid business talents and capacity 
which have been so fully developed in later life. 

On the 27th day of September, 1864, Mr. 
Hanna was mari'ied to Miss C. Augusta Rhodes, 
daughter of the late D. P. Rhodes, and three 
years later when the great pioneer iron and coal 
firm of Rhodes it Card retired from business, 
he became a member of its successoi-, the firm 



CUrAHOOA COUNTY. 



of Rhodes & Company, the other members of 
which were Eobert Rhodes and G. H. Warm- 
iiigton. Tliey were heavy dealers in coal and 
iron and for a number of years did an extensive 
business, their mines being located in the Tus- 
carawas valley, while their trade extended all 
over the country. This firm was dissolved in 
1885, being succeeded by that of M. A. Hanna 
& Company, of which Mr. Hanna became the 
senior member. This firm is still in business, 
and is one of the largest dealers in coal, iron 
ore and pig iron in Ohio, and as large as any in 
the West. 

While Mr. Ilanna's labors were for a number 
of years given to this great enterprise, he was 
and is interested in many ways in other lines of 
commercial and business activity. In 1872 he 
organized, in connection with other leading cap- 
italists, the Cleveland Transportation Company, 
which built a line of steamers and their consorts 
for the Lake Superior iron-ore trade, and of this 
he has been a director from the first and was for 
several years its general manager, resigning the 
same when the other business interests grew to 
such an extent as to demand the most of his time. 
In 1881 he organized the West Republic Min- 
ing Company of Marquette county, Michigan, 
and was elected its president, which position, 
with that of director, he still holds. In 1882 he 
organized the Pacific Coal and Iron Company, 
with headquarters at St. Paul, Minnesota, was 
elected its president, and continues in the same 
position. He was a director in and vice-presi- 
dent of the Hubbell Stove Company of Buffalo. 
In 1882 he purchased a controlling interest in 
the West Side Street Railway Company, and 
with his usual enterprise and courage put mon- 
ey and management enough into it to make it a 
success. He was elected president of the com- 
pany, and has remained at the head of that en- 
terprise during its changes and consolidations. 
Mr. Hanna is a director of the Globe Iron 
Works, one of the largest shipbuilding concerns 
in the country, and to him as much as to any 
one man is due the credit of making Cleveland 
the largest shipbuikling point in the ITnited 



States. He was one of the founders of the 
Union National Bank in 1884, and was elected 
one of its directors and president. This bank is 
one of the largest in the State, with a capital of 
11,000,000, and its stock-holders comprise solid 
business men and capitalists of Cleveland. The 
people of Cleveland are indebted to Mr. Hanna 
for one of the handsomest houses of amusement 
in the West, as he is the builder and present 
owner of the Euclid Avenue Opera House, the 
leading theater of the city. In 1880, Mr. 
Hanna purchased an interest in the Cleve- 
land Herald, a Republican newspaper which 
had been experiencing hard times for a number 
of years, and was chosen president of the Her- 
ald Hublishing Company. His connection with 
this enterprise closed with its sale in 1885. 

He is also interested in various enterprises 
and institutions in Cleveland and elsewhere, 
needless to mention here, as sufficient have been 
ennumerated to show the extent and ramifica- 
tions of his important business connections. 

Mr. Hanna has always been a Republican 
and a believer in a tariff for the protection of 
American industry. He is one of those who 
believe that every business man should exercise 
the right influence in the conduct of affairs, be- 
lieving in personal effort as a matter of right 
and duty, and he has been active in the politics 
of Ohio for a number of years, not a seeker 
after office but a seeker after good government 
administered by the best men. He is recognized 
to-day as one of the political leaders of the State, 
his advice and counsel being sought on all im- 
portant occasions by those having in charge the 
various campaigns; and in this connection it 
may be said in the language of one of his 
friends, " M. A. Hanna is a power in Ohio pol- 
itics, and he has always stood for clean and hon- 
est methods." In 1884 he was one of the dele- 
gates at large from the Republican State Con- 
vention to the National Convention in Chicago, 
and during that and the following years served 
in the Republican State Executive Committee 
of Ohio. In August of 1885 he was appointed 
iiy President Cleveland as one of the Govern- 



CUTAUOGA COUNTY. 



ment Directors of the Union Pacific Railroad, a 
position unsought but accepted because it was 
an honorary one to which no salary was attached, 
and in which he could serve the public without 
the charge of personal motive. In the fall that 
year he was summoned to the West by reason 
of the labor troubles along the line, and gave 
several weeks to a careful and proper settlement 
of the qnestion at issue, in connection with oth- 
er directors of the road. In 1888 he was dele- 
gate to the Republican National Convention, 
and supported Senator John Sherman's candida- 
cy before that convention. He labored zealously 
for the success of Senator Sherman, who is his 
warm personal friend, and to whom that gentle- 
man owes, probably more than to any other man, 
his last election to the United States Senate. He 
is also one of Governor McKinley's warmest 
friends and advisers. 

The best estimate of a man's powers and qual- 
ities can be found in the work he has done and 
in the repute in which he is held by those who 
know him well; and judged by these standards 
Mr. Hanna must be set down as a business man 
who has commanded the highest success while 
in the prime of life. He has done much for 
himself and his posteritj-, but more for Cleve- 
land and her future. He aided in making Cleve- 
land the largest ship-building city saveoneon the 
globe; he was instrumental in establishing one 
of her largest lines of lake vessels; he gave the 
city one of her best systems of street railways 
in the whole country; he gave her prominence 
in the coal and iron markets; he founded one of 
her largest and most substantial banking houses, 
and in a thousand ways has contributed to the 
growth and development of the city and her en- 
terprises. He is one of the city's most public- 
spirited citizens, and is always to be found on 
the side of progress and in the front rank of all 
movements of a public and beneficial nature. 
His reputation as a financier is equal to that of 
the best in the State. He is bold and courage- 
ous in his moves upon the commercial chess- 
board, yet at the same time is sound and con- 
servative. His honesty and honoi-able methods 



of business have never been questioned, and the 
association of his name witii any enterprise gen 
erally secures the success of the same. 

Mr. Hanna is an ideal citizen. He takes an 
interest in all that pertains to the city and her 
people; keeps himself in touch with all public 
and social questions. He is very charitable by 
nature and gives liberally to organized charity 
and to the poor and needy individually. He 
takes a great interest in hospital work, and is 
president of the Huron street hospital, to which 
he gives his personal attention. Personally he 
is pleasant and sociable in disposition, open to 
the approach of any one, and is a warm and 
steadfast friend. He is fond of company and is 
a magnificent entertainer, being in the height 
of his pleasure when surrounded by his guests. 



H. BRAINARD, secretary of the Na- 
tional Union Photo-Engraving Company 
of Cleveland, was born in St. Paul, Min- 
nesota, September 21, 1867, a son of 
Henry and Sarah (Hinkley) Braiuard. His 
father died in 1883, and his mother is still liv- 
ing, a resident of Hazlehurst, Mississippi. 

During his boyhood the subject of this sketch 
was a resident of several places, but educated 
mainly in the public schools of Brooklyn vil- 
lage, Cuyahoga county. At the age of fifteen 
years he went to Mississippi, where his father 
was living, the owner of a large plantation. 
The following year the latter came North, and 
died in Minnesota. Mr. A. II. Braiuard man- 
aged the plantation fouryears, when he also began 
to entertain a desire to come North, namely, 
to Cleveland, at which place he arrived in 1887. 
In August of the next year he accepted a posi- 
tion as collector for the National Bank of Com- 
merce of this city, and remained in connection 
with the bank for three years. He then pur- 
chased an interest in the National Photo-En- 
graving Company of this city, whose business 
was then owned by himself and W. A. Mc- 
Laughlin until January 11, 1893, when they 



CUYAHOOA COUNTY. 



formed a stock company, capitalized at $50,- 
000, with W. A. McLaughlin president and 
treasurer, William Backus, iw, vice president, 
and A. H. Brainard secretary. Their office is 
located on the corner of St. Clair and Ontario 
streets, where they employ a large force of 
men and tuin out the iinest class of photo-en- 
graving, relief-line and half-tone work. 

Although still a young man, Mr. Brainard 
has already become a well known figure in the 
business circles of Cleveland, is resolute, execu- 
tive and in all his dealings honorable. In his 
fraternal relations he is a Royal Arch Mason, 
and in respect to religion he and wife are 
members of the Congregational Church. They 
reside in Brooklyn. 

Mr. Brainard was married December 2S, 
lS9:i, to Miss Pearl B. Prescott, daughter of 
William Prescott of this city. 



TfOEL M. MONROE, manufacturer of elee- 
>> 11 trical goods, Cleveland, was born in 
^' Northampton, Massachusetts, September 
4, 1851. 

His father, Colonel Jonas Monroe, was a 
nepliew of President Monroe, was in tiie frontier 
military service for eighteen years, including 
the period of tiie Seminole war, and was com- 
missioned by General Winfield Scott as Colonel 
for the Mexican war, as commander of the 
Twenty-second Regiment of the National Guards 
of JS'ew York. Being an able attorney, he was 
for a time a member of the prominent law firm 
of Monroe, Wilkins & Korse of New York. He 
was the author of some of the best books pub- 
lished on the game of chess, — one, " The Sue 
cess and Art of Chess," was published by the 
Scribners; and he also wrote a number of other 
works, one of the most important being unfin- 
ished when he died: its publication would prob- 
ably have made him distinguished. He was 
educated at William and Mary's College, a 
classical scholar and a great linguist: was an 
able contributor to many of the leading jour- 



nals of his time. He died in August, 1862, at 
the age of forty-two years. At the armory of 
the Twenty-second Regiment of New York is 
to be seen a life-sized portrait of him, taken 
when he was Captain of Company K, Sixth In- 
fantry, and the late Lieutenant-General W. S. 
Hancock was his lieutenant. This is pointed 
out as indicative of the high esteem in which he 
was held by members of that regiment. He 
was of English and Scotch lineage, his ancestors 
coming to Virginia in the early part of the 
seventeenth century. He married Vii'ginia 
Martin, a native of Massachusetts and a daugh- 
ter of Dr. Martin, distinguished as a United 
States Army surgeon. She was educated at 
Alt. Ilolyoke, Massachusetts, her instructress in 
the classics being Miss Lyon, and she was a lady 
of sterling qualities of niind. She and her hus- 
band were members of the Episcopalian Church. 

Their son, whose name heads this sketch, was 
educated in the public schools of New York, 
and then was engaged in the insurance business 
in New York city until 1871, after which he 
was traveling salesman until 1891, when he be- 
came interested in manufacturing in Cleveland, 
as general manager of the Steel Bolt Company, 
but afterward became the partner of Herbert S. 
G)-ay in the electrical manufacturing business. 

In his political principles Mr. Monroe is a 
Republican, and in his fraternal relations he 
belongs to the orders of Masons, Odd Fellows, 
Knights of Pythias and American Legion of 
Honor. He is also president of the Rialto Club 
of New York city, a member of Company I of 
the Twenty-second Regiment of New York, 
S. N. G., and of the Cleveland Grays. 



DR. FRANK DOWD, dentist. No. 50 
Euclid avenue, was born in Chautauqua 
county, New York, September 23, 1847, 
a son of Benjamin H. and Rhoda (Norton) 
Dowd, the former a native of Vermout, and 
tlie latter of New Y^oi-k. The father, a carpen- 
ter contractor and builder, came from Vermont 



CUTAHOOA COUNTY. 



to Xew York in 1824, thence to Tioga county, 
Pennsylvania, and from tl)cre to Cliautauqua 
county New York, in 1837. He was a pioneer 
in bis business in that part of the State. He 
was a member of the Baptist Church for many 
years, dying May 3, 1879, at the age of seventy- 
one years. He was a useful man, extensively 
known and highly respected as a most worthy 
citizen. As a skilled workman in his line, no 
less than as an honored representative citizen, 
his death was mourned as a loss to the family, 
the community, and the church of his choice. 

His father, B. Dowd, took part as a faithful 
soldier in the Revolutionary war. He was one 
of three brothers who came from England and 
settled in Vermont in the latter part of the 
seventeenth century. Our subject's mother, 
still living, was born in 1812. She is an hon- 
ored resident of Cleveland and has been a life- 
long member of the Baptist Church. She bore 
her husband eight children, of whom four are 
now living, namely: Thirzah, widow of Chester 
Tanner, a farmer of Chautauqua county. New 
York: she has three children, — Arthur A., 
Khuda and Rosabel; William E., a resident of 
Erie, Pennsylvania, connected with the mail ser- 
vice in that city: he married Julia "Wheeler, and 
they have three children, — Edwin, John and 
Ada; Frank, our subject; and Dr. J. C. Dowd, 
of Cleveland. 

Tiie gentleman whose name introduces this 
sketch, was educated in Chautauqua, New 
York. He studied dentistry for several years 
before entering the dental college at Indian- 
apolis, Indiana, at which he graduated in the 
class of 1885. He has practiced since 1872, 
for the most part in Jamestown, New York. 
He was demonstrator in the Indianapolis Dental 
College for some time. 

Dr. Dowd came to Cleveland in 1885, and has 
been a successful practitioner here ever since. 
He is a skillful workman of much natural 
genius and is classed among the best dentists of 
the country; is thoroughly posted in his pro- 
fession, is progressive in his views and in every 
way a good and enterprising citizen. 



Socially Dr. Dowd is a member of the Uni- 
form Rank of tiie Knights of Pythias. He 
is Colonel of the staii" of General Carnahan, 
who is Major-General commanding the Uniform 
Rank of the K. of P. of the world. Dr. Dowd 
is a member of the Second Regiment of the 
Ohio Brigade, U. R. K. P. 

Dr. Dowd was married January 0, 1S77, to 
Miss Mary Campbell, daughter of Alexander 
and Agnes Campbell. The father died about 
1873, at about fifty-live years of ago. His wife 
died at about forty years of age. They were 
born, reared and married in Glasgow, Scotland, 
and came to the United States in 1858, settling 
in Pennsylvania. Mrs. Mary Campbell Dowd 
is a native of Scotland. 

There were seven children in the Campbell 
family, two of whom died in early childhood. 
The living are; Alexander, a fruit-grower of 
North Carolina; Mrs. Dowd; Lizzie, wife of 
E. T. Nevvkirk, residing in BuflFalo, New York; 
Don, residing in Baltimore, Maryland, con- 
nected with the Standard Oil Company; and 
Agnes, wife of E. F. Spalsbnry, a resident of 
Bath, New York. 

Db. J. C. Down, dentist, of Cleveland, Ohio 
(i)rother of Dr. Frank Dowd), was born in 
Chautauqua county. New York, December 21, 
1852, attended the select school in Panama, that 
State, completing a course in Mayville, same 
State. He attended a medical college two years, 
and practiced under a license of the State. In 
Cleveland he has practiced for seven years with 
very good success. 

Dr. J. C. Dowd was married in 1878, to Miss 
Ella Rockwood, daughter of Deacon Rockwood 
of Union City, Pennsylvania. Dr. Dowd and 
his wife have five children, viz.: Fred E., a 
student in the city schools, Bennie, Frank C, 
Roy and Mabel. 

Mrs. Dowd is a member of the Baptist 
Church, and Doctor of the Disciple. He is a 
member of tho Knights of Pythias (the main 
lodge), also of the Maccabees; and he has been 
a member of several other societies. In politics 
he is a thorough Republican. 



CUTABOGA COUNTY. 



Dr. Dowd lived in Kansas from 1879 to 
1886. He was eng-aged in contracting and 
building in that State, and wiiile there was 
burned out, losing all. His location was Atchi- 
son. He was a member of the Atchison Flam- 
beau Club that took part in the parade at St. 
Louis at the time of the " Unveiling of the 
Prophets." He carries a scar resulting from 
injuries received at that time, and the report 
came home that he was killed. The injury was 
caused by the accidental explosion of a bomb, 
by which five others also were injured. Dr. 
Dowd was carried to the hospital, as it was 
thought, in a dying condition. 



DR. H. H. LITTLE, real estate dealer, re- 
I siding at 1492 Euclid avenue, Cleve- 
- - land, was born in Lamoille county, Ver- 
mont, in 1816. His parents, David and Lucy 
Little, were both natives of Litchiield, Con- 
necticut. His father, a farmer by oncnpation, 
took part in the war of 1812, and died in Ver- 
mont, at the age of sixty-two years. He was a 
member of the Universalist Church, a body of 
people as noted for their strict morality and 
high sense of the golden rule as the Quakers. 
After his death the Doctor's mother came to 
Cleveland, where she spent the remainder of 
her days, dying at the age of eighty-eight 
years, in 1875, a sincere and consistent member 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Dr. Little, 
the siibject of this sketch, is the sixth of the 
eleven children in their family, and is the only 
one now living. An older brother, Dr. Lyman 
Little, was a physician practicing in Zanesville, 
Ohio, for many years, and later came to Cleve- 
land, where he passed the remainder of his life. 
Dr. Little, whose name introduces this sketch, 
was educated at Johnson (Vermont) Academy, 
graduated in medicine at the Ohio Medical Col- 
lege in 1844, and began practice at McConnells 
ville, this State. After following his pro- 
fession there for twelve years, with marked suc- 
cess, became, in 1856, to Clevelai'.d; but her^' 



he engaged in real estate, finding that the city 
was bound to prosper for many years to come, 
and that dealing in realty was an easier method 
of earning a fortune than medical practice; and 
this business he has followed to the present 
time. 

Dr. Little was first married at Sheldon, Ver- 
mont, to Miss H. M. Keyes, a daughter of 
Judge Ell N. Keyes, of that State. She died 
in 1875, aged sixty years, a member of tlie 
Episcopalian Church. Harriet L., the only 
daughter by this marriage, died at the age of 
ten years. The Doctor's second marriage touk 
place in 1876, when he wedded Miss Laura 
Dascom, a native of Columbus, Ohio, and a 
daughter of W. T. Bascom, also of Colum- 
bus, and by this marriage there were two 
children: Hiram M. and T. Bascom, agid 
(1894) respectively sixteen and fourteen years. 
Dr. and Mrs. Little are membsrs of the Uni- 
tarian Church, of which body he is a Trustee. 
It is well known to the public that there are no 
more intelligent and refined people in the 
world than the members of this church, and in 
this body the subjects of this sketch are ex- 
emplary workers. Dr. Little is a Republican in 
his political principles, but takes but little in- 
terest in '■ politics," as this term is generally 
understood. During the days of African 
slavery in the United States he was a con- 
ductor and station agent on the "Underground 
Railway." The Doctor is a pleasant-mannered, 
refined and popular gentleman, enjoying a home 
that any one might envy on account of its 
pleasant surroundings. 



/T^ EORGE FEUCHTER, of Feuchter Broth- 
I Xi ers, millers, Rockport Hamlet, is a son 
>-!l of the late Michel Fauchter. The par- 
ents were born in Germany, where they 
were married and at once emigrated to America, 
settling in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, Rockport 
township, where he died, November 17, 1886. 
The wife ami mother still lives. Tliey h 1 1 



CUTAHOGA COUNTy. 



twelve children, seven of whom lived to grow 
up: George; Rosa (deceased); Gustoph, who 
was lost at sea while on a whale-tishing expedi- 
tion; William; Anna; Frederick and Sarah. 

George Fencliter was born in Rockport town- 
ship, Cnyahoga county, March 21, 1849, where 
he was reared to manhood. He learned the car- 
penter's trade in Cleveland. For some fifteen 
years he followed his trade, also operating a 
thi'eshing machine, and a portion of the time 
was engaged in farming. In April, 1887, in 
company with his brother, Frederick Feuchter, 
he bought the Rockport roller mills, and since 
then they have operated the mills under the 
firm name of Feuchter Brothers. 

George Feuchter was married in Brooklyn, 
this county, December 21, 1875, to Miss Caro- 
line Baumgartncr, daughter of John and Caro- 
line Banmgartner, and born in Cleveland, Feb- 
ruary 21, 1856. Mr. and Mrs. Feuchter are 
the parents of six children, five of whom are 
living, — Cora, William E., Nettie E., Nellie M. 
and Addison B. George died in infancy. 

Mr. Feuchter has held the oifice of township 
Trustee for several years, and has also served 
for a number of years as School Director and as 
Constable; has taken quite an active part in 
local affairs, and is a Republican in politics. 



If A r ODELL, senior member of the firm of 
tr I J*iy C)<i«ll ^ Sons, abstracters of land ti- 
^^ ties, conveyancing, etc., was born in Ot- 
sego county. New York, March 23, 1819. His 
parents, Eli and Amelia (Betts) Odeli, were na- 
tives of Connecticut, and came with their fam- 
ily to Geauga county, Ohio, in 1828. The 
father was one of the prominent farmers of his 
community, was extensively known in his 
county, and carried the confidence of a large 
circle of acquaintances. He filled many posi- 
tions of trust and confidence with great satis- 
faction to all concerned. He died after reach- 
ing the advanced age of eighty-one years. His 
wife departed this life several years later, at the 



age of eighty years. They were the parents of 
eight children, three of whom are still living: 
George, a resident of Minneapolis; Jay, the 
subject of this sketch; and LeGrand, of Chi- 
cago. 

Jay Odell received but limited educational 
advantages. He assisted his father on the farm 
until 1852, and for the following six years was 
employed as clerk in the Auditor and Re- 
corder's oftice of Cuyahoga county. Since that 
time he has been engaged in his present busi- 
ness. Mr. Odell made his own start in life, 
and is now recognized as one of the most reli- 
able men in the county. He is genial, courte- 
ous, well informed, and a good and competent 
judge of business ventures. For many years 
he has held firmly to the principles as set forth 
in the Prohibition party. In April, 1869, Mr. 
Odell assisted in the organization of the party 
in this State, and in the fall of that year the 
National party was formed at Chicago, since 
which time he has been one of its stanch and 
influential supporters. Our subject was past 
the age to take part in the late civil war, but 
gave his best influence for a rigorous and suc- 
cessful prosecution of the same. He was one 
of the first to enroll in the company wliicli was 
afterward called the Squirrel Hunters, who went 
to Cincinnati when that city was threatened by 
the Confederate forces in 1862. He was absent 
but one week, a time sufficiently long, however, 
to convince him he was past the age to take an 
active part or sliare his best efforts to save the 
nation on the tented field. 

Mr. Odell was united in marriage witli Miss 
Mary, a daughter of John and Mollie (Allen) 
Packard, all natives of Massachusetts. They 
located on a farm in Geauga county, Ohio, in 
1830. Mr. Packard died from apople.\y at the 
age of fifty-nine years, and his wife lived to the 
advanced age of ninety-five years. They were 
the parents of nine children, three now living: 
Cordelia, wife of Austin Bisbee, of Greenwich, 
Connecticut; Lucien, a resident of Elyria, Ohio; 
and Mary, wife of our subject. Mr. and Mrs. 
Packard were devout and wortliy members of 



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tbe Congregational Church in Massachusetts, 
but after coining to Ohio tiiey united with the 
Presbyterian Church. Mr. and Mrs. Odell 
have had four children, namely; Howard, de- 
ceased at the age of six years; Arthur, a mem- 
ber of the firm of Jay Odell & Sons, married 
Jennie Bailey, and Howard is their only living 
child; Allen A., also a member of the above 
firni, married Miss Minnie Kreger, and their 
three children are: Arthur K., Margaret and Ina; 
Mary Ida, wife of James Robinson: they have 
two children, — Allen Jay and Clare W. Mr. and 
Mrs. Odell are members of the Congregational 
Church of Collinwood, in which the former has 
held the position of Deacon. 



Iff W. S. WOOD, a well-known business 
tr^ man of Cleveland, now retired, was born 
Jl 41 in England, August 4, 1845. He is a 
^ son of Stephen Wood, a native of Lon- 
don, England. He came to Hudson, New York, 
in 1848, and to Cleveland in 1849. Being by 
trade a mason, Mr. Wood at once identified 
himself with the city's growth and improve- 
ment as a contractor. He formed a partner- 
ship with one Davy, wiiicli was of brief dura- 
tion. He became manager for W. P. South- 
worth, a sewer and paving contractor. Mr. 
Wood succeeded to tlie business of Mr. Soutii- 
worth by purchase in 1865, at which time he 
launched out as a sewer contractor and paver. 
The next year the firm of S. Wood & Sons came 
into existence, his two older sons assuming a 
financial interest with him. This firm existed 
during the life-time of Mr. Wood and at his 
death in 1888 became Wood Bros. An enor- 
mous sewer mileage was built by this firm dur- 
ing its years of operation. For one decade five 
miles was the annual average besides the pieces 
of paved .streets completed under their con- 
tracts. 

Mr. Wood married Amelia Conil and became 
the father of four children: H. W. S., James, 
Charles and Walter. 



H. W. S. Wood received a liberal school 
training and on beginning business for himself 
entered the employment of Wood, Perry & 
Company, lumber dealers, remaining two years. 
His next engagement was to enter into a part- 
nership with his father, as previously mentioned, 
remaining actively in business until 1886, 
when he retired. 

Mr. Wood was once elected a member of 
the Board of Education, and while serving in 
his official capacity was instrumental in secur- 
ing the abolishment of corporal punishment 
from the schools by a resolution of the board. 
He was chairman of the building committee of 
the board, and, the city not feeling able to em- 
ploy an architect, Mr. Wood drew plans and 
executed them as superintendent, in the cou- 
structiou of a number of Iniildings, saving tbe 
city a considerable item of expense thereby. 
Mr. Wood was twice elected to a membership 
on the Public Library Board, serving twice as 
its Pi-esident. During his incumbency of the 
office he was influential in the adoption of the 
alcove system which has proven so beneficial to 
the institution. He also advocated establish- 
ing a branch library on the West Side. It was 
finally decided to try, and despite the petty 
drawbacks first encountered, this new brancii is 
in a flourishing condition, exceeding even the 
expectations of the most sanguine members of 
the board. 

Mr. Wood was first married in 186-, to Hat- 
tie Smith, of Livingston county, New York. 
Nine children were born of this union: Elea- 
nor, May, Hattie, Maud, Libbie, Irene, Pearl, 
Harry and Charles. In 18 — Mrs. Wood died. 
In 1889, February 26, Mr. Wood took in mar- 
riage Miss Clark, of Oberlin, Ohio, Principal 
of the Waverly Avenue School of Cleveland. 
Mrs. Wood graduated from Oberlin College 
and is a teacher of long experience. 

Mr. Wood is a Director of the Arcade Sav- 
ings Bank, of the West Side Savings Bank, of 
the Western Reserve Building and Loan Asso- 
ciation, and of the Riverside Cemetery Associ- 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



Altliongh long retired from business Mr. 
Wood manifests a deep interest in the welfare 
of Cleveland and lier institutions, and is found 
in the front rank of her progressive and pros- 
perous men. 



J j AMES M. COGSWELL Js one of the 
I venerable citizens of Parma township, 
Cuyahoga county, Ohio. Lideed, he is 
probably one of the oldest settlers in the 
county. A record of his life is herewith pre- 
sented. 

James M. Cogswell was born in New London 
county, Connecticut, September 1, 1800, and in 
that county spent thirty years of his life. His 
father, William Cogswell, was the owner of a 
large farm and was engaged in agricultural pur- 
suits up to the time of his death. James M. 
was reared to farm work, and remained at home 
and assisted his father until the latter's death, 
ifter which he went to Norwich and engaged 



in the mercantile business for some thi 



ee years. 



Like many other ambitious and enterprising 
yount; men, he had a desirous to " go west," 
and the summer of 1834 found him on a pros- 
pecting tour through Ohio and Michigan. 
Pleased with the former State, he selected Cuya- 
hoga county as a desirable location, and in 
Parma township purchased a tract of land, be- 
tween ninety and a hundred acres. He then 
returned to Connecticut for his family and in 
the fall of that year came with them to their new 
home. His land was at that time nearly all 
covered with a dense forest, and the work of 
developing a farm and establishing a home here 
was no little undertaking. But these brave 
pioneers knew no obstacle which they could 
not overcome, and as the years rolled by Mr. 
Cogswell's place, under his well directed efforts, 
assumed a different appearance. To-day he has 
a comfortable home and can view with pardon- 
able pride his well cultivated fields. 

Of his private life, we record that he has been 
twice married. His tirst marriage was in Gris- 



wold, Connecticut, to Charlotte Coit, a native 
of that State. They bad three children, only 
one of whom reached adult years— Jane, wife 
of Rev. C. B. Stevens, who died in Brecksville, 
Ohio, leaving one son. This son, William C. 
Stevens, is in the ministry, and is now a resi- 
dent of Los Angeles, California. Mr. Cogswell 
married his present wife, whose maiden name 
was Mary H. De "Witt, in Norwich, Connecticut, 
October 8, 1833. She was born at that place, 
January 14, 1815. They have had seven chil- 
dren, two of whom died in infancy. The others 
are as follows: Charlotte C, who is the widow 
of Thomas Whittlesey; H. DeWitt, who mar- 
ried Miss Martha A. Bartlett, lives in Parma 
township; Anna E., wife of Frank W. Brown, 
died in Wood county, Ohio, in November, 
1878; James H., a business man of Cleveland, 
Ohio; and Alfred W., engaged in business in 
Akron, Ohio. 

Mr. Cogswell took a prominent part in local 
affairs here some years ago and held several 
important township otKces. He and his wife 
have been members of the Presbyterian Church 
at Parma ever since its formation. 

Such is a brief sketch of the life of a worthy 
pioneer. 



P) A. PATTEPtSON, chief engineer of the 
motive power of the Cleveland Electric 
Eailway Company and a master at his 
trade, was born in Copenhagen, Den- 
mark, May 11, 1850, and from the age of thir- 
teen years was a student, apt and intelligent, 
laying the foundation for a liberal education. 
His father, who died in 1858, was a merchant, 
but only in moderate financial circumstances; 
and had his wife not been of force more 
than ordinary his two orphan children might 
have been thrown upon the world ignorant and 
penniless. 

At the ago of thirteen years Mr. Patterson 
went as a sailor before the mast in the Danish 
and English merchant trade, and after a time 



CUTAIIOOA COUNTY. 



he went aboard a fruiter plying between Italian 
ports and St. Petersburg; next he shipped on a 
bark from Nova Scotia to Archangel, and then 
reshipped to Buenos Ayres, South America, 
where he happened to be present during the 
war between Buenos Ayres and Uruguay. On 
his return voyage he stopped at the port of 
Bahia, Brazil. While homeward bound he en- 
countered a severe storm in which fore, raizzen 
and top masts were lost, the supply of provis- 
ions was exhausted and the crew were com- 
pelled to subsist on raw sugar for seven days, 
with which the vessel was loaded; but the gale 
was finally weathered, and the trip to Falmouth, 
England, completed in seventy-two days. 

Next Mr. Patterson shipped from Liverpool 
to Alexandria, Egypt, stopping at Gibraltar, 
Malta, and other important ports. His first 
trip to the United States occurred in 1872, 
when he went ashore at New York and joined 
the marching procession of Grant's supporters 
when the general was a candidate for his second 
term That fall he hoarded a coffee clipper for 
Rio Janeiro and returned to New Orleans with 
a cargo of cotfee. Then for four years and 
seven months he was in the employ of the 
Cunard line, making eleven voyages annually 
between America and Europe, — a total of 100 
trips across the Atlantic. Next he was Cap- 
tain of a gravel schooner in Boston harbor, and 
then he left salt water and was engaged in the 
lake tr^de, on many vessels and in various 
capacities from cook to mate. 

Then he left navigation altogether, in 1875, 
and entered the employ of Rhoades & Com- 
pany, of Ashtabula, as stationary engineer, 
when only six trains were running out of those 
docks daily, with ore. Eight years afterward 
lie removed to Cleveland and was engineer for 
Hitchcock & CompaTiy at their ore docks and 
remained five years. Next he was temporarily 
with G. C. Julier, the leading baker, before 
joining the Cleveland Electric Company in 
1888. Here he has charge of a number of men, 
and is responsible for the care of much valuable 
property. He is very efficient and reliable. 



His father, Paul Patterson, left only two 
children, the other than our subject being 
Caroline, the wife of Jans Jansen of Copen- 
hagen. In March, 1889, Mr. Patterson mar- 
ried, in Cleveland, Mina. Collins, an American 
lady l)oi'n in New Jersey. He is a director of 
a benefit association, for employees, and was 
made a Mason in England twenty years ago. In 
1882, after an absence of sixteen years, he 
visited his old home, and his mother again in 
1887, thus renewing his acquaintance with old 
ocean as well as the scenes of his childhood. 



LBERT W. DE FOREST, son of Tracy 
R. de Forest, deceased, was born in 
i\ Cleveland, August 3, 1849, attended the 
Rockwell street school and graduated 
there when about fifteen years of age; but, in- 
stead of entering the high-school and complet- 
ing the full public-school course, he launched 
out on his business career. For about a year 
he was a boy of all work for E. Decker, a pho- 
tographer; next he was collector for the Mer- 
chants' National Bank under President T. P. 
Handy, and rose through various positions to 
that of paying teller in the six years of his ser- 
vice there. 

For several months succeeding his departure 
for the West, he traveled about on a tour of in- 
spection and pleasure combined, visiting Oma- 
ha, Nebraska; St. Joseph, Missouri; Council 
Bluffs, Iowa, etc., finally alighting at Hannibal, 
Missouri, where he entered into an engagement 
with the C. O.Godfrey Association, coal dealers 
and miners through the States of Illinois, Mis- 
souri, Iowa and Kansas. In a short time Mr. 
de Forest was made the company's traveling 
auditor, and of the nine years he was so en- 
gaged he spent two years at Fort Scott, Kansas, 
and two and a half in Des Moines, Iowa. He 
returned to Cleveland in 18S0, remaining a 
year and a half, and then again went West, lo- 
cating this time in Quincy, Illinois, engaging 
again in the coal business. In September, 



COYAIiOGA CODNTT. 



1883, lie again returned to Cleveland, and on 
the lit!) of that month married Miss Belinda 
J. Stacey, and liiey resided at Quincy until 
1888, and since that year they have" been per- 
manent residents of this city. Mr. De Forest 
engaged as an accountant and bookkeeper until 
April 27, 1891, when he was employed by 
Sterling, Welch & Company. 

Mrs. De Forest was a daughter of Leroy 
Stacey, who died many years ago, leaving three 
children: Mrs. De Forest, Miss Louise and 
(it'orge A., accountant for the Brown Lumber 
Company. The mother of these children is 
now the wife of William Norsworthy of Cleve- 
land. Mr. and Mrs. De Forest's children are 
Tracy Leroy and Lee Hewitt. 

Mr. De Forest is a Knight Templar, being a 
member of Des Moines Chapter and Coin- 
mandery. 



[[ J l ENEY KRATHER, one of the trustees 
iHil of Parma township, was born in Ger- 
11 4 many, October 20, 1845, as a son of 
^ Ludwig and Magdalena (Rielhaller) 

Krather. They emigrated to America early in 
the '50s and settled in Brooklyn tow^nship, after- 
ward renioving to Parma township, where the 
father died May 31, 1891. The mother still 
survives. They had two children: Henry, and 
Sophia, the wife of Philip Kuntz. 

Henry Krather was quite young, being about 
live years old, when his parents brought him to 
America, and was reared to manhood in Brook- 
lyn and Parma townships, chiefly in Parma. He 
received a common-school education, and at 
fourteen years of age left home to learn the 
butchering business in Cleveland, and this busi- 
ness he has since followed, in connection with 
farming. 

Mr. Krather was married in what is now 
South Brooklyn, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, De- 
cember 7, 1866, to Miss Elizabeth G. Pfeiffer, 
who was born in Parma township. May 9, 1851. 
She is a daughter of I'liilij) and Susan (^Keehl) 



Pfeifi'er, both natives of Germany, whei-e the 
father was born December 6, 1825, and the 
mother February 19, 1826. They were married 
August 8, 1850, in Cuyahoga county, and set- 
tled in Parma township, where they have since 
been residents. They had eight children, two 
sons and six daughters. Mrs. Krather was the 
eldest of the family. 

Mr. and Mrs. Krather since their marriage 
have resided on the farm where tliey now make 
their home. This consists of seventy-live acres, 
furnished with a nice set of buildings. Our 
subject and his wife are the parents of four 
children, three of whom are living: Katie A., 
Susie M. and Permelia E. The name of the 
deceased child is Ella M., who was the wife of 
Matt. Koblentzer. She died in Cleveland, Ohio, 
February 25, 1892. 

Mr. Krather has had the office of Trustee for 
several years. He has also held the office of 
Township Treasurer for two years, and has 
served as School Director. He takes quite an 
active part in all local affairs, and is connected 
wit the Democratic party. Mr. and Mrs. Krather 
are members of the Presbyterian Church. 



LNEY P. LATIMER, a prominent citi- 
zen of Brecksville township, was born 
October 2, 1836, in Rock Creek, Ashta- 
bula county, Ohio. His father, Austin Lati- 
mer, was born July 4, 1807, in New York; and 
the father of the latter, William Latimer, came 
to Ashtabula county when that section was an 
unbroken wilderness. Austin was fourteen 
years of age when his father came to Ohio, and 
became a gi-eat hunter. At the early age of 
fifteen years lie killed nineteen deer in three 
days, three of which he killed from the cabin 
door of his home. Amid such wild pleasures, 
alternating with many privations and monoto- 
nous periods of pioneer life, was he reared to 
manhood. 

Purchasing fifty acres of his father's place, 
he made it his home for a time. On tlii^ farm 



CUTAEOOA V0UJST7. 



a portion ol the village of Hock Creek now 
stands. In 1838 he moved to tlie vicinity of 
Koine, same county. He died in 18-48, as the 
result of over-exertion in expelling an idiot 
from the church, whose interrogation of the 
minister rendered such action necessary. He 
was buried in the cemetery at Rock Creek, 
Ashtabula county. In his political principles 
he was a zealous Wliig and anti-slavery man. 
In Lenox township, Ashtabula county, he mar- 
ried Evaline Chnrch, wlio was born in Catta- 
raugus county, New York, October 11, 1814, a 
daughter of Elijah and Jemima Clnircii, who 
came to Lenox township, Ashtabula county, in 
1830. After Mr. Latimer's death she married 
W. P. Holt, and by that marriage there was 
one child, William, now of Pekin, Illinois. Mr. 
Holt died, and his widow now lives with her 
daughter Adelaide at Rock Creek. She has 
been a member of the Methodist Church ever 
since its organization there. 

Mr. Austin Latimer's children are: Adelaide 
C, born August 11, 1824, in Rock Creek, is 
now Mrs. David Baldwin; and Olney P., our 
subject, also born in that place. In Rome, 
same county, the following were born: Eleanor, 
December 2, 1841, who is now the wife of 
John Webb of Rock Creek; Neima, born 
August 22, 1846, yet unmarried. 

The gentleman whose name heads this 
memoir was thrown upon his own resources at 
the early age of fourteen years, wlien he began 
to contribute to the support of his mothei" tnd 
sisters. At eighteen he hired ont as a tender 
for a mason, John Foot, and gradually picked 
up the mason's trade. Later he followed the 
trade on his own account. 

After his marriage in 1836 he I'ented a home 
in the village of Rock Creek, and followed his 
trade in summer and worked in a tannery in 
winter. Afterward he moved to Geneva, that 
county, next to Austinburg, same county, and 
tlien, in I860, rented the home farm and moved 
upon it. He had a desire to own the home 
place, bnt the intervention of the war changed 
his i)lans. 



He enlisted for the Union, with the tliree- 
months men, in Company A, Twenty-eighth 
Regiment; but as there were too many volun- 
teers the married men were dismissed. August 
22, 1862, in Chardon, Ohio, he enlisted in 
Company E, One Hundred and P'ifth Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry, under Captain Byron Can- 
lield. This regiment left Cleveland on the 21st 
of that month for Covington, Kentucky, to 
cover the retreat of Nelson after his defeat at 
Richmond by Joseph E. Johnston. Then the 
regiment moved south and skirmished at Hoo- 
ver's Gap and Perryville, at which latter place 
the engagement was disastrous, and Mr. Latimer 
received three wounds, but went forward and 
assisted a surgeon in the work of amputation, 
etc. Next he was detailed to Antioch hospital 
for live weeks, and then rejoined his regiment 
at Greenville, Kentucky. He therefore, with 
his regiment, participated in the engagements 
at Stone river, Murfreesborough, Chickamauga, 
Chattanooga, Missionary Ridge, Atlanta cam- 
paign. Peach Tree ereek, the siege of Atlanta, 
etc. On the night of August 31, 1864, his 
company marched around to the right and 
struck Atlanta and Montgomery, whence the 
destruction of the railroad to Jonesboro was 
effected. At the latter place, on the next 
niglit,a shell struck his left leg midway between 
knee and ankle, and at tiie same time struck a 
log a foot distant, and a comrade named 
Williams was torn all to pieces! Also the ex- 
plosion of the same shell fatally wounded two 
others. Mr. Latimer had to have his limb 
amputated, and two days later he rode twenty- 
one miles in an ambulance in order to reach 
the general field hospital at Atlanta! From 
September 1 to November 8 he lay there, and 
was then moved to Chattanooga, where he re- 
mained until the 14th. Next he was taken to 
Nashville and remained there from November 
16 to 18, when he was furloughed home. 
January 18, 1865, he went to Cleveland, where 
he was discharged March 7, 1865. 

Going to Geauga county, where his wife was 
livino- with her parents, he remained there till 



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August, when he moved to Brecksville village, 
where he conducted the hotel until 1871, and 
then he moved to his present location, where 
he has a pleasant home, on ten acres of land, 
which he takes a pleasure in cultivating. He 
also does some small jobs of miscellaneous 
work. In politics he is a zealous Republican. 
He is a successful manager of business affairs, 
progressive, public-spirited, well known and 
highly respected. 

In ilay, 1856, he married Lemira Mowry, 
wlio was born in March, 1834, in Jlontville, 
Geauga county, a daughter of George A. and 
Mary (Spencer) Mowry, of old New England 
families, who settled in Ohio in 1832. Mr. and 
Mrs. Latimer have two children, besides the 
care of Myra E. R'nz ever siuce she was three 
years old. This girl is an interesting child, 
and her foster parents supply her with every 
necessity and luxury their own children enjoy. 



IjONAS COOXRAD, a representative citi- 
K I zen of Brecksville township, was born 
^sJ March 11, 1837, in Rensselaer county, 
Xew York. His father, Jacob Coonrad, was a 
farmer and carpenter by trade, married Mary 
Wager, and they spent their lives in New York. 
At the age of eighteen years he began to learn 
the trade of molder in the Wager stove foundry 
at Troy, New York. After three years' work 
there, about 1857, he came to Cleveland, Ohio, 
where he was employed as clerk by an older 
brother, Jeremiiih, in mercantile business. At 
tlie end of two years he went to Quincy, Illi- 
nois, which was at that time a thriving city, 
and followed his trade there seven years in a 
stove foundry. In the fall of 1865 he married 
and located. At the end of a year he returned 
to Cleveland and entered the grocery business 
in company with his brother, and so continued 
for a year and a half. Next he settled in the 
southeast corner of Brecksville township, pur- 
chasing a farm of 300 acres, one of the best 
farms in the township. Although he had had 



but a limited experience in fanning he soon 
adapted himself to his new vocation and proved 
a success. He has improved the place in many 
ways, having erected in 1875 an elegant brick 
residence, which from its suporb natural eleva- 
tion commands a grand view of the beautiful 
Cuyahoga coursing within a short distance, and 
some years ago starting a cheese factory and 
conducting it until the completion of the 
Valley Railroad to Cleveland made that market 
more accessible to the community in which he 
resides than before. 

Originally, Mr. Coonrad was a Democrat in 
his views of general politics, but slavery scenes 
on the eastern border of Missouri where he 
lived for a short time so disgusted him that he 
turned Republican, and for the principles nf 
this party he has ever since been an ardent ad- 
vocate. However, he takes no active part in 
the office-seeking efforts of others. He is an 
attendant at the Methodist Episcopal church, to 
which he liberally contributes. 

In the autumn of 1865, as before stated, in 
Quincy, Illinois, he was united in marriage 
with Miss Catharine Morten, a daughter of 
David and Susannah (McKay) Morten. She 
was born in Brecksville township, on the same 
farm where she and her husband now lives and 
which they own. Their children are: Jessie, 
now the widow of Fred. Knapp; Kitty, at 
home; and an infant who died in Quincy. 



f 



WILLIAM BROWNELL SANDERS 
was born in Cleveland, September 21, 
1854. His parents removed from 
Cleveland to Jacksonville, Illinois, when he was 
quite young, and his early life was passed there. 
When prepared for college, he entered Illinois 
College, at Jacksonville, Illinois, and graduated 
from that institution in 1873. Subsequently 
he entered Alliany Law School, from which in- 
stitution he graduated in 1875, and was shortly 
thereafter admitted to the bar of the State of 
New York. In August, 1875, he came to 



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Cleveland, Oliio, and within a short time there- 
after became associated in the practice of the 
law with the Hon. Stevenson Burke. This as- 
sociation continued for some years, wlien the 
firm of Burke, IngersoU & Sanders was formed. 
In February, 1888, Mr. Sanders was appointed 
by Governor Foraker Judge of the Court of 
Common Pleas of Cuyahoga county, to fill tlie 
vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge 
McKinney. At the next annual eleclion, he 
was nominated without opposition as the Re- 
publican candidate for Judge of the Court of 
Common Pleas, and elected, serving as Judge 
until January, 1890, at W'hich time he resigned 
and resumed the practice of the law as a mem- 
ber of the firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, 
of which firm he is still a member. 



'Jr^) OBERT W. HENRY, of Parma town- 
1^^ ship, was born in Naples, Ontario county, 
11 ^ New York, July 24, 1811, a son of John 
V and Emma (Kinney) Henry. The father 

was a native of New. Y^ork and the mother of 
Pennsylvania. They emigrated to Cleveland 
from Canada, opposite Buffalo, in the spring of 
1818. They settled in Cleveland, where the 
father was engaged as a carpenter and mill- 
wright. He died about 1823 and his widow 
afterward married a Mr. Stone. She died in 
Kenosha, "Wisconsin. 

John Henry was the father of three sons and 
four daughters. Robert W. was the third of 
the family. He was about seven years of age 
when the family removed to Cleveland, and 
about twelve when his father died. His mother 
returned to Ontario county. New York, witii 
the younger members of the family, and Robert 
was bound out to Henry L. Nobles tHl he was 
twenty-one years old, to learn the carpenter's 
trade. He continued with Mr. Nobles as fore- 
man for some time after he had reached his 
majority, and then carried on his trade on his 
own account in Cleveland for some twelve years, 
when he traded property in the city for the 



farm which is now his home, and where he has 
resided since the spring of 1843. Until about 
1885 he followed his trade in connection with 
farming. He owns 125 acres of land and has 
made npon it valuable improvements. 

Mr. Henry was married in Ohio City (now 
West Side, Cleveland), January 24, 1835, to 
Frances P. Castle, who was born in York, 
Upper Canada, January 25, 1816. They had 
twelve children, namely: William M.; Jefferson 
T., deceased; Harrison F., who was killed at the 
battle of Chickamauga, September 20, 1863; he 
was a member of Company A, One Hundred 
and Twenty-fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteer 
Infantry; Robert M., deceased; Mary D., wife 
of Dr. Martin Clark, of Nebraska; a daughter 
who died in infancy; Henry C; Frances E., 
deceased, wife of Rev. Parker Pope; John C; 
Julia F., wife of Eugene Wray; Sadie E., wife 
of Jacob Schaffer; Susie L., deceased, and Nellie 
L., the wife of Henry Kuutz. Mrs. Robert W. 
Henry died the last of November, 1881. 

Mr. Henry has held some of the minor offices 
in the township, and has taken a good degree of 
interest in all local affairs. 



d JACOB PFEIFFER, who owns and occu- 
pies a nice little farm in Parma township, 
— Cuyahoga county, Ohio, was reared to 
farm life, has always followed this occupation, 
has been fairly successful and is now the owner 
of thirty-three acres of good land, upon which 
he has erected nice buildings and where he is 
comfortably situated. 

Mr. Pfeiffer was born in the township in 
which he now lives, November 21, 1853, third 
in the family of eight children, — two sons and 
six daughters, — of Philip and Susan (Reehl) 
Pfeiffer, the former born in Germany, Decem- 
ber 6, 1825, the latter, also a native of Germany, 
born February 19, 1826. They were married 
in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, August 8, 1850, and 
after their marriage settled in Parma township, 
where they still reside. 



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The subject of sketch remained with his par- 
ents until his marriage, wliich event occurred 
in Brooklyn township, this county, October 16, 
1884, to Miss Lizzie Hoehn. She was born in 
Parma township, September 21, 1862, daughter 
of Jacob and Lizzie (Usinger) Iloehn, residents 
of Brooklyn township. Her father was born in 
Germany, August 15, 1842, and her mother in 
this township, August 4, 1844. Mrs. Pfeiffer 
is the oldest of their tive children, and their 
only daughter. 



ffflON. MILO S. HAYNES, well known 
jr^l throughout northeastern Ohio, is a resi- 
II t dent of Strongsville township, Cuyahoga 
' county. He was born and reared in tlie 

township in whicii he has ever since resided and 
ill which he is now an honored resident, his 
birth having occurred July 14, 1830. His an- 
cestry is traceable back to Walter Haynes, wlio 
caiue to this country from Wales, settling in 
Boston in 1639. 

Mr. Haynes' father, the late Abijah Haynes, 
was born in Vermont, March 12, 1806, and his 
motiier, nee Roxanna Stevens, a native of Mass- 
achusetts, was born March 18, 1806. They 
came to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, with their 
parents when children, in the neighborhooil of 
1816, and here they grew up. They were mar- 
ried in Brunswick, Medina county, Ohio, in 
1829, and soon after their marriage settled in 
Strongsville township on the farm now owned 
and occupied by the subject of this sketch. 
Here they spent the residue of their lives, hon- 
ored and respected by all who knew them. Mrs. 
Haynes died September 14, 1856, and Mr. 
Haynes, after surviving her a number of years 
passed away on the 14th of September, 1887. 
They had four children, of whom Milo S. is the 
oldest. 

Milo S. Haynes improved the opportunities 
attbrded him for an education, and at the early 
age of seventeen taught school one term. After 
that ho turned his attention to work at the 



blacksmith trade, at which he was engaged for 
three years. Since then he has devoted his 
energies to farming and has also dealt in stock 
to some extetit. His farm comprises a hundred 
acres of fine land. 

Mr. Haynes was married in Parma township, 
this county, April 9, 1862, to Miss Elizabeth 
Hobbs, who was born in England, February 17, 
1838. They are the parents of three children: 
Florence E., wife of Ellsworth Sanderson, of 
Cleveland; and Tamzen E. and Josephine, l)oth 
popular and successful teachers. 

Politically, Mr. Haynes has been identified 
with the Republican party ever since it was or- 
ganized, and has rendered it much efficient ser- 
vice. He has filled various local offices, and in 
the fall of 1891 was elected on the Republican 
ticket to a seat in the Seventieth Ohio General 
Assembly. 



CLARENCE C. HODGMAN, one of the 
respected farmers of Parma township, 
Cuyahoga county, Ohio, is the youngest 
in the family of Robert and Julia A. Hodgman. 
He was born in this township July 81, 1855, 
was reared here on his father's farm, and in this 
township he has spent the whole of his life, with 
the exception, however, of one year, when he 
was a resident of Brooklyn township, also in 
this county. All his life he has been engaged 
in agricultural pursuits. He owns seventy-five 
acres of well-improved land, upon which he has 
erected a nice set of farm buildings. 

Mr. Hodgman was married in Parma town- 
ship, December 6, 1877, to Miss Emmet Hum- 
phries. She was born in this same township, 
August 30, 1855. Her father, the late Henry 
Humphrie's, was a native of England. Her 
mother, nee Caroline Day, also a native of 
England, was born in Gloucestershire, Novem- 
ber 14, 1823. They were married in England 
and came to America in 1849, their first settle- 
ment here being in Cleveland. A year later 
they came to Parnui township, where her father 



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spent the residue of his life and passed away, 
and where her mother still resides. They had 
four children, of whom Mrs. Hodgman was the 
third born. Mr. and Mrs. Hodgman are the 
parents of three children: Alice M., Harvey H, 
and Elsie E. 

Mi-s. Hodgman lias been a metnber of the 
Presbyterian Church from her girlhood. 



TjOHN. T. WATTEESON.— Oneof theold- 
>, I est and best-known builders of Cleveland 
^^ is John T. Watterson, whose history as 
siicli begins away back in the '40s, when there 
was only one steam engine in the city, and 
when the city limits bounded a village of a few 
hundred people. 

Mr. Watterson was born in Cuyahoga county, 
February 12, 1828. His father, Wm. Watter- 
son, settled on a farm there the year before. 
His birthplace was on the Isle of Man. He 
was a prominent representative citizen, active 
in everything conducive to the best interests of 
the county. He neither sought nor held pub- 
lic office, nor had he any history as a military 
man. He belonged to a training company in 
those good old days, and supported Henry Clay 
for President. He married Ann Sayde, by 
whou] eleven children were born, and all lived 
to maturity. They were John T., William, 
Mrs. Sarah Payne, Moses G. (President of the 
Dime Savings Bank of Cleveland), Harrison, 
Joshua, Henry, Caesar, Edward, Robert and 
Charles. Cajsar was killed in the engagement 
at Good Hope Church during the civil war. 
John T. Watterson secured only a very meager 
education. His opportunities were not good, 
being confined to an attendance at school dur- 
ing the winter season only. He was appren- 
ticed early in life to J. J. Lewis, of Newburg, 
to learn the carpenter's trade. On completing 
this and not finding an over-abundance of work, 
he decided to try his hand at contracting, tak- 
ing for his first contract, in 1857, the building 
of the National Oil Mills. It is interesting to 
note the number of the .structures, and also the 



character of many of them, erected by his hand 
(so to speak) since then, — the buildings of the 
Polling Mills, Otis Steel Company, Cleveland 
Iron Company, Cleveland Rolling Mill Com- 
pany, Plate Mill, the wire, flour, and the Union 
Mills, at Newburg, the Emma Blast Furnace, 
Lampson & Sessions Nut and Bolt Works, Up- 
son Nut Company's Works, Collins Nut and 
Bolt Works, Riverside Foundry, Maher & 
Brayton's AVheel Works, Lake Shore Foundry, 
the Powell Tool Company, Cleveland Spring 
Company, American Wire Company, Warner 
& Swasey's Telescope Works, Standard Sewing 
Machine Company's Works, and Cleveland 
City Forge and Iron Company's Works. He 
built the Valley Furnace at Sharon, Pennsyl- 
vania, the Alliance Steel Works, and many 
others. Important industries at Cleveland are 
sheltered by structures of Mr. Watterson's 
building. It will be noticed that his work has 
been confined chiefly to heavy building, yet 
some quite expensive residences might be men- 
tioned as a credit to his workmanship. 

Mr. Watterson is a member of the Builders' 
Exchange and Employing Carpenters' Associa- 
tion. In 1879 he was a member of the City 
Council of Cleveland, and did good service and 
made a useful and conscientious public servant. 

In 1853 Mr. Watterson married, in this 
county, Margaret, a daughter of Robert Cren- 
nell, a Manxman, who settled in Cuyahoga 
county in 1827. Eight children are born of 
this union. 



El E. MORSE, general manager of the 
Morse Detective Agency of North 
1 America, with the main office in the 

Society for Savings building, Cleveland, was born 
at Virgil, Cortland county, New York May, 31, 
1850, a son of Joseph C. Morse, who was a farmer 
in New York State during his early life. In 1852 
the father brought his little family to Michigan, 
where he soon aftei'ward entered the employ of 
the Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana 



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Railroad, which was just being completed, being 
located at Three Rivers, Michigan, as their 
agent for eleven or twelve years, and opening 
and closing that branch of the road while there. 
He was next associated with William Griffiths 
in private banking and in milling. In the bank 
was a large safe, which seemed to be burglar- 
proof, but one morning they found it blown 
open and the contents gone! This event iinan- 
cially crippled Mr. Morse, although the business 
of the bank was continued ujitil the "flour 
panic " of 1869. Soon after the robbery Mr. 
Morse was called to Toledo, where he was em- 
ployed as trainmaster, then to Detroit, as agent 
of the company, which position he left on ac- 
count of being compelled to work on Sundays. 
He then took charge of a train from Chicago to 
Toledo as conductor, on the Lake Shore & 
Michigan Southern Railroad, and was subse- 
quently requested to return to Three Rivers, 
where he had formerly been agent. His family 
were located there, and the mill was still in 
progress, under the management of William 
Griffiths, and this they conducted together until 
the " flour panic " of 1869, spoken of, when 
the business went down, and Mr. Morse was 
again left a "financial wreck." 

He next accepted a position as traveling agent 
for the South Shore Fast Freight Line, and 
shortly afterward he was appointed general 
agent at Toledo, and soon after that again his 
eon, our subject, — who had some experience 
in detective work, — was placed on the line 
ostensiltly as traveling agent, but in reality to 
look after claims, etc. As traveling agent the 
father is still in the service of the same line, 
which is now known as the Erie & Pacitic De- 
spatch, the South Shore Division, and the 
Great Western Despatch Division, — all of which 
have been consolidated. He travels an average 
of 60,000 miles annually. Although seventy 
years of age he is a man well preserved and as 
able to fulfill his station as ever. 

Mr. E. E. Morse, whose name introduces this 
sketch, M-as a lad about twelve years of age 
when the bank robbery noted took j)lace, and he 



took great interest in looking up the mystery, 
in order to obtain clues to the criminals, which 
he at length was successful in discovering, and 
which led to their capture and conviction. Thus 
encouraged, he thereafter made detective work 
a systematic study. He traveled with his father 
a great deal, rapidly learning the ways of the 
world. At the age of sixteen years he entered 
the Highland Jlilitary Academy at Worcester, 
Massachusetts, where he spent two years, when 
he came to Cleveland, accepted a position on the 
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Fast Freight 
Line, and still continued to develop his talent 
for detective service. 

In 1871, after the great Chicago fire, he was 
temporarily thrown oul of his position on the 
railroad, and, taking a sleeper on his way to 
Cleveland, he happened to occupy a berth with 
the mayor of this city, Mr. Pelton, who at once 
offered him a place on the police force, which 
he accepted. Being a man of fine physique, 
weighing some 275 pounds and being six feet 
tall, dressing well, etc., he was immediately 
placed in a responsible position. Six days alter 
he commenced his duties he was made drill- 
master of the police force, and continued in that 
department of the city government for ten years, 
although at first he intended to remain only 
through the first winter! After a few months 
he became so proficient in his work that he gave 
a drill in the rink for the entertainment of the 
public. 

The following spring, when the police com- 
mission was formed, he was placed on patrol- 
man's duty for a few weeks only, and then he 
rapidly rose, overstepping others and being ap- 
pointed lieutenant of the force, which he held 
until he resigned his position on the police force 
altogether. His strict discipline while drill- 
master, his rapid rise to the head of the depart- 
ment, etc., naturally caused dissension among 
the envious, but he proved himself to be one of 
the most popular men ever on the Cleveland 
force. Mr. Morse is a sure " shot'" with the re- 
volver, being able with it to cut a telegraph wire 
from the top of the highest building. 



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After his resignation in Cleveland he went to 
Buffalo, New York, and accepted a position 
ostensibly as an employee in ordinary work 
for a company. After accomplishing his 
work for them, and finding things becoming 
" warm," lie accepted the position as chief of 
police of Toledo, Ohio, where he found all tlie 
opposition imaginable, occasioned of course by 
his being "imported." However, he satisfactor- 
ily completed his task thei'e, being "chief" in 
every respect. He reorganized the force, and 
after getting matters in good shape he resigned 
and "jumped" to San Francisco, California, 
where he accepted a position under Detective 
Lees, the oldest detective on the coast, for out- 
side work. Mr. Morse was placed on work for 
all transcontinental and steamship lines term- 
inating at San Francisco. Ne.xt he went to 
New Mexico and later to old Mexico, where he 
did much in his line. During the three years 
1882 to 1885 he covered a vast amount of ter- 
ritory. In the latter year he located in Chicago, 
where he was engaged by the Pinkerton De- 
tective Company for a short time, acting as 
drill-master for about 800 men during the great 
Stock Yarks strike-; and next for a year be was 
with the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern 
Railroad Company, where he started in again 
on his own account, — first in Kansas City, then 
in Denver, etc. 

During this period he married a Cleveland 
lady, for whose health the altitude of Denver 
proved too great, and they returned East, stop- 
ping in Detroit, Michigan, in April, 1889. 
Purchasing the store of George L'Homedeau, he 
engaged temporarily in mercantile business, but 
in the fall he opened a detective agency in the 
old Walker block and did a successful business. 
On the 1st of April, 1891, he moved to Cleveland, 
changing his headquarters to this city, mean- 
while retaining the office in Detroit, where he has 
a suite of several rooms on the second floor of the 
Walker block, with four entrances and all con- 
veniences for a first class office. He is there- 
fore well prepared to transact all kinds of de- 
tective work. Oncomintr here he brouirht with 



him two men, a woman and a boy, to aid in the 
work, and he has since increased his force of 
talent, and can supply all demands in his line. 
He runs the business systematically and 
thoroughly. Having read law two years, in the 
office of Brinsmade & Stone, he finds that the 
knowledge thus gained is of great aid. In 1893 
he organized the Morse Detective Agency of 
North America, with a capital of $50,000: E. 
E. Morse, president. 

In social matters Mr. Morse is a member of 
the Sons of the Veterans of the Eevolution, and 
in politics is a Republican. 



I|ON. JOSEPH C. BLOCH.— Precedence 
1 in any of the several professional lines, 
^ to whose following both pre-eminent as 
well as mediocre ability has been given, 
Ciin he attained by no side path, but must be 
gained by, must be the result of, subjective and 
native talent, supplemented by the closest appli- 
cation and a breadth of intellectuality that will 
render possible the ready and practical use of 
mere theoretical knowledge. Among the large 
number wJio essay the achievement of honor 
and preferment in technical professions the per- 
centage of failures is far in excess of that of 
successes, — a fact that but lends succinct proof 
of the statements just made. 

An attorney of high reputation and one suc- 
cessfully engaged in the practice of his pro- 
fession in the city of Cleveland, is he whose 
name initiates this biographical sketch. He 
was born in Hungary, October 24, 1856, the 
son of Edward and Lena Bloch. Though the 
dawn of liis life was ushered in far from the 
scene of his present field of labor, yet so soon 
did he leave the land of his nativity that in 
sympathy, loyalty and close identification he 
could scarcely be more clearly a "child of the 
republic" than he is of the land where he has 
passed the major portion of liis life. He came 
to the United States when a lad of nine years, 
ami in his boyhood was accorded the privileges 



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of the common schools in the vicinity of his 
home. Just at that time when Ids character 
was in a formative state, and wlien such a test 
would prove the mettle of his composition, the 
youth was thrown upon his own resources. Un- 
dismayed by the unpropitious front presented 
by fortune, he went bravely forth "with a heart 
for any fate," accepting whatever work he could 
find to do, in the meanwiiile struggling to im- 
prove every opportunity which could aid him 
to attain one great desideratum, a good educa- 
tion. He was ambitious and determined to fit 
himself for a professional career. He was not 
even a casuist in his youth, and soon decided 
upon tlie exact course to which he should bend 
his energies. He detertnitied to prepare him- 
self for the practice of law, and in due time was 
enabled, by frugality and self-denial, to matricu- 
late at tlie law school of Cleveland, completing 
his technical studies in the University of Iowa 
in 1879. He had educated himself both in a 
literary and professional way by defraying his 
incidental expenses by his own earnings. 

The secret of his success lies principally in 
the fact tiiat he has always improved his time. 
He has always been an ardent and close student; 
he has been successful. Is this not in natural 
sequence? He has gained an enviable reputa- 
tion not only in his profession, but has estab- 
lished for himself a position of honor and 
esteem as a good, progressive and worthy citi- 
zen. It is the record of such lives as this that 
should prove both lesson and incentive to rising 
generations, and how readily contemporary 
biography thus oifers its own justification. 

Mr. Bloch has always taken an active interest 
in politics, and lias been an able and zealous 
worker in the ranks of the Republican party. 
In 1891 he was elected to the General Assem- 
bly of the State of Ohio, receiving a represent- 
ative support and a flattering majority at the 
polls. He secured a larger number of votes 
than any other man on the ticket, — an evidence 
of his popularity and of the confidence in which 
he is held by the people of the district in which 
liis nomination and candidacy were made. While 



he was in the Legislature he served on the im- 
portant municipal committee of (•or])oration8 
and public lands and buildings. In his otficial 
capacity he gave unmistakable evidence of his 
ability and rendered such service as marked him 
as a capable legislator. 

Fraternally our subject is identified with the 
Knights of Pythias, having passed all the chairs 
of that order. He is also prominent in his asso- 
ciation with other fraternal and beneficial organ- 
izations. 

Tlie marriage of Mr. Bloch to Miss Mollie 
Fedder was celebrated in the city of Cleveland 
in 1884. They are the parents of two children, 
Julia and Edward. 



HARLES H. ROCKAYELL.—Continued 
success is the ultimate criterion of merit 
^ and reliability in the world of commerce, 
and this fact is exemplified in the case of the 
enterprises with which the subject of this re- 
view is so intimately identified. Mr. Rockwell 
is the vice-president and manager of the West- 
ern Mineral Wool Company, and is secretary 
and treasurer of the Buckeye Electric Company, 
which corporations conduct flourishing and im- 
portant enterprises in the Forest City. Mr. 
Rockwell has been a resident of Cleveland since 
1885, in which year he caine here from New 
York and effected the organization of the Min- 
eral Wool Company, of which he has been 
vice-president and manager ever since. The in- 
ception of this industry was one of modest 
order, but with a keen discernmetit and prescience 
of what might be developed Mr. Rockwell suc- 
ceeded in organizing a stock company and in 
commencing operations in an unpretentious 
style. The sales of the product the first year 
reached an aggregate of only about 300,000 
pounds. At the present time the company have 
factories in operation in Chicago and St. Louis, 



in addition to the origii 



lant in Cleveland, 



and the annual output has brought about the 
average sale of 12,000,000 pounds of the wool 



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eacli year. Tlie success wliich has attended the 
industry bears honor to the projector, who lias 
practically retained tlie entire management of 
operations from the start. When he came to 
Cleveland Mr. Rockwell was an entire stranger 
to the business men of the city, but with confi- 
dence in the outcome of the enterprise which 
he purposed to establish, he at once began the 
erection of a plant, utilizing his personal funds 
for this purpose. He thus made ready foi' the 
business before he approached the citizens of 
Cleveland with a request for assistance in carry- 
ing forward the undertaking. He had Tnade 
sufficient progress along the line of inaugu- 
rating the business to convince those impor- 
tuned of the legitimacy of the same and of the 
good faith of the projector. Consequently he 
had little difficulty in enlisting the necessary 
capitalistic co-operation. 

The organization of the Buckeye Electric 
Company was mainly brought about by Mr. 
Rockwell, the enterprise dating its inception 
back to 1890. The organization was completed 
for the purpose of providing a suitable plant 
and engaging in the manufacture of incan- 
descent electric lamps. The company's factory 
is located at 1927 Broadway, in this city, and 
the business represents an invested capital of 
$100,000. The undertaking has proved suc- 
cessful and has already yielded good returns. 

In the historic old city of Tarrytown, New 
York, and within a stone's throw of the exact 
spot where the celebrated Major Andre was 
captured, our subject first saw the light of day, 
the date of his nativity being December 11, 
1845. His parents were George and Sarah 
(Tunis) Rockwell, both of whom were descended 
from old Revolutionary stock, the father of the 
former having been an active participant in that 
memorable struggle when the vigorous young 
nation threw aside forever the heavy yoke im- 
posed by the mother country. 

The jjatriotic ardor of the ancestor just noted 
must hive been transmitted to our subject, for 
at the age of seventeen years he was moved to 
take part in the nation's second great struggle 



for freedom, enlisting, in September, 18G2, as a 
private in the One Hundred and Second New 
York Volunteer Infantry, and serving valiantly 
until the close of the war. He was mustered 
out as First Lieutenant in November, 1865. 
He was an active participatit in many important 
battles, among which we name the following: 
the battles of the Potomac, frpm Chancellors- 
ville, including that of Gettysburg and Lookout 
Mountain, the campaign of Sherman to Atlanta, 
and many other minor confiicts. 

July 23, 1866, in the city of New York, Mr. 
Rockwell took unto himself a life companion in 
the person of Miss Letitia Dawnes, a daughter 
of George and L. Harriet Dawnes, honored 
residents of the Empire State. Mr. and Mrs. 
Rockwell have one daughter, Hattie D. 

In his political adherency our subject is an 
ardent Republican; in his fraternal associations 
he is prominently identified with the A. F. & 
A. M. As a business man and a citizen he is 
held in that high esteem which comes as the 
reward of honorable dealing and progressive 
spirit. 



SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, formerly one of 
the most prominent lake men of the city 
of Cleveland, was born at " Hardscrabble 
Hill," Union, New York, December 13, 1818. 
Being very young when his father died, he 
came West at the a'ge of fourteen, settling at 
Cleveland. A year later he pushed further 
West, to Black River, Ohio, where he started 
as an apprentice in shipbuilding for William 
and Buel Jones, his first work being on the 
schooners Florida and Juniet. Subsequently 
he had much to do with the building of the 
Steamer Bunker Hill, and after its completion 
he made a few trips with the vessel. 

He then turned his attention to sailing, and 
iu 1840, at the age of twenty-one, he was made 
master of the schooner Maria; and he sailed 
continually for several years, commanding the 
('hief Justice Marshall, Herald, Meriden and 



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many others. Next he took charge of the 
vessel department for Crawford & Price, sailing 
during the summer seasons and during the 
intervening winters superintending the con- 
struction of vessels. 

In the meantime he had managed to save 
considerable of ids income, which he gradually 
invested in vessels, his first venture being the 
purchase of tlie Chief Justice Marshall. After- 
ward he had interests in flie Grace Murray, 
Midnight, David Morris, Crawford, C. J. 
Magill, General Scott and many other well- 
known vessels. 

In 1868 he leased a large tract of land at the 
lioad of the old river bed and constructed a dry 
dock, embarking at the same time in ship- 
building. He built and had full charge of 
some of the stanchest crafts on the lakes, some 
of which are still in service. He also owned 
tiie wrecking steamer Magnet, which at that 
time was the largest and most completely 
equipped wrecker afloat on fresh water. A few 
y«ai\s later he retired, and has since lived a 
quiet life. 

In 1844 he married Maria Antoinette Jones, 
daughter of Augustus Jones of Lorain (then 
I'hick Kiver), Ohio, one of the first shipbuilders 
on these lakes. He has four children, namely: 
NeTtie, wife of Gilbert II. Frederick, pastor of 
the Covenant Baptist Church of Chicago, Illi- 
nois; Ruth, who married R. G. Adams, of the 
firm of Koplin & Adams, of Akron, this State: 
she lias two children. ^Maj and Francis; 
Carrie, wife of M. S. Coggshail, of the firm of 
Hiles & Coggshail, of this city, and has one 
child, Saba; and Frank J., who resides in this 
city and is interested in several successful 
enterprises. He has been a member of the 
Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade for 
several years, and is also high in the secret 
work of several of the fraternal orders. He 
married Miss Nellie M. Truscott, daughter of 
Samuel Truscott, Esq., of Cleveland. In poli- 
tics he is a most ardent Republican, as was also 
his father. He and his wife are members of the 
First Baptist CImreli. His father is now aged 



seventy- five years, and his mother dit'd at the age 
si-xty-six, while attending the World's Fair at 
Chicago. From an accidental fall down stairs 
she received a wound (concussion of the brain) 
from which she died after two hours of uncon- 
sciousness. His father is, and his mother was, 
an ardent member of the First Baptist Church. 



K. MAHER, Superintendent of the 
Cleveland Special Police, was born in 
^ the "metropolis of the lakes," Novem- 
ber 27, 1857. He finished his school days at the 
Spencerian Business College, thus giving him 
sucL educational equipments as ought to be re- 
quired of the "youth universal" before his en- 
trance into competition with the business world. 

On leaving his school-books he assisted his 
father for about three years, engaged in team- 
ing and contracting. He was next connected 
with the work-house as a guard under Superin- 
tendent Patterson until 1878, when it occurred 
to him that a special police and detective agency 
could be operated to advantage and with profit 
in Cleveland, and he made the venture. Ser- 
vice was extended to protection of manufactur- 
ing, marine, merchants' and residence districts; 
and ere many months all these districts were 
under protection of patrolmen from Superin- 
tendent Maher's office. His detective agency 
soon found public favor, and it extended its 
workings to points anywhere in the United 
States. Both detective and patrol departments 
are in "touch" with the local police, and al- 
ways work in harmony with thenr. The old 
Merchants' Police Company was succeeded by 
the Cleveland Special Police, with James T. 
Daugherty as president; J. C. McMillan, secre- 
tary and treasurer, and William K. Maher as 
superintendent and general manager. 

Mr. Maher is by nature adapted to the busi- 
ness in which he engaged. In the first place, 
it is agreeable to him, and he takes a special 
pride in guiding and directing the movements 
of his men for the detection of a wrong atid 



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tlio capture of the oflfeiider, although he is 
ne\'er known by the public to be engaged iu 
any given piece of work. In order to equip 
himself perfectly Mr. Maher has spent much 
time in the larger cities of the United States, 
studying the advanced methods of patrol and 
detective work as practied by the police depart- 
ments of those cities, and has made the subject 
one of general study iu order that ids patrons 
may have the best service known to the detect- 
ive world. 

Our subject is a son of John Malier, a native 
of Ireland, who came to Cleveland and was 
somewhat prominent as a teamster, contractor 
and grader. He was married in Ireland, to 
Julia Kelly, who died leaving two children, — 
William K. and Nellie. For his second wife 
Mr. Maher married Miss Ryan, and they have 
had one son, James. Superintendent Maher 
was married September 21, 1881, in Cleveland, 
to Miss Annie Higgins, of St. Louis, Missouri, 
whose parents were of Irish birth. By tiiis 
marriage there are the following children: John 
F., Julia E., Josephine M., William and Cath- 
erine. 



LVA J. SMITH, general passenger and 
ticket agent of the Lake Shore & Michigan 
Southern Railroad Company, is a worthy 
representative of that familiar and most 
numerous family, ever foremost in the history 
of our country, beginning with Captain John 
Smith at the settlement of Virginia and found- 
ing of Jamestown, just a quarter of a century 
before the appearance of Lieutenant Samuel 
Smith, eight generations in advance of our sub- 
ject, and reinforced by countless numbers from 
all Europe during the two and a half centuries 
or more of our existence as a nation. 

A record in possession of the family records 
the lineal heads of families from Lieutenant 
Samuel S.nith, who emigrated from England in 
the ship Elizabeth of Ipswich, April 30, ir534. 
He is supposed to have died in 1080. His son 



Philip became one of the leading men of his 
community, was a lieutenant (probably from 
serving in the Indian wars of New England), 
represented his townspeople in some of their 
deliberative bodies and held the office of deacon 
in his favorite church society. He was mur- 
dered iu accordance with a decree of Cotton 
Mather about 1685, on account of the troubles 
with witchcraft. His wife was Rebecca, a 
daughter of Nathaniel Foote. 

Jonathan Smith, son of Philip, married Abi- 
gail, a daughter of Joseph Kellogg. He died 
iu Whately, in 1734. His son Elisha married 
Sarah Field. The wife of Benjamin was 
Mehitable. Benjamin's children were: Philip, 
who married Eliza Graves; Rev. Paul, who 
married a lady of his own name, Elizabeth 
Smith; Silas took for his Lavina Houghton: 
Elisha, who married and left New England for 
the West; Jonathan married Elizabeth Chaun- 
cey; and Gad's wife was Irene Wait. 

Roswell Smith, son of Benjamin Smith, mar- 
ried Mary Craft, and his following six brothers 
married,— Elijah to Miriam Morton, Isaac to 
Roxa Morton, Bezaleel to Lavina Munson, Asa 
to Judith Graves, Adna to Keziah Humes, and 
Rufus, our 8ul)ject's grandfather, married Anna 
Munson. His son, Ashley Smith, father of Alva 
J., was born in Massachusetts in 1796, and 
November 25, 1819, married Miriam Russell, 
whose father, Elihu Russell, married Miriam, a 
daughter of Thomas Sanderson. Joseph San- 
derson, an ancestor of the latter, came from 
Norfolk county, England, in 1637, was Master 
of the Mint at Boston iu 1652, and made the 
celebrated and now very rare " pine-tree" shil- 
lings. His descendants were William Sander- 
son, leaving Joseph Sanderson, leaving Joseph 
Sanderson, born August 30, 1714, and died 
Mantii 20, 1772, who left Thomas Sanderson, 
born in 1746, who was the father of Miriam 
Sanderson, who married Elihu Russell. Elihu 
Russell's children were PoliAcna, Lucy, Betsy, 
Delia, Miriam, Levi, Elihu, William S., Austin, 
Wellingtou, Emery, Esteven, Sumner, Ashley 
and Mary. 



VUTAHOOA COUNTY. 



Ashley Smith heeainc a millwright and dur- 
ing our second war with England was a Federal 
soldier from Massachusetts. He emigrated to 
New York in 1822 and settled at Church ville, 
Monroe county, where he died in 1854, at 
iifty-eight years of age. His wife preceded 
him three ycarr, aged fifty-one. Besides Major 
Smith, Ashley Smith was the father of Francis, 
who died in 1887, at sixty-eight years of age; 
Charles Augustus, a farmer, who died in 1894, 
at Merrill, Wi.sconsin, aged seventy-two; Levi 
L., at Maple Rapids, Michigan; Fidelia M., 
now Mrs. Benjamin T. Richmond, of Grand 
Rapids, Michigan; Austin R., who died in 
Cleveland in 1881, at forty-seven, and was 
ticket agent at the union depot; George W., a 
farmer near Grand Rapids, Michigan, and two 
others who died very young. 

Alva J. Smith was born at Churchville, Sep- 
tember 30, 1840, and was a pupil of the Church- 
ville village schools until thirteen years old, 
when by the death of his father he was made an 
orphan and went to Wisconsin, where he resided 
for a time on a farm with his brother. He re- 
turned to his native town the next year and 
clerked in his brother's store until the spring of 
1858, when he went to Albion. New York, and 
secured a clerkship, which he held till the 
breaking out of the Civil war. 

On the 13th of April, 18(31, the day follow- 
ing the firing on Fort Sumter, Mr. Smith in 
company with a number of young men orga 
nized a company for service in the Union army, 
but disbanded after a short period of drill. The 
following spring Mr. Smith enlisted at Roch- 
ester, New York, in the Fourth New York 
Artillery, being ordered to report at Washing- 
ton, where the regiment was stationed during 
that summer. A complete review of his mili- 
tary service given without comment is as fol- 
lows: Enlisted as private in Company C, July 
29, 1862; promoted Corporal September 1, 
1862; in service in the defense of Washington, 
to June 1803, Abercrombie's division. Twenty- 
second Corps; commissioned Second Lieutenant 
in the Eleventh New York Volunteer Artillery 



June 21, 1863; engaged \n the organization of 
a regiment at Itocliester till October, same year, 
where, on 16th of the same month he was 
transferred to Fourth New York Volunteer 
Artillery; and was in defenses of the capital 
till April, 1864, in DeRussy's division of the 
Twenty-second Corps. His engagements were: 
Wilderness, May 5 to 7; Corbiu's Bridge, May 
6; Spottsylvania, May 8; Ny river, May 
9 and 10; Po river, May 11; North Anna, 
May 23 to 27; Tolopotomy, May 28 to 31; 
Cold Harbor, June 1 to 12, 1864; before 
Petersburg, June 16 to 19; Weldon Railroad, 
June 22 to 23: Deep Bottoms, June 27 and 28 
(was promoted First Lieutenant July 27, 1864); 
Mine Explosion, July 30; Strawberry Plains, 
August 14 to 18; White Oak Swamp, August 
25; Poplar Springs Church, September .30 and 
October 2; Boydton Road, October 27 and 28 
(was promoted Captain November 5, 1864); 
reconnoitre to Hatcher's Run, December 8 and 
9; assigned to duty as Aide on the staff of 
Fourth Brigade, First Division of Second 
Corps, December 25, 1864; relieved in Febru- 
ary, 1865; Dabney's Mills, February 5 to 7, 
same year; acting Brigade Inspector, Fourth 
Brigade, First Division, Second Corps, Febru- 
ary to April, 1865; Peeble's farm, March 25; 
Hatcher's Run, March 29; Boydton Road, 
March 30 and 31; White Oak R..ad, March 31; 
Southerland Station, April 2; fall of Peters- 
burg, April 3; siege of the same during the 
year, April 16, 1864, to April 3, '65; Atnelia 
Springs, April 5, 1865; Deatonville, April 6; 
Sailor's Creek, April 6; High Ridge, the 7th; 
and Appomattox Court House, the 9th of the 
same month; grand review at Washington, 
May 23; acting Ordinance Officer of First 
Division of Second Corps, June 23 to 26; mus- 
tered out of service September 26, 1865; and 
Brevetted Major of United States Volunteers, 
March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious 
conduct during the war. Colonel Smith came 
to Ohio in 1866, and on August 4, 1877, was 
appointed Aide-de-camp on the staff of Gover- 
nor Thomas L. Youno; with the rank of Colonel. 



CUYAUOGA COUNTY. 



In the suiuraer of 1866 Mr. Smith began his 
successfxil railroad career in the general ticket 
office of the Bee Line at Cleveland; was made 
chief clerk of the office the next jear, and per- 
formed those duties till August of 1874, when 
the office of assistant general ticket agent was 
created for him in recognition of his faithful 
and efficient service; and in the same month, 
five years later, the office of general passenger 
agent was tendered to him and accepted. Upon 
tlie consolidation of the passenger departments 
of the Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati Rail- 
road and the Indianapolis & St. Louis Rail- 
road in January, 1881, his jurisdiction was ex- 
tended over that line. He was appointed 
general passenger agent of the Dayton & Union 
Railroad January 2, 1882. When the Cincin- 
nati, Hamilton & Dayton was made a part of 
the Bee Line, Colonel Smith was made general 
passenger agent of that line also, and held the 
office from December 31, 1881, till May, 1882, 
when the departments were again made separate. 

March 1, 1887, Colonel Smith severed his 
long connection with the Bee Line and became 
chief of the passeng^^r and ticket department of 
the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad 
Company. Colonel Smith is a prominent mem- 
ber of the Association of General Passenger 
and Ticket Agents, was elected its secretary in 
1879, and has served continuously for fitteen 
years, being annually re-elected. 

Colonel Smith is progressive and remarkably 
industrious. He understands the needs of the 
traveling public and has so equipped and fitted 
up the passenger service of his line as to make 
it equal to any and superior to many metropoli- 
tan lines. 

September 7, 1865, Colonel Smith married, 
at Warsaw, New York, Miss Harriet L., a 
daughter of Zelotes Cornwell, whose wife was 
Polixena Russell. An ancestor, Susanna Robin- 
son, who came over in the Mayflower, had a 
grandchild named Chapman, who married Corn- 
well, the father of Zelotes. 

Mr. Cornwell was born in Massachusetts and 
was a farmer. He died in 1866, at the age of 



sixty-eight, and his wife in 1857, being fifty- 
two years old. Mr. Cornwell's children were: 
Dariu.s; William; Anna Elizabeth, now Mrs. 
John W. Richmond; George, who died in 
1888, at the age of fifty-two; Zelotes; Charles, 
who died in 1891, at the age of fifty; Hiram, 
and Harriet Louisa. 

Colonel and Mrs. Smith's family consists of 
three children, viz.: Amy E. Smith, an art 
teacher in Oberlin College; Miriam C; and 
Alva C. 

Colonel Smith is a member of the Loya 
Legion and of the Grand Army of the Repub- 
lic; also of Woodward Lodge, A. F. &. A. M 
of Cleveland. 



HARLES F. SCHWEINFURTH, a 
prominent architect, came to Cleveland 
in 1883, in which year he submitted 
plans for the Everett residence on Euclid ave- 
nue, which plans were accepted, and with which 
began his architectural work in Cleveland. De- 
ciding to remain in Cleveland, he made a per- 
manent location in the city, and since that date 
he has submitted plans for many of the most 
handsome and important buildings erected in 
the city, among these structures being the resi- 
dences of William Chisolm, Samuel Mather, 
J. E. French and others. The excellent build- 
ing of the Young Men's Christian Association 
in the city of Cleveland, the Lennox apartment 
liouse. the People's Savings and Loan six-story 
brick and stone bank building, and many other 
important buildings have been built according 
to plans submitted by Mr. Schweinfurth. He 
has also submitted plans upon which were built 
certain grand and important buildings erected 
in Toledo, New York, Brooklyn and other cities. 
Mr. Schweinfurth was born in New York 
city. His father was of German birth, and was 
a government architect at the time of the Ger- 
man insurrection of 1848~-'49. He came to 
America in 1849, and located in New York 
city, where he followed liis profession, gaining 



CUYAIJUGA GOUNTr. 



considerable notoriety. He is a relative of Dr. 
George Schweinfnrth, the celebrated African 
explorer. Under the instrnction of his father 
the subject of this sketch inainly gained his 
knowledge of architecture. Under his father 
lie was compelled to learn also carpentering, 
stone-cutting and brick-laying, and thus he was 
made an efHcient and practical architect. When 
entering the profession upon his own responsi- 
bility he occupied an office in New York city. 
His first impcjrtant piece of work was the remod- 
eling of an apartment house of thirteen stories, 
which he finished in 1882. Mr. Schweinfurtli 
is an architect of marked ability and compe- 
tency. He is a member of the American Insti- 
tute of Architects, and was President of the 
( )hio Association of Architects for three suc- 
cessive terms. 



LEVI WHERRY, a well-known contractor, 
I has been identified with the growth of 
1 Cleveland as a builder for sixteen years. 

His first contract was for the construction of a 
residence for John Huntington. The residences 
of Captains Scofield and Taylor, General Leg- 
gett, George Collins, ^Y . S. Tyler, Bishop Leon- 
ard, and many others of importance, besides 
numerous business blocks, have risen by the 
hand of Mr. Wherry. Mr. Wherry was born in 
West Middletown, Washington county, Penn- 
sylvania, forty-eight years ago. His father was 
Noah Wherry, a man of much mechanical 
genius, but a farmer. In 1832 he left Pennsyl- 
vania and by covered wagon went to Iowa, be- 
coming a well-to-do stockman and farmer. 
When the Civil war came on he enlisted with 
the "Gray Beard" Company, and served nearly 
two years guarding prisoners at Alton, Illinois. 
The plan of forming regiments of the old men 
was suggested to the War Governor of Iowa by 
Daniel Tarr, father of our subject's mother. On 
the adoption of the plan, Mr. Tarr was made a 
regimental officer, as was also Noah Wherry, 
and (lid vahialile service as a soldier. He lived 



many years after the close of the war, dying in 
Iowa at the age of ninety-six years. In 18().j 
Noali Wherry removed to Dakota, where he 
now resides, and where he represented his dis- 
trict in the State Legislature two or three terms. 
Levi Wherry enlisted in the Seventh Iowa 
Infantry, Colonel (afterward General) Lawmay, 
being succeeded in the Colonelcy by Price and 
Parrott. The regiment served in the campaign 
from Belmont, Missouri, to Fort Donelson, and 
was engaged at Shiloh, Corinth, luka, Tupelo, 
Jackson and Holly Springs, and was then trans- 
ferred to Chattanooga, participating in the At- 
lanta campaign. He marched with Sherman to 
the sea, back through the Carolinas, and closed 
this long tramp with the grand review at Wash- 
ington. Mr. Wherry enlisted as a private, but 
by promotion was carrying a Lieutenant's com- 
mission when mustered out, being then only 
twenty years old. Mr. AYherry married, in 
1S6S, Martha, a daughter of Daniel Ewing. 
Four sons are the result of this union: William 
H.; H. M., a plumber; George, an architect; and 
Warren. Mr. Wherry is a worthy member of 
Army and Navy Post, G. A. R. 



GHRISTIAN KASPER, a general con- 
tractor of Cleveland, located on Swiss 
street, has been identified with the build- 
ing interests of Cleveland since 1878, his first 
contract being for the building of a residence 
on Lorain street, and thereafter he constructed 
many residences and store houses, and has been 
a most active man in his calling, achieving 
more than ordinary success. In 1886 he in- 
vented the Kasper Self-acting Vat Cleaner, 
which he manufactured up to 1892, when he 
disposed of this cleaner and invented the Magic 
Vat Cleaner, which he manufactured till No- 
vember, 1892, when he sold the same. In 
March, 1893, he invented the Kasper Spring 
Halter- Ilitcher, which he is now manufacturing, 
and which promises to be a well-demanded com- 
modity. This last invention he is now putting 



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on the market, and it has received a favorable 
introduction, and will probably prove a source 
of large revenue to its inventor. Mr. Kaeper 
came to Cleveland in 1870, coming from Pome- 
roy, Ohio, to where he migrated when a youth 
with his father, John Kasper, a carpenter and 
cabinetmaker. Mr. Kasper was born in Prus- 
sia, December 23, 1846. After going to Pome- 
roy he learned the carpenter's trade and also the 
mechanic's trade. He was unmarried when he 
came to Cleveland, and in 1872 he married 
Minnie Voss, of this city, and by her has four 
children. His business career in the city of 
Cleveland has been characterized by honesty, 
activity and success. He has not only gained 
the reputation of a successful contractor, but 
has distinguished himself as a mechanical 
genius and as an inventor. He has in his em- 
ploy quite a number of men, and the liberal 
compensation and other liberalities given them 
mark him as a generous and fair-minded man. 
He has always been identified with the Repub- 
lican party in politics, though he has never 
sought political preferment. 



Il ULllTS RENKER, a carpenter and cooper, 
K I South Brooklyn, Ohio, is a representative 
^^ of one of the pioneer families of Cuya- 
hoga county. Mr. Renker was born in Brook- 
lyn township, this county, September 2, 1848. 

His father, Henry Renker, a native of Ger- 
many, was burn September 19, 1808, and by 
trade was a cooper. He owned a coffee planta- 
tion in Mexico, where he spent some years and 
where he was married, April 4, 1837, to Bertha 
A. Schlechterway, also a native of Germany, 
her l>irth having occurred in Nordhausen, Jan- 
uary 21, 1811. From Mexico they came to 
Ohio, tiist settling in Lorain county and some 
time later removing to Cuyahoga county and 
taking up their abode in the village of Brigh- 
ton. Here he started a cooper shop, which he 
conducted up to the time of his death, which 
occurred in 1879. He was a member of the 



Lutheran Church, and in politics was a Demo- 
crat. His whole life was characterized by hon- 
est industry, and by his many excellent traits 
of character he won the confidence and respect 
of all who knew him. His good wife passed 
away October 3, 1869. They were the parents 
of nine children, six daughters and three sons, 
all of whom, with one exception, reached adult 
years, and these eight are still living, namely: 
Mrs. Hermina Penning, Mrs. Amelia Lind, 
Herman, Mrs. Matilda Brand wilier, Julius, Mrs. 
Bertha Love, Mrs. Emma Livingston and Mrs. 
Louisa Stafford. 

When Julius Renker was twenty years old he 
began to learn the trade of cooper in his father's 
shop, and after his father's death succeeded 
him in business, continuing the same until 1886. 
Since then he has been .engaged in contracting 
and building. 

Mr. Renker was married May 28, 1873, to 
Eva C. Kline, who was born and reared in Parma 
township, this county. She was the sixth born 
in a family of thirteen children of Philip and 
Mary (Messersmith) Kline, both natives of 
Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Renker have had four 
children, Lula, Julia, Henry G. and Franklin A. 
Lula, the oldest, died at the age of three years 
and three months. 

In political afBliations, Mr. Renker is a Re- 
publican. He served for six successive years 
as Assessor of Brooklyn township, and ever 
since the village of South Brooklyn was organ- 
ized he has been a member of its Board of 
Health. He is one of the charter members of 
Riverside Lodge, K. of P., and is also identi- 
fied with the I. O. 0. F., having been a mem- 
ber of the latter organization for twenty-four 
years. 



qT'EORGE GUSCOTT, Mayor of South 
r Brooklyn, Ohio, is a native of England, 
I but has been a resident of this country 
since his early boyhood and has become 
thoroughly Americanized. A sketch of his life 
will be found of interest and is as follows: 



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George Guscott was born in Devonshire, 
England, January 23, 1844, and attended a pri- 
vate scliool tiiere until he was eight years of 
age, being then obliged to quit on account of 
ill health. In 1857 he accompanied his parents 
to America. Botli liis parents, Jason and Har- 
riet (Glandville) Guscott, were natives of Eng- 
land. Upon their arrival in tliis country they 
settled in East Cleveland, where the father 
opened a carriage and wagon shop and con- 
ducted the same one year. Then he removed 
t(j Brooklyn Village and started a blacksmith 
and carriage shop where S. R. Brainard's gro- 
cery store now is, next to what was then Sto- 
rer's tannery. Four years later he located on a 
farm in Parma township, tliis county, where he 
passed the rest of his life, and died at the age 
of sixty-five years. He and his wife had a 
family of eight children, live daughters and 
three sons, the subject of our sketch being the 
oldst child. 

George Guscott had begun to learn the trade 
of blacksmith with his father before they left 
England, and after they located in Brooklyn 
village he took up the wagon-making trade un- 
der Crawford Brainard, with whom he continued 
four years. At the end of this time he turned 
his attention to farming. After his marriage, 
which event occurred in 1867, he moved to 
Brecksville, Ohio, where he bought a farm of 
ninety acres and set up a blacksmith and car- 
riage shop. The first payment he made on this 
property was with money which he borrowed 
at 10 per cent, interest. For twelve years he 
f<illowed his business and farming, and then 
went West on a prospecting tour. While on 
this tour he made some valuable investments in 
Kansas. Upon his return to Ohio, he removed 
with his family to Parma, where lie entered 
largely into farming. Subsequently he turned 
his attention more escjecially to the milk Ijusi- 
ness, in which he has continued ever since. In 
1S87 he moved to South Brooklyn and in com- 
pany with his tlii'ee sons enlarged the business, 
making it both wholesale and retail, and rnn- 
uiug as high as live wagons. 



Mr. Guscott's marriage has already been re- 
ferred to. In March, 1867, he wedded Miss 
Mary Ann (Tuscott, a native of England and a 
daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Sims) Guscott, 
both born in that country. She was sixteen 
years old at the time they emigrated to this 
country, her sixteenth birthday being spent on 
the Atlantic, and at the time of her marriage 
they were residents of Alliance, Ohio. She is 
the only daughter in their famiy of four chil- 
dren. Mr. and Mrs. Guscott have five children: 
James H., Charles E., William George, Pearl 
M. and Daisy M., and tliey also reared a nephew 
of Mrs. Guscott^David J. Gnscutt. 

Politically, Mr. Guscott is a Eepublican. In 
1890, when South Brooklyn was incorporated as 
a village, he was elected its first Mayor, and so 
faithfully and efficiently did he perform his 
duty that in 1892 he was elected for a second 
term. He has also served as President of the 
Board of Health here. His beautiful home is 
one of the attractive places of South Brooklyn. 
To him much is due for the efforts he has put 
forth in various ways in advancing the interests 
of the town, and none are more anxious to see 
South Brooklyn take high rank as a Cleveland 
suburb than is he. 

Mr. Guscott is prominent in numerous secret 
organizations. He is a member of Empire 
Lodge, No. 346, I. O. O. F., of Eoyalton; Ex- 
celsior Lodge, No. 5555, Foresters, of Newburg; 
Grangers, at Brecksville; Sons of St. George, 
of Newburg; Riverside Lodge and later a char- 
ter member of South Brooklyn Lodge, K. of P., 
and the American Protective Association. 



R. T. C. MARTIN, surgeon, of Cleve- 
land, was born in Maysvi lie. Mason coun- 
ty, Kentucky, January 5, 1864, a son of 
Dr. G. W. and Frances (^Wilson) Martin, the 
former a native of Virginia and the latter of 
Kentucky. His father was widely patronized 
as a consulting physician and known as such 
even thiouohout the State. He died in 1889, 



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747 



at the age of sixty yeai-s, and liis wife it' still 
living, now residing on the old liomestead, tlie 
Valmont farm. Her grandfather, John AVilson, 
was an early settler in the Blue-grass State, 
taking up the land that now constitutes a third 
of Mason and Lewis counties, having patents 
for it. A great-grandfather of Dr. Martin, 
Abram dark, was a signer of the Declaration 
of Independence, and on his mother's side his 
grandmother, Mrs. Baker, was a danghter of 
Matthias Brandenburg, who had the go^d for- 
tune to be exiled from Germany as a political 
exile from Prussia. He came to America, first 
settling in Maryland and afterward in Kentucky. 
A son of his founded the town of Brandenburg, 
Kentucky. Dr. G. W. Martin had six cliildren, 
namely: Ella, who is now the wife of Dr. R. 
IJ. Pepper and resides at Huntington, West 
Virginia; T. C, the subject of this sketch; 
James Wilson, at present in charge of the old 
homestead farm at Valmont, Kentucky, where 
his mother lives: he married Miss Mary Charles; 
Mary Chamberlain; Lacon Jolly and Jennette 
Brandenburg. 

Our subject. Dr. T. C. Martin, was educated 
at Center College, Kentucky, and in medicine 
graduated at the Cleveland Homeopathic Medi- 
cal College in 1886. Immediately upon grad- 
uation he was appointed resident surgeon of the 
Huron Street Hospital College, for one year; 
next he attended for a year a post-graduate 
course at the " Post-Graduate Medical Hospital 
and School" in New York city; the ensuing 
two years he was, by appointment from Gov- 
ernor Foraker, surgeon for the Ohio Peniten- 
tiary; then attended Guy's Hospital, London, 
England, one of the most noted in the world, 
and also attended hospitals at Paris; in 
the years 1889-'90 he was assistant physi- 
cian at the Woman's Hospital, on Toho Square, 
in London; and during the following winter 
returned to Cleveland. Here he was then 
appointed a lecturer on surgery in the Cleve- 
land Homeopatliic Medical College. 

Since his last location here he has ijeen the 
inventor of several surgical instruments, and 



has given his attention almost exclusively to 
surgery. Occasionally he contributes an article 
to the medical press. He is secretary of the 
Cleveland Academy of Medicine, and is a mem- 
ber of several other medical associations, as 
well as of other scientific societies. 

Dr. Martin has availed himself of the ad- 
vantages of many of the most noted medical 
and hospital institutions of the world, and 
has had a large and varied experience in surgery. 
He therefore has a bright future before him. 



OTTLIEB MEKKLE. an old settler and 
prominent farmer of Brooklyn township, 
Cuyahoga county, Ohio, resides at Lin- 
dale. It is appropriate that some per- 
sonal mention be made of him in this work, 
which is descriptive of the representative men 
of the county. 

Mr. Merkle was born in Woodenburg, Ger- 
many, November 17, 1836, son of George and 
Katharine (^Maier) Merkle, both natives of Ger- 
many. George Merkle emigrated to America 
in 1858, first locating at Cleveland and after- 
ward in Independence township in the same 
county. He was a farmer by occupation. He 
died May 3, 1862, and his wife survived him 
until 1881. They were the parents of thirteen 
children, eight of whom reached maturity, the 
subject of our sketch being the tenth born and 
the only one of the family now living. 

When Mr. Merkle came to Cuyahoga county, 
Ohio, he was sixteen years old. He attended 
school some in the old country, and after coming 
here went to school two years in Cleveland. 
Then lieclerked in ageneral merchandise store in 
Cleveland for six years. After his marriage he 
settled on the farm ou which he now resides 
and where he has since carried on general farm- 
ing. This place comprises eighty-nine and a 
half acres. 

Mr. Merkle was married in 185'J to Susan 
Steliling, who was born on the farm on which 
they now live, her people being amotig the early 



CUYAUOGA COUNTY. 



settlers of the county. Mr. and Mi-s. Merkle 
have Iiad eleven cliildren, all of whom are liv- 
ing except one, namely: Fred C, George (de- 
ceased), Lewis, Mary, 'William, Sophia, Louisa, 
Gustaph, Edward, Jacob and Frankie. 

Politically, Mr. Merkle is a Kepublican, and 
has held various local offices. He has been a 
member of the School Board for about twenty- 
four years, served as Township Trustee one 
term, and for six years was Assessor. He is a 
member of the Evangelical Church, in which 
he has served as Trustee and in which he is now 
Treasurer. 



5 A. HART, Superintendent of Delivery of 
Cleveland Mails, was Ijorn in Newton 
Falls, Ohio, January 5, 1851. 

I. A. Hart, the father of Superintendent Hart, 
was l)orn in Connecticut in 1826, and came to 
Ohio with the family in 1837, settling near 
"Warren. He became a tailor, and in 1854 came 
to Cleveland and established himself in business, 
dying here in 1883. He married a daughter of 
"Wu). Roberts, a pioneer of Truuibiill county, a 
farmer and an extensive owner of canal stock. 
Eleven children resulted from this marriage, viz.: 
Elizabeth, wife of Dr. J. A. Symes, of Cleve- 
land; S. A.; Rev. G. L., of same city; Edward, 
assistant foreman of the Savage Printing Com- 
pany; Nellie, wife of A- Wannamaker; Grace, 
wife of John Ravvson;and Cora, wife of Eugene 
Cook, all of this city. Four others are deceased. 

The subject of this notice secured only a scant 
education from the city schools, all his practical 
training coming from the printing othce with 
which he became connected soon after the war. 
January 4, 1863, Mr. Hart enlisted in the army 
and was mustered in as musician in the Second 
Brigade, Second Division of the Fourth Army 
Corps, his father being a member of the same 
band. This command was under General Ho- 
gan. Mr. Hart reached the scene of action 
just after the Stone River llgiit, and participat- 
ed at Chickauiaiiga, Missionary Ridge, and the 



release of Bnrnside at Knoxville. Four montlis 
after his enlistment Mr. Hart was made Chief 
Orderly on General Hogan's staff, and so served 
till discharged just before the capture of At- 
lanta. On his return to Cleveland Mr. Hart 
was apprenticed to learn the printing business 
under Ed. Cowles, of the Leader, and remained 
three ye^rs. He located then with Mr. Fair- 
banks, of the Herald, and concluded his services 
with this paper fourteen years later as foreman 
of the office. He next associated himself with 
R. H. Salter and formed tiie Legal and Commer- 
cial Publishing Company (1885). This busi- 
ness relation existed iTntil 1891, when he as- 
sumed the duties of his office in the Govern- 
ment service. 

In 1871 Mr. Hart married, in Cleveland, 
Ester, a daughter of Theophilus Jones. Mr. 
Jones was born in Wales, came to Cleveland in 
1854, and was a rolling-mill man. His chil- 
dren were: Ester, William S., James W. and 
Theophilus. 

Mr. and Mrs. Hart are the parents of Salen 
A., Elsie May, Mildred and George. The first 
named married in June, 1893, Mary Gray, and 
is a clerk in the gas office. 



M. A. MADISON, director of ac 
counts of the city of Cleveland, and the 
veteran official of the City Hall, was 
born in Cleveland, February 5, 1845. His nat- 
ural father was Mr. Turner, born in "Windsor 
county, Vermont, who emigrated to Cuyahoga 
county, and followed mercantile pursuits for 
many years, dying here at eighty years of age. 
"Wm. A. Madison's mother died at his birth. 
Their family physician was waiting on another 
patient at the same time, who lost her infant 
and was anxious to adopt without formality an- 
other child to assuage the family grief and fill 
the empty cradle. At a conference between the 
two officiating families, Mr. Tnrner not being 
able to care for his infant and motherless child 
as he would desire, decided t(j allow Mrs. Mad- 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



ison to take him with the understanding that 
she should raise liini to maturity as her own 
son. He fell heir to the new family name be- 
cause he heard no other and knew no other. Mr. 
Madison received a liberal English education 
from the piiblic schools of Cleveland. In 1864 
he offered his services to his country, joining 
Company B, One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio 
National Guards. Prior to this date he had 
been attached to a regiment of Ohio troops, but 
was ordered discharged because of his tender 
years. In the fall of 1864 Mr. Madison went 
south for the purpose of joining the Union army. 
He found it in Tennessee and met General 
Hazen at Murfrees borough and was made chief 
clerk in the department of subsistence. He was 
so connected with the army till January, 1866, 
when he was relieved at Nashville and returned 
again to Cleveland. 

On entering civil life again, Mr. Madison be- 
came an employee of the Lake Shore Railroad 
Company, and remained in the freight depart- 
ment seven years, retiring to accept a clerkship 
in the water-works. In this capacity he was 
found at his post through succeeding adn)inis- 
trations to 1890, when he was requested to ac- 
cept the position of Secretary of the department 
of Public "Works, which he did, and there re- 
mained till April, 1893. On the succession of 
Mr. Blee to the mayoralty, he offered Mr. Mad- 
ison the directorship of accounts, not out of a 
political necessity but for the single reason that 
he knew the duties of the department and was 
amply equipped for their performance. Mr. 
Madison is not identified with any political party, 
and because he served so long with the Republi- 
cans and has now been honored with a position 
in the mayor's cabinet, he is good-naturedly re- 
ferred to as " The Gresham of the cabinet." 

September 27, 1867, Mr. Madison married in 
Cleveland one of his schoolmates. Miss Marian 
Augusta Brewster, a direct descendant of Elder 
Brewster. Some of them settled in New York, 
in whicli State Mrs. Madison was born. Mr. 
and Mrs. Madison have the following children: 
Fannie Laura, the wife of E. L. Fisher, Vice 



President of the Fisher Lumber Company, of 
Cleveland; Charles Brewster, who died July 18, 
1893, and was buried on his twenty-third birth- 
day; Eva Marian, who died in 1883, aged seven 
years; and Wm. A. Madison, Jr., now aged six- 
teen years. 

Mr. Madison is a 82d -degree Mason, and is 
Treasurer of the Holy rood Comraandery, 
Knights Templar, No. 32. 



FJRED M. GIESSEN, soliciting agent of 
the Pennsylvania Railroad, was born in 
-^ Atwater, Ohio, November 17, 1858. His 
father, Fred Giessen, born in Bavaria, Germany, 
left his European home and came to Cleveland 
in 1854. He was an employee of the Lake 
Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad for about 
three years, when work became scarce and he 
drifted out to Portage county, and spent 
two or three years on a farm. On his return to 
Cleveland, soon after our subject's birth, he was 
employed by Wm. Taylor & Sons as a teamster 
and remained with them till his death, June 30, 
1893, being then sixty-two years old. Our sub- 
ject's mother was Appolonia Hoffman, born in 
Bavaria and yet living. Her children are: Fred 
M. ; Kate; F. A., salesman; Charles H., civil 
engineer; Daniel E., salesman, with W. H. 
Luetkemeyer & Sons; Wm. G., chief of the 
chemical laboratory of the West Minnesota 
Blast Furnace Company of West Duluth, Min- 
nesota; and Emma M. 

Fred M. Geissen was educated according to 
the custom of German parents, first in German 
schools and afterward a brief period in English 
public schools. At thirteen years of age he be- 
gan work for Lampson, Sessions & Co., in their 
nut and bolt works. He remained with this 
company about two years when he made a 
change in location, going with II. A. Stephens 
& Sons, proprietors of the Forest City Spice 
Mills. Three years later his career as a rail- 
road man began as a laborer. He soon demon- 
strated to liis company that he was worth more 



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tu them in other capacities, and as opporluuitles 
for promotion came he was ready for them and 
never found wanting. Four years ago he was 
given his present position, that of soliciting 
agent, a position re(|uiring peculiar fitness and 
adaptability. 

Mr. Giessen has been quite considerably in- 
terested in politics since he was twenty years of 
age. He allied himself with the Republican 
party and has been a faithful advocate of its 
principles since. In 1892 he was made the Re- 
publican candidate for the City Council, and al- 
though the district (the tenth) was Democratic 
by 700, he was elected by a majority of fifty- 
three votes. In the Council he is chairman of 
the committee on city property, a member of the 
committee on department examinations and of 
public works. He is attentive to his duties and 
is making a useful member 

June 18, 1890, Mr. Giessen married Anna E. 
Veith, from Meadville, Pa. Mr. Veith left 
Bavaria about the time that Fred Geissen did, 
located in Meadville and became a wholesale 
grocer and provision merchant. One child is 
tlie result of this union, Xorman Daniel, four- 
teen months old. 

Fraternally Mr. Giessen is a Knight of Pyth- 
ias and a member of the National Union. 



r J j F. TEETERS, a passenger conductor of 
tpil the Valley Railroad, was born near 
11 il Holmesville, Holmes county, Ohio, April 
■^ 22, 1861, a son of James W. Teeters, 

who was employed by the Pittsburg, Fort 
Wayne & Ciiicago Railroad for twenty-five 
years. He married Amanda Bell, and they had 
only one child. The wife and mother died in 
1887, at tiie age of forty-seven years. 

H. F., the subject of this sketch, received a 
common-school education at his native place. 
After reaching a sufficient age he secured the 
position of brakoman on the Cleveland, Akron & 
Columbus Railroad, between Hudson and Co- 
lumbus, and in tlie following year was promoted 



to conductor of the baggage and express train, 
remaining in that position four years. Mr. 
Teeters was next employed by tlie Pittsburg A; 
Western Railroad, spent three years with the 
Pittsburg & Lake Erie Road, and in 1888 be- 
came an employee of the Valley Railroad. Dur- 
ing the first three years he was employed as a 
freight conductor, and for the past two years has 
been in tiie passenger service. 

Mr. Teeters was married in Millersburg, 
Ohio, in August, 1885, to Minnie, a daugiiter 
of Robert Forbes. He was born in Holmes 
county, this State, in 1832, and is now proprie- 
tor of a meat market in Millersburg. He mar- 
ried Miss Angeles Cobb, born in 1848, and they 
have had six children. Mr. and Mrs. Teeters 
have one child, John D. F., born April 18, 1886. 
In his social relations Mr. Teeters is Assistant 
Chief of the O. R. C. 



|^T. REV. W. A. LEONARD, D. D., 

Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Dio- 
cese of Ohio, whose see city is Cleveland, 
was born in Southport, Fairfield county, 
Connecticut, on July 15, 1848. He acquired 
his education in Phillips Academy, Andover, 
Massachusetts, St. Stephen's College, Annandale, 
New York, and Berkley Divinity School, Mid- 
dletowu, Connecticut, supplemented by study 
and travel in Europe. Bishop Williams or- 
dained him a Deacon at Middletown, Connecti- 
cut, on May 31, 1871, and on July 21, of the 
following year, ordained him a priest at Stam- 
ford, Connecticut. In April, 1873, he married 
Miss Sarah L. Sullivan, in Brooklyn, New York. 
In 1872, he became rector of the Church of 
the Redeemer in Brooklyn, atid remained there 
nine years. In 1879, he received the degree of 
bachelor of divinity from St. Stephen's College. 
In 1880, he was elected by the General Con- 
vention of the Episcopal Church, missionary 
bishop of Washington, then a Territory, but de- 
clined the offer. His rectorship at Brooklyn 
continued until ISSl, when he became rector at 



CUYAUOOA COUNTY. 



St. John's Church at Washington, D. C. The 
free library of Brooklyn is one of the many 
ilonrishing monuments to his untiring efforts. 
The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred 
upon him in 1885, by Washington and Lee 
University, Virginia. In July, 1889, he was 
elected by the convention held at Trinity 
Church, Toledo, to succeed Bishop Bedell, and 
was consecrated Bishop of Ohio, at St. Thomas' 
Church, New York city, the following October. 
The development of this diocese under his man- 
agement has been remarkable, and yet it has 
been a steady, healthy growth, increasing from 
sixty-four clergymen in 1890 to one hundred 
in 1894, and from twelve missionary stations to 
forty- two. Over one tbonaand persons are con- 
tirmed by him every year. He is beloved for 
his open, attractive manner, high Christian 
character, and indefatigable energy. None can 
listen to his brilliant oratory and clioice vocabu- 
lary without being charmed. 



DAVID HORIGAN, a veteran engineer 
I of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & 
— St. Louis Railroad Company, was initi- 
ated into railroad service on the Illinois Central 
Railroad in 1853, being stationed at Dunleith, 
Illinois. For seven years he remained with that 
company and drew pay as a fireman. In 1860 
he returned to the Forest City which he had 
left on begiiming his western trip. Not finding 
employment just to his liking, he went into the 
copper regions of the North, and worked in the 
mines at Superior until the spring of 1861, then 
returning again to Cleveland. He turned his 
attention again to railroading, securing a freight 
brakeman's situation on the Cleveland, Cincin- 
nati & Chicago. In twenty months he began 
firing, and in 1865 was promoted to the position 
of engineer, since which time he has presided 
most creditably and steadily at the throttle, 
failing to respond with his signature to only 
two pay rolls in thirty-two years. 

Mr. Ilorigan was born in county Limerick, 
Ireland, March 9, 1835. In 1847 his father, 



David Horigan, brought his family to the new 
world, and established them in Cleveland and 
vicinity. Their first location was on a farm 
near Dover, where David, Jr., obtained his first 
lessons in industry. David Horigan, Sr., was 
born with the present century and died in this 
county, in 1865. He married Bridget Connors, 
and their children are: John, deceased; Peter, 
a resident of Marshalltown, Iowa; James, in 
Grand Rapids, Michigan; Catherine, wife of 
James Dempsey, of Berea, Ohio; and our 
subject. 

Young David received a rudimentary English 
education from the district schools, and at nine- 
teen deserted the parental roof without consent 
of his father, and sought his fortune in the West, 
where his first railroading began. 

Mr. Horigan met Miss Julia McCarty in 
Cleveland and they became husband and wife 
November 29, 1864. Her father was Patrick 
McCarty of county Tipperary, Ireland. Mrs. 
Horigan had one child, George, who is now 
twenty-nine years of age, and she died in 1892, 
aged fifty years. 

Mr. Horigan is one of the original supporters 
of the Big Four Insurance Company, and be- 
came a beneficiary on its organization. 



EORGE A. BENNETT, who has carried 
onablacksmithbusinessin Mayfield,Cuya- 
hoga county, Ohio, for more than a quar- 
ter of a century, is well known here, and 
as one of the worthy citizens of the place should 
have some personal mention in this work. A 
brief sketch of his life is herewith presented. 

George A. Bennett was born in Mayfield 
township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, April 1, 
1847. And before speaking further of him, we 
turn for a glimpse of his parentage. Jacob 
Bennett, his father, was one of the early settlers 
of this county. It is supposed that he was a 
native of New York, and while that is not cer- 
tain, it is known tlmt his father, Ahram Ben- 



CUYAHOOA aOUJSTY. 



nett, was of Dutcli descent. Jacob Bennett was 
a blacksmith by trade, and for many years liis 
brawny arm wielded tlie Iiamnier in Maytield. 
He died here March 30, 18G1. Re took a deep 
interest in local afl'airs, and iuid served as School 
Director and Constable. The motlier of our 
subject was by maiden name Mary I. Troin- 
ball. She was liorn in New York, and was 
eleven years old when she came with her parents 
to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, she being the young- 
est in a family of dve children. Her father was 
a native of Connecticut, and was by occupation 
a farmer. 

The subject of our sketcli is one of a family 
of five, three daughters and two sons, he being 
tlic older of the sons. He was reared on the 
farm on which he now lives, and his education 
was limited to that of the common schools. 
He was early trained to the trade which his 
father followed. Indeed, as soon as he was old 
enough to reach the anvil he began black- 
smithing. His fatlier'ti blacksmith shop was 
the first one in the town, and after his father's 
death he succeeded him in business. For a 
number of years he also manufactured wagons 
and buggies, until the larger manufactories 
took that line of work from him. Besides 
running the shop, he is also engaged to some 
extent in farming, owning and operating forty 
acres of land. 

Mr. Buiinett was married Novi^mber 20, ISOT, 
to Barbara A. Berg, who was born in Bavaria, 
Germany, October 19, ISiS, and who came 
with her parents to this country when she was 
four years old. Their passage across the ocean 
was made in a sail vessel in which there were 
1,300 passengers, their destination being reach- 
ed after a voyage of thirteen weeks. She was 
reared in Euclid township, this county. The 
names of Mr. and Mrs. Bennett's children are 
as follows: Carrie E., wife of Frank Leslie, of 
Euclid township; Alford A., who married Hat- 
tie J. Thorp, resides in this township; Berton 
O., who married Eva K. Lent/., is also a resi- 
dent of this township; Jacob C, at home; and 
Ida M., also at bom.'. 



Mr. Bennett is a stanch Republican. He has 
served as Treasurer of Mayfield township tif- 
tten years, and as Constal)le eight years. Fra- 
ternally, he is both a Mason and a Knight of 
Pythias, having his memberi-hip in these or- 
ganizations at Chagrin Falls. 



dj L. MERRICK, a Lake Shore & Michigan 
I Southern passenger conductor, was born on 
— Monroe street, in Cleveland, January 8, 
1840, passed his school days here, going through 
the West high school course as early as 185-4; 
went into the service of Captain S. L. Warner, 
master of a sailing vessel. He sailed on all the 
great lakes, and was two years on salt water, 
along the eastern shores of the Atlantic ocean 
and the Gulf of Mexico, trading out of Galves- 
ton, Texas, with South and Central American 
ports. The rupture between the North and the 
South made a Northern man's life hazardous in 
Southern cities, and in order to feel more secure 
and to be among his friends, Mr. Merrick came 
back to Cleveland and entered the Federal army 
as a private in Company C, Fifty-Fourth Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry. His company saw service 
in north and middle Tennessee, and was in the 
scrimmage incident to the capture of Fort Don- 
elson, was at Shiloh and at the siege of Knox- 
ville, where he was discharged from service, 
because of sickness. 

Mr. Merrick began his railroad career in 1860, 
on the Dayton & Michigan, now Cincinnati, 
Hamilton & Dayton Railroad, and remained 
there with some intermission until 1868, leav- 
ing the company as a passenger conductor. In 
1868 he engaged in the oil business as a mem- 
ber of the firm of Merrick Bros., refiners and 
manufacturers. This arrangement lasted four 
years. He then re-entered the railroad service, 
this time with his present company as freight 
conductor: since 1883 he has been in passenger 
service. 

Mr. Merrick is a son of A. W. Merrick, a 
builder, who came to Cleveland in 1834, from 



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Fort Carriiigton, Franklin county, New York. 
His birtli occurred near Plattsburg, Vermont, 
and he was a volunteersoldier in tlie great battle 
of Lake Cbamplain. He married Agnes Erwin 
and died in January, 1865, aged sixty-five years. 
His wife was born in county Arniagh, Ireland, 
and came to this country at fourteen years of 
age. She died in 1888, at the age of eighty- 
eight years. Her children were six in niimber, 
of whom three are now living, namely: Mrs. 
E. J. Clayton, of Brooklyn, Oiiio; Miss Frances 
E. Merrick and J. L. 

Our subject was married in Fremont, In- 
diana, February 17, 1867, to MissC. A. Beacli. 
Mr. ai;d Mrs. Merrick's ciiildren are: Ellsworth 
M., now in Montana; Ada, a graduate of the 
Cleveland liigh school; E. W., a high school 
graduate and employed by the Long Distance 
Telephone Company; F. E., Edith and L. E. 



JfENRY SCHUSTER, a citizen of Eock- 
port Hamlet, was born in Hanover, Ger- 
41 many, April 4, 1847. AVhen a lad of 
six years he came with his parents, 
Henry, Sr., and Leonora (Stockhouse) Schuster, 
to America, who settled in Ohio City, now the 
" West Side" of Cleveland. Here the husband 
and father died in 1861; the mother is still 
living. 

Of a family of five children Henry was the 
second. He was reared to manhood on the West 
Side. In 1877 he entered the employ of Bons- 
field & Poole and began to work in their pail 
factory. Later he went to Bay City, Michigan, 
and was engaged in the same employment for 
seven years, when he returned to Cuyahoga 
county and purchased the farm of seventeen 
acres where he now resides, and on wiiich he has 
erected good buildings. He devotes his time 
and attention to general farming and to garden- 
ing. 

Mr. Schuster was married in Cleveland, Oliio, 
to Miss Kate Giest, who died in Bay City, Mich- 
ii;an. She was the mother of four children, — 



Kate, wife of John Loeblin; Earnest, George, 
Nora and Maud. Mr. Schuster was again mar- 
ried in Rockport Hamlet, April 8, 1886, to Miss 
Louisa Weber, a native of Cleveland, and they 
have one child, — Charles. 

Mr. and Mrs. Schuster are members of the 
First German Reformed Church of Cleveland. 
In politics Mr. Schuster is a Republican. 



dj AMES H. GATES, Postmaster of Maytield, 
Cuyahoga county, Ohio, was born at Gates' 
^ ' Mills, this county, January 17, 1841. His 
father, Charles Gates, a native of Onondaga 
county, New York, came to Cuyahoga county, 
Ohio, in 1836, and located in Maytield town- 
ship at what is now Gates' Mills. He was a 
tailor by trade, and followed his trade there 
until 1846, when he turned his attention to 
farming, and in farming he was engaged the 
rest of his life. He died in the fifty- ninth year 
of his age. Charles Gates was a son of James 
Gates, who was a native of New York and a 
descendant of Scotch ancestry. Three brothers 
by the name of Gates emigrated from Scotland 
to America at an early day, and from one of 
them the subject of our sketch is descended. 
The mother of James H. Gates was before her 
marriage Miss Celia Rathborn, and she, too, 
was a native of New York. It is supposed that 
her ancestors also came from Scotland. She is 
still living, having passed her three score years 
and ten. They had a fatnily of five children, 
two sons and three daughters, of whom the sub- 
ject of our sketch is the oldest. 

James H. Gates was reared in his native 
township, remaining at home until he reached 
his majority and receiving the benefit of good 
educational advantages. After he had completed 
his studies in the common schools he was for 
five terms a student in the State Road Academy. 
He taught school in Orange township, this 
county, four winters. Then until 1881 he was 
engaged in general farming, and that year 
turned his atlcntiou to the merchandise biisi- 



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ness, in which he has since been engaged, hav- 
ing been at his present location since 1890. 
From 1890 until 1892 he served as deputy in 
the postoffice, and since 1892 has been Post- 
master, serving most efKcieiitly and to the entire 
satisfaction of all concerned. 

Mr. Gates was married January 1, 1873, to 
Rosa M. Siiephard, a native of Cuyahoga county, 
Oiiio, and a daughter of Ira and Rhoda Shep- 
liard, who were early settlers of this county, 
having located here in 1831. Mr. and Mrs 
Gates have five children, one daugliter and four 
sons: Rhoda M., Charlie E., Arthur S., Birten 
J. and Uanna S. 

Politically, Mr. Gates is identified with the 
Democratic party. He has filled various town- 
ship offices, and in all the public positions to 
whicii he has been called he has discharged his 
duty faithfully. Mr. Gates is a member of the 
A. F. ic A. M., No. 214, at Chagrin Falls. 



fjOHN W. LAN DPH AIR.— Among the 
J^ I' prominent agriculturists of Middleburg 
^^ township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, who 
are deserving of honorable mention in this con- 
nection, stands Mr. Landphair, who is a sue-, 
cessful and substantial farmer in that locality. 
He was born in Brooklield, Madison county, 
New York, September 8, 1828, but the major 
portion of his life has been passed in Cuyahoga 
county, Ohio. He was the second in order of 
the five children born to Alfred and Eliza, nee 
Jordan, Landphair, wiio left their home in the 
old Empire State in 1831 and betook themselves 
with their family to what was then the far 
AVest, settling in Rockport township, Cuyahoga 
county, Ohio, where they passed the residue of 
their lives, honored and esteemed by all. 

Coining to Rockport township when only 
three years of age, our subject was there reared 
to manhood, receiving a good common-school 
education and thereafter devoting himself to 
farming, and incidentally to the manufacturing 
of brooms and of wooden measures of all 
capacities. 



On New Year's day, 1S54, he was united in 
marriage to Miss Mary E. Burrington, daughter 
of the late Jefferson Burrington, who died in 
Strongsville township, in the year 1889. Mrs. 
Landphair was born in Truxton, Cortland 
county. New York, March 13, 1837, and her 
marriage to Mr. Landphair was celebrated in 
Middleburg township, Cuyahoga county. They 
liave had four children, namely: Charles B., 
who died at the age of si.\ years; Frank E.; 
Alta M., who is the wife of Charles E. Hatch; 
and Alma E., the wife of Jacob L. Beider. 

After his marriage Mr. Landphair continued 
his residence in Rockport township for a period 
of three years and then removed to Middleburg 
township, wliere he has since been actively and 
successfully engaged in the cultivation of his 
tine farm of ninety-one acres, two-thirds of 
which is thoroughly improved. The family 
homestead is a spacious and substantial brick 
domicile of pleasing architectural design, — 
a place that gives the unmistakable impression 
of a home, and not a mere abiding place. 

Mr. Landphair has maintained a lively in- 
terest in local affairs of a public and semi-public 
nature, has made it his aim to advance in every 
possible way the interests and prosperity of the 
community in which he lives, and has been an 
active and progressive citizen. He has been 
called to numerous local preferments of trust, 
among which it may be noted that he has been 
a most etiicient incumbent as Trustee of the 
township. 



rRIEDRICH GEISS has been engaged in 
farming in Parma township, Cuyahoga 
county, Ohio, since he settled here in 
1868, and is classed with the successful farmers 
of his community. He owns eighty-three acres 
of tine land, upon which he has erected good 
buildings, and which he has otherwise improved. 
Mr. Geiss dates his birth in Hesse- Darmstadt, 
Germany. January 10, 1834. He remained in 
liis native land until 1852, when he severed 



CUrAnO'lA COUNTY 



IiDine ties and turned his face westward, after a 
successful voyage touched American soil at 
New York city. From there he caine to Ohio. 
After spending one year in Marshallville, Wayne 
county, he removed to Stark county, and there 
he resided until 1868. He had learned the mill- 
er's trade in Germany, and after his arrival in 
America worked at that trade one year. Then 
he turned his attention to the jeweler's trade, 
which he learned and which he followed until 
he settled down to farming in Parma township 
in the fall of 1868. 

While a resident of Stark county, Mr. Geiss 
was married in Cleveland, Ohio, July 3, 1863, to 
Elizabeth Meyer, also a native of Germany, her 
birth having occurred in Baden, May 26, 1839, 
and the date of her arrival in America being 
1S.52. After their marriage they settled in 
Fulton, Stark county, where, as above stated, 
they continued to reside until 1868. They 
have four children: Louis H., Charles E., Fred- 
erick J. and Christian A. Their oldest son 
married Miss Anna Boyer. 

In local affairs Mr. Geiss has taken an active 
part, having served as Township Trustee and 
School Director for several years. Both he and 
his wife are members of the German Presby- 
terian Church. 



fff/ON. THEODORE BRECK, the most 
p^l prominent citizen of Brecksviile town- 
Jl 4i ship, is a descendant of New England 
^ Puritan stock. Some of his ancestors 

were prominently identified with the early his- 
tory of Massachusetts. His fatlier, John Breck, 
was a native of Northampton, Massachusetts, 
and in company with his brothers was engaged 
in l)Oston in the importation of iron. He 
served in the war of 1812, being a portion of 
the time in com.mand of forces stationed at 
Fort Independence, Boston harbor. He was 
one of tl'o, original purchasers of the Western 
Reserve tract from the State of Connecticut, 
and upon its division amone several owners he 



was allotted parts of townships in various 
counties. In the township named after him he 
originally held deeds for half of its territory. 
He died in 1827. His wife, whose name be- 
fore marriage was Clarissa Allen, died in 1831. 
She was the daughter of Rev. Thomas i\llen, 
the first settled minister of Pittsfield, Massa- 
chusetts, who was a man of deep religious prin- 
ciples and was very patriotic during the 
Revolutionary war. When General Burgoyne, 
for instance, was marching forward on his cam- 
paign of invasion, Mr. Allen heard of his ap- 
proach during Sunday service, and he promptly 
left the pulpit to form a company of minute 
men, who hastened to the support of tlie Conti- 
nental forces. His son, AVilliam R., was 
president of Bowdoin and Dart-nouth Colleges 
during the early part of the present century. 
Rev. Thomas Allen's wife, nee Elizabeth Lee, 
was the daughter of Rev. Jonathan Lee, the 
first settled pastor of Salisbury, Massachusetts. 
Tracing back further, it is conclusively shown 
that Mr. Breck is a lineal descendant of Gover- 
nor Bradford, one of Massachusetts' early co- 
lonial governors. 

John and Clarissa (Allen) Breck had sis 
children, of whom the subject of this sketch 
was the third son and child. He was born in 
Northampton, in the Bay State, November 30, 
1888, took an academic course at Hadley and 
Amherst, in his native State, and after his 
father's death came West, in company with his 
two brothers, Edward and John, and looked after 
the extensive interests left by his parents. He 
located at Brecksviile in 1830, and engaged in 
agricultural pursuits, and also in mercantile 
trade. Later he became also a Notary Public. 
His brothers also finally located in Brecksviile. 
The elder engaged in the practice of medicine, 
and the younger in farming; both are now 
deceased. 

Mr. Breck, whose name introduces this sketch, 
was originally a Whig, and has been a steadfast 
Republican ever since the organization of that 
]!arty. He is zealous and able in the advocacy 
of his political principles From 1843 to 1846 



CUTAUOOA C()UNTY. 



he was County Coiniiiissioiier, and in 1875 was 
appointed to till a vacancy in the same board. 
From 1846 to 1848 he represented his district 
ill the House of Representatives of the Ohio 
Legislature, and from 1860 to 1861 he repre- 
sented it in the Senate, and again in 1876-'77, 
in the General Assembly. In his official duties 
he gave entire satisfaction and gained the respect 
of the people irrespective of party. In his 
official career he has been associated witb James 
A. Gartieldi George B. McClellan and many 
otiier noted men. As examples of his shrewd 
judgement of human nature, we learn from the 
Cleveland Leader of December 19, 1893, that a 
reporter sent out by tliat paper, interviewed Mr. 
Breck at his home during the session of the 
Ohio Senate in 1860. His opinion of Gartield 
was to the effect that he was a rising young man, 
and one of the most promising members of the 
Ohio Senate; and of McClellan he said that 
while he was a brilliant man he was born one 
day too late. 

Mr. Breck is a very generous man. No man 
in the township, even to this day is so much 
besieged by representatives of local benevolent 
and religious institutions, to all of which he 
liljerally contrilnites, although he is not a mem- 
ber of any church himself. He is rightfully 
called the father of Brecksville. By his many 
acts of kindness he has erected a monument that 
will long endure, and be far more highly revered 
than any column of elaborately decorated niar- 
lile. Mr. Breck has never been married. 



GF. DeKLYN, an artist, was born in 
Tarrytown, Westchester county, New 
York, January 10, 1865, a son of John 
F. and Charlotte M. (Barton) DeKlyn, natives 
of New York city. They now reside in Cleve- 
land, aged fifty-three and fifty-four years, re 
spectively. The father is a confectioner and 
caterer. The mother is of English and French 
extraction. Mr. and Mrs. DeKlyn had eight 
children, six now living, all in Cleveland, as 
follows: John (engaged in business with his 



father), Charlotte, Lydia, C. F., Ella (now Mrs. 
I. R. Hughes, of Cleveland), and Floyd. 

C. F., the subject of this sketch, completed 
an academic course in Tarrytown, in one of the 
oldest schools in that part of the State. In 1882 
he came with his parents to Cleveland. In 
1886 he went to Paris, where he spent four 
years, and also spent some time in England, 
Scotland and Ireland, studying in the art 
schools. Among liis noted masters were: 
Boulaner, Lefevre, Carmon and Mercier. Dur- 
ing his stay in Paris he was an annual exhibitor 
to the Paris salon, where he received several 
distinctions. He received the highest number 
obtained in the Julien school; was placed in 
one of the most favorable positions allowed to 
exhibitors in the salon; and has several pictures 
in the extreme part of the globe, viz. : Japan, 
Scotland, Ireland, England, Franco, San Fran- 
cisco and New York city. Mr. DeKlyn had 
an interesting episode in France. He was ar- 
rested as a spy, and detained in the county jail 
a few hours. But upon producing the cre- 
dentials, which he did not happen to have at 
the time of arrest, he was released. It was at 
the time of the mobilization of the French 
army, which takes place in older to drill tlie 
men, and, being a much larger man than tlie 
average French soldier, liis size arrested atten- 
tion and he was accosted by the French police. 
In the prison was a miniature guillotine, to 
which the Frenchman pointed witli a significant 
nod and gesture, while he uttered something in 
French to add terror to the lone American. Mr. 
DeKlyn was released on condition he should 
never return to that town, Quiinperle, again, 
but the promise he did not lind necessary to 
keep. He returned to America in 1891, where 
he has since continued his profession. In due 
time he expects to return and reside in Paris. 
He has his salon picture of 1888, now in the 
possession of Charles Shackelton, of Cleveland, 
which created favorable comment in the Paris 
papers. Mr. DeKlyn has also several other 
pictures in the possession of Cleveland parties. 
Hi.-; studio is located at 1244EiicIiil avenue. 



CUyAHOUA CnUNTY. 



lie was married October 4, 1893, to Miss 
Lillian B. Turner, a daughter of John and 
Annie Turner, of Bridgeport, Ohio. The father 
came from England to America about thirty- 
live years ago. He is one of the Councilmen 
of his town, and is well and favorably known. 
Mr. DeKlyn is a member of the Baptist and 
his wife a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. Politically, he votes with the Republi- 
can party. He is an interesting, thoroughgoing 
and public- spirited citizen, as well as a distin- 
guished artist, in whom the great city he repre- 
sents may in be a just and commendable pride. 



ffJ/ERBERT S. GRAY, electrical manu- 
fH| facturer of Cleveland, is a native of this 
11 41 city, born January 17, 1865. His father 
' is Hugh Gray, a machinist and foundry- 

man. He was once in the employ of the Ori- 
noco Steam Navigation Company, being in 
chai-ge of their boats upon the rivers and bays 
of Venezula, South America, for six years, at 
the close of which period he came north and lo- 
cated in Cleveland, about 1860. In 1861 he 
married Miss Candaee Wright. In Cleveland 
he first engaged in the machine building, 
foundry and boiler business, owning and oper- 
ating one of the largest machine shops in the 
city at that time. Later he became chief en- 
gineer of the Lake Erie Iron Company, which 
position he still holds. He is an expert machin- 
ist. He and his wife are members of the Dis- 
ciple Church. 

Their son, whose name introduces this per- 
sonal sketch, was educated here in Cleveland, 
and at the age of eighteen years entered the em- 
ploy of Sterling & Company, carpet dealers, of 
this city. In 1886 he became engaged in music 
and job printing for himself, in this line be- 
coming one of the most prominent dealers and 
job printers west of Philadelphia. In 1889 he 
sold out ihis business to the Eclipse Electric 
Type & Engraving Company, and took a half 
interest in the Fletcher A Fletcher Electric 



Company. Two years later he bought the in- 
terest of his partner, becoming sole proprietor. 
In November of 1891 he admitted Ira Adams 
as a partner for two years, at the expiration of 
which time he was succeeded by J. H. Monroe. 
The business of the concern has been of stu- 
pendous volume and signal success. 

Mr. Gray is not only an active and successful 
business man but also manifests much interest 
in public affairs. In politics he is a Republi- 
can, and he has done much work in the interest 
of his party. He has been a delegate to several 
of the State conventions, as well as to the local 
conventions, but he has never aspired to public 
office. He is a member of the fraternal order 
of Knights of Pythias and of the order of Tonti, 
belongs to the Cleveland Grays, and is promin- 
ent in social circles. 



J JOHN W. CLEMANS, who is ranked with 
I the prosperous farmers of Dover town. 
-^ ship, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, is entitled 
to biographical mention in this work. 

Mr. Clemaus was born in Charlton, Massa- 
chusetts, May 19, 1817, oldest son in the family 
of six children of Eli and Matilda (Owen) 
Clemans, natives of Charlton, Massachusetts, and 
Gloucester, Rhode Island, respectively. The 
former was born in the year 1792. They were 
married in Rhode Island, and from that State 
subsequently removed to Cuyahoga, county, 
Ohio, their settlement here being in 1830. 
Here the father died in 1863. The mother sur- 
vived him until sometime in the '80s, when she 
passed away at the age of over ninety. 

John W. Clemans was thirteen years of age at 
the time his parents came to Cuyahoga county, 
and in Dover township he has ever since resided, 
farming and lumbering being his occupations 
during all these years. He owns 230 acres of 
well-improved land. 

Mr. Clemans was married in Dover township, 
February 14, 1851, to Miss Mary W. Brown, 
who was born in Sniithlield, Rho.lc Island, 



UUYAUOGA COVNTT. 



June 16, 1822, daugliter of Joseph and Mary 
W. (Winsor) Brown, both natives of Siaithlield, 
Rhode Island. They emigrated from that State 
to tiiis county in 1830 and settled in Dover 
township. Here they spent the closing years 
of their lives, and passed away some years ago. 
They had eleven children, of whom Mrs. Clem- 
aiis was tlie seventh born. Mr. and Mrs. Cleni- 
ans are the parents of four children; Henry A., 
Emma A., Celia O. and William E. Celia O. 
is a praticing physician of Canton, Ohio. 

Mr. Clemaus' political views are in harmony 
with the principles advocated by the Republi- 
can party, he having cast his vote witli this par- 
ty ever since its organization. 



^JLLIAM THOMAS, one of the pros- 
f/\/ pei'ous and well-known citizens of 
^ Warrenville township, Cuyahoga coun- 
ty, Ohio, dates his birth in this township, Jan- 
uary 17, 1S39. 

Joseph Thomas, the father of William Thomas, 
was one of the early settlers of Cuyahoga 
county, he having located here in 1824. lie 
was a native of Massachusetts, but had lived in 
New York for some time previous to his coming 
to Ohio, and while in the Empire State had 
married Lydia Smartey.a native of New York. 
Upon their arrival in this county they estab- 
lished their home in a log cabin in the midst of 
the forest, and on tiie farm they spent the rest 
of tiieir lives, each attaining a ripe old age, his 
death occurring at the age of eighty-two and 
hers at ninety. By trade he was a carpenter. 
Politically, he was a Republican. Their family 
consisted of six children: Catlierine Wether- 
bee, of Newburg, Ohio; Jemima Edwards- 
Hester; Jane Aim; Charles; and William, the 
youngest, his mother being fifty years old at the 
time of his birth. 

William Thomas was reared at the old home- 
stead, the same farm on which he now lives, his 
education being received in one of the typical 
log schoolhouses of tlie day, ari<l in tiie practi 



cal sciiool of experience. He now owns 102 
acres of tine farming land, one of the best 
farms in the township, well improved with good 
buildings, etc. 

July 16, 1859, Mr. Thomas was married in 
Bedford, Ohio, to Miss Mary Caly, a native of 
Concord, Lake county, this State, daughter of 
John and Jane (Hampton) Caly, natives of the 
Isle of Man. Her mother died at the age of 
forty-two years and her father at seventy-nine. 
They had a family of eight children, namely: 
John, Hamilton, William, Daniel, Thomas, 
Charles, Robert and Mary. Mr. and Mrs. 
Thomas have had four children, viz.: Charles J., 
of Cleveland, Ohio; Frank W., at home; Maria, 
deceased wife of B. Bleasdale; and Nelly, who 
died at the age of seven years. 

During the late war Mr. Thonjas enlisted in 
the Union service, and as a member of the 
One Hundred and Third Ohio Infantry made a 
good record as a soldier. He is a member of 
Royal Dunham Post, No. 177, G. A. R., of 
Bedford. Politically, he is a Republican. 



EUBEN A. CARPENTER, a resident 
^ of Strongsville township, Cuyahoga 
^ county, Ohio, was born iy the township 
in which he now lives, June 10, 1828, a 
son of early pioneers on the Western Reserve. 
His father, Caleb Carpenter, was born in Brat- 
tleboro, Vermont, April 30, 1798, and his moth- 
er, whose maiden name was Susan Haynes, was 
born in Massachusetts, January 4, 1801. They 
came to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, about 1818, 
and it was here that they subsequently met and 
married, their marriage occurring in Strongs- 
ville township. They settled on a farm a short 
distance east of Strongsville Center, where they 
reared their family, spent the rest of their lives 
and died, the date of her death being October 
10, 1847, and that of his, January 20, 1873. 
They had a family of nine children, of wiiom 
Reuben was the lliird born. 



CUT AGORA COUNTY. 



Witli tlie exception of two years, the subject 
of oiir sketch lias spent his whole life in Strougs- 
ville township. One year he lived in AVisconsin 
and one year in Cleveland. Farming has been 
his life occupation. His political affiliations 
have been with the Kepublican party, he has 
taken an active and commendable interest in all 
local affairs, and has filled most acceptably sev- 
eral official positions. For six years he served 
as Township Trustee, and was a Justice of the 
Peace for tliree yeai's. 

Mr. Carpenter was married in Brunswick, 
Medina county, Ohio, October 11, 1849, to Miss 
Matilda S. Umber, who was born in Peru, New 
York, April 6, 1831. Her parents, William 
and Betsey (Knowles) Umber, both natives of 
New York, came to Cuyahoga county in 181:0 
and settled in Strongville township. They 
subsequently removed to Columbia, Lorain 
county, thence to Berea, Ohio, and from there 
to Jackson, Michigan, where Mrs. Umber died. 
Mr. Umber died in Strongsville, Ohio. Mr. 
and Mrs. Carpenter have had six children, viz.: 
Alden V., William L., Eva M., wife of William 
Triming; Edmond K., who died at the age of 
eight years; Alviu M., and Frederick A. 



EiENST F. WALKER, a thrifty farmer 
and niucli respected citizen of Dover 
1 township, Cuyahofija county, Ohio, is a 

native of the province of Hanover, Germany, 
born April 19, 1837. The first seventeen years 
of his life were spent in his native land, and 
then, in company with his parents and the 
other members of the family, he emigrated to 
America. His father was Jobst F. Walker, and 
liis mother's maiden name was Gertrude Schom- 
boror. Upon coming to this country, they first 
settled at West Side, a suburb of Cleveland, 
Ohio, and from there in 1870 they removed to 
Dover township, where they passed the residue 
of their lives. They had six children, three 
sons and three daughters, the subject of our 
sketch being the third born. 



Ernst F. Walker remained with his parents 
until the time of his marriage. He had served 
an apprenticeship of three years to the trade of 
mason, and for a number of years worked at 
that trade in Cleveland. In 1864 he removed 
to Dover township and settled on a farm of 
seventy-five acres. This farm he still owns and 
occupies. He has here erected good buildings 
and has otherwise made valuable improvements, 
his home and surroundings having a general 
air of thrift and prosperity. 

Mr. Walker was married in West Side, 
Cleveland, February 2, 1860, to Miss Maria 
Boehning, who was born in Hanover, Germany, 
February 16, 1842, daughter of Herman and 
Ellen (Blase) Boehning. Her parents emi- 
grated to America in 1844, and upon their ar- 
rival here settled in Newburg township, where 
they lived till death. They had a family of 
nine children, five sons and four daughters, 
Mrs. Walker being the youngest of the family. 
She was reared in Newburg township, on her 
father's farm. Mr. and Mrs. Walker are the 
parents of eight children, viz.: Minnie, wile of 
Frank Meilander; Emma, wife of August Lamp; 
Hermann, who married Emma Farthmann; 
and the rest at home — Louisa, Frederick, Henry, 
Christian and Otto. 

Both Mr. Walker and his wife are members 
of the Lutheran Church. He has filled the 
office of Township Trustee one term. 



CHARLES HATHAWAY, the veteran 
street railway man and a most familiar 
figure of Cleveland, and born at Grafton, 
Massachusetts, November 7, 1824. He was a 
farmer's son and his youthful days were spent 
on a well-regulated New England farm. After 
completing his education at Worcester College 
he became an apprentice in the locomotive 
works of Seth Wilwoth in Boston, to learn his 
trade. When he had become an efficient me- 
chanic he set about learning civil engineering 



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for the purpose of better equipping himself for 
tiie business of railroad contracting, which he 
expected to engage in. 

His tirst railroad contract was taken in 1844 
and for thirteen consecutive years he followed 
eteam-raib-oad construction in Pennsylvania, 
Delaware and the New England States, parts of 
the Pennsylvania, Boston & Albany, Old Col- 
ony, Troy & Boston and Hudson Kiver lines 
being constructed by him. 

In 1857 Mr. Hathaway turned hii attention 
to street-railway building, his first line being 
put in in Philadelphia. For thirty years suc- 
ceeding this he remained in constant activity, 
building more than 100 different lines in Can- 
ada and the United States, covering territory as 
far north as Minneapolis, and south to New Or- 
leans, Louisiana. In 1860 he was associated 
with George Francis Train in constructing three 
lines of street railway in England, — in the cities 
of Loudon, Burton Head and Darlington. 

In 1873 Mr. Hathaway came to Cleveland 
and built the Broadway and Newburg line and 
was interested in the construction of the Payne 
avenue and Superior street lines. Of the last 
mentioned line he was president fifteen years. 
In 1884 he bought the St. Clair street line and 
operated it till its consolidation with the cable 
company, of which consolidation lie was presi- 
dent. 

He is now a director of the Cleveland City 
Railway and is giving attention to this interest 
and that of his real-estate in this city. He is 
fond of innocent amusements, like ball-playing, 
hunting and fishing, and is an active member of 
two gun clubs, a fishing club and the social 
clubs. Union and Roadside. 

This Hathaway family is directly descended 
from that Hathaway of Stratford-on-Avon a 
daughter of whom married the poet Shakespeare. 
A representative of it came to America during 
colonial times, were farmers and noted for their 
longevity. Our subject's grandfather, Solomon 
Hathaway, reared a family of children, one of 
whom, Solomon, married l.uoy, a daughter of 
Aaron Kimball, a suldier in the Revolution 



and a participant in the battle of Bennington 
under command of Colonel Stark. Aaron Kim- 
ball married a Miss Brooks. 

Ten children were born to Solomon and Mrs. 
Hathaway, Charles being the si.xth. He mar- 
ried, in Massachusetts, in 1847, Maria, a daughter 
of David Chamberlain, who with his wife was 
a missionary to the Sandwich Islands. 

Mr. and Mrs. Hathaway have four children: 
Charles A., of Cleveland; George; Sarah L., 
wife of F. DeH. Robison, vice-president of the 
Cleveland City Railway Company, and presi- 
dent of the Cleveland Base Ball Club (and 
probably connected with a score of enterprises 
of this city): and Alfred, engaged in manufact- 
uring in this city. 



EJ. WUNDERLICH, a phyisician and 
surgeon of Cleveland, was born at Canal 
1 Dover, Ohio, April 5, 1854, a son of Rev. 

E. F. and Amelia (Meisshardt) Wunderlich, na- 
tives of Sa.xony, Germany. They came to 
America in 1853, locating at Canal Dover. The 
father, one of the pioneer ministers in the Ger- 
man Methodist Episcopal Church in America, 
has followed his calling at Canal Dover, Cincin- 
nati, Covington, Wheeling, Toledo, Chicago, 
Detroit, Portsmouth, Allegheny, and for the 
past forty-three years has been stationed at 
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Mr. Wunderlich was 
converted in this country, and returned to Sax- 
ony, to preach. At that time Methodism had 
not been introduced in Saxony, and wliile 
preaching he was several times arrested and 
taken outside the corporation. A large crowd 
would follow, and when released Mr. Wun- 
derlich would preach to his followers. He be- 
came a popular minister, was earnest and en- 
thusiastic in his work, and has written a book 
on his trials in Sa.xony. He has now reached 
the age of sixty-four years, and his wife is six- 
ty-two years of age. They have four sons and 
two daughters, all living. 

E. J. Wunderlicli, the eldest child in order 
of birth, received his literary education at Burea, 



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ill the Baldwin University and the German 
AVallaee College. He graduated at the Detroit 
Medical College in the class of 1874, and at the 
Cleveland Homeopathic College, in the class of 
1882. Dr. Wniiderlich began the practice of 
his profession at Wheeling, West Yirginia, in 
1875, remaining there until 1881, and since 
that time has been one of the leading jihjsicians 
and surgeons of Canal Dover. He is Medical 
Examiner for the Masonic order, the I. O. O. 
F., the H. G., Protected Home Circle, New 
York Home Life, and is a member of the Round 
Table Club nnd the Ohio State Homeopathic 
Medical Society. 

Mr. Wunderlich was married in 1877, to Miss 
Louisa Faubel, a daughter of George Faubel, 
of Wheeling. To this union has been born three 
children: Archie, born November 17, 1879; 
Edmond, who died of diphtheria in 1890, at 
the age of six years; and Anna, now three years 
of age. Mr. Wunderlich is identified with the 
Republican party, and both he and his wife are 
members of the German Methodist Episcopal 
Church. Our subject is a worthy and respected 
citizen, as well as an experienced practitioner, 
and has built up a large and lucrative patronage. 



GJ. CRONIN, conductor on the Cleveland, 
Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad, 
was born in Delaware county, Ohio, Oc- 
tober 6, 1865, a son of Cornelius Cronin, a na- 
tive of the Isle of Eviris, Ireland. He emi- 
grated to America, locating in Delaware county, 
Ohio, when the Bee Line was in course of con- 
struction, and secured employment on that road. 
Mr. Cronin was married in his native country, 
to Ellen Lonohon, and they had two children, 
C. J. and Mary. The parents are still residents 
of Delaware, this State, aged respectirely seven- 
ty five and years. 

C. J. Cronin secured only such opportunities 
as are ordinarily extended to sons of laboring 
men, and especially those of foreign-born pa- 
rents, who seek the United States for greater 



freedom from the burden of taxation and for a 
more just remuneration for the toil necessary 
to a mere existence. He became acquainted 
with work in his tender years, having operated 
a stationary engine in his early 'teens, and also 
drove a hack from a Delaware livery firm. 
July 4, 1880, Mr. Cronin came to the Forest 
City, where he secured the position of brakenian 
on the Big Four Railroad, serving in that ca- 
pacity eight years. Since that time he has been 
engaged as a through freight conductor. 

Mr. Cronin was married December 17, 1891, 
to Miss Lucy Magiunie. They have one cliild, 
Mary, born in October, 1893. In his social re- 
lations, Mr. Cronin is a member of the O. R. C. 



CLAUS, a furniture manufacturer of 
,, Cleveland, was born in Brookhausen, 
^ Prussia, in January, 1857. He learned 

cabinet-making from his father, Henry 
Clans, who was a manufacturer of prominence 
in his native city. In accordance with a desire 
to join his brothers and sisters in the United 
States, and to avoid the three years of military 
duty devolving on German subjects on becom- 
ing eighteen years of age, our subject left Ger- 
many in company with his father and the re- 
maining members of the family, and reached 
Cleveland without delay* He secured employ- 
ment with Claus & Bush on Pearl street, and 
was with them about four years. J. Herig & 
Son were his next employers for a period of 
three years. Burl, Case & Company secured 
his services the next two years, and he was in 
the employ of the Singer Sowing Machine Com- 
pany the succeeding two years. He subse- 
quently became a partner in the West Side 
Furniture Company, on Orchard street, and six 
years later established himself at 629 Seneca 
street. He is in company with Mr. Quelles, and 
the value of the plant will reach $10,000. The 
business has increased one-third since its organ- 
ization, and the men employed will average 
twenty. When Mr. Clans came to Cleveland 



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lie was in debt. For a time ou his first arrival 
lie worked for liis board and clothes. His en- 
ergy put him on his feet in a few years and now 
ho is building up a profitable business. Henry 
Clans is the father of ten children, only six of 
whom are now living; Henry; Frederick; John 
A.; Eleanor, wit'eof Henry Kichter, of La Porte, 
Indiana, and Mary, married and living in Ger- 
many. Mr. Claus married in Cleveland, in 
1881, Miss Ellen Geralin. Their children are: 
Arthur, August, Otto, Loesa, Lydia and Clara. 



VALTEK J. HAMILTON, sou of Hon. 
E. T. Hamilton, of whom mention is 
made elsewhere within these pages, was 
born in Cleveland, April 14, 1865. His early 
education was received in the schools of Cleve- 
land. He then attended the University of Micii- 
igan, where he graduated in 1888, receiving 
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. He after 
ward attended Cornell College, of New York, 
from which institution he graduated in 1890, 
receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws and 
Ph. M. Keturning to Cleveland he was ad- 
mitted to the Ohio Bar in October, 1890, and 
in February, 1891, astociated himself with W. 
C. Ong, under the firm name of Ong & Ham- 
ilton, which firm has since gained a large and 
general practice of law. Mr. Hamilton was 
married in 1891 to Miss Jennie M. Adams, 
daughter of Edgar Adams, Esq., of Cleveland, 
Ohio. 



EV. JOHN H. WEFEL, who is pastor 
j;^ of the St. Peter's Chapel of the Evan- 
I ^ gelieal Lutheran Church in Cleveland, 
V was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Sep- 

tember 24, 1862. His parents were Jolm and 
Minnie (Kleinsorge) Wefel, natives of Germany. 
These parents were married in the United States 
and settled in Fort Wayne, where they became 
respected and well-known citizens. The father 
died in 1876 at the age of sixty one years, while 



the mother, who yet lives at Fort Wayne, is now 
past her seventieth year. Both parents became 
in early life members of the Evangelical Lu- 
theran Church, in which they were from the 
beginning zealous members. 

The subject of this sketch is the fifth of a 
family of seven children, four of whom mari-ied, 
and are now living in Fort Wayne. One child 
is a citizen of Nebraska and one a citizen of 
Kansas. Louisa, the first, is the wife of Chris- 
tian Culp, Esq., of Fort Wayne, Indiana; Henry 
is a resident of Nebraska; William married Tillie 
Steinker and resides at Fort Wayne; Helena 
married William Fritze, Esq., of Strong City, 
Kansas; John H. is the subject of this sketch; 
Martin Wefel married a Miss Weller, and is a 
resident of Fort Wayne, Indiana, where also re- 
sides the seventh child, Caroline, who was 
wedded by August Pt-ningroth. 

At Concordia College, Fort Wayne, Rev. 
Wefel received his literary education. His 
theological education was received at the Con- 
cordia Theological Seminary at St. Louis, Mis- 
souri, where he graduated in the class of 1883. 
Immediately afterward he became pastor of a 
church at Pomeroy, Ohio, where he remained 
for about three and a half years. In 1887 he 
came to Cleveland, becoming pastor of St. 
Peter's Chapel, where the congregation then 
consisted of 150 communicants and the parochial 
school was attended by fifty pupils. Four hun- 
dred and fifty communicants now constitute the 
congregation and 130 pupils attend the paro- 
chial school, and are taught by one female and 
two male teachers. 

Rev. Wefel is Secretary of the Middle District 
of The Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other 
States, and has held this position for the last 
three years. The Middle District comprises 
Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky. 

May 19, 1885, Rev. Wel'el married Miss 
Elizabeth Anna Renter, daughter of Valentine 
Renter, of Pomeroy, Ohio, the father of the 
following children: Elizabeth, wife of John 
Heilman; Mrs. Wefel; Sophia, wife of Thayer 
H. Hesloi); Louisa, wife of Curtis Smith; 



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Magdalena, wife of Jolin Ilildeniian; Amelia, 
wife of Edward Findling; Charles; John, mar- 
ried to Fannie Boggess; and of the home circle 
there remain yet Barbara, Otto, George and 
Ljdia. 

The subject of this sketch is the father of the 
following children: Lydia, Walter and Amelia. 
Mrs. Wefel is an amiable woman, and is a zeal- 
ous member of the same church with her es- 
teemed husband, where he is a very prominent 
minister though a young man. Into all his 
work he has thrown much energy, vigor ai\d 
earnestness, and his efforts have been followed 
by that success which has placed him among 
the al)lest of his profession. 



rllEUERICK P. FARRAND, Captain of 
Hook & Ladder Company No. 5, of 
^ Cleveland, was born in Burlington, Ver- 
mont, March 11, 1833, a son of William and 
Eliza Sarah (Alford) Farrand, natives also of 
that State. The father, born in 1809, was a 
son of Jared Farraud. While in Vermont 
William was engaged in preparing timber for 
market. He came to Ohio in 1833, after which 
he was employed for a short time in making 
boats, and then became owner of aline of packets 
between Cleveland and Portsmouth. He lost 
his boats, however, by tlie foreclosing of a mort- 
gage, which he made to serve a friend. He 
then came to this city, and from that time until 
1860 found employment in the ship yards. Mr. 
Farrand ne.xt assumed the care of his aged father 
until the latter's death. Pie then purchased 
and moved to a farm in Fulton county, where 
he remained until his death, at the age of sixty- 
one years. Politically, he was first a Whig, and 
afterward became an ardent Republican. Dur- 
ing the Mexican war he raised a company of 
soldiers, under the authority of Governor Reuben 
Wood, of Ohio, was appointed its Captain, but 
before mustered into service the war closed. 
The mother of our subject died at the residence 
of her daughter, Mrs. Moses G. Watterson, on 



Case avenue, Cleveland, at the age of eighty- 
six years. She was a devout member of the 
Second Baptist Church. Mr. and Mrs. Farrand 
had five children, viz.: William, deceased in in- 
fancy; Frederick P., our subject; Freeman P., 
of Cleveland; Helen, wife of Moses Watter- 
son; and George, deceased at the age of five 
years. Three of the sons took part in the late 
war. The mother and sister were also very 
patriotic, nothing having been left undone by 
them that could add to the comfort, efficiency 
and worth of the brothers while in the service. 

After completing his education, Frederick P. 
Farrand, the subject of this sketch, was em- 
ployed as brakeman on the same train with 
Mayor Blee, having held that position until the 
opening of the late war. At Lincoln's call for 
75,000 men, he enlisted in the service, and after 
the expiration of his term re-enlisted for three 
years, or during the war, in Company A, Seventh 
Ohio Volunteer Infantry. His first battle was 
Winchester, under Shields, where he was dis- 
abled, taken to Winchester, and was ordered to 
the hospital to take charge of the wounded 
soldiers of his company. The hospital was 
located in a hotel, but a few months afterward 
was moved to the Female Seminary. Being 
ordered to evacuate Winchester, the wounded 
were take in cattle cars to Frederick City, Mary- 
land. Mr. Farrand was next ordered to report 
at Colutnbus, Ohio, was examined and dis- 
charged, after which he returned home. He 
was subsequently ordered to the defense of 
Washington, during which time be served as 
Sergeant of Company F, One Hundred and 
Fiftieth Regiment Ohio National Guards. Mr. 
Farrand has served in the Cleveland Fire De- 
partment since thirteen years of age, with the 
exception of about seven years, and is now the 
oldest fireman in the volunteer and pay depart- 
ments in the city of Cleveland. 

In 1864 our subject was united in marriage 
with Miss Caroline M. Dill, a daughter of Ed- 
ward Dill, of Baltimore. They have had six 
children, namely: Edward W., who has been 
employed as book-keeper for the Dime Savings 



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Bank since its orcranization ; Daisy E., wife of 
William T. Tegetliotf, of Brooklyn, Kew York; 
F. Albert, agent for the Cleveland Supply Com- 
pany; George D., an employe of the Standard 
Oil Company, and two deceased in infancy. 
Edward W., the eldest child, married Miss 
Howe, and they have one child. In political 
matters, our subject is an ardent Republican. 
He is in every way a most worthy citizen, giv- 
ing good attention to the best interests of those 
whom he serves. 



F. THOMPSON.— But little more than 
a score of years ago " Billy Thompson," 
as his hosts of friends familiarly refer 
to him, came to Cleveland and entered the em- 
ploy of the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company as 
superintendent of the rod department of their 
institution. He was then a young man of nine- 
teen, with rather unusual natural endowments, 
re-euforced by a fair English education. His 
life, as far as his business relations are con- 
cerned, is simply one long-continued story of 
duty well and faithfully performed and does not 
bristle with new events of frequent occurrence. 

Mr. Tliompsou was born in Boston, Massa- 
chusetts, December 14, 1855. He entered tlie 
Boston Rolling Mills at thirteen, learned his 
trade and remained with tliem till coming to 
Cleveland. His identity with the Cleveland 
Mills covers a period of nineteen years. Mr. 
Thompson is probably best known in the politi- 
cal field. His training in his youth was such 
aa to warrant his alliance with Democracy on 
reaching the age of political responsibility. He 
became early a party enthusiast, and being by 
nature impetuous, ambitious and invincible, he 
has inspired hope and confidence in his party, 
and gained a great personal popularity and fol- 
lowing. In 1889 he was elected Police Com- 
missioner of Cleveland and was legislated out of 
office by unprincipled opponents. Mr. Thomp- 
son has been frequently and prominently men- 
tioned in connection with the inayoraltv of 



Cleveland, and should such honors come to him 
by the suffrage of the people they would be 
most worthily bestowed. In April, 1893, Mr. 
Thompson was chosen by Director Farley as his 
deputy, and any man who knows Mr. Farley 
will be convinced that this appointment would 
be made solely on the basis of merit. 

Mr. Thompson's father, John Thompson, 
came from Ireland to Boston more than fifty 
years ago. He was a mill man during his ac- 
tive life, l)ut is now a resident of Cleveland and 
retired. He married in Boston, Mrs. - — Mc- 
Guire, who bore him ten children, eight of whom 
were sons. 

W. F. Thompson married in Cleveland, Feb- 
ruary 14, 1880, Anna, a daughter of John Duff, 
an early settler and the man who built the asy- 
lum. To Mr. and Mrs. Thompson seven chil- 
dren have been born; Mary, Raymond, Anna, 
Edwin and Edith (twins), William and John. 

Billy Thompson's personal popularity is due 
to the efl'ect that he is approachable, genial and 
kindly alike to all. He makes an exemplary 
city oflicial and is loyal to his city, his party and 
his friends. 



/(I( C. BURKE, an engineer on the Valley 
IuL\ Railroad, was born on Jersey street, 
1/ ^ Cleveland, in November, 1857, a son of 
' A. C. and Eliza (Luwson) Burke, natives 

of Ireland. They came to Cleveland, Ohio, in 
184- and the father was a familiar figure on the 
Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapo- 
lis Railroad for many years. He died while in 
active service, in 1888, aged about sixty years. 
Mr. and Mrs. Burke had seven children, five 
now living, viz.: A. C, E. J., Frank, William, 
all engaged in railroad work; and Mary, wife of 
O. E. Kenney, superintendent of the De Losier 
Wheel Works, at Toledo, Ohio. The deceased 
children were: Ellen, who married a Mr. Ches- 
ter, and died in 1890; and Catherine, deceased 
in 1891, was the wife of B. R. Brassell. 

A.. C. Burke, the subject of this sketch, be- 
gan work on the Bee Line Railroad, as l)rake- 



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man, in 1870, and four and a half years afterward 
was promoted to the ])osition of engineer. Dur- 
ing the construction of the Wheeling & Lake 
Erie Railroad from Norwalk to Toledo, he was 
engineer and conductor of the pioneer train, 
and on leaving that road ran the pay car on 
the T. C. & St. L. Railroad for three years. 
During the following five years Mr. Burke was 
engaged in the wholesale liquor and restaurant 
business, and during that time was one of the 
oi-ganizers and Secretary of the Dayton Public 
Athletic Club. He then resumed railroading 
on the Big Four Road, remaining there four 
years, and since that time has served on the 
Valley Road. 

November 25, 1891, in this city, Mr. Burke 
was united in marriage with Miss Mary Boland, 
of Springfield, Ohio. 



FjROF. J. A. TePAS, Ph.D., was born in 
Cleveland, December 3, 1852. His par- 
ents were John and Paulina (DeRose) 
TePas. The parents are natives of Hol- 
land, being of Dutch lineage. The father in 
early life followed the trade of a blacksmith. 
Later be was engaged in stone works in Cleve- 
land. For years he was a director in the Cleve- 
land co-operative store. He came to Cleveland 
in 1849, coming from New Orleans. He was 
in New Orleans during the Mexican war, and 
afterward returned to Holland and brought 
thirty-seven of his neighbors with him to 
America. They all remained in this country 
and settled in Cleveland. Many of their 
descendants became residents of the West Side. 
The father is now a resident of Olmsted Falls, 
Cuyahoga county. He is about seventy-five 
years of age. 

The subject of this sketch is the oldest of six 
children, of whom three are living. He was 
educated in Louisville, Ohio, and in St. Mary's, 
Ohio. He attended college at Rome, and was 
ordained to the priesthood May 11, 1880. Since 
1882 he has been in the St. Mary's Sominary 



of Cleveland. He received the degree of Ph.D 
at Rome, at the CoUegio Romano. In the St. 
Mary's Seminary he is a teacher of music, and 
is regarded as an educator of ability. He is a 
teacher also of dogmatic theology in the college, 
and this is the most important of his work. In 
philosophy and theology he is a ripe scholar. 
His work as an educator has been of vast im- 
portance and he is esteemed and respected by 
all who know him. 



llV Jl[ C. MALLOY, member of Council, was 

I yil\ t)orn in County Mayo, Ireland, Septem- 

II li her 20, 1850. He is a son of Michael 
' Malloy, a farmer who died in Ireland 
but whose family came to Cleveland. Michael 
Malloy married Catharine Moran, who bore him 
ten children, six of whom are now living: M. C; 
P. M.; Mary, wife of Richard O'Malley; Mar- 
garet, wife of Michael Moran, deceased-, Catha- 
rine, wife of Patrick Gorman; and Julia, wife of 
Patrick Masterson. 

M. C. Malloy came to Cleveland in 1870, and 
was employed on the coal docks for nine years 
with the Ohio & Pennsylvania Coal Company 
as a laborer. He was then made foreman of 
the dock, remaining in that capacity till 1885, 
when he engaged with Pickand, Mather & Co., 
as superintendent of their outside works, which 
position he still tills. About sixteen years ago 
Mr. Malloy became interested in politics, at 
whicli time he was elected to the city council, 
serving through the years 1883, '84 '85 and '86. 
In 1890 he was again sent to that body as 
representative, and again in 1892, his term ex- 
piring in 1894. The question of " Boulevard" 
has enlisted Mr. Malioy's attention. The open- 
ing of the river bed and the lake front also were 
measures which he worked assiduously to carry 
through, visiting Columbus as a lobbyist while 
the latter question was before the legislature. 
He was active in securing the passage of an or- 
dinance increasing salaries in the police depart- 
ment of the city government. Mr. Malloy ia 



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now swerving on tlie committee on public officers 
and oiiices, labor, department examinations and 
claims, being chairman of the last named. 
April 13, 1879, Mr. Malloy married Catharine, 
a daughter of Michael Walsh. The children of 
this union are: Mary A., deceased; John F. ; 
Catharine and Margaret. 

Mr. Malloy is identified with the A. O. H., of 
which he is President; with the C. M. B. A., and 
is Past V. P. and Financial Secretary of the C. 
T. A. U. of A., and represented that lodge at 
the State conventions of that order. He has 
for twenty-one years been most active in the 
cause of temperance. 



CAPTAIN CORNELIUS REWELL, of 
Cleveland, was born in Sussexshire, Eng- 
land, February 14, 1815, a son of Charles 
and Ptuth Rewell. The father died in England 
in 1816, at about the age of thirty years. The 
mother afterward married John "Walden. She 
located in Canada in 1834, came to the United 
States in 1845, and died March 1, 1847, at the 
age of fifty-three years. 

Cornelius Rewell, his parents only child, be- 
gan sailing on the ocean in 1832, in an old 
schooner called tlie Flora, Captain George 
Viney, tirst as cabin boy, was afterward pro- 
moted as cook, and subsoijuently began sea- 
man's work. He sailed tirst to the bay of Hon- 
duras for mahogany, logwood, cochineal and 
cocoanuts; ne.xt went to London; thence to the 
West Indies for sugar; and later to St. Vincent 
in the Chieftain. Mr. Rewell then left that 
ship and joined the Vestal, a war vessel, which 
cruised around the West Indies, and was there 
at the death of King William. He has sailed 
to the coast of Labrador, and was in two whal- 
ing voyages to Van Dieman's Land, in the isle 
of Tasmania, where all the roughs of England 
had been banished. He followed the sea from 
1832 to 184G, and in the latter year came to 
Sandusky, Ohio, where he worked on the shore 
for one and a half years. In 1S48 he began 



sailing on the lakes, which he continued until 
1876, and during that time encountered many 
hard storms. Since then Mr. Rewell has been 
retired from active labor. 

He was married in the spring of 1849, in 
England, to Maria Martin, a native of that 
country, and who died in Cleveland in 1868. at 
the age of fifty-one years. George Murtin, their 
only child, now residing in Cleveland. He 
married Jessie Miln, a native of this city, and 
they have one child. Hazel Marian. In 1869 
Mr. Rewell was united in marriage with Mrs. 
Mary La Roe, who was born in New York, a 
daughter of John and Mary La Roe, natives of 
France. Our subject and wife have an adopted 
daughter, Josie, now the wife of George Warden, 
and they two children : Cornelius Livingston and 
Margaret Mary. Our subject and wife are mem- 
bers of the Woodland Avenue Presbyterian 
Church. Mrs. Rewell is a lady of rare traits of 
character, possessing a great love for humanity 
and a deep sympathy for the sufferings of mankind. 
She is a lady of refinement and culture, and is 
numbered among theworthyand highly respected 
citizens of the city. In his social relations, Mr. 
Rewell is a member of the Masonic order, and 
politically, affiliates with the Repuldican jiarty. 
He is a genial and courteous gentleman, and 
his lively disposition and easy manners make 
him a favoi-ite among his many friends. 



-J\ARIvE W. STUART, M. D., practicing in 
^ Berea, Ohio, was born January 28, 1859, 



p 

J in Mt. Clemens, Michigan, where he was 
V reared. He attended the common school 

and high school of Mt. Clemens and then took 
a business course in Bryant & Stratton's College 
at Detroit, afterward teaching penmanship in 
that college about two years. He then com- 
menced the study of medicine in Toronto, Can- 
ada, completing his course in Detroit, Michigan, 
where he graduated, at the Detroit College of 
Medicine, in March, 1886. Dr. Stuart began 
the ]iractice of his profession in Detroit, after- 



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ward removing to Cleveland, Ohio, where he 
continued for three years. He then came to 
Berea, where he has since remained and enjoys 
a line and growing practice. 

Dr. Stuart was married first to Miss Estella 
May Fuller, at Chesterfield, Michigan. She 
died while on a visit to her father's Iiome, June 
9, 1886, leaving one daughter, Ethel, who died 
the following September. The Doctor was 
again married September 29, 1890, in Berea, to 
Miss Maud E. Hatchings, who was born and 
reared in Cleveland. 

Dr. Stuart is Health Officer for the township 
of Middleburg. He has taken an active part in 
religious work, having united with the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church in 1882, and he is a 
member of the Knights of Pythias and of the 
Royal Arcanum. 



CHARLES FREDERIC MABERY, S. D., 
Professor of Clietnistry in the Case 
School of Applied Science, was born Jan- 
uary 13, 1850, in New Gloucester, Maine. His 
ancestors were among the first settlers in the 
towns of "Windham and New Gloucester, and 
were in active service during the Revolution- 
ary and subsequent wars. He early engaged in 
teaching, when nearly prepared to enter college, 
and during five years he taught in the various 
grades of the common schools and academies in 
Maine. When called upon to teach chemistry, 
natural philosophy and mathematics in Gorham 
Seminary, he became deeply interested in 
physical science, and in 1873 he entered courses 
of instruction in science in Harvard University. 
After teaching one year in Warren Academy, 
Woburu, Massachusetts, preparing candidates 
for admission to The Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, in chemistry and mathematics, he 
was appointed assistant teacher in the Harvard 
chemical laboratory. During the following 
eigiit years he developed summer courses of in- 
struction in chemistry, which were attended by 
te.iclier.s from all parls of the country, und 



demonstrated the utility of this system of in- 
struction, which has since been recognized as a 
feature of the university training. During this 
period he received from tlie university the de- 
gree of Bachelor of Science and the degree of 
Doctor of Science, publishing many papers on 
results of his investigations in chemistry. 

In 1883 he accepted a position in the Case 
School of Applied Science, and he has since de- 
voted his entire energy to the development of 
the chemical department in this institution. 
With the aid and cordial co- operation of the 
President and Board of Trustees, notwithstand- 
ing serious interruptions incident to the con- 
struction of several laboratories, and losses by 
fire, under his direction this laboratory now of- 
fers as good advantages for the study of chemistry 
as those of the older and larger institutions. 
Since coming to Cleveland Professor Mabery 
has published numerous papers in pure and ap- 
plied chemistry, and he is now engaged on an 
extended investigation of the American sulphur 
petroleums. He is a fellow of the American 
Academy of Arts and Sciences and other scien- 
tific societies of this country and Europe. 

In 1872 he was united in marriage with Miss 
Frank A. Lewis, whose ancestors were early 
settlers and influential citizens in Gorham, 
Maine, several of them serving in the Revolu- 
tionary war. 



DAVID M. STRONG, well known as 
I Merrick Strong, is one of the well-to-do 
farmers and highly respected citizens of 

Strongsville township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio. 
He belongs to a distinguished family of pioneers, 
of whom we make record as follows: 

John S. Strong, in honor of whom the town- 
ship of Strongsville was named, came from 
Marlborough, Vermont, to Cuyahoga county, 
Ohio, in 1816. After a short sojourn here he 
went back to Vermont, and with his family re- 
turned to the township wliicii has since borne 
bis name. Here he took claim Id a laru;e tract 



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of land, on which lie established his home, and 
here he lived to the ripe old age of ninety-three 
years. This John S. Strong was an uncle of 
our subject's father, Retire Grove Strong. The 
latter was born in Stafford, Connecticut, June 
25, 1797, and when eighteen years of age came 
out to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and entered the 
employ of John S. Strong. For two years of 
service he was to have his choice of a farm in 
Strongsville township, and accordingly selected 
one in the northern part of the township. He 
settled on this farm — the same npon which the 
subject of our sketch now lives — in 1S19, and 
here he spent the rest of his lite and died, his 
death occurring May 14, 1859. 

Retire Grove Strong was married in this 
township, June 24, 1819, to Miss Vina W. 
Whitney, daughter of Deacon Whitney and sis- 
ter of Flavel Whitney. She was born in Marl- 
borough, Vermont, June 14, 1802, and died at 
her home in this township, June 2, 1842. May 
5, 1844, Mr. Strong marned for his second wife 
Orra M. Merrill, who survived him a number of 
years, her death occurring June 9, 1877. In 
connection with the history of the Whitneys, it 
should be further stated that Vernica Whitney, 
a sister of Mrs. Strong, was the only woman in 
Strongsville in 1816, and her son, Franklin 
Hillard, was the first child born in Strongsville 
township. Retire Grove Strong and his first 
wife were the parents of thirteen children, seven 
of whom reached adult age, namely: Marcia A., 
wife of Robert M. Ashley, died March 30, 1853; 
Mary D., wife of William H. Ashley, died Sep- 
tember 5, 1854; Saiiford S., who is engaged in 
farming in Wisconsin; David M., whose name 
graces this article; Harriet E., wife of Chipman 
Strong, and, after his death, of E. H. Reed, died 
November 27, 1880; Vina W., wife of John S. 
Spencer, died in Edgerton, Wisconsin, March 
16, 1888; and Newton G., who is engaged in 
farming in Michigan. 

David M. Strong was born, reared, married, 
and has spent his life in Strongsville township, 
Cuyahoga county, Ohio. His birth occurred 
August 22, 1829. lie was married October 25, 



1853, to Miss Almira S. Bryant, who was born 
in Nelson, New Hampshire, August 20, 1833, 
daughter of Francis S. and Betsey E. (Sprapue) 
Bryant, natives of Massachusetts and New 
Hampshire respectively. They emigrated from 
the latter State to Ohio in 1833, settled first in 
Coshocton county, and eleven years later re- 
moved to Cuyahoga county and took up their 
abode in Strongsville township. Here both her 
parents passed away, her father dying July 6, 
1856; her mother October 1, 1865. David M. 
and Almira S. Strong have had five children, 
namely: Francis G., who died at the age of three 
years; Charles M., who lived only eleven months; 
Hattie E. is the widow of Dr. F. M. Clark, who 
died in Salem, Ohio, October 8, 1892; Mary A., 
who died May 9, 1875; and Arthur B., a gradu- 
ate of Baldwin University. There are also two 
grandsons, Harlan M. and Russell A., children 
of Hatiie E. and the late Dr. F. M. Clark. 

Mr. Strong has all his life been engaged in 
agricultural pursuits. He owns a line farm of 
of 154 acres, upon which he has made inany 
valuable improvements. lu local affairs he has 
all along taken an active part. For eight years 
he has served as Township Trustee, and has also 
filled various other minor ofiices. Both he and 
his wife are members of the First Congregational 
Church at Strongsville. He has served as a 
Deacon in the church for more than a quarter 
of a century, and for twenty years was the ef- 
ficient superintendent of the Sunday-school. 

Such is a brief sketch of one of the leading 
citizens of Strongsville township. 



Iff ENRY A. MASTICK.— The subject of 
Ir^ this sketch, a leading citizen and a pros- 
11 41 perous farmer of Rocky River Hamlet, 
"^ Cuyahoga county, Ohio, is a man of wide 

and diversified business experience, and is most 
highly esteemed in the community where he 
has resided for many years and wi'h whose 
interests he is closely identified. 



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He was born in Clarendon, Geauga coiinty, 
Ohio, November 19, 1828, the third in order of 
birth of tlie eight children (four sons and four 
daughters) of the late Colonel Benjamin and 
Eliza (Tomliuson) Mastick. Benjamin Maslick 
was born in Ballou's Falls, Windham county, 
Connecticut, in 1796, and his wife was a native 
of Derl)y, the same State, where she was born 
in the year 1802. After tlieir marriage they 
emigrated to the western frontier and settled in 
Geauga county, Ohio, where they remained 
until 1831, when they removed to Cuyahoga 
county and settled in that part of Rockport 
township which is designated as Rocky River 
Hamlet. There they passed the remainder of 
their lives; the Colonel died May ll, 1872. 
Benjamin Mastick was a man of much ability 
and prominence, his military title having been 
conferred upon him in Geauga county, by 
Governor St. Clair, who commissioned him 
Colonel of militia. He was a farmer by occu- 
tion and brought to bear the most progressive 
methods in the prosecution of operations in this 
lin.'. 

Henry A. Mastick was about three years of 
age when his parents removed to Cuyahoga 
county, and here he was reared to manhood, re- 
ceiving such educational advantages as the lo- 
cality afforded. On attaining his twenty-first 
year he went to Cleveland and for about twelve 
years was employed in the post office in that 
city, proving a most capable and trustworthy 
official,— a recognition of which fact was his 
subsequent appointment to the position in Gov- 
ernment employ as railway postal clerk on the 
route between Buffalo and Toledo, in which ser- 
vice he was retained during the years 1874 and 
1875. Since that time he has given his at- 
tention entirely to farming, owning about 
ninety acres of tine land on the Rocky river. 

May 10, 1854, in Newark, Licking county, 
Ohio, he was united in marriage to Miss Ange- 
lina C. MouU, who was a native of Newark, 
where she was born August 11, 1839, being a 
daughter of the late George Moull, who was a 
pioneer resident of I>icking county. Mr. and 



Mrs. Mastick are the parents of two children: 
Geoi-ge C, and Fannie E., who is the wife of 
Harry N. Ravenscroft. 

Mr. Mastick has taken an active interest in 
local and political affairs and has held many of 
the more important township offices. He sup- 
ports the principles and cause of the Republican 
party. In his fraternal affiliations he is promi- 
nently identified witli the Independent Order 
of Odd Fellows, being a member of Rocky 
River Lodge, No. 236. 



FRED C. SMITH.— Among those men, 
who born and reared to man's estate in 
— Rockport Hamlet have continued their 
residence in the locality where first they ope'd 
their wondering eyes, and who have attained to 
success and honor in the place of their nativity, 
the subject of this review merits particular 
recognition. He was born in that portion of 
Rockport township which is now known as 
Rockport Hamlet, on the 6th of March, 1858, 
being the son of Jacob F. and Frances (Wag- 
ner) Smith (or Schmidt, as the name was orig- 
inally spelled). The father was born in Wiir- 
temberg, Germany, in 1828, and the mother is 
also a native of Germany. Tiiey were married 
in Cuyahoga county, and for three years resided 
in Brooklyn township, removing thence to 
Rockport township, where the family home has 
ever since been maintained. Here the father 
died, April 5, 1891; the mother still survives. 
They were the parents of si.K children, namely: 
Fred C, Frances M., Louis R., AnnaL., Emma 
E. and William. 

The subject of this sketch, the oldest of the 
children, was reared in Rockport township, re- 
ceiving his education in the common schools. 
In 1881 he was apprenticed to learn the car- 
penter's trade, serving three years and becoming 
a master of the business. As testifying his par- 
ticular ability it may be noted that during tiie 
last eighteen months of his apprenticeship he 
acted as forem tn foi' ids employt^r. Ho has cun- 



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tinued to follow tliis important line of occupa- 
tion until the present time and his services have 
been in ready demand in Rockport Hamlet and 
vicinity, where many fine .structures stand in 
evidence of his skill as a carpenter and builder. 
Since 1884 he has conducted business for him- 
self and has met with abundant success. 

Mr. Smith was married, in Rockport Hamlet, 
in June, 1886, to Miss Lena Klaue, who was 
born in Cleveland. The father died in Cleve- 
land, and the mother is still surviving. Mr. 
and Mrs. Smith are the parents of two children: 
Walter H. and Herman H. 

Our subject has maintained an active interest 
in the general political questions and policies of 
the day, advocates the principles of the Repub- 
lican party, and lias been prominent in local af- 
fairs of a public nature. 

Mr. and Mrs. Smith are zealous and devoted 
members of the First Congregational Church of 
Rockport Hamlet, and in the line of fraternal 
associations the former is i lentified with the In- 
dependent Order of Odd Fellows, being a mem- 
ber of Amazon Lodge, No. 567. 



FROFESSOR JOHN BOLTON, professor 
of economics, rhetoric, chemistry, physics, 
botany and civics in the Cleveland public 
schools, was born near Hagerstown, Mary- 
land, November 4, 1820. His parents were 
John and Eve (Isiminger) Bolton, natives also 
of that State. His mother was of Pennsylvania 
Dutch stock, while his father was of Irish e.x- 
traction. The grandfather of our subject came 
from Ireland and served in the American navy 
during the war of the Revolution. By trade 
John Bolton, Sr., was a millwright, which occu- 
pation he followed for some years in Maryland 
and Pennsylvania. He was Justice of the Peace 
in New Haven, Pennsylvania, to which State he 
moved in 1828. In New Haven he also carried 
on cabinet making, later was a merchant and 
finally was engaged in milling. He was one of 
a company who built n large flouring mill. For 



his second wife he married Fanny Gilchrist. 
He was a worthy and respected citizen, of deep 
religious convictions and a member of the Bap- 
tist Church; his religious principles he strictly 
carried out in his daily life. His wife, the mother 
of Professor Bolton, died in 1822, leaving two 
children: William, who was born in 1818 and 
died in 1844; and John, the subject of this 
sketch, who was then but two years of age. 

The latter received his early education in the 
private schools of western Pennsylvania, but is 
mostly self-educated, and has made his own way 
in the world. In early life he learned the sad- 
dler's trade, which he followed until 1850, when 
lie began teaching public and private schools in 
the Keystone State. In 1843, however, he had 
taught a private school in western Virginia, 
near the Pennsylvania State line. In 1S51 lie 
taught in Morgantown Academy, then returned 
to his home in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, and 
taught in district schools until 1855; in De- 
cember of that year he removed to Portsmouth, 
Ohio, where he was employed as instructor in 
the high school; next was principal of that 
school until 1865, when he was elected one of 
the two Superintendents of public schools of 
that city; in 1866 he became sole Superinten- 
dent, which position he held till 1872, when he 
accepted a call to Cleveland as teacher of chem- 
istry and physics in the old Central building. 
In 1876 he was transferred to the West high 
school, with which he has ever since been con- 
nected. 

Professor Bolton's teaching has always been 
of a high order and in accordance with the latest 
and best approved methods, as he has always 
kept himself abreast of the times. He has ever 
been a close student, a keen observer and a 
great lover of nature and of children. His 
record has not only been a very creditable bnt 
even an enviable one. He has now taught con- 
tinuously for forty-four years, his services have 
ever been in demand, and his experience as a 
teacher has been a very remarkable one in this 
especially, — he has never had to hunt for a 
school. In obtaining situations he lias always 



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liail a call in advance and the school was reaily 
for him. He stands high as an educator, in 
Cleveland and in both the States of Ohio and 
Pennsylvania. He has been a member of the 
Ohio State Teachers' Association, and also of 
the Northeastern Ohio Teachers' Association. 

Professor Bolton was married March 16, 1852, 
to Miss Martha E. McCune, danghter of Sam- 
uel McCnne, a highly respected farmer of Fa- 
yette county, Pennsylvania, of which State Mrs. 
Bolton also is a native. She taught school in 
tliat State, and also in the primary department 
of the Portsmouth school. The McCune family 
on the paternal side, and the Cummings family 
on the mother's, were of Scotch descent, and 
early settlers in Fayette county. 

Professor and Mrs. Bolton have had three 
children, two of whom died in early life. The 
surviving child is W. B. Bolton, one of the 
leading attorneys of Cleveland. Mrs. Bolton is 
a member of the Second Pi-esbyterian Church 
of this city. 



J I OHN ROCK, a resident of Cleveland, Ohio, 
was born in Germany, December 5, 1838. 
— Uis parents were Conrad and Barbara 
(Damer) Rock. Tlie latter, born in 1805, still 
has lier powers of mind and body well pre- 
served, and is an honored resident of Cleveland. 
The father, Conrad Rock, a miller by trade, 
died in Germany, at tlie age of thirty-eight 
years. Their children were: Elizabeth, widow 
of Jacob Herman, on Pearl street; George, a 
merchant of Paducah, Kentucky, where he has 
resided for about thirty-iive years; John, the 
subject of this sketch. 

The latter ediicated liim.self as well as he 
could with the limited opportunities afforded 
him. At the age of thirteen he left home and 
first apprenticed himself to become a wood- 
turner, which trade, however, he found very 
difficult to learn, as bis employer kept him 
driving the horses, that being the power for the 
machinery. So, after three months he gave up 
the attempt and became a lioy of all work in a 



boarding-house, at §5 per month, and then a 
waiter in a restaurant. In the spring of 1862 
he, in company with V. S. Forbush, kept tlie 
Commercial House on Seneca street, and in the 
fall he bought out James Wright, of the Wright 
House, which he kept until he bought the land 
at the northeast corner of Woodland and Will- 
son, and erected the building which still stands 
upon it. 

In the fall of 1867 he opened up a general 
supply store, which proved a great benefit to 
the surroundings, as previously they were never 
within a mile of those corners, and to-day it is 
like a small town of itself: business places of 
almost all descriptions located there. In 1869 
he bought the Baldwin property at the south- 
east corner of Woodland, Willson and Kinsman 
streets, upon which he erected the large brick 
building in whicli is located the Woodland 
Avenue Savings and Loan Association, which 
proved to be a wonder, having over one and 
one-half million dollars in six years' business. 

The point is called "Rock's Corners," christ- 
ened so by the neighbors in honor of the found- 
er of business there, and one can get nearly 
everything he wants there. This busy place 
affords an opportunity for the public to go five 
different directions by street cars, and the sixth 
is coming, namely, the Cross-Town Road. 

A few years ago Mr. Rock retired from the 
store he had kept so long, and now it is occu- 
pied by his nephew, George P. Herman. Mr. 
Rock is the owner of a large amount of real 
estate, to which he is giving his attention. 

He was married in 1865, to Elisa Wabel, 
daughter of Carl Wabel, of Cleveland. Her 
mother, whose name before marriage was Rods, 
is living with him since the death of her hus- 
band, who died in 1891; also his own mother, 
who is nearly eighty-nine years old. The chil- 
dren of Mr. and Mrs. Rock are nine in number, 
namely: William G.; John, Jr.; George W.; 
Eliza, wife of O. T. Loehr; Herman A., Carl, 
Amelia, Clarence, and Florence Victoria, who 
was born on Queen Victoria's fiftieth jubilee 
day. 



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Mr. Kock has been a hard worker and has 
been interested in every improvement or entcr- 
pi'ise in the vicinity. *Hc was the ownei- of the 
Woodland Hill Street Railroad, which he after- 
ward sold to the Woodland Avenue Street Rail- 
road Company. 

In politics he is a Republican. He and his 
wife are prominent members of the First Ger- 
man Protestant Church. 



EC. ANGELL, Councilman from the Sixth 
District of Cleveland, is a gentleman of 
1 wide acquaintance commercially, socially 

and politically. This family dates back to old 
colonial days for its pioneer American ancestor, 
and discovers him in the person of Nelson An- 
gell, who settled in Oswego., New York, and 
was a machinist by trade. One of his sons, E. 
C. Angell, enlisted in the colonial army at nine- 
teen years of age and served till the surrender 
of Coruwallis at Yorktown closed that historic 
epoch, being mustered out with a Colonel's 
eommi»bion. This gentleman in civil life was a 
blacksmith and passed his life at Oswego. His 
wife was Anna Brown, who bore him eight 
children, of whom Nelson, our subject's grand- 
father, was the third. 

Nelson Angell became a machinist, and was 
for eighteen years general master mechanic of 
the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg Railroad. 
Upon retiring he moved to St. Louis, Missouri, 
and died in 1884, at seventy-five years of age. 
He married Jane Lasker, of Schoharie county. 
New York, an aunt of Lieutenant-Commander 
Wright, of the battle-ship Michigan, who died 
ill Key West, Florida. His children were: 
Henry B., born March 4, 1833, and five others 
now deceased. 

H. B. became a machinist and engineer and 
came to Cleveland in 1853, February 6. He 
was a stationary engineer for the Cleveland & 
Pittsburg Railroad in this city more than forty 
years. 

Mr. Angell married, October 17, 1854, Agnes, 
a daughter of David Fitzpatrii-k, who came from 



Burlington, Vermont, fifty-eight years ago. By 
occupation he was a merchant tailor. He mar- 
ried Matilda Smitli and reared seven children. 

The children of H. B. Angell are: Mary 
Jane, wife of C. H. Warburton, ex-general mas- 
ter mechanic of the Cleveland, Lorain »& Wheel- 
ing Railroad; Nelson, superintendent of C. L. 
Leach's Works, of New York city; E. C, 
George W., Henry and John, — all practical 
machinists of Cleveland; Luella, wife of Peter 
Lanker, an engineer on the Cleveland, Lorain & 
Wheeling Railroad. 

E. C. Angell secured a libei-al education from 
the public schools of Cleveland. At seventeen 
he entered the shops of the Union Steel Screw 
Works, and during his apprenticeship studied 
drafting at night and became quite skillful in 
that line of work. He was employed as a jour- 
neyman in the shops of Warner & Swasey three 
years and resigned to accept the position of tool 
worker with the White Sewing Machine Com- 
pany. This position he resigned three years 
later to take the position of assistant super- 
intendent of the Standard Lighting Company. 
In 188- he went to the Standard Sewing Machine 
Conipany, and after serving four years as gauge- 
worker accepted the position of assistant super- 
intendent with the same company, resigning it 
in May, 1893, to assist in the founding of a 
viaduct. 

Mr. Angell was born August 7, 1859. Quite 
early in life he became an ardent Republican, 
and on attaining his majority became a party 
leader. He was nominated in January, 1892, 
over two other candidates to the City Council 
by a majority of 705 votes, and was elected by 
a plurality of 1,360, being 312 larger majority 
than any other Republican candidate from the 
Fourth ward, since the organization of the city. 
In the council of '92 Mr. Angell was chairman 
of the committee on lighting, a member of the 
committee on charities and corrections and 
ordinances. In 1893 he was chairman of the 
committee on charities and corrections, a mem- 
ber of the committee on labor and laborers, and 
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in the passage of the transfer ordinance of 1892, 
compelling street railways to give transfers, and 
is interested in the passage of the Russell- 
Scofield ordinance for street railway purposes. 
Mr. Angell is most frequently called on to re- 
present his constituents as delegate to county 
and State conventions. 

August 19, 1878, Mr. Angell married Miss 
Neff, a daughter of Phillip Neft', born in this 
city. Mr. Neff was born here, and was a con- 
tractor. He died in 1872 at forty-four years of 
age. He reared six children, five now living 
Only one child was born to Mr. and Mrs. An- 
gell: Mildred, deceased October 19, 1891, at 
nine years. 

Mr. Angell is a charter member of the P. S. 
Lodge, No. 52G, Knights of Pythias. He is 
also a member of the Independent Order of Odd 
Felh.ws, Post N. C, of Cleveland City Castle; 
of the No. 23 K. of G. E., and of the Temple 
of the Mystic Shrine. He is a Chapter Mason 
and one of Oriental Commandery, No. 12, K. 
T. He is also Past Chief Ranger of S. & L., 
Lodge 14, and Oliio Division, I. O. F., and 
member of the Grand Lodge. He is also an 
active member of the Woodland Club. 



FRANCIS FORD, formerly a locomotive 
engineer, but now retired from active la- 
^ bor, was born at Covington, Massachu- 
setts, May 1, 1820, a son of Cyrus and Clarissa 
(Whitmarsh) Ford, natives also of that State. 
The father conducted a station on the under- 
oTound railroad in Cleveland. Francis attended 
the common schools, the Shaw Academy, and 
the Grand River Institute at Austinburg, Ash- 
tabula county, Ohio. After completing his edu- 
cation he taught school four winters. July 1, 
1850, he began woi'k on the Cleveland, Columbus 
& Cincinnati Railroad, spending ten years as 
assistant engineer, and from 1860 to 1880 was 
chief LM'/ineer. After the completion of the 
line to Indianapolis and Chicago, be began 
work on that branch of the road, was also engi 



neer on the East Cleveland Road, and during 
that time was superintendent of the construc- 
tion of the Garfield Monument three years, 
from the time the foundation was laid until it 
was completed. Mr. Ford still resides on the 
fartn on which his father located in October, 
1841, which is now laid off into town lots, and 
is located in one of the most beautiful spots in 
the city. 

September 18, 1851, Mr. Ford was united in 
marriage with Miss Mercy A. Fuller, a daugh- 
ter of Edward and Maria Fuller. The father 
was a real-estate dealer, also served as justice 
of the peace twenty years, and was well known 
and respected in his community. His death oc- 
curred in 1879. Mrs. Fuller now resides with 
her daughter, Mrs. George A. Ingersoll, at 1374 
Euclid avenue, Cleveland, and is eighty-four 
years of age. She is a devout member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. and Mrs. 
Fuller had six children: Carlton A., of Toledo; 
Mercy A., now Mrs. Ford; Joanna M., wife of 
G. A. Ingersoll; Edwin, of Jersey City; Charles 
W., a clerk in the general ticket office of the 
Lake Shore Road in Cleveland; and Alvira M., 
who married a Mr. Beckwith, and died in 1890. 
Mr. and Mrs. Ford have had six children. The 
eldest, Frank L.,isa graduate of the Rensselaer 
Polytechnic school of Troy, New York, and is 
now State agent of the Worcester, Massachu- 
setts Mutual Life Insurance Company. He was 
married in 1877, to Eva Hurlburt, and they have 
four children: Florence, Elizabeth, Hurlburt 
and Deimison. Edwin L. is engaged in the 
general ticket office of the Lake Shore & Mich- 
igan Southern Railroad. He married Nellie, a 
dauo-hter of M. R. Keith, and they had two 
children, Myron and Edwin L. The wife and 
mother died in March, 1889. Minnie was 
burned to death at the age of three years. She 
was alone in an adjoining room, when her 
screams revealed the terrible fact that her clothes 
were on fire. After hours of suffering death 
came to her relief. Charles L. is employed as 
salesman in the office of the Goff-Kirby Coal 
Company. Maria married Rev. W. H. Jones, 



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lector of the St. John's Church on the West 
Side. He graduated in tiie theological course 
of the Cambridge Episcopal school in the Adel- 
liiie College. Fanny died in 1883, at the age 
of eleven years. Mrs. Ford and daughter are 
members of the Beckwith Presbyterian Church 
of Cleveland. In political matters, Mr. Ford 
affiliates with the Republican party. 



VILLIAM S. CORLETT, of Warrens- 
' ville, Ohio, is one of the representative 
1^ citizens of that place. He was born on 
the Isle of Man, July 7, 1835, son of William 
and Jane (Corlett) Corlett, and came with his 
parents and other members of the family to 
America in 1845. The father was twice mar- 
ried. By his first wife he had one child, Ellen, 
who was the wife of Robert Corlett, deceased. 
The children by his second marriage were as 
follows: Williams.; John A.; Robert C, who 
was a member of the Forty-second Ohio Infan- 
try during the late war, and who is now a resi- 
dent of Newburg, Ohio; Mrs. Jane Stevenson, 
who has been twice widowed and who with her 
five children (Saraantha J., Clara, Francis D., 
Moses, Belle A. and Jennie C. Stevenson) lives 
with the subjeclof this sketch; Thomas E., de- 
ceased was a member of Garfield's regiment, the 
Forty-second Ohio, his death having occurred 
while he was in camp and when he was only 
eicrliteen years old; Clara, wife of Charles Mur- 
fett, of Orange township, this county; and Syl- 
van us J., also a resident of Orange township. 
The last two named are the only ones who are 
natives of this country. The father of our sub- 
ject was born in 1803 and died in 1870, while 
the mother, born in 1810, died in 1889. The 
elder Mr. Corlett was engaged in agricultural 
pursuits all his life. Politically, he was a Re- 
publican; religiously, a member of the Metho- 
dist Episcopal Church. 

On the old home farm William S. Corlett 
was reared, lie attended the district school, 
later went to Oberlin and Berea colleges, and 



for several yeai-s was engaged in teaching. For 
two years — 1866 and 1867 — he had charge of 
the business department of Berea College. He 
also learned the trade of bricklayer, at which he 
worked for some years. At this writing he oc- 
cupies the homestead farm with his sister Jane 
and her children, the place being well improved 
with good buildings, orchard, etc. The two- 
story brick residence is surrounded with a pretty 
lawn, the whole premises being neat and at- 
tractive. 

Politically, Mr. Corlett is identified with the 
Republican party, and is regarded as one of its 
most active workers in this vicinity. For si.\ 
terms he has served as Justice of the Peace, dis- 
pensing justice to all before his court in a man- 
ner suited to a higher judge. He is a member, 
steward and trustee of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, and is also Superintendent of the Sunday- 
school. In political, educational and religious 
matters he has ever taken an active interest, and 
is justly entitled to the high esteem in which he 
is held by all who know him. 



D^ WIGHT SMITH, deceased, formerly a 
I farmer of Middleburg township, Ohio, 
was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 

1819, and when he was a boy of seven years his 
parents moved to the State of Xew York, and 
four years afterward to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, 
settling in Middleburg township, where they 
passed the residue of their days. 

Dwight Smith continued to reside in this 
township, and was married in Liverpool, Ohio, 
October 25, 1848, to Miss Sarah Lillie, who was 
born in Vermont, January 8, 1826. They com- 
menced housekeeping in Middleburg, which 
was then an unsettled country. He chopped 
down a few trees and erected a little frame house 
which was occupied for many years, having 
been destroyed by tire on the 4th of July, 1873; 
he then erected a commodious residence. He 
was actively engaged in farming until his death, 
which occurred at his residence, August 22, 
1881. 



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He had ciglit children: Alice, who is the wife 
of Wesley Humphrey, a resident of Middle- 
burcr; Solon D., deceased; Julia A., wife of 
Louis Busse, a resident of Middleburg; George 
F., who died in infancy; Clara A., wife of 
Willis Smith, a resident of Middleburg; Sarah 
L.; Burrett J., who married Gertrude Wing, is 
also a resident uf Middleburg; and Minnie O. 

Mr. Smitli was very fond of music, and could 
play skillfully on the violin, tife and snare drum. 

He was a member of the Methodist Church, 
and was a great worker in the church and Sab- 
liath-school. 

The father of Mrs. Smith, Anson Lillie, was 
a soldier in the war of 1812, where he lost a leg. 
He died in Liverpool, Lorain county, Ohio. 
His wife, whose name before marriage was Anna 
Dike, died in Middleburg township, Ohio. 



rjl ARVEY RICE.— An eminent citizen of 
Ir^l Cleveland, in the person of Harvey Rice, 
Jl t died on the 7th of November, 1891, 
^ having completed ninety-one years and 

four months of life. He was born at Conway, 
Massachusettes, in the last year of the eigh- 
teenth century, June 11, 1800. His father was 
a farmer and he was bereft of his mother when 
lie was b\it four years of age. 

One of the most precious literary legacies 
which Mr. Rice left to his family and friends is 
a manuscript volume, written in compliance with 
the earnest solicitation of a friend, entitled 
"Leaflets of a Life-time," and completed in his 
eighty-seventh year. It is a l)eautiful photo- 
graph of his life, his sentiments, his affections, 
his memory of childhood, his birth-place, and 
the remembrance of the sad sweet face and the 
dying kiss of his mother. A few extracts will 
illustrate this record. 

"The old frame house in which I was born, 
though sadly weather beaten, still survives the 
assaults of time, of storm, and of tempest, for 
I suppose, that it i^ literally 



simnic roaso 



founded upon a rock, — a rock which, covered 
with a thin soil, projects from a hillside, and 
in its general appearance resembles the outlines 
of a giant's chair. When I last visited the old 
mansion it had assumed a lonely and forsaken 
aspect, a sadness of .expression which touched 
the better feelings of my nature, and compelled 
me to turn away with a sorrowful heart and a 
tearful eye. The farm consists of about fifty 
acres of romantic hill and dale. The rocks, 
broad and black, crop out in almost every 
part of it and seem to contend with the 
small intervening space of arable land for 
the supremacy. The contrast, however, be- 
tween rock-plat and grass-plat presents to 
the eye an agreeable picture, or rather land- 
scape, penciled here and there with silver rills, 
wlio.-e waters are as pure and sweet as the nectar 
of the gods. 

" In the distance arc seen mountain ranges 
mantled in celestial blue seeming like a circular 
crowd of spectators lost in silent admiration of 
the scene. It was here within this charmed 
circle that I first saw the ligiit, and here in the 
fourth summer of my childhood my mother 
died. At such an age the loss of a mother is 
irreparable. It was a loss which I did not then 
appreciate, but which I doubt not gave direc- 
tion of the future of my life. Being so young 
at the time of her death, I remember but little 
in relation to her. The most I can recollect is 
the expression of tenderness of which she took 
her final leave of me and the other members of 
the family at her bedside, and the subsequent 
appearance which her funeral procession pre- 
sented to my childish eye as it wound its way 
slowly over the hills to the rural graveyard in 
which her remains were deposited. It was said 
by those best acquainted with her, that she was 
not only an exemplary lady, but that she pos- 
sessed for those times unusual literary attain- 
ments, and for this reason was often solicited 
by her personal friends and neighbors to furn- 
ish, in matters of local interest, notices for the 
newspaper press, especially oliituaries and elegiac 



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Five times in tlie course of his life Mr. Eice 
made a prilgrimage to the neglected old grave- 
yard in Conway wiiere reposes the sacred dust 
of liis mother, the last time being in 1874. " It 
is,"' he writes, " a quiet rural spot on the hill- 
side. Her headstone is constructed of slate 
rock, primitive in design and humble in its 
pretension, yet it is now so ovei'grown with moss 
that I found it difficult to read the inscription, 
l>ut finally succeeded in deciphering tlie words, 
•Died August 2, 1804; aged 38 years.' As 
if to guard the quiet of her slumljers, a native 
pine has grown up at her foot-stone and now 
breathes its pensive whispers, dirge-like, over 
her remains. Even her headstone, as if weary 
with watching, has assumed a leaning posture. 
From its crumbling edges I gathered a few frag- 
ments, and also culled a few of the many wild 
liowers that had blossomed in its shadow. These 
1 have carefully preserved in a picture-frame. 
The fragments and flowers are soaranged in the 
frame as to give tlie flowers the appearance of 
having sprung to life, naturally, out of broken 
ledge of slate rock. This picture, as inartistic as 
it may be, now adorns the walls of my library. 
Simple as this device may seem to others, it is 
and ever will be regarded by me as a relic of 
priceless value." 

The genealogical record of the family indi- 
cates that the first American ancestor was Ed- 
mund Rice, who emigrated with his wife and 
seven children from Barkharasted, England, to 
America, in 1638, and settled in Sudbury, 
Massachusetts. Barkhamsted, about twenty 
miles northwest of London, is a town of great 
historical interest. Originally, from the first 
to the fourth century, it was the camp of the 
lloinan Legions, whose vast earthworks are now 
visible and whose bastions are still green. It 
was also tiie first permanent camp of the Nor- 
man conqueror after the battle of Hastings in 
10G6, where he i-eceived the submission of Lon- 
don. A castle was here erected, which was a 
royal residence long before that of Windsor, and 
which is still visible in its ruins. It was the 
residence of the royal line of York, terniinulinji 



in the death of Eichard III, last of the Plan- 
tagenets, seven years before the discovery of 
America. But above all kings and courtiers it 
is interesting as the birth-place of the poet 
Cowper, whose father was rector of the church. 

Mr. Rice's grandfather, Cyrus Rice, was the 
lineal descendant of Edmund. He emigrated 
from Worcester, Massachusetts, to Conway in 
1762, being the first white man who settled in 
that town. His only neighbors at that time 
were the dusky sons of the forest. In iiis family 
was born the first white child of the town — a 
daughter, whose name was Beiilah, and in his 
family occurred the first death, tliat of his wife. 
He lived to see the town generally settled, was 
the father of seven sons and three daughters, 
and died at the age of ninety-two years. One 
(if his sons, Stephen, was the father of Harvey 
Rice, and his mother's maiden name was Lucy 
Baker. They settled on the farm adjoining 
that of Cyrus, tlie primitive pioneer, and here 
Ilai vey Rice was born. The following record 
is extracted from "Leaflets of a Life-time;" 
" My father was a man of fine physical propor- 
tions, and of great physical strength. Though 
not highly educated he possessed a logical mind, 
and rarely met his equal in debating a theolog- 
ical question. As the grand object of life, he 
never sought wealth, nor did he obtain it. Yet 
he managed to live in comfortable circum- 
stances, and always sustained an irreproachable 
character. He died in 1850 in theeigiity-third 
year of his age. For his memory I entertain a 
profound filial regard, and shall ever recall with 
gratitude his parental kindness and solicitude 
for my welfare." 

The contemporaneous historical events sur- 
rounding the period of one's birth and boyhood 
are no less interesting to recall than those jnore 
commonly noted at the period of death. When 
light first gladdened the infant eyes of Harvey 
Rice, John Adams was president; George III still 
lived; Washington had l>eeii entombed at Mt. 
Vernon but si.\ months; Napoleon had but re- 
cently fought the battle of the Pyramids; the 
then future city of hi.- ultimate adoption had 



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existed, on paper only, for four years; Europe 
then aud for twenty years thereafter, was in the 
thi-oes of the French Revolution, and the cur- 
rent foreign news read by the youth of New 
England was of battles by land and sea — of 
Nelson and the Nile, of Trafalgar and Copen- 
hagen, of Marengo, Austerlitz, and Lodi's 
fatal bridge, of Wellington and Waterloo. 
Poetry then more than now was read by old 
and young alike. While Plutarch and Gibbon 
were read and revered, poetry had more delight- 
ful fascination, especially for youth. Milton 
was associated with Isaiah; the Paradise Lost 
was regarded of confirmatory of and proof of 
Holy Writ; Pollock and Young were in every 
iiousehold; Cowper and Goldsmith were deemed 
standard poets; Gray's Elegy was in every 
school reader; Shakespeare suggested the sin- 
ful theater and therefore was not so generally 
read and appreciated as in later years ; Bryan t and 
Scott were the most popular authors; the grace 
of the " Lady of the Lake" and the grandeur 
of the Hebrew Melodies were the literary themes 
of New England social life. In such historical 
and literary atmosphere was awakened and de 
veloped the bright and reflective mind in the 
springtime of the life of Harvey Rice. But 
above all were his youth and early manhood in- 
fluenced and inspired by his older contemporary, 
the poet Bryant, whose birth-place was the 
neighboring town of Cumraington, and whose 
" Thanatopsis " was the foundation of his sub- 
sequent, pre-eminent, poetic and scholarly fame. 
Such were the influences that surrounded his 
youth and ultimately directed his footsteps and 
lighted his pathway to Williams College at 
which he graduated in 1824. From the close 
of the Revolution the course of empire from 
the Atlantic States has ever been westward, first 
to Holland Purchase, next to New Connecticut 
or the Western Reserve, then onward still, until 
now, after a lapse of a hundred years, there is 
no more West. Immediately on leaving college 
Mr. Rice came directly to tiie Reserve, — the 
stiige coach, Erie canal boat, and schooner from 
Buffalo, being in that day the most expeditious 



means of conveyance, — arriving at Cleveland on 
the 24th day of September, 1824, then only a 
village of 400 inhabitants. The most imposing 
brick structure then erected was the Cleveland 
Academy on St. Clair street, now (1894) occu- 
pied as headquarters by the fire department of 
the city. Here the accomplished young grad- 
uate immediately secured a position of classical 
teacher and principal. In the meantime he 
entered his name as student in the office of 
Reuben Wood, Esq., and employed his leisure 
hours in study. In the spring of 1826 he re- 
signed his position in the academy and went to 
Cincinnati, where he continued his legal studies 
with Bellamy Storer, Esq. Returning to Cleve- 
land he was admitted to the bar and commenced 
the practice of law in partnership with his early 
friend, Reuben Wood, who afterward became 
Chief Justice and then Governor of the State. 
In 1828 he united in marriage with Miss 
Fannie Rice at the home of his law partner. 
She died in 1837. Three years later, in 1840, 
he married Emma Maria Wood, who was his 
beloved companion nearly fifty years, preceding 
him in death a little less than three years, in 
1889. He was the Iiappy father of sons and 
daughters. In 1830 he was elected represent- 
ative to the legislature. Though one of the 
youngest members, he was honored with a place 
on the joint committee appointed to revise the 
statutes of the State, the revision of 1830 
being the first ever undertaken of the Ohio 
statutes. In the course of this revision, many 
new provisions were incorporated into the laws, 
some of which were prepared by Mr. Rice and 
are still retained on the statute-book. Near 
the close of the session he was appointed by 
that body, agent to sell the Western Reserve 
school lands, some 50,000 acres in Holmes and 
Tuscarawas counties. To that end he opened 
an office in Millersbnrg. This important public 
service havitig been accomplished, in 1833 he 
returned to Cleveland and was appointed Clerk 
of the county courts, which position he held for 
for seven years. Within that period he was 
twice nominated by his party for Congress. In 



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CUTAUOGA COUNTY. 



1851 be was elected to the State Senate and was 
made chairman on the committee on schools. 
Til is proved to be the occasion of his winning 
an honorable and lasting fame, it being no less 
to the end of his life than his pnblic recogni- 
tion as " Father of the Common School System 
of Ohio." 

The jonrnals of the Ohio Senate furnish a 
complete record of the inception, draft, rejiort, 
and advocacy of the school bill by Senator Rice, 
;iii'l tiie vote, almost unanimous, f.vontytvvo to 
luir. by which it passed that body, and ulti- 
mately the house, and thus became alikea law and 
a blessing to a generation of the children of the 
State. The leading journals of the State, with- 
out distinction of party, were unanimous in 
their friendly greeting of the new school law, 
and published his speech with editorial com- 
ments on its clearness of statement and happy 
illustration, and awarded tlie meed of approval 
and praise to Senator Rice for his great and 
beneficent work. And now after forty years it 
reads like a prophecy fulfilled. The following 
are its concluding paragraphs: 

"By the provisions of this bill, it is intended 
to make our common schools what they ought 
to be, — the colleges of tlie people, — cheap 
enough for the poorest and good enough for the 
richest. "With but a slight increase of taxation, 
schools of different grades can be established 
and maintained in any township of the State, 
and the sons and daughters of our farmers and 
mechanics have an opportunity of acquiring a 
finished education, equal with the more favored 
of the land. In this day, the elements of mind 
now slumbering among the masses, like a fine 
unwrought marble in the quarry, will be aroused 
and brought out to challenge the admiration of 
the world. Philosophers and sages will abound 
everywhere, ou the farm and in the workshops, 
and many a man of genius will stand among 
the masses and exhibit a brilliancy of intellect 
which will be recognized in the circling years 
of the future as 'A light, a land-mark on the 
ciitls of time.' It is only the educated man who 
iii competent to interrogate nature and com- 



prehend her relations. Though 1 would not 
break down the aristocracy of knowledge of the 
present age, yet, sir, I would level up and 
equalize and thus create, if I may be allowed 
the expression, a democracy of knowledge. In 
this way, and in this way only, can men be 
made equal in fact, equal in their social and 
political relations, equal in mental refinement, 
and in a just appreciation of what constitutes 
man the brother of his fellow man. 

"In conclusion, sir, allow me to express my 
belief that the day is nut far distant when 
Ohio, in the noble cause of popular education 
and of human rights, will lead the column and 
become what she is capable of becoming, — a star 
of the first magnitude, the brightest in the 
galaxy of our American Ui»ion." 

In the autumn of 1852, Mr. Rice made a fly- 
ing trip through most of the Southern States 
accompanied by his wife and son. They pro- 
ceeded from Cleveland by the way of Xew York, 
Washington, Richmond, Wilmington, Charles- 
ton and Savannah; and returned home by the 
way of Mobile, New Orleans, the Mississippi 
river and Cincinnati, having made a circuit of 
nearly 5,000 miles. A very interesting account 
of the journey was given in a series of letters l)y 
Mr. Rice, in a New York magazine. Later in 
life, after the opening of the trans-continental 
railroad, he visited California, and coasted along 
its pleasant shores, and delighted the public, 
through his home journal, with a charming 
description of the country of the Golden Gate. 
Mr. Rice enjoyed a serene, placid, domestic, 
social and literary life. In 1871, Williams Col- 
lege conferred upon him the honorary degree of 
Doctor of Laws. He often participated in the 
reunions of the alumni in the halls of his alma 
mater, and as often delivered a poem, or a more 
formal address. He was very industrious. Be- 
sides the almost constant and gratuitous local 
public service, in the council, and on boards of 
finance and of penal and charitable institutions, 
his daily life work was in his library, among 
the hundreds of standard volumes of science, 
philiicophy, literature and law. llio pen wa^ 




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never idle, and the product tliereof consists of 
several volumes of history, biography, poems 
and essays, — philosophical and scientific, — em- 
hpHcing many subjects uf modern tliought from 
women's rights to the glacial period. 

In the development and preservation of local 
history, the industrious researches of Mr. Kice 
are among ihe most valuable and precious 
treasures of our historical institutions. He was 
the early friend and ever cherished the Western 
iicserve Historical Society, now holding within 
its noble structure the richest collection of the 
historical and antique in the State. The his- 
torical insjjirations of his soul embraced national 
no less than local themes, early manifested in 
the erection of the colossal statue of Commodore 
Perry, the first suggestion of which was made 
by him while a member of the city council in 
1857. He was made a chairman of the com- 
mittee charged with the execution of the enter- 
prise. In 1867 he erected at his own expense, 
in the domain of AVilliams College, a beautiful 
grove called " Mission Park," a noble monu- 
ment commemorative of the pious students' 
service of prayer in 1806, when and where was 
first announced the inspired thought that led to 
the organization of the American Board of 
Foreign Missions. From its organization in 
1879 until his death, he was the president and 
inspiring spirit of the Early Settlers' Associa- 
tion, and in that capacity he annually delivered 
a discourse, pertinent and attractive, largely his- 
torical, touching incidents and events in the 
lives of the oldest and most noted pioneers. 
Under tlie authority and parentage of the as- 
sociation he caused to be erected in the Public 
Square the statue of Moses Cleaveland, the 
founder of the city, the same being dedicated 
July 22, 1888. On each of those several oc- 
casions of dedications and unveiling of monu- 
ments and statues, Mr. Rice was called upon to 
deliver a memorial historical address. Annually 
during the last decade, the birtlidayof Mr. Eice 
was observed by his neighbors and many of the 
oldest citizens, by calls and joyful greetings; 
and for the last five years of his happily pro- 



longed life, those occasions developed into some- 
thing like a levee, tilling his library and parlors 
with old and young alike, among whom he 
moved, the Nestor of the age, the most cheer- 
ful of the company, and the grandest example 
of bright intellect and happy old age. The 
personality of Harvey Rice commanded alike 
respect and reverence. Noble in stature, with 
a countenance reminding one of the well-known 
likeness of the poet "Whittier, his pleasant social 
qualities and genial spirit awakened a sentiment 
of regard akin to affection. 



iILLIAM H. WHEELOCK, editor of 
the Exponent, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, 
= was born in New Glasgow, Canada, 
September 3, 1840. His father, William Wheel- 
ock, was the youngest son of William AVheel- 
ock, and was born in county AVexford, Ireland, 
in the year 1782, emigrated with his father's 
family to America in the year 1800, and set- 
tled in Florida, Orange county. New York. 
He was a tanner and currier by trade, and pur- 
sued that business as foreman and manager of 
a large tannery at Hunter, Greene county. New 
York, for many years. In 1837 he removed to 
New Glasgow, Canada, to manage a new tan- 
nery at that place, and after a little time, secur- 
ing a plant of hisown, he carried on the business 
for about ten years, when he returned to Hun- 
ter, New York, and engaged in the manufacture 
of chairs until 1851. The business was then 
transferred to Bedford, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, 
where he lived, respected by all who knew him, 
until 1867, when in the fullness of years he 
fearlessly entered the phantom bark and crossed 
to the further shore. In politics he was a 
stanch Jacksonian Democrat, and continued to 
abide in that faith until the slavery question 
drove him from his moorings, and, under pro- 
test, he finally drifted into the Republican party. 
In his domestic relations he was very fortu- 
nate, having in early life married Miss Sarah E. 
Curry, who was an only daughter, a descendant 
of the old South Carolina Huguenots, born in 



VUrAllOdA COUNT}'. 



Florida, Oratige county, New York, and who 
died in Bedford, Ohio, at the age of eighty 
years. She was a woman domestic in taste and 
habits, yet an extensive reader and a vigorous 
thinker. The latter characteristics she stamped 
indelibly upon her progeny. She was the 
mother of eight children, three daughters and 
five sons: Charles, who was drowned when 
twelve years old; Frances, the wife of Rev. W. 
W. Foster, of Eound Lake, Saratoga county. 
New York; Bloomfield J., of New York city, a 
pioneer in the manufacture of fine cane-seat 
chairs in Ohio; Wilson T., a station agent for 
thirty years on the Cleveland & Pittsburg Rail- 
road at Bedford, Ohio; Emily, the widow of H. 
J. Oldman, resides in Bedford, Ohio; Sarah 
aiid William, both of whom died in infancy; and 
William Henry. 

William Henry, the youngest and the subject 
of this sketch, removed from Canada with his 
parents to Greene county, New York, and thence 
in 1852 to Bedford, Ohio. He acquired the ru- 
diments of an education in both public and pri- 
vate schools in Canada, mastered the " three 
R's" in New York, finished the course in Ohio, 
and added the non-essentials while in the army. 

At tiie age of fourteen he began to learn the 
chair-making business, and, having both ambi- 
tion and mechanical genius, he soon rose to the 
position of superintendent in a large manufac- 
tory. Here he remained until 1862, when he 
listened to and heeded the call of his country and 
enlisted as a private in Company G, One Hun- 
dred and Tiiird Regiment, Ohio Volunteer In- 
fantry. He was soon promoted to be Second 
Sergeant, but his ambition to wear the stars was 
stifled by being detailed to do duty in tiie Com- 
missary Department of the Twenty-third Army 
Corps, where he remained three years. He was 
mustered out in June, 1865, and is now a mem- 
ber of N. L. Norris Post, No. 40, G. A. R. He 
participated in several battles daring his service 
and always managed to give more than he re- 
ceived — a condition which has continued to be 
characteristic of the man in all the relations of 
life. 



Upon receiving his discharge he returned to 
Bedford and became foreman in the New 1 ork 
chair factory, and later became a stockholder in 
the Bedford Chair Company. Thus he went on 
in the even tenor of his way until 1873, when 
he wMth others went to Anderson, Indiana, and 
built a chair factory at that place, where he re- 
mained until 1876. He then returned to Bed- 
ford and resumed chair-making until the autumn 
of 1879, when the manufactory was destroyed by 
tire. From 1880 to 1883 he was in the chair 
business in Cleveland, Ohio, when he received a 
call from a newly organized chair company at 
Cambridge, Ohio, to come to their employ, 
which he did, and remained with the Cambridge 
company until 1890, when he was called to as- 
sume the responsible position of editor-in-chief 
of the Chagrin Falls Exponent, a newspaper of 
large circulation and extensive influence in 
nortiieastern Ohio. 

For some years previous to his assuming the 
Journalistic role of editor, Mr. Wheelock had 
been fitting himself for that business. Either 
as sub-editor or correspondent he had at differ- 
ent times been connected with the Cleveland 
Plain Dealer, the Guernsey Times, the Expo- 
nent and other newspapers. Mr. Wheelock was 
for eight years a member of the Council of the 
incorporated village of Bedford, and to his en- 
lightened and liberal policy the village is in- 
debted for many of its most valuable improve- 
ments. He also served very acceptably as a mem 
ber of the Board of Education for several terms. 

Mr. Wheelock w-as married in November, 
1860, to Miss Ellen Kirkham, who was a native 
of Boston, Summit county, Ohio, but who came 
with her father and his family to Bedford while 
she was yet an infant. She crossed to the other 
side in May, 1878, leaving her husband, three 
daughters and one son to mourn her early de- 
mise: Jessie M., wife of F. A. Morse, of Ki- 
owa, Kansas; Rose A., wife of James C. Cam- 
eron, of Bedford, Ohio; Hattie E., a popular 
and skillful teacher in the Bedford public schools, 
and William H., Jr., a "chip from the old 
block.'" an<l a chair-maker, also. 



CUTAUOr.A COUNTY. 



As a man Mr. Wheelock is manly. As a 
citizen he fills the measure of gocd citizenship. 
As a friend he abides with you in adversity as 
well as ill prosperity. As a soldier he served 
his country faithfully and well. As an orator 
he deals more largely in logic than in rhetoric. 
As a politician he is a faihrre, for when his par- 
ty leaders, in furtherance of their nefarious 
schemes, need him, he refuses to be "kneaded." 
As a writer his trenchant and facile pen is a 
terror to demagogues, corruptionists, plutocrats, 
and all enemies of the commuTi people, of what- 
ever species or name. As a Christian his theory 
is a little defective, but his practice is in the 
main correct. 



TK. ni!SSETTE, Assistant Prosecuting At- 
torney and acting County Solicitor, was 
born in Bradford, Siincoe county, Canada, 
September 22, 1838. He has been a res- 
ident of Cuyahoga county since 1873. His 
parents were John E. and Joanna (Chapman) 
Dissette. At his native place our subject was 
educated in the common and classical schools, 
finishing his education at Kingston. He then 
entered the ministry of the Wesleyan Methodist 
Church of Canada. In January, 1863, he came 
to Oliio, located at Cleveland and soon there- 
after accepted the position of Chaplain of 
the Christian commission. He was then for 
one and a half years stationed at Bolivar, for 
one year at Millersbiirg, then at Ontario for 
three years, then at Ashland three years, at Berea 
three years, then at Lorain Street Methodist 
Church, this city, one year. The year 1876 
closed his ministerial work. He had entered 
the Cleveland Law School in 1874, and in 1875 
he graduated from this school and was admitted 
to the bar of Ohio by the Supreme Court. He 
formed a law partnership with Judge William 
E. Sherwood, but the partnership was of short 
duration. Mr. Dissette then became a partner 
in the practice of law with William Mitchell, 
Es(|., which partnership was continued from 



June, 1878, to July, 1879. C.W. Cope then be- 
came a partner with Mr. Dissette, and this part- 
nership lasted from July, 1880, to July, 1885. 

January 1, 1885, Mr. Dissette became assist- 
ant prosecuting attorney for Cuyahoga county, 
having charge of the solicitor's department, 
and from that date to tliia he has with entire 
satisfaction to the bar and the public filled this 
position. Prior to entering on the duties of 
this position he served as solicitor four years 
for the village of Glenville. He is now solici- 
tor for Cullinwood. For five years he was legal 
editor of the "Ohio Farmer." Mr. Dissette is 
author as well as publisher of tlie well known 
and accepted " Ohio Farmer's Law Book." A 
very great deal of his time is now consumed in 
drafting forms for the county administration of 
affairs. In 1892 he organized the CoUinwood 
Brick and Terra Cotta Company and was elected 
president, and still holds that position. 

He is now a candidate for nomination as a 
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Cuya- 
hoga county, and has recently been elected pres- 
ident of the Cleveland and Akron Electric Rail- 
way Company, a project that gives promise of 
connecting the most enterprising city of North- 
ern Ohio with the great City of Cleveland. 

As a thinker Mr. Dissette is clear and deep; 
as a Avriter he is of no mean ability, and as a 
speaker he is no less able. 

Mr. Dissette is a member of the A. F. and 
A. M., being a Scottish rite Mason in the United 
States jurisdiction. 

Mr. Dissette was married in Canada to Miss 
Sarah Fisher, who has borne liim four sons and 
three daughters. 



ff ON. E. N. THOMPSON, e.x-Mayor of 



West Cleveland villa 



ge. 



born 



H 

II -1 1839, in this city, a son of Nelson and 
■ Emeline (Ameden) Thompson, being 

one of two children born of these parents, the 
other being Calista A. For years the father was 
in the shingle business as a manufacturer and 



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dealer. When the subject of this sketch was a 
child of eight months his father passed awaj in 
death, and when twelve years of age he lost al- 
so his mother. 

He gained a common-school edncation, but 
lieing thrown upon his own resources very early 
ill life he was not permitted the best of educa- 
tional advantages. When the Civil war came 
on he enlisted, in October, 1861, in Company G-, 
Second Ohio Cavalry, and was honorably dis- 
charged at Columbus, in 1863. It fell to his lot 
to be in tliat division of the army whose work 
was that of contending with the " bushwhack- 
ers," and by reason of such service his hard- 
ships were exceedingly great. From 1864 to 
1871, Mr. Thompson was engaged in the prod- 
uce and commission business in the city of 
Cleveland. In 1871 he became engaged in the 
manufacture of corrugated iron and steel roof- 
ing, in which he has since been interested. 

In politics, Mr. Thompson has always been 
a staunch Republican. He served as a mem- 
ber of the West Cleveland Village Council for 
three terms, from April, 1883, to April, 1887, 
and from April, 1891, to April, 1893, and then 
was elected Mayor, which office he held until 
April 1, 1894, when by annexation the village 
of West Cleveland became a part of the City of 
Cleveland. 

Mr. Thompson is also president of the Thomp- 
son Manufacturing Company, an institntion of 
considerable importance, afPording employment 
to a number of skilled workmen and laborers. 

Mr. Thompson was married in 1864, to Miss 
Eliza J. Camp, a daughter of Charles L. and 
Clarissa Camp, and the marriage has been 
blessed by the birth of six children: Mary E., 
Charles N., Clarissa E., Frank Thatcher, David 
P., and Harold E., three of whom are living. 
Clarissa E., died in 1870, aged six mouths; Har- 
old E. died in 1884, aged six months; Frank 
Thatcher was scalded by the steam-chest cover 
blowing off on the steamer Choctaw, on Lake St. 
Clair, April 19, 1893, and died at Marine Hos- 
pital, Detroit, Michigan, the following day, aged 
twenty- two years. 



Mrs. Thompson is from one of the oldest and 
best known families, her father being one of the 
most prominent men of the city of Cleveland. 
He was vice-president of the old City Bank, 
now the National City Bank. He died in the 
year 1864. Mrs. Thompson is a member of the 
Episcopal Church. She received a liberal edu- 
cation in the public schools of Cleveland and 
is an accomplished lady. 



f(OHN H. MELCHER, funeral director at 
i^ J! 533 Central avenue, Cleveland, was born 
^^ in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, June 7, 1850, 
a son of Fred Melcher. The latter was born in 
Germany, on New Year's day, 1821, and in 
1845 came to Amei-ica, locating at Euclid, Cuy- 
ahoga county, Ohio. He had been a life-long 
farmer. His wife died a few days after the 
birth of our subject, he being their only child. 
Mr. Melcher was again married, and to that 
union were born two sons and four daughters, 
all now living. 

John H., the subject of this sketch, began 
making his own way in the world at the age of 
fourteen years. Hisfirst work was in a furniture 
store, for the following nine years was employed 
by two undertaking firms, during the next three 
years was engaged in teaming, followed the 
carpet-cleaning business six years, and August 
1, 1892, embarked in his present occupation. 
Mr. Melcher has built up a large and lucrative 
trade. 

In 1873 he was united in marriage with Miss 
Susie Glime, a native of Germany, and a daugh- 
ter of Paul and Catherine Glime, natives also 
of that country. They came to America about 
thirty-six years ago, when Mrs. Melcher was 
three years of age, and for many years have re- 
sided at No. 30 Grant street, Cleveland, Ohio. 
The father, a house painter by occupation, is 
now seventy years old, and the mother is sixty- 
seven years of age. They are members of the 
German Lutheran Church. Mr. and Mrs. Glime 
have had three cliildrcn: Dora, who married 



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Phillip Riedle, of Collinwood, Ohio, and they 
liave six children, Phillip, Henry, Susie and 
Dora, etc. ; Susie, wifeof our subject; Henry, who 
died May 15, 1892, at the age of twenty-nine 
years, married a Miss Harvercorn, and had two 
sons, Arthur and Elmer. Our subject and wife 
have three children: Ida, Birdie and Paul. 
They are members of the German Lutheran 
Church, and the former affiliates with the Re- 
pul)lican party. Mr. Melcher's life has been a 
quiet but busy one. He has always had an en- 
viable reputation for honesty, industry and pro- 
gressive spirit, and takes rank with the worthy 
and foremost young business men of the city. 



CHARLES KOEBLER, an undertaker at 
369 Woodland avenue, and 470 Prospect 
street, Cleveland, was born in this city, 
August 31, 1858, a son of Charles and Anna 
(Singer) Koebler, natives of Germany. The 
father came to America in 1838, was married 
in Cleveland, and his wife died in this city in 
1884, at the age of forty-seven years. She was 
a member of the St. John's Evangelical Church. 
Mr. and Mrs. Koebler had five children, viz.: 
Amelia, wife of Phillip Hill, who resides on 
Wilson avenue, this city; Charles, our subject; 
Julius, who is employed by his i)rother Charles; 
Louis, travelling salesman for the Springfield 
Metallic Casket Company; and William, also 
employed by our subject. 

Charles Koebler received his education and 
learned the undertaking business in his native 
city. During his early life he was employed as 
entry clerkfor the firm of Morgan, Root & Co., of 
Cleveland, several years; spent one year in the of- 
fice of the Erie Railroad; and since that time has 
followed his present occupation. Mr. Koebler 
has the largest trade in his line in the city. 
From January 1 to September 1, 1893, he 
buried 285 persons. He has two carriages, three 
hearses, two casket wagons, twelve horses, and 
two ambulance wagons, one of which is said to 
be the finest in the United States. 



Mr. Koebler was married July 29, 1880, to 
Miss Margaret Keller, a daughter of Henry Kel- 
ler. They are members of the Episcopal Church. 
Mr. Koebler voles with the Republican party, 
and is a member of Cleveland Chapter and of 
the order of Elks. 

Henry Keller, a retired insurance and real- 
estate dealer, was born in Germany, April 13, 
1810. In 1832 he came to America, locating 
in the Western Reserve. When he settled in 
Cleveland it contained about 800 inhabitants, 
and Mr. Keller first engaged in agricultural 
pursuits. He was afterward employed eight 
years at the Brooks House, and then drifted in- 
to the real-estate and insurance business, which 
he followed until his retirement. He is well 
and favorably known. 

Mr. Keller was married in 1840, to Miss 
Elizabeth Hoffman, who came with friends from 
Germany to America in 1836. Her death oc- 
curred in 1889, at the age of seventy-three 
years. She was a devout member of St. John's 
Evangelical Chnrch, of which Mr. Keller is also 
a member. They joined that organization when 
it contained only seven members, and, having no 
minister, the members took turns in reading a 
sermon or the Scripture. The church now con- 
tains a large membership. 



'Tr^) M. FULLER, electrician for the Cleve- 
Y^^ land Electric Railway Company, is a 
11 ^ native son of Cleveland, being born here 
^ April 9, 1863. He received a scant 

training in the public schools of this city and at 
thirteen entered Forest City Business College 
and completed a course some months later. He 
soon became interested in electrical work, as an 
employe of the Brush Electric Conapany, and 
two years later took a superintendent's position 
with the same company in Nashville, Tennessee, 
and remained south five years. He became 
connected ne.Kt with the Thomson-Houston 
Company, of Boston, Massachusetts, and put in 
lighting pliints in many of the Southern States, 



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Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and others. (3n 
returning to the Forest City in 188G, he accepted 
a position with the Cleveland Electric Ligliting 
Company, and two years later accepted an offer 
with tiie Cleveland Electric Railway Company. 

Mr. Fuller is a son of Robert Fuller, a native 
of England, a civil engineer, who came to Cleve- 
land in 185-. For a time he was identified 
with the work on the original Panama canal. 
He was in the oil business in Cleveland and 
died iiere at seventy-two years of age. His 
wife, Susan, was also born in England. Three 
children were born to them: Mrs. F. M., widow 
of F. M. Belding; Martha, wife of F. J. Barns, 
of Fainesville, Ohio, and Robert M. The last 
named married in this city, September 4, 1884, 
May ElizaT)etli, a daughter of Thomas Larter, 
of New York, but for many years a resident of 
this city. The children of this union are: 
Roberta, Edith, Catherine and Edwin. 

Mr. Fuller is a Mason and a Knight of Pyth- 
ias, and was vice president of the Cleveland 
Electric Club, in 1892. He is a director of the 
Ohio Construction Company, organized for do- 
ing electrical construction work, and is inter- 
ested in some patents on electrical devices. 



1 lltlLBUR F. 
■1 11 Mr. W. F. 



BUTTON.— Among the 
business men of Cleveland, 
Mr. W. F. Uutton, of the well-known 
firm of Hull tte Dutton, occupies a conspicuous 
psition. Mr. Dutton was born in Ludlow, 
Hampden county, Massachusetts, on May 5, 
1854, and is the son of Jeremiah and Julia 
(Fisk) Dutton. The Dutton family was founded 
in America by John Dutton, who came from 
the county of Chester, England, in 1630, and 
settled in the old Bay State, becoming the pro- 
genitor of the American Duttons. The Fisk 
family was also among the prominent early New 
Englanders. Our subject w^as reared on a farm 
in his native county, and was educated in the 
public schools and at Wesleyan Academy, Wil- 
hraham. Massachusetts. He lietran his business 



career at the age of fifteen years as a boy in the 
otiices of the Ellington Mills, at Chicopee Falls, 
Massachusetts. Next he entered the emploj' of 
D.H.Brigiiam ct Company, clothing manufactur- 
ers of Springfield, Massachusetts, where he was 
initiated into the business of manufacturing and 
selling, and at the age of eighteen years he be- 
gan traveling for that firm through the New 
England States. In 1876 Mr. Dutton accepted 
a position as salesman with C. R. Mabley, of 
Detroit, Michigan, who was also at that time 
interested with E. R. Hull in Cleveland. He 
next spent five and a half years in the wholesale 
department of a clothing house in Rochester, 
New York, after which he returned to Mr. 
Mabley, in Detroit, and nine months later be- 
came a member of the firm now- known as 
Mabley & Company. This firm opened a large 
establishment in Baltimore, Maryland, and Mr. 
Dutton was sent to manage the same, and upon 
the death of Mr. Mabley he purchased a half 
interest in the Baltimore store, his partner be- 
ing Mr. J. T. Coren, who was also one of the 
firm of Mabley & Coren, of Cincinnati, Oiiio. 
Li 1890 Mr. Dutton cnme to Cleveland and lie- 
came junior member of the firm of E. R. Hull 
ik Dutton. This firm carries one of the largest 
and best stocks in the State of Ohio, embracing 
everything in the line of ready-made wearing 
apparel for both. sexes. Their main store on 
Ontario street is 80 x 120 feet in dimensions, oc- 
cupying five floors and basement, besides three 
annexes. The west annex is 40x80 feet, four 
stories high; the south annex is 22x120 feet, 
three stories high, and the Hallowell or Michi- 
gan street annex is 25 x 100 feet, three stories 
high. On the ground floor are men's furnishing 
goods and floor rugs; on the second floor, ladies' 
cloaks, millinery, gloves, shoes, etc., and Inncli 
room; on tiie third floor, youths' and children's 
clothing; and on the fourth floor, men's cloth- 
ing, overcoats, etc., while the fifth floor is 
utilized for reserve stock for the various depart- 
ments. The company employ a force of over 
250 clerks, and everything moves as if by clock 
work, the entire establishment being conducted 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



upon systematic plans. This gigantic establish- 
ment is the outgrowth of a small business that 
was started in 1871 in a little room, 18 x 50 feet, 
on the opposite side of Ontario street, near High 
street, by Messrs. Mabley & Hull. In 1873 
Mr. Mabley withdrew, and E. E. Hull was alone 
until 1883. The business increased rapidly and 
in 1875 new and larger quarters were necessary, 
and Mr. Hull removed to the building now oe- 
cnpied, where he took a portion of one floor, 
40 X 80 feet. In 1883 Messrs. J. C. McWalters 
aud S. E. Graves were admitted as partners with 
Mr. Hull, nnder the firm name of E. R. HulKfe 
Company, and the business was extended 
thi-oughout the Ijuilding from cellar to garret. 
Mr. Graves retired in 1885, and in 1890 the old 
firm was dissolved and re-organized, and the 
present firm name adopted. From a small and 
comparatively insignificant business in 1871 the 
house has grown and expanded year by year into 
one of the most extended and successful estab- 
lishments in the State of Ohio in 1894, with 
annual sales amounting to over a million and a 
half dollars. And at no time in the history of 
the house has its progi'ess been so rapid and 
substantial as during the years it has been nnder 
the management of Mr. Dutton. Since coming 
to Cleveland Mr. Dutton has made himself felt 
in commercial circles both at home and abroad. 
Almost from the first he easily took rank as one 
of the city's most progressive business men. He 
takes an active interest in all movemtnts and en- 
terprises looking to the development of the city 
and her institutions, and is always found on the 
right side of the leading questions. He believes 
firmly that a great future is in store for Cleve- 
land in the commercial and industrial world, 
and intends that both his business and himself 
shall keep pace with the growth of the city. 
His enterprise aud energy are unbounded, and 
all in all he is considered one of Cleveland's 
most prominent and representative citizens and 
bu.siness men. Personally Mr. Dutton is a most 



for social pleasure and enjoyment is great, and 
he enjoys a large circle of friends. He is a 
meml)er of the Chamber of Comujerce and of 
the Roadside and Athletic Clubs. 

In 1884, in Baltimore, Mr. Dutton was mar- 
ried to Miss Adelaide Kirschner, of Detroit, 
Michigan, and with his family resides at his res- 
idence " Duttonwood," one of the finest homes 
on Euclid avenue. 



agr 



reeable companion and friend. He is cour- 



ipan 



teons and easy of approach, and ^ 
erous and sympathetic nature. H 



agen- 
ipacity 



ELIJAH SMITH, who was for many years 
identified with the buiding interests of 
Cuyahoga county, is a native of the State 

of Connecticut, born in ISTew London county. He 
came to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1832, arriving May 
20th of that year. The family had lived for six 
years previous to this time in New York city. 
His parents, Erastus and Salome (Swift) Smith, 
were both born in Connecticut; the father was 
a contractor and builder, following this business 
all through life. He took a deep interest in 
local politics, and held the office of Coroner, 
Deputy United States Marshal, Justice of the 
Peace and Constable, being widely and favor- 
ably known. He was born in 1790, and died at 
the age of ninety-one years; his wife died July 
6, 1877. They reared a family of three sons 
and three daughters. The subject of this sketch 
and two sisters still survive. Arriving at the 
age of twenty-one years Mr. Smith embarked in 
business for himself, and since that time has 
filled a large and important place among build- 
ers and contractors. He has erected several 
handsome brick structures in Cleveland, and 
has won an enviable reputation for the fidelity 
with which he carries out his contracts to the 
minutest detail. He has also given especial at- 
tention to the erection of monuments for the 
dead, and his services have been in demand 
throughout Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and 
Indiana. He has had no aspirations for public 
office but discharges his duty as a loyal citizen 
of the re}iul)lic. 



('i'YAiio(/A fujirxry. 



Mr. Smith was united in marriage, December 
2. 1845, to Miss Emily Amelia Clieever, a 
daughter of Isaiah and Maria Cheever, natives 
of New York and Vermont respectively, both of 
whom are now deceased. Mrs. Smith is the 
oldest of a family of live children, ^nd is the 
only one surviving; she is now seventy-four 
years of age, is active in mind and body, and 
disposed to view only tiie roseate side of life. 
Mr. and Mrs. Smith are the parents of six child- 
ren: Maria, died at the age of two years; Jen- 
nie, died at the age of two months; Fanny is 
the wife of C. G. Taplin, of Cleveland, and the 
mother of four children; Clara L., Frank E., 
Farrand and Grace; Neander died at the age of 
thirteen years; L. W., who has succeeded to his 
father's business, married Miss Nail, and they 
have one child, Emily A.; Frank P. married 
Miss Katie Hiscock. Both the father and 
mother are consistent members of the Baptist 
Church, with which tliey have been identified 
for many years. 



A. LIVINGSTONE, assistant manager 
of J. L. Hudson's Excelsior clothing es- 
tablishment, in point of seniority ante- 
dates any clothing manager now in the city, 
having commenced business here twenty-six 
years ago, and been engaged continuously until 
the present time. Mr. Livingstone was born 
near Watertown, Jefferson county. New York, 
April 17, 1844, and like many of the substan- 
tial business men of to-day began the struggle 
of hewing out a name for himself without any 
of the advantages available to the youth of the 
present day. He began providing for himself 
at the early age of seven years, doing chores on 
a farm for his board and clothing. "When 
twelve years of age he apprenticed himself to 
the firm of Middleton jt Company, carriage 
manufacturers, and served four years. In the 
spring of 1862 he entered the clothing estab- 
lishment of Squiers & Dodge, Oswego, New 
York, as salesman, remaining until the spring 



of 1863, when he enlisted as a private in the 
Twentieth New York Cavalry, eomjnanded by 
Colonel N. B. Lord. He was promoted to the 
rank of Quartermaster Sergeant; during his 
time of service he participated in all of the en- 
gagements and raids in whicli his regiment took 
part in front of Richmond and Petersburg. 
When General Terry was ordered to take com- 
mand of the expedition for the capture of Fort 
Fisher he, along with two companies of the 
Twentieth New York Cavalry, was detached 
from tlie command as escort to General Terry. 
After the capture of Forts Fisher and Sugar 
Loaf, his command led the advance, entering 
Wilmington February 22. After marching to 
Magnolia Station they were ordered to report 
back for duty to the regiment at Spring Hill, 
Virginia. 

Mr. Livingstone was a valiant soldier, being 
twice wounded, and served his country till the 
close of the war, being honorably discharged at 
Manchester, Virginia, and mustered out at 
Sackett's Harbor, New York, September 11, 
1865. Eetnrning to Oswego, New York, he 
entered the service of his old employers, anti in 
1868 came with them to Cleveland, opening up 
a clothing establishment at 180 Superior street. 
In the spring of 1870 he became manager for 
W. L. Yates; in 1872 Mr. Yates opened the 
New York Store, Nos. 180 and 182, Ontario 
street, and placed Mr. Livingstone in charge, 
giving him an interest. He conducted the busi- 
ness successfully for five years, after which he 
became manager of E. M. McGillin & Com- 
pany's boys' and children's department, until the 
spring of 1884, when he entered the employ of 
Messrs. Stein, Bloch & Company as manager of 
the Excelsior, which positioi: he held until the 
firm sold their business to J. L. Hudson, in 
which house Mr. Livingstone is still assistant 
manager. He is also largely interested in real 
estate in Cleveland, carrying on business in this 
line, in connection with his son, C. R. Living- 
stone, under the firm name of C. A. Livingstone 
& Son. Mr. Livingstone has a fine residence 
and grounds called " Lawnview," delightfully 



CtrYAIItH'.A COUNTY. 



situated between the two beautiful parks of 
Wade and Gordon, in Glenville, the most pic- 
turesque subui-h of Cleveland. He is a great 
h)ver of fine hoi'ses. 

In his political views he is a stanch Republi- 
can; in his social relations is a member of K. 
of P., National Union, K. of H. and K. O.T. M. 

He was married, in Oswego, New York, in 
1867, to Miss Nellie Briggs, and they iiave had 
eight children, namely: Florence, wife of H. L. 
Sterling, contractor in paving; Nellie; Charles 
li., already referred to as a member of the firm 
of C. A. Livingstone & Son; Edith; Mabel; 
Etta; Harry S. ; and Paul, who died in infancy. 



D^AVID D. BARNES, engaged in the oil 
business at Collinwood, was born in 
— - Cleveland, Ohio, April 19, 1S47, a son 
of William and Elizabeth (Giles) Barnes, na- 
tives of England. Thej came to the United 
States in the early '30s, and for many years 
lived in a log house on Lake street, between 
Bond and Erie streets, Cleveland. The father, 
a carpenter and contractor by occupation, worked 
in and around the city, and is favorably remem- 
Ijered by the pioneer citizens. He died in 1849, 
at the age of thirty-seven yeai's. His wife was 
afterward married, and lier death occurred in 
1884, at the age of sixty-three years. They had 
four children, only two of whom are now living. 
William M. is a resident of Cleveland, and for 
many years has been a conductor on the Lake 
Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad. He was 
a soldier of the late war. Mrs. Elizabeth Barnes, 
mother of our subject, was well and favorably 
known in the Forest City, and will long be re- 
membered for her many deeds of kindness in 
the hospital and in private homes. Her mem- 
ory will be especially cherisiied in the Old La- 
dies' Home, wiien she supported several inmates 
at her own expense. She was a devoted mem- 
ber of tl.o Second Baptist Church of Cleveland. 
David D. Barnes, the subject of this sketch, 
received bis education in the public schools of 



Cleveland, and also spent one term in the Spen- 
cerian Business College. In the fall of 1863 he 
enlisted for service in the late war, entering 
Company F, Seventh Regiment of Kentucky 
Cavalry. He saw much hard service, and won 
the recognition and approval of his commanding 
officers by his courageous and soldierly bearing. 
Mr. Barnes took part in the Wilson raid, dur- 
ing which time they were on so short an allow- 
ance of rations for twelve days that starvation 
seemed to stare them in the face. With twenty- 
one others, including a captain and lieutenant, 
he was taken prisoner at LaFayette, Georgia, 
but made good his escape three days afterward. 
The others were taken to Andersonville, and 
eleven of their number suffered death on the 
steamer Sultana while on their way to their 
northern homes after being released from the 
prison. Mr. Barnes was honorably discharged 
from the service October 16, 1865. He has 
had a long service with the Lake Shore Rail- 
road, both as brakemaii and conductor, reaching 
over a period of twenty years. He closed his 
fervices with the road in 1885, since which time 
he has been engaged in the oil business. 

Mr. Barnes was married December 24, 1869, 
to Miss Henrietta Fell, a daughter of Thomas 
and Mary E. (Conness) t^eli. They have one 
child, Saidee, a pupil of the Collinwood sciiool. 
The father of Thomas Fell was also named 
Thomas. He was born in Oxfordshire, England, 
and became a dean in the Church of England, 
retaining this association for several years. He 
married an estimable lady, Margaret Williams, 
of Cappa, Ireland, and in 1831 they emigrated 
to the United States, settling in New York. The 
father of Mrs. Barnes was born in Ireland, and 
came to the United States with his parents at 
the age of fourteen years. He is still living, at 
the age of seventy-seven years. His wife died 
October 15, 1891, aged seventy- three years. 
She was a sister of John Conness, who was a 
California Senator in the United States Congress 
for three terms, and who married the niece of 
the late Benjamin F. Butler. Mrs. Mary Fell 
was a remarkable woman, her life having been 



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most exemplary — active, unassuming, gentle 
and full of deed;; of kindness. She was an ex- 
cellent Christian, of refined sensibilities, and of 
a warm-hearted and generous disposition. Mr. 
and Mrs. Fell iiad eleven children, eight of whom 
are still living, namely: Mary Jane, wife of A. 
B. Higgins, a resident of Cleveland and a vet- 
eran of the late war; Anna Eliza, widow of J. 
F. Sheid, who also served in the civil war; 
Matilda, wife of J. Barniim, a veteran of Cleve 
land; Louisa, wife of J. Sclilinger, of Collin- 
wood, Ohio; Henrietta, wife of onr suKject; 
Margaret, wife of K. O. Meacham, a resident of 
Cleveland and a veteran of the late war; Ella, 
now Mrs. E. D. Scott, and a resident of Cleve- 
land; and Emma, wife of William MuUins, also 
of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Barnes are members 
of the Congregational Church. In his social 
relations, the former has served as Chancellor 
of the K. of P., has passed all the chairs in the 
A. O. U. W., also in the Ancient Order of For- 
esters and the Union Veterans, has served as 
Commander of Brough Post, No. 359, G. A. R., 
for two years, and has been a member of the 
order of Railway Conductors. Politically, he 
affiliates with the Republican party, and has 
served as a member of the City Council for 
three years. Mis. Barnes has held the office as 
Treasurer of the Congregational Church for two 
years; has been President of the Woman's Re- 
lief Corps and is an officer in that society. She 
is active in all local works of charity, and is 
always notable for her self-abnegation and en- 
tire freedom from selfishness in any regard, 
her visitations to the sick and poor being ever 
welcome and grateful. 



EH. KLAUSTERMEYER, a wholesale 
and retail dealer in groceries, flour, feed, 
• -J etc., at 386 and 388 Prospect street, also 

at 474 Woodland avenue, was born in Hanover, 
Germany, in August, 1830. He is a son of 
Frederick and Eliza Klaustermeyer, both dying 
in their native country. The father, born in 



1800, died in 1839, and the mother, born in 
1803, departed this life about 1858. They were 
members of the German Lutheran Church. Mr. 
and Mrs. Klaustermeyer had five sons, two 
now living, namely: Henry, residing on the 
West Side, Cleveland; Carl, deceased in the old 
country; Martin, who died of cholera in this 
city, in 1854, at the age of twenty years; Will- 
iam, formerly a resident of Elmira, contracted 
consumption while in the army, and died in 
Cleveland; and E. H., the subject of this sketch. 
The latter received his educatioTi in the old 
country. At the age of twenty-one years he 
came to Cleveland, Ohio, where hu followed 
various occupations until 1857, and in that year 
opened a small grocery store on Prospect street. 
In the fall of 1858 he became associated in 
business with J. H. Melcher, but in 1884 Mr. 
Klaustermeyer purchased his partner's interest, 
and since that time has continued alone, assisted 
by his sons. The business at 474 Woodland 
avenue was purchased in 1887, and they are 
there engaged in the sale of hardware, groceries 
and supplies, and in the manufacture of brushes, 
small tacks, etc. Five men are employed in the 
brush factory, five others are given employment 
as clerks, one man is engaged in soliciting orders 
from the stores, and another employed in de- 
livering. This branch of the business is man- 
aged by Mr. Klaustermeyer's eldest son, Henry. 
His Prospect street store is forty feet front, by 
100 feet deep and forty-three ftet in the rear. 
At that place he carries a full stock of groceries, 
fiour and feed. In business circles, Mr. Klaus- 
termeyer ranks with the leading and enterprising 
men of the city. He has always shown a pub- 
lic spirit in worthy enterprises, such as promise 
well .for the best interests of the city. 

In 1858 he was united in marriage with Miss 
Mary Stegkemper, a daughter of E. U. Steg- 
kemper, a resident of East Cleveland. Mrs. 
Klaustermeyer died in February, 1889, at the 
age of fifty years. She was a member of the 
German Lutheran Church. Our subject and 
wife had eight children, namely: Einma and 
Maria, at home; Henry, superintendent of the 



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Klaiisterineyer Company; Frederick, bookkeeper 
for liis father; Martin and Edwin, employed as 
clerks; and Dora and Carl, attending school. 
Henry Klaustermeyer married Lida Sitzelinan. 
The taniily are members of the Lutheran Church. 
In political matters, Mr. Klaustermeyer and 
sons are followers of McKinley. 



EOKGE W. STEVENSON, a physician 
' and surgeon at No. 1437 Woodland ave- 
nue, Cleveland, was born in this city, 
' October 16, 1846. His father, William 
Stevenson, was born in Sussex county, England, 
September 9, 1811. At the age of sixteen 
years he came to America, and began work with 
a ship-building lirtn of Utica, New York, where 
he learned his trade. He was afterward em- 
ployed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard until 1838, 
and in that year became one of the pioneer set- 
tlers of Cle\eland. During the first few years 
here, Mr. Stevenson built canal boats at the 
Five Mile lock, was next employed with a 
number of the old vessel-building firms, and 
afterward the firm of Laffrinier & Stevenson 
was formed, pioneer shipbuilders of this city. 
In 1864, after a partnership of about twenty 
years, Mr. Stevenson retired from the firm, and 
moved to a farm in Perry, Lake county, where 
ho died suddenly of apoplexy, July 23, 1889, 
at the age of seventy eight years. He was mar- 
ried February 3, 1844, to Miss Sarah Ann 
McGee, who was born in New York, in 1820. 
Her father, John McGee, was a Lieutenant in a 
New York regiment during the war of 1812. 
Mrs. Stevenson is now an honored resident of 
Cleveland, having reached the advanced age of 
seventy-three years. She has lived a useful life, 
and forms one of the happy links uniting the 
present with the past history of the city. Mr. 
and Mrs. Stevenson had three children: George 
AV., our subject; Frank I., a farmer of Lake 
county, Ohio, married Josepliine Isabel; and 
Fanny, wife of William William*, of Kearney, 
Nebraska. 



George W. attended the public schools of 
Cleveland, afterward cimipleted the studies in 
the business college, and in the spring of 1872 
graduated at the Medical Department of the 
Western Reserve College. After spending two 
years in what is now the Lakeside Hospital, on 
the corner of Erie and Lake streets, he began 
the practice of medicine in this City. He was 
assistant in clinics with Dr. X. C. Scott, and 
had charge of the eye and ear department of the 
Medical College, served as Physician of the 
work-house two years, is a member of andmed- 
icalexamiuerforthe I. 0. O. F., Royal Arcanum, 
the American Legion of Honor, is a member of 
the Cuyahoga Medical Society, and the State 
Medical Society. In political matters, the Doc- 
tor votes with the Republican party. 

December 31, 1873, he was uni-ted in mar- 
riage with Miss Alice L., a daughter of A. and 
Lucretia Little. For her second husband, the 
mother married an uncle of President Garfield. 
Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson have one son, Frank 
W., now engaged in the study of electricity and 
chemistry. The Doctor and wife are members 
of the Evangelical Association, in which the 
Doctor has served as Trustee. As a citizen Dr. 
Stevenson is progressive, public-spirited and 
highly esteemed, and as a practitioner stands in 
in the front rank of his profession. 



EORGE G. MILLIKIN, an engineer on 
the Valley Railroad, was born in Mercer 
I! county, Pennsylvania, February 8, 1867, 
a son of John D. Millikin, a farmer by 
occupation. The latter died in 1872, at the age 
of fifty-seven years. He married Margaret Mc- 
Coy, and they had five children: Robert, a resi- 
dent of Emporia, Kansas; John T., of Mc- 
Pherson, that State; Sarah, who married a Mr. 
Van Norman; Margaret, wife of F. C. Raning, 
of Sharpsville, Pennsylvania; and Frances, 
widow of Davis, of Cleveland. Mr. Mil- 
likin afterward married Caroline A. Hewett, 
and they had six cliildren, namely: Sophia, wil\; 



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of Cliailes Taylor, of Sharpsville, Pennsylvania; 
Xellie A.; O. L., an engineer on the West Shore 
Railroad, and a resident of Newbury, Xew York ; 
Grace G., George G., and Delia G., wife of 
W. C. Ripley, of Cleveland. Tiie grandfather 
of our subject was born in the highlands of 
Scotland, but in his youth moved to Ireland, 
where he remained until about the beginning of 
the eighteenth century, and then came to Amer- 
ica, locating in Mercer county, Pennsylvania. 
The Hewett family are of German ancestry, but 
they located in Penn.sylvania as early as 1682. 

George G. Miliikin, the subject of this sketch, 
was reared in Sharpsville, Pennsylvania, but re- 
ceived only a limited education. He secured 
the position of switchman in the Cleveland 
yard of the New York, Pennsylvania & Oiiio 
Railroad in 1889, one year afterward became a 
br.ikeman on the Valley Road, and nine months 
later was promoted to the position of freight 
conductor. 

Mr. Miliikin was married in this city, in 
1888, to Cordelia Logan. Her father is engaged 
in railroading at Sharpsville, Pennsylvania. 
Three children have been born to this union, 
only one of which is now living, — Harriet 
Irene, aged two years. 



IV IfOYES B. PRENTICE, a prominent phy- 
I M '^'^i*'" of Cleveland, having an ofKce in 
J ^ the Cuyahoga Building, was born in 
^ Ashtabula county, Ohio, November 27, 

1827, a son of Noyes P>. and Thalia (Prentice) 
Prentice, natives respectively of New York and 
Vermont. The father followed tlie saddler's 
trade in Ashtabula county until sixty-five years 
of age, ne.xt had charge of a hotel at Jefferson, 
in tlie same county, for a number of years, then 
lived a retired life in Cleveland, and subse- 
quently moved to Geneva. Tiiere he met with 
one of the most severe afflictions in his history, 
in the death of his wife. Mr. Prentice then 
came to this city to reside with his daughter, 
and tlied in 1878, at the age of eighty-tive years. 



In 1837 lie took part in military, affairs, and 
was Captain of a cavalry company. Both Mr. 
and Mrs. Prentice were members of the Epis- 
copal Church. They were the parents of seven 
children, four still living, and all residing in 
Cleveland: Harriet, widow of Dudley Camp; 
Mary, wife of David Fisk, a veteran of the late 
war; Samuel H. and Noyes B. 

Dr. Walter M., the second in the family, 
served in the Sanitary Commission during the 
late war for about two years, then l)ecame a 
member of a Kentucky regiment of infantry, 
and was promoted from Regiment Surgeon to 
Brigade Surgeon, under General Fry. He had 
charge of the hospital at Point Bnrnside in 
Tennessee. He was taken sick, and started for 
the officer's hospital at Louisville, Kentucky, 
but died during the journey, at Stanford, Ken- 
tucky, in 1864, at the age of forty four years. 
The poisonous atmosphere of the hospital, his 
sympathetic nature and great desire to relieve 
the suifering even at the expense of his own 
strength, overtaxed his best powers of endur- 
ance, and his life was given a sacrifice in caring 
for the brave defenders of our nation's flag. 
His remains were brought to Cleveland and 
buried on the West Side. Dr. Prentice was a 
prominent member of the Episcopal Church, 
and was a personal friend of Bishop Bedell. 
His memory will live in the hearts of many 
worthy soldiers long after that of less important 
personages shall have passed away, and his name 
will be handed down to future generations as a 
synonym of all that is good and upright. 

Dr. Noyes B. Prentice, the subject of this 
sketch, received a common school and academic 
education. After leaving school he read medi- 
cine with Dr. John Hubbard, of Ashtabula, 
Ohio, also with his brother, Dr. Walter M. 
Prentice, who was then practicing in Canfield, 
Ohio. The latter came to Cleveland in 1853, 
and was followed by Dr. Noyes B. in 1855. The 
latter graduated at the Sterling Medical College, 
Columbus, Ohio, in 1854, and from the medi- 
cal department of the Western Reserve Medical 
College at a later day. In 1854 Dr. Prentice 



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began the practice of liis profession in Ganfield, 
Oliio, but six months afterward removed to 
Ravenna, Ohio, and in 1855 came to Cleveland, 
where he was engaged in a continuous practice 
in partnership with his brother. Dr. Walter M. 
Prentice, until the late war. In April, 1861, 
on Kinsman street, Dr. Xoyes B. Prentice or- 
ganized a hospital at Camp Taylor, Cleveland, 
Ohio, known as the Camp Tajlor Hospital. 
This work was done by direction of Colonel 
George B. Center, who was acting under the 
instructions of Governor Dennison of Ohio. 
Three months afterward the hospital was organ- 
ized on the " Heights," under the United States 
government, and was known as the United 
States General Hospital. Dr. Prentice served 
as acting Assistant United States Surgeon there 
until 1864, when he i-esigned the position to 
take charge of the United States Marine Hospi- 
tal at Cleveland, remaining in tiie latter until 
1872. In that year he was appointed United 
States Marshal for the Northern District of 
Ohio. He served two terms of four years each, 
in the latter position, from 1872 to 1880. His 
two commissions were both signed by General 
U. S. Grant. 

Dr. Prentice served as chairman of theCuya 
hoga Republican County Committee in 1872. 
The county gave a Republican majority of 
6,300, and elected General Noyes as Governor. 
For this service our subject received congratula- 
tory messages from General Grant, Honorable 
John Sherman, James G. Blaine, Governor 
Noyes, Robertson, Secretary of the Navy under 
General Grant, and others. Dr. Prentice was a 
personal friend of Senators John Sherman and 
Benjamin F. Wade. 

In 1853, in Monroe, Michigan, he was united 
in marriage with Miss Georgia A. Crary, a 
daughter of Oliver A. Crary, who was formerly 
a resident of Painesville, Lake county, Ohio. 
They have two children: Charles A., entry clerk 
in the custom house in Cleveland, although a 
resident of Mentor, Ohio; he married Minnie L. 
Abbey, and they have one child, Noyes B. 
Mary, the second child, is the wife uf Charles 



A. Dunklee, general manager of the Cleveland 
Paper Company : Georgia is their only child. 

Mrs. Prentice is a member of the Episcopal 
Church. Socially, Dr. Prentice is a Scottish 
Rite and Thirty-second-degree Mason, and po- 
litically is a staunch Republican. He is a man 
of liberal views, well informed on the leading 
topits of the day, has enjoyed a wide experience, 
and has made much of opportunity. In all his 
business relations he is strictly honorable, and 
enjoys the confidence and esteem of all who 
know him. 



ILL I AM CURTIS, of Strougsville, 
f/ Cnyahoga county, Ohio, was born in 
Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, England, 
July 4, 1835, son of Joseph and Jane (Canard) 
Curtis, both of whom spent their lives and 
died in their native land. Joseph Curtis was 
born May 24, 1801, and died May 13, 1882; he 
was a goldsmith by occupation. His wife, 
Jane (Canard) Curtis, was born October, 1807, 
and died August 17, 1880. Mr. and Mrs. 
Curtis had a family of twelve children, whose 
record is as follows: Mary, the oldest, now de- 
ceased, emigrated to Australia; Joseph, the sec- 
ond child, came to America in 1849, and in the 
State of Illinois resided until his death; Thomas 
and Henry also emigrated to Adelaide, South 
Australia, being ship builders; Henery, now de- 
ceased; William, the fifth child, is the subject 
of our sketch; Ann remains in England; Mar- 
they resides also in Australia; John and Jane 
are residents of Loiulon, England; Robert died 
at the age of twenty years under the parental 
roof; Margrette and Matilda, the two youngest, 
came to America and took up their residence at 
Lakewood, Cuyahoga county, Ohio. 

It was October 11, 1854, that the subject of 
our sketch severed home ties, and bade adieu 
to the land of his nativity, and emigrated to 
America. After being on the water eight weeks, 
he landed at New Orleans, soon afterward com- 
inir north to Evansville, Indiana, and in the 



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i-pi'iiig of tlie followiiio- year talking up liis abode 
at East Rockport, Cuyahoga county, Oiiio. Here 
in (yiiyalioga county he has since resided. Pre- 
vious to his coming to America, Mr. Curtis 
Iiad learned the butcheritig business, but after 
coming here, he turned liis attention lo farming 
and fruit-raising, in which lines he has made a 
success and in which he lias ever since been en- 
gaged, having lieen a rfsident of Strongsville 
township since his marriage. He has made 
numerous valuable improvements on his land; 
fi'rmerly he owned a larger tract of land than 
:it present, and has always been recognized as a 
progressive and enterprising citizen. 

August 20, 1860, Mr. Curtis was married, at 
Cleveland, Ohio, to Miss Mary C. Hall, who 
was born in East Rockport, Cuyahoga county, 
Ohio, January 13, 1841. Their only child, 
Mary Evaline, was born June 11, 1863, and 
November 30, 1882, at the age of nineteen 
years, became the wife of Elmer E. "Ward, who 
was born near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, Novem- 
ber 25, 1861. To them one child was born, 
Rolland Curtis Ward, horn in Strongsville town 
ship, October 22, 1883. 

Mrs. Curtis's father was the son of Joseph 
and Rebcca Hall, and was a native of St. Ives, 
Huntingtonshire, England, where he was born 
January 25, 1793. Her mother, nee Sarah 
Curtis, a daughter of Thomas and Mary Curtis, 
was born in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, Eng- 
land, December 18, 1799. They were married 
in Chatteris, about 1819; settled there, and sub- 
sequently removed from that place to America, 
their emigration to this country being in 1837. 
Previous to that year, Mr. Hall was engaged in 
mercantile pursuits, from which he accumulated 
some wealth, of which he left the larger portion 
in England. Upon his arrival here with his wife 
and five children, he settled in Rockport town- 
ship, Cuyahoga county (in what is now Lake- 
wood, Rockport township), and here he bought 
land, and carried on farming operations, and 
also the butchering business; after remaining 
here twelve years, he and his wife returned to 
EnglaiKl. an<l made a vei-y enjoyable visit witii 



their relatives and friends, a visit long to be re- 
membered. They disposed of their property in 
England, and on their return to their home in 
America made large investments in land, and 
soon became very wealthy. 

He and his good wife spent the rest of their 
lives in Rockport township: both have long 
since passed away, Mr. Hall's death occurring 
February 16, 1855, and Mrs. Hall's December 
21, 1877. They iiad a family of seven children, 
of whom the record is as follows, beginning with 
the oldest: Ann C, who is the widow of James 
Kidney, resides in Dover, Cuyahoga county, 
Ohio; Joseph C. and Curtis C, are residents of 
Lakevvood, Ohio; Sarah C, wife of John E. 
Barber, died in this township; Matthew C. and 
John C, are residents of Lakewood, Ohio; and 
Mary C, is the wife of the subject of this 
sketch. 



CHARLES C. MORGAN, a dealer in real 
estate and agricultural implements in 
Cleveland, was born in this city, Decem- 
ber 2, 1846, a son of Youngs L. and Caroline 
(Thomas) Morgan. The uiother was a daughter 
of Anthony and Mary Thomas. Anthony 
Thomas, a farmer by occupation, died in Syra- 
cuse, New York, in 1821, at the age of fifty- 
four years. His widow afterward married 
Thomas Cox, who was engaged as a tailor in 
London, England, and they came to Ohio in 
1842. Mrs. Co.x was born in Coimecticut, and 
her death occurred in 1850, at the age of eighty- 
two years. Mrs. Morgan is the only one of 
her parents' ten children, eight daughters and 
two sons now living She makes her home 
with our subject in Cleveland, and is eighty-five 
years of age. 

Charles C. Morgan attended the public schools 
of Cleveland, and afterward entered the Humis- 
ton Institute. After completing his education 
he was employed in civil engineering several 
years, followed the lunilier business in Yonngs- 
tovvn ami Kansas City, and since then has bee'i 



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engaged in the sale of agricultural implements. 
For the past eight years he has heen engaged 
in the maiiufat-.ture and sale of all kinds of pumps. 
Mr. Morgan's farm is now a part of the city of 
Cleveland. The Gartland Foundry Company, 
and mucii other valuable property in this lo- 
cality was at one time a part of his father's 
fHrm. Morgan street, in this city, was named 
in honor of the family. 

Mr. Morgan was married in 1869, to Miss 
Emma Shafer, a native of Youngstown, who died 
in 1871. She was a memher of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. In 1890 our subject was 
united in marriage with Miss Georgia, a daugh- 
ter of Louisa Warner, of this city. Mr. and 
Mrs. Morgan are members of the Christian 
Church. In political matters, Mr. Morgan af- 
filiates with the Kepnblican party. 



EP. WILLIAMS.— Because of his identi- 
fication with a number of the city's lead- 
1 ing manufacturing and financial enter- 
prises and important educational institutions, 
and because of his general worth as a citizen, 
Mr. E. P. Williams holds a conspicuous place 
among Cleveland's prominent and representative 
men. 

Mr. Williams was born in this city in 1843, 
and is the son of the late William Williams, 
who was one of Cleveland's early and deservedly 
honored citizens, and of whom an extended no- 
tice appears elsewhere in this volume. 

Mr. Williams was educated in the public 
fchouls of Cleveland, and at the Western Re- 
serve College, where he was graduated in 1864 
with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, subse- 
quently having conferred upon him by that in- 
stitution the degree of Master of Arts. Leaving 
college he began his business career as a manu- 
facturer of window glass at Kent, Ohio, where 
he continued until 1870. He then became a 
member of the Sherwin-Williams Company, 
manufacturers of paints and colors, of Cleve- 



land. At that time this firm was a small con- 
cern, but since Mr. Williams' connection with 
it, it has grown year by year until at the present 
(1894) it is considered one of Cleveland's most 
important and successful enterprises, and is the 
largest of its kind in the world. The main 
factory and offices are located in this city, 
but the company has large branches at New 
York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and other 
large places. Fifty tons of complete products 
are turned out daily from the conipany's works, 
and an army of operatives, salesmen and clerks 
are etnployed. Mr. Williams is first vice- 
president of the company, and to his efforts as 
much as to any other one man is due the phe- 
nomenal success and growth of this mammoth 
business enterprise. Mr. Williams is a director 
of the Cleveland Linseed Oil Company, another 
one of the city's growing manufactories, and is 
a Trustee in the Society for Savings and Director 
in the Western Eeserve National Bank, two of 
Cleveland's important financial institutions. 

Mr. Williams has always been interested in 
the cause of education and his efforts in that 
direction have been of great value. He was one 
of the original directors of the Cleveland 
Manual Training School, which is now in the 
care of the city, and he is also a Trustee of the 
University School and of the Adalbert College, 
of Cleveland. 

Mr. Williams gave substantial evidence of 
his 2>atriotism and love of country in 1862, 
when, before having attained his majority, he 
enlisted in the Union cause, becoming a member 
of Company B, Eighty-fifth Ohio Volunteer In- 
fantry, under command of Captain Charles 
Young, now tilling the chair of Astronomy in 
Princeton College. The same year he was hon- 
orably discharged from the service at Columbus. 

Mr. Williams is a valued member of the 
Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, and has 
served on a number of that organization's im- 
portant committees. He is also a prominent 
member of the Union and Country Clubs, and 
the Castalia Sporting Club, of Cleveland, and 
of the Union League Club, of Chicago. 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



In national politics Mr. Williams is inde- 
jiendent, voting for men of principle rather than 
for party promises and straight tickets. He 
has always taken an active interest in the politi- 
cal affairs of his country and community, but 
lias never sought preferment or has he!d oftice, 
save serving as a member of the Council of 
Glenville, in which suburban village is located 
hJB charming cowntiy home on the lake 
sluire. 

In 1869 Mr. "Williams was united in mar- 
riage with Miss Louise M., daughter of S. M. 
Mason, of New Hartford, New York. Six 
children have been born of this union, four of 
whom are living. E. M., who is connected 
with his father in business; Lewis, Sarah G. 
and Reba L. Mr. Williams and family are 
members of the congregation of the Euclid 
Avenue Presbyterian Church. 

As a man of business and of affairs Mr. 
Williams possesses talents and ability far above 
the average. He has great executive ability 
and is a fine organizer. He is progressive, 
pushing and ambitious, his interest and energy 
never flagging and hie capacity for work far 
beyond what is known only to his intimate 
friends and business associates; and the best 
proof of this is the phenomenal growth of the 
business with which he has been so closely 
identified, and to which he has given his best 
eflorts. From a small struggling concern, with 
very limited capital and experience, it has be- 
come, in a comparatively short time, the largest 
of its kind in the world, passing through two 
disastrous fires during its history, and weather- 
ing successfully some of the greatest financial 
and business panics this country has ever wit- 
nessed; and to his talent and ability in business 
matters is added a conservativeness and consci- 
entiousness which have gained for him an envi- 
able name for honor and probity in business 
circles. 

As a citizen Mr. Williams is broad and lib- 
eral in his views, progressive in his ideas, 
Hiul is always found on the right side of all 
jiiiblic questions and movements having fur 



their object the building up of the city and her 
institutions. He possesses a sympathetic nature, 
and is a w^arm friend in adversity, as well as in 
prosperity, and is generous with his means alike 
to individual and organized charity. His soci- 
ability is one of his chief characteristics. He 
enjoys company, and is never happier than when 
surrounded by his friends, and is a fine enter- 
tainer. His tastes are domestic, and his love 
for his family marked. Probably his chief di- 
version is found in the game of wliist, at which 
he is considered by his friends an adept. 



THOMAS W. JAMES, of Parma town- 
ship, Ohio, was born May 21, 1845, in 
Dun more Park, L-eland, a son of the late 
William and liebecca (Simmons) James. 
They emigrated from Ireland, in 1847, to 
Canada, and lived there until 1859, when they 
came to Cleveland. He was a gardener by oc- 
cupation, both in his native country and also in 
Cleveland. He laid out a portion of the 
grounds at the Newburgh Insane Asylum. He 
also laid out the garden there in 1860. In the 
fall of 1860 he removed to Louisville, Ken- 
tucky, and remained there till the fall 1861, 
when he returned to Cleveland, and the follow- 
ing spring removed to Brooklyn township, 
Cuyahoga county, where he pursued his calling 
till 1872. He then returned again to Cleve- 
land and located on Detroit street, where he 
was engaged as a florist till his death, which oc- 
curred in May, 1876. His wife died in Brook- 
lyn township, on Clark avenue, in May, 1872. 
They had a family of seven children, of whom 
Thomas was the sixth. 

He continued to live with his father till the 
fall of 1870, and from him learned the business 
of gardening. He was married in Cleveland, 
Ohio, April 21, 1868, to Miss Stewart Young, 
who was born in Scotland, January 7, 1848. 
Her parents were William and Elizabeth (Camp- 
bell) Young. They came from Scotland in 1851 
and .settled in Cleveland, on the West Side. The 




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mother died in the spring of 188-i and the father 
September 8, 1889. Of a family of nirie chil- 
dren Mrs. James was tlie youngest. 

Mr. James continued to live iu Brooklyn 
township fop four years after his marriage, when 
he removed to Cleveland, where he followed his 
occupation of gardening for three years and then 
then to West Cleveland, where he remained 
eleven years, after wliicli he spent four years in 
Independence, Cuyahoga county, finally, in the 
fall of 1890, settling in Parma township, where 
he has built a fine greenhouse and continues to 
pursue ills chosen calling. He cultivates about 
thirty acres of land. 

Mr. and Mrs. James are the parents of ten 
living children, namely: William T., Edward 
v., George, Cora, Clinton D., James W., Bessie, 
Jolin S., Stewart and Mary G. One child, Lewis, 
died in infancy. 

Mr. James served as a member of the West 
Cleveland Council two terms. In the spring 
of 189y he was elected School Director in his 
district. lie is a member of the Masonic order. 



OLONEL ARTHUR McALLISTER.— 
To Colonel Arthur McAllister, one of 
Cleveland's most prominent and honored 
citizens, belongs the merited distinction of 
being the leading contractor and builder of 
northern Ohio and one of the largest in the 
entire Buckeye State; and his career fitly illus- 
trates what one may accomplish by persistent 
effort in the pursuit of definite and honorable 
purpose. 

Colonel McAllister is a native of Pennsyl- 
vania, having lieen born in Delaware county, 
that State, in 1830. His father was Christopher 
McAllister, who emigrated from Ireland to Wil- 
mington, Delaware, in 1800. The senior Mc- 
Allister served in the United States Navy, and 
was on board the United States ship Philadel- 
phia when that good old vessel grounded at 
Tripoli. 



When about seventeen years of age Colonel 
McAllister went to Philadelphia, where he ap- 
pienticed himself to a carpenter and builder, 
with whom he remained four years, completing 
his trade. A few months later he went to New 
York city, where he remained until 1855, during 
which year he began a tour of the Southern and 
Southwestern States. He was in Mississippi 
when that State seceded from the Union, and 
he at once hastened North and offered his 
services to the Government, enlisting as a 
private in the Fourth New York Battery. He 
served in the Army of the Potomac until 1863, 
when he was ordered to New Orleans and oper- 
ated with the Army of the Gulf in Louisiana, 
Texas and Florida. He was mustered out of 
service as. Captiiin and brevet Major and Lieu- 
tenant Colonel in 1867, having been retained 
it) service after his term by General Sheridan, 
upon special authority from the War Depart- 
ment, and serving the last two years of his 
ai'uiy life tipon the staff of that gallant general. 

Following his discharge from the army, 
Colonel McAllister engaged in contracting and 
building in St. Louis, spending two years in 
that city. Subsequently he spent several years 
at Fort Scott, Kansas, and in 1874 he came to 
Cleveland. Upon locating in this city the Colo- 
nel began contracting and building, and almost 
at once took rank among the prominent and 
successful men in his line. Year by year forged 
ahead in his business until at the present time 
(1894) he is recognized as the leading contractor 
of the city. Many of the city's most expensive 
and modern structures are the product of his 
handiwork, among which may be mentioned the 
handsome residences of ex-Senator H. B. Payne, 
Samuel Andrews, C. W. Bingham, Charles F. 
Brush, S. T. Everett, Stewart and William Chis- 
holra, A. A. Pope and George Stockley, all on 
Euclid avenue; of Charles J. Sheffield, on Pros- 
pect street, and the summer residence of C. W. 
Bingham, on the lake shore. He also erected 
the Second Presbyterian and St. Bridget's Catho- 
lic churches, and numerous other buildings of 
more or less note in Cleveland and viciiiitv. 



CUYAHOQA COUNT}'. 



In 1888 Colonel McAllister formed a part- 
nership with Mr. Andrew Dall, )inder the firm 
name of McAllister & Dall, and the firm has 
erected, among many others, the following 
buildings, all of which will long serve as monu- 
ments of their skill and proficiency: The resi- 
dences of H. R. Hatch, J. E. French and S. F. 
Haserot, on Euclid avenue, and the beautiful 
sjimmcr residence of Samuel Mather, on the 
lake shore east; the Calvary Presbyterian church, 
the Euclid avenue Opera House, the Society for 
Savings bank building, and the Erie County 
Savings Bank building at Buffalo, New York. 
The two latter buildings are classed among the 
finest in Ohio and New York State respect- 
ively, and are the special pride of Colonel Mc- 
Allister and his co worker, Mr. Dall; and well 
they may be, for two more solid and magnificent 
structures cannot be found in any city in the 
country. 

The Society for Savings building is decidedly 
the largest and most conspicuous in the city. 
It is situated on the northeast corner of the 
Public Square and Ontario street, standing in 
the very heart of the business center of the city. 
Although the building is ten stories high, its 
elevation is considerably greater than is usual 
with structnres having that nnmber of stories, 
because the first story is twenty-five feet in the 
clear. The size of the building upon the ground 
is 110 X 132 feet, and the height from grade to 
cornice is 151 feet and eight inches. The ex- 
terior design is French Gothic, of the thirteenth 
and fourteenth century type, executed, in the first 
story, in Missouri syenite granite; and above 
this is Lake Superior red sandstone. The first 
story, occupied by the Society for Savings for 
its banking room, is 75 x 100 feet in size, be- 
sides two large alcoves in an entresol each 25 x 
60 feet, and is 25 feet high. It is wainscoted 
to a height of six feet with deep red Vermont 
marble, and floored with Roman mosaics. Its 
walls and ceilings are decorated in oil color ap- 
plied to canvass and hung upon the stucco, and 
the central portion of the ceiling, a space 45 x 
65 feet, is filled by a skylight designated in rich 



color. With the second story a great interior 
court is reached. It is 50 x 75 feet, surrounded 
by galleries of iron, with glass floors, faced 
from top to bottom with white marble, and 
covered with a skylight of lightest construc- 
tion, through which the sky is plainly seen. 
The skeleton or vital structure is composed en- 
tirely of steel columns and beams, steel columns 
being placed against each center masonry pier 
and bolted to it by wrought-iron straps. The 
structure is entirely fire-proof. In every re- 
spect, design, material, arrangement and con- 
venience, this building is surpassed by no com- 
mercial building in America. 

The Erie County Savings Bank building in 
Buffalo is one of the largest and handsomest 
bank or commercial buildings in the Eni[)ire 
State. It is of gray granite, nine stories high 
on the Main street side and ten on Pearl street, 
exclusive of cellar and attic. The first story is 
very high; the second is a mezzanine story, and 
above this are seven stories for offices. The 
base lines of the building measure 157 feet each 
on Niagara and Church streets, 157 feet on 
Pearl street, and 57 feet on Main street, en- 
closing an area of about 17,000 square feet. 
The building's exterior is remarkable for the 
absence of sharp angles. Every corner has a 
tower, circular in shape, and terminating in a 
conical piimaele. The building stands at the 
junction of two of the oldest and most impor- 
tant streets of the city, in the center of the 
business section, and is a structure of dignity, 
strength and solidity. 

This firm also erected Cuyahoga county's 
beautiful Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, 
which stands in the public square at Cleveland, 
and is one of the most magnificent monuments 
in the country. They also erected the Lake 
Shore Railway's depot at Toledo, Ohio, and at 
this titne (1894), among other work on hand, 
are erecting an elegant residence in Massillon, 
Ohio, for Colonel McClyraonds. 

Colonel McAllister was married at Paines- 
ville, (^hio, in 1872, and is the father ..f three 
sons. 



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Tlie Colonel has always been a Republican in 
politics, and takes an active interest in the affairs 
of his party. Under appointment from Mayor 
Gardner, he served for a term of live years 
u])on Cleveland'a Board of Criminal Correction. 
Aside from this he has held no official position, 
nor has he at any titiie sought political honors. 
He is a inemljer of the military order of the 
Loyal Legion and of the Grand Army of the 
Republic, and is deeply and enthusiastically in- 
terested in those organizations. He is also a 
member of the Union, Roadside and Athletic 
Clubs. 

The following estimate of Colonel McAllis- 
ter's character is the consensus of the oiiinions 
of citizens of Cleveland who have known him 
for years. He is regarded as one of the strong- 
est business men in the State; is of positive 
cliaracter, possesses great force splendid execu- 
tive ability, and has a remarkable capacity for 
work; and he is patriotic and public-spirited, 
progressive in his ideas, and ever an advocate of 
all public movements looking to the good and 
growth of the city. No man on a committee 
having in charge any public movement has 
more influence than he in accomplishing the 
desired end. He is by all recognized as one of 
Cleveland's strongest men. As a man he stands 
for all that is high-minded and maidy, is a man 
of great sociability, is very popular in social 
circles, a firm friend under any and all circum- 
stances, believes that "blood is thicker than 
water," and considers, as did the apo.-tle, that 
" he wlio does not provide for his family is worse 
than an intidel." His views are decided, his 
likes and dislikes strong, and he has the courage 
of his convictions. 

Socially, he is one of the most agreeable of 
men, refined, generous, courteous and kind to 
all; charitable, warm hearted and sympathetic 
by nature, he is a most genial companion, and a 
high-minded, honorable gentleman. Fond of 
company and of entertaining, he is never hap- 
pier than when surrounded by his friends, 
dispensing his generous hospitality and die- 
charging the duties of host. He has decided 



taste and fondness for paintings and engravings, 
and the means to gratify the same, and his col- 
lection of water-colors, etchings and engravings 
is very choice. His memory is vigorous, and 
he has a great deal of literary discernment, 
being able to read a book or literary work and 
digest the contents as well as one who gives ex- 
clusive attention to study. 



II S A AC M. HIMES, M. D.— Dr. Isaac M. 
Himes, one of Cleveland's well-known and 
-1 prominent physicians, was born at Shippens- 
burg, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, De- 
cember 4, 1834, and is the son of George W. 
and Joanna (Sturgis) Himes. 

Dr. Himes was educated in the University of 
Pennsylvania, and in Jefferson College at Can- 
nonsburg, Pennsylvania, graduating at the lat- 
ter institution in 1853. He then attended 
medical lectures in the medical department of 
the University of Pennsylvania, and subsequent- 
ly entered the College of Physicians and Sur- 
geons in New York city, receiving from the 
latter institution, in 1856, his degree of M. D. 
During the ensuing eighteen months he was a 
member of the house staff of Bellevue Hospital, 
New York city. 

April 16, 1859, Dr. Himes returned to his 
home in Shippensbnrg, Pennsylvania, and be- 
gan the practice of his profession. His health, 
however, became impaired to the extent of in- 
capacitating him for active labors during the 
entire summer. In the autumn of the same 
year, having regained his health, he went to 
Randall's Island, New York, where, during 
1860-'61 he was assistant physician of the 
Nursery and Children's Hospitals at that point. 

In the spring of 1861, Dr. Himes located in 
Chillicothe, Ohio, and established himself in 
private practice, but in the following fall was 
appointed Assistant Surgeon of the Seventy- 
third Regiment of Ohio Volunteers, and a short 
time afterward was promoted to be Surgeon of 
the same Regiment, in which capacity he served 
until the close of the war. 



CUrAUOGA COUNTY. 



The great civil conflict euded, Dr. Hiuies 
spent two yearo in professional study in Ger- 
many and France, several months in travel in 
the United States, and, in attention to private 
interests, residing ayear in San Francisco, Cali- 
fornia. In 1871 he located permanently in 
Cleveland, establishing himself in practice, and 
here he has since resided, taking rank among 
the •successful and leading practitioners of the 
Forest City. In 1863-'6-t Dr. Hinies held the 
chair of Anatomy iu the Cleveland Medical 
College, and iu 1871 he was appointed profes- 
sor of physiology and physiological and patho- 
logical histology in the same institution. This 
position he held until 1878, when, the Cleve- 
land Medical College having become the medical 
dopaitment of the Webtern Reserve University, 
Dr. Himes was made professor of pathology, 
jiathological anatomy and bacteriology in the 
latter institution, a position he now fills. In 
1893 Dr. Himes was acting dean of the medical 
department, and in 1894 he was appointed by 
the trustees as dean. 

The Doctor is a member and President of 
the Board of Visitors to the Lakeside Hospital, 
and is pliysieian to the Church Home, of Cleve- 
land. He is a member of the Cuyahoga County 
Medical Society, of which he has twice been 
president, and is a member and vice-president 
of the Cleveland Society of the Medical Sciences. 
He is also a member of the Ohio State Medical 
Society, and of the American Medical Associa- 
tion. He is a member of the Ohio Commandery 
of the Military Loyal Legion, of Beta Theta Pi 
college fraternity, and of the Trinity Episcopal 
Church. 

Dr. Himes was married in 1875 to Mary 
(Vincent) Read, daughter of John A. Vincent, 
Esq., of Cleveland. 



WjILLIAM H. Vy 
' resident of CI 
- - Skane ateles, O 
York, Marcli 21, 1820, 
Mary B. (Chapin) Vai 



AN TINE, Sk., an old 

Cleveland, was born in 

nondaga county, New 

a son of Robert F. and 

Tine, natives respect- 



ively of Troopsburg and Prattsburg, Steuben 
county, New York. His grandfather, Robert 
Van Tine, served through the war of the Revo- 
lution, enlisting in Dutchess county. New York, 
January 1, 1777, and being discharged in 1780; 
he was wounded iu the hip by a gunshot and 
made a cripple for life. His father came from 
Holland. Robert F. Van Tiue emigrated to 
Ohio, where he spent the last twenty-five years 
of his life, dying in Bucyrus in 1870, at the age 
of seventy-six years. His wife had died in 184:3, 
in New York State, aged forty-five years. She 
was a staunch Presbyterian. Our subject has 
been an indomitable temperance worker and ad- 
vocate for the past tifty-four years, his wife be- 
ing his most zealous coadjutor during her life- 
time. She was prominent in church and teni- 
perance work, and it is interesting to recall the 
fact that in one year, while president of the 
Woman's Society, she succeeded in raising 
§1,200 for the furnishing of the church. She 
was a native of Utica, New York, and was con- 
verted in her childhood, at once assuming and 
ever after retaining a working place in the 
church, being a devoted member and a leader in 
all reforms. They had children, as folluws: 
Lydia A., deceased, wife of Dwight Holbrook; 
William H.; Cornelia, widow of Daniel Spooner, 
of Minneapolis, Minnesota; Uriel C, a resident 
of Oberlin, Ohio; Helen, who died at the age of 
sixteen years; Francis R., a resident of Berea, 
tliis State; the next was a daughter, Laura, who 
died at the age of twelve years; and the last is 
George A. The father, by a second marriage, 
to Clarissa Dickinson, had two children, a daugh- 
ter and a eon, the former of whom is deceased, 
the son being a resident of St. Louis, Missouri, 
being one of the principal operators in the L^nion 
telegraph office, — a position he has held for 
many years. 

Mr. William H. Van Tine was brought up to 
the trade of miller, being educated mainly at 
the academic schools. At the age of nineteen 
he came west to Ohio, locating at Cleveland. 
After spending the fall and winter here, he went 
in the next spring to Summit county. In May, 



ClJYAlIoaA f(WNTY 



1840, lie accepted a position in the County 
Auditor's oftice and made tlie lirst tax duplicate 
of Summit county. Then he followed milling 
for two years in that county, and then, in 1842, 
returned to Cleveland, where he was engaged as 
a dealer in produce and wool until 1857, when 
he took charge of the office business of the first 
rolling mill in this city, retaining such position 
for nine years. Later he became an insurance 
agent, and has since continued his connection 
with this form of enterprise, representing most 
reliable companies and retaining a representa- 
tive clientage. 

He became a member of the Congregational 
Church in Ohio City, in December, 1839. On 
returning to Cleveland, in 1842, he joined the 
Presbyterian Church, of which he continued a 
member for more than half a century, then re- 
turning once more to the Congregational 
Church, of which he is a consistent and accept- 
alile member at the present time. He has 
always been a total alistainer from alcoholic 
liquors and tobacco, card-playing, theatre-going 
ami profanity; always a conscientious citizen 
and a stanch Republican. 

He was married in February 15, 1842, to 



Miss Julia 



Herrick, who died January 1, 



1893, at the age of sixty-eight years. They 
had six children, namely: Cornelia M., wife of 
E. H. Perdue, of this city; Robert, who died at 
the age of twenty-one years; Willie, deceased in 
infancy; William H., Jr., who is one of the 
most active real-estate dealers in the city; Rens- 
selaer R., secretary and treasurer of the Max- 
well Blue Stone Company; and Julia H., who 
married J. P. Moody, of Syracuse, New York. 
The life of Mrs. Van Tine was spared suffi- 
ciently long to permit of the celebrating of the 
liftieth anniversary of her marriage of our sub- 
ject. This memorable event occurred in 1892, 
and the occasion was held in fitting honor by 
tiie children and other relatives and friends. At 
the golden wedding there were present, except 
for tlie bride and groom, only two adults who 
had been present at the original ceremony fifty 
years before. Xo coujle perhaps ever lived in 



more thorough harmony and their lives were 
spared to the blessing of one another and of all 
who came within the circle of their influence. 

Mrs. Van Tine's mother, Maria M. Herrick, 
relict of Sylvester P. Herrick, celebrated her 
ninety-sixth birthday anniversary May 1, 1894, 
at the residence of her son, ex- Mayor R. R. 
Herrick, with whom she makes her home. She 
rea'is without glasses, her mind is clear and she 
keeps thoroughly in touch with the social, 
moral and political movements of the day. 

Our subject and his wife spent their blended 
lives going hand in hand in all church work, 
and especially in the Sunday-school work, to 
which they devoted more than half a century 
eacli as teachers. 



i\A\)) t 



DIAMOND, round-house foreman 
^l\l/ and engine dispatcher of the Lake 
t! ¥1 Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad 
Company, began his service with tlie company 
in 1872, at Buffalo, as apprentice in the shops, 
and upon completing his trade was employed in 
the locomotive department of the same shops, 
being assigned a regular run as fireman. Three 
years later he was promoted to be engineer, re- 
maining on the road until he was given tlie 
foremanship of the Jackson shops, a few months 
later coming to Cleveland in the same capacity, 
June 1, 1887. 

Mr. Diamond was born in Toronto. Canada, 
in June, 1857. At the age of seven he was 
brought to Buffalo, New York, where he re- 
ceived a fair education from the city high school, 
which he left at fifteen to begin his trade with 
the Erie Railroad at Buffalo. A few months 
with this company, and a like period in the ma- 
chine shops at the same place sufficed and he 
went to the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern 
Company, as before stated. 

Mr. Diamond's father was for many years an 
engineer on the Erie and Lake Shore roads, but 
is now a machinist in the Buffalo shops of the 
hitter company. He is flfty-nine years old, was 



CUrAHOaA COUNTY. 



1)0111 in Ireland and came to America in 1839. 
He removed to Toronto, Canada, after a brief 
residence in Buffalo, where lie resided till his 
return to Buffalo in 1864. His wife was Mary 
J. Crisp, daughter of an Englishman and an inn 
keeper. Four children resulted from this 
union: J. R., chief clerk of master mechanic, 
of Toledo division, at Norwalk; Martha and 
Cora E., unmarried, and residing in Buffalo. 

November 24, 1887, our subject married, in 
Buffalo, Miss Munhall. Tiiey are the parents 
of three chihlren: Ollie M., Clarence W. and 
Clyde J. 

Fraternally Mr. Diamond is a member of 
Washington Lodge, A. F. ct A. M., Buffalo, 
No. 240, and will participate in the benefits of 
the A. O. U. W., Harmony Lodge, No. 13, of 
Buffalo. 



f| T. McKEE, general baggage agent of the 
K |i New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad 
W' Company, is a native of the Keystone 
State, being born in Beaver county, that State, 
August 4, 1860. He attended the village 
schools till eighteen years of age, when he em- 
barked on his railroad career, the exact date 
being December 27, 1880. His first position 
was baggage-master's clerk in the Union depot 
at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. From this position 
he went to the general baggage oflice in a simi- 
lar capacity, and in 1882 came to the New- 
York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company 
as a clerk. Li October of the same year he 
was made chief clerk of the general passenger 
acrent, in which capacity he served until April, 
1893, when he was made general baggage agent. 

Mr. McKee's father, H. P. McKee, was a 
Pennsylvania Uierchant, born in that State in 
1S83. He died in 1892. The family is ante- 
Revolutionary with respect to settlement or 
founding in America, and was from the Scotch 
Highlands. Our subject's mother was Martha 
Tate. Two children were born to her; a daugh- 
ter, who now lives in Beaver county, Pennsyl- 
vania, and J. T., our subject. 



May 6, 1885, Mr. McKee was married, in 
Cleveland, to Miss May Quigley, whose father 
was one of the pioneer men of Summit county, 
Ohio. He is now largely engaged in mining 
silica sand in Millington, Illinois. 

Mr. and Mrs. McKee have no children. 



'jT^i R. VAN TINE, one of the proprietor.^ 
r^ secretary and treasurer of the Ma.wveli 
J) *^ Blue Stone Company, Cleveland, Ohio, 
''^ was born in Cleveland, January 29, 

1861. 

His parents were William H. and Julia M. 
(Herrick) Van Tine, of whom specific mention 
is made elsewhere in this volume. 

Mr. Van Tine was educated in the public 
schools of Cleveland. On leaving school he 
came into his father's insurance office, and there 
remained until 1881. In this year he went in 
as book-keeper for the Maxwell & McFarland 
Company and retained that position si.x years, 
when in 1887, he and his brother-in-law, E. H. 
Purdue, purchased a half interest in tlie Max- 
well and McFarland quarry of Euclid, and 
formed a stock company with II. H. iLaxwell as 
president and manager, and R. R. Van Tine as 
secretary and treasurer. 

In 1888 Messrs. Purdue and Van Tine bought 
the interest of R. H. Maxwell, and thereupon 
Mr. E. H. Purdue was elected president, and 
R. R. Van Tine secretary and treasurer, the 
latter having sole management of the business. 
This company, still known as the Maxwell Blue 
Stone Company, employ from fifty to seventy- 
five men throughout the year aud do a business 
spreading well throughout the United States. 
They make a pecialty of sawed flagging and 
building trimmings. 

Mr. Van Tine has become one of the fore- 
most young business men of the city, and his 
business is conducted in as systematic and con- 
cise a manner as any railway system in the 
State. His system of keeping accounts of the 
different departments of his work is the most 



CUYAUOOA COUNTY. 



])yrfect in detail, having a place for everything 
and everytliing in its place. He is a member 
of the Case Avenue Presbyterian Church. His 
residence is 250 Franklin avenue. 

In April, 1882, he married Miss Louisa Clin- 
ton, daughter of E. T. and Kate Clinton, of 
Philadelphia. Mr. Clinton's father established 
and built up the renowned Brush manufactur- 
ing concern, which is now carried on by his two 
sons, E. T. Clinton, and brother. 

The home of Mr. Van Tine and wife has 
been blessed in the birth of one child, Russell H. 



[( SAHEL W. STRONG, a popnlar broker 
1\ of Cleveland, was born in Cuyahoga 
1^ county, Ohio, May 23, 1856. He secured 
, liberal education from the public scliools 
•A this city, but at the age of fourteen engaged 
in business, becoming an employee of Raymond, 
Lowe & Company, wholesale dry-goods dealers, 
concluding a seven years' service with them in 
lbT7, at which time he took a position with that 
mo?t worthy and esteemed citizen, J. M. Hoyt, 
having charge of the real-estate department. 
In this service Mr. Strong became familiar with 
every feature of the loan and brokerage busi- 
ness, and in March, 1893, opened an office in 
the Cuyahoga building and is building up a 
gilt-edged profitable business. He deals in select 
securities exclusively, making a specialty of 
municipal, county and State bonds. He makes 
investments of Eastern capital, and is agent for 
and carries on business with foreign capitalists. 
Mr. Strong is a son of Asahel Strong, born 
in Homer county. New York, in the year 1800, 
and feven years later brought into Erie county, 
Ohio, by his father, Amos Strong, a farmer. 
Settlement was made in Huron county, where 
he died. 

The Strongs were originally from Massachu- 
setts. The family was led into "York" State by 
the great-grandfather of our subject. 

Asahel Strong married Polly Ann Poole. 
Mrs. Strong was born in Massachusetts, 1832, 



and died in 1871, two years later than her hus- 
band. Mr. Strong was twice married before 
this, his first wife being a Miss Bellnis, and his 
second wife a sister of his first. His first child, 
Mary Selina, wife of Charles E. Cole, was by 
his second wife. The children by the last mar- 
riage are: F. A., at Bulutli, Minnesota, married 
Clara Parker, and they have three children; 
A. W., married May 28, 1879, in Cleveland, 
Minnie A., a daughter of Marvin T. Andrns 
(see sketch of George W. Andrus herein); A. C, 
of Duluth, Minnesota, married Carrie l]|len 
Bassett, of Cleveland. 

The children of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Strong 
are: Helen Mabel, born May 22, 1880; Ethel 
Miiine, born November 10, 1883; Arthur Poole, 
born October 29, 1886, and Paul Asahel, born 
January 1, 1890. 

Mr. Strong and family are members of the 
Plymouth Congregational Church, of which 
Sabbath- school he is Superintendent. 



I) D. BARHYDT was born in Sche- 
nectady, New York, March 31, 1849. 
He grew up in that beatiful city on the 
Hudson and spent some little time in school, 
but only just about enough to aggravate teacher, 
parents and pupil. He did not like a six-hour 
daily confinement, and rather than submit to it 
he decided to look out for his own welfare. Ac- 
cordingly he ran away from home at the age of 
fifteen and hired out to a farmer to care for his 
garden and horse. Still not contented, he sought 
employment of the New York Central Railroad 
and received the position of breakman, running 
between Albany and Syracuse. He remained 
with the Central until coming to Cleveland in 
1875. He was assigned to duty as brakeman 
on the Toledo division, being made yard-ccm- 
ductor, and filling that place until promoted to 
be yard master in 1886, where he has since 
served. 

Mr. Barhydt is a son ot John S. M. Barhydt, 
born in New Yurk State, in 1800, an 1 dying in 



CUYAIlOdA COUNTY. 



1864. He was a prominent contractor of that 
state, being one of the builders of the Erie 
Canal. The family is of Gernifin origin, the 
first representative of it in this country being 
probably Abraham Barhydt, our sulg'ect's pa- 
ternal grandfather. 

John S. M. Barhydt married Catherin Light- 
hall, and their cliiidren were: Harriet, wife of 
John C. Underbill, of Schenectaday; Nancy, 
deceased, of Albany; "W. D. and Henrietta. 

In September, 1884, Mr. Barhydt married, in 
this city, Minnie Harris. Tlieir children are 
three: Ada, Grace and Willie. 



Ji 



[AMES P. McKINSTRY, general manager 
the Cleveland Telephone Company, was 
born, reared and educated in Cleveland. 
His birth occurred January 15, 1842, and his 
eilucation was obtained from the public schools. 
At sixteen years of age ho became a messenger 
boy in the office of the superintendent of the 
Lake Shore Kailroad and performed other work 
about the building for the company for a period 
of six months, and during this time learned 
operating. He was stationed at Geneva, Ohio, 
and from there worked up by degrees to the 
position of chief operator of the line, and was 
stationed in this city. 

In 1861 Mr. McKinsti-y became an employee 
of the "Western Union Telegraph Company, and 
four years later was made manager of the same 
company, with headcjuarters at Erie, Pennsyl- 
vania. This relationship existed till his transi- 
tion from telegraph to telephone service, in 
1877, when, at the instance of the "Western 
Union Telegraph Company, he put in the first 
exchange at Erie. Cleveland put in an ex- 
ciiange in 1879, and this Mr. McKinstry practi- 
cally planned and controlled, although he did 
not return to the city till the following year. 
In 1884 Mr. McKinstry was made general 
manager of the Northwestern Telephone Ex- 
change Company, operating exchanges in Min- 
nesota anti the Dakotas. He was next made 



general manager of the Southwestern Telegraph 
and Telephone Company, operating excliaiiges 
in Arkansas and Texas. Mr. McKinstry has 
been a member of the Society of Electrical 
Engineers of tlie State of New York since its 
organization. He is an active member of the 
Cleveland Electric Club, preparing treatises on 
branches of tliis interesting subject and engag- 
ing in their discussion, thereby giving the asso- 
ciation the benefit of his long experience in 
electricity and electrical appliances. 

Mr. McKinstry is a son of Thomas McKins- 
try, once chief of police of Cleveland. He was 
born near Belfast, Ireland, and in 1837 came to 
the United States and settled in Cleveland. He 
was once special agent of the post-office dejiart- 
ment here. He married Eraxena Dodg.', born 
at Plattsburg, New York, a daughter of Simon 
Newcomb, and our subject is their second and 
only surviving child. 

Mr. McKinstry married in this city, Septem- 
ber 18, 1862, Emma, a daughter of A. K. Miller, 
of Erie, Pennsylvania. Their children are: 
Harry M., with the Cleveland Milling Company; 
Charles T., manager of the Cleveland Telephone 
Company; Nellie W., wife of Eobert G. Pate, 
with the same company; Edward, Laura and 
Scott. 

As to fraternities Mr. McKinstry is a Royal 
Arch and Chapter Mason, Webb Chapter. He 
is a Knight of Honor and a member of the 
Ei)iscopal Church. 



APTAIN AV. A. COLLIER, secretary, 
treasurer and general manager of the 
Vessel Owners' Towing Company, was 
born in Summit county, Ohio, December 21, 
1855. 

He accepted employment in his father's store 
at eighteen years of age, as salesman, and upon 
retiring was placed in charge of one of his 
father's canal boats on the Ohio Canal. Three 
years later he took up the tug business in Cleve- 
land, having come here in 1866. He first 



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nianageil individual tugs, next one of his own, 
and tinally, in 1892, a consolidation of the busi- 
ness brought into existence the Vessel Owners' 
Towing Company, of whicli he was made gen- 
eral manager. 

Captain Collier is a son of M. J. Collier, de- 
ceased, who for many years owned and operated 
a line of boats on the Ohio Canal. He was 
commissioned a Lieutenant at the outbreak of 
the Civil war, and assigned to the Second Ohio 
Volunteer Cavalry. Later on he was instru- 
mental in organizing the Twelfth Ohio Cavalry, 
was made its Major, and was so mustered out. 
He died in Cleveland in 1888. He married in 
Summit county, Ohio, Miss Bell. The children 
of this union are: Captain Collier; Hattie L., 
wife of L. W. Weber; and Emma E., wife of 
W. C. Lawrence. 

December 12, 1878, Captain Collier married, 
in Cleveland, Lillie G., daughter of George W. 
Beers, a farmer of Summit county. Their 
children are: Jessie, Fred, Louis, Lloyd and an 
infant son. 

Captain Collier is a Royal Arch Mason, a 
member of the Koyal Arcanum and of the 
Mystic Circle K. 0. T. M., of which order he is 
trustee local tent. He is also grand financial 
secretary of the Shipmasters' Association, and 
a member of Cleveland Lodge. 



YRA KING MERRICK, the pioneer 

woman physician of Ohio, was born in 

1825, in Leicestershire, England, in the 

vicinity of "Warwick Castle, a daughter 

of Richard and Elizabeth King. 

Her parents emigrated to America, in 1826, 
locating near Boston, Massachusetts, and in 

1840 settling in Lorain county, Ohio. About 

1841 Myra went to Elyria, Ohio, and remained 
for several years, attending school, and assisting 
in the srpport of the family by needle work. 

In 1848, Myra King was married to Charles 
H. Merrick, and went to New Haven, where for 



a year she had a hard struggle consequent upon 
her husband's illness, and she deterinined to 
qualify herself for fighting the battle of life 
alone. She consequently took a course of lec- 
tures at Hyatt's Academy rooms in New York, 
there being no medical colleges at the time 
open to women. She then took a course of 
study at Nicholas Hydropathic Institute, New 
York, subsequently returning to New Haven, 
and pursuing a course of study under the well 
known Professor Levi Ives, of Yale. 

The Central Medical College of Rochester, 
New York, having opened its doors to women, 
she, in 1851, matriculated at that institution, 
graduated the following year, incidentally re- 
ceiving the medal offered by the State Eclectic 
Medical Society to the student making the most 
progress during the course. 

In August, 1852, Dr. Merrick came to Cleve- 
land, Ohio, locating on Miami street, near the 
market, and commencing the practice of medi- 
cine, which gradually and steadily increased un- 
til it became necessary, on account of her hus- 
band's absence in the army, for her to go to Lo- 
rain county, to save her husband's lumber from 
the sheriff's hands. 

For two years a hard struggle followed and 
with the assistance only of her 8-year-old son, 
Dr. Merrick sawed, counted and sold a quantity 
of lumber, also selling the sawmill. In the 
intervals of this work she collected supplies for 
the soldiers and rode miles on professional duty, 
there being no other physician in that vicinity. 
She then returned to Cleveland, Ohio, and re- 
sumed her practice, which continued to increase 
until it reached large and lucrative proportions, 
and until she received recognition on every side, 
and entirely silenced the prejudices and opposi- 
tion which women phj'sicians encountered. 

In 1876, she became president of the Wo- 
men's Medical College, holding that office until 
it was merged into the Cleveland Homeopathic 
College. She was also for a number of years 
a member of the medical staff of Huron Street 
Hospital; but what she considered her chief 
work, and that which will be her enduring mon- 



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iiiiient, was the establishment in 1879 of the 
Women's and Children's Free Dispensary, of 
which she has since been president. 

To tlie institution of this valuable charity the 
]ate Mrs. Henry M. Flagler was one of the 
hirgest and most interested contributors, and 
Doctors Kate Parsons and Martha M. Stone 
have been most untiring and efficient aids to her 
in the work there successfully prosecuted. 

Dr. Merrick has one son, Richard L. Merrick, 
of this city. Dr. Merrick enjoys vigorous 
health, and the years of untiring energy and al- 
most ceaseless duty she has endured has left but 
little trace on features, and her successful career 
may be worthily cited as and notable example of 
the fitness of women for professional life. 



'Jf^)EV. HARRY P. ECKHARDT is pastor 
f^f of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, 
11 ^ known as " Christus Kirche," of Cleve- 
'^ land. He was born in Maryland, De- 

c mber 31, 1866, as a son of John and Margaret 
(Kilian) Eckhardt,both parents being natives of 
Germany. The father with his family came to 
America in 1840 and settled in Baltimore, 
Maryland. In Germany he had learned the 
trade of a tanner, which trade he followed in 
Baltimore. He died in 1(S93, at the age of 
teventy-two years. He died at Baltimore, 
where his widow still lives, with an unmarried 
diiughter. 

The subject of this sketch is the youngest of 
four children, namely: Louis C, successor to 
his father's business at Baltimore; Caroline, 
wife of Frank Siegel, Esq., of Baltimore; Lena, 
the unmarried daughter with whom the mother 
now resides; and the subject of this sketch, who 
was educated at Reisterstown, Maryland. 
Later he attended Concordia College, Fort 
Wayne, Indiana, where he completed a classical 
course in 1886. He then attended Concordia 
Seminary, at St. Louis, Missouri, and there took 
a theological course of three years, completing 
the same in 1889. His first ministerial work 



was in his present position. When he became 
pastor of this church ninety families constituted 
his congregation and fifty pupils attended the 
parochial school. Now his congregation con- 
sists of 190 families, and 225 pupils attend the 
school and are taught by one female and two 
male teachers. Rev. Eckhardt is a member of 
the Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States. 

He was married in 1891 to Miss Martha 
Hauser, daughter of Rev. Hugo Hauser, a 
prominent clergyman of Baltimore, Maryland, 
in the Evangelical Lutheran Church. For forty 
years Rev. Hugo Hauser was a meniber of the 
Missouri Synod. He died in 1886, aged about 
eighty years. In his synod he was a noted 
clergyman. He was the father of seven chil- 
dren, namely: Lena, who is a lecturer on art 
and is an accomplished and scholarly lady; 
Rev. Otto Hauser, the second child, is a clergy- 
man in Connecticut; Hugo Hauser is a book- 
keeper in New York city; Rev. Oscar Hauser 
resides in Wisconsin; the fifth child is the wife 
of the subject of this sketch ; Syna A. Hauser 
is the female teacher in the parochial schools 
in the church of which our subject is paster; 
the last child of Rev. Hugo Hauser is Freda, 
who is still of the home circle in Baltimore. 

Rev. Eckhardt is a careful and thorough man 
in all his multifarious relations. He is 
thoroughly devoted to his work and has ever 
proved himself worthy of the confidence and 
responsibility reposed in him by a large, influ- 
ential and growing church, of which he is the 
esteemed pastor. 



FRED BEILSTEIN, an undertaker at 369 
and 371 Central avenue, Cleveland, was 
— born in this city, June 23, 1862, a son 
of Henry and Eliza Beilstein, natives of Ger- 
many. Fred received his education and learned 
the undertaking business in this city. The 
business was first established by his father in 
1844, and in the pioneer undertaking establish- 
ment in this city. In his social relations, Mr. 



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Beilstein is Warden of the I. O. O. F., Presi- 
dent of the Cleveland Cotmcii, and is a member 
of Woolington Lodge, K. of P., of the I. O. F., 
the Royal Foresters and the German Order of 
Plarugari. Politicall_v, he athliates with the 
Republican party. 

Mr. Beilstein was married in 1888 to Miss 
Lydia Louisa Ingrahain, a native of New York; 
lier father died when slie was quite youug. Our 
subject and wife are members of the Third 
Presbyterian Church of Cleveland. He is a 
genial, pleasant and enterprising citizen, and is 
deserving of the large patronage he now enjoys. 



DR. SIGMUND DRECHSLER, Rabbi of 
the Hungarian Congregation, Bene- 
Jeshurun, was born in Brezowa, Hun- 
gary, March 15, 1845, a son of Isaac and Helen 
Drechsler, natives also of that country. The 
father was engaged as a woolen merchant in 
Hungary during his entire life. His death oc- 
curred from an accident, in 1858, at the age of 
forty-seven years. His wife died in 1873, aged 
fifty- six years. Both were members of the He- 
brew Congregation, of which the father was an 
othcer for many years. They .had three sons, 
our subject having been the only one to come 
to America. One brother, Colman, resides in 
Hungary, and another, William, died in that 
country. The father was well and favorably 
known, and was highly respected as a good 
citizen. He tried to give his children the best 
possible advantages of the day in education and 
otherwise. 

Siginund Drechsler, our subject, received 
instructions under the best scholars of his day 
until his thirteenth year. Only the Talmud 
and Hebrew branches were taught in the city 
of hisl)irth. He then spent three years under 
the great Rabbi, H. Hanheimer, and was after- 
ward with the rabbi in Ungwar, where the lat- 
ter died a few years since. While there he 
studied only the Hebrew branches and the Tal- 
mud. His father died when lie was fifteen 



years of age, and his first effort in oratory was 
in giving the funeral oration, which was greatly 
admired by the large concourse of people pres- 
ent. All felt his oratorical future would be very 
great. Dr. Drechsler then went to Eisenstadt, 
Hungary, and studied under the great rabbi, 
Dr. Hilderheimer, who conducted the only rabbi 
seminary at that time. He taught Hebrew, 
German, Latin, Greek and mathematics. Among 
his assistants were Dr. Wolf and Dr. Coher. 
Dr. Drechsler remained there seven years, or 
until he graduated in all the studies, receiving 
his diploma as an efficient rabbi. Dr. Hilder- 
heimer is now president of a rabbi seminary in 
Berlin. 

After receiving his diploma, in 1866, Dr. 
Drechsler married Julia Zollshein, a native of 
Hungary, and a daughter of Leopold and Fannie 
Zollshein. She is descended i'rom a family who 
were finished scholars for many generations, 
and her father was also a great scholar. He 
died in 1846, at the age of twenty three years. 
Mrs. Zollshein is still living in Hungary, aged 
seventy years. Our subject and wife have six 
children, viz.: Josephine, wife of David Sand- 
rowitz, a merchant of Cleveland; Isaac, engaged 
in clerking for his brother-in-law; Jennie, who 
will soon become the wife of Phillip, a brother 
of David Sandrowitz, and a partner in the busi- 
ness; William and Helen, attending the high 
school; and Julius, a pupil of the public school. 

At the age of twenty-four years Dr. Drechs- 
ler took charge of the congregation at Kova 
goears, three years later went to Nagy Vazsony, 
and four years afterward was called to the con- 
gregation at Peezel, as district rabbi, remaining 
there fourteen years. The Minister of the 
Hungarian Cabinet on Education, Mr. Trefort, 
had charge of the congregation as well as of 
educational affairs. He reorganized the entire 
state in into new districts, which lessened the 
district filled by our subject. He at once re- 
solved to come to America, and accordingly ar- 
rived in New York in 1887, where he remained 
six weeks, during which time he preached every 
Saturday in the First Hungarian Congregation, 



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Oheb Zebeck. He then took charge of his 
present work in Cleveland. At that time the 
church consisted of only fifty members, but un- 
der Dr. Drechsler's able management has in- 
creased to a membership of over 200. He is 
an able expounder of the Bible, and his efforts 
in work and organization have been eminently 
successful. Undtr his charge, the congregation 
purchased the synagogue on P]agle street, which 
contains a seating capacity of 1,500. The Sun- 
day-school is held in the basement, and has a 
membership of 250: also the same number of 
day pupils. Religious intructions are given 
ever day by three etiicient teachers. The church 
has a large burying ground in Glenviiie, Ohio. 
Dr. Drechsler is still in the prime of life, and 
carries the respect uf all who have the 2)leasure of 
his acquaintance. In his line of literature he is 
one of the most scholarly men in this great city. 



fr^EV. WILLIAM SAMPSON, Superin- 
r!^ teudent of the Children's Aid Society, 
II ^ Cleveland, Ohio (Detroit street. No. 
V 174:5), was born in Summerford, Wilt- 

shire, England, February 20, 1814. 

His parents were Jacob and Ann (Wicks) 
Sampson. These parents came to Erie, Penn- 
sylvania, in 1833, settling on a farm where they 
remained a few years, when they returned to 
England, where they passed the remaining 
years of their life. 

The father died in the same room in which 
he was born, his age being 81 years. He was 
a Church Warden all his life. He was a very 
forward man in church work, and all moral re- 
forms. His wife was his equal — perhaps his 
superior — in all acts of love, and in exercise of 
the Christian graces. She was a woman most 
highly esteemed, and a valued citizen, doing 
much for the children, bringing them to her 
own home and caring for the needy and com- 
forting the distressed. This was a very un- 
popular move in her day, and in her social circle, 
but it satisfied her conscience, was well pleas- 
ing to hor, and later made her very popular. 



She too was a member of the established Church. 
Two histories in England bring out these points 
in full, and speak of her in unmistakable terms 
of praise. No tongue can speak her praise too 
warmlj'. 

The lives, influence and example of these 
good people are an endearing heritage to their 
family and the ehnrcli of their choice. 

The mother died four years later than her 
husband, her age having been about the same. 
She was deeply interested in the matter of 
reform, and this engrossed her attention, not, 
however, to the neglect of her family. 

Our subject was one of four brothers and 
two sisters. The brothers are all living, viz.: 
John resides in North Carolina; Thomas re- 
sides in Birmingham, England; our subject; 
James resides in California, doing a large busi- 
ness; Ann, the oldest sister, died in Glouces- 
tershire, England; she was the wife of James 
Bryant, and died at the age of forty years; 
Bessie, the youngest sister, died at the age of 
thirty-five years. 

Onr subject at the age of eleven years, ow- 
ing to reverses in his father's business, was 
apprenticed in a flouring mill as a miller. This 
apprenticing had to be paid for, and cost 200 
pounds , which sum was paid by the minister 
and his daughter. 

Our subject came to America witli his parents 
in 1833. 

His early education was gotten chiefly in 
attending Sunday-school. He learned to write 
on the flouring boards in the mill. Later he 
graduated in "brush college," riding on horse- 
back from one appointment to another as a 
Methodist itinerant minister. 

He was in the mill iintil he came to America. 
At fifteen years of age he took the §1 prize 
for dressing a mill-stone. He took charge of 
the mill when seventeen years of age, and a very 
proud moment of his life was this. By this 
time he had learned to read well and was teach- 
ing a class in Sunday-school. 

On coming to America they made the vc)yage 
on a sailing vessel, " Earl Cray," and were nine 



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long weary weeks on the ocean. After the 
fourth week they had to strain tlie drinking 
water they used, in order to remove the little 
poUiwigs, which had grown to some considera- 
ble size by this time. 

Arriving in New York they remained there 
for a few days and then proceeded up the Hud- 
son river to Albany, and thence by canal to 
Buffalo. The canal trip was made in a little 
less than five days, and as this was the quickest 
trip ever made between the two cities up to 
that time, the arrival of the boat was an event 
of considerable interest and importance, bands 
of music meeting the same at Buffalo, where 
there was much celebrating in honor of the 
occasion. 

Yrom Buffalo they came to Erie, Pennsylvania, 
stopped at the tavern and our subject started out 
to find something to do. He soon found em- 
ployment with a contractor — John Justice — who 
was building a pier, the first ever built in that 
city. John gave him a two-inch auger and the 
first day's work in America was a good and 
faithful one. The facts were, he had done no 
work for many, many weeks, had never han- 
dled an auger for an entire hour before: such 
work was not in his line. He turned the auger 
faithfully all day, and the next morning on 
awaking he found it difficult to turn himself in 
bed, after many efforts he succeeded in getting 
on his feet. The board bill was ace umulating 
at the hotel, matters began to look serious, and 
something must be done. He met Seth Read, 
to whom he told his condition and the situation, 
and that gentleman with other influential per- 
sons secured him a position in a mill, where he 
felt much at home, although milling in America 
was very different from what it was in England. 
He ever remembered Mr. Read with much 
pleasure and thankfulness for the service ren- 
dered a helpless boy in a strange land. He was 
in the mill nearly two years, when, by the help 
of friends, he secured a position in the mercan- 
tile business. During all these years he was 
an active church worker, and was superintend- 
ent \>^ the Sunday-school. 



At the age of twenty-two years he married a 
Yankee schoolteacher — Miss Lois C. Sullivan — 
with whom he studied for tiftj'-five years. He 
was ever a student, and has been all his life. 
The date of his marriage was in 1837. They 
celebratel their golden wedding in 1887, at 
which time every adult that was at the mar- 
riage, except the bride and groom, had passed 
to the world beyond. 

Our subject entered the Erie Conference in 
1848; when the Conference was divided, 'lie fell 
on the Ohio side, and has been a member of the 
East Ohio Conference since its organization. 
He travelled on circuit for sixteen years; for ten 
on stations at Meadville, Pennsylvania, Hart- 
ford, Ridgeway, Windsor and Kingsville, each 
two years, as long as the church would allow. 

Bishops Simpson, Ames and Janes all rec- 
ommended his coming to the Children's Aid 
Society. This appointment came after he had 
served one year iti Waring Street Church in 
Cleveland, Ohio. The society was in debt when 
he came; now it is worth $200,000 and is en- 
tirely free from indebtedness. 

Our subject and wife have had nine children: 
J. P., who served through the entire war, was 
with Sherman on his noted march from Atlanta 
to the sea; he enlisted as private in the Ninth 
Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and came home as 
Major in the Signal Service. After passing 
through all these services, he came home, and 
was injured in a runaway with a span of favorite 
horses, and died soon after, leaving a wife {iiee 
Sarah Davis), and three children: Nellie, William 
and Agnes. He was in twenty-three real battles, 
besides many hazardous skirmishes. He had 
the honor of sending the first signal into 
Savannah, Georgia, after its capture. Mary, 
Mary Jane and Mary Elizabeth, all died young, 
at the ages respectively of one, three, and five 
years; Thomas Bond, died at the age of eleven 
years. One child, who was unnamed, died in 
early life; Lois was the wife of Mr. Jones, and 
died at the age of ninteen years; George died 
in infancy, and Edwin James, the youngest, is 



still livi 



one of the 



lal 



lesnien of 



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tlie Estey & Camp piano house in Chicago. 
He married Anna Alden: thej have one child, 
Walter Alden Sampson. 

The wife of our subject died March 28, 1890, 
aged suventy-two years. She was a fine scholar 
and began teaching at the early age of fourteen 
years, and was a true woman, deeply pious and 
most earnestly devoted to tlie interests and best 
welfare of the Home. 

In June, 1891, Mr. Sampson married for his 
second wife Mrs. Kate Bishop, who was for four 
years Assistant Matron of the Home. During 
tliese years her ability in her position was well 
tested, and never found wanting. Since the date 
of her last marriage she has been the efficient Ma- 
tron of the Home, and the selection has ever 
proved a good one. She has shown herself the 
right person in the right place. 

Mrs. (Bishop) Sampson's children by a former 
marriage are Gertrude, Dom Pedro and Eva. 
The children are youthful, lively and doing 
well. 

The officers of the Children's Aid Society are: 
T. P. Handy, president; G. H. Ely, vice-presi- 
dent; Samuel Mather, secretary and treasurer; 
S. A. Raymond, recording secretary and auditor; 
Rev. William Sampson, superintendent and 
chaplain; Miss 2sellie L. Johnston, assistant 
superintendent; Mrs. William Sampson, ma- 
tron. Teachers: Miss Helen M. Ilulburt and 
Miss Minnie M. Terry. 

For live years Mrs. Sarah Gault, formerly 
Mrs. Major J. P. Sampson, was assistant ma- 
tron in the Home, and was a most efficient offi- 
cial, — one who will ever be remembered in the 
work . 

Edwin's wife (Anna Sampson) served faith- 
fully i;i the Home three years, teaching and 
rendering other valuable services. She is a 
native of Coldwater, Michigan, where she now 
resides. She is a fine scholar and writer, and a 
leader in church work.. 

Rev. William Sampson has been superin- 
tendent and chaplain of the Home for nineteen 
years, and by his present wife, as by the 
fipiiner Mrs. Sampson, deceased, as matrons and 



helpers has been greatly aided in tlie work- 
Peculiar talents are required, and they have 
shown great aptness in the work. 

In this brief notice we can give only a few 
points in regard to the noble work nosv being 
done in the Home. It would take much space 
to do it justice. 

The Children's Aid Society is the outgrowth 
of benevolent elfort made at an early day in 
Cleveland, to rescue its poverty-stricken and 
neglected children from a life of moral degra- 
dation. 

The first school was located in the front loom 
of an old unoccupied building near the western 
termination on Canal street, and iiad about a 
dozen pupils gathered in from the city. 

In 1854, the school was merged into its pres- 
ent form. The enterprise was purely benevo- 
lent in its aim, and depended then, as now, 
on charitable donations for its support. It 
was located on Champlain street, and Robert 
Waterson was its superintendent. Tlie manage- 
ment became a corporate body in 1865. 

On the 7th of July 1876, Mr. Waterson re- 
signed the snperintendency. At this crisis the 
Children's Aid Society re-organized the Farm 
School upon a new basis, under the name of 
the Children's Industrial School and Home, 
with Rev. William Sampson as superintendent, 
and his wife, now deceased, as matron. 

The Children's Aid Society has been truly 
fortunate in its selection of Mr. and Mrs. Samp- 
son as superintendent and matron. Tiiey seem 
to have all the qualities of head and heart that 
are necessary to a proper discharge of the duties. 
During their connection witii the school they 
have achieved a great and good work. 

From July 7, 1876, to December 31, 1893, 
they have received into tiie institution and have 
cared for 2,109 destitute and neglected children, 
and of this number, have placed 1,181 in good 
homes, mostly in the country: the remainder 
were returned for various reasons to their par- 
ents, or friends, except a few who were re-ad- 
mitted and the sixty- two now on hand. In 
doing this they have travelled thousands of 



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miles, not only in placing of children, but in 
visiting them to see it: they were properly cared 
for. 

They have the respect and confidence of the 
public, and will ever be remembered with heart- 
felt gratitude by the hundreds of waifs whom 
they have reclaimed from degradation, and ele- 
vated to the dignity of a true Christian man- 
hood. It is hoped that the lives of Mr. and 
Mrs. Sampson may long be spared to continue 
their service in this most important field of 
labor. The above facts are gleaned from re- 
ports of the Home, as given by President T. P. 
Handy, Hon. Harvey Eice and others. 

Of the Home it may safely be said that it 
has received its prestige from the high char- 
acter of its benefactors and officials. It has 
been managed by those of progressive. Chris- 
tian spirit and noble impulses, and the great 
good it has accomplished, and will yet accom- 
plish, will never be fully known until the day 
of final reckoning. 

May we not hope that each coming year shall 
add a brighter luster to its etficiency? 



^ L. EOTNER, proprietor of the livery, 
i\ feed and sale stable, 553 and 555, Wood- 
*i land avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, opened 
this establishment in April, 1893, having 
erected a large frame structure especially adapted 
to this purpose. He keeps a full line of car- 
riages and buggies, good horses, and a complete 
equipment thi-oughout. Mr. Rotner is a native 
of Russia, born October 22, 1848, at Keyve, a 
son of Isadora and Ida Rotner. The father, 
who is now deceased, was a miller and farmer, 
and also owned large lumber interests iu the 
empire; the mother still survives. Our subject 
was reared iu his native land and remained a 
member of his father's household until twenty- 
five years of age; he assisted in the various 
lines of business of which his father was pro- 
prietor until he came to America. Upon 
reaching thi.s counti-y he went to Rochester, and 



near tiiat city secured employment with a fanner 
with whom he remained three years, receiving 
wages during the summer and devoting the 
winter mouths to study. During this time he 
mastered the English language and familiarized 
himself with the customs of this country. 

Entering the employ of the Metropolitan 
Life Insurance Company, Rochester, New York, 
he was soon promoted to the position of assis- 
tant superintendent of the Western Division, 
and was sent to Chicago. He continued with 
this corporation three years, and then embarked 
in the livery business in Chicago. In 1886 he 
came to Cleveland in the interests of the Metro- 
politan Life Insurance Company, but after six 
or seven months he engaged in business for 
himself. He first carried a line of groceries, 
and was afterward in the dairy business, which 
he operated three years; at the end of this time 
he again opened a grocery htove, closing out the 
business at the end of twelve months in order 
to enter his present enterprise. Politically he 
afiiliates with the Republican party. He is a 
member of the Knights of Pythias and of the 
Sons of Benjamin. A man of the most gener- 
ous impulses, the needy never pass him un- 
assisted. 

He was united in marriage in Cleveland, 
Ohio, October 16, 1886, to Rosa Ettinger, a na- 
tive of Russia. They are the parents of two 
children, Isadore and Belle. They are members 
of the Hebrew congregation of this city. 



ilLLIAM S. PINCOMBE was born in 
^1 Cleveland, Ohio, May 6, 1855. His 
parents were William and Sarah (Wool- 
dridge) Pincombe, and were both natives of 
Devonshire, England, where they were married. 
In the spring of 1853 they emigrated to the 
United States, settling iu Cleveland, where the 
♦atlier was engaged in brick-making. In 1861 
he purchased a farm in Middleburg township, 
where he has since resided. Mrs. Sarah Pin- 
combe is a sister of Thomas Wooldridgc, of 



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whoui personal mention is made elsewhere in 
this volume. She was born April 5, 1817. 
William Pincombe was born February 26, 1830. 
William S. Pincombe is the only child of his 
parents. He was reared in Cuyahoga county, 
where lie has always resided. He was married 
in Derea, Ohio, January 31, 1876, to Miss Mary 
Ann Gordon, a daughter of the late John Gor- 
don, who died in Berea, Ohio, March 27, 1880. 
Her mother was Elizabeth (Bailey) Gordon, who 
survives her husband. Mr. and Mrs. Pincombe 
aid he parents of four children: William J., Silas 
H., Arthur H. and Ella May. Mr. Pincombe 
has been engaged chietly in farming. He cul- 
tivates his father's farm of over 100 acres. He 
has held some of the offices of the township and 
for many years has been one of the school di- 
rectors. He is a member of the JIasonic fra- 
ternity. 



CHAHLES P. WEST was born in Eock- 
port township, November 29, 1854. His 
father was the late John M. West, who 
was born in county Leitrim, Ireland, in May, 
1811. In May, 1826, he came to America with 
his father, John West, and settled in Euclid 
township, where the son lived until about 1842, 
dealino; in stock and farming. At this time he 
removed to Rockport township, settling in that 
part of it which is now known as Kockport Ham- 
let, where he continued to live till his death, 
which occurred February 15, 1890. He was 
married in Buffalo, New York, early in the 
'40s, to Frances N. O'Brien, who was born in 
Roscommon county, Ireland, about 1821. She 
survives and resides in Rockport Hamlet. They 
had eight ciiildren, two of whom died in youth, 
Nicholson, who died when fifteen years old, and 
Arthur, who died at two. The names of the 
si.K who grew up are as follows: Alice H., de- 
ceased wife of J. W. Kinney, wlio died in the' 
late '808; John W. ; William L. ; Fannie C, who 
is the wife of C. C. Southern; George W. and 
Charle.-^ P. 



Charles P. West was reared in Rockport 
townshi]!, where he received a good common- 
Bchool education, afterward attending the Hu mis- 
ton Cleveland Institute for three years and 
Oberlin College one year. Farming was his 
chief business until June, 1893, when he formed 
a partnership with H. (4. Dryer, witii whom he 
is now associated. 

John M. West was a public-spirited man and 
was instrumental in having the Ohio City and 
Olmsted plank road built. 



in real 

superior 

of the 

thy citi- 



V f ENRY L. PHILLIPS, dea 
\r\ estate, corner of Doan an 
II tl streets, Cleveland, Ohio, is 
^ well-known, responsilde and ' 

zens of his locality. 

Mr. Phillips was born on the premises on 
which he now resides, December 13, 1844, son 
of James and Almira (Crawford) Phillips, 
natives of Connecticut. His parents came from 
the East to Ohio about 1838 and settled on a 
farm at Warrensville, from whence, about 1840, 
they removed to the vicinity of Cleveland. 
Here the father purchased 125 acres of land, 
half of which is now within the corporate limits 
of the city, the rest being still in the possession 
of the family. On this farm the senior Mr. 
Phillips spent the the residue of his life and 
died. He was a man of more than ordinary 
business qualifications, was well known, and 
filled several local offices, such as Township 
Trustee and School Director. His life was a 
life of noble impulse and progressive spirit, and 
well did he do his part toward opening up the 
frontier and preparing the way for a higher 
civilization which the present generation enjoys. 
He and his worthy companion left to their de- 
scendants what is far better than riches — the 
heritage of a good name. Henry L. is the 
youngest of their family, the others being Mrs. 
Hosley, William, Mrs. Jordan and Sarah. 

The boyiiood days of Henry L. Phillips were 
spent oil his father's farm and in attendance at 







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the public schools ot' Cleveland, lie contimied 
farmiiij^f until 1891, when lie engiio;ed in tlie 
real-estate Inisiness, which he lias since success- 
I'ully conduct. h1. 

Mr. Phillips was married December 25, 18'';3, 
to Miss Krunces JMorgan, daughter of ('alvin 
Morgan of New York. 

When the Civil war came tui, our subject was 
in his -teens. February 25, 1SG4, he 'enlisted 
in Ilattery I), First Ohio Fight Artillery, and 
w.as in ijie .Vrmy of the Ohh., which was con- 
soli, hited with the .\i-niy .if llie Tennessee. He 
participate.! in tiie Atlantic cauipaii^n, and re- 
mained with his command until the close of 
the war, being thou in North Carolina. He re- 
turned to Cleveland and was mustered out ffuly 
IT), 1865. He Btood the service well. Although 
he was uiuier lire much .if the time during the 
Atlatita campaign, he never received a wound. 
He is a member of Forest City Post, G. A. R., 
in which he has served in official capacities. 



pror 
bar 



ENRY C. RANNEY.— Oneof the most 
" lent members of the (Meveland 
Mr. Henry C. Ranney, who is a 
nember of a family which for many 
years has held inerite.l distinction in legal cir- 
cles of Ohio. Mr. Ranney was born on June 
1, 1829, in Freedom, Portage county, Ohio. 
Mis father, Elijah W. Ranney, was the eldest 
brother of Judge R. V. Ranney, the recognized 
Nestor of the Cleveland bar, and of the late 
John L. Ranney, a distinguished lawyer of 
Ravenna, Ohio. The father of Mr. Ranney 
dying when our subject was i)ut si.x years of age, 
he was adopted into the family of the Hon. R. 
P. Ranney, then a rising young lawyer of Jef- 
ferson, Ohio. lie was at once placed in school 
an.! given a good education, and then entered 
thi' office of his uncle, Rufus P. Ranney, where 
he began the study of law. He was admitted 
to the bar in 1852, and immediately entered 
into practice at Warren, Ohio, in the office with 
Judge Firchard. He was afterward associated 



with his uncle, John L. Ranney, at Ravenna, 
with whom he remained until the death of the 
latter. In 1874- he came to Clevclan.l an.l en- 



tered 



ito 



rtnersh 



li his uti.'lcs, Rnfns 
I', and , John R. Ranney. Aflcrwanla partn.«r- 
ship was formed by these three gentlemen with 
lion. Henry McKinney, who retire.l from the 
bench for that purpose, nndei' the firm name of 
Ranney & McKinney. This partnership was 
.lissolved in 1890, since which time Mr. Henry 
C. Ranney lias been engaged in practice alone. 

In 1862 Mr. Ranney was ajipointed by the 
Secretary of War, Assistant Adjutant- General 
of Volunteers, and assigned to duty on the staff 
of (ieneral E. 15. Taylor, commanding the first 
brigade, third division, fifth army corps of the 
Potomac. This position he held about a year, 
during which time he participated in the battles 
of Fredericksburg and Ciiancellorsville. lie 
then resigned and returning to Cleveland, re- 
sumed his practice, devoting himself assidu- 
ously thereto ever since. Mr. Ranney has never 
sought or held a public salaried office of any 
kind, though' he lias on frequent occasions been 
solicited to stand for election to the bench and 
to Congress. 

No lawyer in northern Ohio has a wider cir- 
cle of close and lasting friendship among his 
legal brethren on the bench and at the bar than 
has Mr. Ranney, and no lawyer in the State has 
a higher standing at the bar than he. Mr. 
Ranney has for many years been closely identi- 
fied with the leading inovenients for the ad- 
vancement of culture in literature and art, in 
his home city. His known sympathy with such 
movements, and his unquestioned probity, 
together with his reputation for safe and con- 
servative business methods, have made him the 
natural choice as trustee for tlie many donations 
of many generous minded persons who have 
devoted large sums of money to such purposes. 
And his own wide culture derived from study 
and e.\tensive travel in his own country and 
abroad, render his services quite invaluable as 
custodian .)f these important interests. Mr. 
Ranney is one of those men whoso lives arc full 



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of unsouglit honors of the truest sort, aud the 
solid, substantial 'and permanent rewards of 
unselfish lives. The love and confidence of all 
who know him are the crown of a long, useful 
and successful career. 

Mr. Kanney was married September 19, 1853, 
to Miss Helen A. Burgess, of Ravenna, Ohio, 
an orphan grand-daughter of the late Hon. 
William Coolman of that place. Six daughters 
and a son were born to tiiis union, three daugh- 
ters only surviving. 



W A\ 1)1^^^^^^^^ PHILLIPS, retired, was horn 
\ll\// "' Crawford county, Pennsylvania, De- 
ll "I cember 17, 1837, a son of James and 
Almira (Crawford) Phillips, natives of Connec- 
ticut. James Phillips was born in 1804, and ia 
1838 removed to Ohio to make his home with 
his wife's parents, Luther aud Elizabeth Craw- 
ford. He bought a tract of 125 acres, ou which 
his son William now resides; thirty-eight acres 
are within the city limits of Cleveland. Here 
Mr. Phillips lived until his death, which oc- 
curred April 10, 1891. He became a conspicu- 
ous figure in the history of this locality, aud 
was an important factor in the development of 
Cuyahoga county's resources. He was bound 
out as a child of four years, and had few advan- 
tages in his youth. As a pioneer of Ohio he is 
deserving of the honor and reverence due those 
men and women who bravely cleared the path 
for the oncoming generations. His wife died 
February 17, 1889, at the venerable age of 
eighty-seven years. For many years he was 
trustee of the township, but was not a poli- 
tician. There were four children in the family: 
William, the subject of this sketch; Mary, the 
wife of O. D. Jordan; Sarah and Henry L. 
The mother was twice married, and had one 
daughter by her first union, Almira, widow of 
Adolphus J. Hosley. 

Mr. Phillips was educated in the district 
school, and was reared to the occupation of 
farmer, lie enlisted Se|)luinl)fr 10, 1862, in 



Company D, One Hundred and Twenty-eighth 
Ohio Volunteer Infantry, his regiment did 
guard duty on Johnston's Island the greater 
part of the time, and he was honorably dis- 
charged June 8, 1865. When the war had 
closed he returned to his farm and resumed the 
pursuits he has since followed. He has been 
very successful, and for many years was regard- 
ed as one of the leading market-gardners in the 
county. 

He was married October 20, 1859, to Miss 
Lydia A. Barber, a daughter of Abner and 
Lydiu Barber, both of whom are deceased. 
Mrs. Phillips is one of a family of five ciiildren: 
Elizabeth, wife of Wright Bramley, deceased; 
Minerva, wife of Carlton Fuller, is not living; 
Asa and Martin V., who was killed in a railway 
accident at the age of twenty-one years. Mr. 
and Mrs. Phillips are the parents of a family of 
nine children: Ella, now Mrs. Carlisle, whose 
iiistory is given elsewhere in this volume; 
James W. ; Emma; Charles R., who married 
Alice Middleton; Gertrude; Bert, who died at 
the age of two and a half years; Minerva; 
Frank, who died at the age of twelve months; 
and Ralph. 

Mr. Phillips is an honored member of the 
G. A. R., is a man of most excellent traits, and 
his long and useful career in this community 
entitle him to the confidence reposed in liiin by 
all classes of citizens. 



FRANK A. BROBST, manager of the 
Hollander Hotel, Cleveland, Ohio, has 
— been connected with this establishment 
since 1890, and has more than proven his fitness 
for the position. The hotel accommodates 
1,000 guests, and is conducted upon both the 
European and American plans. The service 
throughout is excellent. 

Mr. Brobst was born in Norwalk, Ohio, where 
he was reared and educated. When a young 
man he went to Fremont, Ohio, taking a posi- 
tion in the Ball House, which he filled satisfac- 



cuTAHooA couyrr. 



torily for a year. At the end of twelve months 
he went to Chicago, and during the ten years 
following was connected with the management 
of the Palmer Honse of that city. His ability 
was speedily recognized, and he was promoted 
topoi itions of responsibility in rapid succession. 
During the last three years of his residence in 
Chicago he was a member of the company man- 
aging the Palmer House. Although a young 
man, thirty-five years of age, lie has developed 
superior business qualifications, and is con- 
sidered one of the most successful hutel mana- 
gers in the State. His experience as assistant 
manager of tlie Palmer House h.^s been invalu- 
able him, and has doubtless been of material 
aid to him in bringing the Hollander to the 
front. Our worthy manager is one of the 
stockholders of tiie Arcade Savings Bank, and 
of the C. & B. Transit Company; he also owns 
a considerable amount of realty in Chicago. 
He is a lover of fine horses, and the sporting 
world presents many attractions to him; his 
chief gratification in this line is found in a good 
trotter. Mr. Brobst has attained his successes 
through his own efforts, and is justly entitled to 
the confidence and esteem which he commands 
in business circles. 

He was married in Chicago in 1886, to Miss 
Dizateli. 



FPJEDEICH AUL, florist at Glenville, 
was born February 20, 1857, in Waitz- 
^ enbach, Bavaria, took an academic course 
of education at Schweinfurt, in his native 
country, learned the trade of florist, served two 
years in the regular army, and October 23, 
1881, arrived in Cleveland. During his first 
two years here he was employed by Mrs. Eadie, 
a florist: next, in company with liis brother, 
Casper, in 1883, he opened business in iiis line 
oiT^t. Clair street, on a rented place, and in 
September, 1892, he started ont for himself, on 
St. Clair street and Gordon Park. He purchased 
his present property, two acres, on Doau street, 



Glenville, where he now lias a fine establish- 
ment. He erected a good frame house, costing 
§12,000. The eminent success which he has 
attained is attributable to his diligent and close 
attention to the business he has so thoroughly 
learned, for he started without means. 

In his political sympathies he is a Republi- 
can, and in religion a Presbyterian Lutheran. 

September 17, 1883, is the date of his mar- 
riage to Miss Hermiue Burck, who had just ar- 
rived from the old country, according to her 
marriage engagement. Their children are Ru- 
dolph, Henry and Otto, aged respectively eight, 
four and two years. 

His father, a farmer of the old country, died 
in April, 1883, and his' mother in December 
following- They have seven children, three of 
whom are in this country. The names of all 
are Johannes, Casper, Anne, Frederick, Henry, 
Katherine and John. The last mentioned lives 
in Cleveland. 



FRANKLIN M. ROOT, a representative 
farmer of Middleburg township, was born 
— March 4, 1839, in Brunswick, Medina 
county, Ohio. His father was the late Charles 
Root, a native of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The 
Root family were am.ong the early settlers of 
Brunswick, Medina county. Charles Root re- 
moved to Cleveland, where he kept the Pearl 
Street House for seven years in wiiat was form- 
ei'ly kuown as Ohio City, and is now the West 
Side of Cleveland. He died in 1850. He was 
formerly employed in the mercantile business 
in Brunswick. The maiden name of his wife 
was Ruth A. Martin, and she survives her hus- 
band at an advanced age. They had eight sons, 
of whom Franklin M. was the third. When he 
was about two years old his parents removed to 
Parma, Cuyahoga county, remained one year 
and then removed to Ohio City (or West Cleve- 
land). In 1850 he returned with his widowed 
mother and brothers to Brunswick, and remained 
for several years, when he came to Middleburg 



CUTAIIOGA (JOUNrr. 



township, wliere lie has since been a resident. 
Agriculture has been his chief business, his 
present farm, a fine one, comprising nearly 
sixty acres. 

Mr. Root married, in Middleburg township, 
June 22, 1865, Miss Joanna Fowles, daughter 
of Lewis A. anil Hannah (Fish) Fowles. He 
was born in Middleburg township, and she in 
•Connecticut. They are old and respected resi- 
dents of this county. They had two sons and 
three daughters, of whom Mrs. Root was the 
eldest. She was born in Middleburg township, 
March 23, 1847, where she was reared. 

Mr. and Mrs. Root have four sons: Charles 
L., who married Miss Ida Gray; Samuel L.; 
RoUand F., who married Ella M.Brainard; and 
AlJeii F., who niarriel Miss Belle C. Goss. Mr. 
Root was Township Trustee for six years. He 
is now Postmaster at Berea, Cuyahoga county, 
Ohio, under the administration of President 
Cleveland. 



G CHRISTOPHER R. MAILE, proprietor 
V of the Lakewood Brick and Tile Works, 
^ at Lakewood hamlet, was born in Cleve- 
land, Ohio, January 27, 1862. His parents 
were William R. and Alice (Rose) Maile, natives 
of St. Ives, England. They had five children, 
namely: Christopher R.; Nellie, the wife of 
Sidney Goss; Hattie, wife of Urban Hurd; 
Lillie, wife of J. C. Cannon; and Warren, who 
was accidentally drowned by falling into a pond 
when four years and five months old. 

When our subject was but a year old his 
parents removed to Rockport township, making 
their home in what is now known as Lakewood 
hamlet, and here young Christopher grew to 
manhood. lie received a common-school edu- 
cation and remained with his father at home 
until his marriage. He was mai'ried in Cleve- 
land, Ohio, March 1, 1884, to Miss Mary A. 
Kidd, a native of Cuyahoga county, Ohio. 
They settled in Lakewood hamlet, where they 



have since resided. They have had three chil- 
dren: Willie, who died when about seven years 
of age; Alice and Lulu. 

In the spring of 1885, Mr. Maile, in com- 
pany with his father, purchased the Tile and 
Brick Works, which they operated together for 
two years. The son then purchased his father's 
interest, and has since conducted the business 
alone. He carries on quite an extensive busi- 
ness. 

Mr. Maile has served as Trustee for several 
years. He is the member of the Central Re- 
publican Committee for Rockport township, 
and has taken an active part in political mat- 
ters as well as local affairs. 



llOlIN W. WISE was born near Louisville, 
K I Stark county, Ohio, Septenrber 14, 1859. 
'*!^ His boyhood days were spent on the farm, 
and his education obtained from the village 
schools and at Mount Union College. Constant 
confinement in a schoolroom jeopardizing his 
health, he was forced to give up his studies and 
seek more active employment. He decided that 
railroading should be his business. He secured 
a place with the Cleveland, Canton & Southern 
Railroad Company in 1882 as workman on a 
gravel train, expecting that he would be pro- 
moted to fireman on first vacancy, ami the 
change was made in just four days. In 1883 
he came to the Cleveland & Pittsburgh Com- 
pany as yard brakeman at Newburg. In three 
years he was made yard conductor, serving as 
such till August, 1873, when he was promoted , 
to night yardmaster. 

Mr. Wise is a son of Henry C. Wise, like- 
wise a native of Stark county, Ohio, born in 
1828 and died in 1875. He devoted his active 
business life to the farm and the building of 
mills, and officially was for many years a Justice 
of the Peace. 

Our subject's mother was Elizabeth Snyder, 
now living in Louisville, at seventy-six years of 
age. Her father was Michael Snydei", a farmer 



CiryAJIOGA aovNTY. 



and one of tlie first settlers in Stark county. 
He came to Ohio from Alexandria, Maryland, 
in 1832, and was an Ohio soldier in the Mexi- 
can war. His death occurred in 1873. The 
"Wise family came originally from Massachu- 
setts, and were led into Ohio by Ciiarles Wise, 
who married Margaret Charles, who bore him 
five children, one of whom was Henry C. Wise. 
The latter's children were: Samuel, deceased; 
Amanda, deceased; Matilda, married David 
Harner, of Canton, Ohio; Elizabeth, wife of 
L. Baunian; John W., and Elvira, unmarried. 

John W. Wise married, June 7, 1893, in 
Cleveland, Nellie Lalley, a daughter of Thomas 
Lalley. Mr. Wise is indebted for his success 
to a good stock of energy and perseverance and 
an evident interest in the business of his em- 
ployers. 



FATRICK FITZPATRICK, of Linsdale, 
Ohio, was born in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, 
December 24, 1848. His father, Charles 
Fitzpatrick, was then a resident of the 
Forest City only temporarily, while engaged in 
constructing a portion of the Cleveland & Pitts- 
burg Railroad under contract. He was not 
without a contract for a portion of some one of 
our eastern trunk lines from the time he became 
a fixture as an American business man until his 
death near Toledo, Ohio, of cholera, in 1853. 
He came from Ireland to Ohio about 1847, 
bringing a wife — Rosa, nee Morgan. Five chil- 
dren were born to the parents, 1)ut Patrick is 
the only surviving sou. 

After the death of his parents, so suddenly, 
and at almost the same time, our subject was 
taken charge of by a farmer named Doty and 
kept until an uncle came on and took possession 
of the young orphan. He was brought to 
Cleveland and secured a scant parochial school 
training; alternating the duties of student with 
some kind of manual labor necessary to secure 
subsistence. At sixteen Mr. Fitzpatrick went 
to New York city and enlisted in the Sixth New 



York Cavalry, going to Staten Island and thence 
to Harper's Ferry, where the regiment was as- 
signed to the First Division of the Second 
Brigade under General Deven, and saw service 
in the second Shenandoah valley campaign ; was 
in the battle of Five Forks and many otlier less 
noted engagements, and after Lee's surrender 
came back to Roanoke river. North Carolina, to 
cut off Johnston. Their mission completed, the 
regiment returned to Alexandria, Virginia, and 
participated in the grand review at Washington, 
District of Columbia. The Sixth was consoli- 
dated with the Fifteenth New York and sent to 
Louisville, Kentucky, to do provost duty; re- 
mained during the summer and in November 
turned over all government property and were 
sent back to Elmira, New York, to be mustered 
out. 

After an unsuccessful attempt to get conge- 
nial employment in New York city, our subject 
secured a job at getting out timber near Ran- 
dolph, New York, and was so engaged one year, 



going 



then in October, 1866, to Boston, where 



he gratified a desire to renew military service 
by enlisting in the Seventh United States In- 
fantry. Ultimately he was sent to St. Angus- 
tine, Florida, where he was assigned to Company 
B, Seventh United States Infantry. He was 
stationed at Fernaudina until the spring of 1867, 
when, the Indians becoming hostile in tlie Rocky 
mountain country, an order took the regiment 
to Fort Steele, Wyoming, and some time later 
it was transferred to Fort Shaw, Montana, where 
in 1869 Mr. Fitzpatrick was discharged by ex- 
piration of term of service. 

He returned to Cleveland in 1870, and the 
next year went to the Toledo division of the 
Lake Shore Railroad Company as yard brake- 
man. After six months' service he came to the 
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis 
Railway Company in the same capacity, and in 
fourteen months was given a pony. In due sea- 
son lie was made night yard-master, serving in 
the Cleveland yards until 1889, when be was 
promoted to the position of day man at Lindale. 
Only one in the twenty- two years of his service 



CUYAIIOOA COUNTY. 



has Mr. Fitzpatrick been absent from duty at 
any length, and that time for a period of six 
months, when temporarily engaged in a mer- 
chandising venture. 

Mr. Fitzpatrick married in Cleveland, Maria 
Campbell, of Canadian birth. Their cliildren 
are: Rosa, Priscilla, Mary, Ettie and Nettie. 



COLONEL A. T. VAN TASSEL is one 
of the leading business men of the city of 
Cleveland. He was born at Mayviile, 
Chautauqua county, New York, March 11, 1833. 
"When he was six years old his parents removed 
to Erie, Pennsylvania. He is a son of Abram 
and Zenitia (Trucknm) VanTassel, both being 
natives of New York State. His father was a 
soldier in the war of 1812. He was a stone- 
mason by trade and in Erie followed the busi- 
ness of a contractor, and as a contractor operated 
upon the Erie & Pittsburg canal. 

The subject of this personal sketch served 
an apprenticeship of four years at the tin and 
coppersmith's trade and when he had reached 
his majority he left Pennsylvania and came to 
Cleveland, in which city he landed in 1852, 
where he worked for seven years at his trade. 
He then embarked in business for himself. 
When he began work in the city of Cleveland 
his assets were $5, but from his earnings he 
saved his money and accumulated $125, which 
became his invested capital. When he embarked 
in business for himself he opened the shop on 
Detroit street, just opposite his present location, 
and since that day he has been one of the most 
active business men of the city. In 1865 he 
purchased a stock of hardware, at the same 
time purchasing the lot on which stands his 
present place of business. In 1867 he erected 
his business house and here he does a general 
tin and copper business. His work consists in 
marine work, plumbing, etc. Having fitted up 
a nuiiibtr of vessels for lake service, he has 
made marine work a specialty; however, he 
carries a full line of shelf and heavy hardware. 



His jjlace of business is 250 Detroit street. He 
employs a number of workmen and his business 
is of no little consequence. 

Aside from business he has been actively en- 
gaged in public affairs. In politics he has al- 
ways been Democratic. In 1862 he was elected 
a member of the City Council from the old 
Ninth ward and since that time he has served 
six terms, or twelve years, in that capacity. He 
has been a member of the city board of improve- 
ments and he is author of the law that created 
the board of fire commissioners, and he became 
a member of the first board of these commis- 
sioners. He was appointed by Mayor Babcock 
to the board of workhouse directors. To ihe 
several conventions of his party he has been a 
delegate for some years past. He is a very en- 
thusiastic and influential worker in the ranks of 
his party. 

He was man-ied at the age of twenty years, 
marrying, in this city. Miss Mary Rudge, a na- 
tive of Hartford, Connecticut. He is promin- 
ently connected with several fraternal societies, 
among which are the Independent Order of 
Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and other 
orders. 



HARLES W. FOOTE, a man of marked 
attainments and one occupying a position 
of no little prominence in the business 
circles of the city of Cleveland, and the subject 
of this sketch, may consistently be accorded at- 
tention in connection with a work which has to 
do with the representative citizens of Cuyahoga 
county. 

He was born in Tripoli, Syria, in 1853, the 
only child of Rev. Horace Foote, who was then 
a Christian missionary in that far distant land, 
having been an honored member of the clerical 
profession for nearly half a century. The maid- 
en name of our subject's mother was Rosanna 
Whittlesey. She was a native of Connecticut, 
and her husband of New York. The former 
died in 185-t, at the age of thirtv-tliree years, 



CUYAHOGA GOUNTT. 



and the latter, who was born in 1816, died 
August 12, 1887. Colonel Charles Whittlesey, 
a brother of Mrs. Foote, was a notable man and 
one who attained to honorable distinction in 
many ways. 

Our subject, who is a namesake of his uncle, 
is a graduate of the Western Reserve College at 
Hudson, having been a member of the class of 
1874. He supplemented his literary education 
by taking a post-gi-aduate scientific course at 
Cornell University, receiving from that institu- 
tion the degree of Master of Arts, as well as that 
of Doctor of Philosophy. Mr. Foote was ad- 
mitted to practice at the bar in 1878, and de- 
voted himself to the work of this profession at 
Akron, Ohio, until 1881, when he accepted a 
position as Professor of Science at Buchtel 
College, Akron. Subsequently he became in- 
terested in electrical work, and invented and 
perfected a long-distance telephone, upon which, 
however, he was not able to secure a patent. At 
that time he was residing in Youngstown, Oliio. 
In 1887 he came to Cleveland as an agent 
repr.' renting the Sprague Electric Railway and 
Motor Company, whose system is now in use 
on the East Cleveland and Broadway & New- 
bnrg lines. He remained connected with the 
corporation noted until the time when its busi- 
ness was purchased by the Edison Company. He 
then became agent for the Thomson-Houston 
Company, with which he remained until 1892, 
•when he resigned to accept the preferment as 
general manager of the Nicholson Electric 
Hoist Company, a concern whose interests have 
been advanced to a marked degree as a result of 
his able efforts and capable direction. Since 
1889 he has also been identified with the 
Cleveland Construction Company, whose prov- 
ince of operations is in the construction and 
equipment of electric street railways, and who 
have built roads under about forty separate 
contracts. 

He is vice-president of the Electric Club, of 
Cleveland, and a member of the American In- 
stitute of Electrical Engineers, of New York 
city. He is also a member of the Civil Engi- 



neers' Club, of Cleveland. A man of marked 
intellectuality and thorough discipline, he has 
put his comprehensive knowledge into practical 
use and has early gained for himself recognition 
in the path along which moves the hurrying 
column of utilitarian advancement. 

Mr. Foote was united in marriage July 30, 
1879, to Miss Harriet, a daughter of Professor 
H. B. Hosford, of the Western Reserve Col- 
lege, and to them have been born three chil- 
dren: Fannie R., who was born in 1880; Charles 
R., in 1883; and Ruth H., in 1889. 



, ALTER JACOBI is the Cleveland 
general agent for the Home Life lu- 
ll surance Company of New York, and 
in this position he has charge of northern Oliio. 
He has had charge of this field for a little over 
two years. He has been with this company 
since May of 1891, and through his judicious 
management he has worked up a good business 
in this field. Before becoming identified with 



this company 



in the employ of the Ger- 



mania Life, of New York, with which company 
he was associated for seven years. 

He was born in Berlin, Germany, June 13, 
1852. He was given a classical education in 
his native land and served one year in the 
regular army. In 1875 he came to America 
and spent a short time in New York city, and 
then, coming west, located in Cleveland, in 1876. 
Upon coming to Cleveland he first accepted a 
position as book-keeper, and later he secured a 
position in the city schools, in which he taught 
until January, 1884, at which time he became 
engaged in the insurance business, to which lie 
has since given his entire time and attention. 
He has been one of the most active and success- 
ful men in his line. Notwithstanding that he 
has given a very great deal of his time, thought 
and study to his business he has never lost in- 
terest in the cause of education, having served 
a period of five or more years on the board of 
examiners for the city schools. 



VI! iAlIOGA COUNTY. 



Fraternally Mr. Jacobi is a member of the 
A. F. & A. M., Concordia Lodge, No. 345, 
and Webb Chapter, No. 14. 

He is counected with several of the German 
societies of the city, and in polities he is a 
stanch Republican. 

Mr. Jacoiii was married in this city in 1878. 



ILLIAM II. VAN TINE, Jr., one of 
the most active of the real-estate men 
in Cleveland, was born in this city in 
1856, a son of William H. Van Tine, concern- 
ing whom specific subject-matter appears else- 
where iu this volume. He received his educa- 
tion in the public scliools and at the early age 
of ten years began to realize somewhat the more 
serious demands of life. He thereupon began 
carrying papers, morning and evening, devoting 
the middle of each day to study. When a youth 
of sixteen years he engaged in the real-estate 
and insurance business, soon dropping tiie latter 
to devote all of his attention to realty transact- 
ions. 

In 1880 he commenced giving most of liis 
time to the allotment of lands in the city and 
has up to date completed and improved thirty- 
three streets in the best locations in the resi- 
dence portions of Cleveland, and covering many 
millions in value. During the past five years 
he has added to his enterprises the building and 
completion of modern homes, conducting to-day 
the largest enterprise of its kind in Cleveland 
if not in the State of Ohio and being acknow- 
ledged by all competitors to be the most active 
and siiccessful operation in the market. 

He has his architectural department, where 
all plans and details are made for houses of 
every description built to suit the purchaser 
and sold on easy payments, and comprising the 
choicest lines of work built and offered for sale. 
From the drawing-room his work goes to his 
mills and shops, where every detail of the house 
is constructed e.xcepting only the plumbing and 
furnace work. All the different details nf the 



work are completed in his own shops, where the 
different departments are found under the 
charge of the most skilful mechanics, including 
decorators of every kind in wall papers, fresco 
and water- color effects, etc., eleeti-ical work, 
mantel work, etc. 

Mr. Van Tine employs the year round about 
100 mechanics in all branches, and completes 
ready for occupancy on an average of fifty houses 
per year. His work is purchased most of the 
time ahead of the completion of the houses and 
during the dnll times has evidently made no 
difference in his push and energy in building 
where others have dared not attempt the venture. 
Every detail of the work from the start to comple- 
tion is under his personal supervision, and liis 
abilities for tine work and effective interiors, as 
well as architectural designing has deservingly 
given him the title of " Designer and Builder of 
Modern Homes." 

He is also at the head of one of the most 
active brokerage offices in the city as well as 
one of the executive committee of the Cleveland 
Real Estate Board. 

He is the acknowledged hustler in his line 
of work in Cleveland and is found at his work 
from early morn until late at night. His business 
abilities and operations have led him into the 
confidence of all who know him. 

Mr. Van Tine was married in 1S7S, to Katie 
Strong, cind they have three daughters: Ray, 
Katie and Nellie. The family residence is at 
1549 Enclid avenue. 



LFRED SMITH, general foreman of the 
Globe Iron Works ship yard, was born 
15, at Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, 
Wales, April 15, 1853. He is a son 
of Thomas and Mary Ann (Williams) 
Smith, who were the parents of ten children, 
Alfred being the seventh son. Thomas Smith 
was a ship carpenter and died in Wales. 

At sixteen years of age Alfred Smith, ac- 
companied by his brother, John H., now super- 



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inteiideiit for tlic Globe Company, came to the 
United States and stopped first at BuflFalo, 
where he learned his trade of fine shipbuilding, 
witli the Anchor Line people. On leaving Buf- 
falo Mr. Smith went to Pittsburg, and a few 
months later on to Crown Point, New York, 
and was there employed in a blast furnace two 
years. He then returned to Buffalo, and after 
a stay of about a year went to Point Edward, Can- 
aila, where he was engaged in the building of 
the steamer Huron for the Grand Trunk Rail- 
road Company. His ne.xt employment with 
this company was in the building and repair- 
ing of iron bridges, and he covered in his trav- 
el most of the territory of western Canada. In 
18S0 Mr. Smith came to Cleveland and secured 
employment with the Globe Iron Works as 
foreman and filled that position till he was 
prDumted as general foreman. 

Mr. Smith married, April 17,|1875, at Sarnia, 
Canada, Er^ter, a daughter of Henry Nash, a 
ship carpenter. Of this union have been born, 
Heiry (deceased), Charles G., William, Al- 
bert, and Iren", besides one other deceased. 



GA. ENNIS, Mayor of Bedford, Ohio, 
was born ou the site where he now lives, 
^' December 13, 1840. His father, Solo- 
mon Ennis, was left an orphan at a very early 1 
age, married Miss Jemima Turner, had but one 
child, and died in 184G. Mrs. Jemima Ennis 
was born at Newbnrg, Ohio, in 1818, and died 
in 1878. Her father, Abiahani Turner, was 
born in Hebron, New York, in 1783, was one 
of the first settlers of Newbnrg and a Sergeant 
in one of the early Indian wars. He married 
Susanna Gibbs, December 29, 1808, a daugh- 
ter of Hiram Gibbs, who was one of six broth- 
ers that emigrated from England to America in 
17G0. The Gibbs family are known to be the 
legatees of a very large estate held in trust by 
the Bank of England; and but for the absence 
of a link or two in the genealogical chain it 
could undoubtedly be recovered. Hiram and 



all of his brothers enlisted in the Continental 
army, and were engaged in many of the princi- 
pal battles of the war of the Revolution, and 
were present at the surrender of Cornwall is at 
Yorktown. 

C. A. Ennis was reared and educated in his 
native town, engaged in teaching for a time, and 
married, December 7, 1865, at Solon, Ohio, Miss 
Isabella Cuthberson, a lady of education and 
previously a successful and popular teacher. 
She was born October 29, 1839, in Auburn, 
New York, a dainTliter of .Ta'iics and Marijaret 




(Billsland) Cuthberson, natives of Scotland, who 
came to New York in 1838 and to Cuyahoga 
county in 1848; the father now lives in Kansas, 
and the mother is deceased. Mr. and Mrs. 
Ennis have one daughter, Mirgaret, a success- 
ful and popular teacher, who graduated at the 
Bedford high school in 18S6, and has been 
teaching in the grammar school of the town for 
some time. 

Mr. Ennis is a strung ami radical R 'publican, 
lias been Justice of the Peace for twenty-four 
years, and Mayor of Bedford for fourteen years. 
Is a member of the Masonic order, Bedford 



CUTAIIOOA COUNTY. 



Lodge, Xo. 375, and of Summit Chapter, No. 
74, and he is a member of tlie Disciple Church, 
in which he serves as Trustee, and has been an 
Elder, and is an active worker in the Sunday- 
school. 

Mr. Ennis is frank and cordial in his manner 
and address, and fijin in his convictions of right 
and wrong. 



dfOHN E. DARBY, a physician and snr- 
1 geou of Cleveland, was born in Berkshire 
connty, Massachusetts, August 20, 1835, a 
son of William and Electa (Edwards) Darby, 
both of English descent, and the latter a native 
of Khode Island. The fatiier was a blacksmith 
and farmer by occupation. Both he and his 
wife were regular attendants of the Baptist 
Church. They were the parents of seven chil- 
dren, three now living: Alma, wife of E. 
Blakeslee, of Cleveland; W. Frank, who was an 
officer in the late war, is now Postmaster at 
North Adams; and John E., our subject. 

The latter, after graduating at the "Williams 
College, in the class of 1858, came to Cleve- 
land, Ohio, where he read medicine with Dr. 
Procter Thayer. He also attended the old Cleve- 
land Medical College, now the Medical Depart- 
ment of the Western Reserve University, 
graduating at that institution in February, 1861, 
and immediately beginning tlie practice of bis 
profession in this city. During the late war 
Dr. Darby served as Assistant Surgeon of the 
Eighty-fifth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infan- 
try, afterward of the One Hundred and Twenty- 
fifth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; in 
ISG-i was promoted to the position of Surgeon, 
and served in that capacity in the Army of the 
Cumberland until the close of the struggle. 
He then returned to this city and resumed the 
practice of medicine. Before going to the war, 
the Doctor had served as demonstrator of 
anatomy in the university two years, and after 
his return was elected to the chair of materia 
medica and tlierapeuties, which position he still 



holds. Dr. Darby has written for medical 
journals; has been connected with the Lakeside 
Hospital for many years, and for the past five 
years has been a member of its consulting 
board, and has served as railroad surgeon for 
the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad for over 
twenty years. That long-continued service 
speaks well for the high esteem in wliicii he is 
held by those who know the value of efficient 
service. He is fond of the study of natural 
history, to which he has devoted much study, 
and makes it a recreation from professional toil. 
Dr. Darby was married in April, 1862, to 
Miss Frances, a daughter of Thomas Wright, 
of Summit county, Ohio. The wife died in 
1867, having been a consistent member of the 
Presbyterian Church. She was a graduate of 
the Cleveland Institute, and was a teacher before 
her marriage. In 1872 the Doctor was united 
in marriage with Miss EmmaM. Cox, a daugh- 
ter of Charles L. Cox, of this city. They had 
two children, — John Charles, a student in Adel- 
bert College; and Maybell Claire, attending the 
city scliools. Mrs. Darby departed this life 
June 2, 1888. Dr. Darby votes with the Re- 
publican party, and in professional relations is a 
member of the State and County Medical 
Societies. He carries the respect and confidence 
of the profession, has led a busy and useful life, 
and his extensive knowledge in all the affairs of 
life makes his friends as numerous as his ac- 
quaintances. 



ri( D. WALWORTH, vineyardist at Xot- 

l/I\ tingham, Cuyahoga county, was born in 

jj^ Jefferson county, New York. His father, 

, ' a farmer, during the last war with Great 

' Britain, literally left his plow in the furrow and 

' hastened to Sackett's Harbor, then besieged by 

! the British, and manfully defended the place 

for two weeks, when the conflict there was over 

and he returned to his plow. 

Mr. A. D. Walworth, whose name introduces 
this sketch, moved from New York to Ohio, 



CUTAITOGA COUNTY. 



.settling ill Euclid township, this county, where 
be now owns a ilourishing vineyard. In his 
political views he is a Jacksoiiian Democrat. 
He has been Justice of the Peace for nearly 
twenty years, and, tiiough in advanced life, he 
is hale and hearty. By his temperate habits 
he has well preserved his inherited constitu- 
tional vigor. 



TRUMAN P. HANDY was born in Paris, 
Oneida county, New York, January 17, 
1807. After gaining a liberal English 
educatiou he accepted a clerkship in the 
Bank of Geneva, at Geneva, New York. Sub- 
sequently he removed to Buffalo, where he 
assisted in organizing the Bank of Buffalo, in 
whicli he held the position of teller for one 
year. In 1832 he came to Cleveland, Ohio, to 
accept the position of cashier in tlie re-organized 
Commercial Bank of Lake Erie, which had 
lately been purchased by George Bancroft, tiie 
eminent historian. The bank was prosperous 
under the excellent management of young 
Handy until 1842, when the State Legislature 
refused to renew the expired charter. 

In 1843, Mr. Handy organized a private 
banking house under the firm name of T. P. 
Handy & Company, whose business was a pru- 
dent and successful one. In 1845 the State 
Baidc of Ohio was established and thereupon 
Mr. Handy organized the Commercial Brancli 
Bank. He was greatly the largest stockholder, 
and was its chief executive during the entire 
period of his connection with it. Its charter 
extended through a period of twenty years, 
during which it prospered, paying on an aver- 
age more than twenty per cent, upon the capital 
stock. The Commercial National Bank suc- 
ceeded to its business in 1865. 

In January, 1862, Mr. Handy accepted the 
presidency of the hitherto unprosperous Mer- 
chants' Branch Bank. Soon after he assumed 
control of the bank it besran to eain a new and 



better business, and old losses were soon made 
good; and in a little more than one year it was 
upon a solid, dividend-paying basis, and in 1865, 
at the expiration of its charter, it was one of 
the most prosperous banks in the Stale. From 
the organization of the Merchants' National 
Bank, in February, 1865, to this date, Mr. Handy 
has been its president. Its management has 
been characterized by the exercise of prudence 
and wisdom, and it has from the tirst continued 
one of the foremost national banks of the 
country. It has been a United States deposi- 
tory from its organization, and to the govern- 
ment it has i-endered much aid in negotiating 
all its loans. This bank has paid regular divi- 
dends, averaging nearly ten per cent, per annum, 
and at the same time it has accumulated a sur- 
plus of more than thirty per cent, of its capital. 
His careful management, Iiis sapient business 
qualities, his success as a banker, have placed 
him among the most eminent of bankers and 
financiers. He will always be best known as a 
banker, but he has also been largely identified 
with railroads, mining, and manufacturing en- 
terprises. He was an influential friend of the 
Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati Railroad. 
He was its treasurer from its organization till 
1860, when he resigned, and since that time he 
has been a director and member of itsexecutive 
committee. For many years he has been a stock- 
holder and director in the Cleveland Iron Min- 
ing Company, also a large stockholder in the 
Cleveland Rolling Mill Company, and otlier in- 
dustrial concerns. 

Mr. Handy has always been a Republican in 
politics, but has uniformly declined to accept 
any political preferment. He has always advo- 
cated the system of protecting our domestic 
industries against foreign competition, and of es- 
tablishing just relations between labor and 
capital. During the progress of the Civil war 
he was a steadfast supporter of the policy of 
President Lincoln, and rendered much aid to the 
sick and disabled soldiers then and since. From 
the organization of the Cleveland branch of the 
Sanitary Commission he s?rved as treasurer. 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



He has always been a warm friend of the 
clinrch, education and charity. For ten or more 
years he was a member of the Board of Educa- 
tion, and with others rendered mnch aid in 
organizing the present system of graded schools 
in Cleveland, and establishing the Central High 
School. He has been for many years a trustee 
of the "Western Eeserve College. He is also a 
trustee and liberal benefactor of Lane Theologi- 
cal Seminary. Very largely through his efforts 
was built the present elegant and commodious 
building of the Homeopathic Hospital, of which 
he is president. 

Since boyhood he has been a devoted member 
of the Presbyterian Church, of which he has 
been an Elder for nearly fifty years. For many 
years he was a corporate member of the Ameri- 
can Board, which position he resigned at the 
reunion of the old and new branches of the 
Presbyterian Church. He was a very earnest 
advocate of that re-union, and was a member of 
the joint committee which framed the articles 
of union. 

Mr. Handy married, in March, 1832, Miss 
Harriet N. Hall, of Geneva, New York. There 
were born to them two children: a son who died 
in infancy, and a daughter, who married Hon. 
John S. Newberry, of Detroit, Michigan. Mrs. 
Handy died July 5, 1880. 



d I AMES HOSSACK, Secretary of the Board 
I of Control and Mayor's Secretary, was 
— ' born in Cobourg. Canada, March 5, 1841. 
He secured a collegiate education, graduating 
from Victoria University in 1860. Upon leav- 
ing college Mr. Hossack set about preparing 
himself for the law, and in November, 1864, 
was called to the bar, and engaged actively in 
practice there until his removing to Cleveland, 
when he opened an office here. Mr. Hossack 
identified himself at once with the Democratic 
party and became a strong advocate of Demo- 
cratic principles and a leader and moulder of 
public sentiment. Upon the accession of De- 



mocracy to power in Cleveland in 1883, Mayor 
Farley appointed Mr. Hossack his private sec- 
retary, and on the expiration of his term of of- 
fice was appointed private secretary to Senator 
H. B. Payne, serving till 1891, when he again 
entered law practice. In 1893 Mayor Blee in- 
vited Mr. Hossack to become his private secretary, 



and he acce 



pted 



issumine his duties in 



Lpril 



In 1879 Mr. Hossack was a candidate for City 
Attorney, but the Repu])lican strength was too 
invincible and he met defeat. 

Mr. Hossack is a son of James Hossack, born 
in Scotland. He came to Canada when a 
young man and engaged in farming. He mar- 
ried Miss Bethune, born in Edinburg, and be- 
came the father of eleven children, five of whom 
are now living. 

Our subject became attorney for the Cleve- 
land Mutual Investment Company, in Febru- 
ary, 1893. He is a Knight Templar. 



FRANK HESOUN, Jr., city salesman 
for A. J. Wenham & Sons and a mem- 
-^ her of the City Council, was born in Bo- 
hemia, June 29, 1862. His father was a baker 
in the old country. He came to the United 
States in 1865, making Milwaukee his home 
till 1869, when he brought his family to Cleve- 
land. He married Rosa Schacha, who bore 
him four children, Frank, Jr., being the oldest. 
Frank Hesoun, Jr., attended the city schools 
of Cleveland till thirteen years of age, when it 
became necessary for him to lend a helping 
hand in the maintenance of the family. He 
secured employment in the cooper shops of the 
Standard Oil Company and remained there for 
four years. At this time he entered the em- 
ploy of A. J. Wenham & Sons as packing clerk, 
and later on as city salesman, which position he 
has now filled most acceptably thirteen years. 
Mr. Hesoun has had a fancy for politics since 
his yoiith, and on becoming of age cast his for- 
tunes and his first ballot for Democracy. He 
was elected to the Council in 1888, served 



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through that year, 1889-90 and a part of '91, 
when a chaiiye to the Federal plan created a 
vacancy in all the offices. April 4, 1893, he 
was again elected to represent the district, re- 
ceiving a majority of 850 votes and succeeding 
a Republican in office. Mr. Hesoun is chair- 
man of the committee on lighting, and is serv- 
ing on the committee on public works. 

Mr. Hesoun married, in 1885, Elizabeth, a 
daughter of Peter Malley. Their children are: 
Frank, Jr., Gracie and Lilly, 

Mr. Hesoun is P. C. of K. of P., is a mem- 
ber of the Bohemian Turning Society and of 
the Drummers' Association. 



H. WEBBEE, superintendent and 
treasurer of the Huron Street Hospi- 
tal, 66 Huron street, Cleveland, Ohio, 
was born on the island of Malta, October 7, 

1866, a sou of John H. and Ann (Lecudi) 
"Webber; his mother was the daughter of a 
Greek sea captain. His father was a pay- 
sergeant in the English army. There are four 
children living: W. H.; Joseph W., an actor; 
Susanah, wife of F. Lopez; and James. 

Mr. Webber came to Cleveland in 1880 and 
entered the Rockwell school, where he was a 
pupil until twelve years of age. He then be- 
gan to take care of himself, and for some years 
worked for $3.50 a week, attending sessions of 
the night schools whenever practicable. He 
was employed as clerk for R. Arnold live years, 
and tilled the same position with P. O'Brien 
during a like period. In 1891 he assumed the 
duties of the position he has since so ably filled. 
The Huron Street Hospital was founded in 

1867, and was supported mainly by subscrip- 
tion for many years. A vast amount of charity 
work is done, almost one-half the accommoda- 
tions being devoted to the poor. Since the 
office of superintendent has been created the 
usefulness of the hospital has been widely ex- 
tended, and the services of Mr. Webber are 
highly appreciated by the Board of Managers. 



He is a man of excellent judgment and gener- 
ous impulses, is a careful financier, and under 
his management the establishment has been 
placed upon a most satisfactory basis. 

The staff of physicians and surgeons is with- 
out a superior in the State, and patients are 
treated according to any desired school of medi- 
cine. The training-school for nurses is recog-' 
nized as one of the most thorough, the attend- 
ance at present numbering twenty-five. 

Mr. Webber was married in 1889 to Miss 
Ida E. Hutchins, and of this union three chil- 
dren have been born: Philip H., who died at 
the age of three and one-half years; the second 
child, Edna G., lived only one year; Dorothea 
M. is the youngest. Mr. and Mrs. Webber are 
members of the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church. 
Mr. Webber is active in the work of the Y. M. 
C, A., to which he has belonged since he was a 
lad of twelve years. He is a Mason, being now 
Junior Deacon of Cleveland City Lodge; be- 
longs to Cleveland Council, No. 36, R. & S.M., 
and to the commaudry; he also belongs to tiie 
Independent Order of Foresters. 



djOHN MURPHY, Lake Shore & Michigan 
Southern yard-master at the Union Depot, 
has given twenty-one years of continuous 
service in the yards of this company. He en- 
tered the service as yard brakeman in 1872, and 
was promoted to conductor three years later, 
serving until his elevation to yard-master in 
1880. His faithfulness and devotedness to duty 
is testified to by the fact of his having been ab- 
sent from his post only five weeks during that 
long period, and that, to take much needed and 
deserved vacations. Mr. Murphy was born in 
Cincinnati, Ohio, March 31, 1853. His father 
was a lake captain, who was lost in 1860 by the 
boiler explosion on The Lady of the Lake. He 
was of Canadian birth and of Irish parentage, 
his father locating in Toronto, on leaving the 
Emei'ald lole. 



CU YAHOO A COUJflTr. 



In 1840 liis father came to the United States 
— then sixteen years of age — and located in 
Cincinnati, becoming a steamboat captain on the 
Ohio river. In 1857 he removed his family to 
Buffalo, New York, where they remained till 
1859. He married Miss Gleason, a daughter of 
Thomas Gleason, of Cincini:ati, Ohio, and of 
the children born to them, John, our subject, is 
tjju only one living. 

John Murphy left the graded schools at the 
age of fifteen and l)ecamean employee of Taft's 
hihingle mill on Center sti-eet; leaving this ser- 
vice he entci'cd the Novelty Iron Worl.s, where 
he commenced his trade. He joined McNarry 
& ClalHin's "Works; eighteen months later com- 
pleted his trade and then came to the Lake 
Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company. 

Mr. Murphy married in 1881, in Cleveland, 
Miss A. O'Connor, a daughter of James O'Con- 
nor, a mechanic, an old resident of Irisii birth. 
Four children resulted from this union: Charles, 
Ilaymond, Richard and Sai-ah. 

Mr. Murphy is a careful, industrious and am- 
bitious man, popular with his men and favored 
by his company, and will receive his share of 
the good things as they are passed around. 



THEODORE A. CLOSSE, an importing 
merchant tailor, wnth his business place 
at 138 the Arcade Building, Cleveland, 
Ohio, has been engaged actively in this 
business since 1868, becoming successor to his 
father's business in the year 1883. Before 
passing to a review of his career it will be ap- 
j)ropriate to make mention of his father, Andrew 
Clossc, who was born in Lothringen, Germany, 
July 26, 1822, a son of P. and Elizabetii (Reim) 
Ciosse. He was sent to school utitil he was 
fonrteen years of age and at this age he began 
his career at the tailor's trade. He worked 
lliree years in his nati\u town and then went to 
Mitz, Nasse and Paris. In the city of Paris 
he spent four years. He was then called to the 
(urm;ui army, in which he served three years. 



in the Ninth Hussars regiment, known as the 
Light Cavalry. Upon the close of his army 
service he came to America, landing in IS'ew 
York city, where he spent a few days, and then 
visited several of the principal cities of the East, 
finally deciding to come westward. He landed 
in Cleveland in the winter of 1845 and since 
that date has been a resident of the city. For 
the first twenty-two years of his life here he 
was engaged as a cutter for various tailoring es- 
tablishments in the place, but in 1867 he 
opened up a business of his own, at the corner 
of Superior and Union streets. Later he 
opened an establishment just opposite the 
Weddell Hotel; there he was burned out iu 
1886 and since that time he has assisted his 
son as a cutter. He has been an active business 
man of the city of Cleveland for forty-eight 
years. He married in this city in 1850, wed- 
ding Miss Hannah Eckerman, wlio is still liv- 
ing. Unto this marriage eleven childi'en have 
been born, of whom six survive, and the fol- 
lowing are their names: Eugene, Theodore A., 
Lydia E., Emma, "Willie F. and Hannah G. At 
first Mr. Ciosse affiliated with the Democratic 
party, but later became convinced that the 
principles of the Republican party were safer 
and went over to it. He and his good wife are 
consistent members of the German Reformed 
Church. 

Theodore A. Ciosse, the immediate subject 
of this personal sketch, was born in Cleveland, 
March 20, 1855, and in this city and in its 
schools he was brought up and educated. Early 
in life he learned the business of his father, 
that of a merchant tailor, and while rather 
young became associated with him in the same 
business, in which he has been engaged ever 
since. For a number of years he and his father 
were located opposite the Weddell House, 
where they operated a large tailoring and 
clothing establishment, their business taking 
rank as one of the leading concerns in the city. 
In 1S86 the same was destroyed by fire, and 
thereafter the father decided not to resume 
business again. However, iu 1880 the son 



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opened up a merchant-tailoring establisluiieiit 
on the Public Square and in 1890 located in the 
Arcade, in room 138, and here he conducts and 
enjoys a large remunerative business. lie em- 
ploys a very great deal uf help in the prosecu- 
tion of his work. 

Mr. Closse is one of the progressive and act- 
ive workers in the ranks of the Republican 
party, and at the recent writing he is a popular 
candidate for the nomination of his party for 
the ofHce of County Clerk. 

Fraternally he is a member of the A. F. & 
A. M., belonging also to the Cleveland Chapter, 
No. 148; Holy Rood Commandery, No. 32. He 
is also a member of the Knights of Pythias, 
Lake Shore Lodge, No. 10; also of the Cleve- 
land Athlftic Club, of the Cleveland Wheel 
Club, and many other social clubs in the city. 

lie was married in 1876 to Miss Nellie 
Sterling, a native of Troy, New York, and a 
daughter of George Sterling. Mr. and Mrs. 
Closse have one daughter, Gertrude by name. 
They ai-e members of the Disciple Church. 



VILLIAM WILLIAMS.— The life of the 
lata William Williams, of Cleveland, 
Ohio, was filled with many incidents 
that illustrate life in the wilderness at an early 
day in western New York. He was born on June 
2, 1803, in East Windsor, Connecticut, the son 
of Ebenezer Williams, of afamily long and well 
known in New England. His early days were 
passed in the sheltering care of a comfortable 
home until he was eight years of age, when 
his father decided upon a change of location 
that had an effect of some consequence upon 
all the after life of his son. That step and 
the reasons leading to it are referred to 
iu the following language of Mr. Williams, in 
a note prepared a few years previous to his 
death, in obedience to the request of his chil- 
dren: "It was iu the fall of the year after 
my eighth birthday, that my father deter- 
mined to remove with his numerous and grow- 



ing family of children to New Connecticut, as 
it was then called in contradistinction to the 
term Old Connecticut. That he had in view, 
mainly, the well-being of his family, in a ven- 
ture so serious at that time, cannot be ques- 
tioned. The subject of removal must have been 
pondered by him for some time previous, and all 
its seriousduties well weighed. The well-being 
and prosperity of his family was doubtless the 
mainspring of action. His character was such 
as to insure his fidelity to his trust, and noth- 
ing, I am sure, could induce him to put it iu 
jeopardy for a moment." 

In accordance with this decision, all his ar- 
rangements were made for departure,and with his 
family and household goods in two large double 
wagons, he turned his face toward the unknown 
and trackless west. Albany and intermediate 
places were at last left behind on the slow and 
heavy march, and Buffalo, then on the outer limit 
of civilization, was safely reached. "It was 
not far from the first of December of the 
year 1811," Mr. Williams writes, "and such were 
the representations made to my father of the 
utter hopelessness of working an ox or a horse 
team and wagon successfully through the Cat- 
taraugus woods at that season of the year, that 
he decided to sell his oxen, horses and wagons, 
and to ship himself, family and goods aboard 
the new and staunch schooner Little Belt, then 
lying at anchor in the Niagara river, waiting a 
favorable wind to move it up the rapids into the 
lake for a voyage. After embarking it was 
nearly three weeks before a favorable wind was 
secured to move the vessel from its moorings. 
I remember while lying wind-bound in the Ni- 
agara river and near the Canadian shore the 
long walks taken by my father up and down 
said river, and at one time in particular of vis 
iting Fort Erie, which was then fully garrisoned 
and quite in readiness for action in anticipation 
of a ruptnre of the peace at that time prevailing, 
and was expected at any moment to be succeed- 
ed by active war." 

The long wait at last came to an end, but 
when finally out on the waters of Erie a season 



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of stormy and boisterous weather was encoun- 
tered. The ship finally came in sight of the 
shores of their destination, but was unable to 
land its passengers because of the roughness of 
the sea. The storm finally drove them back to 
Port Presque Isle (Erie), where Mr. Williams 
and his family disembarked. Means of convey- 
ance were found, and the long journey finally 
came to an end by their arrival at Painesvillo, 
Ohio, where they were most hospitably received 
by a few people tJjere located. Shelter was 
found for the winter in a comfortable log dwell- 
ing owned by General Paine, where they re- 
mained until the following spring, making p'eas- 
ant acquaintances among the settlers in the re- 
gions about them, and arranging plans for the 
future. Early in the year following, 1812, the 
elder Williams purchasing the old courthouse 
in the village of Painesville, with some twenty or 
thirty acres surrounding it — the county seat 
having been removed to Chardon — and moved 
his family into it; and in that building, remod- 
eled for family use, the father lived for the re- 
mainder of his life. 

The son attended school during this winter 
in a primitive structure near by; and after a 
time, when a school was regularly opened in a 
building erected for that purpose, he was one of 
the most eager recipients of its benefits when- 
ever he could be spared from labor at home. A 
natural desire for knowledge, quickened by an 
industry that was one of the gifts from his New 
England ancestry, led him to make the best use 
of these opportunities. "I was often to be 
found," he says, '-engaged in drawing maps of 
different countiies, or on winter evenings, by 
the light of the tallow wick, poring over some 
knotty problem in Pike's or Adams' arithmetics, 
and thus trying to store up knowledge which 
might serve me in the near future. Neither 
cold nor heat seemed to abate or diminish my 
ardor in this pursuit, as I well remember giv- 
ing whole evenings to study in some dark cor- 
ner, with very little light and under great dis- 
advantages; and thus passed away, without 
much change, a large ])ortion of my early boy- 



liood." One recollection of those early days 
cannot be passed by because of the historic val- 
ue that attaches thereto. When Hull surren- 
dered Detroit to the British, it will be remem- 
bered, word went all through northern Ohio 
that the British and Indians were making a de- 
scent upon the important frontier to the south 
of Lake Erie, and that boat-loads of them had 
been already seen on their way down the lake. 
When the news reached Painesville, there was a 
quick gathering of the people to discuss the 
best course to pursue, which he, boy-like, of 
course attended. "Although not all agreed as 
to th.e best measures to take for the general safe- 
ty, they all seemed ready to prepare in some 
way for resisting the foe; and so all, without ex- 
ception, were busy, some running bullets, some 
looking up and burnishing every musket and 
rifle to be found among the villagers, ana repair- 
ing every old and unused weapon of assault or 
defense which was known or could be heard of 
among the inhabitants of the village; while 
some, moved with fear, were conversing liow 
best they could escape collision with the foe by 
conveying themselves and families into the in- 
terior until the danger had passed. It was con- 
fidently expected by all that it could not be 
more than a day or so before the hooting Indi- 
ans and British would be upon us, for it was re- 
ported as a fact that immediately after the sur- 
render of Hull they were seen to embark on 
this adventure in large numbers and in open 
boats. After a day or so news was sent that 
what was first supposed to be the embarkment 
of the enemy, with designs of plunder and mur- 
der, those open boats, which were making their 
way as best they could along its shore were load- 
ed with the paroled prisoners of war who had 
surrendered on the capitulation of Hull." 

The youth made such progress in his studies 
and especially with the pen, that an unexpected 
opening for advancement in life soon presented 
itself as an outcome of his labors. Elihu Spen- 
cer had been sent from Connecticut to Warren, 
(^hio, where he settled, as an agent for the sale 
of lands belonging to Eastern parties, the 



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payment of these taxes, and a general care and 
oversight of tlieir interests. He had been for 
some time looking for a snitable person whom 
he could safely introduce into his business, and 
who could, after a time, relieve him of a part of 
his many labors. On one occasion when Mr. 
Spencer was stopping at the tavern then kept 
in Painesville by the elder Williams, he saw 
some of the school work prepared by the boy, and 
was greatly impressed by the quality it possessed 
and the promise it gave of better work in the 
fiilure. He finally proposed to take the boj, to 
lit him for the work required, and in fact to 
adopt him for his own child, and to leave him 
such inheritance as a son might justly claim. 
Mr. Spencer was a member of one of tlie best 
families of Connecticut, well educated, a gradu- 
ate of Yale, whose character was above reproach, 
and after careful consideration the father con- 
sented, led thereto only by his desire for the 
good of the boy. Accordingly, in June, 1818, a 
few days after his fifteenth birth day, he was 
taken to his new hime in "Warren, then, as now, 
the seat of Trumbull county, and made a mem- 
ber of Mr. Spencer's family, which consisted 
only of his wife and himself. His residence 
there was a pleasant and happy one, his work in 
the office being excellently and industriously per- 
formed. He was often sent long distances on 
business suited to his age and abilities, and al- 
ways with apparent satisfaction to his employer. 
He also accompanied the surveyors sent to lay 
off some piece of land which Mr. Spencer had 
sold, which furnished him many interesting 
studies in that line. By direction of Mr. Spencer 
he commenced his studies once more, under 
competent instructors, and was on the sure 
road to an exceptional education for those days, 
when an event occurred that made a sudden 
change for the present, and had its effect in the 
future. On July 20, 1819, Mr. Spencer, who 
was consumptive, was taken with severe hemor- 
rhage of the lungs, and although help was speed- 
ily summoned, it was of no avail, and death came 
almost immediately to his relief. This event so 
sudden and so sad, changed all of the youth's 



expectations, and no doubt materially altered 
the whole tenor of his life. " It so happened," 
said Mr. Williams, "that Zalmon Fitch, the then 
cashier of the Western Reserve Bank, was at the 
suggestion of Mrs. Spencer appointed adminis- 
trator of Mr. Spencer's estate, and hence into 
his possession passed all the valuable documents 
and papers of the deceased. It was not, however, 
possible by any order or decree of the court, in 
the matter of administration, to affect my con- 
dition for better or for worse. It left me, in 
fact, quite helpless, exposed to be driven hither 
and thither by the rough storms of life which 
blasted my prospects and removed l>y sudden 
death my best and only support and helper." 
But it so happened that Mr. Fitch needed an 
assistant in the bank and the position was offered 
the yontig man and accepted. The chief blessing 
that caiye from the change, however, was the 
fact that he became a member of Mr. Fitch's 
family, and there found a home and shelter of a 
kind not often given to a young man after his 
departure from beneath the parental roof. Here 
he remained until January, 1825, when he re- 
moved to Buffalo, New York, under an expec- 
tation of bettering his financial condition, and 
there took a position in the revived Niagara 
Bank, an institution that had seen a season of 
prosperity followed by one of reverses, to be 
again set going under new auspices. This bank 
underwent a second collapse during Mr. Will- 
iams' connection with it, and its doors were 
again closed, and following this he and another 
gentleman were appointed receivers of the same 
during the winter of 1826-'27, and during his 
administration as such the bank's business was 
wound up in a most satisfactory manner. In 
1825, during Mr. Williams' early residence in 
Buffalo, the opening of the Erie canal occurred. 
During the same year he attended the reception 
tendered to LaFayette upon the occasion of that 
great man's visit to Buffalo. While in Buffalo 
and busily employed in the affairs of the bank, 
Mr. Williams' shrewd foresight led him to make 
certain investments in land, the increased value 
of which laid securely the foundation of what- 



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ever competency he was afterward to accumu- 
late. He became a member of the firm of Ben- 
nett & Williams, and for some time devoted 
himself with great success to the handling of 
real estate, a business for which the partnership 
was formed. In May, 1827, Mr. Williams re- 
turned to Warren, Ohio, where on the 23d he 
was joined in marriage to Miss Lucy Fitch, 
the daughter of his former chief in the West- 
ern Reserve Bank, a pleasant home was soon 
made in Buffalo, and the dream of along life of 
happiness with his first love was only entered 
upon when it was shattered by a sudden blow — 
death claiming the young wife on August 30, 
1829. On May 30, 1832, he was again mar- 
ried, to Miss Laura Fitch, a sister of his first 
wife whose life cndud on September 30, 1852. 
Mr. Williams remained in Buffalo until revers- 
es, caused by the panic of 1837, led him to re- 
move with his family to Cleveland, where he 
afterward continuously resided. He made his 
home in the comfoi-table frame dwelling that 
stood on Euclid avenue, where Bond street is 
now located, and i-emained there until the street 
improvement caused the old structure to be 
torn down some twenty-two or -three years 
ago, when he removed to his late home on 
Euclid, between Perry street and Sterling 
avenue. 

After coming to Cleveland, Mr. Williams de- 
voted himself to various interests of a mercan- 
tile and manufacturing character, and was a 
useful and bu.sy member of the community in 
many ways. He also brought into market a 
large tract of laud on Garden street, and Case 
and Euclid avenues, opening and naming Grant 
and Williams streets, and doing much to im- 
prove that section of the city. During the lat- 
ter years of his life he lived in quiet ense, giv- 
ing his mind to occupations and pastimes for 
which he had little leisure in the early days. 
He read and studied much, and as a writer 
showed a vein of philosophy and a power of ob- 
servation and description that would have made 
him successful had ho chosen the profession of 
letters as his life work. 



In politics Mr. Williams was a Democrat of 
the Jackson school until the aggression of slav- 
ery led him to join the Free Soil party upon its 
creation; and when that party was merged into 
the Eepublican party he became and afterward 
remained an earnest supporter of the principles 
advocated by the latter organization. He be- 
came a member of the Presbyterian Church dur- 
ing his residence in Warren, and was an upright 
and faithful member of that denomination all 
through life. Modest and retiring, he declined 
in both civil and church affairs to allow his 
name to be used in connection with any oftice 
whatever. The unflinching honesty, faithful- 
ness to duty, and industry, that were the lead- 
ing principles of his life, need no extended dis- 
cussion, and it may only be said that he was a 
true and faithful worker all through a long life, 
and that in the feebleness of poor healtii and 
old age he awaited the summons into that high- 
er life to which so many of his beloved friends 
had been already called. He died on Decem- 
ber 14, 1888. 



DE. H. K. STOxNER, a physician and sur- 
) geon of Cleveland, was born at Berlin, 
— Somerset county, Pennsylvania, a son of 
John O. and Lizzie W. (Kimmell) Stoner, na- 
tives also of that State. The father owns valu- 
able coal lands, and is engaged in mining and 
shipping. In political matters, he is an active 
worker in the Prohibition party, but would 
never accept public preferment. He has 
reached the age of fifty- four years, and his wife 
is one year younger. Both are devout and 
worthy members of the Methodist Church. 

H. K. Stoner, their only child, received his 
education in the common schools, and in an 
academy at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, under 
Dr. Shumaker, a noted educator and one of the 
best instructors of his day in the State. Mr. 
Stoner also graduated at the Allegheny College 
of Meadville, Pennsylvania, in 1882. After 
readinir medicine for a time he took a course at 



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the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelpliia, 
graduating at that institution in 1885. Since 
that year Dr. Stoiier lias been engaged in the 
practice of medicine in Cleveland. He has had 
excellent hospital experience in the Jefferson 
Medical Hospital. Success has attended his 
efforts, and he stands well in the profession. In 
his social relations, Dr. Stoner is Exaniining 
Surgeon of the I. O. F. ; politically, is an active 
worker in the Prohibition party, and religiously, 
is a member of the Epworth Memorial Method- 
ist Episcopal Church of Cleveland. The Doc- 
tor is one of the promising young physicians of 
the county. 



E'DWARD M. ANTHONY, deceased, to 
whom this memoir is dedicated, was for 
1 many years one of the prominent and 

honored residents of Rocky River Hamlet. Be- 



)g one 



of the old residents of the township and 



one who did much to advance its interests and 
further its development, it is eminently fitting 
that this tribute be accorded him, — the tribute 
ot representation in a volume devoted to the 
hading citizens of Cuyahoga county. 

Edward M. Anthony was born in BrookHeld, 
Madison county, New York, January 18, 
1826, passed his boyhood days in Rockport 
township and here increased in stature and 
knowledge, greeted the dawn of his young man- 
hood, finally married and saw a family of chil- 
dren grow up about him, continued an active 
and ambitious worker in his chosen field, found 
his hair silvered by the flight of years, and then, 
full of honor and reverend in age, was gathered 
to his fathers, lamented by all who had known 
him and appreciated his sterling worth of 
character. December 13, 1857, in Amherst, 
Lorain county, Ohio, he was united in marriage 
to Miss Sophroiiia L. Tyler, a native of Ridge- 
ville, that county, where she was born April 9, 
1834. Her father, David Miles Tyler, famil- 
iarly known as Miles Tyler, was a well-known and 
prominent resident of Lorain county, where he 



died March 10, 1864. Her mother, whose maid- 
en name was Polly Farrell, died March 10, 1878. 

After his marriage Edward M. Anthony set- 
tled on the old parental homestead, where he 
continued to live until the hour of his death, 
which occurred September 12, 1891. Mr. and 
Mrs. Anthony were the parents of eight chil- 
dren, namely: Hubert M., who married Miss 
Ada M. Bradley, Estella M., who is the wife of 
Willard Jordan; Charles E.; Carrie A., wife of 
Ernest Brown; Alice A., Florence B., William 
G. and Harry M. 

Mr. Anthony devoted his entire life to farm- 
ing. He erected good buildings and made sub- 
stantial improvements upon his place, which 
comprised at the time of his death eighty acres. 
He was a man of much intelligence and ability, 
was held in high esteem in the community and 
hie memory will be retained in lasting honor. 
Mrs. Anthony still resides upon the old home- 
stead, whose acres are hallowed by the associ- 
ations of many years. 

His father, John S. Anthony, emigrated from 
his Eastern home with his family when Edward 
M. was but six years of age, coming to Cleve- 
land on the steamboat Daniel Webster and set- 
tling on forty acres of land in Rockport town- 
ship, or at Rocky River Hamlet, as it is now 
known. He was a stanch close-communion 
Baptist and had much to do with establishing 
the Baptist Church in Rockport, remaining a 
Deacon of it until his death. He was a man 
well informed and a good writer, being often 
called upon to write wills and other documents. 
For his wife he married Miss Lydia Mason. 

The following lines were written by himself 
with a request that they be preserved: 
Last Lines on Myself. 

Adieu, dear friends, my glass is run, 

My work is, like a birnling, done; 

My bounds were set; I could not pass 

The last pulse beat; I fell like grass. 

Death aimed his dart, the fatal deed was done, 

And 1 lie sleeping in the silent tomb. 

I leave a world of strife and sore disease 

For a niore friendly soil ot' health and peace. 

Our days fly like the weaver's shuttle — fast; 

We scarcely glimpse the present: all is past. 



CUTAIIOOA UUUNTY. 



Such is poor mortal man iu his best state, — 

Nothing but vanity, and death bis fate; 

Thus our first jiarents well entailed to all 

The sad effects experienced by their fall. 

Reverse the scene, and prospects bright arise: 

The second Adam points above the skies. 

A substitute, he suflfered in our stead. 

Then conquered death in rising from the dead. 

O Death, where is thy sting? Thy reign shall cease; 

Thy grasp on captive millions quick release; 

A general jail delivery will take place, 

Comprising all of Adam's numerous race. 

Last will and testament confirms each heir 

By name and title to an ample share. 

O.N J. S. ANTHONV (niMSELF). 

Christ is my only hope 

To raise me from the tomb. 
Anxious I wait and cry in death, 

Lord Jesus, quickly come ! 



On a. M. Coe (a Universalist skighbor). 
All men were born to die: 

All men will rise again: 
I died in faith that all mankind 

Shall with my Savior reign. 

Epitaph on R. Millard. 
When that bright morn shall usher in 

My sleeping dust shall rise 
And with transporting joy embrace 

My Savior in the skies. 



Epitaph on B. Stedson. 
This stone a monument shall star 

Informing where I lie. 
Reader, reflect thy fate is sure: 

All men were born to die! 



P\AUL SCUNEIDER.— Oneof the import- 
ant and conspicuous manufacturing en- 
terprises of Cleveland is that conducted 
by the Schneider »fc Trenkamp Company, 
manufacturers of gasoline and gas stoves, and 
at the bead of this concern, which is one of the 
most extensive of the sort in the Union, stands 
the subject of this review. He was born at 
Frankfort-on-the-Oder, June 27, 1844, being 
the son of Henry and Wilhelmina Schneider, 
the former of whutn was a lithographer by trade 



and occupation and a man of considerable note 
in his native land. He died iu 1859, at the age 
of sixty-two years. 

Paul Schneider acquired a good common- 
school education in Germany, and there learned 
the trade of machinist, becoming an expert and 
particularly intelligent workman. When the 
German government became involved in war 
with Austria and later with France (1866 and 
1870 respectively) Mr. Schneider bore arms iu 
his country's cause, serving faithfully and val- 
iantly on the field of battle. In 1874 he came to 
the United States and at ouce located in Cleve- 
land, which city has since continued to be his 
home and the scene of his successful business 
operations. After a few years passed in other 
lines of work, he engaged in the manufacture of 
stoves, and the enterprise, which was of very 
circumscribed order at the time of its inception, 
prospered to a wonderful degree, in fact being 
the nucleus of the magnificent industry of which 
he is the prime factor to-day. He brought to 
bear diligence, earnest application to work and 
marked business ability, all of which conspired 
to bring his ventures to a successful issue. A 
number of inventions, made after careful experi- 
ment, were eventually put into practical applica- 
tion and added greatly to the value and superi- 
ority of the stoves manufactured, and incident- 
ally to the success of the undertaking. 

To recapitulate, we may say that for the period 
of fifteen years Mr. Schneider devoted his atten- 
tion to the manufacturing of optical and mathe- 
matical instruments, and that he then became 
concerned in practical electrical work with C.F. 
Brush, with whom he remained four years. It 
is a noteworthy fact that he personally made the 
first arc light turned out by the Brush Electric 
Company. Subsequently he left the employ of 
the Brush Company and entered into a partner- 
ship with Henry Trenkamp, for the purpose of 
manufacturing vapor stoves, of which jiroducts 
he may practically claim to have been the ori- 
ginator. His wonderful skill as a mechanic and 
his ready discernment in regard to points where 
improvements were demanded aud could be 



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made, resulted in the placing on the market 
stoves that were far superior to anything ever 
before produced in the line, and eventually in 
developing a business of magnificent propor- 
tions. The business of the Schneider & Tren- 
kamp Company has experienced an almost 
phenomenal growth, standing to-day as an enter- 
prise of stupendous importance. The buildings 
of the plant cover nearly two acres of ground, 
and in the carrying forward of the work of the 
institution a corps of 400 workmen is employed. 
Mr. Schneider, who has been president of the 
company since the time of its organization, has 
secured a number of patents on original inven- 
tions applied to the vapor stoves; and largely to 
his skill and scientific mechanical knowledge do 
the products of the factory owe their marked 
precedence over all others of the sort. 

Mr. Schneider is identified with several other 
important organizations and enterprises in 
Cleveland. He is a director of the Phoenix 
Paint Company, is president and director of the 
Germania Hall Company, of which he was one 
of the organizers, and was formerly president 
of the North American Sicngerbund. He has 
been a itiember of the Cleveland Gesangverein 
since 1878; was elected president of tiie same 
in 1887, a position which he resigned after serv- 
ing for three terms. 

Starting out in life without any financial re- 
sources or support, Mr. Schneider stands as a 
true type of the self-made man, having attained 
to honor and success by virtue of his integrity, 
intelligence, industry and economy, — one whose 
life is worthy of emulation. 

The marriage of our subject was solemnized 
in 1870, when he was united to Miss Anna 
Dohle. They have five children : Hans, Grethe, 
Anna, Freida and Freddie. 



LON ZEAGEK, of Eocky Eiver hamlet, 
I was born in Denmark, January 13, 1859, 
i where he passed the early years of his 

life, coming to America about the year 1873. 
He made i' short stay in Cleveland and then 



came into Kockport township, where he worked 
out by the month for several years, and then 
rented a farm for eight years, carrying on the 
business of gardening. He finally bought the 
farm of forty-four acres where he now lives. 
It is mostly improved. He was married in 
Kockport township, January 17, 1884, to Miss 
Mina Knudson, who was also a native of Den- 
mark. They have five children, namely: Julius, 
Emma, Louis, Maria and Loiira. Mr. Zeager 
was elected one of the Trustees of Eocky Eiver 
hamlet in the spring of 1893, and was chosen 
President of the board, or Mayor. 



ICHAEL HOUCKof Eocky Eiver Ham- 
let was born in what was Ohio City, 
but is now known as the West Side of 
Cleveland, June 29, 1839. His father 
was the late Andrew Honck, who was born in 
Bavaria, Germany, and came to America when 
a young man of about twenty years. He lived 
in Buffalo, New York, for a few years and then 
removed to Ohio City, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, 
where he resided till his death, which occurred 
March 1, 1875. He was a machinist by trade 
and in the employ of the Cuyahoga Steam 
Fi^rnace Company for thirty-five years. The 
mother of our subject was Catherine PfaltzgrafE 
who was also a native of Bavaria, Germany. 
They were married in Cleveland by the Kev. 
Mr. Aliard, who was one of the first German 
preachers of Cleveland. Tlie mother still sur- 
vives. They had a family of nine sous of whom 
Michael was the eldest. He was reared on the 
West Side in Cleveland. He enlisted in the 
summer of 1862 in the Nineteenth Ohio Light 
Artillery and served three years, till June, 
1865. By being thrown from a horse in Cov- 
ington, Kentucky, he was seriously injured, 
losing the sight of his left eye. 

Mr. Honck was married in Cleveland, Ohio, 
May 9, 1870 to Miss Frederica Gehring, who 
was born on the East Side in Cleveland, De- 
cember 14, 1849. Her parents were K. A. and 



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Wilhelmina (Fetter) Geliriiig, natives of AViirt- 
embnrg, Germany. Of a family of four chil- 
dren Mrs. Hoiick was the eldest. Mr. and Mrs. 
Houck are the parents of two children: Louisa, 
who married Major Patingale, and died in 
Eocky River Hamlet, May 3, 1889; and Minnie. 
For many years Mr. Houck, in company with 
his brother John, operated a spoke and felloe 
factory on the West Side. The firm was known 
as Houck Bros. Michael afterward kept a meat- 
market for five years, until the spring of 1885, 
in December of which year he removed to the 
farm where he now makes his home. This 
comprises eighteen acres of well-cultivated land, 
with valuable improvements. Mr. Houck is a 
man who takes a good degree of interest in all 
local affairs. He is a Republican in politics. 



RS. JOHN MARSHALL.— The sub- 
ject of this review, who is the widow 
ti of the late John Marshall, a well-known 
and prominent pioneer of the Forest 
City, resides in her spacious home at 1047 Detroit 
street. West Cleveland. 

John Marshall gained pre-eminence and suc- 
cess in the business of gardening, being a most 
capable business man and acquiring a compe- 
tency as the result of his well-directed efforts. 
Before the time of his death he had become 
quite an extensive property-owner. He was one 
of the pioneer settlers in Ohio and among these 
who first took up a residence in the now popu- 
lous and powerful city of Cleveland. He lo- 
cated in Cleveland in 1840, having come to 
America from Cornwall, England, where he was 
born. His family was one of prominence, and 
of the sixteen children of his parents he was 
one of the nine who came to the United States, 
six boys and three girls having taken up their 
residence in this country. 

Mr. Marshall was a Republican in politics, 
having taken a somewhat active interest in the 
work of his party. He held for some time the 
position as member of the City Council. He 



was a prominent member of the Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows and devoted in his allegi- 
ance to the Protestant Episcopal Church, of 
wiiich he was a most liberal supporter. His 
death no(Mirre<l on the 8th of February. 1890, at 
the old homo where he and his wife had lived 
for nearly half a century. He was sixty-nine 
years of age at the time of his death, leaving a 
widow and one child, Eldrid M., who is the wife 
of A. Arndrews, of Cleveland. 

Mrs. Marshall was born in Lancashire, Eng- 
land, being the daughter of Henry and Eliza 
Crocker, and the fifth in order of the seven chil- 
dred born to them. Her parents were people 
of influence and prominence in their native land. 
Our subject came to America in 1830, and was 
united in marriage to Mr. Marshall in 1850. 
She has long been a devout and zealous adher- 
ent of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and she 
is well known and most highly eateemed in the 
city, of which she has been so long a resident. 



D. KLOST, superintendent of the parks 
of Cleveland, dates his service with Cleve- 
land parks at 1883, when he was placed 
in charge of Wade Park. This beautiful spot is 
the result of ten and a half years of unremitting 
care and painstaking arrangement and landscape 
gardening of Mr. Klost, and his promotion to 
general superintendent is a merited recognition 
of his ability to fill a more responsible position. 
Mr. Klost was born in Chemung county, New 
York, October 17, 1854. His father, Sanford 
Klost, a native of Herkimer county, York State, 
was born near Little Falls in 1809. He became 
a civil engineer and spent his life in land sur- 
veying and construction work, on the Erie Rail- 
road. He died in 1891. His antecedents are 
believed to have been from Holland. Our sub- 
ject's mother's maiden name was Millie Petrie. 
Seven children resulted from this marriage: 
George, deceased; Monroe, deceased; Peter, at 
Elmira, New York; Jarvis, at Antigo, Wiscon- 
sin; Ester, the wife of William Decker: Fan- 



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nie, who married Jacob Slieppie, and C. D. At 
sixteen Mr. Klost left the common schools and 
took np the burdens of life independently. He 
came west and made Cuyahoga county his stop- 
ping place, working on the farm of L. R. 
Streeter. From this place he came to Cleve- 
land, as superintendent of Wade Park, as before 
stated. 

Mr. Klost was married September 16, 1876, 
to Aggie Haycox, whose fatlier, John Haycox, 
leared eight children. They came originally 
from Husk, England. Mr. Klost's children are: 
Eblia, sixteen years; Monroe, eleven; and Jar- 
vis, seven. 

Fraternally Mr. Klost is a memlier of Holy 
Rood Commandery, No. 32, Knights Templar. 
He is also a Knight of Pythias. 



THEO. ENDEAN, one of the most talented 
photographers of the State, occupies a 
studio at 122 Euclid avenue, Cleveland, 
Ohio. He was born in Birmingham, 
England, a son of Theo. and Matilda (Duckett) 
Endean, natives of France and Scotland respect- 
ively. The father, an Episcopalian clergyman, was 
born in Paris and was t!ie son of a leading jour- 
nalist of that metropolis; the maternal grand- 
father was an attorney of Edinburgh, Scotland. 
The parents of our subject emigrated to the 
United States and located in Massachusetts: 
both are now deceased. Young Endean received 
his education in the East, and at an early age 
displayed an aptitude and taste for art that 
brought him an opportunity for cultivating the 
talent he possessed. He was sent to the Acad- 
emy of Design in New York city, and also 
studied photography in that city. Having mas- 
tered this branch of art, he left New York and 
lias operated in the principal cities in this coun- 
try from Boston to Galveston, Texas. His 
efforts have won some of the highest honors 
that have been conferred upon the members of 
his profession, securing the first prize at Bruns- 
wick, Germany, where a convention of i)rize- 



winners in photography was held, and in St. 
Louis, Missouri, received a gold medal for 
superior excellence in photographic work. 

In 1886 Mr. Endean came to Cleveland, and 
the following year designed and fitted up his 
studio, said to be the most complete in the 
United States, employing only the most skilled 
talent in all branches. He has under his super- 
vision artists who work in pastelle, crayon and 
water-color. His inventive genius has also 
found play in his work, and a photographic 
chair has been the result, a chair which is the 
most perfect of its kind. An artist by nature, 
years of study and travel abroad have added 
culture and refinement and exalted all his con- 
ceptions. In Mr. Endean the profession has a 
mist faithful and conscientious member whose 
efforts will ever be toward its advancement. 
Although he does not take an active interest in 
politics, he casts his suffrage with the Republi- 
can party. 



SYLVESTER BRADLEY, for five yearw 
\ engine dispatcher and foreman of the 
-— New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio round- 
house, was born in Blairsville, Pennsylvania, 
September 29, 1849. He was reared in Brady's 
Bend and Altoona, Pennsylvania, to which lat- 
ter point his father, James Bradley, removed in 
1861. He served a machinists' apprenticeship 
in the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's shops 
at Altoona, beginning in 1867. During the Cen- 
tennial year he went into the shops at Oil City, 
remaining only a short time before going to 
Meadville, and entering the service of Dick tfe 
Churci), proprietors of the Phenix Iron "Works. 
Two years later he cast his lot with the New 
York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad Company, 
first as machinist, later as gang foreman and 
finally, in 1888, as engine dispatcher. James 
Bradley was a locomotive engineer, running be- 
tween Altoona and Harrisburg for the Pennsyl- 
vania Company. He was born at Blairsville in 
1S19, and died in November, 1887. The family 



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name is of Irisli origin, our suhject's grand- 
father, Cornelius Bradley, emigrating from 
Erin's Isle to Pennsylvania. Sylvester Brad- 
ley's mother was Ann Harkins, a daughter 
of Hugh Harkins, a canal man. The children 
born to James and Ann Bradley were: John, in 
the tobacco business in Altoona, Pennsylvania; 
William, with the Baldwin Locomotive Works, 
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Sylvester; and 
Albert, a machinist of Altoona. 

February, 1872, our subject married, in Al- 
toona, Pennsylvania, Miss Mary, a daughter of 
John Haney, of Irish birth, and an old em- 
ployee of the Pennsylvania Company. Mr. and 
Mrs. Bradley's children are: Stella, who died in 
1879; Catherine, now aged sixteen years; 
James, aged thirteen; and Frank Sylvester, who 
died in 1891, aged four years. 



COLONEL A. C. MrlLRATH was born at 
^ Morristown, New Jersey, September 19, 
-^' 1811, a son of Alexander and Rlioda 
Mcllrath. When he was a child of five years 
his parents emigrated to Ohio and settled on 
600 acres of land, portion of the present site of 
the city of Cleveland. The log cabin which 
sheltered this sturdy family of pioneers was 
situated on the south side of Euclid avenue 
near the present entrance to Like View ceme- 
tery. The only neighbors were the families of 
Benjamin Jones, Samuel Cozad and Mr. Doan. 
Mr. Mcllratii became prominently identified 
with the growtii and development of the frontier 
country, and when the town of Cleveland was 
founded, laid out Euclid avenue, one of the 
most famous thoroughfares in this country. He 
w-as a Deacon of the Presbytei-ian Church and 
established one of the earliest societies in north- 
ern Ohio. Politically he was an old-line AViiig. 
He reared a family of five children: Fentietta, 
b iru August 24, 1802, became the wile of 
D.mion O'Coimer; she is now deceased; Sarah, 
born October 4, 1803, married Andrew Stewart, 
and now re-ides in Mit^soni'I; 3[icliael, born Sep- 



tember 20, 1805, died in 1893; Isabella, burn 
January 27, 1808, married Benjamin Sawtelle; 
she is deceased; Colonel A. C. Mcllrath, the 
youngest of the family. He grew to manhood 
amid the wild scenes of the frontier. He 
received his early instruction from his father, 
who was a well educated man, and mastered the 
profession of civil engineering. He was also a 
cooper by trade and in connection with thisbusi- 
nessgave some attention to agricultural pursuits. 
In 1832 he erected the hotel known in pioneer 
days as the Mcllrath Tavern, and for forty-four 
years acted as host of this hostelry. For many 
years he was Justice of the Peace and was fill- 
ing that position at the time of his death. He 
was a man of large stature, measuring six feet, 
seven inches; he bore a character for integrity 
and rectitude that was also the full measure of 
a man. He married Eliza Picor, a daughter of 
Dr. Picor, one of the pioneer physicians of this 
city. Colonel and Mrs. Mcllrath ha<l born 
t(.) them a family of thirteen chilren: James, 
deceased, was a soldier in the late war and for 
twenty years was in the secret service of the 
United States; Wealthy is tiie wife of Judge 
Price, uf Chicigo; Fennetta is deceased; Philip 
resides in McMinnville, Tennessee; Josephine is 
deceased; Oliver is engaged in business in this 
city; Adelaide is the wife of Eli S. French, of 
East Cleveland; Condit is deceased: Ida mar- 
ried Abraham Bigelow of this city; Webster A. 
is a resident of Cleveland; Horace Ackley is 
deceased; William B. is a resident of Coits- 
ville, Ohio; Sarah is the wife of William Rob- 
inson, of this city. 

Webster A. Mcllrath was born on the old 
homestead in 1852, and received his education 
in the Shaw Academy at Collamer. He con- 
tinued a member of his father's household un- 
til he had passed iiis majority when he entered 
the employ of the Cleveland Clothing Company; 
for some time he was manager and later became 
partner in the business. At the end of nine 
years he severed his connection with this estab- 
lislmuMit and embarked in real-estate business, 
rcprei^cntiiig the Shaker Heights Land Com- 



CU7AH00A GOUNTT. 



paiiy and the Continental Development Com- 
pany. Under his direction and management 
the old Shaker society erected the Lake View 
flats, of which he is now in charge. He is one 
of the most active business men of the city and 
is held in the highest regard in commercial cir- 
cles. Politically he adheres to the principles 
of the Republican party. 



1| AMES K. MEAHER is a son of Timothy 
K Y and Mary Mealier, who went from Lincoln 
^!^ county, Maine, to the Southern States in 
the early '80s. The father had been a sailor, 
but on going to New Orleans he engagetl in the 
business of rolling cotton. He was a poor 




man, and in order to maintain and support his 
family he relied simply on his daily labor, but 
through pluck and energy he became so success- 
ful in life that on the breaking out of the Civil 
war in 1861 he was the owner of thirteen 
steamers on the Alabama river, of two large 
plantations in AlabauTa, and 127 negro slaves. 



He resided at Mobile, Alabama, where the sub- 
ject of this personal sketch was born, July 15, 
1859. 

The gentleman whose name heads this sketch 
received an academical education in Mobile, 
and leaving school at the age of eighteen em- 
barked in the timl)er business along the gulf of 
Mexico, being an agent for Epping, Barrs «fe 
Company, of London, England, in whose em- 
ploy he remained for five and a half years. He 
then accepted a position with George McQues- 
tion, an extensive lumber dealer of East Bos- 
ton, Massachusetts. Subsequently he went to 
Portland, Maine, where he read law for three 
years in the office of Hon. John J. Perry. In 
1884 he came to Cleveland. He had not been 
admitted to the bar in Maine, and according to 
the laws of Ohio he was compelled to read law 
two years longer, and for one and a half years, 
therefore, he read law under the instructions of 
W. W. Andrews, and for six months under 
Hon. Heni-y C. White; and while under the 
preceptorship of the latter he was admitted to 
the Ohio bar, in May, 1886, at which date he 
began his successful career as a lawyer. Since 
January, 1S92, he and Joseph E. Farrell have 
practiced their profession in an association as 
partners. 

July 15, 1S91, Miss Emily L. Glidden, daugh- 
ter of I'^rancis H. Glidden, of Cleveland, became 
his wife. 



CHARLES E. WARNER, one of the rep- 
resentative livei-ymen of the city of Cleve- 
— - land, is the proprietor of the feed and 
sale stable at 120 Woodland avenue. He was 
born in Huron county, Ohio, in 1846, and is a 
son of Lorenzo and Serena (Daily) Warner, na- 
tives of the state of New York. Tliey had one 
otlier child, a daughter. Charles E. was reared 
and educated in Lorain county. At the age of 
sixteen years he had the misfortune to lose his 
left leg; two years later he engaged in business 
for himself. Jle drifted into buying and selling 



COTAHOaA COUNTY. 



horses for the lioine market, making his home 
at Elyria until 1890, when he came to Cleveland. 
During the period from 1883 to 1886 he was 
interested in the grain business, operating in 
Indiana, Illinois and Michigan, hut aside from 
this has given his entire attention to dealing in 
horse-flesh. 

Mr. Warner was married in 1867 to Miss 
Jennie Koppelberger, who died leaving two 
children: Edward, bookkeeper in a savings I)ank 
in this city, was married December 12, 1889, to 
Miss Minnie Stansbury; Ella is the wife of 
Orin Cook, of Elyria, and is the mother of three 
children, two sons and a daughter. Mr. War- 
ner was married again, the second union being 
with Delia Gleason; they have one child. Our 
worthy subject is actively interested in the lead- 
ing political events of the day and is thoroughly 
well posted upon current topics. He is a man 
of excellent business qualifications, employing 
only the most honorable methods, and com- 
mands the respect of all with whom he has 
dealings. 



BANIEL DUTY, president of the Forest 
City Ice Company and a member of 
— the firm of Duty I't Company, brick 
manufacturers, is a brother of Edwin Duty, 
mentioned in this volume, and was born in 
Oneida county, New ^'ork, September 20, 
1832. He was educated in this city at Shaw's 
Academy, and spent some time in Grand River 
Institute, at Austinljurg, Ashtabula county, 
winding up his career as a student in Ohio 
University, an institution now defunct, founded 
by President Mahan, of Oberlin College. 

Mr. Duty became a brick-maker under his 
father's tutorage and soon after embarking in 
business independently this became an import- 
ant branch of it. In 1876 he Iiecame engaged 
in the ice business, becoming a partner in the 
Cleveland Ice Compay, which changed its 
name in 1881 to the Forest City Ice Company, 
and became a stock companyjwith a capital of 



$150,000. This is one of the leading ice firms 
of the city, and was originally established in 
1852. This product is procured from Put-in- 
Bay, Lakes Huron, Congress and Geauga. Its 
officers are: Daniel Duty, president; G. A. 
Weitz, manager; II. J. AVeitz, treasurer; and A. 
L. Hyde, secretary. 

During our Civil war Mr. Duty was a mem- 
ber of an independent company of "Squirrel 
Hunters," enlisting at Wooster, Ohio, for 
the purpose of defending Cincinnati against 
rebel attack. 

May 12, 1875, Mr. Duty married, in Cleve- 
Land, Sarah L. Cozad, whose father, Andrew 
Cozad, became a resident of Cleveland as early 
as 1802, six years after its founding by General 
Cleaveland. 

Andrew Cozad was born in New Jersey, 
March 7, 1801. During his active career he 
owned and operated a farm of 100 acres in East 
Cleveland, the whole of which farm is now in 
the corporate limits of the city. Mr. Cozad 
was most familiarly known as " Squire Cozad," 
from his long and efKcient service as magistrate 
of his township. He married Sallie Simmons, 
May 12, 1825: her father, Justus Simmons, 
was likewise a ])ioneer, and came from New 
York State. Nin» children were born of this 
union, only three of whom are now living: 
Justus L. and Marcus E ,of this city, and Sarah 
L. Duty, the last named being born July 22, 1844. 

Mr. and Mrs. Duty's children are: Horace 
A., Spencer M. and Alice. Edith, a six-months 
infant, died February 6, 1883. 

The family are identified with the Euclid 
Avenue ('ongregational Church. 



A. MINER, Mayor of Collinwood, 
Ohio, was born at Portland, Connect- 
icut, November 24, 1839, the son of 
Selden H. and Anna (Shepherd) Miner, also 
natives of Connecticut. The father was a far- 
mer by occupation, and was widely and favor- 
ably known in Connecticut. Three of his 
brothers, Sidney, Culvert and Edwai'd, emigra- 



CUTAnOGA COUNTY. 



ted to Ohio, but Edward is the only one sur- 
viving; he is now a resident of Minnesota. 
Selden II. Miner died in September, 1883, at 
the age of sixty-seven years; his wife died in 
Feliruary, 1883, aged seventy-eight years; they 
liad resided in Lake county, Ohio, ten years 
previous to their death, altiiough tl)ey had first 
settled in Mayfield township, Cuyahoga county. 
Mrs. Miner made a visit to tliis State in 1826, 
returning in the autumn of that year, and it was 
not until 1840 that she and lier husband came 
here to reside. They reared a family of four 
children: Belle, the wife of O. M. Gates, is the 
mother of two chiklren, Walter and Anna; W. 
A., the subject of this notice; Maria, the wife 
of Lewis Ackley, died in 1893, the mother of 
one son, Martin; F. L. Miner, of Mayfield, is 
the father of three children: Sterling, Stanley 
and Halley. 

W. A. Miner embarked in the lumber busi- 
ness at Mayfield, where he conducted a success- 
ful trade ten years; during his residence there 
he also served two years as Clerk of the town- 
ship. In 1879 he removed to CoUinwood, where 
he continued to handle lumber; he also has in 
operation a planing-mill, which turns out a 
large product each year. He was elected Trus- 
tee of Euclid township and held the office one 
year. In 1890 he was the choice of the people 
of CoUinwood for Mayor, and was reelected 
in 1892. He has discharged his duties with 
marked efficiency and ability, commending him- 
self to the best classes of citizens. 

In the spring of 1864, while a student at 
Oberlin College, Mr. Miner enlisted in the 
hundred-day service, Colonel Hayward's regi- 
ment. He participated in the three days' tight 
with the Confederate General Early, and at the 
expiration of his term of enlistment was honor- 
ably discharged. After his return from the war 
he resumed his studies at Oberlin, where he fin- 
ished his three years' course. Since coming to 
this county he was engaged in teaching for one 
year. 

He was united in marriage October 81, 1883, 
to Miss Libbie Ormsbey, a daughter of Jamej§ 



and Elizabeth (Loomis) Ormsbey, natives of 
New York and Ohio respectively. Mr. Orms- 
bey died at the age of thirty years, but his 
widow survives him at the age of sixty five 
years, an honored resident of Pike county. Mrs. 
Miner is the younger of two children; her bro- 
ther David is a resident of Columbus, Ohio, and 
has a family of six children; Bertha, Sadie, 
James, Arthur, Myrna and Edith. Both Mr. 
Miner and wife are members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Chui-ch. He belongs to Brough Post, 
No. 359, G. A. E., CoUinwood. 



veterinary surgeon. 



DR. A. FLETCHER, 
|i with an office at 118 Perry street, Cleve- 
— - land, Ohio, has been located in this city 
since 1889. He is a native of Portage county, 
Ohio, having been born in the town of Ravenna 
on May 20, 1853. He is a son of John and 
Elizabeth (Lowrie) Fletcher, both of whom are 
descendants of Scotch ancestry. In Ravenna 
Dr. Fletcher was brought up and there he at- 
tended school. When a lad of only fifteen years 
he began life for himself in the railroad busi- 
ness, this being due probably to the fact that 
his father was a railroad man, having been such 
all of his life, and naturally the son had a de- 
sire to follow the pursuit of his father. He 
rose rapidly in railroad work, and soon became 
assistant road master, being assistant of his 
father, remaining such for twelve years, in the 
employ of the Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne & CSii- 
cago Railroad, after which he commenced farm- 
ing, upon one of his father's places, and for 
three years he was a farmer. He then decided 
to prepare himself for the profession of veterin- 
ary surgery, a profession to which he inclined 
from early childhood. He attended the Ameri- 
can Veterinary College at New York city and 
graduated in the spring of 1888, and immedi- 
ately thereafter he entered upon the practice of 
his profession at his old home at Ravenna, where 
he remained one year. In the spring of 1889 
he came to Cleveland, and formed a partner-. 



GUTAHOGA COUNTY. 



ship with Dr. Yonkerinan. In October of 1890 
he bought out the interest of his partner and 
since that date has practiced alone. In October 
of the same year he became interested in stock 
inspection for the State Board, in the northern 
portion of Ohio, and in June of 1891 he was 
appointed State Inspector of Live Stock, which 
position he still holds. He is thorough and 
proficient in his profession and has already 
achieved wonderful success in its practice. 

He was married at Alliance, Ohio, July 10, 
1872, to Miss Lessetta L. Laraborn, daughter 
of Dr. L. Lamborn. They have one child, 
Jennie L. Dr. Fletcher and wife are members 
of the Presbyterian Church and are among the 
respected families of the city. 



rW. LANDFEAE, one of the prominent 
and successful business men of Bedford, 
^ is justly entitled to the space that has 
been accorded him in this history. He is a na- 
tive of Ohio, born at Freedom in 1852, a son of 
Charles and Emily (White) Landfear; they 
reared a family of four children: F. W., Mary 
E., wife of J. E. Murray, of New London, 
Wisconsin; Milton E., a citizen of Cleveland, 
Ohio; and Lizzie L., wife of E. L. Sanderson of 
Cleveland, Ohio. The maternal grandfather, 
Willard White, was a native of New England, 
born in the Slate of Vermont. Charles Land- 
fear is now deceased. He was a consistent 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
and in politics gave his allegiance to the Re- 
publican party. The boyhood of F. W. Land- 
fear was passed in his native town, llis first 
experience in the business world was in the 
employ of J. B. Harris, who was the proprietor 
of a hardware store and tiushop at Bedford; 
there he remained three years, and during this 
time gained a valuable knowledge on this par- 
ticular phase of commerce. He returned to 
Summit county in 1875, and three years later 
went to Canal Fulton, Stark county, where he 
embarked in the hardware business, which he 



conducted successfully for a period of seven 
years. He then went out as traveling sales- 
man for an Akron firm, his territory embracing 
Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana and 
Kentucky. Resigning this position lie located 
permanently in Bedford, where he has estab- 
lished a prosperous business, dealing in lumber, 
pine and hard wood. He is a man of excellent 
business qualifications, and is recognized as a 
man of integrity throughout the commercial 
world in which he moves. 

Mr. Landfear was married December 31, 
1876, to Maria R. Cook, the ceremony being 
solemnized at Bedford, Ohio. Mrs. Landfear is 
a daughter of Daniel Cook, a highly respected 
citizen of Bedford. Two children have been 
born of this marriage: Lucius R. and Helen R. 
Mr. Landfear is a member of I5edford Lodge, 
No. 374, A. F. A: A. M. In his religious faith 
he adheres to the doctrines of the Baptist 
Church, and is one of the ardent laborers in the 
Sunday-school of the denomination. Politically 
he supports the issues of the Republican party. 
Deeply interested in all phases of education, 
religion and temperance reform, he is faithfully 
discharging his duty as a citizen of the Republic 
of the United States. 



THE SCHMEIIL-STEARNS PRINTING 
COMPANY, with its main placeof busi- 
ness at 1661 Pearl street, with a branch 
otilce in the thriving town of Berea, — 
from which place Mr. Stearns hails, — is the 
most important j)ubli8hing house on the West 
Side. W. F. C. Schmehl, tlie senior member ot 
the firm, located at 1661 Pearl street nearly five 
years ago, and since that time has built up an 
excellent printing business. About the same 
time D. C. Stearns built up a very good busi- 
ness in Berea and published a paper known as 
the Berea Grit. In the spring of 1893 the two 
concerns were consolidated and the printing 
machinery of Berea removed to Pearl sti-eet, to 
the oflice of the then Mail and News. The two 



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newspapers were consolidated and given tiie 
name of tlie County News, with separate fuU- 
page headings for Cleveland, Brooklyn and Be- 
rea. This was probably due to the fact that the 
new paper had the largest circulation of any 
west of the river in these towns, and also in 
the country adjacent, and was therefore entitled 
to the name of County News. "Within the 
short space of time that has elapsed since the 
consolidation the circulation of the News has 
rapidly grown, and this gives evidence that the 
})eople are pleased with the paper. 

Aside from the publishing of the News and 
several other periodicals, tlie News office is 
equipped for all classes of commercial printing. 
The company has the advantages of large re- 
sources in the line of type, and their machinery 
is of the latest improved style. The immense 
circulation of the News slionld invite advertisers 
to its columns, for the paper is purely a family 
one, givinw news and not sensations. 



FRANCIS 80UTHACK HOYT, D. D., 
a Presiding Elder of the Sandusky (Ohio) 
— - District, and formerly Presiding Elder of 
the Cleveland District, is a minister in the 
Methodist Episcopal Church of learning, promi- 
nence and marked ai)iiity. He was horn at 
Lyndon, Vermont, November 5, 1822. lie re- 
ceived his early education in the various towns 
of Vermont and New Hampshire, in which his 
father had his home in the capacity of pastor or 
Presiding Elder; he also attended the seminary 
at Newl>ury, Vermont, which was afterward 
removed to Montpeiier. In 1840, at the age of 
eighteen, he entered the Wesleyan University 
at Middietown, Connecticut, from which he was 
graduated at the age of twenty-two years. After 
his graduation he was engaged in teaching for 
.si.x years at different places in the east. 

In 1850 he was sent to Oregon by the mis- 
sionary society of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church to take charge of the Oregon Institute 
at Salem, which was established by the mis- 
sionary society with a view of developing it in- 



to a college. Here he remained eleven years, 
and during his stay the institute was chartered 
as a college and became one of the foremost 
educational institutions of the Pacific coast; it 
is now known as Willamette University. 

Mr. Iloyt was sent in 1800 by the Oregon 
Annual Conference as a delegate to the General 
Conference held at Buffalo, New York; and in 
the summer of the same year he was elected 
professor in the department of Natural Science 
in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. 
He was transferred to the chair of Biblical The- 
ology at his own request si.x years later, and 
held the position until 1872. He then became 
editor of the Western Christian Advocate at 
Cincinnati, and was connected with this journal 
until 1884. Since that year he has been Pre- 
siding Elder of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
and for six years lias been located at Cleveland 
as the Presiding Elder of the Cleveland district, 
North Ohio Conference. In 1890 he was ap- 
pointed the Presiding Elder of the Sandusky 
district, his present position. This district in- 
cludes twenty- seven charges, each of which he 
visits every three months, preaching and con- 
ducting other services from one to three times 
at each point. 

Mr. Hoyt was married December 25, 1848, 
to Miss Phebe Martha Dyar, of Farmington, 
Maine. Of this union six children have been 
born, all of whom are living: Frances, Charles 
A., Edgar F., William W., Francis C. and 
George B. 

The degree of Doctor of Divinity was first 
conferred upon Mr. Hoyt by the Baldwin Uni- 
versity; and two years later, in 1873, by the 
Ohio Wesleyan University. Since 1885 he has 
been President of the Board of Trustees of the 
Baldwin University at Berea, Ohio. 



J. WEBB, freight, station and exj)ress 
agent for the Cleveland, Canton & Soutli- 
l!i ern Railroad Company at Bedford, has 
held this responsible position since 1892, 
vintr excellent satisfaction to the officials and 



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patrons of the road. He lias had an experience 
of thirteen years in tlie railroad business, and 
six 3'ears of that time has been in the employ 
theC. C. tSr S. Railway Company. He was born 
at Coshocton, Coshocton county, Ohio, June 20, 
1859, a son of Henry D. and Elizabeth (Hin- 
ton) Webb; the father was born in the city of 
Indianapolis, Indiana, and the mother was a na- 
tive of Guernsey county, Ohio. Both are de- 
ceased, and our subject was left an orphan at 
an early age. He received a fair education, and 
at the age of sixteen years secured a position in 
the Steel Works at Coshocton. This occupa- 
tion not being entirely to his liking he learned 
telegraphy, and for eleven years was a success- 
ful operator. 

Mr. Webb was united in marriage June 15, 
1882, to Laura E. Sbepler at Coshocton, Ohio. 
Mrs. Webb's parents are A. J. and Nancy 
(Gray) Shepler, wlio belong to old families in 
Coshocton county. The paternal gi'andfather 
was one of the earliest settlers in that locality. 
Mr. and Mrs. Webl) have one child, a son 
named Harry B. 

In politics Mr. Webb supjiorts the ineasures 
of the Democratic party. He is a member of 
the Masonic order, belonging to Summit Lodge 
No. 239, A. F. & A. M., and to Summit Chap- 
ter No. 74, R. A. M.; be has belonged to the 
fraternity ^nce 1891. He is a man of strict 
integrity, capaljle and prompt in the discharge 
of his duties, and worthy of the many warm 
friends be has in this community. 



jV^ffEHEMIAH MARKS, of Warrensville, 
I \l ^^1''"' '*' probably as well known as any 
J 11 man in the township, and few if any are 
^ iield in higer esteem. 

Mr. Marks was born in Newburg, Cuyahoga 
county, Ohio, in the year 1833, son of Nehe- 
miidi Marks, Sr., and grandson of Abraham 
Marks, natives of Connecticut and members of 
a prominent old family of that State. Grand- 
m(jtiu'r Marks was liefore her marriaire Miss 



Content Mervin. The senior Nehemiah Marks 
was born in 1798, and was a young man when 
he came out to the Western Reserve to make a 
home and grow up with the country. After his 
arrival here he returned to Connecticut on foot, 
making the journey, a distance of 600 miles, in 
thirteen days. On his return with an ox team 
and a horse it took him thirty-three days to 
make the journey. Here he bought a hundred 
acres of land, and devoted his energies to its 
improvement, and on it he spent the rest of his 
life. His wife, Clarissa, was a daughter of 
William Palmiter, a soldier of the Revolution- 
ary war. Grandfather Marks also participated 
in the struggle for independence. Clarissa 
Marks was born, reared and educated in Ver- 
mont, and was for some time engaged in teach- 
ing there. She drove a horse and wagon from 
the Green Mountain State to Cuyahoga county, 
to pay her passage hither, and after her arrival 
here taught school in Newburg. Both she and 
her husband lived to a ripe old age, he being 
eighty-two at the time of death and she eighty- 
three. They had a family of six children, viz.: 
Louisa, who married Jacob Flick and is de- 
ceased; Lafayette, a resident of Newburg; Car- 
oline, who married A. J. Palmer, of Tecumseh, 
Michigan, and is deceased; ]\rarilia Falk, of 
Newburg; Rosetta, wife of A. P. llolliday, of 
Clinton, Michigan; and Nehemiah, Jr. This 
aged couple was respected and esteemed by all 
who knew them ; their lives were adorned by 
Christian graces, and they reared their family 
to occupy honored and useful positions in life. 

The subject of the sketch was reared on his 
father's farm, but for the last twenty-tive years 
has lived on Miles avenue, at Sorrento Park, 
three miles east of Newburg. He was mar- 
ried February 24, 1807, to Miss Maria Wells, a 
daughter of Curtis and Harriet (Russell) Wells. 
They have three chiidreii, namely: Rosetta, 
wife of J. S. Wherrit, of Great Falls, Montana; 
Carlotta was being educated at Berea Univer- 
sity, and would have graduated, but studied too 
hanl and died of typhoid fever May G, 1885, 
aged 17 years; Hattie Bell, is a music teacher; 



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and Vivian is attending college in Cleveland. 
Most of the family are members of the Disci- 
ple Church. 

Personally, Mr. Marks is a man of fine phys- 
ique, being six feet and four inches in height. 
Of genial nature, frank and jovial, he makes 
friends wherever he goes. A man of tlie strict- 
est integrity, a friend of education and religion, 
he is one of the leading men of the community, 
and his influence is always directed for good. 
Politically, he is a Republican. For five years 
he has served as a Justice of the Peace, and has 
served several terms as a member of the Board 
of Education. Mr. Marks lias several ancient 
relics, but the most conspicuous one is an old 
French fusee, a relic of the French and Indian 
war that also did service in the llevohitionary 
war. The initials of his grandfather, Abraham 
Marks, are cut in the stock. Many a wild tur- 
key and deer lias been killed by this old flint- 
lock fusee. Mr. Marks has killed seven turkeys 
at three shots in one week with it. Another 
relic that Mr. Mai-ks has in liis possession is a 
letter from old John Brown, written to ins 
father in December, 1845. 



EORGE W. MARTIN, a veteran ciu- 
r ployee of the Lake Siiore & Michigan 
Southern Railroad Company, and for 
twenty-seven years a passenger engineer, 
was born near Gosiien, Orange county. New 
York, August 31, 1835. He was brought up 
on a farm and consequently had all the advan- 
tages that free, open-air exercise gives one's 
physical and mental make-up. He left the plod- 
ding farm life, the scenes of iiis boyish rambles 
and the fireside of his parents, at about twenty, 
and at Buffalo, New York, began his railroad 
career as a locomotive fireman on the C. B. & 
C. R. R. He was made an engineer in 1862 
and since 1866 has covered the Cleveland and 
Erie Division as his run. Mr. Martin has wit- 
nessed a wondferful development of a mighty 
railroad system since he first stepped into an 



engineer's cab. In place of the double track of 
steel rails, on a magnificent road, superbly 
ecjuipped with modern rolling stock, capable of 
spinning off at will a mile a minute, there was, 
thirty-eiglit years ago, a single track with strap 
rails laid upon the timbers on a sand and 
clay foundation. Toy rolling stock was used 
to do the business this company and the tinne was 
scarcely considered a factor in a long journey. 
A trip would begun by a passenger, and if it 
ever ended he considered himself in luck. 

Of the men who Uianaged the company's af- 
fairs when Mr. Martin came to the road not one 
is now alive. Not even the directors or stock- 
holders are on the stage of action, and very few 
of the employees are yet on the company's pay- 
rolls. 

Then the Vanderbilts first came into posses- 
sion of the Lake Shore Road, and Cornelius 
the first was its president, Mr. Martin used to 
pull his favorite car over the road on his tours 
of inspection. He performed like service for 
William II., his son, and after his demise for 
his sons, the present owners of the road. 

President Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas 
have ridden behind his engine, likewise Presi- 
dents Garfield and Cleveland. 

Mr. Martin's father was J. Martin, born in 
tlie same county, of New York. He lived an 
uneventful farm life and died in 1873, aged six- 
ty-five years. His wife was Martha Crator, of 
New Jersey birth, who died in 1878, aged sixty- 
six. Her children were J. R., deceased; G.W.; 
Mrs. Martha Hitchcock and Julia, deceased. 

Our subject enlisted in Company E, First 
Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Cleveland Grays, in 
1861, and went into camp at Wheatland, Penn- 
sylvania, camping there two weeks, and two in 
Philadelphia, where they were equipped and or- 
dered to Washington, D. C. They went into 
Virginia without much delay and rebuilt the 
Alexandria & Leesburgh Railroad. On an ex- 
pedition in the interior the forces met the 
enemy and were somewhat worsted, withdraw- 
ing to Fairfax C. H., and soon after were 
engaged in the first battle of Bull Rim Mr. 



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VUTAHOGA COUNTY. 



Martin's three inontbs' enlistment having ex- 
pired lie returned to Cleveland and was mus- 
tered out of service. 

In 1863 Mr. Martin married in Erie, Penn- 
sylvania, Matilda Daugherty, who is the mother 
of two children: Jennie, wife of W. D. Briggs 
of Erie, Pennsylvania; and Harry, a clerk in 
the Lake Shore general offices, whose wife was 
a Miss Clark. 



FKAXK R. CONNELL, passenger con- 
ductor on tlie Cleveland ife Pittsburg 
— Eailroad and for more than twenty-seven 
years a faithful employee of the company, was 
born in Ashland county, Ohio, September 15, 
1848. He li«d not more than reached that age 
when a boy becomes most interesting as a stu- 
dent when he left off his boyish frivolities and 
became a volunteer soldier to defend the Stars 
and Stripes and preserve the unity of the States. 
He enlisted at Salineville, Ohio, in September, 
1863, in Company B, Twelfth Ohio Volunteer 
Cavalry, under Colonel Bentley. They were 
ordered to Cleveland for camp duty and later 
to Camp Chase for the purpose of guarding 
prisoners. Another order took the company to 
Dennison, Ohio, where arms and horses were 
furnished and the command then took the field, 
going into Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee, 
meeting the enemy first at Mount Sterling, Ken- 
tucky, and then at a point in Virginia, where 
Mr. Connell was wounded and taken prisoner, 
October 2, 1864. He lay in Emory and Henry 
hospital and in a Richmond hospital by trans- 
fer until he was well enough to be initiated 
into Libby I'rison, remaining in that historic 
Rebel death-trap until March, 18G5, when with 
others he was exchanged at Annapolis, Mary- 
land. Mr. Connell made an effort to find and 
join his regiment, but was not able to find it 
until within a few weeks of the close of the 
war. He was mustered out of service in 1865, 
at Columbus, Ohio, returned home, and March 
7, 1867, entered the emi)loy of tlio Cleveland &. 
Pittsburg Company as a freight breakman. In 



September, 1868, he received a promotion to 
freight conductor, and in 1887 became a pas- 
senger conductor. 

Mr. Connell is a son of Dr. Aaron Connell, 
born in the State of Maryland. He was educated 
in Ohio and in his early life was a teacher. He 
studied medicine, graduating at a university, and 
practiced in Ashland county and vicinity. Dur- 
ing the civil war he was on <luty in the hospital 
at Cairo, Illinois, and in Cleveland. His death 
occurred in 1877, at the age of seventy-two 
years. His first wife was Miss David- 
son, who bore five children, viz., Clint, James, 
David, Benjamin and John. His second wife 
was Sarah A., daughter of Samuel McClelland, 
a Pennsylvania farmer, who was an early set- 
tler in Columbiana County, Ohio. The chil- 
dren of this union were Samuel, killed in a 
battle in the State of Mississippi; George; 
Maria, wife of Dr. Lindsay, of Salineville, Ohio; 
Frank R. ; and Annie, who married J. C. Mcin- 
tosh, of Monroeville, Ohio. 

Frank R. Connell married, in Bayard, Ohio, 
October, 1869, Lncinda II. Emmons, a native 
of Virginia. Two children are born to Mr. and 
Mrs. Connell, — Ada F., born January 23, 
1890; and Albert, born August 1, 1892. 



f|OHN F. FRITZ, a most faithful and re- 
i^ I! liable engineer of the Lake Shore & Mich- 
V^ igan Southern Railroad Company, pos- 
sesses as such a record unsurpassed or seldom 
equaled for careful, painstaking service. He 
began railroading in 1865, and for three years 
was fireman. Since 1868 lie has manipulated 
the throttle of numerous engines, both freight 
and passenger, being engaged in the passenger 
service since 1873. For a i^^- months during 
1865 he was in the military service of the Fed- 
eral Government, being a member of Company 
A, One Hundred and Ninety-eighth Ohio Vol- 
unteer Infantry. He was mustered into the 
army at Cleveland, taken to Camp Chase at 
Columbus, and thence with his campany to the 
field. 





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VUTAHOOA COUNTY. 



Mr. Fritz was born in Wiirteiiiburg, Ger- 
many, in April, 1845. His fatlier, Michael 
Fritz, left his fatherland in 1854, and sought 
free and unrestricted liberty in the United States. 
H<5 located in Cnyalioga county, and gave his 
exclusive attention to agricultural pursuits. He 
is now living retired, aged seventy-seven years. 
His children were: Joseph, an engineer; Lue, 
a Lake Shore passenger conductor; George, a 
railroad man; Ilermon; Bart, a Lake Shore 
freight conductor; and the subject of this 
sketch. 

Mr. John F. Fritz was married in Norwalk, 
Ohio, April 6, 1875, to Miss Barbara Measdey, 
and they have had two daughters, — Bertie May 
and Edna, — promising young ladies of school 
age. Mr. Fritz is a member of the B. of L. E. 



J. MICHAEL occupies a prominent 
position among the well-known lawyers 
and citizens of Cleveland. He is a 
native of Ohio, and was born on the 
12th day of October, 1849, in Eoss county, 
one of the counties forming the "Virginia 
Military District" of the Buckeye State. His 
father's family came to this part of the State 
from Baltimore, Maryland, while his mother's 
family came from Leesburg, Virginia, in about 
1820. Both of his parents were Ijorn in thisState. 
On the fatlier's side tlie family line reaches 
back to the Jefferson family, the grandmother 
of our subject being a niece of President 
Thomas Jefferson; on the mother's side the 
line runs back to the family of Governor Mc- 
Dowell of Virginia. Mr. Michael was reared 
on the farm, and secured his early education in 
the country district schools and in the public 
schools at Chillicothe, passing from the latter 
to the Ohio University. Being ambitious of 
securing a good education in as short a time 
and at as small an expense as possible, and be- 
ing of a studious and energetic nature, he 
averaged while at the university fifteen and one- 
half hours of study a day, and, during his entire 



senior year carried eight regular studies. He 
maintained, throughout his entire course in the 
university,a high rank in his classes. This close 
application to his studies enabled him to finish 
a six-years course in three years and two 
teims, and to graduate with honors. While in 
his Sophoraoi-e year his own class in Latin re- 
cited to him for nearly an entire term, during 
the absence of the professor who occupied that 
chair; and at another time, during his course of 
study at the university, he had charge of and 
heai-d the recitations of the class next below his 
in solid geometry. Mr. Michael finished his 
education in Harvard College at Cambridge, 
Mass. Being compelled to educate himself by 
his own efforts, he found at the close of his 
university life an indebtedness of $650 against 
him, without any means whatever to draw upon 
save his education. Anxious to liquidate his 
indebtedness he accepted the position of 
Superintendent of the Monroeville (Ohio) 
public schools, and for five years discharged 
the duties of that position with entire satis- 
faction, establishing a reputation for himself 
which extended all over the State. During the 
above time he was an active member of the 
Northeastern Teachers' Association of Ohio 
and one of its executive committeemen. He 
was also a member of the Ohio State Teachers' 
Association, of the Department of Superintend- 
ents, and of the National Teachers' and Na- 
tional Superintendents' Associations. He stud- 
ied most thoroughly the public-school systems 
of this and other States, and received letters 
from leading public-school superintendents, as 
well as from college presidents and professors, 
stating that they were personally acquainted 
with his work and his fitness for the same, and 
that they considered him one of the most prom- 
ising young men in the school work of the 
State. 

Having educated himself for the profession 
of the law Mr. Michael had taken a broad field 
of reading along the line of subjects kindred 
to his chosen profession, and when in a posi- 
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himself well equipped for the same, and 
his progress was rapid. His preceptor in 
the study of law was the Hon. C. E. Pen- 
newell, of the Cleveland bar, for whose eminent 
ability as a lawyer and jurist he has the highest 
admiration. During Mr. Michael's first year 
in practice he was able to and did receive fees 
enough to live upon, but since then his practice 
has continued to increase from year to year un- 
til it is second to that of no young lawyer in 
the city, and he finds his profession both a lu- 
crative and pleasant one. He is thoroughly in 
love with the legal profession, to which he is 
peculiarly fitted, and his progress in it has been 
all that he and his friends could desire for the 
time he has been in active practice. He is the 
tlie owner of one of the best law libraries in Cleve- 
land, and also owns what is considered one of 
the best private libraries in the State. His hab- 
its of study which were acquired during his 
student life in the university have been re- 
tained, and his work is seldom laid aside until 
ten p. m., and frequently not until a later hour. 
For several years Mr. Michael has been quite 
prominent in municipal affairs, and has filled a 
number of honorable and important ofhcial po- 
sitions, in which his services have been of great 
benefit to the city. He has for several years 
been President of the Board of Examiners of 
public school teachers of Cleveland. He has 
served a term of two years in the City Council, 
one year of which he was President of that 
body. He served as a member of the City 
Park and Boulevard Commission during the 
first year of its organization, and the present 
members of the commission bear evidence to 
his valuable service on that important body 
during the most trying days of its history, when 
it was beset on all sides by pitfalls and snares 
of every description, and when its policy was 
shaped and its present work made possible. He 
is a prominent and active member of theCleve- 
l«id Chamber of Commerce and Chairman of its 
Committee on Municipal Matters, and a mem- 
ber of the General Finance Committee having 
in charge the raising of money and j)reparing 



of plans for the new Chamber of Commerce 
building. Mr. Michael is a member of the 
Tippecanoe Club, the strongest Republican 
jK)litical club in Ohio. 

As a lawyer Mr. Michael occupies a promi- 
nent place at the Cleveland bar, and is consid- 
ered one of the city's strongest and most prom- 
ising attorneys. He is recognized as one of the 
foremost citizens of the Forest City, being 
progressive and at all times ready and willing 
to lend his infiuence and assistance to all move- 
ments in the interest of good government and to 
the promotion of the city and her best interests. 
He is broad-minded, energetic and enterprising 
in all matters, and is usually to be found upon 
the right side of all public questions and move- 
ments. Socially he is a most agreealile gentle- 
man. Warm-hearted and sympathetic by na- 
ture, kind and affable to all, easy of approach, 
he is deservedly popular and has a wide circle 
of friends and acquaintances, all of whom 
esteem him as a man of ability, strength and 
sterlintr character. 



dlOHN FREEMAN, secretary of the Taylor 
Chair Company, of Bedford, Ohio, has 
— been connected with the business for 
twenty years. He was born at Poughkeepsie, 
New York, October ai, 1859. His parents 
were William and May E. (Wheeler) Freeman. 
The father was a native of England. They are 
still living. 

John was a boy of nine years when he came 
to Bedford. Here he received a limited educa- 
tion, at thirteen beginning to work in the chair 
factory of tlie Taylor Chair Company. His 
first work was sand-papering the chairs at 50 
cents per day. By doing his work well and 
faithfully he secured a position as office boy in 
the establishment and later as shipping clerk. 
At twenty-one he went on the road as traveling 
salesman for the firm. His territory e.xtended 
from the Atlantic coast southwest to St. Louis, 
including seventeen States. In tlie spring of 



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1887 he left the road and accepted his present 
position of secretary of the Taylor Chair Com- 
pany. As secretary and bookkeeper of the 
company he does his duty in an able manner. 
Mr. Freeman is a self-made man and to his own 
exertions is due liis present position of trust 
and honor. lie was married in June, 1887, at 
C;hagrin Falls, Ohio, to Flora Stevenson, daugh- 
ter of J. M. Stevenson. Mr. and Mrs. Freeman 
iiave one child, a daughter, — Helen Flora. 

Mr. Freeman is a Republican, an active and 
zealous worker in his party. He has served 
two terms as treasurer of the school board of 
Bedford. He is a member of the Masonic 
Order,— Bedford Lodge, No. 370, and Summit 
Chapter. Mr. Freeman has the frank, genial, 
jovial ways which are so serviceable in business. 



FREDERICK A. COLBRUNN, a loyal 
citizen of the United States, is an adopted 
^ sou of the nation, his birth-place being 
Westphalia, Province of Lippe-Detmold, Ger- 
many: there he first saw the light of day Au- 
gust 20, 1836, the fifth of a family of seven chil- 
dren of Edward and Augusta Colbrunn. His 
father was a manufacturer of linen goods, and 
was also in the employ of the East India trade. 
On account of the lievolution of 1848 the 
family decided to emigrate to America, and on 
the 10th day of October of that year the mother 
with the children sailed from Bremen, bound 
for the United States. After a voyage of forty- 
two days they landed in the port of New York, 
and thence came directly to Ohio by way of the 
Hudson river to Albany, thence to Buffalo by 
rail, and from that city by the lakes to Cleve- 
land, arriving December 25, 1848. After a 
short stay in Cleveland Mrs. Colbrunn came to 
Rockport township, where she purchased a tract 
of 100 acres of good farming land, on which she 
settled with her family. In 1850 she was 
joined by her husband, who had been detained 
in the old country by business affairs. Mr. 
Colbrunn Imilt a sawmill soon after his arrival 



but disposed of it in 1861, and in the same year 
removed to Cleveland, where he and his wife 
passed the remainder of their lives. He was 
born March 10, 1799, and died January 10, 
1868; Mrs. Colbrunn was born December 13, 
1800, and died March 4, 1874. They reared a 
family of seven children: Leopold F. was born 
May 3, 1827; Adelaide, born January 7, 1830, 
is the wife of Frederick Klane; Theodore was 
born February 13, 1832; Minnie, born August 
9, 1834, is the wife of B. Strong, of Cleveland ; 
Frederick A. is the tifth-born; Emma, born 
July 2, 1838, is the wife of Nicholas Elmer; 
John Edward was born March 9, 1841. 

Frederick A. was a lad of twelve years when 
when he was brought to this country. His 
youth was spent in assisting his father in the 
cultivation of a frontier farm, which was in- 
creased to 300 acres, and he also superintended 
the sawmill until it was sold, in 1861. He then 
engaged in building plank and rail roads, which 
he carried on extensively for some years. He 
assisted in the construction of the Nickel Plate 
railroad, and secured the contract for the plank 
road from Ohio City to Olmstead; he rebuilt 
this road in 1873, and has since been superin- 
tendent for the company owning the road. He 
now resides on a tine farm of seventy-five acres, 
a portion of his father's purchase after coming 
to Cuyahoga county. In the spring of 1894 
he built a race track one-half mile long on this 
farm, for the purpose of training blooded 
horses. 

By his first marriage Mr. Colbrunn had five 
children: Emma, the wife of John Elber; Eliza- 
beth, the wife of John Fischer; Jennie, the wife 
of Winthrop Dunham; Edward, a member of 
the Cleveland Fire Department; and George E., 
who died at the age of nineteen years. Mr. 
Colbrunn was married to his second wife Au- 
gust 11, 1870; her name was Anne Ducker, a 
daughter of Isaiah and Elizabeth Ducker, na- 
tives of Essex, England, who emigrated to the 
United States early in the present century: Mr. 
Ducker died in 1866, but his wife survives. 
There were three children born of this union: 



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Frederick A., Jr., William W. and Anna M. 
The mother dieil July 31, 1S82. Mr. Colbrunn 
was married again July 8, 1n85. to Mis? Jen- 
nette Ducker. and they have had born to them 
two children: Eva F. and Wilbur G. 

Mr. Colbrunn has always taken a deep inter- 
est in the aflairs of State, and has represented 
his township in many offices of trust and re- 
S{x>nsibility: he has been President of the 
Sch(.>ol Hoard twenty-five years, has been town- 
ship Trustee and Assessor, and in April. 1S93, 
was elected President of the Board of Trustees 
for Rockport Hamlet. Uis strict integrity and 
indefatigable attention to public business have 
won him the respect of all who know him. 
Politically he adheres to the principles of the 
Republican j>arty. Mrs. Colbrunn is a most 
worthy menil>er of the Congregational Church. 



I Snedaker, of French e.^traction. By a former 
marriage, to Miss White, one child was born. 
Of the second marriage, tiiere were three chil- 
dren, viz. : Anna E., who married John Burgess, 
a lake captain; Oliver P.. an engineer for the 
Cleveland «.V: Pittsbnrcr Road, at Wellsville, 
Ohio: and O.H. 

Mr. O. H. Mann w.is marrieil in this city in 
1874, to S<iphia, a sister of Captain Loftus Gray 
and a daughter of Charles and Sophia Gray, of 
English birth. Their children are: Bertha R.. 
deceased; Oliver P., deceased, and Edith May. 
Success has come to Mr. Mann because of his 
unceasing devotion to business, the key note to 
success in any calling. 



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OIL MANN.— Classeil among the old and 
I faithful men of the Cleveland tV- Pitts- 
burg Railro.ad Company, is O. II. Mann, 
who is completing his twenty-fifth year of ser- 
vice since he became a fireman, and his twenty- 
first year as a " knight of the throttle." Mr. 
Mann was born in this city. October 31. 1S51. 
He attended school at the corner of St. Clair 
and Aid streets, and left off his studies to do 
time as journeyman carpenter. He had almost 
finisheil his trade when a notion seizeti him to 
engage in railroading, which he did, in 1869. 
being made a locomotive fireman at once. For 
the |«st eighteen years he has l>ecn a yanlmaster 
and responds to his duties without loss of time. 
Mr. Mann's father was Stephen Mann, who 
emigrated to Cleveland from Vermont, his na- 
tive State. In his early experience in Cleve- 
land he was engaged in the grocery- trade near 
the foot of Superior street Bent on retirins 
from this business he entered the lake trade as 
steward of a vessel and followed tlie water , 
twenty-five years. His death occurred in 1874, ' 
at the age of seventy-five years. His second 
wife, the mother of our subject, \v.is Miss i 



fff-ENRY HOFFMAN, an undertaker at 
|p1 733 Clark street. Cleveland, was born in 
11 t this city, February 20, 1860, a son of 
'^ Henry and Christiiui (Nuss) Hoffman, 

natives of Germany. They came to Cleveland 
in 1843, were married at Independence, this 
county, in 1847, and in 1849 returned to this 
city, locating at the corner of Walton and 
Rhodes streets. The father, born in ls25. died 
in ISSl. and was then serving his third term as 
Councilman of the old Twelfth wanl. now the 
Thirty ninth and Fortieth wanls. He was also 
employed as shipping clerk at the depot for 
many years, and, owing to his fluency in both 
the English and German' languages, rendered a 
most valuable service. Mrs. Hoffman departed 
this life in 1S63. at the age of forty-one years. 
She was a member of the Independence Protes- 
tant Church. Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman had six 
children, viz.: Mary, wife of H. A. Ileimsath. 
of Cleveland: William, a resident of Michigan, 
but was married in Cleveland; Helena, wife of 
Herman Imbery; John, of Cleveland, was 
united in marriage with Frances Burkhardt: 
Henr\\ our subject; and Dora, wife of Herman 
Herkie. 

Henry Hoffman l>egan work for himself at 
the age of twenty-one years, at the undertaking 
business, and has since followetl that occupation. 



GUYAUOQA COUNTY. 



He is also engaged in real-estate transactions. 
Mr. Hoffman was married in lS81,ta Miss An- 
toinette, a daughter of John Karda, who has re- 
sided in Cleveland for the j)ast fifty-five years. 
He had three children: Frank, deceased in 
1892, at the age of forty-seven years, served as 
a member of the City Council for two terms, 
and was Assistant Police Clerk for six years; 
August G , a resident of Cleveland; and Antoi- 
nette, the wife of our subject. Mr. and Mrs. 
Hoffman have six children: Antoinette, Henry, 
p]mina, Mamie, Stella and Grover. Gur sub- 
ject is identified with the Democratic party. In 
his social relations lie is a member of the Uni- 
formed Rank, Knights of Pythias, of the For- 
esters, and the Willkommen Union. Mr. 
Hoffman has also served as member of the 
Board of Education, and was chairman of tiie 
repair committee. 



^<r\. A. BALDWIN, one among the CJieve- 
Y^ land coterie of Cleveland & Pittsburgh 
Jj ^ passenger engineers, is a representative 
^ of that famous Baldwin family distrib- 

uted throughout the East and nortliern Gliio. 

The subject of this notice was born in Erie 
county, Pennsylvania, \ovemI>er 28, 1843. As 
this brancli of the family was made up of agri- 
culturists, with few exceptions, R. A. was born 
on a farm. He secured a liberal education from 
district scliool and academy, l»eginning liis career 
as a business man at nineteen. His first duty 
about this time was to enter the army, eidisting 
at Conneaut, Ghio, in the .Second Ohio Battery, 
which was assigned to the Army of the South- 
west. The Command rendezvoused at St. Lonis, 
Springfield and Jefferson City, Missonri, for 
short periods, on its way into the Confederate 
country in southern Missouri and northern 
Arkansas. They met the enemy at the battle 
of Pea Ridge, routed them and proceeded to 
Helena, on the Mississippi river, where Mr. 
Baldwin was discliarj/ed from service, October 
12, 1802. 



In June, 1863, Mr. Baldwin engaged with 
the Cleveland & Pittsburgh Railroad Comjjany 
as fireman; in January, 1805, was promoted to 
the place of engineer. For several years he has 
been on a passenger run between Cleveland and 
Pittsburgh. When annual prizes were paid by 
the company to engineers, Mr. IJaldwin rcfjeived 
the second one given in 1875, and a good share 
of the monthly premiums issued thereafter. 

The paternal grandfather of Mr. Baldwin wa.s 
liernus A. I'aldwin, born in New .Vfilford, 
Connecticut. He brought his family to Penn- 
sylvania when our subject's fathtjr, L. Baldwin, 
was a small boy. L. Baldwin continued to re- 
side in Erie county, Pennsylvania, until 1873, 
wlien he removed to Conneaut, Ohio, where he 
now lives, aged eighty-four, with liis wife, nee 
Rosina nattles,aged eighty-one. Mr. Baldwin's 
maternal grandfather, was an early settler near 
(iirard, Pennsylvania, being there when the 
land wliere the city now stands was public 
domain. 

L. Baldwin was the father of twelve children, 
eight of wliom are still living, namely: R. A.; 
Byron, of Chicago; the wife of James Moore- 
head, of F>ie county; Georgiana, who married 
Mr. Gould, of Prescott, Arkansas; Susan, wife 
of Mr. Goddard, of Conneaut, Ohio; K. K. 
J'aldwin, of Chicago; and F^lmer, of Conneaut, 
Ohio. 

In 1805 R. A. Baldwin marricl, in I>ie 
county, Pennsylvania, Adaline, a daughter of 
William Foote, a farmer. Mr. Baldwin's chil- 
dren are: William I., born in 1867; Brainard, 
born in 1870, a fireman on the Cleveland A: 
J Pittsburgh Railroad; Marion, fxjrn in 1873; 
Charles, born in 1877, a machinist; and Ethel, 
born in 1880. 



F^RAN( 
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N'CIS A. COSGROVE, A. B., S.ij,er- 
itendent of the Schools at Brooklyn 
illage, Ohio, was born August 20, 1856, 
at Defiance, Ohio. He is a son of Elliott and 
Emily TEerkshire) Cosgrove. His parents were 
natives of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania. 



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The father is a fanner hy occupation and is a 
man of advanced years. He is a pioneer of 
Defiance county, where he is esteemed and re- 
spected as one of their best citizens. His wife 
died in April of 1877. She was a Ijeloved 
woman. 

Upon the farm Professor Cosgrove was 
brought up. He first attended tlie country 
school and at the age of sixteen years entered 
the Wesleyan University at Delaware, and there 
graduated in 1884 with the degree of A. B. 
Before his graduation he took up school-teach- 
ing and taught at several places, including 
South Brooklyn, Farmcrsville and other places. 
At Farmersville he spent four years and at 
South Brooklyn one year. In 1880 he returned 
to college and there remained until he gradu- 
ated. He was then elected Superintendent of 
Schools at Trospect, Ohio, where he remained 
one year. He was then for a time engaged in 
the insurance business at Delaware, Ohio. Two 
years later be was elected Superintendent of 
Schools in Brooklyn village and still holds that 
position. 

As an educator he has been remarkably suc- 
cessful. He is a student possessed of an analyt- 
ical and philosophical mind and is well fitted 
for the training and nurturing of the youthful 
mind. He is a man of excellent moral habits 
and thus is a man of influence, not only among 
his pupils but among his patrons. Since his 
taking charge of the schools at Brooklyn Vil- 
lage these schools have wonderfully increased 
in their excellency and importance, an excellent 
building has been erected, a number of the best 
teachers are employed, and the number of pupils 
enrolled is over 1,000. Thus it may be ob- 
served that this his work has not been one of 
little importance, but in the execution of his 
work he has been remarkably successful. 

In politics he is not active nor ardent, nor 
zealous, but casts his vote with the Kepublican 
party. Fraternally he is a member of the 
Masonic order and of the Knights of Pythias. 

He was married immediately after his gradu- 
ation, in 1884, to Miss Belle Waitc, of Welling- 



ton, Ohio. She was a student also at Delaware, 
with himself. Unto the marriage there were 
born three children, of whom one is deceased. 
These children are, — I., Vjorn in 1885; E., born 
in 1887; and Belle, who died in 1800, in in- 
fancy. March 22, 1890, the motlier of these 
children was called away in deatli. She was a 
I beloved wife, mother and friend, an estimable 
woman, and an active Church worker. 



E' E. ARNOLD is the secretary and gen- 
eral manager of the Bedford Chair 
1 Company, one of the most prosperous 

manufacturing concerns in the county. The 
company was organized in December, 1890, 
with C. J. Milz as president; G. L. Bartlett, 
vice-president; W. O. Gordon, general superin- 
tendent, and Mr. Arnold, secretary and general 
manager. The success of this enterpri.se has 
been almost phenomenal from the first, and is 
due in a large measure to the practical knowl- 
edge the officers have of the business and to 
their wide experience in the commercial world. 
Mr. Arnold is a native of the State of Michi- 
gan, born in Clinton township, Lenawee county, 
February 23, 1863. His parents were N. C. and 
Lucy Jane Arnold, the father being a native of 
New England, and the mother of New York. 
They reared a family of three children, one of 
whom is deceased; Fannie is the wife of James 
Flick, of Bedford, Ohio. E. E. Arnold re- 
ceived his education in the public schools of 
Tecumsch, Michigan, completing the course in 
the high school of that phice. In March, 1885, 
he entered the employ of the Taylor Chair 
Company of Bedford, and the relationship con- 
tinued more than five years. He then took a 
position with Burbank & Ryder, wholesale 
manufacturers, as traveling salesman, his terri- 
tory including New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio 
and Indiana. In 1890 he liecame a member of 
the Bedford Chair Company, as stated above. 

June 14, 1893, Mr. Arnold married Miss Emma 
Dawson, a daughter of James William Dawson, a 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



respected citizen of Bedford. Mrs. Arnold is a 
consistent member of the Disciple Church, and 
is a woman of superior intellectual attainments. 
In politics our subject adheres to the principles 
of the Republican party. lie belongs to Bed- 
ford Lodge, Xo. 375, A. F. & A. M.; to Summit 
Chapter, No. 74, E. A. M., anS to Ilolyrood 
Commandry, No. 32, K. T. He is a man of 
excellent business qualifications, and is worthy 
of the confidence reposed in him by his associ- 
ates in commerce. 



d[ P. CURRY, auditor of the New York, 
Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company, 
is a gentleman of nearly thirty years' ex- 
perience in railroad business, beginning with a 
minor clerkship in the auditor's office of the 
Pittsburg, Columbus & Cincinnati Railroad 
Company at SteubenvUle, Ohio, when, in con- 
trast with the present, railroading was prac- 
tically in its incipiency. At the expiration of 
his second year in the ofhce, Mr. Curry dropped 
railroading to engage in the queen's-ware trade 
and opened out a business in Steubeuville. 
Three years of merchandising sufficed, for the 
fascinations of the railroad again impelled him 
to enter its service. He took up the work with 
his old company under the name of the Pitts- 
burg, Columbus & St. Louis Railroad, resuming 
his clerkship in the auditor's office, stationed 
for a time at Columbus, but later on moved to 
Pittsburg. He remained in this office four 
years, when he accepted the position of chief 
clerk in the office of the auditor of the Chicago, 
Danville & Vincennes Railroad. In April, 
1877, he retired from this position to accept the 
position of secretary and auditor of the Scioto 
Valley Railroad at Columbus, Ohio, continuing 
in that capacity till September, 1882, when he 
accepted his present office, being the first audi- 
tor of the road. 

Mr. Curry was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, 
May 26, 1845. His first and early impressions 
were received in the country, ior his father was 



a farmer, and he sent his son to the rural school 
until the age of fourteen, when he placed him 
in the public schools of Steubenville. At the 
early age of fifteen Mr. Curry began to contrib- 
ute to his own support materially by engaging 
to clerk for a firm of leather dealers at Steuben- 
ville, Ohio. Some months later he became 
book-keeper and traveling salesman for a paper- 
mill, remaining until he entered the service of 
the Pittsburg, Columbus & Cincinnati Railroad 
as before stated. 

James Curry, our subject's father, married 
Miss Sarah Hartford. Their children were four 
in number, only two of whom are now alive: 
J. P. and Mrs. J. W. Renner, of Allegheny, 
Pennsylvania. 

February 23, 1880, Mr. Curry married, in 
Columbus, Ohio, Miss Pugh, a daughter of 
Judge Pugh, an old and prominent resident of 
that county. They have two sons only, Renner 
P. and James P., Jr. 



'|r^\ H. ST. JOHN. — Among the representa- 
Uf^ tive citizens of Cleveland is R. H. St. 
I »5i John, the well-known inventor and vice 
V president of the St. John Typobar 

Company. Mr. St. John is a native of the 
Buckeye State, having been born in Cincinnati, 
in 1832. He is of English lineage, his ances- 
tors having come to America from England 
about 1700. His father was Ebenezer St. John, 
who was born in 1803 and died in 1859. His 
wife was born in 1805 and died in 1888. 

While our subject was a boy his family 
removed from Cincinnati to Springfield, Ohio, 
where he received a common-school education 
and learned the trade of watchmaker and 
jeweler. He followed watchmaking and the 
jewelry business in Bellefontaine, Ohio, until 
1860, in the meantime having invented and 
placed on the market, in 1855, the first foot lathe 
for watchmakers, known as St. John's Univer- 
sal Chuck Lathe, which had quite a sale. 



850 



CVTAHOGA COUNTY. 



Upon the breaking out of the Civil war Mr. 
St. John closed out his business and was 
appointed l)y the Governor a member of the 
County Military Committee, in which capacity 
he served throughout the war. In 1863, he 
was appointed Provost Marshal for the Fourtli 
district of Ohio, a position he held until the 
close of the war. After the war he engaged in 
the sewing-machine business, and in 1870 
patented the St. John Sewing Machine. He 
organized the St. John Sewing Machine Com- 
pany, at Springlield, Ohio, and was superin- 
tendent of that company's works until 1880, 
when he sold out his interest in the company 
and removed to Toledo, Ohio. In the latter 
city he organized the Union Sewing Machine 
Company, and had charge of the works of the 
company for live years, when he sold out and 
removed to Cleveland, and engaged for several 
years in the sewing-machine business in this 
city. 

Many years ago Mr. St. John's attention 
was directed to the necessity and advantages of 
a type-setting machine, and much of his time 
after coming to Cleveland was devoted to the 
origination of such a machine. In 1889 he 
commenced the construction of a machine on 
an entirely new principle, making a line of type 
by cold pressure. In 18'JO lie patented the 
machine known as the St. John Typobar, and 
the same year organized the St. John Typobar 
Company, of which he is the vice president. 
The machine lias been a success in every partic- 
ular, and will work a revolution in type-setting 
by machinery. It is operated somewhat upon 
the principle of the type-writer, by means of 
which the characters are produced in lines upon 
cold metal by compression, which may be used 
repeatedly without waste of material. By the 
use of this machine, one operator can within 
eight hours set from 30,000 to 40,000 ems, or 
about four times the amount a man can set up 
in the same length of time, and do it as correctly, 
if not more so than can the man. The plan of 
the machine is simple, practical and automatic. 
It is the tirst of its kind with which the line of 



type may be made by compression. Mr. St. 
John is a mechanical engineer and a genius, and 
has given to the world many useful and practi- 
cal inventions, those in the sewing-machine 
line having won him recognition all over the 
the industrial world. 

While a citizen of Bellefontaine, Mr. St. John 
served as Coroner of the county, and was recog- 
nized as one of the deservedly honored citizens 
of the community. He is a prominent member 
of the Odd Fellows' fraternity, being a member 
of the Grand Lodge of Ohio. In politics he is a 
staunch Republican. Mr. St. John was married 
in 1852, to Miss Rebecca Poland, and to their 
union four children have been born, two of 
whom are living. The children are as follows: 
Charles P., of Chicago; Ida, the wife of E. A. 
Shafer, of Cleveland; Sallie S. and Edmund, the 
two latter deceased. 

Mr. and Mrs. St. John and family are mem- 
bers of the Presbyterian C'liurch. 



P^ETER LIGHTHALL, assistant general 
yard master of the Lake Shore & Michi- 
gan Southern Railroad Company, was 
born in Eureka, ]^ew York, January 1, 
1846. His father was Peter Lighthall, born in 
Schenectady, New York, in 1813. He followed 
the business of contracting and was for a time 
a hotel keeper, dying in Utica, New York, in 
1861. His wife was Mary Warren, a daughter 
of James Warren, of Rochester. She died in 
1865, at forty-two years of age. Eleven chil- 
dren were born to Mr. and Mrs. Lighthall, five 
of whoui are still living: John and William, in 
Utica and Syracuse respectively ; Hattie; Jo- 
sephine, widow of II. P. liennett, of Green 
Isle; and Peter. 

At eleven years of age our subject left school 
and began work in a grocery in Utica, remaining 
till 1861, when he volunteered his services to 
the United States, enlisting in the Forty third 
New York Zouaves, and went to Clifton Park, 
Staten Island, thence to Annapolis, Maryland. 



CUYAHOQA COUNTY. 



The Zouaves participated in Burnside's expedi- 
tion to Hatteras inlet; returned to Annapolis 
by way of Hampton Roads, Virginia, and were 
in camp but a brief period at the Maryland 
navy yard, when they were ordered to Washing- 
ton, District of Columbia; and in three weeks 
were disbanded because of mutiny among the 
officers. Mr. Lighthall entered the service 
again in 1862, enlisting at Utica in the One 
Hundred and Seventeenth New York Volun- 
teers. Went to Washington, District of Col- 
umbia, via Eome, New York; ordered to 
Tarrytown, where he did picket duty along the 
Harper's Ferry turnpike, three months; crossed 
the Potomac river and remained till spring, 
when ordered to Norfolk, Suffolk and over into 
the tight at Black river. Returned to Norfolk 
and took transports for Hilton Head, South 
Carolina; disembarked and went to Folly 
island, and remained till the following spring, 
doing duty in siege of Charleston. Assisted in 
the capture of Morris, Block Seabrook and 
Kiowa island and Fort Wagner and John's 
island, South Carolina, and left for Bermuda 
Hundred, Virginia. On May 21, at Drury's 
Bluff, first attack on Betersburg. Went up the 
Peninsula and North Anna liver and back to 
the engagements at White House Landing, 
Cold Harbor and back to Petersburg for a three 
months' siege. Deep Bottom and Chapin's 
Farm came next, followed by the Darbytown 
Road fight, October 27, 1864. Went with 
General I>utler to Fort Fisher, but returned in 
two days to Chapin's Farm, and a week later 
went back under General Terry, and on Jan- 
uary 10 attacked the fortification, and on the 
15th captured the fort; marched then to Smith- 
field, North Carolina, Foi't Anderson, Sugar 
Loaf Mountain works and Wilmington. Two 
weeks later went to Coxbridge, crossing the 
Neuse river; met General Sherman's army and 
engaged Johnston at Bentonville; heard of Lee's 
surrender there, and followed Johnston to 
Raleigh, there getting news of the President's 
assassination. In two weeks was mustered out 
of service; marched to City Point, Virginia, 



took boat for Albany, New York, and train home, 
and was mustered out of service at Syracuse, 
June 23, 1865. 

On taking up civil pursuits Mr. Lighthall 
engaged in the New York Central freight house 
at Utica, as tallyman, and remained till 1867, 
when he went on the road as brakeman between 
Syracuse and Albany, and in time was pro- 
moted to conductor. In 1871 he joined the 
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad 
Company as brakeman, but remained only six 
months, coining then to the Lake Shore & Michi- 
gan Southern, in same capacity, and was given 
a run on the Toledo division. In eighteen 
months he came into the Cleveland yard and 
broke two days, when he was given a pony. In 
1880 he was made assistant yardmaster at Col- 
linwood, and two years later was transferred to 
Cleveland as assistant day man. He was pro- 
moted to night yardmaster in 1883, and to day 
man in 1888, and in 1891 was made assistant 
general yardmaster. 

Mr. Lighthall holds a membership in the 
Grand Army of the Republic. 



f JEROME J. SHEPARD, an extensive 
K Jl manufacturer of and dealer in fire brick, 
^^' was born in this city near what is now No- 
423 Franklin avenue, September 1, 1861. He 
is an only son and second child of Joseph Shep- 
ard, who came to this city in 1826 aboard a 
French man-of-war. He was then a boy of 
thirteen before the mast, and had been in the 
French navy some time. Although Mr. Shej)- 
ard was born in France, his ancestors were all 
English. His father moved his family from the 
British Isles to the land of the Bonapartes a few 
years prior to the famous battle of Waterloo. 
On leaving the French man-of-war Joseph 
Shepard entered the American navy and sailed 
every sea and visited every prominent port, en- 
circling the entire globe probably three or four 
times before his retirement in 1854. He was 
present as an officer of the United States during 
the war with Mexico, being Captain of the brig 



CUTAHOGA COUNTY. 



Cumberland. Upon his retirement to civil pur- 
suits he engaged in heavy contracting, confining 
his work to railroad contracts mainly, lie was 
an industrious man and possessed a good 
capacity for making money, and although his 
means came easily they went in a similar man- 
ner, and his death in 1872 found him in only 
good tinancial circumstances. 

He married, in 1857, Mariette, a daughter of 
Captain John De Mars, a noted Cleveland pio- 
neer. Captain De Mars secured the first license 
given by the city of Cleveland to run a ferry 
across the Cuyahoga river, became afterward a 
large boat-owner, and engaged extensively in 
the lake-carrying trade. From this business 
and from an investment in real estate at Detroit 
in its infancy. Captain De Mars amassed a snug 
fortune, which he left to his heirs. lie was 
born in Montreal, Canada, in 1793, and died in 
Cleveland in lS7t>. 

Jerome Shepard, when only thirteen years of 
age, engaged to work for William Lacy, of this 
city, the largest manufacturer and dealer in fire 
brick. Three years later he clianged employers, 
engaging with G. II. Barstow, a brother of 
ex-Governor Barstow, of AViscousin. While 
serving with these two gentlemen Mr. Shepard 
mastered the most intricate features of the 
luisiness, and on the death of Mr. Barstow be- 
came by purchase proprietor of the entire busi- 
ness. In 1889 he bought out the business of 
John Colahan, and, desiring to further enlarge, 
he purchased in 1893 the large business of his 
former employer. Captain AVilliam Lacy. 

Mr. Shepard's trade is most extensive and is 
distributed throughout the breadth of our con- 
tinent. To supply the great demand made on 
him from this broad market, he operates two 
large warehouses, one in Detroit, and the other 
in Cleveland. These warehouses are supplied 
from his factory at Wellsville, Ohio. He has 
other interests, diversified and extensive, lie 
is a stockholder in the Central Pressed Brick 
Company, in the Cleveland & Buflalo Steam 
Navigation Company, and in the Backus Wire- 
Nail Company, all of Cleveland. He is a 



director in the Vulcan Clay Company, of 
Wellsville, Ohio, and a stockholder in the John 
Parter Company, of New Cumberland, West 
Virginia (the most extensive paving brick works 
in the world); also a director of the Argyle 
Gold-Mining Company, of Central City, Colo- 
rado, — one of the few mining companies that 
pay satisfactory dividends. 

In October, 1882, Mr. Shepard married, in 
Cleveland, Trecy, a daughter of James Dempsy, 
an old railroad man, who has since been general 
freight master of the Cleveland ct Pittsburg 
Railroad. Of this union there are five children : 
Mary E., Bertha S., Frank R., Jerome J. and 
Helen. 

Mr. Shepard is a thorough business man. 
His standing in the commercial world is unem- 
barrassed by questionable or unprofital)le invest- 
ments, and those with whom he deals place un- 
bounded confidence in his ability and integrity. 



TE. MILLER, Trustee of Olmsted town- 
ship, elected in the spring of 1880 and 
now serving his third term, came to this 
place in 1872, locating on his present 
farm, after having resided in Cleveland two 
years. 

He was born in Mahoning county, Ohio, 
June 1, 1850, a son of Samuel and Elizabeth 
(^Lower) Miller, both also natives of that coun- 
ty. His father, a farmer, lived in Springfield 
township, that county, but sold his place there 
and purchased a place in Beaver township, same 
colinty, where he passed the remainder of his 
life, dying June 1, 1887; his wife survives, and 
still resides there. They brought up six chil- 
dren, namely: Sarah Ann, wife of AVilliam 
Winter, of Indiana; T. E., our subject; Wil- 
son, married and resides on the old farm in 
Beaver township; Celeste, now the wife of Issac 
Easterly, of Columbiana county, this State; 
Melissa, now Mrs. Joseph Ilerrold, of Mahon- 
ing county; and Laura, the wife of Isaac 
Chappie, of Leetonia, Ohio. The grandfather, 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



Henry Miller, came to Mahoning county when 
a yonng man, with his father, and they were 
the first pioneers of the county, built the first 
log cabin in that section of the county, and 
made the first clearing. Mr. Miller, our sub- 
ject, was reared in Mahoning county to the age 
of twenty-one years, attending school mean- 
while, and then he came to Cleveland and en- 
gaged in the dairy business. Afterward he 
moved, having married, to Olmsted and set- 
tled on the old farm, whereon he has erected a 
fine, large two-story dwelling, and also a large 
liarn, having a capacity of 100 tons of hay. A 
gas well on the place supplies all the material 
necessary both for heating and lighting, and 
also for the school house. The farm comprises 
eighty acres. Mr. Miller has seen many changes 
in the improvement of his neighborhood since 
his settlement there. He takes an active inter- 
est in the public welfare and in national poli- 
tics, as a Republican. He has been a member 
of the School lioard for sixteen years. 

He was married at the age of twenty-three 
years in Olmsted township, to Miss Catherine 
Onocker, a daughter of Eudolph and Mary 
(Oswalt) Onocker, who in an early day came to 
Cuyahoga county, locating south of Cleveland, 
and were burned out there, losing five children 
in the tire. Mr. Onocker died at the age of 
ninety-seven years, September 28, 1890; the 
widow still survives. Mi-, and Mrs. Miller have 
three children, — Mary E., Emma and Emmet. 
Mrs. Miller is a member of the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church at Olmsted Falls. 



ON. JOHN M. COOLEY 



gentle- 



man whose honorable and upright life 



y 

JJ *. and the prominent part he has taken in 
^ public affairs entitles him to biographical 

mention aiiiong the leading men of liis section 
of the country. 

Mr. Cooley's father, Deacon Asher Cooley, 
was one of the earliest pioneers of nortliern 
Ohio, he havino; come with his wife and five 



children to Dover township, Cuyahoga county, 
prior to the -■20s, and located at the place where 
the subject of this sketch now resides. Asher 
(.'ooley was born in Hawley, Massachusetts, 
January 9, 1787, and was married there, De- 
cember 1, 1808, to Lydia Smith, a native of 
("hatham, Connecticut, born October 4, 1789. 
They came to Ohio from Ashfield, Massaehu- 
setts, and upon their arrival here settled on a 
farm Just south of Dover, and on this farm 
they spent the rest of their lives and died, his 
death occurring June 2, 1853, and hers Marck 
30, 1866. Other children were born to them 
after they came to this frontier home, their 
family comprising ten, of whom John M. is the 
youngest. 

John M. Cooley was born in Dover township, 
Cuyahoga county, Ohio, November 20, 1830; 
was reared here, and has been a resident of this 
place all his life, farming being his occupation. 
He owns the old Cooley hoinestead, which com- 
prises over 100 acres of fine land, well im- 
proved with good buildings, etc. 

Mr. Cooley was married in Plyinunth, Ashta- 
bula county, Ohio. January 26, 1854, to Miss 
Lucy Seymour, daughter of Bennett Seymour, 
who removed from Connecticut to Ashtabula 
county at an early day. They had a family of 
three children who grew up to occupy honorable 
and useful positions in life: Arthur S., George 
L. and Lucy E. Lucy E. is now the wife of 
H. Z. Blenkhorn, of Cleveland, Ohio. Mrs. 
Cooley departed this life April 28, 1887. April 
6, 1893, Mr. Cooley suffered a stroke of par- 
alysis, in consequence of which he is now con- 
fined to his room, being unable to M-alk or 
converse. 

While farming has been his life occupation, 
Mr. Cooley has all along given considerable at- 
tention to public affairs. During the war he 
was a member of Company I, One Hundred and 
Fiftieth Ohio National Guards, and was in the 
100-day service, having enlisted in May, 1864. 
He has tilled various township oflices, was Post- 
master of Dover for a number of years, and 
served one term in the Ohio State Legislature, 



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having been elected to tlie last-named office in 
the fall of 1874, on the Republican ticket. He 
is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of 
Olmsted Post, No. 634, G. A. R. For many 
years he has been a member of the Congrega- 
tional Church; his wife was a devoted 
member of the Episcopal Church of Ashtabula. 



D^ R. A. S. COOLEY, the eldest son of 
I Hon. John M. Cooley, was born in Dover 
— - township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, June 
11, 1858. He remained upon the home farm 
until after his majority, farming summers and 
teaching school during the winter months. He 
then took a course in veterinary medicine, 
graduating from the Chicago College of Veteri- 
nary Surgery. He located in Cleveland, and 
began the practice of veterinary science, and 
although still a young man his celebrity as a 
veterinary practitioner is wide-spread and his 
record as a manipulator of the surgeon's knife 
and skill in the diagnosis and treatment ot 
diseases of domestic animals is unapproached. 
He has erected a perfectly equipped equine 
hospital, which is a model of its type. 

He was married May 10, 18U4, to Miss Flora 
A. Arnold, and resides at 1,224 Curtis avenue. 



/George L. cooley, son of the Hon. 
I ¥/ John M. Cooley, was born in Dover 
>>l township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, Jan- 

^ uary 14, 1861. He was reared and edu- 
cated here, and here he has resided all his life. 
Up to the time he reached his majority he re- 
mained on the farm with his father. Then he 
turned his attention to teaching school and to 
contracting and building, and for eight years he 
has taught Echool during the winter and worked 
at his trade through the summer. 

Mr. Cooley was married, December 28, 1887, 
to Miss Clara E. Hall, daughter of Reuben 
Hall, a prominent and highly respected citizen 



of Cuyahoga county. She was born in Dover 
township, this county, December 29, 1862. Mr. 
and Mrs. Cooley are the parents of three chil- 
dren: Paul X., Lucy M. and an infant. 

Like his father, Mr. Cooley affiliates with the 
Republican party, and takes an active interest in 
political affairs. He and his wife are members 
of the Congregational Church. 



LM. JOHNSON, M. D., has been en- 
li S*^o'^'^ i" '-li® practice of his profession at 
— ^ Bedford for thirty-live years. He was 
born in Jefferson county, Ohio, October 28, 
1832, a son of Thomas and Mary (Mullin) John- 
son, natives of Ireland. The paternal grand- 
parents lived and died on the "Emerald " Isle, 
both remarkable for their longevity, the grand- 
father attained the age of 102 years, and the 
grandmother 104 years. Thomas Johnson 
emigrated to the United States after his mar- 
riage, his first residence being in New York. 
Later he removed to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, 
and thence to Jefferson county. New York, 
where he and his wife passed the remainder of 
their lives; he died at the age of ninety years, 
and she was eighty- seven. Joe Johnston, the 
famous Reljel general, was a first cousin to 
Tliomas Johnson. 

Dr. tlohnson is one of a family of nine chil- 
dren, si.v sons and three daughters. He began 
the study of medicine under the instruction of 
Dr. Ramsay, of Jefferson, Ohio, and received 
his degree of if. D. in 1864. His first practice 
was at Bloomington, McLean county, Illinois, 
but at the end of two years he went to Fort 
Scott, Kansas; there he had a most successful 
career as a ])hysician and surgeon, and during 
the time was connected with the hospital at 
Kansas City, Missouri. Returning to Jefferson 
county, Ohio, he resumed professional work, 
and in 1892 came to Bedford, where his excel- 
lent reputation has followed him. He is fully 
abreast of the times in all discoveries pertain- 



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iiig to the science of medicine, and is regarded 
as one of the most skillful plijsicians in the 
county. 

The Doctor was united in marriage, at the age 
of twenty-two years, to Ann Boyd, at Coslioc- 
ton, Ohio. Mrs. Johnson is the daughter of 
John Boyd and is a native of the State of New 
York. Four children have been born of tliis 
union: James L., William B., John and David 
W. The mother died in 1871. Dr. Johnson 
was married a second time in 1884, to Eliza J. 
Porter, a daughter of Joseph Porter. The Doc- 
tor's sons are all residents sf Bourbon county, 
Kansas. 



5'i AMUEL M. HAMILL, son and name- 
^. sake of the late Rev. Samuel M. Ilamill, 
^^^ D. D., widely known as the principal of 
the famous Lawrenceville school, is the secretary 
and general manager of the Brush E^lectric 
Company. The name of Hamill has for many 
years been identified with our best educational 
interests, and for several generations it has been 
connected with the ministry of the church. 
Through the achievements of the subject of 
this sketch the name has become distinguished 
in the electrical world. 

Ilev. Samuel M. Hamill, D. D. was born at 
Morristown, Pennsylvania, in 1812. He married 
Matilda Green, born at Lawrenceville, New 
Jersey, 1812. Their marriage was consummated 
in 18.38. They had nine children, three of 
whom are living. The mother is yet living and 
resides in Trenton, New Jersey. The father 
died in 1889. For fifty years he sustained 
jjrominent relations as an educator, being con- 
nected with several famous institutions of 
learning. 

The subject of this sketch was prepared for 
college at his father's school, lie was gradu- 
ated at Princeton College — an institution 
founded by Jonathan Dickinson, its first presi- 
dent, Mr. Hamill's ancestor — with the degree of 
Bachelor of Arts, in the class of 1880. Since 



that time he has received the degree of Master 
of Arts from the same institution. For more 
than three years Mr. Hamill was a successful 
teacher in the Lawrenceville school, and during 
that period he first gave evidence of his admin- 
istrative capacity in the practical management 
of the affairs of that large institution, and in 
the discipline and control of its students. Sub- 
sequently he studied law with the expectation 
of becoming admitted to the bar in New Jersey, 
but an attractive future was at this time opened 
to him in railroad life, through the influence of 
a relative highly connected with the Chicago, 
Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, and 
to this field he turned. He entered actively 
upon the duties of this new position, and served 
that company in its freight department, its pay 
master's department and in the office of the 
first vice president of the road, at Chicago, and 
the year 1886 found him in charge of the large 
grain elevators owned by the Chicago, Burling- 
ton & Quincy Railroad Company in Peoria, 
Illinois. Mr. tiamill severed his connection 
with the railroad company to accept the position 
of assistant secretary of the Brush Electric 
Company of Cleveland, Ohio, where he now 
resides. Three years later he became secretary 
of that company with his office in New York 
city, where he took charge of its business af- 
fairs in the East. Later he became director of 
the company and its secretary and general man- 
ager, which position he now holds. He also 
fills a similar position for the Short Electric 
Railway Company. He is vice president of 
tire Swan Lamp Manufacturing Company, presi- 
dent of the Geneva Brush Electric Light & 
Power Company, of the Ellsworth Maine Illu- 
minating Company, of Geneva, of the Waterloo 
Street Railroad Company, and to the Trenton 
Electric Light Company of Ontario; he is 
also secretary of the Brush Electric Power 
Company, being a director in each of the above 
named concerns. 

Mr. Hamill is possessed of decided ability 
both theoratical and practical, and hence is well 
fitted for the various positions in the several 



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electrical, gas and other companies which he 
holds in the different parts of the United States. 
Mr. Haniill is a member of the Electric and 
Univeroity Clubs of New York, and of the 
Electric, Union and Country Clnbs of Cleve- 
land. While at Princeton he was one of the 
founders of the Ivy Club. 



APES BROTHEKS are among the 
well-known, honorable and respected 
ti familes of Orange, Cuyahoga county, 
Ohio. Their grandfather, John D. 
Mapes, was born in Seneca county, New York, 
December 20, 1807, a son of Seth and Julia 
(Smith) Mapes, natives also of that State. Two 
of their sons, William and Samuel, were soldiers 
in the war of 1812. John D. Mapes came to 
Ohio at the age of ten years, and seven years 
afterward located in Orange township, Cuya- 
hoga county. His death occurred on the farm 
on which lie had located in 1831, in October, 
1885, at the age of seventy-eight years. Mr. 
Mapes was married May 10, 1831, to Henrietta 
Patchen, a native of New York, and a daughter 
of Noah and Sarah (Jennej Patchen, who were 
born in Vermont, but their deaths occurred in 
Pennsylvania. They were the parents of nine 
children. Jolin D. Mapes and wife had eight 
children : Edwin, Alvin and Alameda, deceased ; 
Alpha, Perry,Ilial, Sarah, and Jenny. Six of the 
children were successful school teachers. Mrs. 
Mapes still resides on the old homestead in Or- 
ange township. '^ 

Edwin Mapes, father of our subjects, was born 
on the home farm, November 27, 1833, and re- 
ceived his education at Chagrin Falls. In 1858 
he went to Ogle county, Illinois, where he re- 
mained three years, and then relurned to tliis 
place. He was an active worker in the Repub- 
lican party, and for a number of years held the 
position of Justice of the Peace. Mr. Mapes 
was married September 17, 1856, to Mary 
Thorp, a native of Massachusetts, and a daughter 
of Ferris and Mary ,\nn (Bell) Thorp, the form- 



er born in Massachusetts, and the latter in Rus- 
sell, Geauga county, Ohio. They had si.x chil- 
dren: Perry E.; J. P.; Charles A.; Ilortense 
Strait, of Otsego, Michigan; Gertrude Jenks, a 
resident of Bainbridge, Ohio; and Fred E., at 
home. One child, Frank, died in infancy. Four 
of the children were school-teachers. Edwin 
Mapes died on the old homestead, September 
1, 1884. 

Perry E. Mapes, a son of the above and a 
member of the firm of Mapes Brothers, was 
born August 3, 1857. He received his educa- 
tion at this place and at Austintown, Ohio. 
He was united in marriage with Dolly Segebeer, 
a native of Cleveland, and they have two chil- 
dren, — Lucy May and Theodore Perry. 

John P., of the firm of Mapes Brothers, was 
born in Ogle county, Illinois, January 15, 1859. 
He received his education in the district sch-^ols 
of Austintown, and for the following nine years 
was a successful and popular teacher. He was 
married August 16, 1885, to Anna J., a daugh- 
ter of Robert McFarland, of Solon, Ohio. Mr. 
and Mrs. Mapes have one son, Edwin G. 

The Mapes farm is one of the most valuable 
places in Orange Township, contains fine springs 
of pure cold water, and many valuable improve- 
ments. In addition to general farming, the 
Mapes brothers have been extensively engaged 
in the dairy business for many years. They 
conduct a business amounting to $12,000 per 
annum, in milk, cream and maple syrup. Their 
beautiful residence was built in 1889, at a cost 
of $30,000, and contains all the modern im- 
provements. 



DYER W. NICHOLS, of Rockport, town- 
ship, is a son of Loren D. and Ma- 
— rilla J. (Hassett) Nichols, residents of 
Rockport Hamlet. The father was born in 
this township in 1832, the mother in North 
Adams, Massachusetts, in 1830. They had 
nine children, of whom our subject is the 
eldest. He was born in Rockpoi-t Hamlet, 



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Cuyahoga county, Ohio, October 18, 1856, 
where he was brought iip, receiving a com- 
raonschool education. At fifteen years of 
age he was employed by tlie Lake Shore Rail- 
road Company as brakeman, for four years. He 
then engaged in the milk business for five years, 
and since that time has followed the occupation 
of a carpenter. 

He was married in Cleveland, Ohio, Decem- 
ber 3, 1878, to Miss Minnie F. Schmidt, 
daughter of Jacob F. Schmidt, who died in 
Rockport Hamlet in January, 1891. Mrs. 
Minnie F. Nichols was born in Rockport Ham- 
let, November 22, 1859. Mr. and Mrs. Nichols 
have had three children: Fred, who died when 
live years of age; William J. and Hazel H. 

Mr. Nichols was elected Clerk of Rockport 
township in the spring of 1892 and Clerk of 
Rockport Hamlet in the spring of 1893. He 
has held the office of Township Assessor for 
some twelve years and is also Clerk of the School 
Board. He has taken quite an active part in 
local and political affairs. 



BENJAMIN F. RHINNEY, of Cleveland, 
1 a member of the Board of Equalization 
and Assignment, was born in Avon, 

Lorain county, Ohio, August 3, 1845. He is a 
son of Benjamin Phinney, who devoted his life 
to mercantile pursuits, beginning in Dover and 
concluding his career at Rockport in 1865. He 
was born in the old Bay State in 1805, and 
nine years later immigrated to this new west- 
ern country with his father, Sylvanus Phinney, 
and located in Dover. Sylvanus Phinney was 
a tanner and carried on that business thirty-nine 
years in Dover, dying there at seventy years of 
age. 

The Phinney family were among Massachu- 
setts' first settlers, and found their way to that 
new country from the British Isles. Their 
occupations have not been numerous, as is gen- 
erally the case where the family have a large 



connection, but they have confined themselves 
to merchandising and manufacturing in the 
main. Sylvanus was twice married, his first 
wife being the mother of his five children. 

Benjamin Phinney was a merchant from 
early manhood, and was a useful and esteemed 
citizen. In early times he was a member of a 
militia company, but was never called into 
active service. For his first wife he took in 
marriage Miss Thompson, one child re- 
sulting from the union, Elraira, now Mrs. D. L. 
Oviatt. For his second wife Mr. Phinney mar- 
ried Susan Perry, who bore him three children, 
as follows: Helen, who died young; Benjamin F. 
and Theodore, who died at two years. 

Our subject's youthful days were spent in 
about the usual way — attending the village 
school and in addition spending one year in 
Berea College. Possessing a rather restless, ad- 
venturous nature, the breaking out of the Civil 
war offered just such an opportunity as young 
Benjamin wanted — to break away for a time 
from the humdrum of school work and feast 
on new sights and experiences. Accordingly in 
August, 1861, when about seventeen, and with- 
out the consent of his father, he stole away at 
night, and, accompanied by a cousin of like 
age, proceeded to Ridgeville Center, Lorain 
county, where a company was being raised, en- 
listed and was sworn in before morning, thus 
precluding the parental interference. The com- 
pany was raised by Lieutenant (afterward Cap- 
tain) Benhara. Upon order it reported at Camp 
Chase, and was assigned to the Forty-second 
Ohio, in command of Colonel James A. Gar- 
field. 

While the company was being drilled and 
made ready for active service Mr. Phinney con- 
tracted the measles and only became convales- 
cent in time to accompany his regiment in De- 
cember on its first expedition. They were 
ordered to Big Sandy valley to drive Humphrey 
Marshall out of that region. Afterward the 
Forty-second was ordered to Louisville to join 
the Army of the Ohio for a movement against 
the Confederates in southern Kentucky, meet- 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



ing them at the historic Mill Springs, where 
General ZoUicoffer, of Confederate honors, was 
killed. 

Proceeding thence to Cumberland Cap, the 
regiment was engaged in fortifying the place 
during the greater part of 1862. In Septem- 
ber of that jear the array succeeded in getting 
in rear of the gap and cut off the garrison's 
supplies and it became necessary to abainlon 
the place. Tents were burned at night and the 
garrison proceeded to make its escape toward 
the Ohio .river. 

For fourteen days while crossing Kentucky 
not a ration was issued, the boys supplying 
themselves individually from the corn-fields and 
grating their corn into coarse meal and cooking 
it in their tin cups. Had this been their only 
hardship they would have fared fortunately, but 
they had no clothes and were ragged and had 
to walk, making progress necessarily slow. 
They reached the Union lines at Portsmouth and 
were warmly received by the populace for miles 
around bringing food and raiment. 

When again ready for duty the regiment was 
ordered up the Kanawha into West Virginia to 
Charlesto\vn and there received another order 
returning then to Cincinnati where they received 
six months' back pay. 

A new order placed the regiment in tlie 
Department of the Mississippi and they trans- 
ported it down the Mississippi river to Mem- 
phis, and up every night to avoid the possibility 
of a collision with the Confederates, who were al- 
ways in close proximity. General Sherman was 
at Memphis preparing to move onto Vicksburg. 
The Forty second Ohio was made a part of his 
army and the whole was landed at the mouth of 
the Yazoo river and immediately found an en- 
gagement on its hands. In tlie second day of 
the tiglit, Mr. Phinney was struck on the head 
witii a piece of a shell and was reported killed 
in battle, lie was placed in the hospital at 
Memphis and later transported to Henton Bar- 
racks, Missouri, being in both from January 
until April. Before he was pronounced conva- 
lescent he was given option of i-omaining in the 



hospital, taking a furlough or joining his regi 
ment. He chose the last and found his com- 
pany before Vicksburg at Milliken's Bend. 
Fj-om the day after his arrival to the surren- 
der of the city the Forty-second Regiment was 
under tire daily. 

On leaving Vicksburg, Mr. Phinney went to 
Jackson with his regiment, drove off the enemy 
and tore up the railroad. The regiment was 
in camp by orders for a number of weeks and 
while there Mr. Phinney was Deputy Provost 
Marshal under Marshal Benham. He was 
next ordered to report to General Lawler's 
headquarters in Morganza Bend, Louisiana, 
and was appointed the general's chief clerk. 
He performed his duties creditably and in 1864, 
not liking such inactivity, made application for 
his discharge, then three months over-due. He 
was ordered to Columbus Virginia of Chicago 
and mustered out and returned home the first 
time since the night of his sudden departure 
three years and three months before. On tak- 
ing up civil affairs again Mr. Phinney entered 
Berea College and prosecuted his duties two 
years. 

On the death of his father lie assumed his 
business and conducted it successfully eighteen 
1 years, then retiring. 

In a public capacity Mr. Phinney has done a 
fair share of service. In 1875 he was chosen 
Treasurer of Kockport township, serving six 
years. Centennial year he was appointed Post- 
master of Rockport and performed the duties 
of the oftice till 1887. In 1881 he was elected 
a Commissioner of Cuyahoga county and re- 
elected in 1884, serving as president of the 
board the last two years, his term expiring in 
1887, which year he removed his family to 
Cleveland. 

January 1, 1888, Mr. Phinney engaged in 
building iron bridges, his work extending 
through the States of Maryland, New York, 
Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. His appointment 
as a member of the Board of Equalization and 
Assignment in May, 18!t2, severed his connec- 
tion with the iiridgc industry and made him 



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once more a public official. He holds an inter- 
est in two corporate companies of Cleveland. 
He is a Royal Arch Mason, a member of the 
Army and Navy Post, G. A. R., and of the 
National Union. 

Mr. Piiinney tnai'ried, in Rockport, Ava A., 
daughter of John Barniim. Three children 
blessed the union: Arthur Barnum and Alice 
May, twins, eighteen years of age, and Belle 
June, eleven years of age. 



FREDR. BRIGGS, general passenger agent 
of the Cleveland, Canton & Southern Raii- 
-- road, is one of the younger railroad men 
who are coming rapidly to the front as the result 
of faithful and painstaking service, and a desire 
to render to his company the full measure of 
service which his exceptional ability makes pos- 
sible. 

He started out in lilV without extraordinary 
equipments, except his natural endowments of 
good sense and a grim determination to succeed. 
He left the public schools of this city at sixteen 
and for nearly two years was variously em- 
ployed; lastly and just before entering railroad 
work he became an employee of the Cleveland 
City Forge, rather in response to a desire of his 
mother that he should learn a trade, since her 
brothers were all iron men and prosperous. 

Five weeks sufficed to convince young Fred 
that handling iron bars was not his forte nor to 
his liking, and he decided to try railroading, 
going to the Valley Railroad as a brakeman. His 
service was so satisfactory that in two years the 
management placed him in charge of a passen- 
ger train, he being then only twenty years of 
age. 

In September, 1882, Mr. Briggs left the Val- 
ley road and accepted a similar position with 
the Connotton Valley Railroad, now the Cleve- 
land, Canton t'c Southern Railroad, duplicating 
his record with the Valley Railroad as an effi- 
cient servant. February 15, 18'J2, the manage- 



ment rewarded Mr. Briggs with the position of 
assistant general passenger agent, promoting 
him to his present office May 12, 1892. 

The passenger service of the Cleveland, Can- 
ton & Southern is in better condition than at 
any time during its history as a result of Mr. 
Briggs' thorough, judicious advertising. He 
is conversant with the needs of his road and 
meets them at every point. Having been in the 
ranks in the operating department of the road 
he sympathizes most heartily with those under 
him and is an exceedingly popular official. 




Mr. Briggs was born in Allegheny, Penn- 
sylvania, June 22, 1862. He is a son of R. D. 
Briggs, a native of Ohio, born in 1837. When 
a boy of five years he came to Cleveland with 
his father, Erastus Briggs, who was for many 
years proprietor of the Franklyn House on the 
West Side. He began railroading when a young 
man, for the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad, 
as a brakeman. He became later a passenger 
conductor on the Fort Wayne road, and in the 
spring of 1866 left off railroading entirely and 
engaged in the livery business in Cleveland. 
He prospered in this business and in 1873 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



erected a new barn to accommodate his growing 
trade. But at tliis juncture the panic came 
on and so did the epizootic, stagnating business 
and creating havoc among his stock. Being 
somewhat reduced by these reverses he retired 
from the business, about 1880, and again gave 
his attention to railroading. He ran a train 
for two years for the Valley and was then made 
train-master and served one year. He came 
to the Cleveland, Canton & Southern in 1883 
and served till 1886, retiring as master of trans- 
portation. He is now general agent of the 
Hartford Steam Boiler Insurance Company of 
Cleveland. 

Erastus Briggs was born in Massachusetts in 
1807, and came to Ohio in 1820, and followed 
occasional farming as well as hotel-keeping. 

He married Sallie Hunt, and they both died 
here, the former in 1884, the latter in 1883. 
Eight children were born to them, live of whom 
are living. The mother of Fred R. Briggs 
was Mary E. Kaighen, whose father, Will- 
iam J. Kaighen, came to America from the 
Isle of Man in 1821. He was a ship car- 
penter, and died in 1886, at the age of eighty- 
live years. R. D. Briggs' children are, — 
Fred R., Kittle F., Bessie C, and Ralpli 
E., Fred R. Briggs married, October 6, 
1886, in Cleveland, Carrie A., a daughter of 
John Lowrie, a West Side baker and a pioneer 
from England. To Mr. and Mrs. Briggs were 
born Ruth and Nadine. 

Mr. Briggs is a member of the General Pass- 
enger Agents' Association, but the press of bus- 
iness readers his time too limited to affiliate as 
yet. 



FRANCIS JOSEPH WING, attorney at 
law, was born at Bloomfield, Trumbull 
^ county, Ohio, September 14. 1850. 
Mr. Wing is a son of Joseph Knowles Wing, 
the youngest child of Bani and Lucy (Clary) 
Wing, who had nine children. Bani Wing was 
a son of John Wing, whose father was John 
AVing, a son of Ananias, tlie oldest son of John 



Wing, the second son of John Wing and his 
wife Deborah Batchelder, who with their four 
sons, John, David, Daniel, Stephen and Mat- 
thew arrived at Boston from England in the 
ship William Francis, on the 5th day of June, 
1632, and first settled in Saugus, New Lynn, 
Massachusetts, but later emigrated to the region 
known as the Peninsula of Cape Cod. 

Bani Wing, the grandfather of our subject, 
was pensioned as a Revolutionary soldier, and 
the pension was continued to his widow. 

The father of our subject was born at Wil- 
mington, Vermont, July 27, 1810. In the 
spring of 1831 he came to the Western Reserve 
of Ohio, and located at Bloomtield, where he 
now resides. In October, 1842, he married 
Mary, a daughter of Ephraim and Mary (Hunt- 
ington) Brown. 

At the outbreak of the Civil war President 
Lincoln appointed Mr. Wing as assistant quar- 
termaster, with the rank of Captain. Afterwards 
he was successively commissioned Major and 
Lieutenant-Colonel by brevet. 

His wife died at her home, December 15, 
1887. She was born at Westmoreland, New 
Hampshire, May 28, 1812, and at the time her 
parents removed to Bloomfield, Ohio, she was 
in her fourteenth year. There were born unto 
Joseph K. and Mary (Brown) Wing the fol- 
lowing children: Mary Huntington, Elizabeth 
Brown, Pancoast, George Clary, Francis Joseph, 
Julia King (deceased), and Annie Margaret. 

Francis J. Wing, the subject of this sketch, 
first attended the public schools at Bloomfield, 
and from a private tutor went to Phillips Acad- 
emy at Andover, Massachusetts, and then was 
under a private tutor at Cambridge, Massachu- 
setts; then entered Harvard College, which he 
left during his junior year. 

Next he studied law with Caleb Blodgett for 
one year at Boston, Massachusetts. Later he 
studied under Judge Buckingham, of Newark, 
Ohio, then under Edward O. Fitch, of Ashta- 
luila, Ohio. 

Mr. Wing was admitted to the bar in Janu- 
ary, 1874, and then came to Cleveland, and for 



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the lirst two years practiced alone. He then 
became a member of the law firm of Coon & 



Wi 



ng> 



hich continued till 1880. He then 



served for one year as assistant United States 
Attorney. Thereafter his brother, George C. 
Wing and he practiced law together till 1892, 
when Edwin L. Thurston, his present partner, 
became his professional associate. 

September 25, 1878, Mr. Wing married Miss 
Mary Brackett Remington, a daughter of Ste- 
phen G. Remington, Assistant Auditor of the 
Lake Sliore Railroad. Mr. and Mrs. Wing have 
three children, namely: Virginia, Maurice and 
Stephanie. 

Mr. Wing has been very successful in the 
practice of law and has been retained in many 
important cases of litigation. He has always 
been prominent as a Republican in politics, and 
shares the esteem and confidence of the bar and 
the public. 



fl( SA DUNHAM, retired farmer of Bed- 
LJ^ ford, Ohio, is one of the best known citi- 
jj ^ zens in that locality, and is a representa- 
' five of one of the prominent pioneer fami- 

lies of Cuyahoga county. He was born at 
Independence, near Bedford, Ohio, on July 14, 
1819, and was the fifth son and sixth of ten 
children Vjorn to John and Elizabeth (Hunger- 
ford) Dunham, both of whom were natives of 
Herkimer county. New York. John Dunham 
was the son of an early settler of New York. 
He was reared on the farm, and after his mar- 
riage removed to Ohio in 1817, and settled in 
Independence township, Cuyahoga county. Lo- 
cating upon an unimproved tract of land near 
where a brother-in-law named King had previ- 
ously settled, he cleared up eighty acres north- 
west from Bedford, and moved his family upon 
the same, arid this farm is now owned by our 
subject. Dunham street, on which this land is 
situated, was so named in honor of the old gen- 
tleman. He assisted to organize Bedford town- 
ship, and held various public positions of trust 



and responsibility. His death occurred in 1847, 
at the age of sixty-three years. His widow sur- 
vived him and died in the eighty-third year of 
her age. She was in early life a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, but later was a 
Disciple. The children of John Dunham wei-e 
as follows: Ambrose, who died at the age of 
seventy -three years; Chester, of Steuben county, 
Indiana, died at the age of eighty years; Alonzo, 
of Steuben county, Indiana, now in his eightieth 
year; Laura, the widow of Turner Hubbell, of 
Bedford, now in her seventy-eighth year; John, 
of Bedford, now in his seventy-seventh year; 
Asa, onr subject; Phebe, the widow of Mr. 
Thompson, now in her seventy-second year; 
Jehiel, of Strongsville, now in his sixty-seventh 
year; Lorenzo, of Steuben county, Indiana, now 
in his sixty-fourth year, and Eliza, wife of 
William Wheeler, now in her sixty-second year. 

Asa Dunham was reared on the farm, and 
his education was obtained at a subscription 
school held in the primitive log schoolhouse of 
the early days, working on the farm during the 
summer and attending school during the winter 
months. He resided with his parents until he 
reached his majority, and then started out in 
life without means, but blessed with good 
health, energy and determination to make his 
own way through life without calling upon his 
parents for assistance. When he left home he 
had but few clothes and his wardrobe did not 
include necessary covering his feet. Mr. Dun- 
ham 'was married, in 1850, to Miss Lucinda 
Ransom, who was a native of Warrensville, 
Ohio, and the daughter of Oliver and Rachel 
(HoUister) Ransom, both of whom came to (Miio 
from Connecticut, and were pioneers of Warrens- 
ville. Two children were born to Mr. Dunham 
and his wife: Lud and Lloyd, both of whom 
are prominent farmers on Dunham street. Mrs. 
Dunham died June, 1887, at the age of sixty- 
seven years. 

Mr. Dunham served for twenty years as 
trustee of the township, and has held various 
local offices of trust. He is a member of Bed- 
ford Lodge, No. 375, A. F. and A. M. Politic- 



CVYAJIOGA COUNTY. 



ally he is a Kepublican, but was originally an 
old line Whig. Mr. Dunham is one of the 
most prominent farmers and citizens of his 
township. His life has been an active and busy 
one, during whicli he has accumulated large 
property. Bnt, best of all, he has built up a 
reputation for honesty and fair dealing which 
will outlive money or property, and has so 
lived that he has always commanded the respect 
and esteem of liis neighbors and all of know 
him. He is a self-made man in all that term 
implies. Beginning life with only a limited 
education and with no means at all, he has suc- 
ceeded in climbing the ladder rung by rung un- 
til now, in his declining days, he is surrounded 
by friends and relatives, and enjoys the well 
fruits of a long and honorable life. 



f[ E. PENDER, was born in Cleveland, De- 
>J cember 27, 1847. His Father, M. Pender, 
^^ was a mason by trade and become a resi- 
dent of Cleveland in 1845. He was direct from 
Ireland, where he was born in 1827. He was a 
member of the Hibernian Guards of this city, 
an organization of a semi-military character. 
]Iis wife was Mary Stines, whom he married in 
Ireland, and to them were born four children: 
M., yardmaster for the stock yards at Chicago, 
Illinois, Jacob E.; William, yard-conductor on 
the Cleveland <k, Pittsburg Road; and Elizabeth, 
wife of George Measer, of Cleveland. J. E. 
Pender received liberal training from the Broth- 
ers' school of this ('ity, cutting short his career as 
pupil to begin his railroad career. He was given 
the place of brakeman by the Cleveland & Pitts- 
burg Railroad Company, and was the youngest 
employee on the road in that capacity. In less 
than four years he was made a yard-conductor 
and in six years more earned and secured the 
position of yardmaster, having been in the posi- 
tion now just twenty years. During this whole 
period he has never met with an accident result- i 
ing in the loss of a joint. Mr. Pender married, j 
in Cleveland, Kate K. Clark, a daughter of 1 



Barney Clark, of Irish birth. They are the 
parents of three childern: Mary, wife of James 
McCarty; J. E. Jr.; and Viola, who died Sep- 
tember 25, 1890, at the age of seventeen. Mrs. 
Pender died August 26, 1893, at forty-eight 
years of age. 

Mr. Pender is a member of the < )nler of 
Railroad Conductors, Cleveland & Pittsburo- 
Company's Relief, and is I. D. S. of the Order 
of Kailroad Conductors. He is a consistent 
member of the late Father Sidley's congrega- 
tion. 



JAMES KIRKLAMD, deceased, was born 
in Scotland, August 22, 1847, a son of 
Alexander and Margaret (Laughlands) 
Kirkland. In 1854 James sailed with his fajuily, 
the father having previously crossed the ocean 
on the City of Glasgow to New York, but im- 
mediately resumed the journey to Ohio, where 
he was reared a farmer boy in Royalton town- 
ship, Cuyahoga county. Being a very energetic 
and hard-working young man, he began to ac- 
cumulate property early in life, and at his mar- 
riage, in May, 1884, had a comfortable home 
provided. His wife was Emma Naaf, born in 
Brooklyn Village, Cuyahoga county, April 18, 
1855, a daughter of John W. and Barbara (Bitt- 
ner) Naaf. 

After marriage, Mr. Kirkland resided on the 
old homestead in Royalton township until 
moving to the farm where he met his tragic 
death. He had bought an excellent place in the 
northern part of Royalton township, erected a 
beautiful residence, tine barns, and moved to 
that farm in December, 1892. An old brick 
house which had formerly stood near the new 
residence had been partially torn away, and, to 
add to the appearance of his beautiful home, 
Mr. Kirkland concluded to complete the task of 
removing the old structure. While thus engaged, 
July 3, 1893, the shaky old walls fell, he being 
caught in the crash, and death resulted almost 
instantly. His only child, Margaret B., who 
was born October 21, 1880, stood within a few 



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feet of wliere her father met his death. Mr. 
Kirkland was buried in the Royalton Ceme- 
tery. He was a liard-working, industrious 
farmer, and was a self-made man in every 
particular. His untimely death cast a gloom 
over the entire coniniunity, and was an abrupt 
ending of what would have been a successful 
career. Since his death, his wife lias managed 
the farm in a manner suggestive of much busi- 
ness sagacity. Mr. Kirkland was a Republican 
in his political views, although not a politician, 
and was an attendant at the Methodist Church. 



GALVm MANNING, one of the highly 
respected farmers of Royalton township, 
Cuyahoga county, was born near Portage, 
Summit county, Ohio, May 14, 1829, a son of 
John Manning, who was born and reared in 
Pennsylvania. When a young man he was 
united in marriage with Sophia Coggswell. In 
1809 this young couple crossed the Alleghany 
mountains for the tlien far-distant west and 
after a long and tedious journey in a wagon lo- 
cated in an almost unbroken forest in Summit 
county, Ohio. Their family then consisted of 
the following children: Joel, John, William, 
Gerard, Alfred, Calvin, Erastus, Sally, Lucinda, 
Lorena and Matilda. Only four of the children 
are still living: Matilda, Erastus, Calvin and 
William. Mr. and Mrs. Manning died in Sum- 
mit county, after sharing the innumerable hard- 
ships necessary to pioneer life. 

Calvin Manning, the subject of this sketch, 
attended school during only a few montiis in 
the winter seasons. When a young man he 
went to Akron, Ohio, to learn the trade of 
moulder in one of the old shops of that city. 
He began business for himself at Wadswortli, 
this State, but soon afterward sickness in the 
family obliged him to abandon all ideas of 
working on his own account, and he returned to 
the employ of others. Mr. Manning then fob \ 
lowed his trade in Cleveland for a number of '■ 



years. In 1881 lie came to Royalton township, 
Cuyahoga county, and purchased a farm near 
Bennett's Corners. 

In Summit county, Ohio, when a young man, 
our subject was united in marriage with Nancy 
A. DeLong, a native of Copley, that county, 
and a daughter of P. L. DeLong. To this 
union has been born one child, Jennie, who is 
still at home. They have also reared an adopted 
child. Fred Parker. For many years Mrs. 
Manning had been a great sufferer, and had 
been pronounced incurable by prominent medi- 
cal men. By the influences of a faith cure or 
Spiritualistic she has entirely recovered, and is 
now a comparatively robust lady. In political 
matters, Mr. Manning cast his first presidential 
vote for a Democratic candidate, but has since 
joined the Republican ranks, of which he is now 
a staunch supporter. He has amassed a com- 
fortable competence, and has succeeded in re- 
taining the respect and esteem of the entire 
neighborhood. 



W) S. JAMES, M. D., h 
1519^ Lorain street, 
Side). He is one of 



lias an office at No. 
Cleveland (West 
Side). He is one of the young prac- 
titioners of the city, being born October 16, 
1858, at Warren, Ohio. His parents, Seely and 
Catharine James, were long time residents of 
Warren, and the father, who is of Welsh de- 
scent, resides there at present; and the mother, 
who is of German lineage, died in 1885. 

At Nelson Academy Dr. James acquired a 
pi-eliminary education, which was supplemented 
by a course at the AVestern Reserve Seminary, 
and he also took a course at Oberlin College; 
meanwhile he was also engaged in teaching 
school. He attended the Wooster Medical Col- 
lege, graduated at the Columbus Medical Col- 
lege, and is also an alumnus of the Starling 
Medical College. He has had considerable 
hospital practice, and when he entered upon the 
practice of his profession in this city he was 
equipped for his work. He is a member of the 



CUTAHOOA COUNTY. 



Cuyahoga County, Cleveland and Ohio Medical 
Societies, and fraternally is a member of the I. 
O. F., and of otlier fraternal and beneficiary 
associations. 

Dr. James is a Republican in politics, and he 
is a religions man, being a member of the 
Gorgon Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church. 
December 16, 1882, he wedded Miss Sarah 
Thomson, of Middlefield, Geauga county, Ohio. 



[[ J lEAM BRADLEY, of Middleburg town- 
|r^ ship, was born January 11, 1821, in 
II *1 Perry, Lake county, Ohio, where he 
^ passed the days of his boyhood until 

eleven years of age, when his father, Thomas 
Bradley, removed to Cuyahoga county, settling 
in Middleburg township; he died in Lenawee 
county, Michigan. 

Mr. Hiram Bradley has continued to reside 
in Middleburg township to the present time. 
He was married in Olmsted township, this 
county, December 14, 1842, to Miss Abigail 
Giige, who was ])orn in Vermont, March 28, 
1825, a daughter of George Gage, who was an 
old settler of that township, and died in 1867. 
After his marriage Mr. Bradley settled in Olm- 
sted, where he lived a short time, and then 
located in Middleburg township. He has had 
seven children, as follows: Henry G., Wilbur, 
Alice, Joel (deceased), Amy A., Arthur (de- 
ceased) and Hiram B. 



llOHN GRAY, of Middleburg township, 
J^ || was burn in Euclid, Cuyahoga county, 
^ Ohio, April 21, 1822. His father, AYill- 
iam Gray, came to this county from Virginia 
when a young man. He was married in Euclid, 
to Miss Clarissa Porter, who was born in New 
Hampshire, and was a young girl when she 
came with her parents to this locality. Mr. 
Gray's parents, after their marriage, settled in 
Euclid and lived there until about 1831, when 



they removed to Rockport township and resided 
there several years, and then located in Middle- 
burg township, where Mr. Gray operated a saw- 
mill till the most valuable timber was nearly 
exhausted. Selling out, he moved to Berea, 
where he passed the remainder of his days. 
His wife had died in Rockport township. They 
had nine children who grew up to years of ma- 
turity: two died when young. 

Mr. John Gray was nine years old when he 
came with his father and family to Rockport 
township, and when thirteen years of age he 
began work on the Ohio canal, where he con- 
tinued ten years. He was married in Middle- 
burg township, April 4, 1847, to Sophronia 
Greenongh, who was born in Vermont, Novem- 
ber 13, 1827. Her father, Daniel Greenongh, 
was also a native of that State, and her mother, 
whose name before marriage was Wealthy Kell- 
ogg, was born in Vermont, and the parents 
come to Cleveland in 1831, and lived there two 
years. Mr. Greenough was a painter by trade, 
residing at different places, and died in Elyria, 
Ohio. His wife died in Huntington, this State. 
Of a familj' of three children Mrs. Gray was 
the eldest. 

After his marriage Mr. Gray settled in Mid- 
dleburg township, on the farm where he still 
continues to reside. Of his thirteen children 
eight grew up, namely: Albert, Helen, Lovina, 
Mabel, John M., Emma, Merritt and Arthur. 



f^jEV. HIRAM COLLINS HAYDN, D. 
r^ D., LL. D., pastor of the First Presby- 
II ^ terian Church, of Cleveland, Ohio, is 
^' one of the oldest, if not the oldest, resi- 

dent minister now filling a pulpit in this city, 
though but a little past sixty years of age. 

The first representative of the Haydn family 
in America was a resident of Windsor, Con- 
necticut. The Doctor's parents, David Ells- 
worth and Lucinda (Cooley) Haydn, were 
natives of New York, the father being a farmer 
and a natural mechanic. He died at the age of 



CUTAHOOA COUNTY. 



seventy-five, and his wife some years later, at 
about the same age. Both were Christian 
people and by their many sterling qualities 
endeared themselves to all who knew them. 
They had six children, two of whom died in 
early life. Those living are: Caroline, wife of 
George W. Haskell, Washington city; Hector 
C, resident of Connecticut; Lucy H., wife of 
Richard Bishop, of Leslie, Michigan; and the 
subject of this sketch. The family name was 
originally spelled Hayden,but for special reasons 
the " e " was dropped when Hiram C. was a 
boy. 

Hiram C. Haydn was educated at Pompey 
Academy, and at Atnherst College, where he 
graduated in 1856; and also at Union Semi- 
nary, New York, where he graduated with the 
class of 1859. His ministerial work has been 
at the following places: Montville, Connecticut; 
Meriden, Connecticut, where he served in the 
First Congregational Church; Fainesville, Ohio, 
in the Congregational Church; and Cleveland, 
from 1872 until 1880. In 1880 he was 
appointed Secretary of tne American Board of 
Foreign Missions at New York city, and served 
in that capacity until 1884, when he was recalled 
to the pulpit he had formerly occupied in Cleve- 
land and which he has since tilled most accept- 
ably. During this time he was President of 
the Western Reserve University three years, 
and while serving in that capacity he founded 
the College for Women, which has proved emin- 
ently successful. He is still Vice President of 
the University and a Professor in the College 
for Women. 

Dr. Haydn has all his life taken an especial 
interest in the young people of the Church. In 
1893 he published a book entitled " Brighten- 
ing the World." This volume is dedicated to 
the Christian Endeavor societies, the Epworth 
and Westminster Leagues, Student Volunteers, 
and similar organizations of young people. In 
the seventies he published " Lay Effort," 
especially addressed to the young men of the 
Christian Associations. In 1879 the Fletcher 
prize essay on Amusements was written and 



published; later, a booklet — The Blessed Man. 
He received the title of D. D. from Wooster 
University; of LL. D. from both Amherst and 
Marietta Colleges. 

In May, 1861, Dr. Ilaydn was married 
to Miss Elizabeth B. Coit, of Norwich, 
Connecticut, and a daughter of Daniel and 
Harriett Coit. She died leaving an only child, 
Elizabeth, now the wife of E. W. Haines, of 
Cleveland. His second marriage was to Sarah 
J. Merriman, of Meriden, Connecticut, a daugh- 
ter of Howell Merriman, the date of their 
marriage being January, 1864. They have 
three children: Charles R., Howell M. and 
Ruth E. 



F. 



RED SAAL, County Recorder for Cuya- 
II hoga county, was elected to that office as 
^ a Republican candidate, in November, 
1891, and January 1, 1892, took charge of the 
office for a term of three years. Mr. Saal is 
rather a young man, but is, nevertheless, pos- 
sessed of good business qualities and is well 
fitted for the public trust he holds. In 1890 he 
was appointed on the Board of Equalization, 
and was serving on that board when he was 
elected County Recorder. 

Mr. Saal was born in Cleveland, September 
10, 1859, son of George and Barbara (Orth) 
Saal. His parents were born in Langfield, Ger- 
many. They were married in Cleveland, he 
having come to the United States and to Cleve- 
land in 1852, and she in ] 853. The father died 
in 1884, aged fifty-one years. He was one of 
the first police commissioners elected in Cleve- 
land, and served as such for six years. 

He was a stanch Republican in politics, and 
a well-known and respected man. For many 
years he merchandised in Cleveland, being first 
a grocer and confectioner, then a hardware dealer. 
His son, whose name forms the caption of this 
article, was given a common-school education 
and was brought up in the store of his father, 
thus gaining early in life a business experience. 
He was associated with his father in the grocery 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



and confectionery business up to the year 1875, 
when they sold their business interest and re- 
moved on to a farm on the West Side of Cleve- 
land. Subsequently they again embarked in 
mercantile pursuits, opening a hardware store at 
313 to 317 Detroit street, under the firm name 
of George Saal & Son. Upon the death of the 
senior Saal in 1884, the son succeeded to the 
business and continued the same till elected 
County Recorder in November, 1891, when he 
sold the business he had so successfully con- 
ducted. 

In December, 1881, Mr. Saal was married to 
Florence Jackson, of Cleveland. A son and 
daughter are the happy issue of the marriage. 

Mr. Saal is a Knight-Templar Mason, and is 
one of the most popular joiuig men of the city 
and county. 



II. SIIUNK, SuperiMtcndent of the 
Cleveland Protestant Orplian Asylum, 
of Cleveland, was l)orn in Fredericktown, 
Kno.x county, Ohio, October 24, 1834, a 
son of John Shunk. The latter was born in 
Maryland in 1797, came to Ohio in 1833, and 
his death occurred at Cardington, this state, in 
in 1862. He married Rebecca Wolf, a native 
of Union Bridge, Maryland, and they had the 
following children: f]dwin, a retired farmer of 
Delaware county, Ohio; Aborilla, widow of 
Henry l>ailey, and a rcsidcTit of Marysville, 
Ohio; Mary E., widow of Mr. Eadger, resides 
in this city; Susan E., widow of Mr. Nicholas; 
Thomas E., served as First Lieutenant of the 
Ninety-si.xth Ohio Vcdtinteer Infantry, and died 
in Louisiana, during General Banks' Red river 
campaign; Anna M., of Marysville, Ohio, is 
widow of Dr. Mills; James G., deceased at Nor- 
walk, this State, in 1892; and A. H., our subject. 
The Shunk family are of German origin. Three 
brothers of that name emigrated to America, 
locating in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Canada, 
and one of the brothers was the grandfather of 
our subject. 



A. H. Shunk was taken by his parents to 
Cardington, Ohio, in his youth, where he 
obtained the foundation for a liberal English 
education. When the Cleveland & Columbus 
Railroad was built to this city, his father received 
the position of station agent, and when the 
latter was elected auditor of the county, our 
subject was appointed to succeed him as agent. 
He performed the duties of that office until 
1870. Mr. Shunk then started on a western 
trip, for the benefit of lung trouble, and having 
friends in Kansas, went to that State. He \vent 
from Ottawa, then the terminus of the old L., 
L. & G. Railroad, to lola by stage, a distance of 
fifty miles, and found his friend at a rude western 
village called Geneva. After visiting there a 
few days, Mr. Shunk crossed the prairie on 
horseback to visit another old Ohio neighbor, 
expecting to return to Ottawa in a few days and 
continue his journey westward to California. 
While on his way to his friend he chanced to 
pass a strikingly beautiful grove of young 
walnut timber on a small creek. On the 
following day his friend suggested they look at 
a claim in the neighborhood, which happened to 
be the same walnut-grove farm. Mr. Shunk 
was asked to make a bid on the place, which he 
did reluctantly, not caring to own real estate 
there, offering about one-half of the owner's 
price. The next morning the pioneer settler 
notified Mr. Shunk that he had bought a farm. 
He then decided U> locate there, returned to 
Geneva for a yoke of oxen, two pigs and house- 
i)old goods, and on the return trip he was obliged 
to camp out during the night. He remained in 
Kansas about three years, and during that time 
grew decidedly better of his lung ti-ouble. He 
then returned to Cleveland, (Jhio, for medical 
treatment, and soon afterward received the 
appointment of superintendent of the Cleveland 
Protestant Orphan Asylum. 

In this institution Mr. Shunk met a lady who 
had given three years of her life to the care of 
the motherless and friendless children. She 
was a daughter of Judge Warren, of Warrens- 
ville. In April, 1873, they were married, and 



CUYAHOdA VOUNTT. 



tlieir liistory since that time has been identical 
with that of the grand institution over which 
they preside. In her address accepting tlie new 
bnikling, the venerable president of the board 
of managers, Mrs. B. Rouse, said: "It is but 
justice to our valued superintendent and matron 
to make mention here of their marked ability 
and faithfulness. Their love to the children is 
as near parental as possible. They give them 
the most tender care, especially in sickness, and 
as a board we tender them most cheerfully our 
confidence, regard and sympathy in all their 
varied and responsible duties. 



D,E.. F. H. BARR, physician and surgeon, 
corner of Wood avenue and Wilson street, 
— - Cleveland, Ohio, has been identified with 
the medical profession of this city for a quarter 
of a century. As one of Cleveland's eminent 
physicians, a sketch of his life will be of inter- 
est to many, and is herewith presented: 

Dr. F. H. Barr was born in Tomkins county. 
New York, January 11, 1849, son of Dr. D. T. 
and Harriet (Blake) Barr, both natives of the 
Empire State. For nearly fifty years his father 
has conducted a successful practice throughout 
central New York, from Auburn to Ithaca, and 
is well known and highly respected. Now in 
his eighty-second year, he is still quite vigorous 
and is frequently called in consultation. For a 
number of years he has made his home with his 
son, Dr. AV. H. Barr, who is following in the 
footsteps of his honored father and who has al- 
ready gained an enviable reputation throughout 
his native State, where he has traveled, making 
surgery a specialty. The mother of our subject 
died in 1872, aged fifty-two years. She was a 
woman of many estimable qualities, and the 
sweetest of Christian graces were hers. Like 
her husband, she was a devoted member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. He was leader 
of the choir for half a century, and, indeed, he 
and his wife have been leaders in all that is 
good and noble. Their family is composed of 



four sons and one daughter, the subject of our 
sketch being the second son. David, tlie oldest, 
has been in the hardware business the past thirty 
years, having had as a partner for the last fifteen 
years his youngest brother, Fred, their business 
being conducted under the firm name of The 
Barr Bros., Ithaca, New York. Dr. William H. 
Barr, who has already been alluded to, the own- 
er of Ladoga Park, New York, is in partner- 
ship with his father, and has a most extensive 
practice in his profession. Myra W., the only 
daughter in this family, is married, and her 
husband has been connected with the United 
States Express Company in an othcial way for 
more than thirty years. 

Dr. F. H. Barr received his education in the 
the Ithaca Academy, State University of Mich- 
igan (medical department) and the Cleveland 
Medical College, being a graduate at the latter 
with the class of 1871. Heat first read medicine 
under his father's instructions, und afterward in 
the office of Drs. Bec-kwith & Brown, of Cleve- 
land. As above stated, he has been engaged in 
the practice of his profession here for twenty- 
five years, and his career has been one of emi- 
nent success. He is a frequent contributor to 
various medical journals; was leuturei- on Hy- 
giene and Sanitary Science in the (Meveland 
Medical College for some time, and is still con- 
nected with that institution. He is also phy- 
sician for the Protestant Orphan Asylum of 
Cleveland. 

Politically, the Doctor is a Republican. Four 
terms he served as a member of the City Coun- 
cil, from the Fourteenth ward, and was a mem- 
ber of the Republican Central Committee for 
three years. He belonged to the " Centennial 
City Council," which was composed of thirty- 
six members, there being eighteen wards in the 
city at that time. This council agreed to keep 
up a yearly meeting until the last member 
should come alone, and those meetings have 
been held annually ever since 1876. At this 
writing about half of their number have been 
called to the Council on the other shore. The 
late Judge Sherwood was the youngest of the 



CUYMKXIA COUNTY. 



thirty-six, and the subject of our sketch comes 
next. Fi-aternally, the Doctor is identified with 
the I. O. O. F. Both he and his wife are mem- 
bers of the Presbyterian Church. 

Dr. Barr was married in 1872 to Miss Fran- 
ces Wooldridge, daughter of Richard Wool- 
(J ridge, of Cleveland. They have three sons and 
one daughter, — Frank, Harry, David W. and 
Marguerite. 



]l\ I' S. AMSTUTZ.— There is probably no field 
I Vl of human achievement in which more 
I li rapid and brilliant progress has been 
V made within the past two decades than 

in the line of art and mechanical depicture. 
From the crude and ineffective drawings that 
formerly were utilized in the illustrating of the 
leading periodicals of the day has sprung forth 
an art wdiich causes its prototype to pale into 
almost ludicrous insignificance. The illustra- 
tions appearing in our periodicals at the present 
time are marvels of beauty and perfect fidelity, 
while from one or two primitive processes have 
been evolved a full score of methods, each of 
which may justly claim precedence in certain 
lines. OF course this improvement has had an 
equally marked influence outside of the one 
province to which reference has here been made. 

The subject of this sketch, who is widely 
recognized as an artist draftsman of unmistak- 
able talent, is now a resident of Cleveland, the 
scene of his nativity having been a farmstead in 
Wayne county, Ohio, where his father, John 
Ainstutz, was a prominent and highly esteemed 
citizen. The maiden name of our subject's 
mother was Fannie Steiner. Mr. and Mrs. John 
Amstutz were the parents of seven children, of 
whom four are now living. 

N. 8. Amstutz received a fair common-school 
education and early in life became a mechanical 
draftsman, which occupation he followed 
successfully for five years. He then gave his 
attention to the profession of a patent solicitor, 
and while thus engaged his interest in electrical 



work was enlisted. He also gave special atten- 
tion in an incidental way to telegraphic and 
telephonic work as well as scientific photography, 
He made quite a number of experiments in the 
reproduction of photographs, and the results at- 
tained were very gratifying. His method of 
reproduction was by the use of gelatine, and in 
this line he discovered an improved process of 
transmitting a photograph. To make a practi- 
cal application of the results of his experiment- 
ation he gradually became interested in the 
engraving business, and by his productions in 
this line he has gained considerable distinction. 

Mr. Amstntz's residence in Cleveland dates 
back from the year 1883, and among the artist 
draftsmen of the city there are none more thor- 
oughly qualified for the execution of work in 
the line of the profession than is he. It is gen- 
erally conceded that the gentleman well merits 
the distinguished success that has attended his 
efforts, for the former is the diametrical result 
of the latter as applied with careful study and 
perfect familiarity with all the details of the 
work. As a draftsman he stands pre-eminent, 
and as an artist in his particular line he is un- 
excelled. He was for some time the special 
artist of that excellent publication, the New York 
Daily Graphic, whose only fault, resulting in 
the failure of the venture, was that it was ahead 
of the times in its methods and aims. Mr. Am- 
stutz's work in the connection elicited much 
attention and met with the highest endorsement. 
Maintaining an office at 506 Cuyahoga Build- 
ing, he makes a specialty of Patent Office draw- 
ing for photo and wood engraving, bird's-eye 
views, mechanical depictures and scenery. His 
drawings of complicated machinery and his fa- 
cility of execution in other exacting lines allied 
to this are so widely recognized that his services 
are in ready demand, — the most perfect evidence 
of appreciation. 

In closing it will be apropos to call attention 
to certain points by which our subject has gained 
particular distinction in the several lines of work 
to which he has devoted himself. In the line 
of electrical appliances he has brought out an 



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original Idea In regard to the practical lighting 
of Isolated buildings by the use of individual 
dynamos; In prosecuting his experiments in 
photograpliic reproduction he discovered the 
method of substituting wax In the place of tin- 
foil; he lias made a number of successful and 
valuable experiments in composite photography 
and in gelatine relief printing from photograpliic 
plates. Mr. Amstntz is young, ambitious and 
persevering, taking a keen interest in his work 
and ever aiming to improve upon results al- 
ready attained. Thus fortitied, his success Is 
but the legitimate outcome of his labors. 



[fJl ON. EDWIN TIMOTHY HAMILTON, 
Ipl' Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, 
11 41 was born in Newburg (now a part of the 
■^ city of Cleveland), Ohio, July 13, 1830. 

His father, Justus Hamilton, was born in Mas- 
sachusetts, March 17, 1792, and died in New- 
burg township, Cuyahoga county, April 6, 1864. 
He was a son of Samuel Hamilton, one of the 
very first settlers of Cuyahoga county, migrat- 
ing from Massachusetts, his native State, in 
1801, settling at Newburg. He was descended 
from an old New England family which traced 
its lineage to a sturdy race from northern Ire- 
land. When his parents came to Ohio, Justus 
Hamilton was a youth of nine years. Grow- 
ing to manhood, lie married and settled down 
in life on a farm in Newburg township, where 
he lived for many years. He was a farmer by 
occupation, and as such he was very successful. 
He held several positions of honor and trust, 
serving for many years as magistrate in New- 
burg. He was esteemed for his strict character 
tor probity, and bestowed great care upon the 
training of his family, inculcating their minds 
with loftiest and strictest ideas of honor and in- 
tegrity. He had a wife worthy of his good 
name and character. She was by maiden name 
Salinda B.-ainard, whom he married January 29, 
1826. She was born in Connecticut, March 16, 
1793, and died at Newburg, Ohio, September 



8, 1859. She was a daughter of Amos and 
Rachel Brainard, and the}^ were pioneer settlers 
of Cuyahoga county and were among that sturdy 
class of settlers who came from New England. 
The Brainard family is descended from Daniel 
Brainard, who, when eight years of age, was 
brought to this country from England, and who 
became, in 1662, the largest landholder inHad- 
dam, Connecticut. 

Unto Justus and Salinda Hamilton there were 
born three sons and one daughter; and of one 
of these sons, Edwin Timothy Hamilton, this 
personal mention is made. 

He was brought up on a farm, receiving his 
early scholastic training in the public schools 
of Newburg, and was then sent to Allegheny 
College at Meadville, Pennsylvania. Leaving 
college in 1851, he took up the study of law 
under the guidance of Kelly, Bolton & Gris- 
woid, then a very strong law firm of Cleveland. 
In the year 1854 he was admitted to the bar 
and in the same year went West, being admitted 
to practice in the Supreme Court of Iowa. Lo- 
cating at Ottumwa, Iowa, he there took up the 
prctice of his profession. Six months later, on 
account of failing health, he returned to Cleve- 
land, and regaining good health he then resumed 
the practice and won an enviable reputation in 
a profession peculiarly suited to his tastes and 
character of mind. 

In 1862, Mr. Hamilton enlisted in Company 
D of the Eighty-fourth Ohio Regiment, Vol- 
unteer Infantry. Serving four months, he re- 
tnrned home and resumed the practice of law. 

In 1873, the town of Newburg, then the 
place of his residence, having been incorporated 
with the city of Cleveland, as the Eighteenth 
ward, he was one of two who were elected from 
that ward as members of the City Council. In 
1875 he was elected Judge of the Court of 
Common Pleas. His career on the bench gave 
such universal satisfaction that he was honored 
with a re-election in 1880, and by two subse- 
quent elections he has been kept on the bench^ 
now serving his fourth term as Judge of the 
Court of Common Pleas. 



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In politics, Judge Hamilton is a Republican, 
having been such from the organizaticm of 
the party, though the etiquette, dignity and 
usefulness of his position on the bench forbid 
him taking active part in politics. Of Judge 
Hamilton it may be said that he is a man with- 
out reproach, in both his private and public 
career. As a lawyer, he was of force and in- 
fluence at the bar. As a judge, he is fearless, 
fair and strictly conscientious. He is of keen 
perception and insight, and is possessed of a 
clear and logical mind, thoroughly conversant 
witli the law in all its bearings. He is a ripe 
scholar, possessed of a quiet dignity and com- 
manding presence. 

February 10, 1863, Judge Hamilton was 
united in marriage with Mary E., the daughter 
of John and Mary Ann (Mason) Jones. In 
1865, there was born unto the marriage a son, 
Walter J., a practicing attorney of Cleveland; 
and in 1866, a daughter, Florence A., was born. 



[[ENKY BORN, manager of the Born 
Steel Range and Manufacturing Com- 
— pany, and one of the lepresentative busi- 
ness men of Cleveland, was born in 
Bavaria, Germany, February 25, 1845, a son of 
Frederick and Johanna Born, natives also of 
that country, — the father born February 14, 
1805, and the mother April 13, 1807. They 
emigrated to America in 1847, coming direct to 
Cleveland, where the father embarked in the tin 
and stove business on Water street. The enter- 
prise grew in importance, and in 1852 Mr. Born 
made his son, C. P., his partner, the firm name 
becoming F. & C. P. Born. In 1859 the senior 
member of the firm retired from active labor, 
and removed to Liverpool, Medina county, Ohio. 
C. P. Born then continued the business alone 
until 1868, when his brothers, F. & H. Born, 
became his partners. Five years later F. & H. 
Born established a business of their own, with 
a capital stock of $6,000, which afterward be- 
came known as the Born Steel Range and Man- 



ufacturing Company. The enterprise was in- 
corporated as a stock company in 1891, and 
during the same year F. Born died. Henry 
Born then became manager of the company, 
with F. C. McMillin, of Cleveland, as president; 

A. M. Methenej, vice-president; and Charles 

B. Coon, secretary. The Born Steel Range and 
Manufacturing Company manufacture excellent 
ranges and furnaces, employ a large number of 
mechanics, and their goods are sold in all the 
principal cities of this country. The city of 
Galion donated land for their factory, which 
was erected at a cost of §40,000, and they em- 
ploy 135 laborers. The salesrooms and general 
office are located in Cleveland. Their ranges 
and urns were exhibited at the World's Co- 
lumbian Exposition at Chicago, and were given 
the only medal awarded on the merits of ranges 
and urns. It is but just to claim that to the 
genius of Mr. Born is due the excellency of the 
goods. He is the inventor and patentee of six 
different inventions on the steel ranges manu- 
factured by the company, and is also patentee 
of a coffee uin. His patents were sold for 
$30,000 to the company at the time of its or- 
ganization. 

Henry Born is one often sons and daughters, 
two of whom died in infancy. The father de- 
parted this life in 1883, and the mother in 1885, 
aged seventy-eight and seventy-nine years re- 
spectively. Their son, C. P. Born, died in 
1879. He is still remembered in Cleveland as 
an active and successful business man and a 
representative citizen. Frederick Born died in 
1891, after having achieved an enviable reputa- 
tion as a businessman. William Born enlisted 
in the United States army, and while serving in 
the defense of his country died of yellow fever 
at Galveston, Texas, in 1865; Mary, a sister, 
married Henry Schneider, of Glenville, Ohio; 
Frcderica is the wife of William Schweitzer, of 
Chicago; and Minnie is the wife of William 
Helbick of Cleveland. 

Henry Born, our subject, attended the schools 
of this city until thirteen years of age. He 
then k'iirned the tinner's trade from his father, 



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engaged in that occupation eight years, and was 
then a salesman for his brother until engaging 
in his present business. October 25, 1879, 
Mr. Born was united in marriage with Louisa 
B. Cook, a daughter of George and Louise 
Cook, of German origin. To this union has 
been added two children, — Henry, born No- 
vember 2, 1880; and Louisa, born May 13, 
1884. In his social relations, Mr. Born is a 
Knight Templar, and a member of the Knights 
of Pythias. Politically, he affiliates with the 
Republican party. 



F 



0. SPENCER.— On the 14th day of May, 
■ I 1859, in the city of Cleveland, was born 
^ tlie subject of this sketch. Mr. Spencer 
is a son of Albert K. and Charlotte M. (PoUey) 
Spencer. He attended the public schools of the 
city and graduated from the Central High School 
in 1876. He then went to Yale College, from 
which college he graduated in 1880. During 
vacations in the meantime he remained in the 
bank with his father, and after his graduation 
he entered the First National Bank, where he 
was engaged for one year, at the close of which 
he entered the law office of Judge Baldwin, of 
this city, under whose guidance he took up the 
study of law, at which he continued for one 
year. He then became interested as an investor 
in the Leader Sewing Machine Company, of 
which he became secretary, remaining as such 
for two years. Then selling out his interest he 
engaged in the commission business, dealing in 
stocks and bonds, with success, covering a pe- 
riod of seven years. In 1887 he was elected to 
the City Council, as a member of which body 
he served for four years, being twice elected 
president of the Council, being the youngest 
man who had ever shared that honor in the city 
of Cleveland. His success in private affairs 
and the popularity of his public services were 
such as made him a proper candidate for the 
legislature in 1891, in which year he was elected 
to the Seventieth General Assembly of the State 



of Ohio, as a member of the Senate. He at 
once took an active and prominent part in the 
deliberations of that body, becoming chairman 
of the committee on municipal affairs, the com- 
mittee being designated as No. 1, and its work 
in the main considered such as concerned the 
cities of Cincinnati and Cleveland. He was also 
a member of the committee on federal affairs, 
and became also chairman of the committee on 
penitentiary. Mr. Spencer is now a represent- 
ative of the Manhattan Life Insurance Com- 
pany, in which capacity he has already given 
evidence of ability and success. 

Politically he has always been an ardent Re- 
publican. Fraternally he is a member of the 
order of Knights of Pythias, belonging to Pearl 
Lodge, No. 123. 



djOHN FOOTE was born in the city of 
1 Cleveland, in January, 1844. He was left 
-' an orphan at a very tender age and at that 
particular period in life where a youth needs 
the most and best of paren tal care. He obtained 
a decent education frotn the primary grades of 
the public school. He was thrown upon his 
own resources almost from the age of twelve 



years 



and turned his hand to 



any 



honest 



employment that would yield income sufficient 
to feed and clothe him. When the government 
at Washington was calling for soldiers to pre- 
serve the Union, Mr. Foote enlisted in Company 
C, Eighty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, three 
months' men, and saw service in West Virginia 
at Clarksburg and Parkersburg, doing good 
duty. On the expiration of his term of enlist- 
ment, he returned to Cleveland, and engaged in 
railroad woik, first on the Mahoning Division 
of the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio, and 
later as fireman on the Cleveland, Cincinnati & 
Chicago Railroad. In 1864, he came to the 
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad 
Company in the same capacity. In three years 
more he was promoted to be an engineer and 
since 1873 has been in the passenger service. 



COYAUOGA COUNTY. 



In his whole twenty-nine years of service for 
this company he has not lost a day except when 
absent on leave to visit the World's Fair. 
During tiiis present summer it has fallen to his 
lot to run the fastest train ever put on the Lake 
Shore Koad, namely, the " Exposition Flyer," a 
mention of whicli train is sufficient to recall at 
once its character. 

Mr. Foote is asoti of John Foote, St., who 
died in 1854. He married Miss Decker, who 
bore him only one child and died in 1845. 

Mr. Foote was married in Cleveland, in 1865, 
tu Anna Orr, a lady of German parentage. 
Their children ai-e: Charles, chief clerk of 
Master Mechanic, f.ake Shore shops; Aiinai 
now Mrs. Long; Cora, a school teacher, and a 
graduate of the city high school and the normal; 
Edward George, in the Lake Shore office; and 
Raymond and Mabel, twins. 



FRANK M. COATES, M. D., was born in 
Richfield, Summit county, Ohio, July 26, 
1848. When he was about five years old 
his parents removed to Brecksville, Cuyahoga 
county, Ohio, where he was reared on his 
father's farm. He attended the common schools 
and high school at Brecksville and also Oberlin 
College, afterward becoming principal of the 
high school at Brecksville for one year. He 
then took up the study of medicine with Dr. 
Knowlton, of Brecksville, for one year, then 
entered the office of Dr. W. J. Scott, of Cleve- 
land, where he studied about two years and at- 
tended lectures. He was a charter member of 
the old Wooster Medical College of Cleveland. 
He practiced medicine one year at Brecksville 
and in June, 1872, came to Berea, where he has 
since been in constant practice. For two years 
he held the chair in the Department of Phar- 
macy in Baldwin University. He enjoys a 
good practice in his profession. 

Dr. Coates was married at Northfield, Sum- 
mit county, Ohio, May 28. 1872, to Miss Annie 
M. E. Chat^Ve, who was l)orn in Summit coun- 



ty, Ohio, and who was for some time a student 
in Baldwin University, being well known in 
society circles. They have one son. Frank M. 
Dr. Coates has been for many years a mem- 
ber of the Board of Health of Berea. He has 
taken an active part in local affairs and is a Re- 
publican in politics. He is an active memlier 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 



CHARLES FERDINAND STEARNS, 
Trustee of Olmsted township, elected in 
tiie spring of 1893, was born in that 
township in August, 1846, a son of Elijah and 
Martha (Usher) Stearns, his father a native of 
Vermont and his mother of Massachusetts. His 
father came when a young man to Cuyahoga 
county, in 1828, settling in Olmsted township, 
and made it his home until his death, which 
occurred in June, 1891. Of their eleven chil- 
dren eight are still living, namely: Mary E., 
who married James Romps and died in 1865; 
Usher, who died in 1867, in Olmsted township; 
Asher, married and residing in the same town- 
ship; Orphelia and Orfila, twins, — the former 
now the wife of George Stearns in Ashtabula 
county, and the latter the subject of another 
sketch in this volume; Elijah, Jr., married and 
a resident of that township; Cassius, married 
and also a resident of the same township; Charles 
F., our subject, is the next in order of birth; 
William, who died in infancy; Myron, who is 
)narried and resides in Ridge vi lie township; 
and Louis, who enlisted in Company I, in an 
Iowa regiment, in 1861. and was killed at 
Vicksburg in 1863 and buried on a Southern 
battle-field. 

Mr. Stearns, whose. name commences this 
memoir, has been engaged in farming all bis 
life, in Olmsted township. He now owns a line 
farm of seventy-five acres, which he bought in 
1886 and located upon in 1891. His system of 
cultivation is scientific and remunerative. As 
a Republican he takes a zealous interest in the 
political (juestions of the day. 



CV7AH0OA COUNTY. 



March 21, 1879, is the date of his marriage 
to Miss Elizabeth Bromley, a native of Olmsted 
township and an adopted daughter of "Wright 
Bromley, who came from England in an early 
day to this township and died in 1879. Mrs. 
Stearns died about 1885, leaving one child, 
Mary by name. 



SAMUEL J. CLAEK, deceased, was one of 
the highly esteemed citizens of Bedford 
township, and it is due him and his pos- 
terity that his name be recorded among the 
honored pioneers of Cuyahoga county. A native 
of the Empire State, he was born in St. Lawrence 
county, September 4, 1823, a son of Linneusand 
Iluldah (Bunnell) Clark, natives of New 
Hampshire. The family is descended from 
English ancestry. In 1830 they emigrated to 
this county, when SamuelJ. was a boy of seven 
years. Here he grew to maturity amid the wild 
.surroundings of a frontier farm, gaining his 
education in the primitive log schoolhouse 
where the foundation was laid for many noble 
careers. He was himself a teacher for many 
years, but finally retired to the old homestead 
where he devoted his energies to husbandry. 
He died May 17, 1887, aged sixty-four years. 

He was married September 17, 1857, at 
Orange, Ohio, to Harriet A. Boy n ton, a daugh- 
ter of Amos and Alpha (Ballou) Boynton, na- 
tives of New York and New Hampshire re- 
spectively. Mr. and Mrs. Boynton were mar- 
ried at Newburgh, Ohio, and to them were born 
seven children: Henry B. ; Harriet A.; Phoebe 
M., widow of John H. Clapp, who was a promi- 
nent citizen of Warrensville, Ohio; Dr. Silas 
A., of Cleveland; Cordelia M.; Arnold, deceased, 
and Bently, who died at the age of fourteen 
months. These children enjoyed superior edu- 
cational advantages, being students at Hiram 
College. Mr. and Mrs. Clark had a family of 
live children: W. B., born March 29, 1859, was 
a member of the class of 188i at Hiram College; 
he is now the jirincipal of tlio grammar depart- 



ment of the Bedford schools; he was married 
July 14, 1886, at Ravenna, Ohio, to Hattie E. 
Marryman, daughter of Henry and Eliza (Bruce) 
Marryman; she was born in Randolph, Ohio; 
they are the parents of four children: Paul, 
M. Blanche, Mabel Anna and Logan Ballou; 
Harriet A. Clark was born Jatiuary 31, 18G3; 
she is the assistant superintendent of the Bed- 
ford High School; Cora M., born November 28, 
1865, is a graduate of Hiram College, finishing 
with the class of 1888; she is now a teacher in 
her Alma Mater; Linneus B. was born April 23, 
1868; Bertha A. was born October 4, 1872; 
she is now a student at Hiram College, having 
finished the high-school course at Cleveland. 
The family occupy a pleasant home on the farm 
of seventy acres, situated near the village of 
Bedford. They are all progressive in their 
ideas, and are laboring earnestly in the cause of 
education, religion and temperance reform. 



ti DAM FURNISS, a successful farmer of 
1\ Cuyahoga county, was born in Royalton 
township, this county, September 17, 
1846. His father, William Furniss, was 
born in Manchester, England, July 17, 1800, 
was employed as a tallow-chandler in his native 
country, and when a young man came to the 
United States. December 31, 1829, in Utica, 
Oneida county. New York, he was united in 
marriage with Elzina Russell, who was born in 
Madison county, that State, October 14, 1808, 
and was then employed in a factory. After lo- 
cating in the United States, Mr. Furniss began 
agricultural pursuits. In 1833 he came to 
Royalton township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, 
where he purchased a Small farm in the dense 
woods, and immediately began clearing his 
place. On account of over-work he lost his 
eye-sight, and was blind for forty years, but his 
remarkable conception enabled him to go any- 
where in the town, and he could distinguish his 
children by their walk! On coming to Royal- 
ton township the family of Mr. and Mrs. Fur- 
niss consisted of two children: Nathaniel, now 



CUYAHOGA CUVNTT. 



a farmer of tliis community; and Jane, deceased, 
was the wife of William Browu. Eight chil- 
dren were horn to them in this county, namely: 
]\[iirtha, the wife of Ezekiel Edgerton.of Brook- 
lyn village; William, a grocer by occupation, 
died at Titnsville, Pennsylvania, in 1889; John, 
a prominent stock-buyei', carpenter and post- 
master of Nashville, Michigan; Charles, also a 
resident of that city; Adam, our subject; Ezra, 
deceased at the age of twenty-six years; and 
Edwin, who died in infancy. Mrs. Fiirniss died 
Marrh 11, 1874. and her husband survived until 
Jiinuary 27, 1885. Both were members of the 
Disciple Church. In political matters, Mr. 
Furniss was a staunch Republican. 

Adam Furniss, tlie subject of this sketch, re- 
ceived only limited educational advantages. At 
the age of fifteen years he was employed as a 
farm laborer by William Reed, of Hinckley 
township, Medina county, for which he received 
small wages. August 21, 1862, he enlisted at 
Cleveland for services in ihe late war, entering 
Company A, One Hundred and Third Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry, was immediately sent to 
Cincinnati to intercept Bragg in his northward 
march, took part in the engagements at Knox- 
ville, Bull's Gap, Resaca, was with Sherman 
through the Atlanta campaign, took part in the 
battle of Spring Hill, sent to North Carolina, 
was discharged at Raleigh, June 12, 1865, and 
was present at the Grand Review in Washing- 
ton, District of Columbia. Mr. Furniss was 
taken prisoner at Eastport, Georgia, August 23, 
1864, while engaged in foraging with a com- 
pany of seven men. Three of the company 
were killed, three taken prisoners, and one 
wounded. Mr. Furniss was confined in Ander- 
soDville jtrison until September 28, 1864. After 
returning from the army he was employed as a 
butcher by William Reed, of Hinckley town- 
ship, Medina county, several years. After his 
marriage he lived with his father three years, 
and in 1877 came to his farm of 100 acres in 
Royalton townshiji, where he is engaged in 
general farming. He was formerly employed 
in buying and selling cattle. 



July 5, 1874, Mr. Furniss was united in mar- 
riage with Mary Granger, who was born in 
Royalton township, December 11, 1846, a 
daughter of Aaron and Eliza (Darrall) Granger. 
Our subject and wife have three children: 
William A., Jessie E. and James B. In polit- 
ical matters, Mr. Furniss has been a life-long 
Republican, his first presidential vote having 
been cast for General Grant. He holds the 
position of Township Trustee. In his social 
relations, he has been for many years a member 
of Hampton Post, No. 499, G. A. R.; of Royal- 
ton Center. Mrs. Furniss is a member of the 
Free-will Baptist Church. 



SL. WILKINSON, Notary Public, is one 
of the well-known citizens of Chagrin 
— Falls, having been a resident of the place 
since 1841. He was born in Geauga county, 
Ohio, November 27, 1881, a son of Lysander 
and Permelia (Johnson) Wilkinson. Both father 
and mother are deceased, the former at the age 
of seventy-eight years, and the latter at the age 
of seventy-two. Young Wilkinson was a mere 
lad when he came to live at Chagrin Falls; here 
he received his education, and began his career 
in the commercial world, his first employment 
being in the woolen mills, where he remained 
three years. Later he secured a position as 
clerk in a dry-goods store, and afterward was 
traveling salesman for the E. G. Norris Patent 
Medicine Company; his territory embraced 
Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, where he suc- 
ceeded in establishing a large and profitable 
business. Resigning this position he embarked 
in the book, stationery and wall-paper trade, but 
later disposed of his stock. At one time he 
was engaged in the job-printing business, but 
sold out to the Exponent office. 

Mr. Wilkinson is an ardent supporter of 
Republican principles, and in 1858 was elected 
by that body as Justice of the Peace; he was 
re-elected to the office, ser\ing two terms with 
marked ability. After this he was made Notary 



CUT A HOG A COUNTY. 



Public, and for many years he lias been Post- 
master of Cliagrin Falls. He was a member of 
the Town Council for ten years, and it. was dur- 
ing this time that the cemetery grounds were 
laid out. He belongs to Golden Gate Lodge, 
No. 245, A. F. & A. M., and of Chagrin Falls 
Chapter, R. A. M.; he is Secretary of both the 
lodge and chapter. 

At the age of twenty-eigiit years our worthy 
subject was united in marriage with Miss N.P. 
Earl, who is now deceased. His second mar- 
riage was to Mrs. Laura Lander Bullock. 



D 



K. CORWIN G. WARDEN, a promi- 
nent physician of Berea, Ohio, dates his 



birth in Columbia, Lorain county, Ohio, 
October 24, 1857. 

He is a son of S. T. and Amanda M. (Wood) 
Warden. His father was born in Waterbury, 
Connecticut, removed from there to Palmyra, 
New York, and in 1826, when only six years 
old, came with his parents to Ohio, their settle- 
ment being made in Liverpool, Medina county. 
That section of country was then all a wilder- 
ness, and the Wardens settled down to tlie work 
of clearing and developing a farm. They en- 
dured all the hardships and privations of pioneer 
life, and were ranked with the prominent and 
well-to-do families of their vicinity. The Doc- 
tor's father took an active part in church work 
and also in political affairs. He was first a 
Whig and afterward a Republican. 

Dr. Warden was reared to farm life, was edu- 
cated in the district schools and at Oberlin Col- 
lege, and for several terms was engaged in teach- 
ing. His medical education was secured in the 
Wooster Medical University, where he graduated 
with the class of 1878. Immediately after his 
graduation he went west and began his profes- 
sional career at Leadville, Colorado, where he 
remained until 1880. That year he returned to 
Ohio, and has since been engaged in the prac- 
tice of medicine at Berea. Here he lias met 
with eminent success, to-day holding rank with 



the leading physicians of the county. Like his 
father, the Doctor's political views are in har- 
mony with the principles of the Republican 
party. He received the appointment of Post- 
master of Berea under the Harrison administra- 
tion, and in that capacity rendered efiicient 
service. 

Mr. Warden was married, September 4, 1879, 
to Elizabeth B. McClure, daughter of H. A. 
and Martha (Williams) McClure, natives of 
Pennsylvania, whose ancestors were among the 
earliest settlers of Cleveland. The Doctor's 
maternal ancestors were represented in the ranks 
during the Revolutionary war, and his mother's 
father was a soldier in the war of 1812. Such 
is a brief sketch of one of the well-known phy- 
sicians of Cuyahoga county. 



ROVE G. CANNON, the subject of this 
sketch, was the only child of Alonzo S. 
and Delia Rebecca (Hawkins) Cannon. 
He was born May 8, 1855, in Warrens- 
ville, Cuyahoga county, Ohio. Mr. Alonzo S. 
Cannon, the father of Grove G., was born in 
Aurora, Portage county, Ohio, June 19, 1829. 
His father, Victor M. Cannon, was born in 
Massachusetts in 1784, and died in 1857. Vic- 
tor M. Cannon was married to Miss Caroline 
Baldwin in 1828. Mrs. Victor M. Cannon was 
a daughter of Samuel S. Baldwin, and was born 
in Newburg, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, in 1808. 
She is living with her son, Artemas, in Streets- 
boro, Portage county, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. 
Victor M. Cannon had a family of seven chil- 
dren: Alonzo S., Hannah, Austin V., Willson 
B., Artemas M., Cornelia and Allen P, — live of 
whom are living, Austin and Allen being dead. 
Mrs. Alonzo S. Cannon is a daughter of Jesse 
G. and Sally C. (Hubbell) Hawkins, and was 
born in Otsego county, New York, December 
6, 1827. They had a family of eight children, 
three sons and five daughters: Mary, Lucy R., 
Delia R., Lewis R., Sarah L., Crayton L., and 
Lillie and Lynn (twins); si.v; are living. 



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Jesse Hawkins and family came to Ohio in 
1834, making the journey in little less than 
two weeks' time, and they settled in Streetsboro, 
on a farm on which Lynn now resides. Mr. 
Alonzo S. Cannon bought the farm on -which 
he now lives, located at the center of Warrens- 
ville, opposite the high-school building, in 1853. 
He married in 1854, and immediately moved 
to the farm. Mr. Cannon has been largely en- 
gaged in buying and selling stock, as well as 
managing the farm on which he lives, and an- 
other in Orange, which he subsequently pur- 
chased. He has always been an upright, honor- 
able dealer, an active, industrious, energetic 
man, and commands the respect of the entire 
community in which he lives. The best evi- 
dence of this is the fact that, although a Demo- 
crat, living in a township with a large Kepubli- 
can majority, he has been repeatedly elected to 
offices of both honor and profit. 

Grove G. Cannon spent the first fifteen or 
sixteen years of his life in attending school, in 
assisting his father in his business of buying 
and selling stock and in labor upon the farm. 
As a boy he was quick to discern the right 
thing to do, prompt and energetic in doing it, 
and happy if it had his o%vii approbation when 
done. In the autumn of 1871 he went before 
the Board of County School E.\aminers, ob- 
tained a certificate authorizing him to teach, 
then engaged the school in the Murfett district 
in Orange, and bravely entered upon his win- 
ter's work of managing and teaching young 
men and women, many of whom were older, 
and, as they thought, wiser than the boy teacher. 
After a lew days of experience they compre- 
hended that they had both a teacher and a mas- 
ter. Although highly successful as a school- 
master, he did not like the business, and his 
first term ended his career as a schoolteacher. 

During the summer of 1872 he worked on 
his father's farm, and in the fall of that year 
went to Cleveland and entered the service of 
Babcock, Hard & Company, wholesale grocers 
on Water street. The first year of his connec- 
tion with the firm was spent mainly in the 



warehouse as porter and general utility man. 
About this time the firm thought they had dis- 
covered signs of superior business ability in 
young Cannon, and accordingly promoted him 
to the position of traveling salesman. It is 
said of him, by one who knew him well, that 
by his tireless energy and industry he made a 
reputation as a salesman, of which any man, 
young or old, might well be prou"!. Thus he 



in the even tenor of his 



1879, when, on the 30th day of September, he 
was marrjed to Miss May Tarbell, daughter of 
Leverett and Mary H. Tarbell, of Bedford, by 
the Rev. A. T. Copeland, then pastor of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church in Bedford. Mrs. 
May T. Cannon was born in Bedford, October 
15, 1858. At the age of eight years she began 
attending school in Bedford, and continued her 
education in the public schools until 1875, 
when she began teaching. In 1876 she at- 
tended school in Willoughby. In 1877 .<he 
taught in Bedford. In the fall of 1878 she 
entered the Ohio Wesleyan University at Dela- 
ware, Ohio, took two years' work iu one, and 
graduated at that institution in June, 1879. 
She is an active and e.\emplary member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, and is deeply in- 
terested in the work of the Woman's Cliristian 
Temperance Union and other kindred organiza- 
tions. 

^Ir. Cannon continued his business for the 
firm as traveling salesman until the end of 
1886, when he was given the control of his 
firm's local business in the city of Cleveland, 
which he retained until his death, January 5, 
1888, which was caused by inflammation of the 
middle ear, produced by a severe cold pre- 
viously contracted, together with violent exer- 
tion three days previous to his death, — a case 
almost exactly parallel to that which caused the 
death of Roscoe Conkling. 

Immediately after their marriage they went 
to Wellington, Lorain county, where they 
boarded until the fall of 1880, when they re- 
turned to Bedford, where they remained with 
her parents until .Vpril. 1881. They then re- 



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moved to Marion, Ohio, where they commenced 
housekeeping. Here were born to them Tom 
T., August 8, 1881, and Herbert Grove, April 
10, 1883. In the fall of 1883 they removed to 
Bedford, where he had a house nearly com- 
pleted, adjoining her parents' residence, and 
into it they moved in December. The young- 
est son, Dana Alotizo, was born here, May 26, 
1885. 

Grove G. C!annon was initiated in Bedford 
Lodge, No. 375, F. & A. M., February 21, 
1881; passed to the degree of F. C. March 7, 
1881, and raised to the sublime degree of M. M. 
March 21, the same year. He became a mem- 
ber of Summit Chapter, No. 74, on dimit from 
Marion Chapter, No. 62, R. A. M. He subse- 
(juently became a member of Holyrood Com- 
mandery, No. 32, K. T. 

Mr. Cannon was a member of the village 
council during the excitement consequent upon 
the attempt to pass an ordinance to prohibit 
the sale of intoxicants in the village of Bed- 
ford. He was first and foremost in the fight 
for the passage of the ordinance, and he won, as 
ho usually did. He was 2)rominently identified 
with all those who sought to advance the best 
interests of mU the people. In pi)!itics he re- 
meinl)erei| tlu^ teaciiings of iiis father, and 
from principle rather than policy he adliered to 
the Democratic faith. Giove G. Cannon was a 
forceful, self-reliant, honorable and industrious 
man, a kind husband and father, a patriotic, 
law-abiding citizen, and his death at the early 
age of thirty- three years was an almost irrepar- 
able loss to his employers and to the community 
in which lie lived. 



C^ E. TILIJNGHAST, of Cleveland, Ohio, 
I has during his more than twenty years of 
^^ connection with the insurance business 
met with eminent success, has had marked dis- 
tinctions shown him by his co-workers, and is 
to-day one of the most prominoixt managers in 
the ranks of life insurance. 



Mr. Tillinghast is a native of Windham coun- 
ty, Connecticut, born November 24, 1840. In 
1871 he engaged in life insurance as general 
agent of the Phoenix Mutual at Providence, 
Khode Island, and in 1876 he was appointed 
manager of the New York Life for Kansas, 
Nebraska, Texas, and Colorado, and removed to 
Leavenworth, Kansas. In 1881 tiie Equitable 
Life secured him as manager for the southern 
portion of Ohio and he then located in Colum- 
bus, where he remained until the spring of 
1886. At that time he was promoted to the 
position of manager for the whole State, with 
the exception of Hamilton county. During 
the following six years his unerring judgment 
as a manager, together with his untiring energy 
and strict fidelity to the best interests of the 
company, met witli unparalleled success in the 
territory named. 

At this writing C. E. Tillinghast & Son are 
managers of the Central Department of the 
Manhattan Life Insurance Company, this de- 
partment embracing Ohio (except Cincinnati 
district), western Pennsylvania and the whole 
of Indiana, having been actively opened in Oc- 
tober, 1892. To give an idea of the volume of 
business now being produced, it is only neces- 
sary to say that a single month's record now 
amounts to more than the former annual col- 
lections from the Cleveland office. 

Mr. Tillinghast's executive ability has been 
fitly recognized by the National Association 
annually since its organization. At the first 
convention, in Boston, he was elected a member 
of its executive committee. At the second, in 
Detroit, he was made chairman of this commit- 
tee, and at the last annual convention, in New 
York, he was elected to the presidency, and his 
administration has been a highly satisfactory 
one, as will, we believe, be demonstrated at the 
forthcoming annual convention, in Cleveland. 
At home he has been equally honored, for he 
has filled every office within the gift of the 
Cleveland Association, and was unanimously 
endorsed by that body for the presidency of the 
National Association. 



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As a producer of business, the facts given 
above stiow Mr. Tillinghast to be no less suc- 
cessful and prominent, and the Manhattan Life 
is certainly to be congratulated upon enlisting 
his services. Associated with liim are his sons, 
Elbert K.' and Edward M. Tillinghast. They 
give promise of becoming as shining lights in 
life insurance later on as is their father to-day. 
They are both graduates of Yale College and 
amply endowed with the qualifications necessary 
to become successful in the business whicli thej 
have elected to make a life profession. 

While no figures of accurate nature can be 
given at this time, it is safe to announce already 
that the business of the Manhattan Life in its 
Central Department in 1893 will be several 
times as much as has ever been received from 
the same district in a single year. It may not 
be superfluous to add that C. E. Tillinghast & 
Son are offering such contracts and territory to 
first-class reliable men as cannot fail to win 
them, and it will pay such to investigate for 
themselves. 



EV. ROBERT MOFFETT, a minister 
of the Disciple Church, and a resident 
^ of Cleveland, Ohio, dates his birth in 
Rolling Prairie, La Porte county, In- 
diana, November 9, 1835. 

His parents. Garner and Mary J. B. (Davis) 
Moffett, were natives of Washington county, 
Virginia. His father was born in 1807, was a 
farmer and preacher, and while a resident of 
Illinois served as a member of the Constitu- 
tional Convention of that State. His mother 
was born September 14, 1814, and is still liv- 
ing, her home being in Illinois near the Mis- 
sissippi river. Her family of five children are 
all residents of Illinois, except the subject of 
this sketch. He received his education at 
Betiiany College, Brooke county. West Vir- 
ginia, where he graduated in 1859. Previous 
to his graduation he had taught school for 
several years, having lieguri teachiiuj- in Illi- 



nois when he was sixteen and continued that 
occupation at intervals until he completed his 
education. 

After his graduation he entered the ministry. 
Previous to this time he had been ordained and 
had been preaching for two years. His first work 
was as an evangelist in Carroll, Whiteside 
and Ogle counties, in the State of Illinois. 
From 1860 until 1865 he filled a pulpit in 
Wooster, Ohio, and from there he moved to 
Mount Vernon, where he served as pastor until 
1870. From January, 1870, until May of the 
same year he was at Bedford, Ohio. Then re- 
ceiving the appointment of corresponding sec- 
retary of the Ohio Christian Missionary Society 
he served in this capacity until June 1, 1884, 
traveling all over the State and at the same 
time looking after the interests of the Sunday 
schools. From 1882 to 1884 he acted in the 
double capacity of corresponding secretary of 
the General Christian Missionary Convention 
and corresponding secretary of the Ohio Chris- 
tian Missionary Society. Dropping the latter 
in 1884, he continued the former until Novem- 
ber 1, 1893. its work taking him from Boston 
to the Pacific and over much of Canada. This 
position, although one of great responsibility, 
was tilled most efliciently by him and to the en- 
tire satisfaction of all concerned. 

Mr. Mofiett was married September 13, 1859, 
to Miss Lucy A. Green, of Norton, Summit 
county, Ohio. Their nine children are as fol- 
lows: Wilbur Garner, born November, 1860, 
died October, 1888: Mary Adel, wife of Duane 
H. Tilden, an attorney of Cleveland, the date of 
her birth being October, 1862; Almon Green, 
M. D., D. D. S., was born in 1864 and was 
drowned while bathing at Chautauqua, August, 
1891; Dr. Charles Campbell, born in March, 
1867, is practicing medicine at Avon, Ohio; 
Robert Stover, born in April, 1869, aud died in 
April, 1875; Lucy Pearl, born in June, 1871, 
and died in April, 1875, she and Robert S. 
dying of scarlet fever and being buried in the 
same grave; Burnett E., born in August, 1873, 
died in infancy; Nellie C, born in September, 






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1876, died in March, 1894; and Roy Ryburn, 
born in April, 1879. The family are all mem- 
bers of the Christian Church. 

Mrs. Moffett's parents, Rev. A. B. Green and 
wife, nee Mary Burnett, came to Ohio from 
New England and were among the early set- 
tlers of Summit county. Her father was born 
in 1808 and died in 1886. Her mother, born 
in 1811, died in 1869. 

Politically, Mr. Moffett is a Republican. 



LEONARD HOHLFELDER, a boot and 
I shoe merchant of South Brooklyn, Ohio, 
1 is one of the enterprising business men 

of the place. 

Mr. Hohlfelder was born in Bavaria, Ger- 
many, April 17, 1836, son of Frederick and 
Dora (Wells) Hohlfelder, both natives of Ger- 
many. The family emigrated to America in 
1847 and located near Cleveland, Ohio. Thei-e 
the father purchased a tract of land, and on it 
was engaged in gardening the rest of his life. 
He died in 1891, aged eighty-four years. The 
mother passed away when in Iier seventy- 
seventh year. They were the parents of seven 
children, of whom Leonard is the oldest. 

Leonard Hohlfelder was in his twelfth year 
when he came with his parents to Cleveland, and 
at that early age he started out to do for him- 
self. He was employed to work on a farm in 
Parma township, this county, and the first year 
earned only his clothes and board. After this 
he worked in Brooklyn township and received 
some wages. When he was sixteen he began to 
learn the shoemaker's trade in Brooklyn, getting 



J50 for the first two and 



half 



year 



work. 



Having completed his apprenticeship, he worked 
a year longer for the same man, Mr. John Laux. 
Next he spent six months working as a jour- 
neyman in New York, but at the end of that 
time came came back to Brooklyn and again en- 
tered the employ of Mr. Laux. Finally lie 
bought out the business of this man, and has 
ciinducted it successfully ever since. 



Mr. Hohlfelder was married in 1858 to Miss 
Lizzie Riese, a native of Germany. They have 
four children, namely: Anna, wife of Jacob 
Ewing; Fred and Lettie, twins, the latter being 
the wife of Charles Johnson; and Lizzie, at 
home. Mr. Hohlfelder built his present resi- 
dence in Brooklyn in 1879, it being erected at 
a cost of $3,000. 

His political views are in harmony with the 
principles advocated by the Democratic party. 
For five years he served as Township Treasurer 
and was a member of the Council of Brooklyn 
four years. He is a member of the Evangelical 
Church, and also of Glenn Lodge, I. O. O. F. 
Mr. Hohlfelder is a man of excellent business 
qualifications, and his business career has been 
one of marked success. His many estimable 
traits of character have won for him hosts of 
friends. 



CAPTAIN MARCO B. GARY, one of 
Cleveland's best known citizens and at- 
torneys, and Collector of Customs under 
General Harrison's administration, was born in 
Genesee, New York. His father was Aaron 
Gary, who was a soldier in the war with Great 
Britain in 1812-'14, and his grandfather was 
Oliver Gary, who served in the Continental 
army from the beginning to the close of the 
Revolutionary war. 

Captain Gary was educated at the common 
and academic schools at Albion, Pennsylvania, 
and in the year 1856 he entered the law oflice 
of Judge L. S. Sherman, at Ashtabula, Ohio, as 
a law student. He was admitted to the bar in 
the fall of 1859, and immediately thereafter 
opened a law office at Geneva, Ohio. Geneva 
being an active and growing town, situated 
near the line between the counties of Lake and 
Ashtabula, the young lawyer found himself in 
the enjoyment of a growing and profitable prac- 
tice from these two contiguous counties, at the 
time of the breaking out of hostilities between 
the Government and rel)el States in the spring 



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of 1861. For a number of years prior to that 
event there existed at Geneva a one-giin artil- 
lery company, and in the State there were five 
other similar organizations, mostly located in 
Cleveland. Our subject was not a member of 
this organization, but when upon tlie first call 
of President Lincoln for troops, in April, 1861, 
these several companies tendered their services 
for immediate action, he took the place of a 
member of the Geneva company, and, closing 
down his law office, went with the company to 
Western Virginia, where it had the honor of 
firing the first artillery shot at the enemy after 
the fall of Fort Sumter. Keturning to Geneva 
with the company after the close of the first 
three months' service, our subject united with 
the Captain of the above company in the organ- 
ization and enlistment of a full six-gun battery 
for a term of three years, and in the month of 
October, 1861, he returned to the field at Camp 
Dick Robinson, Kentucky, as senior First Lieu- 
tenant of the battery, and was soon afterward 
promoted to the Captaincy of the battery, and 
being engrafted into the grand old Army of the 
Cumberland, went with it, participating in all 
its campaigns and battles from the Ohio river 
to the Potomac, including the famous march to 
the sea, and up the coast to Piehmond and 
Washington, re-enlisting his men " for the war" 
on the way, at the expiration of tlieir three 
years' term of service. After participating in 
the grand review at Washington city he re- 
turned with his company and disbanded at 
Cleveland. He then returned to his law ottice 
at Geneva, for the first time after closing it in 
the month of April, 1861. In the year 1873 
Captain Gary removed to Cleveland, forming a 
law partnership with George S. Kain, and was 
afterward associated with Charles D. Everett in 
the law firm of Gary & Everett, and later with 
N. A. Gilbert and A. T. Hills, under the firm 
name of Gary, Gilbert & Hills. 

In February, 1889, Captain Gary was ap- 
pointed by President Harrison Collector of Cus- 
toms for the District of Cuyahoga, embracing 
tiie important lake ports of Cleveland, Ashta- 



bula, Fairport, Lorain and Conneaut. At the 
present time (November, 1893) he is still hold- 
ing this office, after having served over his 
regular term of four years, with entire satisfac- 
tion to the Government and the people. But 
anticipating the termination of his oflicial duties, 
he has formed a law partnership with O. C. 
Pinney, and under the firm name of Gary & 
Piuney has located in the Perry-Payne block 
and re-entered the general law practice. Up to 
the time of his appointment as Collector of 
Customs, Captain Gary had been actively en- 
gaged in the practice of his profession, and as 
counsel had participated in some of the most 
closely contested cases ever tried at the Cleve- 
land bar, among which was the well remem- 
bered, famed case of J. E. Timms vs. More- 
house and others, which was three times tried, 
the last time occupying the jury for a period of 
forty-two days. In this case he contended suc- 
cessfully against the famous Irish lawyer, John 
McSweany, and Loren Prentiss, in the lower 
courts, and Judge Raney in the Supreme Court, 
resulting ir full vindication of his client, Timms, 
as well as heavy damages against defendant and 
liberal fees for himself. 

He was also the leading counsel for defend- 
ants in the quite famous "Breck will case.'' 
That he was a hard-working and uncompromis- 
ing fighter in the interest of his clients every 
member of the Cleveland bar will readily 
admit. 



d|OHN J. STANLEY, superintendent of the 
j Cleveland Electric Railway Company, has 
grown up with the railroad service of the 
city of Cleveland. He became connected with 
it in 1881 on the Broadway & Newburg line as 
conductor and was promoted not long afterward 
to the assistant superintendency of that line, 
and succeeding to the superintendency in 1887; 
in 1890 was made vice president of the same. 

Upon the consolidation of the lines forming 
the Cleveland Electric System, in 1893, Mr. 
Stanley was elected to the ofiice of general 



CUT Aiwa A COUNTY. 



superintendent, an bouor most worthily be- 
stowed. He is a large bolder of Cleveland 
Electric stock and a member of the board of 
directors. 

Mr. Stanley was liorn in Cleveland, March 5, 
1863. He received a liberal ediiQation from the 
public schools of Cleveland, leaving them at 
seventeen years of age to engage in street rail- 
road work. 

Mr. Stanley is a son of Joseph L. Stanley, 
deceased, who came from Chester, England, to 
Cleveland in 1853. He engaged in the brick 
and tile business and afterward was interested 
in an oil refinery in this city for some years, 
and disposing of his oil interests he became 
connected with street railroads. He was elected 
president of the Broadway & Newburg line and 
served until his accidental death in 1890 at the 
age of sixty. 

He married in England Miss ■ — ■ Bragg, 

who bore him si.x cbildren. Those living are, — - 
John J.; Charles H.; Mrs. Jobn Sweeney, of 
Detroit; Mrs. Charles J. Seabrookof Cleveland; 
and Lilly V., single. 

Superintendent Stanley married in Cleveland 
Miss Kose, a daughter of Philetus Francis, an 
early settler and a transfer man. Mr. and Mrs. 
Stanley's children are, — Francis, Eliza and 
Rhoda L. 

Mr. Stanley is a tbirty-second-degree Mason, 
and was first made a Mason in Cleveland. 



LE. BEILSTEm, assistant secretary of 
I the Cleveland Electric Railway Company, 
i and for seven years connected with rail- 
road business in Cleveland, is a native son of 
tbe Forest City, being born here in August, 
1867. At fourteen years of age he left school, 
and his first efforts in a business way were ex- 
erted in behalf of the East Cleveland Railway, 
a few years later in the capacity of clerk, but 
he soon became secretary and treasurer of the 
road and remained so until the formation of tbe 
Cleveland Electric Company, in February, 1893, 
when he was made assistant secretary. 



Mr. Beilstein is a son of a well-known citizen 
of Cleveland, Adam Beilstein, born in Hessen 
Darmstadt, Germany. He came to Cleveland 
in 1849 and established a tailoring business 
here, conducting it until his retirement from 
business, and being succeeded by his son, John 
W. Beilstein. 

Adam Beilstein married, in Cleveland, Julia, 
a daughter of Mr. Ranch, a German farmer 
and an early settler of this county. L. E. Beil- 
stein is the youngest of six children, four now 

living, viz.: Mrs. Eliza , Julius, John W. 

and L. E. 

February 4, 1893, Mr. L. E. Beilstein mar- 
ried Emily R., a daughter of Charles Reeder, a 
large stone dealer and proprietor of Reeder's 
stone quarry, who operates the East End 
Ice Company. 

Mr. Beilstein is a gentleman of great energy, 
and though young in years his experience in 
railroad matters is extended and renders him a 
most capable and valuable man. 



'jPi) EV. JOHN C. WEIDMANN, Super- 
1-^ intendent of the German Methodist 
J] ^ Orphan Asylum at Berea, Ohio, was 
^ born in Seussen, kingdom of Bavaria, 

Germany, March 1, 1884, where tbe early years 
of his life were spent. He attended tbe common 
schools in his native country. At the age of 
eighteen he emigrated to America and for nearly 
one year was employed as a carriage trimmer at 
South Bend, Indiana, afterward following the 
same occupation at La Porte, same State, for 
some tbree years, and at Greencastle, also in 
that State, for some time. 

During this period he took up the study of 
tbeology, and while residing in Greencastle was 
made a local preacher in the Methodist Church, 
in 1858. In 1860 he entered the Southeastern 
Indiana Conference, where he remained till 
1864, at whicli time the German Conference of 
the Methodist Church was organized. His lot 
fell to the Central German Conference. In 



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1860 he was assigned to the charge at Goshen, 
Indiana, where he labored for two years. From 
1862 to 1864 ho filled the pulpit of the Meth- 
odist Church at Kendallville, then that of Madi- 
son, both in that State, next at Portsmouth, 
Ohio, three years, and two years at Newport, 
Kentucky. In 1871 he was chosen Presiding 
Elder over the North Ohio District, where he 
served two years. He was then stationed at 
Toledo, Ohii, for three years, then at Evans- 
ville, Indiana, for three years, then at New 
Albany, same State, for one year, and at Wheel- 
ing, West Virginia, for three years. He had 
charge of the Everett Street Church in Cincin- 
nati, Ohio, from 1883 to 1886, and for the two fol- 
lowing years of the Race Street Church in the 
same city, which is the mother church of Ger- 
man Methodism in this country. 

In 1888 he was appointed superintendent of 
the German Methodist Orphan Asylum at Berea, 
Ohio, which position he has since filled accept- 
ably to all. The asylum was founded in 1864. 
At the present time there are nearly 100 chil- 
dren receiving the benefits of the institution. 

The asylum, which is a commodious and 
handsome structure, built of sandstone, at a cost 
of nearly $50,000, is beautifully located in a 
lot of about twenty acres, almost surrounded by 
fine trees and truly a fit place for such a noble 
institution. The management may congratulate 
themselves on having secured an able man to 
superintend its interests. The institution is 
supported entirely by the German Methodist 
Church at large, and children are received from 
the remote East to the Mississippi river. The 
donations received for the maintenance of the 
asylum are all liberal gifts. There is not a dollar 
of indebtedness on the institution, although 
there is but a small endowment fund. Up to 
the present time 354 children have been re- 
ceived and cared for. 

Mr. Weidmann was first married in La Porte, 
Indiana, to Miss Kate Ribbe, who died in Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio, in 1886. Five children came to 
bless this union, of whom William H., the eldest, 
is a business man of San Francisco, California; 



the second, Carl, is employed in the Methodist 
Book Concern at St. Louis: Otillia is a teacher 
in the German Orphan Asylum at Berea; Rose 
is a student at Baldwin LTniversity, and is also 
a teacher in the kindergarten at the asylum; 
while Anna, the youngest child, is a student in 
the Berea high school. 

Mr. Weidmann was married to his present 
wife, Mrs. Julia Biymeier Weber, in 1888. 
Mrs. Weber was the widow of the late Rev. 
Philip Weber, the former superintendent of the 
German Methodist Asylum. After the death 
of her husband she assumed the duties of super- 
intendent until her present marriage. 

Mr. Weidmann is a man well adapted to the 
position which he so ably fills. He takes a 
keen interest in educational matters, and is a 
member of the Board of Education of Berea, of 
which body he has been chosen clerk. 



CHARLES H. HALL, of Dover township, 
Cuyahoga county, Ohio, was born on the 
farm on which be now lives, November 
4, 1817, and is ranked with the venerable citi- 
zens of the township. 

His father, Barnabas Hall, who was born in 
Lee, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, in 1791, 
came with his father, Moses Hall, to Ashtabula 
county, Ohio, in 1811, and shortly afterward 
settled in Dover township, Cuyahoga county. 
That same year, 1811, he was married in Lee, 
Massachusetts, to Hannah Phelps, who was born 
near Hartford, Connecticut, about 1792. They 
continued to reside in Dover township the rest 
of their lives. He died May 29, 1863; she, 
September 19, 1873. They had two children: 
Harriet E. and Charles H. The former, wife of 
Hiram Burrell, died in ShetKeld, Lorain county, 
Ohio. 

As above stated, Mr. Hall was born on the 
farm on which he now lives, and here his whole 
life has been spent, his career an active and 
useful one. He was first married, November 
30, 1S36. in East Cleveland, Ohio, to Miss 




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Sauiaiitlia IngersoU, who was born there Jan- 
uary 2, 1815. They had three children who 
grew up, namely: Chauncey D.; Harriet, wife 
of Greorge Miner, died in Olmsted township, 
Cuyahoga county, Ohio, June 17, 1879; and 
Hannah, wife of Jesse Burrellr Mrs. Saniantha 
Hall departed this life in Sheffield, Ohio, and 
some time afterward Mr. Hall married Mrs. 
Adelia Stone Bradley, widow of Dr. Jason 
Bradley and daughter of Jonas and Elizabeth 
(Hatslat) Stone, her birth having occurred in 
Petersham, Massachusetts, September 29, 1826. 
Mr. Hall has filled the offices of Justice of 
the Peace, Assessor and Township Trustee. 



W'|ILLIAM R. 
Huntington 



HUNTINGTON, of the 
Coal Company of Cleve- 
^ land, was born in 1857. He is the son 
of John and Jane (Beck) Huntington, and is 
one of seven children. The parents were mar- 
ried in 1852, and the father died in 1893, at the 
age of sixty years; the mother in 1882, at the 
age of iifty. They were born in Princeton, 
England, and came to America in 1853. They 
were of the Episcopal Church persuasion. The 
father was for a time in the business of slate 
and gravel roofing in Cleveland. In the year 
1868 he became interested in the oil business 
as one of the firm of Clark, Payne & Company, 
now the Standard Oil Company. John Hunt- 
ington was a man well known in Cleveland. In 
his early life he had learned navigation, and to 
this held of business his attention was largely 
turned. He was a large vessel owner and was 
the originator of what is now the Cleveland 
Stone Company, a company in which the sub- 
ject of this sketch is a shareholder. He was a 
rumarkably successful business man. He was 
prominent in political circles and was for four- 
teen years a meuiber of the City Council. He 
was a prominent thirty-tvvo-degree Mason and 
a member of the Independent Order of Odd 
Fellows. 

Our subject formerly dealt in oil, and in 
various other business he has from time to time 



been interested. After 1878 he was for a time 
Deputy County Treasurer, and in 1882 he be- 
came one of the hardware firtn of Mcintosh, 
Huntington & Company, but five years later he 
gave up active business life on account of fail- 
ing health. In 1890 he became engaged in the 
wholesale coal business, and to-day the Hunt- 
ington Coal Company is one of the largest deal- 
ers of Cleveland. Mr. Huntington is also in- 
terested in manufacturing, being identified with 
the Ludlow Manufacturing Company of this 
city, and with an incandescent light manufac- 
turing company of Newark, Ohio. 

In politics Mr. Huntington is an active Re- 
publican. By Governor McKinley he was ap- 
pointed Fish and Game Commissioner for Ohio. 
He is a thirty-second-degree Mason, and in the 
order of Masonry he has rilled all of the chairs. 
He belongs to the ancient order of the Mystic 
Shrine and to other fraternal and benevolent 
orders. 

In 1854 Mr. Huntington married Miss Mor- 
ice, a daughter of J. C. Baldwin, of Houston, 
Texas, and a granddaughter of the late Judge 
Horace Foote, of Cleveland. 

In a social way Mr. Huntington is promi- 
nent. He is a member of the Ottawa Shooting 
Club and of the West Huron Sporting Club. 
He is a genial and popular man. 



|\ASHINGTON H. LAWRENCE, as 
president of the National Carbon Com- 
^ pany, the Sperry Electric Railway 
Company, the Brush Electric Company, and 
its subordinate branches, occupies a prominent 
position among Cleveland manufacturers. He 
was born in Olmsted, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, 
January 17, 1840, and enjoys the advantages 
of a descent from that New England blood 
which has carried the fame of American manu- 
facturers and inventions around the world. 
His father was Joel B. Lawrence, of Pepperell, 
Massachusetts, who, with his cousins, Amos 
and Abbott Lawrence, were descendants of John 



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Lawrence, one of the early settlers of the 
Massachusetts Bay colony, having landed in 
1635 and settling in Wolverton, Massachusetts. 
All these Lawreuces are descendants of Robert 
Lawrence, of Lancashire, England, who was 
knighted by Richard 1st for l)ra very displayed at 
the siege of Acre. Mr. Lawrence's mother was 
Catherine Harris, whose parents lived at Little 
Rest, Dutchess county, New York. Joel B. 
Lawrence moved to Olmsted, Cuyahoga county, 
in 1833, and endured all the privations incident 
to life in the "Western Reserve in the first half 
of the present century. He owned a large tract 
of land and a flouring mill in Olmsted at the 
time of his death, which occurred in 1851, his 
wife dying two years later. 

Left an orphan at thirteen years of age, Mr. 
Lawrence began life as a clerk at Berea, where 
he continued his studies, which had been begun 
in the common schools of Olmsted. He at the 
same time pursued a coarse of study at Bald- 
win University, and gained both a college as 
well as a business education by reserving a por- 
tion of his time to himself. 

When nineteen years of age, the Hon. John 
Baldwin associated his son Milton with Mr. 
Lawrence in the management of large milling 
and real-estate properties in Kansas. Milton 
Baldwin's death, before the enterprise "was fully 
inaugurated, left the entire burden of the care 
of the properties upon Mr. Lawrence's shoulders. 

In the latter part of 1859, Mr. Lawrence 
concluded his coimections with Mr. Baldwin, 
and desiring to be his own master, engaged in 
business with his brother at Hannibal, Missouri. 
"While so engaged, he was compelled to travel 
through much of western Missouri and eastern 
Kansas, and saw much of the border warfare 
that followed the struggle for Kansas, as 
well as the early days of the Rebellion, having 
many narrow escapes himself from the assaults 
of the guerrilla. 

He returned to Olmsted late in 1861 to 
manage the family property there, and in 1864 
removed to Cleveland, where he became asso- 
ciated with Messrs. X. S. C. Perkins and W. A. 



Mack in the manufacture of the Domestic Sew- 
ing Machine. This business proved very suc- 
cessful, as Mr. Lawrence succeeded in triumph- 
ing over the sewing machine combination in all 
their patent litigations, and ultimately sold his 
interest to his associates. 

He had charge of the sales of the Howe Sew- 
ing Machine Company, his territory including 
five States, and was at the same time engaged in 
manufacturing bolts at Elyria, Ohio, in what 
is now known as the Cleveland Screw & Tap 
Company. He disposed of all these interests 
in 1874, and, noticing the great importance of 
electricity in commercial pursuits, he in 1874 
became a large stockholder in the Telegraph 
Supply Company, and retained his interests 
through its various changes until it was finally 
merged into what is now the Brush Electric 
Company. 

It is diiiicult for people to realize the 
enormous steps that have been taken since the 
first introduction of electricity in a commercial 
sense in 1878. Mr. Lawrence was associated 
with Mr. Charles F. Brush at the inception of 
the Brush Electric Company, furnishing a large 
portion of the original investment, and even in 
the darkest hours remained firm in his convic- 
tion of the ultimate success of their undertaking. 
The same pluck and energy that had character- 
ized his early connection during the dark days 
of the company was continued until the Brush 
Electric Company had a capital of $3,000,000, 
and as its general manager Mr. Lawrence had 
cliarge of the largest electrical manufacturing 
establishment in the world. 

After twenty years of most exacting business 
life, Mr. Lawrence in 1882 resolved to take a 
much needed rest. Severing his connection 
with the company, and, selling or exchanging 
the greater part of his interest, he invested 
largely in real-estate properties in Cleveland 
and elsewhere, and for several years devoted 
his leisure to its management. Although 
possessed of real-estate interests large enough 
to require all the time of most men, he 
was still unable to resist the charms of 



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active inaanfactiiring mauagement, and in 1886. 
after carefully looking tlie field over, decided to 
turn his attention to the manufacture of 
electric-light carbons, as this product was now 
used in every part of the globe in connection 
with arc lighting. Early in the history of the 
Brush Electric Company, he spent much time 
in their carbon department, and now returned 
to it with renewed zest, and became associated 
with "W. W. Masters in the manufacture of 
carbons at what is now the Willson Avenue 
factory of the National Carbon Company. Mr. 
Masters, through failing health, was anxious to 
retire, and Mr. Lawrence with his associates, 
Messrs. Myron T. Herrick, James Parmlee and 
Webb C. Hayes, became the owners of the entire 
business, under the name of the National Carbon 
Company. After four years of very successful 
business, it was found necessary to largely in- 
crease the capacity, and in 1891 the company 
purchased 115 acres adjoining the Lake Shore 
Ilailroad Company's right of way in the hatnlet 
of Lakewood, just west of what is now the city 
limits of Cleveland. On this tract of laud has 
since been erected the largest carbon factory in 
the world, with an estimated capacity of 
20,000,000 carbons per month. 

Mr. Lawrence has not only been a manu- 
facturer in the sense of an organizer and 
manager, but he has also shown great inventive 
capacity and a genius for constructing machinery 
adapted to factory use. The present factory 
just completed displays in a marked degree the 
improvements and inventions that have been 
made by him in this industry in the past few 
years. The processes of manufacture have been 
radically changed, and the improvement very 
marked when the factories of five years ago are 
taken into consideration. 

Mr. Lawrence is still the embodiment of in- 
domitable energy, perseverance and ability, and, 
in addition to the task of constructing the 
present large factory, as well as supplying 
carbons !iom the old factories, he has within 
the last year taken upon himself the presidency 
and management of his old company, the Brush 



Electric Company, of this city, as well as that 
of the Sperry Electric Railway Company, which 
in a marked degree shows the latest improve- 
ments in electrical equipment for street-car 
purposes. 

Mr. Lawrence was married in 1863 to Harriet 
E. CoUister, of Cleveland, daughter of William 
Collister, and has seven daughters. He spends 
much of his time at his summer home at Dover 
Bay Park, where several of his associates in 
business have erected cottages. 



DE. C. A. ARCHER, physician and sur- 
geon. No. 261 Pearl street, Cleveland, 
— ' Ohio, dates his birth in Carlisle, Canada, 
September 18, 1857. He is a sou of William 
and Clara (Foster) Archer, both natives of Can- 
ada. When the Doctor was a child his father 
died, aged thirty-five years. His venerable 
mother is still living, having passed her three- 
score years and ten, and for one of that age be- 
ing well jjreserved, both mentally and physi- 
cally. They had a family of seven children, C. 
A. being the sixth born and one of the five who 
are still living. Three of his sisters reside in 
Cleveland, viz.: Martha; Clara, wife of A. D. 
Coe; Emma, wife of Attorney O. L. Osborn. 
The mother lives in Cleveland. 

The subject of our sketch received his early 
education in the public schools of Cleveland. 
For two years he was a student in the Westei-n 
Reserve Medical College of this city, and after- 
ward he spent one year at St. Louis, Missouri, 
in the American Medical College. He graduated 
at the latter place in 1890. Upon completing his 
medical course. Dr. Archer entered upon the 
practice of his profession in Cleveland, making 
a specialty of the diseases peculiar to women 
and children, and up to the present time he has 
met with marked success. He is a frequent 
contributor to the American Medical Journal 
of St. Louis. 

Dr. Archer was married in 1879 to Miss 
Sarah Ward, a native of Geauga county, Ohio, 



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and a daughter of Marcus L. Ward. They have 
no children of their own, but have one adopted 
daughter, Liilie ]S'ina. Mrs. Archer is a mem- 
ber of the Disciple Church. 

The Doctor is prominently identified with the 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which 
he is Past Grand. He was the first one who 
ever gave the unwritten work in Chagrin Falls, 
Lodge, 'iso. 290. Republican in politics, he 
takes an active interest in the same and is iden- 
tified with the best elements of his party. On 
several occasions he has served as a member of 
the Republican Central Committee. 



B. STURTEVAKT, one of the most effi- 
cient and capable engineers in the State, 
is a native of Ohio, born -in Erie county, 
June 17, 1853. His parents, S. C. aiid 
Louisa (Humphrey) Sturtevant, were natives of 
Maine and Ohio respectively: the father was 
chief engineer for the Northern Transportation 
Company for nineteen years, and later brought 
out the Winstow, a passenger steamer which he 
ran on the lakes one year. After that he 
owned a small interest in the H. B. Tuttle, on 
which young Sturtevant had his first e.Nperience 
as an engineer. This was his last work; his 
health was impaired, and two years after leaving 
the water, in August, 1848, he passed from this 
life to the unsounded ocean of futurity. He 
was a man of admirable traits, and was one of 
the most popular engineers that ever traveled 
the lakes. There were two children in the 
family, the subject of this biographical sketch, 
and a brother two years younger, who died at 
the :>ge of thirteen years. 

Mr. Sturtevant acquired a practical education 
in the common schools of Cleveland, and was 
also a student of Oberlin College, Ohio. His 
taste and inclinations were for mechanics and 
not literature, so he went to Chicago and there 
served an apprenticeship in a machine-shop. 
This ended he returned home, and for four 
years sailed on the U. B. Tuttle, having entire 
charge of the vfssel the last yeai-. This was the 



beginning of a career upon the lakes which 
extended over a period of fifteen years. He 
was second engineer on the steamer Peerless for 
two years; this was one of the finest vessels on 
the lakes in those days, and there were many 
other elegantly equipped boats with which he 
was connected. He was employed as a locomo- 
tive engineer on the Lake Shore road four years, 
and for nine years was one of Bradley's engin- 
eers, serving as chief six years of that time. 
During the construction of the Society for Sav- 
ings building he came to Cleveland to repre- 
sent the owners with no expectation of i-emaining 
after the completion of the building. However, 
sufficient inducement was ofi'ered, and for the 
last eight years he has filled the position of cliief 
engineer; he has most comfortable quarters, the 
room being above ground and fitted up with all 
modern conveniences. The building is one of 
the finest in the State, ten stories high, and 
contains three hundred and sixty-six rooms. 

Mr. Sturtevant was married in 1877, on 
Thanksgiving day, to Miss Russella Hubble, a 
daughter of O. C. Hubble, of Cleveland: three 
children were born of this union, Chandler, 
deceased, Fred and Bessie. 

Mrs. Sturtevant is a member of the Disciples' 
Church. Onr worthy subject is a very popular 
member of the M. E. B. A., No. 2 (Marine 
Engineers' Benefit Association), and has filled 
all the offices of the organization; for three years 
he has been Treasurer, to which office he was 
elected without opposition. Politically he isan 
ardent adherent of the Republican party. He 
is enterprising and progressive, and like his 
honored father commands the respect of all with 
whom he miiiijles. 



I AMES H. MELCHER, of Cleveland, was 
' born in Hanover, Germany, September 27, 
^ 1827, a son of Harmon Meleher. James 
H. attended the village school of Rabbler, his 
native town, eight years, was confirmed there, 
and in 1845 came with his father's family to 
Ameiiea. They located on the farm purchased 



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from a Mr. Stafford, in what is now South 
tuclid, Ohio. The fatlier had sold his farm in 
Germany to a neighbor, Holtzgrave, for |3,300. 
In 1868 our subject returned on a visit to his 
native country, and at that time another neigh- 
bor wanted the farm, for which he was willing 
tu pay $9,000. By the laws of that country at 
that time, Mr. Melcher could have redeemed 
the farm by returning Mr.Holtzgrave tlie $3,300, 
and was importuned by others to do so, but his 
reply was: "Mr. Holtzgrave paid a little more 
for the farm at that time than others were will- 
ing to give, and he shall never be disturbed in 
his right of possession by any unforeseen tech- 
nicality by myself or any of my father's family." 
Tlius the matter was forever dropped. 

After coming to America, Mr. Melcher re- 
mained at home during tiie winter, and then 
secured work from Dr. Everett, of Cleveland, 



fur four dolls 



aonth 



After remain: 



°g 



with that gentleman two years, he was employed 
by Edwin Clark two and a half years, having 
been engagetl as a hostler in both positions. 
During that time Mr. Melcher also learned the 
cabinet-maker's trade, and for the following ten 
years worked in the carpenter shop of Seburn 
& Ilempy. He next embarked in the grocery 
business on Prospect street opposite where he 
now lives, and continued in that occupation until 
1888. In that year he was elected a member 
of the Erie Street Cemetery, the duties of which 
required his entire attention, and he sold his in- 
terest in the grocery business to his partner, E. 
H. Klaustermeyer, but still holds one-half in- 
terest in the building. 

In 1851, Mr. Melcher was united in marriage 
with Miss Mary Hempy, a daughter of John 
F. Ilempy, who came from Hanover, Germany, 
to this city at the same time as our subject's 
family, when Mrs. Melcher was thirteen years 
of age. To this union have been born six 
children, viz.: Harmon, deceased at the age of 
two and a half years; J. G. Henry, who studied 
law, was admitted to the bar, and is now book- 
keeper for J. W. Rainey, engaged in the coke 
business iti Pennsylvania; Mary ElizaV)eth at 



home; Joseph A., who spent twelve years in 
the Bank of Commerce, of Cleveland, is now 
cashier of the Lorain Street Savings Bank; 
Charles A., a graduate of the Cleveland high 
school, is employed in the Union National 
Bank, on Superior street. Mr. and Mrs. Mel- 
cher are members of the Lutheran Church, in 
which the former has served as Trustee for 
thirty-four years. In political matters, he is a 
staunch Republican. His character has ever 
been above reproach in all qualities of honor- 
able manhood, has ever been a man of the 
strictest integrity, a neighbor of the kindest 
impulses, and a friend of humanity. 



J I M. HENDERSON, a member of the law 
firm of Henderson, Kline & ToUes, No. 
-' 520 Cuyahoga Building, Cleveland, Ohio, 
has been identified with the legal practice in 
this city for thirty years. As a prominent 
and influential lawyer and as one of the lead- 
ing citizens of Cleveland, it is eminently fitting 
that some personal mention be made of him 
in this work, the aim of which is to portray 
the representative men and women of the 
county. 

J. M. Henderson was born in Richland 
county, Ohio, April 14, 1840, son of Dr. J. P. 
and Anna (Moreland) Henderson, natives of 
western Pennsylvania and descendents of Scotch- 
Irish ancestors. For nearly sixty years Dr. 
Henderson practiced his profession in Newville, 
Richland county, Ohio. He was a man of 
many sterling traits of character and was hon- 
ored and respected by all who knew him. Not 
only as a physician and surgdon did he gain 
pre-eminence: he served in the Ohio Legisla- 
ture several terms and was a member of the 
Constitutional Convention which framed the 
present constitution of the State. He was en- 
terprising and public-spirited and gave his 
influence unreservedly in educational and religi- 
ous matters and whatever was in his opinion 
intended for the best interests of the eommu- 



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nity. He died Jnly 1, 1890, after an active and 
useful life, aged eighty-seven years. His wife 
died some years before, at the age of fifty-three 
years. Both were members of the United Pres- 
byterian Church. 

The subject of our sketch is the only survivor 
of the family, the other children born to his 
parents having died in early life. He spent 
three years in Keiiyon College, Gambler, Ohio, 
and subsequently, in 1862, graduated at Miami 
University, Oxford, this State. He began the 
study of law at Maiistield, Ohio, under the in- 
structions of Judge Dii-Iani, afterward attended 
a law school in Cleveland, where he graduated, 
and in 1864 l)egan the practice of his profession 
here. And, as above stated, he has spent thirty 
years in the practice of law in this city. His 
scholarly attainments and his special fitness for 
his chosen profession soon brought him into 
prominence and secured for him a standing 
among the leading members of the bar. This 
high position he has ever since maintained. 

Mr. Henderson was married June 20, 1872, 
to Miss Anna R. Gary, daughter of Freeman 
Cary,of College Hill, Ohio. They have a family 
of seven children, viz.: William C, Grace M., 
Anna, Rebecca, Jaiinet, Florence and Kuth. 
Their son is a member of the Freshman class at 
Gambler. Mrs. Henderson is a lady of rare 
culture and refinement. She is a graduate of 
College Hill P^emale Seminary, and for several 
years previous to her marriage was a popular 
and successful teacher. 

Politically, Mr. Henderson is a Republican. 



FREDERICK BULLINGEK was born 
March 16, 1836, in the kingdom of 
— Wurtemburg, Germany, where he was 
reared and lived until 1863, when he emigrated 
to America. He lived in New York about 
three months and then enlisted in Company K, 
Twenty-fourth New York Cavalry, serving one 
year. After leaving the United States Army 
he went to Mexico and enlisted in the Mexican 



Army, where he served about six months. He 
then went to Idaho and engaged in buflFalo 
hunting for several months, after which he 
came to Rock Island, Illinois, remained there 
six months, and then came to Cleveland, Ohio, 
and was employed in a meat market for a short 
time. He then moved to Berea, about 1875, 
since which time he has been engaged in con- 
tracting and building. 

Mr. Bullinger was married in Cleveland, 
Ohio, to Rosanna Stiger, a native of Germany. 

He is the owner of much property in the city 
of Berea and stands well in his chosen occupa- 
tion. 



I T f C. APPLEGARTH, D. D., pastor of the 
|rM| Euclid Avenue Baptist Church, Cleve- 

II ^ land, Ohio, is one of the most prominent 
'^ ministers in the city. 

He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1853, 
and was educated in the Baltimore City College, 
Johns Hopkins University and Crozer Theo- 
logical Seminary, completing a course of study 
in all these institutions. He received the de- 
gree of D. D. from Denison University. 

Dr. Applegarth's first ministerial work was 
at Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. He came to his 
present charge early in 1893, coming here from 
the Fourth Avenue Church of Pi ttsbuT-g, where 
he had served three years. Previous to that he 
was for nearly eight years located in New 
Brunswick, New Jersey. The Euclid Avenue 
Baptist Church is one of the oldest churches in 
the city as well as one of the strongest. The 
number of its members is about 800, with a 
constituency of nearly 2,000, while in its two 
Sunday-schools are about 900. Both the church 
and Sabbath-school are enjoying an era of great 
prosperity. 

Dr. Applegarth was married in 1878 to Miss 
Mary P. Tyson, daughter of Hon. Edward Ty- 
son, of Chester, Pennsylvania, and an ex-Senator 
of that State. They have one child, Margaret 
Tyson Applegarth. 



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Aside from his regular church work, the 
Doctor devotes considerable time to other re- 
ligious and educational interests, being promi- 
nently connected with various institutions. He 
is a trustee of the Crozer Theological Seminary 
and of the Denisou University; a life director 
of the Baptist National Missionary Society of 
Home and Foreign Missions; president of the 
Ministers' (Baptist) Conference of Cleveland; 
and trustee of the State Society for Missions. 



'Jr^j F. SMITH, President of the Cleveland 
h^ and Pittsburg Railroad Company, was 
Ji *^ born in Windham, Connecticut, June 20, 
"^ 1830. His father, Edwin Smith, a mer- 

chant, brought his family to Cleveland in 1840. 
Here he resided until 1870, when he returned 
to Connecticut. He died in July, 1873, aged 
seventy-three years. Pursuing his genealogy 
still further, we find that Nathaniel Smith, 
grandfather of our subject, was a soldier in the 
Colonial army, and among the battles partici- 
pated in by him was the one at White Plains, 
New York. He was born in Windham, Con- 
necticut, and died there in 1823, aged sixty- 
three j-ears. His wife was Submit Hunting- 
ton, who bore him eleven children. Edwin 
Smith married Amanda Friuk. Five children 
resulted from the union, one of whom besides 
our subject was a railroad man. It was Edwin 
Smith, Jr., who was for some years with the 
Cleveland & Pittsburg Company, but lastly 
with the Southern Pacific Conapany, and died 
in East Oakland, California, in 1892. 

R. F. Smith is the sole living member of his 
father's family. He was educated liberally in 
public and private institutions and at fifteen 
years of age began life as a clerk in a hardware 
store conducted by George W. Penny & Com- 
pany, at Newark, Ohio. He assisted his father 
for two years after this, and in 1851 engaged 
with Raymond North & Company as book- 
keeper and cashier, and continued with this 
tirin in this city four years. Then his railroad 



career began: it was in 1855, and his first posi- 
tion was in the capicity of paymaster for the 
company. He filled this until 1865, when he 
was promoted to be auditor for the company. 
Four years from that date he was elected vice- 
president of the company, continuing to act as 
auditor until 1871. That year he assumed the 
duties of vice-president to the exclusion of any 
other work, and when upon the leasing of the 
road to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company the 
office of vice-president was abolished Mr. Smith 
became assistant general manager under the new 
company. He was previous to this a director 
of the company for a period of one year, and 
again became a director in 1886, continuing un- 
til the present time. In 1887 he was made 
general agent of the lessee company. In 1889 
he was made superintendent of the relief depart- 
ment of the lessee .company, which position he 
still holds. In February, 1891, President Mc- 
Cullough died, and Mr. Smith was elected as 
his successor in that office in May of tiie same 
year. 

On September 30, 1856, Mr. Smith was mar- 
ried, in Colchester, Connecticut, to Rebecca W., 
a daughter of General John T. Peters. Four 
children w^ere born by this union, viz.: Clifford 
C, a mechanical engineer; Augustus F., chief 
clerk of the Pennsylvania relief department; 
Carrie Belle, student in Painesville (Ohio) 
Seminary; and the other, the first born, died in 
infancy. 

Mr. Smith has been a member of the First 
Presbyterian Church of this city since 1851, 
and was for six years superintendent of the 
Sabbath-school, and has been an Elder in the 
same since. 



DERMOTT O. SWEET, a worthy citizen 
I of Rocky River Hamlet, is a son of John 
— and Catharine (Parks) Sweet, and was 
born in Rockport township, near Rocky River 
Hamlet, May 23, 1840. Mr. Sweet has always 
resided in that township. April 2, 1862, in 
Dover township, Cuyahoga county, he married 



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Miss Gertrude Coe, a daugliter of the late 
Edwin W. and Harriet (Peck) Coe,— her father 

rative of Connecticut and her motlier of 
Cuyahoga county. They died in Dover town- 
ship, where they settled after marriage. Mrs. 
Sweet was born December 31, 1842. Mr. and 
Mr.=. Sweet are the parents of four children: 
George K., Hattic B., John and Frank D. 

Mr. Sweet has held the office of Township 
Assessor, and also otlier local offices. 



R. RUMSEY, general shipping inaster 

«, of the Lake Carriers' Association, is a 
li most familiar figure in Cleveland, where 
he has resided nearly twenty years. 

From his boyhood he was strong and active 
and possessed a liking and adaptation for ath- 
letics, a subject in which he is still greatly 
interested. He believes as much in man's phys- 
ical as in his mental culture and spent many 
years in that branch of instruction, his first 
school, twenty years ago being at the corner of 
Seneca and Superior streets. His tutors in this 
art were Professor Bigelow of Boston and Pro- 
fessor Gainsley of Buffalo. Boxing and wrest- 
ling were his favorite sports and these he taught 
air over the United States and Canada. He is 
the oldest boxer now in commission. Mr. 
Ilumsey was once a great dumb-bell lifter, his 
heaviest bell 175 pounds, and in a contest with 
Pennell in 1S.S3 was beaten, Pennell's bell weigh- 
ing 201^ pounds. 

Mr. Rumsey was born on a farm in this 
State in 1847, and is a son of R. T. Rumsey, 
night inspector of customs in Cleveland. He 
sailed the lakes many years and retired from 
the water at an advanced age. 

A. II. Rumsey left home at fourteen and be- 
came a sailor. He rose by merited promotion, 
being mate of nearly all prominent crafts leav- 
ing this port and finally bore a captain's com- 
mission. 

Upon deserting the lakes Mr. Rumsey served 
five years in the police department of this city 



rendering that efficient service which prompted 
the vessel owners to present to him a handsome 
gold watch and chain; and Miles A: Company 
presented him with a fine solid gold badge, 
inscribed "Special Police," all in recognition of 
faithful official service. 

Mr. Rumsey's mother was Rebecca Phelps, 
who bore six children, as follows: A. R. ; Law- 
son, at Lawrence, Kansas; Alice, wife of Lewis 
Todd; Carleton; Ida, who married Ralph Wil- 
cox; and Ella, wife of Rev. Hamilton, a Presby- 
terian minister of this State. 

A. R. Rumsey was married in Sharon, Penn- 
sylvania, to Miss Mollie Messersmith, a daugh- 
ter of Jacob Messersmith, a hotel man. They 
have no children. 



dlOHN E. De OTT, a popular conductor on 
I the Erie railway, was born in Prescott, 
Ontario, September 4, 1859, a son of 
Captain C. N. De Ott, now engaged in trim- 
ming ore vessels at Ashland, AYisconsin. The 
latter was for many years a lake captain, one of 
the oldest yet living. He was born in Ontario, 
Canada, a son of Francis F. De Ott, who is still 
living, now aged eighty-three years. His oc- 
cupation was that of carriage-maker. He is of 
French descent, his ancestors coming to the 
New World several generations ago. Captain 
C. N. De Ott was born in 1828, and his chil- 
dren were: C. N., Jr.; John E. and Mrs. Albert 
Raymond. 

John E. De Ott, our subject, secured his edu- 
cation at the Kentucky Street school in Cleve- 
land, and it was limited to that. When very 
young he went aboard his father's craft and for 
six years sailed on the lakes, the last year of 
which time he was mate of the vessel named 
William Grimsby: he was then the youngest 
mate on the lakes. On leaving the water in 
1.878 he began as a brakeman on the New 
York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad, then on 
the Atlantic & Great Western road with Con- 
ductor J. H. Archer; and after four years' ser- 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



vice he was promoted conductor, in which capac- 
ity he has proved himself most capable and effi- 
cient, and is indeed a favorite of his employers 
and CO employees. 

He was married, in Cleveland, September 28, 
1887, to Miss Mamie, a daughter of Gerhard 
Smith, deceased. 

Mr. and Mrs. De Ott have one child. Norma 
Marie, born April 24, 1893. 

Mr. De Ott is a member of the O. II. C, a 
Master Mason, being a member of Biglow 
Lodge, and also of the ladies' auxiliary branch 
termed the Order of the Eastern Star. 



P) J. COONEY, the efficient secretary of 
the Director of Public Works, was born 
in Cleveland in 1855. The days of his 
youth were spent within the walls of 
public and private schools. When he had at- 
tained a certain advancement his brother, John 
Cooney, placed him in an educational institu- 
tion of Dayton, Ohio, where he spent two years. 
On leaving this school he entered Notre Dame 
University at South Bend, Indiana, and pur- 
sued his studies until it was decided that a more 
suitable place for a year's study just at this 
stage of his preparations, would be in a Euro- 
pean institution. In accordance with these 
plans he sailed for Ireland and entered St. Pat- 
rick's College in county Cavan. He returned 
to the United States in 1877 and re-entered 
Notre Dame University, graduating there in 
1878 from a classical course. 

For many years Mr. Cooney filled responsible 
positions with leading firms in this city. He 
was bookkeeper for the McGillin Dry Goods 
Company for three years; served in the same 
capacity for the Excelsior Clothing Company 
for three years; served in the same capacity for 
the Excelsior Clothing Company an equal pe- 
riod, and flattering offers have been tendered 
him from leading business houses to accept re- 
sponsible places, but it was not convenient for 
liim to do so. 



In politics Mr. Cooney is very strongly 
Democratic. From his first ballot the cause of 
his party has been one of much moment to him. 
He has been twice a candidate for Justice of 
the Peace and twice a candidate for Representa- 
tive to the Legislature, but was unsuccessful 
because the Republican strength could not be 
overcome. He made a successful race for al- 
derman and served one term, under the old 
regime. 

In 1893 Mr. Cooney was appointed by Direc- 
tor Farley to his present office. 

John Cooney was born in Ireland in county 
Cavai). He left there about fifty years ago, 
coming to Cleveland, and for the greater part 
has been a retail liquor dealer here. He mar- 
ried in Cleveland Jane Clark, born also in Ire- 
land. Their children are: P. J.; Rosa; Jennie; 
J. E., in railway mail service; Bessie and Kittie, 
One other is deceased. Mrs. Cooney died Jan- 
uary 11, 1886. 

The family all make their home under the 
paternal roof, all being in Cleveland and all 
unmarried. 



ILIAN EGEPvT, a leading barrel manu- 
facturer of Cleveland, and a well known 
German citizen, was born in what is now 
Nassau, Prussia, September 9, 1834, and 
at eighteen years of age joined the army for 
three years, according to the custom of the coun- 
try. He then came to the United States, stop- 
ping in Canton, Ohio, where he learned the 
cooper's trade; and in 1861 he came to Cleve- 
land, where in 1864 he established a small 
factory on Longwood avenue, employing a few 
men. His business grew with the development 
of the country, and in 1877 he began manufact- 
uring staves at Ridgeway, this State, turning 
out 50,000 a year, the most of which he con- 
sumes in his own factory, to meet the increasing 
demand in his trade. In 1878 he erected a 
large factory on Wilson avenue, near the New 
York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railway depot, with 
a capacity for 500 barrels per day, and employ- 



CUTAnOOA COUNTY. 



ing, wlieti there is a full force, fifty men. The 
Scoville, Sherman & Company's oil works con- 
sume the product of Mr. Egert's factory. 

Mr. Egert lias been prominent and active in 
connection with the Saengerfast, being seven 
years its vice-president and four years its treas- 
urer. He is a thoroughgoing American, giving 
a conspicuous stimulus to an imjjortant industry. 

His father, a farmer, died iu 1848, at the age 
of thirty-fonr years. Three of his five children 
are living, namely: Kilian (our subject); Conrad; 
and Lizzie, married. In September, 1863, Mr. 
Egert married Frederica Bauer, of Cleveland, 
but boru in Wurtemburg, Germany. The chil- 
dren by this marriage are: Lizzie, now Mrs. 
Fred Diefz; Minnie, who married Louis Scher- 
del, of this city; Flora; Herman, deceased; 
AVilliam, Henry and Edith. 



\{ J OWAED H. BUKGESS, City Clerk of 
Ir^ Cleveland, is one of the prominent 
II ^ young men of the city and one of the 
^ leading Republicans of Cuyahoga county. 

He was born in Huron county, Ohio, on Sep- 
tember 10, 1859, and is the son of Rev. Oliver 
Burgess, a retired Methodist minister of Cleve- 
land. Rev. Burgess was born in Frederick 
county, Maryland, in 1817, and is the son of 
William Pitt Burgess, who removed to Mount 
Vernon, Ohio, when his son was a boy, and 
there engaged in merchandising. Rev. Burgess 
began his ministerial labors at a very early age, 
delivering his first sermon on April 15, 1835, 
near Norwalk, Ohio, while a student at Norwalk 
Seminar)'. During his long career in the pul- 
pit he was stationed at many places throughout 
northern Ohio, and going West continued his 
ministry for a few years in Michigan and Iowa. 
In the history of his first work he appears as 
an itinerant minister, and is pointed to as one 
of the early ministers of the Methodist Church 
in Ohio. He has been and is a frequent con- 
tributor to religious journals, and his articles 
have always been well received and highly 
prized. 



He was married near Xorwalk, Ohio, to Caro- 
line M. Cogswell, who was at the time a student 
of Norwalk Seminary. Five sons and six 
daughters have been born to this union, all of 
whom, with one e.xception, are still living. 
Rev. Burgess removed with his family to 
Cleveland in 1870, where he has since resided 
and is one of the honored citizens of the Forest 
City. 

Mr. Howard H. Burgess came with his par- 
ents to Cleveland in 1870. He was educated in 
the Cleveland public schools, in Brooks' Mili- 
tary Academy, and at Baldwin University, at 
Berea, Ohio. In 1880 he began bis newspaper 
career in the oflice of the Cleveland Herald. 
Beginning as "copy holder," he was soon occu- 
pying a position on the local staff, and event- 
ually was promoted to a position as political 
writer. He was detailed to represent his paper 
on a portion of Blaine's tour in 1884, and is 
credited with some fine newspaper work on this 
occasion, as well as during his newspaper career. 
Upon the consolidation of the Herald and Plain 
Dealer in 1885, Mr. Burgess took charge of the 
Sunday Voice. The same year he was appointed 
Assistant City Clerk of Cleveland, in which 
capacity he served until 1887. In 1889 he was 
elected by the City Council to the position of 
Clerk of the city, and an endorsement of his 
administration has come at the end of each term 
by a re-election, in 1891 and 1893. He is the 
only Republican at the head of a department in 
the city government of Cleveland at the present 
time, which fact speaks volumes for his ability 
and popularity. 

Mr. Burgess is a stalwart Republican, and 
although young in years he has been very active 
in his party's service, and is one of the leaders 
in the city of Cleveland and Cuyahoga county, 
and is well and favorably known among the 
leaders of the party throughout the Buckeye 
State. In 1888 he was closely identified with 
the Hon. T. E. Burton in the management of 
that gentleman's successful Congressional can- 
vass. He was secretary and treasurer of the 
committee in the campaign which resulted in 



CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 



the election of the Hon. William G. Rose as 
Mayor of Cleveland in 1891; was Secretary of 
the Union League and was Secretary of the 
Garfield Club, at that time one of the strongest 
Republican organizations in the city. He is at 
the present time Treasurer of the Tippecanoe 
Clnb, one of the largest and strongest Republi- 
can organizations in the State of Ohio. He was 
for several years Treasurer of the Press Club of 
Cleveland and Secretary of the Edgewood Park 
Association of the Thousand Islands in the St. 
Lawrence river. He is a member of the Cleve- 
land Chamber of Commerce, and is one of that 
body's committees on Ways and Means and 
Entertainment. He is also a member of the 
Masonic and Knights of Pythias fraternities. 
Is a director in the Cleveland Tanning Com- 
pany, is president of the Cleveland Desk Com- 
pany, and is in other ways identified with the 
industries of Cleveland. 

Mr. Burges^s was married, in 1885, to Miss 
Alice Hill, daughter of Colonel H. E. Hill, of 
tiie well-known iirm of H. E. Hill & Company, 
of Cleveland. One child, a daughter — Helen — 
lias been born to Mr. and Mrs. Burgess. 



J (AMES B. McCONNELL, M. D., Strongs- 
ville, was born July 27, 1838, in Ottawa, 
- - Canada, where he passed his boyhood days 
up to the age of twelve years. He then made 
his home in New York State for four years, 
where he attended the Oneida Institute, at 
Cazenovia, a portion of two years; and he also 
attended the Port Edward (New York) Insti- 
tute about a year and a half. 

Entering the office of Dr. Hiram Hoyt, he 
read medicine about a year, and finally gradu- 
ated at the National Medical College at Wash- 
ington, District of Columbia, in 1860. He 
opened practice in Cleveland, where be practiced 
until December, 1876, when he removed to a 
point about a mile south of Strongsville, and 
here has a good patronage. 

In Waverly, Massachusetts, in 1869, be mar- 
ried Miss Mary V. Turner, who died in Cleve- 



land in 1872; and he was again married, in 
Waverly, to Miss Harriet Turner, and by this 
marriage there were five children: James T., 
Ruth H., Agnes, Edith and Leila, which last 
mentioned died when three years old. The 
mother of these children died in Strongsville, 
August 10, 1891, and the Doctor, in February, 
1893, married for his present wife Mrs. Clara 
M. Sanderson, the widow of Burton Sanderson, 
who died in Strongsville. 



f[ Tf C. LORD, the yonng and popular yard 
[p^l master of the New York, Chicago & St. 
II Ai Louis Railroad Company, began rail- 
^ roading in Cleveland with the New York, 
Pennsylvania & Ohio Company. Four years of 
faithful service concluded his career with the 
Erie, and he was placed on the pay-roll of the 
Nickel Plate and given the position of weigli- 
master. One year later he was given the po- 
sition of yard clerk, next clerk, and 

some months later was given a clerkship in 
Superintendent Kimball's office, remaining until 
1890, when he was promoted to be chief clerk 
for Division Engineer Vauglm, which position 
he filled most acceptably, and was promoted to 
be general yard master October 9, 1893. 

Mr. Lord was born in New Jersey, November 
1, 1864. Four years later the family came West 
and located in Cleveland, the father, L. D. Lord, 
securing a clerkship in the New York, Pennsyl- 
vania & Ohio yard office, where he may still be 
found, having completed an uninterrupted ser- 
vice of twenty-five years. He married Miss 
Esther B. Clark, born in Northampton, Massa- 
chusetts. Their children are: Minnie, wife of 
E. E. Styles, of Cleveland, and Harry C. 

H. C. Lord left the grammar school of tliis 
city at fifteen years of age, and began his rail- 
road work at once. 

August 18, 1886, Mr. Lord married, in Cleve- 
land, Anna J., a daughter of Jacob Decker, 
deceased. One child resulted from this union, 
Howard Morgan, born April 1, 1890. 



GUTAHOOA COUNTY. 



Reward is sure to come to him wlio strives to 
excel and conducts the Inisiness of his employers 
with the same interest that he would manifest 
in his own private affairs. 



HARLES HAROLD HUBBELL was born 
October 16, 1836, in Warrensville, Cuya- 
hoga county, Ohio, tlie son of Jedidiah 
Hubbeli and Sally (Parshall) Hnbbell, the oldest 
of five children, two sons and three daughters, 
hie grandparents being the early pioneers of 
this then new country, "The Western Reserve." 
At the age of five years his parents moved to 
Chagrin Falls, Cuyahoga county, where the most 
of the time he has since lived; received his ed- 
ucation at Chagrin Falls and Hiram Eclectic 
Institute; was married to Miss Mariam E. 
Rufsell, August 24, 1862. 

When Abraham Lincoln made his call for 
''300,000 more" he was one of the first to re- 
spond, leaving his young wife, and enlisting 
in Company D, One Hundred and Third Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Captain J. T. 
Philpot'scompany and Colonel Jack Casement's 
regiment. He was in several engagraents and 
with his company until after the siege of Knox- 
ville, Tennessee, when by an order issued Feb- 
ruary 3, 1864, by Major General Foster, com- 
manding the Department of the Ohio, he was 
ordered to report to Captain John A. Dixon, 
Assistant Quartermaster of the department, as 
clerk, la which capacity he remained until No- 
vember, when by a special order from the depart- 
ment he took the quartermaster's records to 
Louisville, Kentucky, and reported to Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel H. C. Ransom, AdjutantGen- 
ei-al, and assigned to duty as chief clerk in the 
quartermaster's department at General John 
M. Palmer's headquarters, where he remained 
until April, 1866. 

The business of that department being 
completed and returning to his home, Mr. 
Ilubbell remained until March, 1873, when he 
jt)ined a colony from Geneva, Ohio, and with 



his family went to Pawnee county, Kansas, then 
the extreme out-post of the Atchison, Topeka 
& Santa Fe Railroad, and helped construct the 
first buildings of the new town, called Garfield, 
in honor of our loved and lamented President 
and teacher. Here his third son was born, the 
first white male child of the new town. After 
one year's stay, on account of the grasshopper 
scourge, he returned to his old home in Ohio, 
where he has since lived and has filled several 
positions of trust: was Secretary of the County 
Fair for several years. City Clerk, etc. Mr. Hub- 
bell is a member of N. L. Norris Post, No. 40, 
Grand Army of the Republic, and is a member 
of the official board of the Christian Church. 
In February, 1891, he received a commission as 
Postmaster at Chagrin Falls, in which capacity 
he served his term with credit to himself. In 
politics he is a Republican. 

Five sons have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
C. H. Hubbeli, viz.: Charles J., of Ravenna, 
Ohio, married and has one daughter Susie, and 
one son, Harold; Melvin J., married and has a 
daughter, Mildred; Walter H., attending college 
at Hiram; and Leon S. and Frank X., at home 
attending school. 

Mr. Hubbell's brother and sisters and marriage 
connections are: Alice L., married George M. 
King; James E., married, and died March 7, 
1876, leaving a widow and two sons, Herman and 
Willie; Julia R., married Samuel A. Worley; 
Frankie E., who married William E. Rogers 
and has a daughter, Gracic by name. 



llOHN HURST, an old resident of Middle- 
tr I '^"''g township, but now of Cleveland, was 
'^ born in Leicestershire, England, July 28, 
1822, and was five years of age when his father, 
William Hurst, and family emigrated to 
America. After a short residence in New York 
city they settled in Royalton township, Cuya- 
hoga county, where they, the parents, spant the 
remainder of their days. 

Mr. John Hurst, our subject, grew to man- 
hood in Royalton, and there married Miss 



CUYAlIOnA COUNTY. 



Paulina Avery, a native of Utica, New York. 
After they lived in Koyalton a year Mr. Hurst 
came, in 184:6, to Middleburg, where he has 
since resided, until the spring of 1893, when he 
moved to Cleveland, and he is now enjoying a 
retired life. He cleared the farm upon which 
he spent the most of his life and made upon it 
many valuable improvements. His children are 
Runsorae D., Ada E. and Eliza A. 



l( NDREW M. WHITAKER, the subject 
1\ of this sketch, was born in the same 
*i house in which his father was born, in 
ifflin township, Allegheny county, 
Pennsylvania, May 6, 1823. 

James Whitaker, the paternal grandfather of 
Andrew M. Whitaker, was born iu the Colony 
of Maryland in the year 1723, and died in 
Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, in 1788. The 
Colony of Maryland was founded by Lord 
Baltimore in 1634. James Whitaker married 
Catherine Par Tee, who was born in the Colony 
of Maryland in 1729. She descended from the 
French Huguenots, and died in Pennsylvania 
in 1813. Near 1767 they emigrated from 
Maryland to Washington county, now Allegheny 
county, in western Pennsylvania, and settled in 
what is now Mifflin township on the Monon- 
gahela river, eight miles above Fort Pitt, then 
called Fort Duquesne, and almost exactly across 
the Monongahela river from what is his- 
torically known as "Braddock's Field." They 
took possession of their plantatiun, about 800 
acres, just twelve years after Braddock's defeat, 
and were the tirst white settlers in Mifflin 
township. On the farm on which they first 
located, they reared a family of five children: 
Aaron, Isaac, Charlotte, Elizabeth and 
Abraham. 

Abraham Whitaker, the fathei- of Andrew M. 
Whitaker, was born in 1780, and in 1809 
married Mary McClure, who was born in 178G. 
Mary McClure Whitaker, the mother of Andrew 
M. Whitaker, was a woman of more than 



ordinary ability. She was a devout Christian 
woman, and in many ways patterned after 
Susanna Wesley in the care of her household 
and in her relations to the church. Abraham 
Whitaker was a man of sterling qualities and 
much above the average man of his day in both 
education and general intelligence. He was 
appointed Justice of the Peace by Governor 
Snyder of Pennsylvania, and afterward elected 
and re-elected by the people for a period of 
twenty-five years; and judging from the large 
number of marriages solemnized by him, a list 
of which the writer has seen, his house must 
have been a veritable Gretna Green. Abraham 
and Mary Wliitaker had seven children who 
lived to maturity, viz.: Margarett, James, 
Charles, Alfred, Catharine, Andrew and Lewis, 
only two of whom, Andrew and Lewis, are 
living. Abraham Whitaker answered the last 
summons April 6, 1832, in Mifflin, Pennsylva- 
nia, and the mother, Mary Whitaker, xlugust 8, 
1862, in Bedford, Ohio. 

Andrew McClure, the maternal grandfather 
of Andrew M. Whitaker, was born in Dauphin 
county, Pennsylvania, in 1756, married Mar- 
garet Barnett and removed to western Penn- 
sylvania in the spring of 1785. They had a 
family of nine children, six sons and three 
daughters. Andrew McClure died in 1799. 

Andrew M. Whitaker spent the earlier years 
of his life on his father's farm, in attending 
school, in teaching in the public schools and as 
a clerk in the village store. He moved to Ohio 
with his mother and her family in the spring 
of 1847, remained about one year and then 
went to his old home in Pennsylvania and 
entered a store in his old capacity' as clerk. 
Here in 1849 he met and married Mary Jane 
Smith, daughter of Joseph and Phoebe Smith, 
of West Brownsville, Pennsylvania. AVest 
Brownsville on the Monongahela river is noted 
as being the birthplace of James G. Blaine. 
The Blaine and Smitii families were neighbois 
for many years. Mary Jane attended school 
with the Blaine children. The Smith family 
consisted of nine children, ibur sons and five 



CU YAIIOnA VOVMTY. 



daughters. Mary Jane Whitaker was boru in 
West Brownsville, Pennsylvania, in 1831. 
She is noted as a woman of remarkable energy 
and is a prodigious worker. Andrew M. 
Whitaker and his wife soon after their mar- 
riage, or in 1850, moved to Ohio and located in 
Bedford, which has always been their home. 
They were the parents of six children, two of 
whom died in infancy. Mary Emma, the 
eldest, was born in May, 1850. She is married 
to H. O. Courtney, a contractor and builder. 
They have one child, Allen, and live in Bedford. 
Alfred Whitaker, the second child, was boru 
near Hillsboro, in Highland county, Ohio, 
August 3, 1851, where his mother's parents re- 
sided, they having moved from West Browns- 
ville, Pennsylvania, to Ohio. The Smith 
family came to their new home with their 
household goods and cattle by the way of the 
Monongahela and Ohio rivers in what was 
known in those days as a flat-boat. Alfred re- 
ceived his education in the Bedford village 
school with the exception of a short period 
spent at Mt. Union College. Early in life 
he formed habits of industry, which with 
energy and push have been his best capital. 
During the war he was the village newsboy of 
Bedford, at the same time, while attending 
school, being janitor of the school building. 
He w-orked at different times for farmers in 
Bedford township. Afterward he worked in 
the Bedford rolling mill and later entered the 
village store and postottice kept by Lillie & 
Marble, as clerk, receiving $250 for the year's 
work and paying $100 to his parents for the 
year's board. In the spring of 1871 he went 
to Cleveland and was employed by Smith, Dodd 
& Company, shoe dealers, for two years. He 
then accepted a position for one year as travel- 
ing salesman for the American Lubricating Oil 
Company, at that time managed by Judge £. J. 
Blandin. In the autumn of 1875, Mr. Whita- 
ker went to Philadelphia and remained a little 
over one year. During the si.\ months of the 
Centennial Exposition of 1876, held in that 
city, he was connected with this great national 



celebration and was present every day, Sundays 
excepted, during the six months the exposition 
was held. In January, 1877, he returned to 
Cleveland, and the following fall organized the 
Brooks Oil Company, of which he is the pro- 
prietor ; and it may be said of him, in this con- 
nection, that he is one of the very few men 
who have built up and successfully carried on 
an oil business outside of and in competition 
with that commercial monstrosity, the Standard 
Oil Company. He has traveled in the interest 
of his company over nearly every State in the 
Union, having visited the Pacific coast twice 
and Europe once. Mr. Whitaker is an un- 
compromising Democrat, and has been one of 
the conservative and safe leaders of his party, 
in both local and State politics, for several 
years. He has declined a nomination, by his 
party, for Congress on two occasions, and ac- 
cepted a nomination for County Treasurer in 
1885, and in the same year declined, on account 
of liis business demanding his attention, to ac- 
cept the appointment of Collector of Internal 
Revenue under President Cleveland. Mr. 
Whitaker has never married, and when free 
from business lives quietly on his farm, "Pine 
Hill," near Bedford. He is an active member 
of the Methodist Church at Bedford, is Trustee, 
a member of the board of Stewards and Snnday- 
school superintendent. 

Charles Bennett Whitaker, second son of 
Andrew M. Whitaker, was born in Bedford, 
Ohio, July 6, 1855. He married Alice Parke. 
They have three children, Charlotte Hazel, 
Florence Nightingale and Helen Parke. 
Charles Bennett's occupation is that of foreman 
in one of Bedford's largest chair factories. He 
is an active and prominent Knight of Pythias. 

Margaret Maud was boru January 8, 1864, 
educated in the Bedford high school, and for a 
time worked in the office of the Brooks Oil 
Company, of Cleveland. She is unmarried and 
cares for the home of her father and muther. 

Andrew M. Whitaker has been engaged for 
about fifteen years in assisting his son Alfred 
in the conduct of his extensive oil business. 



VUTAHOGA COUNTy. 



He was originally a Democrat, but being an 
ardent temperance man has embraced Prohibi- 
tiou principles. He is a lover of good books 
and is a great reader. He keeps bimseli: well 
informed on all the leading questions of the 
times. He is a member of the Methodist 
Church and is a constant attendant on the 
services of the sanctuary. During his long 
residence in Bedford he has been elected to the 
office of Justice of the Peace, member of the 
Board of Education and Corporation Clerk. 
He is an honorable man, a good citizen and is 
highly respected by the community in which he 
has lived forty-two years. 



W 



ILLIAM SHUEMEE, a prominent 
farmer of Strongsville township, was 
^ born in Wiltshire, England, December 
15, 1825, and emigrated to America in the 
spring of 1855, landing at New York. He 
lived in Cleveland and vicinity until 1873, 
being employed a large portion of the time by 
J. H. Hussey in the copperas smelting works, 
and afterward engaged in farming in Newburg 
township. In 1873 he settled upon a farm near 
Strongsville, where he now lives, prospering in 
his occupation of farming, and also in the added 
occupation of cheese making, which he lias fol- 
lowed for the last fifteen years. His farm 
buildings and improvements are ^jlentiful in 
number and models in arrangement. His farm 
comprises 167 acres. 

He was married in Wiltshire, England, Jan- 
uary 20, 1847, to Miss Ann Tuwnsend, who was 
born in that shire February 12, 1827. By this 
Hiai'riage there have been seven children, namely: 
Eichard C, who married Ella Cain and is now 
a farmer in WarrensvilJe township; Charles H., 
who married Belle Eidelsperger and is engaged 
in tJie oil business in Pennsylvania; John H., 
who resides in Strongsville township; Jane, who 
died in infancy; Mary Elizabeth; Susan; and 
William C, who is also employed in the oil 
business in Pennsylvania. .lohn H. has held 



the office of Township Treasurer for four years, 
and has been a member of the Eepublican cen- 
tral committee for three terms — six years. He 
is a leading and representative citizen, active and 
public-spirited in public and benevolent move- 
ments. 



FE. DELLENBALTGH,oneof Cleveland's 
well-known attorneys, was born in North 
— Georgetown, Columbiana county, Ohio, 
October 2, 1855, but since infancy has been a 
resident of Cleveland, his parents removing to 
this city when he was one year of age. He 
was educated in the district schools of East 
Cleveland, in the Cleveland Academy, the 
East High School and the Western Eeserve 
College. He read law in the office of his uncle, 
Charles D. Everett, and subsequently in the of- 
fice of E. Coppe Mitchell, dean of the law faculty 
of the University of Pennsylvania, in which insti- 
tution he was also a student in the law depart- 
ment. In 1878 he had the honorary degree of 
Bachelor of Laws conferred upon him by the 
Union Law College of Cleveland, and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in March, 1878. The Cen- 
tennial Commission appointed him inspector of 
the finance department of the Centennial E.xhi- 
bition in 1876, which position he filled from 
May 1st to September 2yth. 

For two years after Mr. Dellenbaugh's ad- 
mission to the bar he practiced alone, and then 
formed a partnership with Albert H. Weed, 
which was dissolved two and a half years later. 
He then became associated with Capt. M. B. 
Gary and Charles D. Everett, under the firm 
name of Gary, Everett &, Dellenbaugh, which 
was in existence about two years, and was 
then changed to Everett & Dellenbaugh. Two 
years afterward, Mr. Albert II. Weed, his 
original partner, entered the firm, forming the 
present one of Everett, Dellenbaugh & Weed. 

Mr. Dellenbaugh is a lawyer of indefatigable 
energy, and his ability is of an order which 
places him conspicuously in the front among 



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the legal lights of the Cleveland bar. He lias 
devoted himself faithfully, conscientiously and 
zealously to his profession, and has never 
sought political honors. Though his practice 
is general, he makes a specialty of commercial 
and corporation law. 



ffJ'ON. ROBERT BLEE, Major of the city 
|r^' of Cleveland, was born in Cuyahoga 
Jj i county. Ohio, January 31, 1839. His 
^ father, Hugh Blee, was born in London- 

derry, Ireland, came to New York city when a 
boy, and when a young man he came to 
Cuyahoga county, settling on a farm. In this 
county he married Mary B. Porter, who, though 
American born, was of Irish origin also. She 
bore her husband eight children, of whom the 
subject of this sketch is one. To farming 
Hugh Blee devoted the greater portion of his 
life, but during his later years he resided in 
Cleveland, where he died in 1886, aged sevent3'- 



His country home was near the village of 
Gieuville, and here young Robert was brought 
up and educated. He gained a fair academical 
education, leaving school at the age of seventeen 
years to accept employment with the Cleve- 
land, Columbus & Cincinnati Railroad as a 
brakeman. He was soon promoted as con- 
ductor of freight trains, and later as passenger 
conductor. In 1868 he became assistant 
superintendent of the above named road, and in 
1867 he became superintendent of the " Bee 
Line," succeeding Superintendent E. S. Flint. 
In 1890 he became general superintendent of 
the "Big Four" lines, and one year later he re- 
signed this position and thus ended a brilliant, 
successful railroad career of thirty-tive years. 

After quitting the railroad business, Mr. 
Blee was engaged in looking after personal 
business affairs till the spring of 1893, when he 
■was called into the political arena by being 
nominated for Mayor of Cleveland by the 
Democratic party, of which he has always been 



an active member. By reason of his fitness for 
this high office, together with his personal 
popularity, he was elected to the office by a 
majority of 1,800, notwithstanding the fact 
that the city had nearly always in past years 
gone Republican. As Mayor, Mr. Blee is re- 
garded as a man of unusual executive ability 
and competency. This position is the only 
public office he has held save one, that of Police 
Commissioner, which position he held one term 
in. 1875. 

In several ways has Mr. Blee won promi- 
nence and high station. One of many very 
meritorious deeds he has done was that of his 
organization of the Bee Line Insurance Com- 
pany, of which he was president for twenty-two 
years. During his incumbency of this office his 
disbursements of charities to dependent ones 
footed up hundreds of thousands of dollars. 
His private funds are most frequently appealed 
to, and of it he gives unstintedly and without 
ostentation, never losing an opportunity to 
lighten the load of needy and deserving persons 
by a cheering word or a substantial donation. 
At present he is the president of the Ohio 
Building & Loan Company, and in other im- 
portant business concerns he has large interests. 

Thns as a business man Mr. Blee has always 
been active, and as a citizen the high position 
which he now holds ie pointed out as evidence 
of that esteem and contidence on the part of liis 
fellow citizens he enjoys. 



T 



HOMAS C. GOSS, a member of the 
popular insurance firm of O. M. Stafford, 
Jj Goss & Company, Cleveland, Ohio, is 
' one of the rising young business men of 
the city, who is becoming widely and favorably 
known. He was born at Edinburg, Portage 
county, Ohio, April 22, 1862. His early 
education was received in the village school, 
and his business training in the Spencerian 
Business College of Cleveland, which he en- 
tered after a two years' course at Union College, 
Alliance, Ohio. 



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In May, 1881, lie began his career in the 
commercial world as assistant bookkeeper for 
the Hull Vapor Stove Compan}', with which he 
remained until August of the same year, he 
then accepted a proposition from Thomas H. 
Greer, one of the leading insurance men of the 
city, and entered his employ. In June, 1885, 
he became connected with the Mercantile In- 
surance Company as bookkeeper and cashier, 
tilling the position most efficiently until March 
15, 1887. At that time he resigned and went 
to Omaha, Nebraska, where he engaged in the 
reai-estate business with his brother, Hon. 
Charles A. Goss, under the firm name of Goss 
Brothers. This vocation did not prove con- 
genial to him, and, receiving a proposition from 
Mr. Stafford to return to Cleveland and become 
assoiiated with him in the insurance business, 
lie accepted the offer and July 27tli of the 
same year entered upon his duties as manager 
of the insurance department of the Broadway 
Savings & Loan Company. January 1, 1891, 
the banking business and insurance business 
were separated. Mr. Goss entered into part- 
nership with O. M. Stafford, and the firm of O. 
]\L Stafford, Goss it Company came into ex- 
istence. Under the excellent management of 
Mr. Goss the interests of the firm have been 
widely extended, and he has aided materially in 
bringing the company forward from a position 
of comparative obscurity to one of prominence 
in local insurance circles. 

The ancestors of Thomas C. Goss emigrated 
to Massachusetts about 1820. Daniel Goss, 
the paternal grandfather, was born in London, 
England, while his wife was a native of Edin- 
burg, Scotland. Upon their arrival in Massa- 
chusetts they settled at Fall River. There 
they had a son, Alfred E. Goss, father of 
Thomas C. In 1838 Daniel Goss, who was a 
typical freedom-loving Englishman, came 
farther West, and stopped for a time in Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio. After casting about for a place 
of permanent location, he settled in Portage 
county, Ohio, where he passed the remainder 
of his life. 



Alfred R. Goss married Martha Carr, a 
daughter of the Rev. Tliomas Carr, a Scotch- 
man by descent and a circuit preacher of the 
Methodist Church. There were four children 
born of this union: Thomas C. ; Charles A., a 
prominent attorney of Omaha, who has served 
as a member of the Nebraska Legislature, and 
who married Miss Carrie Shimp, a daughter of 
Samuel Shimp, of Alliance, Ohio; Margaret F., 
who is the wife of H. L. Day, of Omaha, 
Nebraska; and Hattie, a student in Lake Erie 
Seminary, Painesville, Ohio. 

Thomas C. Goss was united in marriage, in 
Cleveland, Ohio, October 8, 1889, to Anna M., 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin, of this city. 
Tiieir only child is Leonard K., aged three 
years. Mr. Goss is a member of Forest City 
Lodge, A. F. it A. M., of Webb Chapter, R. A. 
M., and of Oriental Coniinandry, K. T. 



LEX AN DEE PATTON, deceased, was a 
self-made man and was for many years 
connected with the interests of Cleve- 
land, Ohio. He was an uncle of James 
A. Patton, of tliis city. 

Mr. Patton was born and reared in Alloa, 
Scotland, and was a fisherman in his native 
land. In the early forties he came to America 
and settled in Cleveland, Ohio. When he 
landed here _he had only two pennies in his 
pocket. He put up at the hotel located on the 
site now occupied by George Worthington's 
building, and as he had no money he left his 
trunk for security while he went out to secui-e 
employment. On starting out he met George 
Whitelaw, who, learning his condition, gave 
him a dollar. A day's work brought in another 
dollar, and from another Scotchman he received 
a " needy dollar," which dollar was to be given 
to any needy Scotchman he might meet after 
lio could spare the same. Thus did he come 
into the possession of $3 on his first day in 
America. Soon he secured permanent em- 
ployment, collecting soap-grease and ashes for a 



VUVA/lOUA VOVSTY. 



Boap factory. Later he set up in the soap busi- 
ness on his own account, under tiie name of 
A. Patton, his factory being located on the flats. 
This business he subsequently sold to his 
nephew, John 13nchaii, who is now a member of 
the Buchaii Soap Company, Cleveland, Ohio. 
During his life in this city Alexander Patton 
accumulated a competency, and always had a 
dollar for a needy Scotchman. He was well 
known all over the county, and by his many 
sterling qualities he won the respect of all who 
knew him. He died in April, 1879, at the age 
of seventy- five years. 

Mr. Patton was married, but had no children. 
His wife, nee Eliza Hannah Johnson, was the 
daughter of an Englishman. She was a mem- 
ber of the Baptist Chnrch and was a most 
estimable woman. Her death occnrred in 
IStiU, at the age of fifty-two years. 



W.ILLIAM HILLMAN 
' subject of this sket 
-- -- Bedfoid, Ohio, May 



.MAN BUTTON, the 
itch, was born in 
May 1-1, 1838, where 
be still leside?. He traces his ancestry to 
Miittbias Button, who came to America with 
Gov. John Endicott, and first settled at Salem, 
Massachusetts, where he landed September 6, 
1628. His son, Matthias, was born at Haver- 
hill, Massachusetts, in 1057. Matthias But- 
ton, the third, was born at Haverhill in 1689, 
and Matthias, the fourth, was born at Canter- 
bury, Connecticut, in 1~~7, and was a Captain 
in the llevolntionary army. He died in Kiit- 
land county, Vermont, in iSll. 

Shubal Button, son of Matthias, the fourth, 
was born in Canterbury, Connecticut, 1770, 
and married for his first wife, Polly Tower, and 
for his second, Anna Skiff. The children of 
the first wife were: Polly, born 1791, died 
1795; Matthias, born 1796, died 1S29; Ira, 
born 1798, died 1862; Elizabeth, born 1799, 
died 1883; Otis, born 1801, died 188-1; Mary, 
born 1803, and is still living; Laura, born 
1805, died 1827; Joel, born 1807; Shubal, born 



1808; and Charlotte, born 1810. The children 
of the second wife are: Anson E., born 1823; 
George W., born 1825; Martha Ann, born 
1826; Joel Y., born 1828; Orrin O., born 1831, 
and Susan Ehnira, born 1834. 

Shubal Button died at Fredouia, New York, 
in 18-10. His widow, Anna Skiff Button, mar- 
ried for her second husband, Asa Button, 
brother of Shubal Button. She died at Fre- 
donia, and in 184-i her husband, Asa, ilied at 
the same place. 

Otis Button, son of Shubal Button and lather 
of William Hilhnau Button, was born in St. 
Lawrence county. New York, August 2, 1801, 
came to Bedford, Ohio, in the spring of 1831, 
and July 4, 1832, he married Miss Anna Hill- 
man, who was the daughter of Setli and Clar- 
issa (Butterfield) Hillman. Seth Hillman was 
born in 1784, married in 1808, and died in 
1828. Clarissa B. Hillman w.is burn in "Wil- 
ton, Hillsborough county. New Hampshire, 
Septemler 22, 1784. Mr. and Mrs. Hillman 
had four children >vho lived to mature age: 
Mary W., Anna H. (mother of William H. 
Button), Ruth, and William B. Mrs. Hillman 
married for her second husband, Hezekiah 
Dunham, who was horn in Massachusetts, De- 
cember 9, 1779. She was his second wife, and 
they were married July 4, 1831, his first wife, 
Betsey Burroughs, having died in April, 1831. 
Hezekiaii and Betsey (Burroughs) Dunham had 
a family of eleven children, four only of whom 
lived to maturity: Silas B., born 1807; David 
B., 1810; Betsey, 1816; and Lydia, 1820. 

Hezekiaii Dunham died in 1861, and Anna 
(Hillman) Ibitton, wife of Otis Button, in 1884. 

Otis Button began his business career as 
water boy on the Erie canal, under bis father, 
who was a contractor; from water boy he 
advanced until he was a contractor on the same 
canal, and afterward took contracts on the 
Chesapeake & Ohio canal, and made canal 
] contracting liis business until he came to 
Bedford, Ohio, to settle. Soon alter set- 
tling in Bedford he leased of Captain Dan- 
iel Benedict (who named the township of 



ailYAirotl.X VOU^/TY. 



Bedford) a sawmill situated on Tinker's creek, 
nearly opposite the present cemetery, said lease 
extending over four years. Shortly before its 
expiration lie moved to a farm about one mile 
west of Bedlbrd village, which lie subsequently 
pui'chased and upon which he lived forty-two 
years, leaving there in June, 1878, to return to 
the village to live. Upon moving upon this 
farm he ran a sawmill on Tinker's creek at the 
foot of one of the longest, steepest and most 
picturesque hills in Cuyahoga county, known as 
" Button Hill." 

In 1835, Robert Lucas, Governor of Ohio, 
issued to Mr. Button his commission as Cap- 
tain of the militia. Captain Button for many 
years was a prominent figure at company and 
general trainings. Mr. Button was an old time 
Democrat in politics. He possessed the couti- 
dence of the entire community, and was many 
times elected one of the Trustees of Bedford. 
He united with the Baptist Church about the 
time of the organizatio^i of that body in Bed- 
ford, and from it he went to the Disciple 
Church about the year 1849, and remained a 
member of that body until his death, June 14, 
1884, being an honest, conscientious, devoted 
Christian. 

Otis and Anna Hillman Button had the fol- 
lowing named children: Clarissa Elizabeth, 
l)orn May 11, 1835, died February 22, 1857; 
William Hillman Button, born May 14, 1838; 
and Charlotte E. Button, born in 1841. 

William Hillman Button was born in Bed- 
ford and educated in the public school. His 
entire life has been spent upon the farm on 
which he now resides. He has been Assessor 
fonr terms, and is at this time serving as 
Trustee in a township with a large Republican 
majority, himself being a Democrat, strongly 
tinctured with prohibition. He has been for 
many years a faithful and earnest member of 
the Disciple Church. He is a quiet, unassum- 
ing man, holding to a higli standard of morals 
for hiins( If as well as others. 

Juno 9, 1878, he purchased of his father the 
old homestead ujion which he was born, and 



June 27 of the same year, ho inarricul Miss 
Celeste Adelle Knapp, daughter of William 
Herman and Deborah L. Wightman Knapp, ot 
Independence, Ohio. Mr. Knapp traces his 
ancestry to Roger de Knapp, wlio received a 
coat of arms granted by Henry VIII of Eng- 
land to commemorate his skill and success at a 
tournament in Norfolk, England, in 1540, in 
which he unseated three knights of great skill 
and bravery. Continuing in this line we come 
to Nicholas Knapp, who came to America with 
Winthrop and Baltonstall's fleet in 1630; then 
following this line we come to Joshua Knapp, 
who was born in Danbury, Connecticut, Febru- 
ary 5, 1716: he married Abigail (Bostwick) 
Dibble, a widow, who was born in Brookfield, 
Connecticut, in September, 1725, and was the 
first white child born there. She died October 
7, 1812: her husband, Joshua Knapp, died 
August 8, 1798. 

Joshua Knapp, who was a Fresbyterian Dea- 
con and a bachelor, being I'cminded by his 
church of the Scriptural injunction that a deacon 
should be the husband of one wife, could think 
only of the widow Dibble. Feeling the Lord 
had directed him to her, he mounted his horse 
on Monday morning, rode to her home and 
found her washing in the yard between the 
house and street; and, riding up to the fence 
and without dismounting he stated his case, 
adding that he felt the Lord had directed him 
to her, and her reply was, "The Lord's will be 
done;" and they M'ere married the following 
Wednesday. Their second child, Daniel, was 
born July 2, 1763, and married Lucy Cray, 
and they had twelve children. 

William Herman Knapp, the tenth child of 
Daniel and Lucy (Gray) Knapp, and the father 
of Mrs. lintton, was born in Uanbury, Connect- 
icut, February 16, 1801, came to Ohio in 1826, 
was an engineer in building the Ohio canal, 
and May 4, 1828, married Deborah Ledyard 
Wightman, who was born in Groton, Connecti- 
cut, November 6, 1808, and came to Newburg, 
Ohio, in 1811, with her parents, Captain John 
and Deborah C. Morwin AVii'htman. John 



GUYMKKIA COUNTY. 



Wightnian was a direct descendant of the Rev. 
Valentine AVightman, who was the founder of 
the first society of Baptists in Groton, Connect- 
icut. He began preaching for them in 1710. 
At his death his son Tiinotiiy occupied tlie same 
pulpit until his deatli in 1796; then his son, 
John Gano, Rucceeded him for nearly forty-five 
years, until his death, in 18-41. After a period 
of three or four years, John Gano's grandson, 
I'almer G. Wightnian, occupied the same pulpit 
until 1S75. This is believed to be without a par- 
allel in American history of pastorates. Mrs. 
Knapp's mother was Deborah Calibia Morgan, 
daughter of Col. Christopher and Deborah 
Ledyard Morgan, a direct descendant of James 
Morgan (see history of James Morgan and de- 
sct.'ndants), a family of prominence. Deborah 
Ledyard Morgan was a niece of Colonel Led- 
yard, who commanded Fort Griswold when it 
was surrendered to the British, and Colonel 
Ledyard was killed with his own sword in the 
hand of the officer to whom he had surrendered ! 
Mr. and Mrs. AV^illiam Herman Knapp, moved 
to Independence in 1833, where Mr. Knapp for 
a short time kept a supply store for the packets 
tiiat were run on the canal. He was Postmaster 
for many years. He was so anxious for the 
education of the masses that he taught a school 
in hisown house without any stipulated remuner- 
ation, letting them pay little or nothing, as they 
were able. Several married men and women 
went to school to him, it being their only op- 
portunity. By profession Mr. Knapp was a 
civil engineer. He was County Surveyor of 
Cuyahoga county from 1839 to 1844, and again 
from 1864 to 1866 inclusive. In politics he 
was a Whig originally, and subsequently an 
anient Republican. He united with the Dis- 
ciple Church in 1837, and remained a member 
of that church until his death, being a stanch 
advocate of its faith and doctrines. Mrs. 
Knapp was first to unite with the same church, 
being baptized in 1835, when the first yearly 
meeting of this denomination was held, on her 
father's farm, on what is now known as Broad- 
way, Cleveland, then called Newbnrg. She 



had one of the kindest hearts, always doing 
for others and being happy in making others 
so, — a woman of excellent judgment, very con- 
scientious, and a devoted Christian wife and 
mother to the time of her death, December 26, 
1880, at her home in Independence, where she 
had lived nearly fifty years. She was truly a 
pioneer of Cuyahoga county, distinctly remem- 
bering listening to the boom of the cannon at 
the time of Perry's victory, also the inhabitants 
of the vicinity of Cleveland going into the 
town for protection the night after John 
O'Mick was hung, fearing an attack by the 
Indians, John O'Mick being the first person 
hung in Cuyahoga county. She was the oldest 
of eight children, namely: Deborah Ledyard, 
born November 6, 1808, died December 26, 
18S0; John Griswold, born July 12, 1810, died 
1834; Isaac Avery, born May 23, 1812, died 
March 5, 1867; Lucy Adelaide, bom March 17, 
1814, died February 1, 1893; David Long, born 
August 17, 1817, died July 18, 1887; Sher- 
burn Henry, born August 28, 1819; Horace 
Fayette, born April 12, 1821, died September 
9, 1868; and Harriet Lucretia, born June 5, 
1825, died June 30, 1878. 

William H.and Deborah L. Wightman Knapp 
had three children: Cornelia Adelaide, born in 
Cleveland, April 27, 1830, married November, 
4, 1868, Levi Allen, of Akron, Ohio, who is a 
descendant of Major Spicer; and Jonah Allen, 
who came from Connecticut and settled in Akron 
ron at the same time Captain Morgan and John 
Wightman came to Cleveland. The four fami- 
lies, being friends in Connecticut, continued 
the friendship to the present time, there be- 
ing many intermarriages. Cornelia Adelaide 
and Levi Allen have two daughters: Cornelia 
Adelle,born January 13, 1870; and A. May Deb- 
orah Allen, born May 14, 1871, and married, 
August 17, 1893, Rev. J. Dorsey Forrest of Bal- 
timore, Maryland, and now pastor of the Central 
Christian Church of Columbus, Oiiio. Her- 
man John Knapp, born in Independence, April 
9, 1836, died December 15, 1846; Celeste Adelle 
' Knapp. born in Independence. August 17, 



GU7AH0OA COUNTT. 



1848, and received lier education in the district 
school and in the public schools of Akron, Ohio: 
She united with tlie Disciple Church in Bedford, 
in 1865, and is still an earnest worker in that 
church, and has been a member of the Woman's 
Christian Temperance Union from its organi- 
zation in Bedford. 

The biographer of Mr. and Mrs. Button de- 
sires to say that they, in giving this history, do 
so more to honor their ancestry than them- 
selves, feeling that their own lives have been 
very uneventful indeed. Their desire is to 
have a home and farm, well cared for, to which 
their friends can come with pleasure, where 
peace, harmony, love and Christian grace may 
abound and where every living creature may be 
comfoi-table and happy. 



jILLIAM BACKUS, Jii.— Prominent 
._, among the younger and most pro- 
iy gressive men of Cleveland is he whose 
name initiates this biographical sketch, his 
record of achievements in several lines of work 
being one of particular distinction. 

A native of the city where he still retains his 
residence, Mr. Backus was born August 24, 
1860, a son of Captain William and Madeline 
(Strobel) Backus. He was reared and educated 
in the city of his birth, and at an early age 
developed into an indefatigable studeLt and 
investigator. The study of the law, medicine 
and literature proved particularly engrossing to 
him. In 1882 he became editor of the West 
Side Spur. In 1884 he established and was 
editor of the Sunday Courier, which soon be- 
came noted for its- vigorous political work. 
The financial outcome of this venture not 
proving satisfactory, he accepted a position with 
the Cleveland Press as a special writer. The 
thought, wit, and pronounced individuality 
displayed in his writings soon gained for him a 
wide reputation. His health becoming impaired 
after several years' work, a temporary change 
of vocation became necessary. 



His investigating mind then turned to the 
new and mysterious art of photo-engraving. 
He organized the Union Photo-Engraving 
Company, of which he became president. His 
experiments and investigations resulted in a 
number of new discoveries, and he was the first 
to introduce in Cleveland the arc of reproducing 
photographs upon a metal printing block by 
chemical action. He organized branch photo- 
engraving establishments in various cities, in 
eluding Chicago and Sau Francisco. He also 
established and edited at this time the American 
Union newspaper and the Magazine of Science 
and Art. During all this time he had pursued a 
careful and earnest study of the law, with the pur- 
pose in view of adopting the pratice of law as a 
profession. In 1889 he disposed of his interests 
iu the journalistic and other enterprises, with 
which he had become identified and devoted 
his tim«3 and attention for a time to the 
organization of private corporations under the 
laws of Ohio and other States. He is au officer 
in various corporations: among others, he is 
piesident of the Cumberland Tennessee Land 
Company; president of the American Oil Burn- 
er Company; vice president of the National 
Union Photo-Engraving Company; secretary of 
the Lactine Manufacturing Company. 

Having been admitted to the bar Mr. Backus 
engaged in the general practice of law, in wdiich 
he has met with marked success. 

In the matter of national and municipal 
politics our subject has maintained a lively 
interest, and has been duly active in working for 
the principles and men whose cause he had 
espoused. He originally cast his suffrage with 
the Democratic party, but in 1888 he withdrew 
from that organization and swung into line with 
the Eepublican party, whose policies and 
principles he had become convinced were such 
as would best conserve the greatest good to the 
greatest number, — the true governmental func- 
tion. 

In 1892 the public dissatisfaction with the 
management of school affairs led tu a revolution 
in the system of government of Cleveland'e 



CUTAUOGA COUNTY. 



great school system. Mr. Backus was one of 
tlie seven men elected at large bj the people 
as a member of the new Board of Education, 
and soon made liirt infineiice felt by the vigor- 
ous manner in which he coml)ated the influence 
j)olitics and the interference of politicians in 
school affairs. He is one of the younger yet 
representative citizens of Cleveland: has always 
been alive to industrial interests and to such 
other developments as have been conducive or 
promising to the interests of the city and to the 
public welfare. In his profession he infuses 
into all his work life, energy, intelligence and 
discrimination, inspiring absolute confidence in 
all with whom he conies in contact. In the line 
of fraternal affiliations Mr. Backus is a member 
of the order of the Knights of Pythias. 

In 1879 lie was united in )narriage with Miss 
Sarah A. Mnllin, of this city, and two children, 
Edna Lois and Cecil Degmar, are the sunshine 
of the home: "William, the third child, is 
deceased. 



TEVENSON BUEKE, who in the active 
field of professional practice, upon the 
bench, and in the circles of railway nian- 
iigemcnt and control, has won a fame that is 
part of the history of the Cleveland bar, was 
born in St. Lawrence county. New York, on 
November 26, 1826. He is a man who by the 
free working of his superior intellect would have 
attained wealth and influence in any country or 
under almost any conditions of organized 
society. lie is one of the few men endowed 
with the capacity to mold surrounding circum- 
stances to suit his purposes. His career, like 
that of many other Americans of this generation, 
has demonstrated that industry and perseverance 
will open a way from the humblest beginning 
to a manhood crowned with honor and all that 
is most cherished in civilized society. 

In 1834 the family of Stevenson Burke re- 
moved to North Ridgeville, Lorain county, 
Ohio, where he worked for an education and 



was so successful that at the age of seventeen 
he was teaching a district school. The indom- 
itable will, pluck and energy that nature im- 
planted in him was strengthened by his strug- 
gles with adversity. His mastery of the branches 
taught in the select school was rapid and he 
soon entered the University at Delaware. 

He was admitted to practice law in 1848, and 
entered upon the exercise of his professional 
duties in Elyria, Lorain county. His advance 
was as brilliant as it was sure, and when only 
twenty-six years of age he had a better business 
than any other lawyer in the county. In 1862 
he took his seat upon the bench of the Common 
Pleas, having for ten years previous to that time 
been substantially engaged in every case of con- 
sequence in Lorain county, and in many cases 
in the adjoining counties. He was counsel in 
nearly every case, if not indeed every case, taken 
from his home county to the Supreme Court. 
Ill 1866 he was re-elected for a term of five 
years; resigned in 1869; removed to Cleveland 
and at once entered upon a legal career that has 
been crowned with abundant success, and has 
long since won him national fame. He was in 
partnership first with F. T. Backus and E. J. 
Estep, and later with W. B. Sanders and J. E. 
Ingersoll. 

When able to give more time to the profession 
than at present, Judge Burke was engaged in a 
large number of the most important cases in 
northern Ohio, not confining himself to any one 
branch of practice, but trying, in the different 
counties of the Reserve and elsewhere, any and 
all cases of consequence in which he was re- 
tained. Space will permit only a glance at some 
of the most important of these: The inmiense 
cases growing out of the Atlantic & Great West- 
ern Railway troubles, where he represented the 
Erie Railway; the great Utah silver mine cases 
of the "Nez Perces" and '"Old Telegraph" Min- 
ing Companies, which he won; the Oberlin- 
Wellington slave rescue case; the case involving 
the consolidation of the Cleveland, Columbus, 
Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railway with the 
Cincinnati, iraniilton & Dayton; that involv- 



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ing the constitutionality of the Scott liquor law; 
that of Kiniberiy vs. Arms, in which a large 
sum of money was at stake; the series of intri- 
cate cases connected with the foreclosure of 
mortgages upon the Indianapolis & St. Louis 
Railroad; the great Hocking Valley Railroad 
arbitration case; and a large number of equal or 
less itnportance that cannot be even mentioned 
here. Railroad litigation soon led Judge Burke 
into railroad ownership, and he is now recog- 
nized as one of the largest and ablest of the rail- 
way owners and capitalists in the West. For 
many years he was general counsel of the Cleve- 
land, Columbus, Cincinnati, & Indianapolis 
Railroad Company, a member of its board of 
directors, chairman of its financial and executive 
committees, vice-presidentand president; general 
counsel of the Cleveland & Mahoning Valley 
and president of the same; vice-president and 
president of the Indianapolis & St. Louis. He 
was also a director for years in the Cincinnati & 
Springtield, the Dayton & Michigan, the Cin- 
cinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, the Cincinnati, 
Hamilton & Indianapolis, the New York, Chi- 
cago & St. Louis and the Central Ontario Rail- 
way Companies. It was Judge Burke who con- 
ceived and carried into effect the consolidation 
of various weak lines into the Columbus, Hock- 
ing Valley & Toledo Railway system. He took 
an active part in its management, holding the 



posi 



tion of vice-Di'esident and president, and 



all the movements of that corporation lie was 
tlie financial genins and the mainspring of en- 
ergy. It was Judge Burke who conducted for 
William H. A^'anderbilt the negotiations which 
resulted in the purchase of the New York, Chi- 
cago & St. Louis Railway. Judge Burke is now 
engaged in a number of great enterprises the 
direction of which is entirely in his hands. He 
is, and for many years has been, the president 
of the Toledo & Ohio Central, the Cleveland & 
Mahoning Valley, the Kanawha & Michigan 
and the Central (Ontario Railway Companies. 
He is a large owner in and the president of the 
Canadi;in (dipper Company, a concern which 



prol: 



>lv tlie largest 



les of nickel 



world, and has furnished all the nickel thus far 
used in the construction of nickel-steel armor 
for the United States Government. He is also 
president of the Anglo- American Iron Company, 
of the Republic Coal Company and several other 
iron-mining and coal companies. While his 
name does not appear he is the most important 
partner in the large iron-ore firm of Corrigan, 
McKinney & Company, and with them controls 
iron mines and furnaces to the value of several 
millions of dollars. 

Judge Burke's intimate acquaintances who 
know the profoundness and correctness of his 
views on all great national and economic ques- 
tions, regret that his far-reaching business inter- 
ests have deprived the nation of his services in 
the arena of public affairs. They believe that 
if he had devoted himself to a political career 
his name would have held a place beside our 
greatest statesmen. Engrossing business occu- 
pations have not, however, prevented him from 
cultivating by study, reading and travel the 
broad faculties of mind and heart that nature 
endowed him with. While he is yet a leading 
practitioner of the Western bar, he is also the 
animating and controlling spirit of the Cleve- 
land School of Art, and is as ready to speak, when 
called upon by his fellow citizens, upon art, ed- 
ucation, questions of finance, or matters of State, 
as he is to argue a question of law, which is his 
main occupation and thought as it was his first 
love. He is still in the complete enjoyment of 
pliysical and mental vigor, and bids fair to pro- 
long his active and useful career for many years 
to come. 

Judge Burke was married April 26, 1849, to 
Miss Parthenia Poppleton, a daughter of Rev. 
Samuel Poppleton, of Richland county, Ohio. 
She died April 7, 1878. He was again married 
June 22, 1882, to Mrs. Ella M. Sonthworth, of 
Clinton, New York. He has been very happy 
in his married relations, and being very domes- 
tic in his habits has found his chief pleasure in 
the family circle. In his youth he found in his 
first wife the good sense, prudence and kindness, 
judgment and womanly grace, so useful to the 



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struggling voiiiig lawyer. Her death was to him 
an overwhelini'ig sorrow. In his maturer years 
be has found in his second wife all those quali- 
ties of head and heart so essential to a happy 
lionie life. 8he possesses in an eminent degree 
the sweetness, amiability, discretion and judg- 
ment which such a man most values. She has 
not only made her borne a model, but has done 
much to culti%-ate all that is best in art and in 
social life. In tlu< family and in social life 
Judge Burke is among the most amiable of men. 
"Whatever battles he may have to fight outside 
hi' is always kiml, considerate and indulgent in 
his family and in the social <•ircl(^. 



DK. E. P. BANN1:NG, physician and 
surgeon, Stone building, Cleveland, was 
— - born in Titusville, Pennsylvania, Janu- 
ary 1, 1835. His father. Dr. Edmond P. Ban- 
ning, was a native of Canficld, Trumbull County, 
Ohio, and, being very young when his parents 
died, was brought up and educated by his 
mother's brother, Archibald Tanner, the father- 
in-law of Gleni W. Scoiield, late Judge of the 
Court of Claims and Register of the United 
States Treasury under Grant's administration, 
and Congressman from 1856 till he accepted 
the position in the Treasury Department. Dr. 
Banning (father of our subject) graduated at the 
medical college at Fairfield, Xew York, and 
entered upon the practice of his profession in 
the oil town, Titusville, Pennsylvania, then a 
hamlet of only five houses, with no roads ex- 
i-epting trails and bridle paths. He was accord- 
ingly a pioneer in his profession there, and the 
oldest physician in the vicinity. 

In 1827 he became impressed with the fact 
that there was a class of chronic diseases that 
invariably resisted the action of medicine for 
their relief; and by special investigation he dis- 
covered that the reason fur the failure of inetli- 
cine in such cases was the fact that they were 
displacements of internal organs, and needed 
only mociianical treatment. He worked his way 



to Pittsburg, on a lumber raft, and presented to 
the Allegheny Medical Society his views, to- 
gether with some rude appliances that a horse- 
shoer had made under his direction for the cor- 
rection of the displacements. He thus became 
the discoverer of mechanical pathology, tiie 
founder of mechanical therapeutics. His inven- 
tions constitute to the present day the founda- 
tion of all appliances for the support of the 
spine. He is known and quoted as "the father 
of mechanical therapeutics" throughout the 
civilized world. It has been estimated that no 
discoverer in the series of inventions has so ben- 
efited humanity. To him is due the discontin- 
tiance of the burning and blistering for spinal 
diseases formerly so greatly in vogue in this 
country; and so firmly did he construct and con- 
scientiously perfect his mechanical devices that 
two years after his death they were exhibited at 
the great World's Columbian Exposition at 
Chicago in 1893, and secured the only award 
among 134 competing exhibitors; and this is 
the only instance in the whole exposition where 
a sole award was given. Dr. Banning, born in 
1800, died January, 1891, full of years and full 
of honors, esteemed as one of earth's greatest 
benefactors. 

After leaving Pittsburg in 1827 he moved to 
New York, in 185-4 to Cleveland, Ohio, and in 
1859 returned to New York city, where he re- 
sided until his death. Four of his ten children 
are living, namely: Emily, wife of Tompkins 
Mann, a celebrated composer and musician of 
New York city; Dr. E. P., our subject; Dr. A. 
T. Banning, the Health Officer of Westchester 
county, New York, and a very prominent oper- 
ating surgeon; and Carrie, wife of Dr. C. G. 
Clark of Centerville, Crawford county, Penn- 
sylvania. 

Dr. E. P. Banning, whose name introduces 
this memoir, received his professsonal training 
at the Evansville (Indiana) Medical College. 
On the commencement of the war he left Cleve- 
land and enlisted at New York in the United 
States Marine Corps, serving until 1871, during 
which pei-iod be was promoted as Lieutenant in 



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the same service, — the only instance on record 
where an enlisted marine i-eceived a commission 
in this, the oldest, corps of the service. His ap- 
pointment was personally urged by Admirals 
Farragut, Porter, Dahlgren and Dupont, under 
which officers he had served, the two latter per- 
sonally stating to President Lincoln that it was 
a "fit recognition for gallant and meritorious 
service at Tampa Bay, Cedar Keys, New Berne, 
Charleston, Vicksburg and Fort Philip." In 
1871 he resigned from the service and entered 
upon the practice of medicine with his father in 
New York city. 

He was first married at the Pensacola Navy 
Yard, Florida, in 18G6, to Miss Florida Morrill. 
She died in New Orleans in June, 1869. He 
was again married in 1879 to Miss Carina Car- 
penter, a daughter of Dr. Calvin Carpenter of 
Geneva, New York, a niece of Stephen H. Car- 
penter, professor of rhetoric and literature in 
the Wisconsin State University. Of Dr. Ban- 
ning's four children, three are living, namely: 
Carina Carpenter, aged twelve; Florida Jenette, 
aged ten; and Dahlgren, aged five. Mrs. Ban- 
ning is a graduate of the scientific department 
of the Wisconsin State University, also of the 
Cleveland University of Medicine and Surgery, 
formerly the Homeopathic Hospital College, at 
which her husband is special lecturer on "Dis- 
eases of the Spine." The Doctor's residence is 
at Willoughby, Ohio, where Mrs. Banning is 
engaged in the general practice of medicine and 
surgery, the Doctor confining himself to his 
specialty and visiting his office in Cleveland 
daily. 



d|OHN SWEET, of Rocky River Hamlet, 
' was born August 24, 1807, in Brookfield, 
— ' Madison county. New York, where his 
father, Samuel G., died. In the same county 
our subject married Catharine Parks, also a na- 
tive of that county, born May 30, 1812. They 
emigrated to Cuyahoga county in 1838, settling 
in Rockport township, making the journey with 



a horse and wagon; and at this place Mr. Sweet 
has ever since resided, engaged in agricultural 
pursuits. His wife died February 21, 1873. 
They had only one child, Dermott 0., whose 
sketch appears elsewhere. 



dlOSEPH ISAACS, general cashier of the 
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis 
— , Railroad Company, having in charge the 
financial records and being responsible for the 
funds of the entire northeastern end of this 
system of roads, came into this city nearly fif- 
teen years ygo, as a clerk of this company. He 
had been transferred from St. Louis, Missouri, 
where his railroad career was inaugurated six 
years before. His first work was for the In- 
dianapolis & St. Louis Railroad Company, as 
general utility man, receiving promotions as 
his experience would warrant, becoming a clerk 
and city collector for the company before his 
transfer to Cleveland. In 1883 Mr. Isaacs was 
made general cashier and station accountant, 
and has completed one decade of faithful ser- 
vice in this capacity. 

Mr. Isaacs was born in St. Louis, Missouri, 
January 1, 1856. He received his school 
training at the public city schools, and entered 
Yale College in 1871, expecting to complete a 
university course, but was deterred by the sud- 
den and une.xpected death of his mother and 
only parent after one year's work. His pros- 
pects for a collegiate course being thus blasted, 
he turned his attention to business, securing 
employment for a brief period on the Journal 
of Agriculture, a paper owned and issued by 
ex-Governor Marmaduke of Missouri. He be- 
came next a " Knight of the Grip," representing 
the Excelsior Varnish Company of New York 
city, covering western territory and devoting 
six months time to the business. Railroading 
then attracted his attention and he accepted em- 
ployment in the service of the Indianapolis & 
St. Louis Company, as before mentioned. 

Mr. Isaacs' father, John Isaacs, settled in St. 
Louis in 1847, and was from Edinburg, Scot- 



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land. He was a dealer in stencils and art goods, 
and died in 1867, at forty-eight years of age. 
He married Miss Clara Louis, at New York 
city, a daughter of Ralph Louis, a manufacturer 
of furs, of Hamburg, Germany. Five children 
were born in this family: D. J., a varnish manu- 
facturer of New York city; B. F., agent of 
Langfield Brothers & Company, dealers in 
leather goods at New York city; L. J., repre- 
senting a hosiery house of New York city; 
Joseph; and a daughter, Mrs. Isaac Wilbraham, 
of Chicago, Illinois. 

January 16, 1876, Mr. Isaacs married in St. 
Louis, Missouri, Miss Fena, a daughter of A. 
Marcns, a merchant of Litchfield, Illinois, b^it 
formerly of Columbus, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. 
Isaacs arc the parents of John D., aged seven- 
teen, employed by the Cleveland KoUiiig Mill 
Company; Effie, in the first year in high school; 
Clara, who died in 1880, aged two months; and 
Birdie, aged nine. 



)ALERIUS C. STONE, of Berea, Ohio, 

was born in Hinesburg, Chittenden 

county, Vermont, March 2, 1820, son of 

^ Joshua and Betsey (Blackman) Slope, whoemi- 

/ . grated to Cuj'ahoga county about 1832, settling 

in Strongsville, where they continued to reside 

until their death. They had three children. 

Our subject, the youngest of the family, was 
thirteen years old when his parents settled here, 
and he here grew to manhood as a fanner's son ; 
and he followed agricultural pursuits until 1883, 
since which time he has made his home in 
Berea, living a retired life. He was married in 
Strongsville township, January 25, 1855, to 
Miss Huldah C. Haynes, a native of this town- 
siiip, born January 20, 1836, the youngest of 
the seven children of Abiel and Huldah (Car- 
penter) Haynes, both her parents being natives 
of the Green Mountain State. Her father came 
to Cuyahoga county with his father, Abijah 
Haynes, when he was about thirty years of age. 
Mrs. Stone's mother died in February, 1836, 
and her father in Berea, in 1891. 



Mr. and Mrs. Stone have had six children, of 
whom two died in childhood. The names of 
the living are Clara E., Frederick V., Sarah J., 
and Bertha B. 



'Jr^jUFLTS P. RANNEY.-The late Judge 
r^ Rufus P. Ranney not only stood at the 
II ^ head of the Cleveland bar but was also 
^ recognized as one of the ablest lawyers 

and most profound judges in the State of Ohio. 
He was born at Blandford, Massachusetts, on 
October 13, 1813, and in 1824 came with his 
family to Ohio, they making their home at 
Freedom, Portage county, a place at that time 
in the heart of the wilderness. As Judge Ran- 
ney grew in years he grew in ambition and de- 
termined upon securing an education, a pur- 
pose in which he succeeded only by intense ap- 
plication upon his own part. After a course at 
Nelson Academy he entered Western Reserve 
College, but before graduation he proceeded to 
Jefferson, Ashtabula county, where he entered 
upon the study of law in the office of Giddings 
& Wade. His progress was so rapid that at 
the close of the first year he bore the requisite 
examination and was admitted to the bar. Mr. 
Giddings having been elected to Congress, Judge 
Ranney became the partner of Mr. Wade, the 
firm being Wade & Ranney, as strong a legal 
combination as was ever seen in the West. In 
1845 Judge Ranney withdrew and opened a 
law office in Warren, Ohio, where he imme- 
diately took a place in the front rank of the 
bar of Trumbull county. 

The Democrats of that district placed him in 
nomination for Congress, in 1846, and also in 
1848, but as his party was largely in the minor- 
ity he failed of election. In 1850 he was 
elected by a great majority as a member of 
the convention called for a revision of the State 
constitution, in which capacity he served with 
distinguished ability. He was at about this 



time chosen by the Le 



a Judge of 



of the State Stiprenie Court, and when thi 



)ld 



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constitution exjiired and the new one came into 
foi-ce, in 1851, he was elected by the people to 
the same position, which lie held until 1857, 
when he resigned and again took up the prac- 
tice of his profession in Cleveland. In 1857 
he was ajipointed United States Attorney for 
Northern Ohio, but held the positi6n only two 
months when lie resigned. The people, liow- 
ever, wonld not consent to his permanent retire- 
ment from public life, and he was again, in 
18G2, elected to the Supreme Bench. He ac- 
cepted with reluctance, but again resigned in 
1864, and returned to his practice in Cleveland. 
The record he made wliile upon the Supreme 
Bench, a portion of wliich time he served as 
Chief Justice, proved him to be one of the 
great lawyers of the country. In 1859 Judge 
Kannt-y was the Democratic nominee for Gov- 
ernor of Ohio, but was defeated by William 
Dennison. 

In 1871 the Western Reserve College con- 
ferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor 
of Laws. 

Judge Ranney died in December, 1891. 
During his life he held many positions of honor 
of various cliaracter, outside of his legal labors; 
but the chief aims of his life were in connection 
with his profession, which he followed with an 
industry and ability that made liim one of the 
great advocates known in the history of Amer- 
ican jurisprudence. 



E. GOULD, a passenger engineer on 
the Valley Railroad, was born in Ash- 
*J land county, Ohio, March 16, 1814. 
He secured a district-school education, 
and at the age of seventeen years began his rail- 
road career. In 1859 he became a fireman for 
the C. C. & C. Railroad, running from Cleveland 
with engineer John Buell until 1865; was then 
an engineer on the Erie Division of the L. S. & 
M. S. Road, and in 1875, desiring to travel 
through the West, went to Omaha, Nebraska. 
AVhile there Mr. Gould secured the position of 



engineer to the U. P. Railroad, and during his 
eight months' service worked on three divisions 
of the road. While on a visit to his friends in 
Ohio, he was offered the pioneer engine on the 
Valley Railroad, then being built, and has since 
remained with that company. Mr. Gould is 
efficient, steady and faithful to liis trust, and is 
highly esteemed by his employers. 

August 3, 1868, in this city, he was united in 
marriage with Lottie, a daughter of Michael 
Bander. They had one child, Alta May, who 
died at the age of seventeen years. In his social 
relations, Mr. Gould is a member of the Adjust- 
ment Committee of the B. of L. E. 



fr^) ICHARD BACON, one of the well- 
Y^^ known and representative attorneys of 
II ^ Cleveland, and a member of the law 
^' firm of Hobart & Bacon, was born at 

Simsbnry, Hartford county, Connecticut, on 
March 2, 1854. His father was Charles Bacon, 
who was also a native of Simsbury, Connecticut. 
The Bacon family came from England in 1645 
and located first in Massachusetts, thence re- 
moving to Connecticut, where the family con- 
tinued to reside for generations and became 
prominent in local public affairs. Richard 
Bacon, the grandfather of our subject, was 
quite prominent during the anti-slavery days. 
The mother of Mr. Bacon was Ann Putnam, 
who was born at Brooklyn, Connecticut. Her 
father was William Putnam, who owned the 
farm adjoining the one owned by General 
Moses Cleaveland, for whom this city was 
named. William was the son of Daniel, who 
was the son of General Israel Putnam, of 
Revolutionary war fame. 

About 1850 Charles Bacon came to Cleve- 
land, and for a few years was engaged in the 
shipping business. He returned to his boy- 
hood home in Simsbury, and there died in 
1867. His widow survives him, and resides at 
her old home at Brooklyn. 

The early life of Mr. Bacon was spent in 
Connecticut. His first schooling was in the 



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public scliools of Hartford. In tlie fall of 
1869 be entered Cornell University at Itbaca, 
New York, being at tbat time but fifteen years 
of age. He was graduated at Cornell in 1873. 
He next read law with the Honorable Rufus P. 
Spalding, of thi.s city, and in 1876 was ad- 
mitted to the bar. He at once entered upon a 
general practice and has met with more than 
ordinary success, practicing in all the courts, 
including the United States Supreme Court. 

The partnership with M. M. Hobart was 
formed in 1888. This firm is considered as 
one of the strong ones of the city. They give 
especial attention to corporation law, though 
engaged in general practice. 

Mr. Bacon is one of the most prominent Odd 
Fellows in the State. He is a member of 
Tyrian Lodge, No. 740, I. O. O. F., and in 
1886-'87 he served as Grand Master of the 
Grand Lodge of Ohio, being the youngest man 
ever to hold that position. 

Mr. Bacon was married in 1875 to Florence 
Coman, daughter of Colonel Lucian D. Coman, 
of New York city. Mr. and Mrs. Bacon have 
a son, Richard Bacon, Jr. 



IjOHN BARTHELMAN, a representative 
k. I agriculturist of the county, was born in 
^d^ Tarma township, July 8, 1847, a son of 
John C. and Johanna (GroU) Barthelnian, the 
former having been born January 27, 1811, 
the latter January 17, 1822, both of German 
birth. Subsequent to their marriage, they first 
settled in Parma, later removing to Rockport 
township, where Mr. Barthelman died Decem- 
ber 16, 1877, and his wife survives. They had 
eix children, four of whom are living, viz.: John, 
Katie, Frederick and Mary. "William and George 
are deceased. The parents were highly re- 
spected and possessed qualities which made 
them a favorite with a large circle of friends 
and acquaintances. 

The subject of this sketch passsed the early 



years of 



pou the farm, liciiig five years 



old when his [lai'ents settled in Rockport town- 
ship. His education was limited to the com- 
mon schools, which he attended principally 
during the winter months. To the business of 
farming he has devoted his entire life and not 
without reward, for he owns seventy-five acres 
of good land, well improved, which by his in- 
telligent cultivation yields abundant harvests 

His marriage to Miss Lizzie, daughter of 
Charles and Mary Haase, in Cuyahoga county, 
occurred May 6, 1886. They have one child, 
namely, — Emma Mary, born July 25, 1888. 

Mrs. Barthelman was born in Middleburg 
township, Cuyahoga county, March 17, 1864, 
and her father died in this county, January 25, 
1888. 

Mr. and Mrs. Barthelman are acceptable 
members of the Lutheran Church, and their 
lives are consistent with their profession. 



El SHRIVER REESE.— One of the best- 
known and most popular insurance men 
1 of Cleveland is Mr. E. Shriver Reese, 

manager of the Middle Department of the 
American Employers' Liability Insurance Com- 
pany. 

Mr. Reese was born in Baltimoi-e, Maryland, 
on September 7, 1858, and is the sou of William 
Smith Reese, who was a director of the Balti- 
more & Ohio Railroad Company during the 
war period, and was also Naval Officer of the 
Port of Baltimore, and subsequently Collector 
of Customs of the same port. 

E. S. Reese graduated from the University 
of Maryland with honors, and became a mem- 
ber of the Baltimore bar in 1879, before he had 
attained his majority. 

He practiced law in Baltimore until 1890, 
with success, at which time, after an illness of 
many months, and finding that during his sick- 
ness his practice had been divided among other 
attorneys, he undertook writing employers' 
liability insurance as a means of bridging over 
until he could get his ])ractico together again. 



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After two months' experience in that line he 
recognized the larger opportunities afforded by 
the business, and he decided to make it his 
perniajient occupation for the future. He was 
given tlie Baltimore agency for the company 
he now represents, and such was his success 
that in less than sixteen months he was pro- 
moted five times, and then given the position of 
niiinager of the Company's Middle Depart- 
ment, with headquarters in Cleveland. 

Since coming to Cleveland Mr. Reese has 
succeeded in building up a fine business for his 
company, and has established for himself a 
reputation both in business and social circles 
enjoyed by but few men in his or any other line 
on so short a residence. 

Mr. Reese was married on June 2, 1892, to 
Miss Edith Eugenia Crawford, daughter of 
James B. Crawford, Esq., president of the 
Third National Bank of Baltimore. 



D^OCTOR CHARLOTTE* ELIZABETH 
MURRAY, practicing at No. 526 Pros- 
- — pect street, was born at Niagara Falls, 
Niagara county. New York, in 1855, daughter 
of Andrew and Charlotte (Moody) Murray, 
natives of Canada, the father of Scotch and the 
mother of Irish extraction. Mrs. Charlotte M. 
Murray was born on the river Credit in 1833, 
having been tlie first white child born in that 
locality. Mr. and Mrs. Murray now reside at 
Niagara Falls, New York, Mr. Murray being 
now at the advanced age of seventy-seven years. 
His father also lived to an extreme old age, and 
with his brother, our subject's great uncle, 
were pioneers in the Hudson's Bay Fur Com- 
pany, and for ten years they braved the hard- 
ships and dangers of pioneer life in a country 
wliere their subsistence depended entirely on 
the products of fishing and hunting. The 
great-uncle served the Crown during the Revo- 
lutionary war. 

Dr. Murray received her education at Niagara 
Falls, and read medicine under Di'. K. Rarfons, 



of Cleveland, graduating in the class of 1890, 
after three years study a post-graduate course 
at the Homeopathic Hospital College of Cleve- 
land, Ohio, now the University of Medicine 
and Surgery. In 1889 Dr. Murray served as 
assistant in the Woman's Dispensary and was 
physician in charge of that institution in 1890. 
She conducted a general medical clinic in the 
Good Samaritan, and in the Woman's Dis- 
pensary in 1892 was physician to the "Open 
Door" on Erie street during the last year of its 
existence, and was appointed physician to the 
new establishment of that name recently opened 
on Ontario street; she is also a member of the 
medical staff at the Maternity Home on Huron 
street, and is a member of the Round Table 
Club, composed of representative physicians of 
both sexes in the Homeopathic school. 

Dr. Murray is well read in her studies, is 
progressive and enterprising, a lady of pleasing 
address, and shows that refinement and culture 
which are born only of close kinship with 
books and the best they contain. 

In religious matters she is an Episcopalian, 
and is much interested in rescue and charitable 
work. 



'Jf^\ OBERT McLAUCHLAN is a native of 
r!^ Buchlyvie, Stirlingshire, Scotland. His 
11 ^ father, William McLauchlan, was an 
V earnest workei' and public advocate of 

the temperance cause at its commencement 
there, and later of Gait, Ontario, where he died 
in the ninetieth year of his age, greatly beloved 
and widely respected. 

The subject of our sketch was for eleven 
years connected with coal and iron-ore indus- 
tries at Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland, as man- 
ager of the important works of William Fernie 
Buist & Company. In July, 1851, he married 
Margaret, daughter of Mr. John McEwan, 
merchant, Buchlyvie, and widow of Dr. Daniel 
Kennedy. Three years later, on account of her 
failing health, and by medical advice, they 
came to America and suttlsi] in Cleveland, 



fUlYAlKKIA COl'M'Y. 



where he has been connected with various en- 
terprises. On the death of David Morris, in 
1862, he took charge of that estate as executor, 
and for many jears successfully managed the 
extensive mining interests of the testator. In 
1870 he purchased a home at Flat Rock, Hen- 
derson county, North Carolina, where he and 
his wife spent their winters, and where she died, 
in March. 1886. 

Ill October, 1892, Mr. McLauchlan was 
united in marriage to Miss Mary D. Campbell, 
daughter of Mr. Peter Campbell, of Youngs- 
town, Ohio, whose life has been principally de- 
voted toeducational pursuits, having held promi- 
nent positions in Cleveland, Portsmouth and 
Yonngstown, Ohio, where for ten years she was 
preceptress of the R:iyen School. Happily she 
cherishes the same blessed hope of her husband, 
and together they strive for and in defense of 
the "faith once delivered to the saints." 

Mr. McLauchlan's religious belief is so differ- 
ent from that commo.ily accepted, and so 
liable to be misunderstood, that he desires very 
briefly to say that notwithstanding the early 
religious training of himself and wife, they 
w^-e led to believe that " the wages of sin is 
death," not everlasting torment, and that "the 
gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ 
our Lord;" that instead of men being immortal 
by nature, as taugiit by pagan philosophers, 
Christ has commanded his followers to SEEK 
for immortality. The whole Bible teaching, by 
direct testimony as well as by analogy and 
figure, agrees with tliis. The account of the 
creation of man, and the penalty attached to the 
law of Eden proves it, and the object of the 
expulsion, after the transgression, seals it, as 
stated in these words: -'Now, lest he put forth 
his hand and take also of the tree of life, and 
eat and live forever, thersfore the Lord God 
sent him forth from the garden of Eden." — 
Gon. iii, 22. 

If man had been immortal by nature, as 
claimed by popular theology, how absurd to 
put him under a law having a death penalty at- 
tached to it, and equally useless to exclude him 



from the tree of life, lest by eating of it he 
should become immortal. The teaching of 
Christ and his apostles is in entire harmony 
with this. Paul says, "Christ brought life and 
immortality to light through the gospel." This 
sets aside the claim of Socrates and Plato. 
Their theory, now so commonly accepted, is the 
myth of science. " Life in Christ " is the truth 
of the gospel and the fact of Scripture; hence 
we can understand Paul's masterly reasoning in 
1st Corinthians, xvth chapter, where he makes 
a future life contingent on a resurrection from 
the dead, and to which he says he is striving to 
attain.— Phil, iii, 11. 

This opposition to tlie teaching of the re- 
ligious world naturally isolated Mr. McLauch- 
lan and his wife from the various religious com- 
munities, and the result was that weekly meet- 
ings were held in their own house till enough 
of like faith had been gathered to form a little 
church, which was organized in 1863. From 
time to time additions were made to their num- 
bers, and now they are known as the " Church 
of the Blessed Hope," meeting in their com- 
modious building on Woodland avenue, oppo- 
site Longwood, of which Mr. Maurice Joblin is 
the evangelist, who has been abundantly blessed 
in winning souls to Christ. There are many 
churches of like precious faith scattered through- 
out the United States, Canada, Great Britain, 
Australia, India and other Asiatic countries. 
Their distinguishing characteristic is a return to 
the neglected truths of the word of God, which 
have been buried for ages beneath the rubbish 
of human tradition. Tliat word teaches life 
immortal only in and through Christ; the lit- 
eral destruction of all who reject eternal life on 
the conditions proposed, — faith and obedience; 
and the final extinction of all sin, suffering and 
death from the world, which, purified and re- 
newed, will become the everlasting iiome of the 
saints, instead of heaven above the clouds, 
which is nowhere promised in the Book of God. 
In this way the character of God is vindicated, 
the harmony of his word maintained, and his 
purpose in creation and redemption unfolded. 



Cl'VAIWOA COUNT)'. 



According to divine testimony, " God is lore;" 
"God is light;'' and in him is no darkness at 
all," — "a just God and a Savior." Popular 
theology professes to believe these features in 
the Divine character, but practically it denies 
them by teaching that sinners live eternally, 
and are doomed to endless woe. 

As a tribute of gratitude for deliverance 
from sectarian bondage, and especially from the 
tiepressing influence of Calvinism, Mr. Mc- 
Lauchlan desires to put this brief statement on 
record, hoping that thereby many may be in- 
duced to investigate the foundation of their 
faith, to see whether it stands in the wisdom of 
men, or the power of God, — the good news of 
the kingdom of God ere long to be established 
on the earth according to divine promise. — 
Dan. vii, 27; Luke i, 32, 33; Rev. v, 9, 10. 



fr^ IDEON PEASE, a citizen of Rocky River 
I ¥| hamlet, Ohio, was born in Rockport town- 
S;^ ship, this county, November 7, 1837, a 
son of Solomon and Mary E. (Rodgers) 
Pease, who were early settlers of Rockport town- 
ship, emigrating from Chautauqua county, New 
York, about 1826 or 1827. They died in Rock- 
port township, — the father November 14, 1846, 
and the mother August 24, 1888. They had 
live children, of whom Gideon was the third. 
IIu came to Cuyahoga county with his parents 
when about nine years old, and has since con- 
tinned to reside in Rockport township or Rocky 
River hamlet, with the exception of three years, 
when he lived in Erie county, Ohio. He was 
married in Castalia, Erie county, Ohio, March 
20, 1860, to Miss Mary J. Giddings, who was 
born in Rockport township, September 27, 1841, 
and is a daughter of the late Calvin and Mary 
(Bennett) Giddings, who were former residents 
of Rock])ort township, but who in the spring of 
1859 removed to Erie county, Ohio. Mr. Gid- 
dings died in Virginia, while there on business, 
May 4, 1875, and Mrs. Giddings in Rockport 
township, Defember 24, 1890. 



Mr. and Mrs. Gideon Pease have had eight 
children, of whom five are living, namely: Jen- 
nie, Lillie, Mabel, Edna and Calvin. Two chil- 
dren died in infancy, and another, Mary E., 
when thirteen years old. 

Mr. Pease filled the oflice of Township Trustee 
for some ten years. 



FREDERICK HAUSSERMAN, deceased, 
was for many years one of the respected 
-- citizens of Parma township, Cuyahoga 
county, Ohio. A brief record of his life is as 
follows: 

Frederick Haussermau was born in Wurtem- 
burg, Germany, November 5, 1823, and in his 
native land he remained until 1846. That year 
he emigrated to America. Upon his arrival in 
this country he located in Cleveland, where for 
some three years he was engaged in the butcher- 
ing business, and for over a year he ran a meat 
market there. After this he returned to Europe, 
remained about eight months, and upon coming 
back to Ohio settled in Cuyahoga county, on a 
farm in Parma township. Here he was engaged 
in agricultural pursuits the rest of his life, in 
connection with which he also carried on a 
butchering business for a number of years. 

Mr. Hausserman was married in Parma 
township, May 29, 1850, to Miss Angeline 
Snell, who was born in Medina county. New 
York, April 8, 1827, daughter of John J. and 
Nancy (Thumb) Snell. Her parents came to 
Cuyahoga county and settled in Parma town- 
sliip in 1834, and here spent the rest of their 
lives and died. Mr. and Mrs. Hausserman be- 
came the parents of eight children, namely: 
F. A. Eliza, wife of D.M.Johnson, is deceased; 
Helen L., wife of K. K. Hodgman, resides in 
Parma township; Sarah L. ; Dora M., wife of 
M. H. Bailey, Parma township; Frederick J. 
M., married Rinda Fuller, and lives in Brook- 
lyn, this county; William G.; Sherman G.; 
Angle E., wife of J. L. Stadler, Brooklyn, Ohio. 

After an active and useful life, during which 
he gained the respect ami esteem of all who 



CUYAIIIXIA VOVNTY. 



knew him, Mr. Hausserman passed to his re- 
ward, his death occurring June 28, 1891. He 
was an active member of the German Evangeli- 
cal Churcii, and e.xemplitied in his life the 
teachings of the Christian religion. 



d' W. TAYLOR, a retired banker of Cleve- 
; land, was born in this city, June 2, 1824, 
—'' a son of Elisha and Ann (Dunlap) Taylor. 
The father was a native of Otsego, New York, 
and was married in that vicinity. He came to 
Cleveland in 1816, where he was engaged as a 
general merchant until 1826, and for the follow- 
ing seven years resided on a farm in Cherry 
valley, New York. He ne.xt removed to New 
York. Mr. Taylor was an ardent temperance 
worker, and did great good in that line, having 
organized temperance societies and edited the 
Temperance Recorder, then the only strictly 
temperance paper in the State. He returned 
to Cleveland in 1843, where he followed mer- 
chandising four years, and then, in partnership 
with J. M. Hoyt, embarked in the real-estate 
business. They purchased out-land tracts, which 
they converted into lots to suit the purchaser. 
Mr. Taylor remained in this city until his death, 
in April, 1861, at the age of seveuty-tive years. 
He was a charter member and officer in the 
Presbyterian Cinirch, and was a member of the 
building committee of the Euclid Avenue Pres- 
byterian Church. Mr*. Taylor died in this city 
in 1824, at about thirty years of age. She was 
also a life-long member of the Presbyterian 
Church. 

J. W. Taylor, the youngest and only survivor 
of nine children, five of whom died in early 
life, graduated at Union College in 1843. Hjb 
afterward clerked in his father's store for seven 
years, was then employed as bookkeeper in what 
is now the National City Bank, ne.xt removed 
to the southern part of the State, and for the 
following fifteen years was engaged in different 
positions in the bank. During the late war he 
spent four years in Louisville. Returning to 



Cleveland in 1866, Mr. Taylor was engaged i 
the settlement of his fatiier's estate, comjileting 
the same in 1893. 

In 1847 he was united in marriage with Miss 
Anna Sexton, and they had one child, Anna, 
now the wife of George W. Lutton, of Florida. 
The wife and mother died in October, 1849, at 
the age of twenty-two years. Mr. Taylor was 
again married, in 1871, to Belle, a daughter of 
William Cresling, an attorney of Springfield, 
Ohio. One child has been added to this union, 
Edith, attending college at Northampton, Mas- 
sacbusetls. Mr. Taylor is a member of the 
First Baptist Church. In political matters he 
is a stanch Republican. Is a thorough scholar, 
a true gentleman, and enjoys the abiding con- 
fidence and respect of his acquaintances foi- his 
manly character and unimpeachable integrity. 



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FJ W. TRUMPER, general agent for the 
John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance 
— Company, of Boston, Massachusetts, has 
been a resident of the city of Cleveland since 
1891. In August, 1892, he associated himself 
with the company he now represents in eastern 
Ohio. A man of energy and good business 
ability, he has e.xtended the operations of his 
corporation and greatly advanced its interests. 

Mr. Trumper is a native of Canada, born at 
Belleville, April 4, 1844, a son of Richard and 
Jane (Howe) Trumper. He was reared in the 
Dominion and received his earlier education 
there. Later he pursued his studies in Roches- 
ter, New York, and in 1863 embarked in busi- 
ness. For eighteen years he gave his attention 
to the nursery trade, abandoning this enterprise 
to go into the oil regions of Pennsylvania. 
There he remained less than two years, going 
to Philadelphia to enter the employ of the Penn 
Mutual Life Insurance Company. He was with 
this corporation twelve years, filling the position 
of general agent. At the end of this period he 
took charge of the John Hancock Mutual Life 
Insurance Company's business in Ohio, to which 
he has given the most faithful attention. 



crrAHOOA VOUJ^TY. 



He was married in 1869, to Miss Laura M. 
Mackej, and they have had three children: 
Fred J., Eichard T. and Grace. The family 
are exemplary members of the Euclid Avenue 
Congregational Church, and Mr. Trumper be- 
loncrs to the I. O. O. F. 



ALSTENE D. PUDNEY was born at 
Sherburne, Chenango county. New 
York, February 22, 1846, and from 
the time he was ten years of age until he was 
sixteen he worked as a farm-hand summers and 
boarded at home in the winter, attending the 
common district school. 

In the fall uf 1861 he offered his services as 
a recruit in the Sixty-first New York Infantry, 
but was rejected on account of his age, and was 
told by the recruiting officer to go home and 
grow two or three years. He did not wait, 
however, that long before he began preparation 
so as to be of service when his age would per- 
mit. He at once began with several others to 
stuJy tiie manual of arms, and to drill under 
the instruction of one of the returned officers of 
the three-months service. In February, 1863, 
he enlisted in the Fifth New York Heavy 
Artillery, and served continuously until August 
1, 1865, when he was discharged as First Ser- 
geant of Battery H, same regiment, participat- 
ing in the many battles of the Army of the 
Potomac until the summer of 1864. The 
second battalion of the regiment was detached 
and sent with General P. H. Sheridan into the 
Shenandoah Valley, participating in every battle 
of that year where such brilliant successes made 
Little " Phil." so famous. 

After receiving his discharge he returned 
home, where he remained until March, 1866, 
when he w'ent to Fort Dodge, Iowa, and 
worked at farming, until the Dubuque and 
Sioux City Railway was extended, when he be- 
came a sub-contractor for the building of five 
miles of that road; at the end of a year his con- 
tract was completed and accepted, but he found 
that the contractors were hopelessly insolvent. 



and he sold off what personal property he had 
and mortgaged his land for every dollar he could, 
and paid his help. Wiien this was done he had 
$12 in his pocket and two Ohio notes of $320, 
each turned over as a part of the assets of the 
contractors above named. He then started for 
Ohio to see about the value of the two notes, 
and upon arrival at Columbus, Oiiio, found that 
the maker of the notes was dead and his estate 
worse than insolvent! He also found that if he 
expected to reside there he would have to find 
work, as his available cash was less than a 
dollar, and that in Uncle Sam's " shin-plasters." 

Upon consultation with a policeman he 
learned that they were building a big sewer 
near State street and wanted help, at which 
place he obtained employment, where he 
worked several weeks. One day when it was 
too wet to work, he entered the gallery where 
the House of Representatives was in session 
and listened to the speeches of the members on 
the bill then pending which changed in Ohio 
the rate of interest from ten per cent, to eight 
per cent, per annum, little thinking that in 
twenty years he would sit as a member of that 
same body for two terms. One day, hearing an 
elderly man say he wanted to hire lielp on his 
farm, he hired out to a very large land owner 
near Plain City, Madison county, Ohio. 

In the winter of 1868 he began the study 
of law, reading Blackstone whenever he could 
and going to the county seat occasionally 
to recite and receive instructions. He con- 
tinued this another year, when he hired out 
to work only one-half of each week, the re- 
mainder of the time being spent in necessary 
study preparatory to entering the office of some 
attorney when opportunities were much better. 
In the spring of 1871 he entered the office of 
Hon. J. L. Cameron, of Marysville, Ohio, and 
was admitted to the bar a little over a year 
later. While in Marysville he served two terms 
as City Solicitor. 

He resigned during the summer of 1877, 
and came to Cleveland and formed a]jartnor- 
sliin with Judge A. M. Jackson, wliere lie has 



cinrAiionA coirArr. 



since resided and been engaged in the practice 
of his profession. He has been also in the oc- 
casional employ of the New York, Chicago 
& St. Louis Eailway Company in the legal de- 
partment, assisting in buying riglit of way and 
settlement of claims, and for the last few years 
has been in the employ of the Lake Shore & 
Michigan Southern Kailway Company in their 
legal department. 

He was nominated and elected as a member 
of the Sixty-ninth General Assembly of Ohio 
in tiie fall of 1889; renominated and re-elected 
to the Seventieth General Assembly at the 
election in the fall of 1891, serving two full 
terms, during which time he missed no days of 
any session, and but very few hours of an}', and 
was the champion of the '• Australian ballot law" 
and '-good country roads," and was the author 
uf tlie present most excellent law for building 
roads in this county by contract instead of the 
old way of putting money in a riiud-iiole by 
_ taxation and calling it '-working tiie roads." 
He has been connected with the following 
law firms: Jackson & I'ndnej', Jackson, Pud- 
ney & Athey and Pudney & Thieme, and at 
present is in tlie law department uf the Lake 
Shore & Michigan Southern Itailway Company. 



ST. LE BARON, who has been a resi- 
dent of Cleveland since 1871, is a New 
— Englander by birth, Montpelier, Ver- 
mont, being the place where he first saw the 
light of day: the date, January, 1835. His 
father, Apolis Le Baron, descended from Dr. 
Le Baron, a physician of tiie French army, who 
emigrated to America in the seventeentii cen- 
tury. Our wortiiy subject spent his boyhood 
and yonth among tiie iiills of the Green Moun- 
tain State, and at the age of twenty-one years 
set out for tlie western frontier. He was accom- 
panied by his brother, William Le Baron, their 
mission being to erect the Atwater block in 
this city. In 1857 he entered the employ of 
the Pittsburg & Fort Wayne Railway Com- 
pany, and for eleven years had charge of a pas- 



senger train on this road out of Chicago. He 
returned to Cleveland in 1871, and embarked 
in the real-estate business, to which he has since 
devoted his time and attention. He has been a 
most active dealer, making several additions to 
the city and transacting a large brokerage 
business. 

Independent in jiolitics, he casts his suffrage 
for men rather than promised measures. He 
has been a member of the Masonic fraternity 
since 1862. 

He was united in marriage, in this city, in 
1863, to Miss Jennie McVean, a native of 
Cleveland. Mrs. Le Baron died in May, 1892, 
aged fifty years. They had one child, Harold 
S., who is associated with his father in business. 
The family residence is at 809 Crawford Eoad. 
In religious matters Mr. Le Baron is not pro- 
nounced, but has a preference for the expression 
of faith taught by the Unitarian society. 



SU. TARBELL, deceased, for many years 
a prominent member of the medical pro- 
fession in Cuyahoga county, is entitled 
to the space that has been accorded him in 
this history. He was born in Colchester, New 
London county, Connecticut, April 17, 1817, a 
son of Abner and Lucy P. (Jones) Tarbeli, and 
the eldest of three children. The other chil- 
dren bore the names of Leverett and Lucynthia. 
In an early day the family removed from the 
Nutmeg State to Ohio, making the journey 
with wagon and horses. Thirty-four days and 
nights were consumed in coming to Ohio, but 
all the hardships and privations of pioneer life 
were borue with that courage characteristic of 
the first settlers in an untried country. The 
father survived to the age of seventy eight years; 
the mother died in 1836. The maternal grand- 
father, Asa Jones, was a soldier in the Revolu- 
tionary war and fought in that eonrlict seven 
years. 

Young Tarbeli passed an uneventUil y^utii 
on his father's farm, attending the short terms 
of school during the winter. When lie l)egan 



VUrAIIOGA COUNTY. 



the study of medicine it was under the direc- 
tion of Dr. Delaniater, of Cleveland. He 
acquired a thorougli knowledge of the science, 
and aftei' he engaged in practice at Bedford 
won a large patronage. His death occurred at 
the age of sixty-two years, ending a useful career. 

Dr. Tarbell was united in marriage January 
20, 1855, to Lucy A. Gray. Mrs. Tarbell was 
l)orn at Ravenna, Ohio, in 1824, the daughter 
of Silas Gray, a native of the State of Connecti- 
cut. In his youth Mr. Gray was bound out, 
and, although he was deprived of the loving 
care of parents, received a superior education. 
He was married at Eensselaerville, New York, 
to Sally Watson, a daughter of Benjamin Wat- 
son, and they afterward taught school for some 
time at Albany. In 1813, they emigrated to 
the West, settling at Ravenna, Ohio, when that 
spot was maiked by a few log houses. They 
first settled on the Dr. De Wolf farm, and later 
removed to the village of Bedford, where Mr. 
Gray became the host of the " Checkered Tav- 
ern,"' one of the best hotels between Cleveland 
and Pittsburg. They reared a family of twelve 
children, seven sons and five daughters. The 
mother died at the age of seventy years; the 
lather survived to the age of seventy-five. He 
was a member of the Masonic order, belonging 
to the blue lodge and chapter. 

Mrs. Tarbell is a woman of good business 
ability, and takes a deep interest in all matters 
pertaining to the welfare of the Jvillage. Of a 
generous, sympathetic nature, she is ever ready 
to respond to the cry of the needy, and has 
a host of friends in all the walks of life. 



AN FORD GRAY, a successful farmer of 
Middleburg township, was born in Euclid, 
this county, June 2, 1831, and reared in 
Rockport and Middleburg townships, which 
have always been his home. For thirteen years 
he was engaged in runninga sawmill, but other- 
wise he has followed agricultural pursuits and 
dealt in live stock, being one of the successful 
men of Cuyahoga county. 



He was married in Middleburg township, 
November 14, 1851, to Miss Sarisa Alexander, 
a native of Rockport township, and a daughter 
of Thomas Alexander, deceased. Mr. Gray has 
held many of the local offices of his township, 
and is a highly respected citizen. 



OBERT HODGMAN, deceased.— The 
father of our subject was the late Amos 
Hodgman, Sr., who came from the State 
of Maine with his family of wife and 
children, in the autumn of 1821, settling 
in Parma township, where he died in 1828. 
Robert Hodgman was born in Lincoln county, 
Maine, May 20, 1810, and was eleven years old 
when he came with his father and family to 
Cuyahoga county. He was reared to manhood 
in Parma township, agriculture being his chief 
business, although for several years he owned 
and operated a sawmill on his farm. He was a 
quiet and unassuming man, respected by all for 
his honor and uprightness. 

He was married in Parma township, Septem- 
ber 16, 1847, to Miss Julia A. Beels, who was 
born in Royalton township, Cuyahoga county, 
May 10, 1823, daughter of Abner Beels, de- 
ceased, a native of Herkimer county, New York, 
who came with his family to this county as 
early as 1821, settling in Royalton township, 
but in 1825 moved to Parma township, where 
he resided most of the time till his death. He, 
as well as his wife, died in Mason, Cass county, 
Michigan, at the residence of tlieir daughter, 
Mrs. Harriet E. Stevens. 

Robert Hodgman had six children, of whom 
two died in infancy. The living are: Roderick 
N., a resident of Parma township; Alice C, 
wife of B. O. Stroud, of the same township; 
Kendrick K., who married Helen L. Hauseman 
and resides in Parma township; and Clarence 
C, who married Miss Emmet E. Humphries 
and lives in Parma township. Mrs. Hodgman 
has been a member of the Presbyterian Church 
ever since she was sixteen years of age. 



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IflDEX. 



Ackley, Myron 366 

Adams, Arthur 411 - 

Adams, S. F 332 

Aiken, A. J 463 

Aiken, Wm 408 

Akeis, VVm. J 472 

Akins, A. E 544 

Alexander, J. C 634 

Allen, M. L 73 

Alvord, D. M 384 

Ames, S. H 488 

Amstulz, N. S 838 

Anderson, A. T 212 

Anderson, Jas. A 555 

Andrews, S, ,1 615 

Andrews, W. W 141 

Andrus, G. W 120 

Andrus, H. T 528 

Angelberger, Wm 191 

Angell,E. C 772 

Anthony, E. M 829 

Anthony, J. S 829 

Applegarth, H. C 888 

Arbuckle, G. W 311 

Archer, C. A 885 

Arnold, E. E 848 

Arnold, R 693 

Athey, J. L 116 

Atkinson, T. H 678 

Aul, Friedrich 813 

Avery,E. JI 839 

Avery, James 895 

Avery, W. H 360 

B 

Babcock, P. H 76 

Babcock, Wm A 144 

Backus, Wm., .Tr 903 

Bacon, Richard 909 

Badgley, O 654 

Baker, D. F 90 

Baker, S. J 175 

Baldinger, A. F 159 

Baldwin, A. C 245 

Baldwin, E. 1 179 

Baldwin, R. A 847 

Banning, E. P 908 

Barkwill, C. Q 67 

Barhydt, W. D 801 

Barnes, D, D 787 

Barnes, J, J 348 

Barnes, Wm. M 258 

Barr, B. M 637 

Barr, F. H 887 

Barrett, M. F 443 

Barthelman, F. E 118 

Barthelman, J 910 

Bartlett, J". J 549 

Bartlett. J. J 710 

Bates, T. M 215 



Battles, E. D . . 

Battles, J. E 

Battles, L. D... 
Battles, Luther. 
Battles, O. T... 
Bauder, Levi F. 
Bayer, Charles 
Beavis, W. H.. 
Beck, Wm. F... 



413 

545 

314 

436 

350 

691 

Becker, August 165 

Becker, Peter 672 

Beeman, E. E 62 

Beilstein, Fred 804 

Beilstein, L. E 881 

Bell, James...' 271 

Belle.P.P 511 

Benedict, L 262 

Bennet, R. N 459 

Bennett, A. R 248 

Bennett, G. A 751 

Berry,F. B 657 

Berstecher, Geo 691 

Bester, Charles 356 

Betts, E. L 248 

Biddulph, J. E 515 

Biddulph, Thomas 515 

Biddulph, Wm 559 

Billman, Frank H 628 

Billman,G. H 322 

Bird, John 464 

Bishop, A. W 637 

Blaisdell, B. T 313 

Blake, S. C 249 

Blauck, C 347 

Blee, Robert 898 

Bloch, J. C 737 

Blossom, H-S ..183 

Bolton, John 770 

Bolton, Wm. B 388 

Boltz, F. W 444 

Born, Henry 670 

Botten, Henry 260 

Bower, B.F 25 

Bowler, N.B 357 

Bradley, Alva 327 

Bradley,H 864 

Bradley, S 833 

Bradley, Thomas (fc Son 199 

Brainard, A 291 

Brainard,A. H 722 

Brainard, H 417 

Brainard, J. N 309 

Brainard, D. S , fl05 

Brainard, H. 174 

Brainard, T. N 420 

Brainerd, Luther 561 

Bratton, David 441 

Braund, W. A 279 

Break, E. K 511 

Breck, J. H 674 

Breck, Theo 755 

Breen, C. C 442 

Breiman, Luke 74 



Briggs, P. R 859 

Britton, Samuel 299 

Britton, Wm 302 

Brobst, F. A 812 

Brown, Caroline 539 

Brown, C. L 697 

Brown, M. A 556 

Brush, C. F 645 

Buhrer, Stephen 570 

Bullard, J. S 294 

Bullinger, F 888 

Bunts, P. E 88 

Burgess, C 425 

Burgess, H. H 892 

Burgess, J. M 304 

Burghardt, Carl 104 

Burke, A. C 764 

Burke, O. M 670 

Burke, Stevenson 904 

Burnett, J. W 816 

Burns, A. M 195 

Burrows, S. W 546 

Burton, T. E 513 

Busoh, John 505 

Bushnell, C. H 404 

Bushnell, E 193 

Buss, W.D 126 

Butler, A. A 343 

Butler, R. A 205 

Button, Wm. H 900 

C 

Oahoon, J.B 400 

CaUoon, T. H 369 

Calhoun, W. W 534 

Calkins, D. M 403 

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Fowles, L. A 576 

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Gary. Marco B 879 

Gasser, J. M 387 

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Gates, J. H 753 

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George, Mary 585 

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Griffin, H. A 460 

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Hamilton. W. .1 7G2 

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Handy, T. P 831 

Hanna, D. R 693 

Hanna, J. B 509 

Hanna, M.A 720 

Hardenbergh, J. C 330 

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Hausserman, F 913 

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Haydn, H. 864 

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Heinmiller, G 193 

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Henninser, L 3.')8 

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Hoehn, Hpnry 54 

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Hohlfelder, L 879 

Holmes, W. T 568 

Hopkinson, A. G 033 

Hoppensack, W. F 590 

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Horstmann, I. F 31 

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Hubbell, C. H 894 

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Ingersoll, G. A 144 

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Jacobs, Oscar 301 

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James, T. W 794 

James, W. S 863 

Jasler, John .324 

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Jerome, A. A 421 

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Kelley, Daniel 325 

Kelley, Herman A 237 

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Kennedy, S. L 489 

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Kimberley, D. H 345 

Kingsley, M. W 296 

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Kirkland, James 863 

Kirkland, John 454 

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Tarbell, S. U 

Taylor, D. R 

Taylor, J.L 

Taylor, J. W 

Taylor, J. W 

Taylor, N.W 

Taylor, Royal 133 

Taylor, Royal 267 

Taylor, V. A 683 

Taylor, Wm 83 

Teachout, A 107 

Teachout, A. R 115 

Teeters, H. F 7.50 

TePas, .T.A 765 

Terry, J. E 270 

Thieme, W. A 79 

Thomas, C A 32 

Thomas. John 86 

Thomas, Joshua 695 

Thomas, Wm 7.58 

Thompson, E. N 781 

Thompson, James 334 

Thompson, R 274 

Thompson, W. I 25 

Thompson, W. F 764 

Thorp, J. P 3.54 

Thorp, W. A 230 

Thorpe, J. A 306 

Thorpe,S. L 182 

Thurston, E. L 129 

Tillinghast, C. E 877 

Tinnerman, G. A .562 

Tonsing, J. II .509 

Townseud, Amos 163 

Trask, J. C 6.58 

Trumper, F. W 914 

Truesdell, A. I 6 .'6 

Tyler, G. E 481 

Tyler, J. W 218 



Vail, Harry L 583 

Van Noate, Burr 483 

Van Norman, H. B 514 

Van Norman, J. M .536 

Van Tassel, A. T 816 

Van Tine, R. R 800 

Van Tine, Wra. H., Sr 798 

Van Tine, Wm. II., Jr 818 

Vaughan, G. W 4.55 

Veber, J. N 421 

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Waite, K. B 650 

Wain, A. >I 444 

Walker, C. A 119 

Walker, E. P 759 

Walker, J. J 617 

Walker, John 3«9 

Walker, John q 

Wallace, J. C 199 

Wallace, Samuel 434 

Wallace, Robert 114 

Wallace, Hobert 699 

Walsb, J. F 303 

Walters, R. W 35 

Walworth, A. I) 820 

Walworth, John and A. W 15 

Ward, A. B 718 

AVard, Frank 449 

Warden, C. G 875 

Wardwell, J. W 456 

Warner, C. E 835 

Warner, F. S 70 

Warner,F. W 097 

Warner, T. M 437 

Warner, W.J 206 

Watson, G.N 577 

Watterson, J. T 735 

Webb, A. J 839 

Webb, G. F 118 

Webber, W. H 823 



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AVeideman, John C 2a5 

Weidmann; John C. 881 

Wells, W.E 138 

Wesley. Charles 719 

West, C. P 810 

Westerholt, F 8 

Weston, George 543 

Wheal, C. F 218 

Wheelock, W. H 779 

Wherry, Levi .....' 744 

Whitaker, A. M 893 

Whitbeck, H. N 594 

White, H. C 34 

White, W. J 49 

Whitlock, K .378 

Whitney, H. M 715 

Whitslar, W. H 568 

Wightman, S. H 526 

Wilhelm.John 245 

Wilcox, F. N 333 

Wilkinson, S. L 874 

Williams, A. H 292 

Williams, E. P 793 

Williams, J. W 716 

Williams, Wra 825 

W'illiamson, S 45 

Williamson. S. E 217 

Willson, M. H 231 

Wilmot, E. P 529 



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Wing, F. J 860 

Winship, Annette T 307 

Winsor, Q. J 140 

Wise, J. W 814. 

Wolfenstein, J 213 

Wolfenstein. S 213 

Wood, H. W. S 727 

Woodford, W. R 129 

Wooldridge, T 570 

Worthington, G. H 469 

Worthington, J. M 502 

Worts, Richard 298 

Wright, James 373 

Wright, X. E 635 

Wright, P. P 586 

Wunderlich,E. J 760 

Wyman, F. A 243 

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Yarham, Charles 537 

Yeakel, Reuben 97 

York, H. B 293 

Yost, AVilliara 177 

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Zangerle, J. A 152 

Zeager, Lon 831 

Zehring.A 110 



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Arbuckle, G. W 311 

Baldwin, E. 1 179 

Ualtle.s, E. D 446 

lieavis, Wm. H 350 

Buhrer, Stephen 579 

Burns, A. M 195 

Briirgs, F. R 859 

Carey, D. M 675 

Carlisle, John 523 

Cannon, G. G 875 

Cleavcland, Moses 3 

Coil, Henry H 619 

Coleman, J. G 493 

Covert, Henry 386 

Covert, James .300 

Ennis, C. A 819 

Garfield, J. A 19 

Garretson, G. A 147 

Gates, Charles 208 

Gates, Reuben 499 

Golling, Wra. F (i03 

Gordon, A. M 253 

Goulder, Harvey D 216 

Hale, Edwin B 171 

Hatch, H. R 187 



Herrick, M. T (m1 

Hershey, Leonard 139 

Hubbard, R. 8.... 131 

Jones, Wm. G 507 

Jopling. Thomas 155 

Julier, G. C 539 

Kellogg, Alfred 611 

Kellogg, Martin 611 

Kimberley, D. H 345 

Kuzel. C. A 397 

Law, Robert 409 

Lawrence, AV. H 883 

Lewis, Edward 277 

Mapes, G. C 595 

Mather, S. H 288 

McAllister, A 795 

Meaher, J. K 835 

Michael, A. J 843 

Millard, Cyrus 467 

Morris, \ 229 

Payne, H. B 37 

Pepper, G. W 515 

Pope, I.AV 531 

Ranney, H. C ..811 

Robbins, W. W 265 

Robinson, N 322 



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Rouse, E. C 703 

Rouse, Rebecca E 701 

Sanders, J. C 123 

Schellentrager, C. C 361 

Schellentrager, E. A 362 

Shields, J. C 75 

Smith, R. C 457 

Sorter, C. N 241 

Spencer, H. B 588 

Strong, C. H 99 

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Taylor, J. L 91 

Taylor, N. AV 547 

Taylor, V. A 683 

Taylor, Wm - 83 

Teachout, A 107 

Townsend, Amos 163 

Tyler, .loel AV 218 

AA'agar, A. M 563 

Wagar, I. D 571 

AVade, J. H 491 

AVade, R. P 59 

AVheelock, W. H 779 

AVhite, AV. J 49 

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